Maura Mc Donnell
Assistant Professor Part-Time, Electronic & Elect. Engineering

Maura McDonnell is an Irish visual music artist based in Maynooth, Ireland, who creates visuals for new music and electronic music concerts, fixed media and installation productions. The medium of choice is visual effects and generative effects video and the style of her work is abstract. The meaningfulness that she seeks in her work is to explore the emotional, musical and evocativeness potential of music in a shared similarly crafted visual world. In 2005, she set up a visual music blog to document and research what she saw as an emerging field of creative art activity [http://www.visualmusic.blogspot.com] She has presented her visual music work and research at numerous international festivals, symposium, conference and film screenings. In 2011, Silk Chroma, a visual music work she created in collaboration with the composer Linda Buckley, Dermot Furlong and Gavin Kearney won an honorary award at the Visual Music Award competition in Frankfurt. She is an active member of an international group of artists, composers and academics and researchers engaged in the field of visual music artistic practice. At present, Maura is completing an Arts Practice based PhD on Visual Music in Trinity College, Dublin. She lectures on visual music topics on the M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies, Trinity College, Dublin