Halsey Burgund

Halsey Burgund is a new media artist and Emmy-winning interactive director whose work focuses on the combination of modern technologies - from mobile phones to artificial intelligence - with fundamentally human “technologies”, primarily language, music and the spoken voice. He is the creator of Roundware, the open source contributory audio AR platform, which has been used to create art and educational installations for cultural organizations internationally. Halsey’s recent work has focussed on the societal challenges posed by artificial intelligence, in particular synthetic media and generative AI. Halsey was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, an affiliate in Harvard's metaLAB and is currently Creative Technologist in Residence at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.

Halsey created Bog People, a location-aware contributory sound art installation sited at Tidmarsh Farms, and part of the Living Observatory. This project aimed to collect stories, experiences and history of the Tidmarsh landscape to supplement and provide perspective on the LO scientific research. These spoken recollections were collected on-site and presented to the public as a geo-located musical layer of audio accessible with a mobile device.