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Dr. Seth D. Thorn is an American violinist whose research encompasses interaction design and philosophical approaches to computational media. His work interrogates normativity and cognitivism in HCI through a variety of computational tools and theoretical perspectives informed by sound and music techniques. Dr. Thorn brings the familiar experience of the blurring of certain corporeal boundaries in embodied performance, augmented with adapted real-time computational media, into dialogue with philosophical studies on materialism, assemblage theory, affect, relation, individuation, and neurodiversity, and bridges these studies into concrete social impact to increase diversity, participation, and inclusion in computing. He teaches in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) at Arizona State University, recently named one of only three “exemplary transdisciplinary programs” in the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Report. Dr. Thorn also serves as a Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he leads projects that align with his commitment to expanding diversity and inclusion in computing.Dr. Thorn has published in premier journals and top-tier conferences spanning philosophy and critical theory, music, and human-computer interaction, including Leonardo Music Journal (MIT), Qui Parle (UC Berkeley), Wearable Technologies (Cambridge), Organised Sound (Cambridge), numerous ACM conferences (TEI, C&C, MOCO, and Audio Mostly), NIME, ICMC, IEEE RESPECT, and xCoax. He has performed on his violin interfaces at top conferences and music festivals, including the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), the Conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the New York City Electroacoustic Musical Festival (NYCEMF), and the New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit (NYCEIS). His work has been recognized twice at the prestigious Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech and featured in Electronic Sound Magazine.