Dr. Robert Machado (he/him) works as an artist and professor within a variety of fields and media. As an early member of the “lowercase sound” movement, discussed by scholars such as Arielle Saiber in “The Polyvalent Discourse of Electronic Music” (2007), since 2001 his experimental sound art under the name Civyiu Kkliu has been performed in galleries on the West and East Coast and published in the US, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria. His visual art has been displayed on the East and West Coast of the US. His most recent work includes the sonification of bioelectrical flora activity + compost de/recomposition (streaming live from Lancaster, PA as ck-flor at www.LocusSonus.org), art as social practice, public poetics, cyanotypes (blueprints), small format Polaroid photography, and experimental film/video.
Dr. Machado is Chair of the Department of Humanities, Director and Professor of the English Program, Chair of the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee, and founder of various initiatives and faculty-student organizations at Lebanon Valley College. He teaches courses on teaches courses on interdisciplinary arts, writing, theory, US literature, film studies, and art as social practice. His research–academic and practice-based–involves the study of color across verbal and visual media, ecopoetics, sound/noise, the environmental humanities, early cinema and early photography, art as social practice, and the avant-garde. He is the founder and co-creator of two apps, the RainbowReader, a tool for corpus linguistics color research and data visualization; and CareerFinder, which helps students within the humanities to discover careers that match their emerging areas of interest and expertise.
