Loki der Quaeler

Infobox musical artist
Name = Loki der Quaeler
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist


Birth_name = Matthew Demsey
Born = December, 1970, Washington D.C.
Instrument = Keyboards
Genre = Industrial
Occupation = Keyboardist / Research Mathematician
Years_active = 1991 -
Associated_acts = ohGr
Skinny Puppy

Loki der Quaeler is a research mathematician and musician; born Matthew Demsey in December, 1970, his name was legally changed in the early 1990s. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Arizona in Pure (Comprehensive) Mathematics and later enrolled in a Master's program in Theoretical Physics at San Francisco State University. He is currently divorced.

Arts

Loki was a fundamental contributor for The Process — an art and philosophy group started in the early 1990s. The group was originally created in tandem with the Skinny Puppy album "The Process", and had contributions by musical artists Nivek Ogre and Genesis P-Orridge, and music video director William Morrison.

In 2000, Loki performed stage design and direction for the Skinny Puppy reunion show at the Orkus Doomsday Festival in Dresden, Germany. He was the keyboardist for the ohGr 2001 tour, is credited with keyboards on the ohGr album "SunnyPsyOp", and is the current designer and administrator for the official ohGr website.

ciences

Loki is currently the Chief Research Officer for Cataphora, Inc. and is a member of the technical advisory board for Banzai Research Institute, Inc., a 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge finalist . While working at Dreamworks, SKG, he wrote software used on the film The Prince of Egypt. He has also written Java Swing libraries while working at Sun, and worked on computational chemistry software for Pfizer in 2001.

He has authored and co-authored several issued and pending patents.

Press

Loki was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal for an article about University of Arizona research done using mathematics as a base language for communication in S.E.T.I in December, 1989. In September, 2000 he was profiled by The Industry Standard while at Troba, the company he co-founded.

External links

* [http://www.ohgr.com Official ohGr website]
* [http://www.cataphora.com/ Cataphora, Inc.]
* [http://www.gobanzai.com/ Banzai Research Institute, Inc.]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620133/ Loki der Quaeler IMDb page]
* [http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,18355,00.html Newitz, A. (2000, September 18). Thank God It's Monday. "The Industry Standard"]
* [http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6023271&id=tEgEAAAAEBAJ&dq=ininventor:quaeler&num=30&as_drrb_
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* [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19&SORT=1191655-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=1283471&C=1&ELEMENT_SET=IA,WO,TTL-EN&RESULT=1&TOTAL=6&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=US2006030274&QUERY=quaeler+ WIPO WO/2007/014398]
* [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19&SORT=1191655-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=957752&C=1&ELEMENT_SET=IA,WO,TTL-EN&RESULT=3&TOTAL=6&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=US2000028570&QUERY=quaeler+ WIPO WO/2001/027850]
* [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19&SORT=1191655-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=957662&C=1&ELEMENT_SET=IA,WO,TTL-EN&RESULT=6&TOTAL=6&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=US2000028476&QUERY=quaeler+ WIPO WO/2001/027801]

Trivia

*Loki was dressed to look like lead singer Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy during a portion of the band's 2000 concert at the Doomsday Festival.