Palle Dahlstedt (1971) is a Swedish artist, musician, composer and researcher.
After studying classical piano and composition, he pursued electronic music and, since the 1990s, modular synthesizers have been among his main instruments, along with the grand piano. He is very focused on being a musician on machines, with improvisation and physical interaction as key ingredients.
As a researcher, Dahlstedt began with a PhD in evolutionary computing for artistic creativity at Chalmers (which also led to the Nord Modular's Patch Mutator). He is interested in the deep intertwining of art and advanced technology, and especially their creative and aesthetic implications.

He develops new technologies for improvisation, composition and art, and is particularly interested in advanced algorithms in the creative process, technologies that enable embodied performance of electronic sounds and new types of interaction, based on a systemic view of the emergence of interactions between humans and technology. He constantly delves into other art forms, such as photography, video, visual arts and performance, and regularly collaborates with artists in theater, poetry, dance and visual arts.

Dahlstedt has contributed art, technologies and theories to the field of computational creativity, and has received substantial funding for artistic research from the Swedish Research Council and WASP-HS. Dahlstedt is currently Professor of Interaction Design at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology, and Professor of Electronic Music Composition at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He is also adjunct professor of Art and Technology at Aalborg University (Denmark).