2009 Staff

:: Directors ::

Somaya Langley (Co-Director 2008 – 2009)

Somaya Langley is a sound and media artist (www.criticalsenses.com) and has presented and performed work in conferences and festivals throughout Australia and internationally including Transmediale.08 (2008), Tuned City (2008), New Interfaces for Musical Expression (2008), das kleine field recordings festival (2008), the International Conference on Auditory Display (2004, 2007), the Australasian Computer Music Conference (2006), the Australasian Sound Recording Association Conference (2006), Liquid Architecture 6 (2005) and Electrofringe (2003 – 2007).

She was a member of the sensor-trio HyperSense Complex and the duo MetaSense, now  performing live sensor-based electroacoustics under the pseudonym ID-i/o. Her arts practice focuses on embodied and immersive experiences mediated by technology, to initiate socio-political dialogue, including such projects as the Suspect Backpack and Mobile Patters. She is currently a participant of the Australia Council for the Arts ArtLab research project Thinking Through The Body.

Having worked in the library sector for the past eight years, she is currently the Australian Music Centre’s Online Project Officer. Prior to this, from 2002 to 2007, she was an employee of the National Library of Australia, developing MusicAustralia, the Digital Collections online delivery systems and also working as the Library’s Digital Preservation Officer.

In other modes, she was co-curator of Transit Lounge 2009, a partner project of transmediale.09 and occasionally contributes to RealTime. With suitcases spread across the world, she lives in transit – mainly between Sydney and Berlin.

Daniel Green (Co-Director 2009 – 2010)

 Daniel Green is an artist, performer and curator who dabbles in music for the sake of diversity. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Western Sydney in 2005, Daniel has served on the board of directors at Firstdraft, an artist-run initiative in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Over the past two years, he also undertaken the role of Electrofringe’s Volunteers Coordinator, and in 2008 he co-curated (with Michael Prior) Electroprojections, Electrofringe’s annual open-call screening program.

In addition to presenting his own work in varying forms at Electrofringe between 2003 – 2008, he has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally in spaces such as Bus (Melbourne), Platform (Melbourne), Serial Space (Sydney), MOP (Sydney), Mori Gallery (Sydney) and festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin) and Next Wave (Melbourne). In 2008 he also curated an exhibition of new work by emerging artists, It’s all been done before, and an accompanying series of performances, The day the music died, both at Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

Daniel’s work investigates contemporary entertainment culture and in particular the role of the individual within that culture. Predominately working within video and performance, to date his of achievements include singing Pulp’s Common People in a cardboard box, making a Playstation 2 play itself, becoming Townsville’s second-best air guitarist and annoying a lot of Linkin Park fans.

:: Volunteers ::

Melody Ellis (Grant writing)

Melody has a background and a wealth of experience in the visual arts, having worked for the National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA). She was a director of of the Wren ARI and in 2007 was a project manager for the first Athens Biennale.

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