About the Author

TREYDEN is a transdisciplinary artist, engineer, and researcher who confronts how technology both expands and fractures our lives. His practice moves fluidly between live performance, filmmaking, software design, and interactive installation. Currently a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab's Opera of the Future group, Treyden holds a Master of Design in Technology from Harvard and a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. As a dancer, he has performed lead roles in classical ballets, including Don Quixote and Coppélia, as well as in contemporary works by choreographers such as Bill T. Jones and Crystal Pite. His work blurs the boundaries between art and engineering, developing new tools, stories, and spaces that ask what it means to create in an age of artificial intelligence.

His new media installations and films have been shown at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival, Zero1 San Francisco, and across virtual platforms. A 2016 National YoungArts Foundation Winner, Treyden has been recognized with the Juilliard President's Artist and Citizenship Prize, the Harvard Dean Scholar Award, and grants from the Martha Hill Foundation and MIT's AI and Human Flourishing initiative.