About

Meason Wiley is a mechatronic engineer, musician, multimedia artist and fabricator based out of Austin, Texas.  He received his BFA (Music Technology) and MFA (Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence, and Design) from California Institute of the Arts, mentored by Dr. Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling, and the kinetic artist Trimpin. 

Over the past 7 years, Meason worked for the immersive arts company Meow Wolf, initially contributing to over 24 projects as a Lead Artist, Sound Designer, Fabricator, Interaction Designer, Mechatronic Designer & Sound Technologist - and for the last three years as the Director of Research & Development. He is also a visiting artist/guest lecturer at CalArts, teaching graduate-level courses in Mechanical Design and Immersive Experience Design.  In the seven years prior to Meow Wolf, Meason was a Professor of Music Technology at Austin Community College (MBPT Program) where he taught visual programming, sound design, audio synthesis, and live electronic music performance courses.  He was also the ACC Maker Space Coordinator, training students in electronics, computer programming, and digital fabrication. While at ACC, Meason founded the ACC Digital Art + Technology Forum, a monthly lecture/performance series that provided a platform that brought innovative artists and technologists from all over the world to share, engage, and inspire both students and the greater Austin creative community.  

His personal work centers around the exploration of imperceptibility in nature and natural phenomena through various creative processes including mechanical/kinetic design, robotics, generative systems, spatial audio, video, interactive systems, and physical computing.  In addition to his own work, Meason has been involved with the KarmetiK collective/think tank since 2009, a group of artists and engineers seeking to explore and redefine the boundaries between music, the visual arts, and technology.  

He has collaborated with many talented artists including Claudia Bueno, Amon Tobin, Aashish Khan, Roger O’Donnell, Trimpin, Perry Cook, Curtis Bahn, Katie Green, Zbigniew Karkowski, Sarah Belle Reid, Ajay Kapur, and David Rosenboom, among many others.