
Theodore Koterwas is an artist, musician, and researcher who draws critical attention to overlooked aspects of daily experience that shape our understanding of each other, technology, and the environment. He received his MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and has created art installations, performances, and museum exhibitions for the Exploratorium, University of Oxford, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Edinburgh Science Festival, and artist/musician David Byrne. His AI-generated interactive video installation "The Nth Wave" was shortlisted for the 2021 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, and his voice-cloning installation "all the boys ate a fish" was a finalist in 2024. Currently, he is a Lecturer in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and CoSTAR Research Fellow in Embodied Realtime AI. His practice-based research and teaching explores multi-sensory physical interactions with artificial intelligence—examining how these interactions shape our self-understanding and our ability to perceive, empathise, and communicate with "others," both human and non-human. This work encompasses distributed cognition, non-rational ways of experiencing and knowing, the uncanny, and agency and creativity in non-humans.