Adam Synnott has been implicated with companies/independent artists such as Fiona Malone, Alison Currie, Sue Healey, Jason Lam and Sascha Budimski (aevoc). He has created many installations with Max/MSP and Touch designer.
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Alessandro Ludovico, lives and works in Bari, Italy. He is a media critic and the editor in chief of the magazine Neural and was one of the founding contributors to the Nettime community. As one part of the UBERMORGEN.COM collaboration, he produced the work Amazon Noir, that received second prize in the 2008 Transmediale awards.
Alessandro appears as part of Electrofringe, courtesy of the National Young Writers Festival.
Alex (aka. autoclave) is a sound artist and producer. He is finishing his final year as Electrofringe co-director. He also co-directs the Sydney leg of Liquid Architecture and is a youth worker by trade. What he won’t tell you is just how great his cooking is, but we will – its fantastic…
Alicia co-organises Scooter, is a tech extraordinaire and like to loop casio keyboards. She is one part of Solder Girls.
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Alison creates immersive installation performance experiences. Her work 42a premiered at the Experimental Art Foundation, in June 2008.
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Data from mundane sources – traffic noise, a dusty library, the weather – visualised. Andrew Vande Moere is the editor of Information Aesthetics (www.infostehtics.com), the outstanding weblog dedicated to exploring the art & science of the dynamic representation of information. Furthermore he is an educator at University of Sydney where he outlined the innovative IDEA Master degree for Electronic Art & Interaction design for 2009 which will set the benchmark for postgraduate eduaction in Electronic Art & Interaction Design in Australia. For more information please read this interview of Vande Moere.
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Angelo Plessas born 1974, lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Plessas uses the internet to create websites that are strange, nervous and poetic at the same time. These websites are mostly interactive drawings and Plessas’ subjects usually involve femminity and portraits of people around him or many sides of himself. These internet pieces often “cover” the real world as objects like murals, installations, collage drawings and prints.
In 2007 Angelo has founded the “Angelo Foundation” a non-profit organization focused on the relationship of the internet and culture.
Once in an interview he said: “The internet is the only place to create anymore. It’s like being in the jungle and you try to create a civilization. You find a script, you test to see if you can start a fire.”
Plessas has shown his work in museums and foundations such as The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, Deste Foundation, the 3rd Biennial of Valencia. His work has been published in Purple Fashion, Liberation newspaper and Frieze magazine. Since 2005 he maintains the popular blog www.Angelosays.com.
Plessas is also part of the Neen collective, Neen stands for Neenstars: a still undefined generation of visual artists. Some of them belong to the contemporary art world; others are software creators, web designers, and video game directors or animators. Neen was founded in 2000 by Miltos Manetas at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
“Our official theories about reality—quantum physics, etc.—prove that the taste of our life is the taste of a simulation. Machines help us feel comfortable with this condition: they simulate the simulation we call Nature. Opening the door of your room or clicking on a folder on your computer’s desktop will send you to similar destinations—two versions of reality that are seemingly perfect and dense, but they will start dissolving after you analyze them.”
- Miltos Manetas
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Anna Burns is a producer based in Sydney. When not chasing rockets she works for the ABC and presents a popular weekly new music radio programme on the Sydney station FBi Radio.
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New Zealander Antony Milton (www.pseudoarcana.com) has been making records, exhibiting sound installations and performing live under various nom de plumes since the early 1990s.
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Antti Tenetz is a Finnish media artist who has filmed throughout Scandinavia and the North, from the Ice Sea to Siberia, and in as places as far afield as South Thailand and Greece.
Aras Vaichas is an artist and an engineer. Aras works full time as an embedded software and electronics engineer with an RFID systems manufacturer.
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Balint Seeber is a software engineer, 3D/video application developer and electronics enthusiast. His current PhD work aims to make Visual Programming Languages more intuitive.
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Beatrice is a PhD student in the Media Department at Macquarie University,
interested in the challenges facing musicians and the music industry. She
has a Masters in Business, Commerce and International Marketing from UTS and
a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Commerce from the University of Bologna.
Beatrice has worked as a marketing coordinator in the design and art
industry, as well as on business projects in Italy and China
Her findings are also published on the blog musictwopointzero.blogspot.com
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Ben Byrne is a Sydney based musician, curator, radio producer and writer whose work traverses musical performance and improvisation, composition, installation, radiophonics and sound theory.
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photo by Koen Broos
From Ghent, Belgium and San Francisco California, Hendrik Leper and Stijn Schiffeleers both trained as a photographers, then started working mostly with video and collaborating with sound artists are now developing interactive installations: playful, witty and beautifully executed.
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Caleb Kelly produced his doctoral thesis at the University of Canberra in Australia. His research deals with cracked and broken media in 20th century experimental music.
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Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music group formed by Campbell Kneale (www.cpsip.co.nz) from Wellington, New Zealand.
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Carolina Bäckman is a Denmark-based dancer who performs internationally. While Finding Aurora, Carolina moves from performer and enactor to being experimenter and questioner.
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Cat Jones is a performer, writer, media maker, producer and all round creatrix. She specialises in text, spoken words and live interactives, and you?
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Chiara creates Speaking at Wall, an interactive video installations for virtual architecture.
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Chris Poole is an artist from Western Australia who works with electronics and computing to generate sculptural and installation type works.
He is Artist in Residence at the Lock-up Cultural Centre during Electrofringe’s This is Not Art Festival in 2008. The Lock-up Artist in Residence program is supported by The University of Newcastle and Hunter TAFE.
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Colleen’s research spans the areas of community informatics, mobile learning, mobile digital social networks and Location Based Games. She works at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID).
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Soda_Jerk (Dan and Dominique Angeloro) are two Sydney-based remix artists who work with video, photo-collage and installation.
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Dan is an organiser of Outpost in Melbourne, he is a musician and performer with a number of outstanding outfits and a really nice guy.
Daniel Green is an artist, performer, and occasionally a terrible musician. Your parents would really like him.
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David McDowell (www.badsign.net) is a visual artist who works with both analogue and digital photomedia. He is particularly interested in the relationship between illusionistic content of still and moving images and the perceptual experience that the ’seeing things’ in such images involves. He is a lecturer in the School of Creative Media at RMIT.
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Dennis Paul from Berlin investigates the relation between people and technology. He specifically likes to explore the playful and narratives qualities of responsive media.
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Born in Torino Italy, Domenico (www.sciajno.net) has been an international presence in the fields of electro-acoustic improvisation and performance since 1992.
With support from:
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Soda_Jerk (Dominique and Dan Angeloro) are two Sydney-based remix artists who work with video, photo-collage and installation.
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Sherman is a senior lecturer in the Media Department at Macquarie
University. He has a PhD from The University of Queensland, on the topic of
Internet content regulation, working closely with the Key Centre for Media
and Cultural Policy and the Australian Broadcasting Authority. He also has
an MA (Media, Communications and Law) from Macquarie and a BSc in Design
Studies from UNSW. He is the author of the recently published The Book is
Dead, Long Live the Book, from UNSW Press, and his research interests focus
on the social, cultural and policitcal impact of new media technologies.
His current research involves both qualitative and quantitative explorations
of the Australian music industry, in a project (Music 2.0) that seeks to map
how the new technologies are affecting the livelihood of musicians.
Sherman has worked as a new media designer and producer, producing award
winning CD-ROMs and websites for corporate and publishing clients.
Steve is a lecturer in the Media Department at Macquarie University. He holds LL.B(Hons), MA Cyberculture & Law, and a PhD focused on copyright law, sampling, music, creativity and the fair use doctrine. As well as continuing his research in those areas, he is currently collaborating with Sherman on the Music 2.0 project.
Steve has a wide and varied teaching background. He teaches/has taught media studies, Web design, generic computer skills, networking, music technology and an array of legal areas (including contract, tort, company, criminal, employment, property, family, insurance, media) at the South East Essex College (UK). He also developed and delivered media law components for BA and BSc programs run in conjunction with the University of Essex.
Steve also produces his own music under the name INfest8 and remixes both signed and unsigned bands from around the world from his studio in Sydney. He has released six albums to date and was an early proponent of online music delivery services. He has just finished a trilogy of remixes for Konqistador which will be released as part of the “Electriker EP” in May 2008.
Drew Lyon aka. Creassault from New Zealand, performs a live audiovisual monster mash with The Incredible Hexadecibels, Jonathan Bruce and Rewa Wright.
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Elmar Trefz is an media artist and co-director of Electrofringe. He is responsible for cool inventions such as the Wave Pillow.
Emma Nordanfors is a Swedish choreographer based in Berlin. She instigated Finding Aurora, which has stretched her methodology from dance choreography to the coordination of thought.
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Esteban is born in Zapopan, where he now lives and works. He studied screenwriting and experimental video at Guadalajara University and holds several advanced degrees in multimedia and digital creation.
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Eugenia works predominantly in video to explore issues of identity, race, and culture. She VJs regularly as part of OUTPOST and Uber Lingua.
George Cremaschi was born in New York City, studied jazz and contrabass at Jazzmobile in Harlem, and composition at Greenwich House Music School in Manhattan.
Greg Schiemer, veteran of Sydney’s early experimental music scene, is a composer whose electronic instrument designs include analogue dance interfaces, the Tupperware Gamelan and the MIDI Tool Box.
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Greg Simmons (recordingtheacousticworld.blogspot.com) is a writer, educator, traveller and sound recordist who spends his spare time recording the music and sounds of Asia and the Himalayas.
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Holly Childs is a freelance writer, visual artist and junk fashion designer.
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Ivan is involved in many projects including being a member of rock bands Paper Scissors, Belles Will Ring, and Sludge/Doom-Rock duo Machine Death.
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Janys Hayes is a theatre director, actor and teacher of acting. She trained at the Drama Centre in London, specialising in Character Analysis as taught by Yat Malmgren. She is currently a Lecturer in Performance at the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. Janys has acted for Melbourne Theatre Co., Theatre South, Hunter Valley Theatre Co., Freewheels and Salamanca Theatre.
Jessica Coughlan completed Honours in Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle in 2007, and has been exhibiting widely since 2003. She uses basic electro techniques to create interactive immersive pieces. Her wall painting focuses on postindustrial sites & explores the notion of public/private space & the environment.
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Jim Denley is one of Australia’s foremost improvisers of new music utilising saxophone, flute and laptop.
Johannes Burström aka. Rugar is a musician and composer from Umeå in northern Sweden. Rugar develops environments for computer music improvisation and performance for a number of bands, as well as music for film, fictitious computer games and dance performances.
John is a sound/visual practitioner and is half of pig&machine, having relocated from Japan. His latest project is producing Disco Beans art space (www.discobeans.com) in Northcote, Melbourne.
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John is an ABC producer, public media activist, electronic and mechanical inventor, bike rider, vegan cook, performer, promoter, composer and leads an enthusiastic life.
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Jon is a AV artist, composer, producer and musician from Sydney. He plays guitar in The Holy Soul, Delirium Tremons and Creeks and computer/electronics solo. He has also produced bands such as The Laurels, The Disbelievers and Cloud Control.
As part of New Zealand based multimedia duo The Incredible Hexadecibels with Rewa Wright, they perform a live audiovisual monster mash with Creassault aka. Drew Lyon.
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Joshua is a guitarist of 16 years and has been doing electronic music for 8 years. He works in the film industry, building creatures of various natures. These include animatronic prosthetics; mainly sculpting, mould making, painting and animatronic control systems.
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Julia Burns is an interactive and multimedia artist. She is currently completing her Masters in Research at Creativity and Cognition Studios at The University of Technology, Sydney.
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Julian Knowles is a composer/performer, music producer and media artist, specialising in new and emerging practices. He is a director in the faculty Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology.
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Kate Byrne is a sometimes artist and general word hack who is overly prone to opening her big mouth in the presence of others. Projects involving Youtube battles or having laptop artists play drone in her lounge room usually result.
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Kate is producing for the ABC’s Pool. She likes communities; being part of them, making media about them, and creating them.
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is kati cubby, and the future etc…
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Katie Richards is a Sydney-based media artist and producer working across multimedia, interactivity, visualisation software and time-based media.
Kim is a guitarist and composer from Norway. She is the organiser of the Fri resonans festival in Trondheim, and involved in various musical projects around the globe.
KK NULL is a Japanese composer, guitarist, singer and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80’s.
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As an extended technique vocal practitioner and laptop improviser, Kusum Normoyle’s sound practice expresses itself as extreme noise in performance. She is interested in the anatomy of deconstructed vocal language and technological interface.
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Lachlan is a contemporary classical composer and guitarist who’s company Earthling Designs builds specialist effects units to extend a humanistic approach to complex sonic applications.
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Lachlan Conn is an illustrator, musician and maker/thinker masquerading as a green and pink hairy blob trying not to be noticed in the line at ALDI whilst buying Choco-Rice. He runs Forepaw in Northcote.
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As Hidden Village, Lauren Sutter and Seb Tomczak draw upon an eclectic collection of retro game consoles, utilising recently developed sound software to create an electronica performance duo.
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Lucy Benson is a Melbourne based video artist and multimedia designer. Her performances combine original footage and appropriated imagery to create dreamy layered scapes and abstract narratives.
Lucy Hg is coordinator for the League of Imaginary Scientists. In Finding Aurora she draws on this experience to translate creative inquiry into an interactive process.
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Luke Toop is a VJ and DJ from South Australia. He loves to get people high WITHOUT using chemicals.
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Marco Bresciani is a programmer and part time inventor, who experiments in computer vision and image processing.
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Marco Cher-Gibard presently works with samplers and computers to create sample based instruments, which explore ideas of time through repetitive and recursive processes.
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Marcus is an obsessive music collector and film buff. His taste is terrifying, but he is nice.
Martyn Coutts creates live art works. His interest is in the integration of the technology and the body in live performance. Martyn is one of the 2008 Electrofringe Artists in Residence.
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Maruosa hails from Osaka, Japan. His performances hover staccato in a unique territory between the worlds of comprehensible form and complete chaos.
Mat McCosker is a Sydney-based computer graphics (CG) artist and animator. He maintains a close connection with Southern Outpost, the Knot Gallery and Naga Studios.
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Matt studied composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, he now works in Sydney as a DJ while completing his PhD on Automated Music at the SCA.
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Matt McGinity is a computer scientist, working at the iCinema Centre, specialising in immersive and interactive computer systems. With professional experience ranging from computer game development to simulations for astronaut training, he has a wide practical knowledge of the myriad of technologies that make up virtual reality systems.
He will be presenting work on behalf of Volker Kuchelmeister.
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Sanso-Xtro is Melissa Agate from Adelaide, Australia. Her debut solo Album ’sentimentalist’ was released on Type records in May 2005, an album of fragile melodies and angular rhythms made with all manner of small instruments.
www.sanso-xtro.com
Michael Prior is a mixed-media artist currently involved in making improvised music, locked groove records and geodesic domes. His recent work is a genuine attempt to slow time and make it hover.
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Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and artist with interests in new media art and culture, especially complex generative systems and digital sound and music. Thoughts and writing can be found on his blog the teeming void.
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mook started rocketcar day 6 years ago with a simple dream to make rockets more dangerous (fun). It is now into it’s 10th run. So far, there has been no deaths and only a couple of injuries.
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*sister0* is a performing Artist from Tasmania, who works in the internatioal field of experimental media and fine electronic art. Her interests include meme-hacking, ancient communication practices and giving homage to the late 19th-early 20th century manifestations of the paranormal, political cabaret and the experiential worlds they carry in their wake. One of her latest projects “paraphernalia” exemplifies this. Gamepads are transformed into sensitive sonic objects, talisman that among other thing, control and triggers sound, like a radio transmission coming from elsewhere, perhaps the other side?
‘a generative collision of net technology, riot grrl, dance, open source programming, vaudeville and the concerns of the psyche, her work weaves together transcendent practices of many kinds while feeding from the rot and beauty of contemporary daily life’.
-Filter Magazine #59. 2005. Linda Dement
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Nic Whyte works in the realm of moving image, video installation & interactive art. Recent years have been spent scaling ladders to install projectors whilst facilitating temporal media through Tape Projects.
Peter Newman uses sound, projections, paint, found objects and sculpted forms to generate open-ended aesthetic systems.
Sydney-based audio/video electronic artist and Overlord of Dorkbot Sydney.
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Pip Shea is a media artist. Her practice focuses on networked culture, the online participatory media space and the free sharing of content. She is one of the 2008 Electrofringe Artists in Residence.
Rachael Kiang is an independent curator with an interest in new media, site-specific and interdisciplinary art practices. She is the curator of the Electro-Online program for the festival.
As part of New Zealand based multimedia duo The Incredible Hexadecibels with Jonathan Bruce, they perform a live audiovisual monster mash with Creassault aka. Drew Lyon.
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Rosalind Hall is an experimental saxophonist, aiming to create a unique dialogue between the performer and the instrument. Rosalind is currently studying sound art at RMIT.
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Rose Turtle Ertler is Australia’s one and only ‘electrik ukulele lady’, wielding a 1940s Gretsch ukulele plugged into an effects pedal. Nothing like Tiny Tim.
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Sarah Davies spends most of her time pushing electrons around – either in the guise of a sound technician, a quasi-electronics enthusiast and sometimes as a pop star with presseject. She is Electrofringe’s technical production manager and keeps the whole show running.
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Sarah is an artist and independent curator who has been based in regional Australia. She is currently the Australian Network for Art and Technology’s Embracing Sound Program Manager and is a PhD Candidate at the Queensland University of Technology.
Sascha Budimski developed his interest in sound art and electronic composition whilst studying modern dance at AIT Arts, Adelaide. Since graduating from AIT Arts, he has composed and created scores for a range of choreographers and directors in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne.
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Scot Cotterell (www.scotcotterell.com) is a Tasmanian-based media artist and has been involved in Electrofringe for numerous years.
Scott Eggert writes computer programs, processes signals and dreams of how to how to incorporate technology and the brain to create art and music.
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As Hidden Village, Lauren Sutter and Seb Tomczak draw upon an eclectic collection of retro game consoles, utilising recently developed sound software to create an electronica performance duo.
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Sherwin!s interests lie in the intersection of location based gaming and interface design. He is currently considering his potential to become a professional student and going on another post graduate adventure. He works at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID).
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Shoeb Ahmad is a musician/sound artist currently residing in the sticks of Canberra, Australia. An interest in cassette collages and cheap keyboard tones sparked a life long ‘musical’ obsession with drones and avant noise.
Composer, laptop jockey, music producer, borderline sound fanatic, inventor of SoundThoughts, experimental instrument builder, pure data paduan, crusader for made-up words, metaphysical researcher, ideas girl. you can find her at: sofieloizou.com
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Somaya Langley is a sound and media artist (www.criticalsenses.com). Based out of a suitcase somewhere between Berlin and Sydney, she juggles numerous positions including being the Australian Network for Art and Technology’s international media correspondent and developing online projects for the Australian Music Centre.
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Sumu is a very dangerous man. But he can be trusted. Besides, you’re running out of options fast.
Sunday Ganim has been weaving much, making pop up books and hasn’t managed to switch on her computer on for about a year. She is a member of Tape Projects.
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The Splinter Orchestra is an improvising music ensemble of up to 50 performers. Forming in 2003, the released an album in 2006 on the label split rec. Consisting of both traditional and electronic instruments, minus a conductor, this large ensemble yet aiming for a beauty and minimalistic simplicity of sound.
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Toby is a purveyor of exceptional drum and bass and wonderful at pretty much anything else you ask him to do. He is the Electrofringe festival’s Process Space co-ordinator.
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Volker Kuchelmeister is currently working as the Head of the Media Laboratory at the iCinema Centre. His research focuses on interface design, Human-Computer-Interaction, immersive visualization technology, global capture and imaging systems and new media in the performing arts.
His work at Electrofringe will be presented by Matt McGinity.
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Willoh S.Weiland is a writer/performance maker and voice artist – concerned with new ways that text can inhabit contemporary art. She is one of the 2008 Electrofringe Artists in Residence.
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Willy is part of The Green Eyl. TheGreenEyl is Richard The, Gunnar Green, Frédéric Eyl and Willy Sengewald offsprings of the Berlin University of the Arts and have been working collectively since 2003. They aim to explore the dynamics of unconventional interaction between people, their environment, and technology. With the unrestrained blend of various design-techniques, they purposefully escape any attempt of categorizing their work. And ever take you by surprise.
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xtine is a media artist who engages a participatory audience. She is currently an Assistant Professor of media design at California State University, Fullerton.
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Yang designs and develops back and front-end systems for location-based products and services, with a focus on games and interactive narrative multimedia. He works at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID).
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Osaka native. She is half of noise-core duo pig&machine. The latest project is producing Tabiya (japanese sock shop) and Disco Beans art space (www.discobeans.com) in Northcote, Melbourne.
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Zoe Scoglio experiments with moving image, sound, torches, triangles and the human body to create works that have been performed both locally and abroad. She is a member of Tape Projects.
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