Todd Winkler is a composer and multimedia artist on the faculty at Brown University,
where he is Director of MacColl Studio for Electronic Music and Chair of the Music
Department. His work explores ways in which human actions can affect sound and images produced by computers in dance productions, interactive video installations, and concert pieces for computers and instruments. He is the author of Composing Interactive Music, a book and CD-ROM about the theory and technology of interactive music and performance, published by MIT Press.

His recent work uses motion sensing devices to allow dancers creative input into computer music and digital video systems. These dance productions include: ìDark Around the Edges,î with Walter Ferrero, presented at Carriage House Theater, Providence, Rhode Island; ìSongs for the Body Electric,î with Gerry Girouard, presented in Minneapolis at Intermedia Arts, and at the International Dance and Technology Conference in Tempe, Arizona; ìHitchís Bitches,î with Cindy Cummings, at the Project Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and the Yale University Multimedia Festival; and ìFalling Up,î with Cindy Cummings, a commission from the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Winklerís interactive video and sound installations use similar technology to alter digitized clips and real time video input based on the actions of viewers within a room. His video installations include:Light Around the Edges presented at the Kansas City Performing Arts Center, Watch Me, an installation for children presented at Rhode Island School of Design and Meeting Street School, Maybe...1910, a Rhode Island 2000 Commission presented at the International Computer Music Conference and First Night Providence, and a large-scale video installation featuring audience participation and real-time processing, entitled, Magic Mirrors.

Winkler's concert works incorporating computers with musicians have received international attention at festivals throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His music appears on recordings from Capstone Records, Whole Sum Productions, MIT Press and CMA. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Composers Forum, the Arizona State University Center for Studies in the Arts, Meet the Composer, First Night International, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rhodes Island State Council of the Arts, ASCAP, and a Fulbright Fellowship.