Mark Sullivan is a music composer, a photographer, and educator. He holds an appointment at Michigan State University in the College of Music. His music compositions have been performed, and his photographs published and exhibited, around the US, Europe, and Asia. He has focused on research and creative activity in the arts, involving creative use of technology, and innovative approaches to education. During the last couple of decades, he has become increasingly involved with the pedagogy of composition, and the pedagogy of creativity, and now, as CoLab Studio Creative Director, on nurturing collisions between the arts and sciences.