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Hello. My name is Alex Mesker. I’m an associate lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature<\/a> (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), where I teach in the fields of interactive media, creative coding, and front-end web development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have been at Macquarie University since 1998 (initially as a student, undertaking a BA in Contemporary Music Studies) and began working as a teacher in the Department of Contemporary Music Studies in 2002 (when I started a Masters Degree in electronic music production). At this time, I also worked as music technician (2002\u20132009) for the Department managing the computer labs. In 2009, I shifted my focus back into teaching when I undertook a PhD (completed in 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent my early years teaching disparate fields music production and ‘multimedia’ before everything began to coalesce into what I teach today. Most of my work now revolves around the use of Max<\/a>, teaching creative coding strategies to media and creative arts students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max is an unknown environment to a majority of my students, and consequently my teaching serves to introduce computational arts ideas\u2014and technologised play\u2014to students from non-programming backgrounds. Given the broad nature of the department, the units I teach cater to students from a variety of backgrounds of study, and Max functions as a central hub to connect previously disparate fields of sound design, music production, screen production, motion\/image\/3D design, and human-computer interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n