Felipe Tovar-Henao is a US-based multimedia artist, developer, and researcher whose work explores computer algorithms as expressive tools for human and post-human creativity, cognition, and pedagogy. This has led him to work on a wide variety of projects involving digital instrument design, software development, immersive art installations, generative audiovisual algorithms, machine learning, music information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and more. His music is often motivated by and rooted in transformative experiences with technology, philosophy, and cinema, and it frequently focuses on exploring human perception, memory, and recognition.

As a composer, he has been featured at a variety of international festivals and conferences, including TIME:SPANS, the International Computer Music Conference, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, WOCMAT (Taiwan), CAMPGround, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, CLICK Fest, the SCI National Conference, the SEAMUS National Conference, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, CEMICircles, IRCAM's CIEE Summer Contemporary Music Creation + Critique Program and ManiFeste Academy, Electronic Music Midwest, and the Midwest Composer Symposium. He has also been the recipient of artistic awards and distinctions, including the SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Award and the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award.

His music has been performed by international artists and ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, the Grossman Ensemble, Quatuor Diotima, the Contemporary Art Music Project, the New Downbeat Collective, NEXUS Chamber Music, Sound Icon, the IU New Music Ensemble, AURA Contemporary Ensemble, Hear no Evil, Sociedad de Música de Cámara de Bogotá, Ensamble Periscopio, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and the Orquesta Sinfónica EAFIT, among many others.

He has held research and teaching positions at various institutions, including as the 2021/22 CCCC Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago, Lecturer in Music Theory and Composition at Universidad EAFIT, as well as Associate Instructor and Coordinator of the IU JSoM Composition Department. He currently serves as the 2023/25 Charles H. Turner Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Composition at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.