Creative Work Futures: Musicians, Automation and Artificial Intelligence - Submitted PhD Thesis
This thesis examines musicians’ adaptive, resistant, and improvisatory practices in response to visions that anticipate a profound shift of creativity for the “future of work” in a context of growing automated, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies. The findings demonstrate that the extent to which these visions might be realised is plural, diverse, and contingent upon musicians’ values and the technological affordances they imagine and materialise. Drawing on an 18-month multi-sited ethnography in Melbourne’s creative ecology, the study accounts for how music technologies and creative practices emerge, and are culturally, socially, and materially situated, and the implications this has for musicians’ career pathways and livelihoods.
A podcast about contemporary latin music and shifting identities. The first season included 12 episodes with some of the most important artists in the Ecuadorian music scene.
Since 2018, I have been part of SembraMedia, a non-profit organisation dedicated to increasing the diversity of voices in Spanish by helping digital media entrepreneurs become more sustainable and independent. I have collaborated with this organisation as ambassador in Ecuador, until 2022 and also as a consultant for academic initiatives (research, instructional and educational content development). Recent projects and roles include being the Latin America Regional Research Coordinator for Inflection Point International, SembraMedia’s Ambassadors Team Coordinator, and Project Oasis Europe Team Coordinator.
Analog photo series by Miguel Loor Paredes, 'Siete' was an exploration into identity, luck, and the uncanny encounters in everyday life.
The rabbit: Santiago Soto Gómez de la Torre
KARA SOLAR is a project by Fundación Kara Solar in alliance with the Achuar Nationality of Ecuador (NAE). In response to locally identified needs, this organization aims to build a solar-powered community transportation system for the Amazon rain forest that combines indigenous knowledge with modern technology.
Between 2016 and 2018, I worked in this project as Communications Officer. During this time, I designed and applied comms strategies and a crowdfunding campaign as well as the coordination of video and image production.
Kara Solar received attention from several international media outlets including El País, AJ+, The New York Times (Español), BBC, etc.
Photo: Miguel Loor
Photo: Miguel Loor
Design: Miguel Loor
Design: Miguel Loor
Video script: Miguel Loor
El Carpazo was an annual music and arts festival in Quito, Ecuador. Between 2016 and 2017, I was in charge of the communications strategy and communication team coordination during its last two editions.
Videoclip produced for Alkaloides. I listened to one of this band’s songs and told them: "¡Hagamos una película de bajo presupuesto! (Let’s make a low budget film!)”
Script / Directing / Editing: Miguel Loor
Production assistant: Marcos Echeverría
Editing assistant: Juan Pablo Viteri
Graphic design: Alexis Madrid
Videoclip for the Ecuadorian band, "Mundos". Roger Ycaza, band leader, asked us to produce a video with zero budget. This is the final result
Directing: Juan Pablo Viteri
Produced by Miguel Loor
This song was recorded live in Bogotá at Juan Pablo Vega’s studio. Vega is a colombian producer, composer and singer, part of the new wave of pop artists in this country.
Directing and editing: Miguel Loor
Production assistant: Loredana Ferese
Short video produced as part of the communication strategy for the 2017 edition of El Carpazo, music and arts festival in Quito, Ecuador.
Original idea and production: Miguel Loor
Live session of Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing revival band) at El Ejido Park. This improvised show was registered hours before their presentation in the music festival, Ecuador Jazz 2013, at Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito.
Directing and editing: Miguel Loor
