Michael Masaru Flora is an artist living and working in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California. His work explores the emergent phenomena that occurs through non-deterministic and autopoietic processes. Informed by architecture, systems, perceptual psychology, visual art, and computer music, his work encompasses sound, installation and performance.
His work has been presented in partnership with School of Design Nanjing University of Arts (China), Shanxi University School of Fine Arts (China), Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), UC Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, The Lab (San Francisco), lobe (Vancouver), Quiet City (Vancouver), UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center(CA), High Zero's Diffusion Festival (MD), The Soap Factory (MN), Indexical (CA), RhizomeDC (DC), Cedar Cultural Center (MN), The Fuse Factory (OH), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (CA), St Cloud State University (MN), as well as clubs, galleries, theaters, and DIY spaces internationally.
Flora is the current director of Indexical, an interdisciplinary arts organization that builds community through art and music.
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