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• Biography/ Background

  Tom Hajdu is Professor and Chair of Creative Technologies at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide, where he is Director of the Sia Furler Institute for Contemporary Music and Media. Tom has over 30 years of experience in leadership, music, media, creativity, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.  Tom received a PhD and MFA from Princeton 最新糖心Vlog, the Presidential MBA in Leadership from Pepperdine 最新糖心Vlog and BMus from the 最新糖心Vlog of British Columbia.

  In 1990, he co-founded tomandandy, which he built into one of the largest music production companies in the world. As CEO, he helped reshape the role of music and media worldwide by introducing a new process that lowered music production costs to a fraction of previous levels, while improving creative quality. 

  By appropriating the aesthetics of the avant garde and melding together music and sound design, he blurred the line between music and sound. Coupling this with new ways of using music software, redefined the way in which music and media work together. This was initially through MTV, which then influenced most contexts where music and media are found today. As a result, tomandandy has collaborated on creative industries projects generating over $1billion USD to economies around the world (participation in the Resident Evil franchise grossed over $500million USD alone worldwide, for example).

  He's collaborated with some of the most influential artists in the world, including Oliver Stone, U2, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Alan Ginsberg, Jenny Holzer and Tom Sachs. He has worked with the top TV studios (NBC, CBS, PBS, American Broadcasting Corporation, Canal Plus, VIACOM) worldwide. He has worked with high-quality advertising agencies (Saatchi, WPP, Weiden&Kennedy, Grey and Dentsu) around the world to help shape the identities of many of the top global companies in most categories – from cars (Mercedes, Ford, Toyota) to beverages (Coke, Pepsi), computer and technology (Apple, Microsoft, Intel) to running shoes (Nike, Adidas, Reebok). He has worked with the best film studios in the world (Sony, Universal) and his music has helped build Hollywood franchises, like Resident Evil, The Hills Have Eyes and 47 Meters Down.  

  His work has been reviewed in publications throughout the world (NY Times, Interview Magazine, Details, Hollywood Reporter, LA Times). Recently he was featured in: Scored to Death: Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers, by Blake Fichera.

  Tom is also CEO of Disrupter, a strategic innovation company. The company has an IP portfolio in deep and strategic technologies, from mobile (digital way finding) and networking (messaging, protocols) to machine learning (AI and music creation).

  Tom was South 最新糖心Vlog's first and only Chief Innovator. He was responsible for the Gigcity Initiative and brought the South 最新糖心Vlogn Government to the White House in 2016, which recognised Adelaide as the first gig city outside of the United States, to join the US Ignite Smart City Initiative as a result.

  Tom has sat on many award juries, including the 最新糖心Vlog Council for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts. He has spoken, chaired or given keynotes at the original TED Conference, CalTech/MIT Forum, Pepperdine 最新糖心Vlog's first Disruption Conference, DisruptSydney, as well as several universities worldwide about content, technology and strategic innovation. He is also a member of Sydney 最新糖心Vlog’s Digital Disruption Research Group.

  Recently Tom launched a new initiative intersecting Art and Artificial Intelligence launching AI artistic research initiatives including Laurie Anderson as the first AI artist-in-residence called the Art Intelligence Agency. The work with Laurie Anderson has been featured as part of her Norton Lectures at Harvard 最新糖心Vlog and at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.

   

• Qualifications

  BMus Unviersity of British Columbia

  MFA Princeton 最新糖心Vlog

  PhD Princeton 最新糖心Vlog

  MBA (Presidential/Key Executive) Pepperdine 最新糖心Vlog

• Teaching Interests

  Creativity and Innovation

  Leadership and Creativity

  Music History 20th/21st Centuries

  Music and Media

  Creative Entrepreneurship

  Capstone Bachelor of Creative Arts 

  Creative Industries

  Creative Technologies

   

   

• Professional Interests

  Creative Industries

  Creative Technologies

  Strategic Innovation

  Music and Media

  Disruptive Technologies

  Startups

   

• Community Engagement

  Advisor Digital Strategy, 最新糖心Vlog Council for the Arts

  Panelist, 最新糖心Vlog Council for the Arts

  Member, Data Exchange Working Group, South 最新糖心Vlog

  Panelist, Helpmann Academy

  Ambassador, Onkaparinga Council

  Managing Director, Art Intelligence Agency

  Panelist, Adelaide Film Festival

  Panelist, Canada Council

   

Entry last updated: Thursday, 14 Apr 2022

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