Prof Dr Atau Tanaka (b. 1963, Tokyo) studied electronic music with Ivan Tcherepnin at Harvard University, as well as computer music with John Chowning at Stanford University. In 1993 he was in residency at the Cité des Arts Paris and conducted research at IRCAM. In 1994 he formed Sensorband together with Zbigniew Karkowski and Edwin van der Heide. In 1995 he worked as Artistic Ambassador at Apple France. In 2001 he curated Jujikan (with Shun Okada, Ryoji Ikeda) for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2001 he received the Prix Ars Electronica (honorable mention) for Global String, with Kasper Toeplitz. In 2005 he won the same prize for Bondage. In 2008 he became Artistic Co-Director at STEIM in Amsterdam. In 2009 he became Director of Culture Lab Newcastle. In the same year he composed Suspensions for EMG and piano, commissioned by Sarah Nicolls, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. From 2012 he is Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths University of London.