RESEARCH 

Frank Dufour’s research originates with his dissertation in the study of time perception within digital media. Throughout the years, this research has been informed by and more deeply supported by phenomenology and aims today at seizing the structures of the perception of time in artistic expressions, from the receiver’s view point as well as from that of the creator.

Frank’s responsibilities as director of the doctoral at the school of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication has led him to study interdisciplinary education, creativity, and research, where he also applies phenomenological approach and methods.

AFFILIATIONS

LABORATOIRE SCIC.LAB MEDITERRANNEE, UNIVERSITE COTE D’AZUR
Frank Dufour joined Sic.Lab Méditerranée as an invited research to contribute to the lab’s ongoing interdisciplinary research in the fields of New Media Studies, Digital Culture and Expressions.

LABORATORY ARTSCILAB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
Frank is pursuing research at the intersection of transdisciplinarity, learning, and emerging technologies through the ArtSciLab’s existing projects, such as HERMES and Experimental Publishing.

LABORATORY FOR SYNTHETIC & ELECTRONIC POETRY (LABSYNTHE)
Frank Dufour co-founded LabSynthE in 2016 in the School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Media at UT Dallas, to explore hybrid and multimedia forms of expression emerging within the practice of digital technologies.  Labsynthe studies the history of electronic literature as well as experimental art forms originating with new media at the beginning of the 20th & 21st centuries.

LABORATOIRE MUSIQUE ET INFORMATIQUE DE MARSEILLE
Frank Dufour has been a member of the the M.I.M. since 2003.  The particularity of the M.I.M. is to develop research which is undertaken by creators, not theorists. The research projects are thus born from the questions referring to the problems of creation and of the contemporary musical practices. Its field of action is that of “fundamental research” in the sense defined by Pierre Schaeffer in his “Traité des Objets Musicaux (Seuil ed., 1966, p. 360)

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF TIME
ISST has been founded in 1966 to bring artists, scholars and scientists of all disciplines together on the topic of the study of time. Frank is hoping to use this platform to further his research on the perception of time in narrative and in musical contexts .

SAMPLE COURSE OFFERINGS

Undergraduate Level Courses
Introduction to Sound Design
Sound Design for Animation
Sound Design for Film
Sound Design for Games & Interactive Applications
Voice Over
Digital Sound Recording

Graduate Studies 
Research in Sound Design: Sound Art
Aesthetics of Sound in Digital Art
Aesthetics of Interactive Art
Sound & Music, Theory & Practice
Phenomenology as Transdisciplinary Research Methodology
Introduction to Phenomenology
Phenomenology in Creative Contexts