Greg O'Hanlon M.Phil

Greg O'Hanlon's creative career started at the age of 13 when he came upon a double tape deck and LP player. Following some experimentation, primarily inspired by boredom, Greg soon discovered he could use the equipment to produce pause-button mixtapes; creating extended loops/phrases and mixes by recording and re-recording music parts multiple times, editing them together using a pause button. A drum kit soon followed and there was little peace for the next number of years.

After a false start in Mechanical Engineering, he was keen to return to music production and has since worked extensively in the US and Europe in a variety of technical and creative roles. Hailing from a long tradition of engineer-types, his passion for technology has led him to consider in equal measure the internals of the tool/s in question and the art of production.

In 2000 Greg grew tired of commercial audio production and returned to university to complete a Masters Degree in Music & Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin. Graduating with a 1.1 two years later, he then moved into the areas of event and multi-media production. The following three years were spent largely on the move with several tours, large audio-visual installations and corporate work.

Currently based at the School of Creative Arts, University of Ulster, he's involved in interdisciplinary research and development in real-time interactive applications, big data, data visualisation and education. He is course director of the unique BA Creative Technologies at the School. Greg also lectures across a number of subjects including audio/image production, IT, new media, web development and programming.

Greg is the Director of the Imagine Create festival - a biennial event which brings together world leading artists, developers, academics and business leaders.

He is a founder and managing partner at nonzerosum - a interactive design collective focused on the creation of innovative and engagng human experiences.

More recently, Greg became an extremely proud Dad and is consistently in awe of the joy and wonder wrapped up in such a little package.