Who are we?
and what do we have to do with audio AR?
Halsey Burgund
Editor in Chief, Practitioner
After getting a degree in Geophysics, designing and building furniture and working in the high tech industry, Halsey Burgund is now a sound artist and technologist. He works primarily with spoken voices in combination with traditional and electronic instruments in both audio installations and musical performances. For the past decade, his work has focused on contributory location-based audio installations for which he developed Roundware, an open-source audio augmented reality platform for collecting, organizing and re-presenting audio via smartphones and the web.
Halsey is currently a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab where he researches new forms of audio documentary.
Francesca Panetta
Editor, Practitioner
Francesca Panetta is currently Creative Director at the Center for Advanced Virtuality at MIT and formerly an Executive Editor of VR at the Guardian. She is an artist and journalist and works in the intersection of sound, story and technology. Ten years ago she pioneered a series of locative audio guides using the GPS on smartphones. She’s interested in the way sound changes your perception of the world, first the real world and now virtual worlds.
Jeff DelViscio
Editor, Contributor
Jeff DelViscio is currently Senior Multimedia Editor at Scientific American and former director of multimedia at STAT, where he oversaw all interactive journalism and launched and top edited two podcasts. He previously spent over eight years at The New York Times where, among other accomplishments, he brought audio into Times storytelling during the audio slide show craze of the mid-2000s. He also worked on several podcasts before it became cool (again). He holds dual master’s degrees from Columbia in journalism and in earth and environmental sciences. He has worked aboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2018.
Magnus Bjerg Mortensen
Project Manager, Contributor
Magnus has done editorial development for the last seven years in the biggest Danish newsrooms. Most recently at TV 2 Denmark where his team has won numerous awards for digital journalism, including honors from the Society for News Design Scandinavia and the from the Association of Danish Media for the best digital story of the year. He has lead major projects as the digital election coverage at TV 2 and is the president of the Danish Online News Association. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2018.
Leah Gauthier
Researcher, Designer
Leah Gauthier is an intermedia artist and designer living and working in Maine. Her art has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and public spaces in the U.S. and abroad. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Eyebeam and The Burren College of Art, and has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and others.