bio
Zach Layton is a composer, curator, improviser and new media artist based in Brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental music, dada and chance. His work investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns.
zach’s work has been performed by the cleveland chamber symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the kitchen, issue project room, roulette, diapason, PS1/MoMa, anthology film archives, joe’s pub, exit art, SCOPE art fair, art forum berlin, new york electronic art festival, yerba buena center for the arts, eyebeam, sculpture center, millenium film workshop, st. mark’s ontological theater, dumbo arts festival, new york digital salon, miguel abreu gallery, participant gallery, monkeytown and many other venues in new york, south america and europe. He has collaborated with Luke Dubois, Vito Acconci, Joshua White, Jonas Mekas, Tony Conrad, Bradley Eros, Alex Waterman, Nick Hallett, Andrew Lampert, Matthew Ostrowski, Michael Evans, MV Carbon, Seth Kirby, Matthew Welch, Christine Bard, Andy Graydon, Ryan Sawyer, Matt Mottel, Bradford Reed, Anthony Huberman, Sarina Basta, Gareth James, Emily Manzo, Patrick Hambrecht, Marissa Olsen, Angie Eng, Adam Kendall, Chika Ijima, Peter Gordon, Peter Zummo, Tristan Perich and Ray Sweeten among many other artists, filmmakers, curators, musicians and friends.
Zach is also founder of Brooklyn’s monthly experimental music series, “Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant Garde” co-curated with Nick Hallett featuring leading local and international composers and improvisers, co-curator of the PS1 summer warmup music series and the chief curator of Issue Project Room. Zach has received grants from the Netherlands America Foundation, Turbulence, the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, the Danish Council for Visual art, the City of Copenhagen Artist in Residence Program and is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Interactive Telecommunications Program.