Speakers
Norie Neumark
Norie Neumark is a sound/radio and new media artist. Her radiophonic works have been commissioned and broadcast by the Listening Room, ABC Classic FM, and internationally. Her artists residencies include The MacDowell Colony (2006) and La Cite Internationale des Arts (2004, 2006). Norie coedited and wrote the introduction to, At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (The MIT Press, 2005). She is co-editor of The Grain of the Voice in Digital Media and Media Art (forthcoming, The MIT Press, 2008/09) Her work as part of the collaboration with Maria Miranda, as Out-of-Sync, can be accessed via http://www.out-of-sync.com. Their recent work has been exhibited in Australia and overseas, including Searching for Rue Simon Crubellier and Talking about the Weather.
Ian Andrews
Ian Andrews, born 1961 (Australia) is a Sydney based independent film, video and sound artist who has been practicing since 1981. Much of Andrews' work consists of video/sound collage, "cut-up", and agit-prop culture jamming utilising a diverse range of visual styles - from animation to "found" footage. The work is often characterised by themes such as technology and subjectivity. Ian Andrews currently teaches cultural theories of sound at the University of Technology Sydney, and works as technical coordinator at Metro Screen
Darrin Verhagen
Darrin Verhagen is a freelance music writer for Dance, Theatre and Computer Games. He has released a variety of albums under his own name, as well as a range of pseudonyms and teaches at RMIT.
Tom Ellard
Tom Ellard is an Australian electronic musician most well known as a member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads. In 2005 Ellard received the Australian Record Industry Association's ARIA Music Award for the best original soundtrack/cast/show for the soundtrack to the Australian film The Illustrated Family Doctor. He continues to record music and soundtracks and also lectures at a variety of educational facilities on music production in Australia. He is the creator and director of sevcom.com, a website for alternative methods of music distribution and creation.
Andrew Plain
Andrew is a Sound Designer (Huzzah Sound, Fox Studios, Sydney) who has gained an international reputation through his award-winning sound work on films as diverse as The Truman Show, Lantana, In the Cut, Look Both Ways and Travellers and Magicians (see http://www.huzzahsound.com for further details, including work-in-progress). He holds a BA (Pysch) from Macquarie University and a BA Com from the New South Wales Institute of Technology (now UTS).