Electrofringe

Daniel Juhasz is The Ugly Stick’s other Co-producer/writer/performer/director/editor/designer. He has also studied some Creative Arts and works as a freelance media producer, creative writer and musician.

Events:

• The Ugly Stick (Screening)

Larisa Mann (Dj Ripley), genre-smashing dancefloor devastator, blogger, legal ethnographer, journalist.

Events:

• Staying Alive (Roundtable Discussion)
• TINA Showcase – Saturday Night (Gig)

Analysis of the phenomena in everyday life: the work of Elke Reinhuber could be summarised under this maxim. In order to achieve this, she works with photography, video and interactive installations as well as prints and performances.

Elke was born in Ellwangen, Germany and lives and works in Sydney. She trained as a photographer, studying in Berlin, London, Bologna and Sydney and was visiting professor in media Arts at the Institute for Media Research at Braunschweig University of Art. Since March 2009, she is a PhD student in media arts at CoFA, Sydney with the topic “What if…?”.

Her numerous international exhibitions include shows and screenings in Chicago, Casablance, São Paulo, Québec, Buchaerst, Tashkent, Rivara, Cairo as well as many in her native Germany.

Events:

• The Urban Beautician (Artist Presentation)
• The Urban Beautician – Performance (Performance)

Emily McDaniel is an aboriginal artist, educator and curator from the Wiradjuri nation. Her work traverses live performance, new media, film and sound.

Events:

• Assemblage – Exhibition Opening (Special Event)
• Assemblage – Saturday (Exhibition)
• Assemblage – Sunday (Exhibition)

Optical Eyes bring back the acid test. Headed by Emily O’Brien and Rachel Jesse-Rae, it is a visual battering that will make you see more than double.

Events:

• Let’s Paint, Excercise and Blend Drinks T.V. (Project Presentation)
• Let’s Paint TV – Friday (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Saturday #1 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Saturday #2 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Sunday #1 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Sunday #2 (Performance)

Emma Ramsay works across many platforms of art including sound, video and installatoin. She is a founding director of Sydney based ARI Quarterbred, that promotes cross-disciplinary practice and developmental support for emerging artists.

Events:

• Assemblage – Exhibition Opening (Special Event)
• Assemblage – Saturday (Exhibition)
• Assemblage – Sunday (Exhibition)

Fred Rodrigues has worked in the realm of digital audio and video for the past decade. He has worked in both the music and TV industry as well as various media and live art projects.

Events:

• The Vinyl Arcade – Thursday (Exhibition)
• The Vinyl Arcade – Friday (Exhibition)
• The Vinyl Arcade – Saturday (Exhibition)
• The Vinyl Arcade – Sunday (Exhibition)

Gavin Artz began his career as a musician and composer and has experience in business management ranging from multi-national companies, to not-for-profit community organisations.

Gavin is CEO of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT).

Events:

• Scarcity, Abundance and Innovation: Making Money in the Media Arts (Information Session)

Geoff Hinchcliffe is a design lecturer at the Uni of Canberra. His research and practice concerns GUI poetics and the GUI as cultural artefact.

Events:

• Twittermotion – Thursday (Exhibition)
• Twittermotion – Friday (Exhibition)
• Twittermotion – Saturday (Exhibition)
• Twittermotion – Sunday (Exhibition)
• Twittermotion – Monday (Exhibition)

Ger Ger, media artist, born in Vienna (AT), currently lives and works in Berlin (DE). His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions all over the world.

Events:

• SOUND NOMADS (Screening)

Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist & musician living in Berlin since 2002. He uses field recordings, computer programming, surround sound, hacked electronics and improvisation to create live performances, sound installations, radio pieces and CD works.

Events:

• Planes – Exhibition Opening (Special Event)
• Planes – Saturday (Exhibition)
• Planes – Sunday (Exhibition)
• Planes – Monday (Exhibition)
• Gilles Aubry (Artist Presentation)
• Electro-Performance Evening (Gig)

Guillaume is a sound researcher and multimedia artist trying to use both hemispheres of the brain to engineer and create sound.

Events:

• Bass Masseuse – Exhibition Opening (Special Event)
• Bass Masseuse – Saturday (Exhibition)
• Bass Masseuse – Sunday (Exhibition)
• Bass Masseuse – Monday (Exhibition)
• Flexible Sound Emitting Plastic Workshop (Workshop)

Holly Fluxx is a multi-artist, interested in cultural production, market trends and onlineness. Fluxx makes Fluxx Capacitor zines, sings techno stabs, writes for Super Super magazine, makes rainbow art objects and fashions. & FLUXX <3s BLOGGING. www.hollyfluxx.blogspot.com check it.

Events:

• Let’s Paint, Excercise and Blend Drinks T.V. (Project Presentation)
• Let’s Paint TV – Friday (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Saturday #1 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Saturday #2 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Sunday #1 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Sunday #2 (Performance)
• Assemblage – Exhibition Opening (Special Event)
• Assemblage – Saturday (Exhibition)
• Assemblage – Sunday (Exhibition)

Hsin-Chien Huang is a surrealist and coder in the field of new media art. His work has been presented at galleries, new media arts festivals and museums worldwide.

Events:

• The Garden of Forking Paths – Exhibition Opening (Special Event)
• The Garden of Forking Paths – Saturday (Exhibition)
• The Garden of Forking Paths – Sunday (Exhibition)
• The Garden of Forking Paths – Monday (Exhibition)
• The Garden of Forking Paths – Curator Talk (Project Presentation)

Another collaborator on Let’s Paint TV.

Events:

• Let’s Paint, Excercise and Blend Drinks T.V. (Project Presentation)
• Let’s Paint TV – Friday (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Saturday #1 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Saturday #2 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Sunday #1 (Performance)
• Let’s Paint TV – Sunday #2 (Performance)

ILIOS has been exploring the extremes of sound and image derived phenomena since the early 90’s. Through constant change in his sound palette he pushes the space and body resistances to a hard test pursuing a state of alert for the human senses.

Events:

• Pursuing An Anti-Career (Artist Presentation)
• TINA Showcase – Saturday Night (Gig)

Ivan Lisyak is an electronic artist/musician from Sydney. Ivan is involved in many projects including being a member of indie soul group the Paper Scissors and new wave sludge core duo Machine Death.

Events:

• TINA Showcase – Saturday Night (Gig)

Izzy Brown is a documentary film maker and part of Combat Wombat.

Events:

• Ghetto Moto (Screening)

Jacqui O’Reilly is the Communications Coordinator at Accessible Arts, NSW.

Events:

• Soundbeam Dissolves Barriers: Sessions for Diverse Groups (Workshop)

James Cuddeford (Ensemble Offspring) has performed violin as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. James is a composer and founding-member of the Grainger Quartet.

Events:

• Ensemble Offspring – Kontakte (Gig)