Michael Masaru Flora is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His work explores the emergent phenomena that occurs through non-deterministic and autopoietic processes. Informed by architecture, systems, perceptual psychology, visual art, and computer music, his works often take the form of large scale installation and performance.
His work has been presented in partnership with School of Design Nanjing University of Arts (China), Shanxi University School of Fine Arts (China), UC Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CA), Quiet City (Vancouver), UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center(CA), Woodstockhausen: Festival of Experimental Music, Pageant Soloveev (PA), The Soap Factory (MN), Indexical (CA), RhizomeDC (DC), Cedar Cultural Center (MN), The Fuse Factory (OH), Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (CA), St Cloud State University (MN), Alfred University (NY) as well as clubs, galleries, theaters, and DIY spaces internationally.
Michael is a co-organizer at Nada with Christian Langheinrich.
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