Constantine Katsiris
http://www.panospria.com
Scant Intone is the solo project of Canadian artist Constantine Katsiris
for his explorations in modern audio. From stark minimalism to densely
complex textures, his output incorporates elements of field recordings,
raw data and digital sound synthesis. The compositions are experiments
in abstract electronic music, with influences including ambient, lowercase,
noise, glitch and drone. Constantine has brought his sound to many notable
venues, such as the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal, Zentrale
Randlage in Berlin and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He is curently
releasing his newest project Yellowknives.
Freida Abtan
http://www.subtlemovements.com
Freida Abtan is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer living in Montreal,
Canada. Her music falls somewhere in between musique concrete and modern
noise and experimental audio. Concentrating on the visceral and inspired
by dreams, she has created visual shows for and played with bands such
as Nurse with Wound and presented her own sound and visual work at festivals
across Canada. Her first album "subtle movements" is available
on United Dairies.
Kyd Campbell
http://www.frontierlab.org
KYD CAMPBELL is an independent artist and curator developing projects
aimed at promoting action through the creation of new forums for discourse
and new interactive situations. She works internationally on technology
art and public art projects in Canada, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey and Germany
and with the Upgrade! International. She is the founder of TinyNoise nomadic
sound art project.
Steve Helsing
http://www.zukanter.com
Steve Helsing is interested in expanding, both practically and theoretically,
notions of public space, alternative ways to harvest energy, and the possibilities
for new forms of engagement and interaction in the urban environment.
He is concerned with the re-valuation of excess, or waste, and educational
projects of disseminating DIY tactics for utilizing these excesses. His
current interests include working with electronics, installing public
art, and fitting bike trailers with mobile power sources. He currently
works as a programmer and consultant for companies in Montreal and Toronto
and in the Information Technology department at Concordia Univerity in
Montreal.
Jeff Morton
http://www.myspace.com/nuthre
Composer/audio-artist, jazz musician/improviser, and graduate student
in music composition at the University of Victoria, Jeff Morton was born
and raised in Saskatchewan, completing his undergraduate study in Music
at the University of Saskatchewan. Morton is an active electronic and
electro-acoustic musician, producing solo and collaborative works in Saskatoon,
Regina, Montreal, Victoria, Vancouver, Germany, and Eastern Europe. Recent
work includes a solo performance at Connect XII, the 8th annual August
long-weekend concert by the Jeff Morton Trio+1 in rural South-East Saskatchewan,
and the release of two albums, Bloops for Alice and Saskatoon Shoes, on
Montreal-based labels NoType and Panospria, respectively. He performs
under the name Nuthre.
Marcelo Coelho
http://www.cmarcelo.com
Marcelo Coelho is a Research Assistant at the Ambient Intelligence Group
at the MIT Media Lab, in Cambridge, MA. His work explores how technology
can refashion communication by incorporating computation into common substrates,
materials and structures. Some of his projects include experimental websites,
reactive garments, flying robots and edible circuits. Marcelo holds a
BFA in Computation Arts, with highest honors, from Concordia University
in Montreal, Canada. Before joining the MIT Media Lab, Marcelo worked
as a researcher at XS Labs developing wearable technology and interactive
textiles. His art and computational explorations have been published and
showed at the Societe des arts technologiques (2003), VAV Gallery (2004),
Digifest (2004), SIGGRAPH (2003, 2005, 2006), ISWC (2005) and CHI (2006),
among others.
Darsha Hewitt
http://www.artengine.ca/darsha
Darsha Hewitt is an artist from Ottawa currently based in Montréal,
Canada. She often collaborates with other artists and engineers and works
mainly with hacked electronics, Open- Source programming software/hardware,
ageing technology and public vicinities. Her artwork looks at the role
of automation in everyday life and how technology-reliant society silences
and reinterprets identity. Recent exhibitions include: Video Pool (CA),
Damaged Goods at Piksel '06 (NO), Press Play at Interaccess (CA), Racines
D'origine with Art origine (FR) and Ma culture mes milieu at the Ottawa
Art Gallery (CA). She has upcoming exhibitions at Make Art Festival (FR)
and in Media Povera at the Ottawa Art Gallery (CA). Darsha is an active
member of the PureData community (an Open-Source programming software
for artists). She is the coordinator of the 2nd International PureData
Convention.
David Ross
http://graphicstandards.org
David Ross is a visual artist whose photographic projects and architectural
propositions interrogate the psychological and practical aspects of storage.
Ross has participated in and curated over 30 visual arts exhibitions in
North America and Europe. Recently, in collaboration with his partner
Rebecca Duclos, Ross developed a fictitious design competition for an
artifact storage facility in the UK (www.letherium.org). In 2008 Ross
and Duclos will be converting the University of Waterloo Art Gallery into
a temporary gallery/storage facility for students on work-terms in a project
called DEPOT. Ross is also currently working on a series of commissioned
photographs of storage areas at the MusZ¹e d'art de Joliette in Quebec.
Ross holds a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto
(2003). In 2002 he was a Research Fellow in the Museum Studies programme
at the University of Manchester (UK) and is currently a Research Associate
with RENDER at the University of Waterloo. His work has been featured
in Canadian Architect (Fall 2004), Art & Architecture Journal (Spring
2005), and in two recent Alphabet City/MIT Press publications 'Trash'
(2006) andthe upcoming 'FOOD' (2007).
Claire Ironside
Claire Ironside’s design and art practice draws on her academic
training in design, geography, and environmental and communication studies
as well as early years growing up in small town Ontario. She is the recipient
of several design grants, awards and scholarships and holds a Master of
Architecture degree from the University of Toronto, a Master of Environmental
Studies from York University and two undergraduate degrees from the University
of Guelph – a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and an Honours
Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Cultural Geography. As a designer she has
worked in the public and private sector, specializing in urban infrastructure
design and planning, architecture, landscape design, and public art. More
recently her creative practice has been focused on trans-disciplinary
collaborative explorations combining design, art, craft, technology, commerce
and education in support of making ‘art of the possible’ –
work that stimulates real world change. Current areas of focus include
developing and designing: architectural interventions both real and imagined,
information based projects and exhibits, and merging craft, design and
art to create renewed objects and works. As a fulltime Professor in Sheridan
College’s Bachelor of Applied Illustration, her teaching and research
focus involves combining alternative research methodologies and cultural
practice to support information/data based communications in both two
and three dimensions.
Angela Iarocci
Angela Iarocci is a Professor in the York/Sheridan Honours Bachelor of
Design program where she teaches undergraduate courses in two and three
dimensional design and information design. Her research investigations
are concentrated in information visualization through mapping and diagramming.
She has a Bachelor degree in industrial design from Carleton University
and is a graduate of the University of Toronto Master of Architecture
program (2003) where she received numerous awards including the Royal
Architectural Institute of Canada Student Medal in Architecture. Her professional
design experience is concentrated in environmental graphic design, specifically
on wayfinding, exhibits, and interpretive installations. Currently she
is engaged in a collaborative, research-based design practice integrating
information design, architecture, and both handmade and digital means
of production.
... the group [David Ross, Claire Ironside, Angela Iarocci]
Claire Ironside and Angela Iarocci have been collaborating for the past
three years. Their work seeks to render the ordinary extraordinary by
creating experiences and interactions using objects, spatial interventions
and data visualizations. These projects foster individual and collective
participation centered on the multiple themes of sustainability, activism
and social engagement. Iarrocci, Ironside and Ross have been working collaboratively
and tangentially since 2001. Iarroci and Ironside are based in Toronto,
Ross in Montreal. |
