Golan Levin is an artist, now based in Pittsburgh, who focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity and of nonverbal communication in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines. Identified by Technology Review as one of the world's “Top 100 Innovators Under 35,” and dubbed by El Pais as “one of the most brilliant figures in contemporary audiovisual art,” Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia. He is known for the conception and creation of Dialtones: A Telesymphony (2001), a concert whose sounds are the choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones, and for interactive information visualizations like The Secret Lives of Numbers (2002) and The Dumpster (2006), which offer novel perspectives onto millions of online communications. His performance and installation works use augmented-reality technologies to create multi-person, real-time visualizations of their participants' speech and gestures. His current projects use interactive robotics and machine vision to explore the theme of gaze as a primary new mode for human-machine communication. Levin's work has been presented in the Whitney Biennial, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kitchen, and the Neuberger Museum, all in New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, among other venues. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory. Presently Levin is associate professor of electronic and time-based art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of Design.