Short Bio

Seth Thorn is Assistant Professor of Interactive Media in The GAME School at Arizona State University. His research explores sound- and music-informed computational tools and theoretical perspectives that challenge normativity and cognitivism in HCI. Thorn is also an accomplished professional violinist and is active in arts entrepreneurship.

Thorn has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation’s AISL and CS4All programs. He currently directs Glitch’n, founded the ASU ed-tech spinout Matter Squared LLC, and owns Glitch Cloud Audio LLC, maker of boutique art pedals.

Publications appear in leading venues in philosophy, music, and HCI, including Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), Qui Parle (UC Berkeley), Wearable Technologies (Cambridge University Press), Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press), ACM conferences (TEI, C&C, MOCO, Audio Mostly), NIME, ICMC, IEEE RESPECT, and xCoax.

Dr. Thorn received the inaugural peer-nominated Teaching Innovation Award from The GAME School at ASU in 2025. His creative work has been recognized twice at the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech, featured in Electronic Sound Magazine, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Photo credit: Brandon Sullivan / ASU