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Co-Directors

Daniel Green (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 been actively involved in emerging arts practice in New South Wales, serving on the board of directors at Firstdraft in Sydney’s Surry Hills between 2006 – 2007, undertaken the role of Electrofringe’s Volunteers Coordinator in 2007 and 2008, and in the same year 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.

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 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.

Estee Wah (2010 – 2011)

Estee Wah is a communicator, dabbler in technologies, and a maker of things.

She loves technology in all its forms, particularly when it’s used to make people’s lives better or more interesting. To this end, she recently spent 2 years in New York at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) where they gave her a masters degree in geekery. While at ITP she programmed for live performance, did a lot of physical computing, designed and built interactive works, became obsessed with user-experience design and museums, and generally played with technology a lot.

Other incarnations of self have included Performance Studies and Media tutor at UNSW, Production Assistant, and the last House Manager at The Performance Space.

She eats ice-cream and is easily amused.
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Volunteers

Our incredible team includes…

Electro-Projections Curators

Michael Prior

Michael Prior is an artist, musician and organiser living and working in Melbourne. He produces publications, events and site specific works with Tape Projects and Thoth Press, among others.

Matthew O’Shannessy

Matthew O’Shannessy is a Melbourne-based writer and curator who occasionally relapses into an obnoxious noise musician.

Electro-Online Curator

Samuel Bruce

Samuel Bruce is an artist living in Western Sydney whose practice encompasses generative audiovisual abstraction, electronics, a catalogue of garage sale signs, and endurance karaoke. Now it seems he’s curating Electro-Online, so all that time spent on the web is finally paying off.

Accommodation and Artist Liaison Officer

Kate Byrne

Kate is a sometimes curator, ideas girl and self-confessed art enabler.

Production Manager and Technical Director

James McPherson

James studied at SAE in Byron Bay and is now based in Canberra, working for Eclipse Lighting and Sound.

Audiovisual Technicians

Arran Harding

boomstix = a dubby dance music creator and sound engineer – detonating
chest rattling subbass and fluffing your pillows with gentle melody. boomstix will nice up your sound.

Emily Morandini

Emily fixes mixing desks and is based in Sydney.

Christian Malejka

Christian is a technical director and sound engineer, primarily working in the theatre and festival arenas. Over the past twelve years he has worked in Germany, Ireland and Scotland for events including Tuned City, Garage Festival, Club Transmediale, the Edinburgh Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival and Unidram Festival.

Sam Slattery

Sam Slattery is an emerging rapturously voisturous chorus of ingenuity and freedom of thought, a pulsing spirit who can enrichen souls with a magnitude never before felt within the human psyche. He is pretty bloody good at making equipment function properly; all whilst maintaining an influence on the moods of an entire globe.

Samuel is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts (Television Production) at Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga, and is proudly humbled for the experiences and wisdom offered throughout the degree.

Exhibitions Co-ordinator

Melinda Rackham

Melinda Rackham has been engaging audiences with emergent practices and hybrid artforms for 15 years as a networked artist, writer, curator and cultural producer.

Gigs Co-ordinator

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison is an audiovisual artist based in Sydney who sometimes puts his hand up to put on gigs.

Volunteers Co-ordinator

Raymond Wholohan

Ray Wholohan is an emerging curator who is based in the Eastern Riverina.  Ray has worked for regional art galleries and art festivals such as Next Wave and Electorfringe. In 2008 he was awarded the Museums and Galleries New South Wales Curatorial Mentorship, and is currently a Master of Arts candidate and tutor at Charles Sturt University.

Photographer

Torunn Higgins

Torunn Higgins is a photomedia artist based in Sydney. She is also a big felt geek and loves all things hand-crafted.

Web Developer

Toby Vervaart

Toby is a Sydney based web designer and developer. When he’s not building web apps he enjoys blogging about design and technology at Hip.Young.Thing.

Web Hosting

Sarah Bock

Sarah Bock is a geekgirl stuck in the 90s who hosts websites and provides web support for numerous organisations, musicians and artists in the community.

Grants Writer

Melody Ellis

Melody Ellis is a practicing artist, curator and writer. She has worked for the Biennale of Sydney, The Athens Biennial and the Australian National University.

Festival Volunteers

  • Maria-Eleni Alesandre
  • Sam Bruce
  • Tania Fox
  • Kristina Green
  • Deborah Kelly
  • Cameron Lam
  • Sarah Mackie
  • Jacci Marr
  • Niki Molina
  • Robert Moss
  • Zoe Steers
  • Estee Wah
  • Chris Williams