Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and artist with interests in new media art and culture, especially complex generative systems and digital sound and music. His work has appeared in journals including Leonardo, Digital Creativity and Contemporary Music Review. In 2004 his work on a-life art was published in the book Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004). His current work spans generative art and sonic and visual data-aesthetics. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra.

Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and artist with interests in new media art and culture, especially complex generative systems and digital sound and music.

Mitchell's background is in music and the visual arts (by way of an interdisciplinary first degree in the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong University). After teaching at Wollongong with Frances Dyson, he became more interested in art and cultural theory and continued to develop creative work in digital sound and image. He began postgraduate study at the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1996, working with Douglas Kahn on a research project exploring art, emergence and artificial life. He completed a PhD in 2001, moving the same year to Canberra to take up a position at the University of Canberra.

Mitchell's writing has appeared in journals including Leonardo, Digital Creativity and Contemporary Music Review. In 2004 his work on a-life art was published in the book Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004). Other recent highlights include a catalog essay on creative data sonification for Sonic Acts X (2004). His current work in theory and practice spans generative art and sonic and visual data-aesthetics. Mitchell is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra.