Joseph Latka (all pronouns) is a New York metropolitan based transdisciplinary and multimedia artist, composer, performer, educator, and certified Deep Listening® facilitator through the Center for Deep Listening. His creative and research practice fundamentally explores the resonances between identity, nature, and technology by integrating embodied queer knowledge, quantum theories, and immersive technologies. His portfolio examines ways of being and knowing in listening and performance practices that merge the body, environment, space, and time. He has performed, composed, and exhibited work internationally, performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble at The Walden School, collaborated with SPLICE Ensemble, co-founded the experimental sound collective Physic, and has over a decade of experience as a music educator, choral director, and musical theater director. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Music Technology, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.