Kai-Luen Liang

MFA in Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence, and Design

BA in Asian American Studies

Special Teaching Faculty / Lecturer – School of Music, MTIID

• Developed and taught 10+ new graduate-level courses spanning physical computing, computer vision, generative art, neural audio synthesis, and real-time interaction design, including Algorithmic Practices, AI Sound Practices, Neural Media, Sonic Vectors, AI Sonic Explorations, and Computer Vision, within the Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence, and Design (MTIID) program.
• Combined technical workshops with discussions on media theory, AI ethics, and computational aesthetics; specialized in Computer Vision, TouchDesigner, Python, Max/MSP, and experimental custom software.
• Advised and mentored 50+ graduate students in the MTIID MFA program, guiding thesis development and interdisciplinary research; served on the MTIID admissions committee.

Special Teaching Faculty / Lecturer – School of Art, Integrated Media

• Developed and taught new graduate-level courses including Useless Software, The Implicit Body, Code as Object, Computation Reconsidered, and Spatial Media Practices, covering physical computing, sensor-based art, and generative systems within the Integrated Media program.
• Served as BFA Adviser for Creative Computing, guiding undergraduate students through curriculum planning and project development in code-based art practice.
• Contributed to Integrated Media MFA admissions, curriculum planning, and lab resource management.

Visiting Assistant Professor

• Designed and taught course on machine learning, generative AI, and music.
• Led discussions on contemporary topics related to AI and cultural production, labor, music industry, ethics, copyright, and socio-political issues.
• Taught technical workshops about fine-tuning recurrent neural networks with custom datasets, MIDI generation, computer vision, text to audio for sound fx, and neural synthesis using Python.

Occidental College

• Music and Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2024) - Computer Science/ Music

California Institute of the Arts: Herb Alpert School of Music

• Spatial Media Practices (S2026)
• Computer Vision F2025 - Workshop Series for Creative Computing
• Creative AI F2025 - Workshop Series for Creative Computing
• Creative Coding for AI Art (F2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• AI Sonic Explorations (S2022, S2023, S2024)
• Intro to Sound Production (F2021)
• Graduate Music Tutorials- Music Technology (Fall and Spring 2021-2026)

California Institute of the Arts, School of Art: Integrated Media

• Sonic Vectors (S2025, S2026)
• The Implicit Body (F2024)
• Data Tied and Tangled (F2022)
• Computation Reconsidered (F2021, F2022, F2023)
• Algorithmic Practices (S2022, S2023)
• Machine Deep Dreaming (S2022, S2023, S2024)
• Code As Object (F2021)
• Graduate Independent Studies: (Fall and Spring 2021-2026)

Packing

Techno-Babble Sound Bath

How to Drive Home

Data Captioning as Live Process

Ghostwork Is Self Actualization

Para-Seedlings - self <not> self

Flow and Oscillations

Ryotatio 回马枪

Blue Marbles

ARS Electronica - Festival Garden: Meta Menagerie

Manufactured Landscapes

Wan Who

MTA: Floating Destiny - Wan Who

Karmetik - Machine Orchestra

Void 虚无

Boiler Room Beijing

Glitching Archives

BROILER Residency

Exhausted Apocalypses

What is Sound Poetry? 什么是声音侍

The Residency Project

Future Directions of Native AI DAWs

Imaging after Photography Symposium

Human Machine: The New Vocal Frontier

Guest Lecturer: AI and Music

Blue Marbles

https://2021.xcoax.org/kll/

Coding

Python, JavaScript, TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, OpenFrameworks

Machine Learning & AI

PyTorch, MediaPipe, OpenCV, Computer Vision, Neural Synthesis

Hardware & Electronics

Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Sensor Programming, Physical Computing

Audio & Visual

Multichannel Sound Installation, Video Installation, Sound Design

Pedagogy & Curriculum

Curriculum Development, Admissions, Enterprise Training, Classroom Management