UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Structural Metrics: An Epistemology A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Media Arts and Technology by Michael Benjamin Winter Committee in charge: Professor Clarence Barlow, Chair Professor Curtis Roads Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Professor Azer Akhmedov June 2010 The dissertation of Michael Benjamin Winter is approved: Chair Date Date Date Date University of California, Santa Barbara June 2010 Structural Metrics: An Epistemology Copyright 2010 by Michael Benjamin Winter iii To my father, Eugene Julian Winter, iv Acknowledgments I want to thank members of my committee: Professor Clarence Barlow, Professor Curtis Roads and Professor Azer Akhmedov. I would also like to thank my father, Eugene Winter, for his support as well as Gregory Chaitin (whose work I was first introduced to by Curtis Roads), Larry Polansky and Lauren Pratt for their feedback and suggestions. Finally, I would like to thank the community of wonderful artists surrounding me. A proper list would be too long, but I think you know who you are... v Michael B. Winter Curriculum Vitae 1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203
[email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90021 www.unboundedpress.org (current as of May 4th, 2010) (213) 446-4776 Education University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Ph.D. Candidate in Media Arts and Technology (May 2010) 2007 – 2010 ABD (April 2008); Dissertation – Structural Metrics: An Epistemology California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA M.F.A. in Music Composition (May 2005) 2003 – 2005 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR B.S.