Michael Rhoades

Michael Rhoades is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary audio and visual artist, theorist, and lecturer working in mediums as diverse as oil painting, time-based digital imagery, computer-generated music.., and computer science. Over the past 25 years, his work is regularly presented around the world in galleries, concert halls, full immersion domes, head-mounted displays, and other venues hosting conferences, concerts, screenings, and festivals. 
Combining high-resolution 3D/360° time-based pseudo holograms (stereoscopic) and 3D/360° 32-channel stochastically generated holophons for high-density loudspeaker arrays, Rhoades nonetheless creates visual music compositions intended for a wide variety of formats.
==Published Reviews==
WhatzUp, an arts magazine based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, published a feature article about Rhoades' work in 2008. In it, an in-depth interview by feature writer Deborah Kennedy reveals much of the futuristic composer's perspectives on his work and it's connections to non-linearity in time and space, and with contemporary views in the area of quantum physics.
In July of 2012, Rhoades presented a unique one-man installation in the Lotus Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana, titled "The Voice in the Forest". Rhoades' original computer-generated music, video, and large-scale oil paintings were exhibited. His intention was to create an abstract environment suggestive of a forest and yet foreign to it as well. The installation was reviewed in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette by Rachel Vachon.
In July of 2013, Rhoades exhibited an audio/visual installation as a part of the Three Rivers Festival in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The installation was titled, "Sights and Sounds of Art". A large four channel sound system, including 8 huge subwoofers, was set up in the square in front of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Selections of Rhoades original computer-generated music from the previous 15 years provided the tone for the installation. Numerous prints of Rhoades' inventive computer-generated images were perched on easels for public viewing. There was a review of this event in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette by Mark Glowicki
In January of 2015, Rhoades exhibited his "Road to Hana" paintings in the Wunderkammer Gallery located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The paintings represent a contemporary abstract expressionist approach to landscape representation. Photos of the paintings can be viewed on Rhoades' website. A review of his work was written by Jaclyn Goldsborough in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
==Education==
In the spring of 2018 Rhoades received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (SOVA) at Virginia Tech. The foci of his studies involved creative technologies. Continuing at Virginia Tech, in 2020 he received an interdisciplinary PhD focusing upon the creation of 3D/360° visual music compositions using high-performance computing clusters and deep research on these many other topics. As with all his creations, these fully immersive virtual reality compositions have been showcased in numerous concerts, symposia, festivals, and conferences in worldwide settings.
In addition to his personal work, Rhoades also heads the HCI area in the IDIA Lab at Ball State University. There he collaborates with a highly skilled team toward the creation of multifarious forms of extended reality projects. His activities in the IDIA Lab also include teaching classes in extended reality.
Category:Living people
Category:American multimedia artists
Category:Virginia Tech alumni
Category:1956 births
Category:People from Madisonville, Kentucky