Speakers
Ernest Edmonds (UK)
Ernest Edmonds is an international expert on human-computer interaction and creativity. He is Professor of Computation and Creative Media in the faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney where he runs a multi-disciplinary practice-based art and technology research group, the Creativity and Cognition Studios. Ernest Edmonds also works as an artist in the constructivist tradition and first used computers in his practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. He first showed a timebased generative work at Exhibiting Space in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. He has about 200 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art. Artists Bookworks has recently published his book On New Constructs in Art.
Kees Tazelaar (Netherlands)
Kees Tazelaar (July 27, 1962) was taught at the Institute of Sonology from 1981 to 1983 (Utrecht) and from 1987 to 1989 (The Hague). He subsequently studied composition with Jan Boerman at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, graduating in 1993. Since then Tazelaar has been teaching at the Institute of Sonology. He is head of Sonology since June 2006. In addition to his own autonomous works, he has contributed to music theatre projects by Dick Raaijmakers (Die glückliche Hand geöffnet, Scheuer im Haag) and Theatergroep Hollandia (Perzen, Varkensstal).
In recent years he has also been occupied intensively in the restoration and reconstruction of major electronic works from the past. In his specially equipped studio new versions have been made of compositions by Gottfried Michael Koenig (Klangfiguren II, Essay, Terminus), Jan Boerman (Kompositie 1972, Ruï ne), Edgard Varè se (Poè me Électronique), Iannis Xenakis (Concret P-H), György Ligeti (Pièce Électronique no.3, Artikulation), Luctor Ponse (Concerto voor Piano en Band). Since June 2005, Tazelaar is a visiting research fellow of the University of Bath, UK, and as such a participant in the VEP (Virtual Electronic Poem) project. During the winter semester of 2005-2006, Kees Tazelaar filled the Edgard Varèse guest professorship at the Technical University of Berlin.
Philip Samartzis
Philip Samartzis (Melbourne, Australia) is coordinator and lecturer in Sound within the School of Art, RMIT where in 2004 he completed a doctorate into surround sound in installation art. Outcomes from his research have informed numerous exhibitions including; Zoso (2007), Project Space, Melbourne; Dodgíem (2006), Grosser Wasserspeicher, Berlin; Unheard Spaces (2004), Candiani Cultural Centre, Mestre; Presence & Absence (2002), Statenlogement, Hoorn; and Transparency (2001), Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris. As an independent curator he has organized four Immersion festivals focusing on the theory and practice of sound spatialisation, as well as Variable Resistance - a series of international sound art presentations for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2001/2). Samartzis has also curated an overview of Australian sound culture titled Variable Resistance: Ten hours of sound from Australia for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002) and the Podewil Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2003).
As a solo artist he has performed widely in Australia, Japan, Russia, Europe and the United States including presentations at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, The DOM, Moscow, Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, and the Mori Arts Centre, Tokyo.
Samartzis has published five solo compact discs, Residue (1998), Windmills Bordered By Nothingness (1999), Mort aux Vaches (2003), Soft and Loud (2004) & Unheard Spaces (2006), and has also performed and recorded with leading international improvisers and musicians including Sachiko M, Seiichi Yamamoto, Gunter Muller, Voice Crack, Keiji Haino, Oren Ambarchi, Reinhold Friedl, Michael Vorfeld, Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet. Samartzis was a recent recipient of an Asialink Arts Management Scholarship for the development of curatorial programs that promote Australian and Japanese sound culture.