Speakers
Stephen Barrass
Stephen Barrass is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Communication and Co-Director of the Sonic Communications Research Group at the University of Canberra . He obtained a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of NSW in 1986, and a Ph.D. on Auditory Information Design from the Australian National University in 1997. He took up a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Kommunication in Germany through 1998-1999. Upon return to Australia he lead research on Advanced Audio Interfaces at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra from 2000-2004. Stephen has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, and regularly contributes to international conference committees and invited expert workshops. He served on the Board for the International Community on Auditory Display from 1998-2004, and was Organizing Chair for the International Conference on Auditory Display in Sydney 2004.
His research interests include mixed reality, interaction design, interactive museum exhibits, multimodal information displays, sonification, generative art, and new interfaces for musical expression.
Danielle Wilde
Danielle Wilde is an artist researcher affiliated with Monash University and the CSIRO division of Textile and Fibre Technology investigating how technology might be paired with the body to poeticise experience. To this end she creates wearable interfaces and body extensions that inspire people to move. The aim is to prod people to consider their relationships to their bodies and to broaden their thinking about the relevance of technology to the dreams, hopes and aspirations we each hold. Projects include highly visible, extended and extending interfaces through to "invisible", embedded and distributed systems. Current research is focused on hip- and core-body- controlled interfaces that support the actuation and control of sound.
Wilde was born in Wollongong Australia, and lived from 1994 to 2006 in Europe, the USA and the UK. She has an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a large body of work encompassing wearable interactive interfaces, performance, installation, still and moving image, design for theatre and architecture, documentary film research, production and project management and interaction design. She has consulted and designed for the Equator IRC, for Sussex and Bristol Universities, and for MediaLab Europe, amongst others. Her work, informed by her experience across languages, cultures and disciplines, has been presented in galleries, museums, festivals, conferences and performance venues around the world.
Donna Hewitt
Donna Hewitt is a composer/performer working with voice, environmental and computer processed sound. Much of her compositional work involves reprocessing microphone captured audio via various digital processes to produce complex musical textures. As a PhD commonwealth scholarship student and part-time lecturer in the Music Area at the University of Western Sydney, she is working with multi-channel audio and has completed a number of studio pieces in the Dolby 5.1 surround format. Recently she has been exploring real time digital performance systems and custom interfaces in object/patcher environments. Her work has been frequently broadcast and appears on a number of compilation CDs of electronic music.