2009 People
Co-Directors
Somaya Langley (2008 – 2009)
Somaya Langley is a sound and media artist who has presented work at various conferences and festivals in Australia, Canada, Asia and Europe. Over the past seven years, her arts practice has focused on immersive, embodied and wearable experiences, mainly expressed through the sonic domain through projects such as the Suspect Backpack. Somaya performs live sensor-based electroacoustics under the pseudonym ID-i/o, and was previously a member of the sensor-trio HyperSense Complex and the duo MetaSense.
She was recently a participant in the Australia Council for the Arts ArtLab research project Thinking Through The Body and in 2008 was Co-Curator for Transit Lounge, a Berlin-Australia online artist exchange – a partner project of transmediale.
She also has a background in libraries, digital archiving and online delivery. She was an employee of the National Library of Australia, developing (amongst other things) the MusicAustralia project and more recently worked for the Australian Music Centre assisting development of their new online service.
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 served on the board of directors at Firstdraft, an artist-run initiative in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Over the past two years, he also undertaken the role of Electrofringe’s Volunteers Coordinator, and in 2008 he co-curated (with Michael Prior) Electro-Projections, 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 in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
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 of 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.
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Media and Design
Media Sponsor
Graphic Design
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Administration
Book Keeper
Cat Jones
Cat Jones is an artist whose practice straddles performance, writing and media. She’s fascinated by exchanges and interactions between audiences and art. She was Co-Director of Electrofringe in 2006 and 2007.
Grants Writer
Nina Stromqvist
Nina Stromqvist is a freelance artist and writer, and formerly a staff member in the Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts. She is currently completing a Master of Art Curatorship at Sydney University.
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.
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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.
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
- Tania Fox
- Deborah Kelly
- Estee Wah
- Zoe Steers
- Sarah Mackie
- Robert Moss
- Cameron Lam
- Tamika Carter
- Sam Bruce
- Kristina Green
- Maria-Eleni Alesandre
- Niki Molina
- Jacci Marr
- Chris Williams
