Dr. Eldad Tsabary is a Professor of Music and Electroacoustics at Concordia University, internationally recognized for his leadership in research-creation, aural training, and sonic performance. His scholarship is grounded in a decades-long commitment to experimental pedagogy and interdisciplinary collaboration, most notably as the founder and director of the Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk) and through his SSHRC-funded Inner Ear project, which reimagines aural training through transformational education. He also leads the Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) project, utilizing mini-operas to explore cataclysmic scenarios and foster critical public discourse. Building on this foundation of creative inquiry, Dr. Tsabary’s current research has expanded into the critical humanities, applying his expertise in generative systems to the study of artificial intelligence.

His current research program, "The AI Mirror," employs a methodology of "discovery-by-synthesis"—actively building and testing novel AI platforms to reveal deeper truths about human nature. Dr. Tsabary leverages his development of generative systems as high-fidelity diagnostic instruments to investigate the human condition through three distinct lenses:

• The Mirror of Society: Treating algorithmic outputs as diagnostic tools that reveal hidden cultural structures, biases, and historical narratives requiring reimagining.
• The Mirror of Creativity: Using generative agents as a comparative framework to rigorously define the "so not AI" human, investigating the irreducible qualities of human expression (if they exist).
• Algorithmic emancipation: Designing alternative curation tools that allow users to escape the opaque, curated worlds and filter bubbles of commercial AI, thereby reclaiming human agency and discovery.

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