Avery Bick is a musician, multimedia artist, and environmental data scientist. He uses data and art to explore and visualize environmental and societal systems.

He is currently a Ph.D. fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, using machine learning to predict biodiversity from environmental audio and satellite data. He has previously worked with the Stanford History Department (compiling and visualizing data on historical global waste from mining) and in the Stanford Geophysics Departments (modeling the impacts of sea level rise on economic inequity). He also co-founded the startup HighTide, which focuses on predicting socioeconomic losses from sea level rise.

Under the moniker Proteo (prev. Slow Proteo), he has released music through Matron Records in Santa Fe and has performed across the U.S. and Mexico. He has developed and performed several pieces with the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, where he become enthralled with artistic coding and techniques such as audiovisual feedback and granular synthesis. He's worked in event production at the SUNY Buffalo Center for the Arts and has thrown many events and performed live visuals in Santa Cruz.

Avery received his B.S. in Environmental Engineering ('14) from the University at Buffalo and his M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science ('18) from Stanford.