Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of interactive media and computer music. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and was researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris. Atau holds a patent on musical control interfaces using physiological biosignals. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. His work has been funded by the AHRC, the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the Japanese Ministry of Telecommunications. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM and has been mentor at NESTA (UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). He holds the Chair of Digital Media at Newcastle University and is Acting Director of Culture Lab.