Art.on.Wires 2010 – Contributors

Besides a practical training in programming and electrical engineering, Dr. Alexander Carôt has actively been playing bass and the NS-chapman-stick in several rock, pop and jazz ensembles. In 2004 he received a german engineering diploma within an interdisciplinary study program in order to combine the arts and technology. Motivated by the passion for remote music performances with musicians in different places, he completed his PhD in computer science in 2004 at the University of Lübeck/Germany. In this context he developed the "Soundjack" software (http://www.soundjack.eu) which has been used in numerous network music performances all over the world. Apart from valuable collaborations with CCRMA/Stanford, SARC/Belfast and IRCAM/Paris he is continuously improving "Soundjack" in terms of signal latency, quality and user friendliness. Currently he´s playing in the avant-garde-jazz project "Triologue" (http:/www.triologue.de), and in his recent research activities he's focusing on novel delay-optimized transmission approaches for network music performances.

With a University education in information science and electronic media technology from Ilmenau Technical University Alexander's PhD work focused on efficient, robust and quality-optimal multimedia networking protocols. His current research areas are advanced (3D) video processing architectures, real-time interactive media communication systems and audiovisual quality assessment methodology with a particular interest in electronic media arts, interaction design and information visualisation. Based on the investigation and understanding of human perceptual limits and cognitive processes Alexander creates software tools that make information technology suitable for humans in particular purposes. He is also very much concerned about security and privacy risks imposed on our society by badly designed and carelessly deployed networked IT systems and ubiquitous surveillance machines. Alexander is researcher and project manager in the Media Performance Group at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.

Alexander (BA, MA, MSc, PhD) is a music researcher and research musician working in the fields of embodied music cognition and new interfaces for musical expression (NIME) at the University of Oslo and at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He studied informatics, mathematics, musicology, piano performance and music technology at UiO, Chalmers, UC Berkeley and McGill. Alexander is active in the international computer music community through a number of collaborative projects, and as the initiator of GDIF. He performs on keyboard instruments and live electronics in various constellations, including the Oslo Laptop Orchestra (OLO).

Arturo Castro is currently based in Barcelona. He studied computer science and has collaborated in several creative projects since 2004. Arturo colaborates with Zachary Lieberman and Theodore Watson in the development of openFrameworks. Since 2009 he's been working at Reactable Systems developing the new version of this musical instrument.

Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and was researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM and has been mentor at NESTA.

The Digital Arts and Architecture Lab, DAAL - a partner organization of 5uper.net - focuses on research and development of experimental architecture and prototype development in art, architecture, design and technology. Philip Fischer and Erkin Bayirli are the project coordinators of DAAL, who operate its research and development facility in Vienna.

DKIA (digitale konzeptuelle IT alchemie) are Simon Laburda and Nora Dibowski - working, experimenting with electronics with a special focus on sustainability. Our goal is to build new objects by combining recycled material and new technology. 2008 we build our first LED installation Salgonom and developed the open-source library aurinko and an animation editor toublo to control the LEDs. Since then we continued working with LEDs and realized several projects together with DAAL. Our current project is LEDsMOB, a mobile, flexible LED-Mesh.

Diana studied architecture at Bauhaus University, Weimar and interior design at FH Coburg. After her studies she spent two years in Tokyo, Japan, where she received the InWent scholarship "Working Experience" and the DAAD scholarship "Language and Experience in Japan". During her stay Diana worked for Shigeru Uchida Design (Tokyo), Norisada Maeda Atelier (Tokyo) and Nendo Design (Tokyo). Her projects were focusing on D.I.Y. and ready made conceptual design and furniture design. Diana's motivation is to combine classical interior architecture elements with different fields of modern/media art to form a new way of expression.

The FeM streaming team is a group of enthusiastic students who provide professional live video streaming and archiving services for big venues such as the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The team is part of the Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien e.V. (FeM), the largest student society at the Technical University Ilmenau. FeM was founded in 1997 and counts 1800 members today. The motto is: "FeM connects. Young people come together to be active." FeM's mission is making new and professional media technology accessible to students. FeM supports everyone who is interested in new media and gives people the chance to realise ideas and collect experiences in a multitude of fields. Students with a common interest can join one of the existing working groups or start a new group to work and research together and learn how to manage teams and events. Everyone who likes to realise own creative ideas, work on his/her management skills and is looking for self-fullfillment is welcome at FeM. Possibilities to explore are almost unlimited.

Jacob Korn was born in Germany in the early 80’s. His sound is influenced by Kraftwerk and the sound of 90’s techno and house music. After a decade of sowing different musical seeds Jacob Korn is back in the straight 4/4-domain. Given his history in glitch inspired electronica and hiphop, he continually experiments in new recording styles and production techniques, while developing his own music tools for cross media arts and interactive performances.
He played live or as a DJ in clubs and at festivals in Canada (RBMA-Toronto), Spain (Sonár Festival-Barcelona), Netherlands (Picnic at Night-Amsterdam), Sweden, Switzerland (Formbar-Bern), Austria and Germany (Cookies-Berlin).

Johanna Roggan was born in Dresden, Germany and had a professional dance education between 2003 and 2008 in Nürnberg (DE), Berlin (DE) and Linz (AT), where she studied multiple facets of both modern and contemporary dance. She developed first dance pieces already during her studies. Between 2008 and 2010 stayed in Israel where she had several dance engagements and was teaching dance classes and workshops. Since 2009 she collaborates with the Trans-Media-Academy Hellerau, Dresden.

Lars Graugaard is a composer, musician and researcher with an MA in flute performance and a PhD in the artistic and technological challenges of interactive music and multimedia. He has more than 160 compositions in all genres to his credit, and has participated on numerous CDs for dacapo/Marco Polo, Classico, Centaur, EMI, SONY Classical and CBS ao. as well as various netlabels. He moves freely between sophisticated surroundings and popular culture, and his production comprises digital experiments into the latest trends of interactive music, installations and cross-modal forms, as well as popular projects and compositions in the modernistic European tradition. His research interests include emotion detection and synthesis in music and derived embodied forms of interactive music performance.

Recognized as a pioneering force in the integration of dance and media, composer/media artist Mark Coniglio creates large-scale performance works that integrate music, dance, theater and interactive media. With choreographer Dawn Stoppiello he is co-founder of Troika Ranch (http://www.troikaranch.org), a dance theater company committed to creating hybrid, media intensive performances. From the start, Coniglio's artistic practice has included the creation of custom interactive systems that allow performers to manipulate video, sound, and light in real-time. His first technological breakthrough came in 1989 when he created MidiDancer, a wireless system that allowed a performer to interactively control music. His passion for giving control to the performer led him to create the award-winning software Isadora®, a flexible graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media. Isadora is now the tool of choice for hundreds of artist's worldwide.

Marko Ritter has been wandering the transdisciplinary path of mixing code, artistic expression and game design for some years now. He is co-founder of the dresden-based interaction studio intolight.

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