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(Germany/Austria)Zazie was born in Germany, where she studied Architecture and Product Design before working for several years as a professional photographer for different Austrian and German newspapers, magazines and book publishers. She went digital in 1997, and quickly became aware of the possibilities to carry forward the interests she had developed for surrealism during her earlier studies. Her extraordinary new works soon began to be seen, and awarded, in surrealist or digital group exhibitions across the EU, USA and Australia. She has been featured as a cover-story of the "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications" magazine, and some of her works are now even used as a basis for Arts teaching in Upper Austria. Her very popular internet web site (since 2001) showcases much of Zazie's work on an ongoing basis, but also features lots of other digital and surrealist artists, and an entire section dedicated to collaborative digital artworks and common projects. In CeC & CaC 2006, Zazie will be personally presenting a very special collection of her digital-still-imaging in a public auditorium-session. This has been specifically formatted for the event in collaboration with Mingo, an audio-video artist and friend. ***Post-event insertion: Zazie led a digital imaging workshop for the Post-Gradutate 2nd year batch of New Media students from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) in the Lecture-Room of the IIC-Annexe, late-afternoon January 29. |
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Leopoldseder (Austria)Hannes Leopoldseder is a Ph. D. and professor, most easily recognized internationally as co-founder of the globally iconic Ars Electronica and Linzer Klangwolke (1979), initiator of the Prix Ars Electronica (1987) and conceptualizer of the Ars Electronica Center (1991), all of which are now counted amongst the most important events and entities in the world with regard to electronics in culture and the arts. He has extensively published works in connection with the Ars Electronica, Prix Ars Electronica and the Linzer Klangwolke. His mainstream career is signposted by terms as a publisher's reader (1965), a television reporter for ORF Vienna (1967), managing director of ORF Upper Austria (1974 - 1998), a lecturer for audio-visual media at the University of Vienna (1975) and information director of ORF Vienna (1998). |
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Casserley (UK)Lawrence Casserley has devoted his professional career, as composer, conductor and performer, to real time electroacoustic music. In 1967 he became one of the first students of Electronic Music at the Royal College of Music, London, UK, on the new course taught by Tristram Cary. He later became Professor-in-Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music at the RCM, before taking early retirement in 1995. He is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians' sound, and has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work. He has worked with many of the finest improvisers, particularly Evan Parker, with whom he works frequently as a duo partner, in various larger groupings and in the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. He also works as a soloist, processing sounds from voice, percussion and homemade instruments. CDs have been released by ECM, Leo Records, Psi, Sargasso and Touch. Much of Casserley's work has involved collaboration with other art forms, including poets, eg Bob Cobbing, and visual artists, including Colourscape artist Peter Jones. He is a Director of the Colourscape Music Festivals, presenting contemporary music in the unique environment of the Colourscape walk-in sculpture. He also collaborates with Peter Jones on sound/light installations. In CeC & CaC 2006, Lawrence will make two presentations: an overview of his work illustrated by recordings and photographs; and an improvised performance using a much smaller version of his computer processing instrument. He will also premiere an experimental collaboration with the Hindustani Classical vocalist Aparna Panshikar (below) ***Post-event insertion: LAwrence Casserley led an electro-acoustic workshop for the Post-Gradutate 2nd year batch of New Media students from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), and some others, in Conference Room #1 in the IIC main campus, 9-10am January 29. |
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Panshikar (India)Aparna Panshikar was born into a family renowned for its passion and achievements in various forms of performing arts, and had an early introduction to Indian Classical music from her mother Meera Panshikar, a disciple of Padmavibhushan Kishori Amonkar and Pandit Bhaskarbua Joshi. Her own individual singing style has been well received, and often awarded, by audiences as well as connoisseurs in innumerable concerts around India and several other countries, with a repertoire ranged from pure-classical to semi-classical forms and also experiments with combining North and South Indian Classical music. Album releases so far include: HMV India's largest music publisher released 3 titles as "HMV presents A Voice for the New Millennium", 2000; Inreco Records released a 'jugalbandi' (fusion) between Aparna singing the Indian Classical style with Sudha Raghunathan singing the Carnatic Classical style of music, under the title "UNITY" in 2000; Mook Sound, South Korea published a fusion between Indian music composed and sung by her, and Korean music played by leading exponents from that country, under the title"Winds from Ayuta" in 2002. This won the "Critics' Best New Release Award" in South Korea for 2002; Mook Sound went on to release another title "Diamond Sutra" and "Punyapur ki Sarita" in 2003; Deep Emotions ( Silk Road Communications ) released "Shivoham" a collection of verses by Adi Shankaracharya sung by Aparna, accompanied with sarod and keyboard, 2004. In addition to her albums, she has successfully worked with Greg Turner an American musician based in South Korea playing Indonesian gamelan(!), with whom she first exchanged ideas, followed up with basic music pieces and finally created a song.. without ever meeting each other. She has worked with Kai Turnbull, of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, but Kai eventually came down to India and recorded classical pieces directly from her, modified to suit western rhythm patterns as used in pop music, to produce some interesting numbers. And when she traveled to France for a promotional tour of her album 'Shivoham', she worked with the composer and singer Rudolfe Burger to create a nice experiment and resulted in a small concert for music lovers and connoisseurs. She has participated and led various seminars and discourses in recent years and is presently taken up wit establishing her dream "Bandish ~ The School of Music", as an umbrella institution for supporting learning, research and propagation of Indian music all over the world, and also as a convergence point for musicians of all description. In CeC & CaC 2006, Aparna will present a premiere performance of an experimental collaboration with Lawrence Casserley (above) |
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Senova (Turkey)Basak Senova is a curator, writer and designer, based in Istanbul. She has a MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University; attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam in 2002; publications on art, technology and mass media since 1995, and lectures, initiating projects and curating exhibitions in Turkey and Europe since 1996; founding member of NOMAD; recently started Upgrade!Istanbul. Most recent curatorial projects: "ctrl-alt-del" sound art project series (since 2003), "NOMAD-TV.network 01", "loosing.ctrl", "The 23rd International Contemporary Artists Istanbul and Diyarbakir Exhibitions", and contributed "Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance" as one of the curators of the project. NOMAD is an independent formation founded in 2002. It targets to produce and experiment new patterns in the digital art sphere by using various lenses of other disciplines. The infrastructure is based on technical and theoretical levels to provide collaborations with affiliations of artists. Since 2002, NOMAD has developed various local and international projects; collaborated with <rotor> Gallery, Marres, Hedah, kuda.org, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Steim, V2, Interspace-Sofia, Sabreen Studio, press to exit project space-Pro Helvetia Skopje, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Siemens-Sanat, Forum StadtPark-Graz participated and organized projects for Transmediale 2005, ZKM|Karlsruhe, International Istanbul Biennial and The Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession. NOMAD is also organizing ctrl_alt_del since 2003. It was the first sound-art festival realized in Turkey, in September 2003. More than 30 people from 16 different countries contributed to the project in 2003. In 2005, ctrl_alt_del also took place in the "positionings" section of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial with 57 names from 12 countries. NOMAD is also organizing Upgrade!Istanbul at santralistanbul. For CeC & CaC 2006, Basak Senova will deliver an overview of the e-Creative scene in Turkey in a public auditorium session. She has also compiled a special collection of short videos for screening in a lecture-room segment of the event. This is entitled "Snapshot 1" and includes: 1. Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle ~ 00:04:11 2. I/O Information Overbloated (2005) Erhan Muratoglu ~ 00:03:00 3. Derdimi Anla (1998) ZeN ~ 00:05:07 4. Istatistiklal (2004) Erhan Muratoglu - Ertug Uçar - Simge Goksoy ~ 00:08:15 5. Deniz (2005-2006) Cem Yardimci John Barret ~ 00:02:43 6. Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal - Ceren Oykut ~ 00:05:00 7. Down-Under (2005) Güven Çatak ~ 00:02:47 8. Abstraction (2004) Serap Dogan ~ 00:05:00 9. SeashellSea (2004) Ozlem Sulak ~ 00:03:16 |
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Bahn (USA)Curtis Bahn is a composer and improviser specializing in live interactive electronic performance. Currently he is Associate Professor of Computer Music Composition/ Performance at the Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Curtis is a frequent lecturer on electronically extended instruments and human/computer interaction in the arts. He has taught at the Columbia University Computer Music Center (CMC), Brown, NYU, Princeton and CUNY. His music has been presented at Lincoln Center, the International Society of Bassists World Conference, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Performance Studies International (PSI), the World Acoustic Ecology Conference, the Styrian Autumn Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Musik Aktuell, the Saalfeldon Jazz Festival, Mobius, Zeitgeist, and the Boston CyberArts Festival in Boston, Engine 27, Galapagos, Tonic, Context, and the Kitchen in N.Y.C. He recently released a solo CD, "r!g," available from the Electronic Music Foundation, and a duo CD of his duo "interface" with violinist Dan Trueman entitled "./swank," through cycling74, and a DVD of live electronic improvisation with "interface," and Pauline Oliveros. In CeC & CaC 2006, Curtis will deliver a special overview presentation of his work, but he will not be able to bring in his rig for an actual performance. |
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Kumar Roy (India)Prasanto Kumar Roy is president and chief editor of the Business Magazines Group at CyberMedia (India). This includes the leading fortnightly Dataquest and monthly Voice&Data, the DQ Week network of three regional weekly IT business newspapers, and the fortnightly DQ Channels India. A technology journalist, hands-on user and electronics enthusiast for the past 20 years, Roy studied in Delhi's St Xavier's School and then graduated in Physics (Hons) from St Stephen's College in 1988. Through high school, college and for two years afterward, he freelanced for newspapers, weeklies, city magazines, and technical monthlies, writing on a range of subjects from technology, audio and analog electronics to travel and leisure, cuisine and literary reviews. He joined CyberMedia's Dataquest as assistant editor in1990, moved to PCQuest in 1993, and over the next six years started the PCQ Online electronic bulletin board, Computers@Home, PCQ Labs, and the PC Quest CD-ROMs (the latter two being firsts in Asia). From 1996-99 he was editor of the PC magazines group, comprising PCQuest, Computers@Home, and PCQ Labs, and in 1999 he moved to the Dataquest group, and subsequently re-aligned Dataquest's focus for an enterprise/CIO audience. Roy is actively interested in enterprise technology, mobile computing and telephony, the Internet, photography, reading and travel. The 23-year-old CyberMedia is Asia's largest infotech publishing group, with nine publications in India, and elsewhere, including the Business Magazine Group's four titles and six publications, as well as PCQuest, Living Digital and BioSpectrum. Other CyberMedia group companies include the infotech market research company IDC (India), the expositions company CyberMedia Events, the Internet company CIOL.com, and the content outsourcing company, CyberMedia Services. In CeC & CaC 2006, Prasanto Kumar Roy will deliver a special presentation on future technologies (with bias towards creative tools), in a public auditorium segment of the event. |
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Igor Stromajer & Brane
Zorman (Slovenia) Igor Stromajer is an intimate mobile communicator and multimedia communication artist, who researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech emotional strategies. He has shown his work at more than a hundred exhibitions and festivals in forty-two countries and received a number of awards (Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, and Maribor). A graduate of The Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he mainly works and lives, he also lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes in Europe, USA and Canada as a visiting-artist-in-residence. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, France; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Moderna Galerija - the Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Computerfinearts Gallery - net and media art collection, New York, USA; and permanently 
exhibited at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany. Since
1996, Igor runs Intima Virtual Base, a contemporary arts institute
that he describes as "an artistic mark for low-tech tactical
emotional communication art, contemporary arts actions and sound
research. Basic substance: the intimate, ascetic and interactive
aesthetics." Brane Zorman is a com-poser, pro-duce-r & sound-tech-manipulator based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. As a solo artist and a composer he has composed and produced music for more than 30 theatre and dance performances, film, video, internet projects, sound installations. He has released several theatre soundtrack CDs as well as couple dance EPs for various Slovenian labels, produced and recorded the first CD soundtrack in Slovenia (1992) and also the first DTS surround encoded soundtrack for a theatre performance in Slovenia (2001). He is the mastermind behind the BeitThroN project, which is considered to be one of the pioneers and creators of the techno-electronic-dance scene in Slovenia. As a video and audio artist he collaborates with Irena Pivka on the CONA / ZONE projects - a series of audio-visual projects which study conflicting situations of contemporary social relations regarding migration, human trafficking, social, cultural and physical borders, conflicts between individual and society, minor and majority. CONA / ZONE projects are the constantly changing stories of individuals from the areas of developing socio-political, cultural and territorial relations which can lead to both extremely homogeneous cohabitation and being, as well as to cataclysmic and unsolvable conflicting frictions and situations. Brane Zorman Vs BeitThroN also works with internet artist Igor Stromajer on a worldwide recognizable internet projects Ballettikka Internettikka which is a serial of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of internet ballet. It explores wireless internet ballet performances combined with guerilla tactics and mobile live internet broadcasting strategies. In CeC & CaC 2006, Brane Zorman & Igor Stromajer will perform an intermedia project titled "Oppera Internettikka Bollywooddikka <low-tech IT e -Bollywood>". This is produced by Intima Virtual Base - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia, in collaboration with Maska and Cona, supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, with special inputs from Bojana Kunst and Irena Pivka. The video-segments of this performance will be shot in New Delhi on January 26 (Republic Day) and edited overnight for screening. There will be a live webcast of this performance, as announced on: http://www.intima.org/oppera/oib |
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Dev Sood (India)Aditya Dev Sood is Founder and CEO of CKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (Center For Knowledge Societies). With foundational training in Design and Critical Theory at the University of Michigan, he is now completing doctorates in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and South Asian Languages from the University of Chicago. A former Fulbright scholar, he maintains a multidisciplinary interest in social research, design, technology and education. At CKS, he has directed the research, design and planning of several projects geared towards non-traditional users of media and technology. He has also submitted various papers and spoken extensively at international fora on the role information and communication technologies plays in development. He initiated the 'Learning Lab' project which uses mobile phones for education, funded by Nokia Insight and Foresight. He has directed the 'Used in India' media archeology installation and show, which is a multidisciplinary documentation project that captures the innovative ways in which Indians have used media and technology in the 20th century. 'Used in India' was unveiled at the Doors of Perception Conference in March 2005, and has since traveled to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, as a part of the PixelAche festival of electronic arts. Aditya is also the India Director of the 'Doors of Perception' Design Conference. |
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 Ashim
Ghosh (India)Ashim Ghosh is a multiple media expert and educator, with interventions ranging from multi-channel audio design, to international corporate communications, video and photography. He has traveled widely, across India and across the world, having exhibited and performed globally. His recent photographic work Home Street Home : images of poverty engages with and problematises captioned photojournalism, while opening up a dialogue on the power hierarchies of languages. Ashim's ongoing audiovisual work on masculinity has come together in a solo performance The Missing Ling : perspectives on masculinity with live music, original songs and imagery. Ashim now mostly lives in Kumaon, and claims to have hung on to his inimitable sense of humour in these dark times In CeC & CaC 2006, Ashim will deliver a special performance of "pair on the treadmill multichannel soundscape & live music with digital imagery" |
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Gupta (India)Pradeep Gupta is an engineer from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. He is the Chairman of the CyberMedia Group, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house and amongst India's top five magazine publishers. The group's eleven publications lead in their respective domains, including infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, DQ Channels, DQ Weeks, Global Outsourcing), telecom (Voice&Data), consumer electronics (Living Digital) and biotech (BioSpectrum). The group has expanded vertically, consolidating the ICT space, as well as horizontally with other media products including online (www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), job board (CyberMedia Dice), content outsourcing, multimedia, and media education (School of Convergence). CyberMedia is a public company with a market cap of $40m. Pradeep is also the Chairman of PanIIT India and a member of the IIT Delhi Advisory Council. He is on the Board of Kaleidoscope Entertainment; Board Member of TiE, Delhi; Secretary, Association of Indian Magazines; and General Partner of Infinity Ventures. He was the past Chairman of e-Gurucool, and is recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi, 2001. |
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Boseul Shin (& Jean A. Lee
& Yangachi) (Korea)Nathalie Boseul Shin is curator, exhibition team manager, storyteller, writer, project manager. She was born in S. Korea where she studied Philosophy and Aesthetics before beginning her professional career as a curator at the Lotte Art Center in 1998, and then from 1999 to 2000 for '21C young artists group', when she curated "flag art festival" in the Yeouido Public Park, and "Coal Mine Exhibition" in Gohan Coal Mine Village, with over 100 artists from Korea and Japan. Her media based career started in 2000 at Art Center Nabi, as one of the starting members, where she organized symposiums and exhibitions until 2002. She also organized the media performing event "Audio-Visual Matrix" at this time. Since 2003, she has been the Exhibition Team Manager of <media_city Seoul>, which is the Seoul International Media Art Biennale, but she also organizes exhibitions as an independent curator, such as "Forbidden Fruit", "middle_corea" and "the show must go on". On September 2005, she curated "digital playground" at Uijeongbu Arts Center with 18 international artists, and her lastest project "middle_corea" will be presented at Stuttgart Kunstverein, Germany, Feb 2006. She has presented workshops and symposiums at events and institutions such as Transmediale in Germany, and Goldsmith College in the UK, and has extensively written exhibition reviews, essays and papers for artists for art journal. Her primary interests lie in media education, digital sublime and community programs, and she is presently preparing another independent project closely connected with media art archiving and community, called "Tabernacle". |
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National Institute of Design:
Milindo Taid & New Media Students (India) The National Institute of Design (NID) is perhaps India's foremost multidisciplinary institution in the field of design education, applied research, training, design consultancy services and outreach programmes. It is internationally recognized as a pioneer in industrial design education after Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany, and has been awarded several significant national and international awards for its relentless pursuit of excellence since establishment as an autonomous institution in 1961. Several new initiatives have been launched at the turn of millennia to meet challenges of the emerging e-economy, with design positioned as an integrating strategic tool for competitive advantage, problem solving and creating breakthrough opportunities. The institute offers world-class professional education in various design domains through Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Diploma Programmes, and graduates are internationally sought after in key sectors of commerce, industry and social development as creative catalysts and thought leaders. e-creative New Media Design @ NID: The programme aims to nurture new media designers, thinkers and practitioners, conversant with emerging modes of human communication and communication technologies and the dynamics therein, articulated within a larger socio-cultural discourse. A PAIR approach (Participatory, Anticipatory, Inclusive, Radical) broadly informs the New Media programme at the NID, where it offers an opportunity to question, explore, transform, innovate and invent the new and emerging communication media. New and old media skills often overlap and combine into new, diverse skill sets. New media professionals need to have a solid footing in not only new technologies,  but
also in all traditional media representation techniques. e-creative Animation Film Design @ NID: The NID is the only institute in India that offers a world-class animation film design course with the right environment, opportunity and inspiration for animators to express, experiment and communicate through this unique medium. The vision of the NID's professional education programme in animation is to spread animation across the country, and to establish global quality animation production with a strong Indian identity. e-creative Film & Video Communication Design @ NID: The primary aim of the film and video communication programme is to train versatile communicators, fluent in conception and production of short films on a range of educational, cultural, social, entertainment and marketing communication needs. Graduates of this programme have gone on to rewarding careers within the broad spectrum of the moving image industry. These include television channels, production houses, advertising agencies, interactive media ventures and government and voluntary bodies having a communication agenda. Participating New Media Students: Devyani Arya, Shweta Grampurohit, Basangauda Inamdar, Pallavi Kulkarni, Lakshmi Kumar, Ruchira Parihar, Ruta Potnis, Arul Prabhu, Gayatri Sathe, Abhishek Shrivastava, Eva.  Milindo Taid
coordinates the New Media programme at the NID. He holds a Masters
Degree in Mass Communication from the Mass Communication Research
Centre, Delhi, and regularly conducts courses in Film Language,
Cinema Studies, Film Theory, Visual Thinking, Elements of Moving
Images, Cross Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Studio Programming,
among others. Several of the projects (moving images as well
as interactive) that he has guided, have had national as well
as international recognitions. He represented the NID at the
first 'World Creative Forum' in London, UK, 2003 and also guided
and led NID's accolade winning projects in the Siemens Micro-Movie
(Siemens SX1 mobile phone) worldwide short film contest, interfilm,
Berlin in 2004. He has variously organised workshops for interactive
artistes Florentine Rey & Samuel Godo of QIO, France and
GNU/Linux/FLOSS Multimedia pioneer Jaromil, Italy. He has video
documented the "First Asian Creativity Workshop" (An
international 'toys for the less-abled' event) along with conducting
workshops on open air theatre and the creative use of video.
Among others, 'Voicebox' has published his paper titled "Digiteyes:
Inevitability in the Age of Instant Photography" capturing
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Roy (India)Sanjoy Roy established Teamwork Films in 1989, a highly versatile production house with wide ranging interests in the arts, social development and film. He has directed and produced a wide range of films and television programmes, including drama series, newsmagazines, and lifestyle programmes. Received the National Award for Excellence and also the IDPA award for Best Documentary and Best Director. Teamwork also designs and produces Arts and Film festivals across the world including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, UK and USA. He is Festival Director for the Asian Festival of 1st Films in Singapore. |
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Makkuni (India)Ranjit Makkuni is sometimes described as a multimedia visionary and designer. He is a musician as well as President of The Sacred World Foundation (& Research Laboratory), a design think tank that looks to build bridges between traditional and techno cultures against the backdrop of globalization, with an interdisciplinary team of designers, scholars, artists, programmers and scientists. Over 17 years earlier spent with the iconic Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he became part of the visionary group that developed the Smalltalk-80 Object Oriented programming language and the world's first graphic user interface. He also pioneered explorations in computer-aided design and developed the rich research space of the Active Learning Project at PARC. He has developed many provocative demonstrations of culture and technology in various museums across the world, including 'The Electronic Sketchbook of Tibetan Thangka Painting', 'The Gita-Govinda Multimedia Experience', 'The Crossing Project' (which won 11 international awards), 'The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum', and so on. He is currently developing 'The Magic Strings of Saraswati' with lute-maestros of India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Korea. Ranjit is a B.Arch. from IIT, Kharagpur, and a Master in Design Theory and Computer aided Design from University of California LA. He is generally credited with establishment of the fields of Culture Conscious Product Design and Culturally Reflective Computing, and has been a scientific consultant to HP Labs Palo Alto, HP Labs India and a Visiting Professor at Milan Politechnico. He is adjunct professor at IIT Kanpur, and was a recipient of the Mahavir Mahatma Award for the propagation of peace. In parallel, he is an active sitar player and performer, presently composing new music for the "Passions of the Goddess" project. In CeC & CaC 2006, Ranjit Makkuni will present introductions and overviews of several of his projects, very briefly in the Change-agents conclave, and possibly also more extensively in a public auditorium segment of the event. |
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Mukherjee (India)Chandita Mukherjee's favourite question is: how did things come to be the way they are? This takes her to the special place where science, technology and society meet. Drawing upon this base, she makes media that furthers public understanding of science and civilization. Chandita has made media about such issues ever since she trained as a filmmaker at the Film and TV Institute of India three decades ago. On a daily basis, she co-ordinates activities at the Comet Media Foundation at Mumbai where they develop and produce educational materials, create festivals of education and run workshops and courses in various aspects of media-making and media analysis. She has achieved distinctions (including the Jules Verne prize of the European Union) for her work depicting the history of science and technology in South Asia, looking at traditional knowledge and knowledge systems from a contemporary scientific perspective. Her current foreground project is COSMOS, an attempt to start a school of New Media with a special orientation for learners from less privileged groups. Chandita hopes to get this project floated by 2007 and looks forward to possible exchanges and collaborations with others trying to explore the immense possibilities of digital technologies, to make creativity a way of life and the world a less toxic, more equitable and peaceful place. |
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Manzar (India)Osama Manzar is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, editor, columnist, and new media specialist who is spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India's rural and social sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation, a not-for-profit organization he founded to accomplish this mission. He has authored two books: "e-Content: Voices from the Ground," released in the World Summit on the Information Society, December 2003 in Geneva, and "The Internet Economy of India" released 2001 in New Delhi. Together with PlaNet Finance India, Osama started a monthly magazine titled "Small Change", targeting the micro-business sector, and spearheaded the magazine as editor for 6 months before handing over to PFI for furthering the initiative on their own. He is associated with the World Summit Award as e-Content Expert for India, Grand Jury Member and also in the Board of Directors. He is concurrently also Vice Chairman, cofounder and steering committee member of the Global Alliance for Bridging Digital Divide (GABDD), based in Hong Kong, and in 2005 launched and chaired India's first ever award for the best e-content practices in India, called The Manthan Award. He was amongst the 25 internationally renowned experts chosen by Philips Design to be interviewed in its Human Future project for ideas "to develop human products driven by technology and lifestyle of the future". He is widely quoted on new media, digital divide issues, and so on, and is a founder of an ICT solutions company called 4Cplus, based in New Delhi, advisor to ICT for Development for Development Gateway Foundation, a World Bank funded project, and a member of the Association of British Scholars. He is a physics graduate and post graduate in Journalism, and was awarded a joint Chevening/Young Indian IT Professional Programme 2002 Scholarship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to study Advanced IT Management Programme at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester from 2001-2002. Osama is currently working also on his next two books: "ICT for Development in India: Where do we go from here?" and "The True Leaders: Social entrepreneurship in India". In CeC & CaC 2006, Osama Manzar will present an overview of his various works, with special focus upon The Manthan Awards for Best Indian e-Content, presented under his chairmanship for the first time in July 2005. |
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 Ashok
Mehta (India)Ashok Mehta established The Agency Source (TAS) in 1993 to provide competitive information services to the Advertising & marketing industry under the TV Ad Indx, Press Indx, News Indx, Radio Indx and Bank brands. Headquartered in New Delhi, it is India's largest advertising creative and news monitoring firm, particularly specialized in new TV commercials (TV AD Indx) and new Press Ads (Press Indx). TAS manages a completely digitized monitoring and archiving operation addressing every possible advertisement released in India and from the pan-Asian area, and currently hosts over 75,000 TV commercials and 90,000 press ads, with new ads added from monitoring over 60 Indian & pan-Asian TV channels with dedicated satellite dishes and receivers, and also over 100 press publications, including mainline, financial & regional dailies and a range of general interest and special interest magazines. In CeC & CaC 2006, Asok will deliver an exciting presentation in an auditorium-segment, and also provide an exciting selection of TVCs for screening in a lecture-room segment |
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 Hridayesh
Deshpande (India)Hridayesh P. Deshpande is a cutting-edge young educator-entrepreneur based in Pune, India. He is currently the fulltime Director of Creative-i College, which he set up in June 2004 to offer Bachelor's Degrees in Fine Arts, Applied Arts, Digital Arts, Mass Communication, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Visual and Performing Arts, and is concurrently also an advisor to the Khandesh College Education Society and founder director of the School of Professional Engineering. A Computer Engineer by qualification, he has been involved with successfully introducing many new and innovative ideas in the field of Higher & Technical Education, as well as School Education, through the course of over 10 years in education, during which he was earlier a Director with the Hi-Tech Educational Group, responsible for establishment, overall strategy, implementation and daily issues of running various educational institutions, such as the City International School, College of Hi-Tech Engineering, NICE Computer Education, International Institute of Fire Engineering, Safety & Security Management, Printing Engineering & Graphics School, Institute of Management & Technology, College of ParaMedical Sciences. |
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Satyanand (India)Mohit Satyanand is Chairman of Teamwork Films, which promotes the Indian performing arts and cinema across the world. He is also an educational entrepreneur, mountain dweller, trekker and photographer. In 1987, he founded Nukkad, a program to work with street children in and around New Delhi railway station. Now called Salaam Baalak Trust, the program caters to the needs of some 5,000 underprivileged children every year. In 1995, he co-founded Friends of Music, a platform to promote innovative music in Delhi. Between 1989 and 1996, he was a prolific TV producer and documentary film-maker. Today he works primarily as a strategic management adviser, and in promoting the causes of economic and civil liberty. In CeC & CaC 2006, it is presently proposed that Mohit will Chair the Change-agents Conclave, and possibly also some segment(s) of the public programming |
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Anand (India)Madhureeta Anand is founder and Festival Director of the 0110 Digital Film Festival, and also a well-known and award-winning filmmaker in her own right. She launched into her professional career in 1992, after passing out of film school, and worked with various television companies, directing films and features for television networks in India and Britain, before setting up independently under her own banner, Ekaa Films in 1995. She has since directed many documentary films and series for various broadcasters and other entities, mostly exploring the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Many of these have been telecast on premier international channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic, and some have won various awards, including the Royal Television Society Craft Award for her Kumbh Mela Series. Meanwhile, the 0110 Digital Film Festival ran its 3rd annual iteration in both Delhi and Mumbai through September 2005, with support from the British Council in India. This time, the festival sourced films from around the globe, after the success of, and overwhelming audience-response to, the earlier two iterations encouraged the organizers to increase the ambit beyond its earlier focus upon mainly films from India, South Asia and Britain. In CeC & CaC 2006, Madhureeta, who is presently working on her first full-length feature film, titled 'Maya', will speak of her work with the 0110 Digital Film Festival, and present a recent 18min. film made by her. She is also providing the 0110 Digital Films Festival reel of winners and selected finalist for screening separately in a lecture-room segment of the event. |
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 Pankuj
Parashar (India)Pankuj Parashar is a top Indian cinema director who is widely recognized to have pioneered the use of computer-animation, digital-sets, special effects and e-music in Indian cinema, television and advertising. Beginning his career with winning a top professional award for one of his student-films, while studying at the prestigious Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), from which he passed out as a gold medalist, he has since directed and/or produced 13 feature films, over 400 television commercials, many documentary films and several television serials, including the famous cult-classic Karamchand. His works have been featured in the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Cairo Film Festival, amongst others, and have won him the prestigious Filmfare Award, the CAG Award, RAPA Award, and the Ad Club Award. also amongst others. He is credited with having contributed in no small measure to the Congress party's winning of the 2004 Indian general election, with the election films he directed for the party, and he also creates digital paintings and e-music in his spare time, that have been featured in various different forums internationally. In CeC & CaC 2006, Pankuj's primary presentation will address much of his work over the years, but with a special focus upon his spiritually tinged latest feature film, which is scheduled to premiere April 2006. It is called "Benares: A Mystic Love Story" and stars some of best-known and most respected names in Hindi Cinema. |
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 Nitin
Donde (India)Nitin Donde established his Angles Audio Visual Studio in 1986, to work in all visual art forms, but specializing in video film and animations across numerous genres. Armed with a BSc. In Physics and an MBA, he also conducts animation and film workshops, particularly for children, and his own works together with those of his students have been screened at the Hiroshima International Film Festival (2005); featured as part of ASIFA; Association Internationale Du Film D'Animation - Animation Workshop Group collection; the Annecy International Film Festival (2003); The World Of Animation (a festival at the India International Center-2003); UNESCO Festival of Documentary Films (New Delhi, 2002); Dooradrshan National Broadcast Channel; ZAGREB 2000 World Festival of Animated Films; Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (2000); Goat Island Film Festival; Max Muller Bhawan; Friends Club of Channel Yes;, and so on. The Friendly Alien, a film created by him in a workshop-format with school-children, is acknowledged by many to be India's first film made by children, and is used by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, as a representative film about Indian children, for which a copy was sent to every Indian embassy in the world. The film has been publicly screened by the Lalit Kala Academy Festival of Art Films, Shanghai TV and Kenya TV. Nitin has also produced more than 20 documentary films on social issues and appropriate technologies for rural development with leading NGOs. He is presently producing and directing "A pot of Gold", using the Warli tribal art form of Maharashtra, as part of an Indo-Scottish animation film project that applies traditional tribal Indian art forms to narrate Indian folklore under the series title " Tales of the Tribes". In CeC & CaC 2006, Nitin Donde will present a small selection of short films produced in his recent student-workshops: 1. The Flying Trees (2min. ~ Amity International School); 2. The Robber Aliens (2min. ~ Uttam School for Girls); 3. Vizzle Berry Town (1min. ~ Uttam School for Girls); 4. Sri Ganesha and the Moon (2min. ~ AAVS Studio Workshop); 5. Think Before You Act (2min. ~ Uday / 14 years old); 6. Friendship (2min. ~ Amity International School); 7. Don't Bullshit Me (2min. ~ Wigen and Leigh College of Mass Communication); 8. Imagine (1min. ~ Madhav Mehra / 13 years old); 9. How Long Will Peace Last (2,30min. ~ Madhav Mandava / 16 years old); 10. Mystery of Love (1min. ~ Shahana Lal / 11 years old) |
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 Vishal
K Dar (India)Vishal K Dar's work expands over the fields of architecture+design, new-media and film/animation. A graduate from University of California, Los Angeles, he has been actively involved in installation art, digital architecture, visual styling, critical writing and curating of new media art. His woks have been presented at KAFI 2002 (Kalamazoo Animation Festival International), IIIX Architecture Biennale in Santiago, Chile 2002, Siggraph2003, KinoFilm fest 2003 (Manchester, UK), VIPER Basel festival of film, video and new media. 55th Berlin Film Festival 2005, and his documentary film Biscope is available at the Getty Research Library, Los Angeles. He has been featured in publication such as Intercommunication2003, ICC as a part of 'Emerging artists from Los Angeles', CGI: State of the Art (21st century Artists) 2004, LE_Magazine 2004, CineMAYA 2004, 3DWebArt symposium publication 2001. In CeC & CaC 2006, Vishal will present a special overview of his works, experiences, thoughts and future direction as an independent creative practitioner. |
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Chayan Adhikari & Bacchus
Barua & Kriti Pant (experimental collaboration
around e-Music) (India) Chayan Adhikari
completed his schooling from Springdales School in Delhi, and
is currently a first year student of Statistics at Ramjas College,
where he is also Secretary of the Music Society. His passions
are music and dramatics, in pursuit of which he has participated
in productions of the National School of Drama and also received
several awards at both the school and college level over the
past few years as one of the most exciting emerging vocalists
of Delhi. He has been a regular member since 2003 of Delhi's
top singing ensemble and choir, "Artistes Unlimited",
doing extensive work with jazz, gospel, funk, soul, R&B,
progressive light rock, Western and Indian classical and Sufi
music, besides fusion based self-compositions. He is also a part
of "Advaita", a psychedelic fusion band with which
he does Western lead Vocals and also plays acoustic guitar. Advaita's
musical soundscape is created by the interplay of western instruments
like guitars, drums and keyboards with the traditional Indian
flavor of sarangi, tabla, Hindustani classical vocals, and also
some experimentations with electronically produced sounds. After
completing his education, Chayan dreams of becoming a Sound designer
and also dreams of having a school of music in India, comparable
to the likes of Berkelee Bacchus Barua
passed out of Springdales School along with Chayan, as Headboy
in his last year, and is currently also a first year student
at Ramjas College in Delhi University, but in Economics. His
passions are international relations and music, in pursuit of
which he has twice been an official delegate at Indo-Pak youth
conferences and also received various awards as a speaker as
well as a musician. He plays guitars, keyboards, a bit of several
other instruments and also sometimes sings, in addition to composing
fluently in staff notation on an ongoing basis in hardware and
software sequencers and multi-track environments. He has since
the year 2000 served as a touchstone reference on technologically
empowered creativity amongst at least the privileged class of
his generation in India, for The IDEA series of CD-gazettes [Indian
Documentary of Electronic Arts], a project now mentored and stored
by The Academy of Electronic Arts, conceptualizer and co-organizer
of CeC & CaC. And he is steadily now gaining recognition
as a versatile independent composer and popular backing guitarist
for friends singing western music. After completing his education,
he might know what he wants to do next~:o)Kriti Pant is a student of English Literature at St. Stephens College. Further info due..... For CeC & CaC 2006, Chayan Adhikari and Bacchus will perform a special experimental collaboration of original music in a public evening segment of the event. |
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Lee, Estee Oarsed & Beat Brogle (Switzerland)Marc Lee has been creating network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative "issue clusters" that are essential for communications processes in digital networks. He has recently exhibited works in major new media events and entities such as: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum NY "Open_Source_Art_Hacking", Jiff Mind Korea, Transmediale02 & 04, Ars Electronica, Kontrollfelder, Viper01 & 03 & 04 & 05, Read_Me Festival 1.2, ICC Tokyo. In CeC & CaC 2006, Marc Lee will present trailers of "Loogie.net" as well as a special off-line introduction to "56kTV-bastard channel" (a Pro Helvetia and Xcult project), together with Estee Oarsed and Beat Brogle. He will also introduce his "Open News Network" project, which goes on exhibit in Germany January 20.  Estee Oarsed (sometimes S.T. Oarsed) lives with his family in Bangalore, India, as "a kind of Errand boy" on the run, but it is impossible to say if he runs away from his errands or if he runs to deliver in time. Certainly his shortcuts rather look like detours, and on arrival, delivered goods may differ slightly from the description on the delivery note. Maybe he shakes things up too much. Maybe that is in fact his art,.. if there is any. For a recent contribution to the Xcult-Project (56kTV-bastard channel), the assignment was to deliver Indian TV-images of his choosing (if possible). Switching on Doordarshan in June 2005, Estee was surprised by the omnipresence of the same face and voice, not only in the Friday night movies, but also during the commercial breaks,.. right in the highest moments of suspense in those movies. His errand (errantry) therefore delivered images of Amithab Bachchan, as seen by Estee Oarsed. In CeC & CaC 2006, Estee may deliver anything,.. in any condition, together with Marc Lee and Beat Brogle.  Beat Brogle
is a Swiss artist living in Berlin, Germany. His work investigates
issues of morphological transformation and associations at the
edge of perception. This investigation spans media as diverse
as drawing, sculpture, films/video and interactive installations,
and has been shown across Europe, and recently also in Australia,
Korea and China.In CeC & CaC 2006, Beat will present a special overview of his works, experiences, thoughts and future direction as an independent creative practitioner, and with Marc Lee and Estee Oarsed on "56kTV-bastard channel" a TV miniplot encyclopedia. He may additionally install an interface to one of his online works, «One Word Movie», a web-platform that organizes the flood of images on the Internet into animated films, based upon user-supplied terms. This project plays with the tension between on-line and cinematic approaches to images, revealing a glimpse into the "collective psychology" of online cultures by showing patterns of word-image associations, as created by millions of people around the world. |
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Farooqui & Amaar Abbas (India)Raoul Amaar Abbas is a multidimensional young artist based in New Delhi, working mainly in film, photography and performance art. His work in varying and completely connected mediums affords him interactions with all sorts of artists using electronic software and hardware to create films, music, archiving, and a general design consciousness that mixes and matches visual and acoustic with a hyper-electronic help scheme. With a BA from Delhi University (Eng Lit), Amaar has worked in the capacities of assistant director, associate producer, producer, anchor-person and actor with various theatre and television productions, and also on films ranging from social awareness or product endorsing campaigns through to short and feature length digital films. As a photographer, he assisted the well-known Delhi photographer Ravi Pasricha through 2000-2001, and now independently does documentary, stock, portfolio and fashion assignments for various publications, in addition to his many ongoing involvements, interventions and initiatives across multiple mediums. Ashhar Farooqui first sang for his school at age fourteen, and then moved on from group vocalist to duets and finally singing solo with the school band before forming a brand new band with Abhishek Gupta (guitars). They christened it 'Envision', and swore to write original music and never look back. Hindu College in Delhi University happened while Envision won competitions, played at college festivals, headlined gigs, and released a slew of singles. Ashhar also started formally learning Hindustani Classical Music at the Bhartiya Kala Kendra under Shri. Manjit Singh, and in 2003 Envision released their first-and so far only-album, 'Patterns and Moodswings' ~ an eclectic blend of electro-acoustic music recorded and mastered in his own desktop-PC home studio, which rapidly became a cult CD in the underground music scene. Soon, Envision became perhaps the first Indian band to regularly perform live with a computer on stage,.. but performances slowly also became fewer as individual members moved on from college to further studies or other careers. Ashhar too began independently producing music for films and commercials, while also collaborating with other musicians to write and record new music, most notably as 'Earth Rhythms', a band delving into Sufi poetry, didgeridoos, voice, oriental percussion and wild improvisation. He has traveled with this band twice to Hong Kong to perform for India related events, also lately to Israel with a classical violinist to band up with Israeli musicians under the name 'Ascension' for a special performance at the Indian Embassy. In CeC & CaC 2006, Ashhar & Amaar will perform an audiovisual collaboration that carries forward the independent works of both artists in exploratory and experimental concert, intertwining an electronic performance by Ashhar with a projected visual montage by Amaar, and possibly including a traditional qawaal. The theme is to be 'Rooh; the Essence', an ephemeral yet eternal reality lived out by reaching towards one's own inner being; that is always in a state of antiflux. Using the mediums of tradition, music, imagery and electronica the artists will endeavor to serve as travel guides towards the interior and infinite source that is always at our disposal. Using the auditory and visual senses as a vantage point towards the perception of haal (ecstasy), a glimpse is sought by the imposition of electro qawaal; a merging of traditional folk qawaal as sung in reverence at dargahs, the pilgrimage sites of deceased saints (pirs), with an electronic urban-affected soundscape. The images will in turn attempt a parallel cyclorama of the traditional life of the fakir, shimmering through a transient detailed look at a land that is vivid as a source to the divine. |
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 Shankar
Barua (India)Shankar Barua is the conceptualizer and event-director for CeC & CaC 2006, but he is perhaps best known internationally for his mid-1990s rewrite of the Kamasutra, which sells all over the world in several translations and editions (only one of which is legit) that have influenced almost every version since. He has been networking e-Creative Practices and Practitioners around the world for several years, but mainly since 2000 with his project called The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], which has so far yielded 7 CD-Gazettes featuring dozens of artists and thousands of works. It was also featured in Geoffrey Caban's recent book "World Graphic Design". Shankar's own works as an e-Creative Practitioner range mainly through music, imaging and some video, all "on a side-burner", and have been featured in various exhibitions, events and entities in various countries. Over the years of his variegated career, beginning much before computers came into his life, he has written texts for two books other than the Kamasutra, authored innumerable newspaper and magazine articles and columns, pursued photography through advertising, adventure-travel and 'art', exhibited and sold photographs, paintings and pen-&-ink works, illustrated newspaper articles, book-covers and an entire children's book, worked fulltime in executive and editorial positions, and also launched and for some time run a corporate & institutional networking company together with his wife, Poonam. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The Electronic Music Foundation and EMF-Institute,  Co-Curator and also
Archives & Documentation Associate of the Thailand Media
Art Festival, and Honorary Committee Member of the Digital Art
Guild and Museum of the Living Artist International Digital Exhibition
2006, and has been a speaker and course-advisor to a couple of
top institutions. The few relatively 'major' public arts-events
that he has conceptualized, organized and (always) participated
in through life thus far "have each been founded upon impulsive
personal responses to various circumstances of the time".In CeC & CaC 2006, Shankar Barua will present overviews of The IDEA & The AeA. Some of his music and still imaging will also be found in a couple of the unaccompanied presentations listed below. ***Post-event insertion: Curatorial privilege was exercised to screen Tibor Kovas-egri's work "Evocation" as the last screen presentation of the auditorium segments of CeC & CaC. This was otherwise scheduled, and screened, as an "Unaccompanied Presentation", but privilege was allowed as Shankar himself was able to present it as the music-composer of the piece. Choreography by György Jellinek Gaál, with performance by the EuroDance Studio. Of the piece itself, Tibor says,"I wanted to represent the life of my friend (György), in 3 minutes, and also connect different art techniques and different artists' works in collaboration." |
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 Werner
Hornung (Digital-still-imaging, ALSO OUR MASTER IMAGES)
(Germany/France) Werner Hornung marks the time of his birth in Konstanz, a small town in Southern Germany, by the fact that bananas had become available there for the first time after the war. As related by his parents, the first collage he "committed" came from mixing milk and water when he was one year old, and he has been busy with paintings and collages every since, both professionally and also on the side of his mainstream preoccupation with running an independent advertising studio in Paris. After shifting all of his work over to computers in 1993, as an intuitively spontaneous response to a query from a client, he first began to scan earlier paintings and collages to experiment and learn with, but quickly moved on to making a new name for himself for entirely unique new imaging works. As he puts it, "creative power could be put into the service of creating delirious assemblages, a kind of poetical nausea of images, aggrandizing vulgarity with absurd associations and mysterious motivations." His densely populated and infinitely detailed images are about telling stories, creating adventures and feelings entirely unbound by the mundane concerns that so many in the "fine arts" community seem to harbor about the artistic "appropriateness" or otherwise of digital tools with regard to 2D still art. In fact, the entire debate only elicits from him that we are all still working towards answering the age-old key question of a blind musician and a deaf musician playing music together: "Are people dancing already?" asks the blind one; and the deaf one responds, "Are we playing already?" In CeC & CaC 2006 Werner Hornung's works will be represented through screening of a special selection of his still-imaging works as an Unaccompanied Presentation. He has very kindly also created a few master-images and contributed key design-inputs for the overall CeC & CaC event. |
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Chambers (digital-still-imaging, also student-project
'RED') (USA/China)Tom R. Chambers is currently Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art at Zhaoqing University, in China, where he and his students have in a very short time opened up exciting collaborations with the prestigious Beijing Film Academy and the Art Institute of Boston on joint projects and exhibitions. He has been Executive Committee Member and Juror for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA) 2003-2005, with whom he was instrumental in expanding content to include New Media Art and also in bringing the 2005 IDAA Exhibition to Beijing. A 36-year retrospective-lecture on his works was hosted by the Fine Arts Department, New Media Art of the Beijing Film Academy in April 8, 2005, presenting an overview of his evolution from conventional documentary photography through to his current work with digital and new media art. As an independent art-practitioner, Tom currently works with digital generation as an art form under the namesake "Pixelscapes", which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art. Works in this series have been exhibited as a part of the IDAA exhibitions on Juror-invitation (2003-2005), and also at the Digital Studio, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the University of London's 6th International Information Visualization Conference. He has over eighty exhibition-credits, both off- and on-line. Pixelscapes: begins to approach a true abstract visual language in Digital Art. The compositions cease to function as a reflection of reality through image magnification and pixel configuration, evoking a spiritual experience in some viewers through placement, juxtaposition and color-field excitation. This quest is Minimalist in its approach, and because of the magnification, a revelation of sorts exists through seen pixels. RED: is a culmination of Zhaoqing University and Art Institute of Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) art students working simultaneously on their respective interpretations of the color, red. For CeC & CaC 2006, Tom Chambers' Pixelscapes Project and 'Red' student works will be represented as a brief special DVD for screening as an Unaccompanied Presentation |
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Bozzetto (FlashFilms) (Italy)Bruno Bozzetto can be described as a living legend in the world of animation films. He created his first animated short "Tapum, the Weapons' story" back in 1958 at the age of 20, and immediately won respect and recognition amongst peers, audiences and critics with this. In 1965, he made the first Italian animated feature film, "West and Soda"; in 1968, a super-hero spinoff titled "Vip my brother superman"; in 1976, "Allegro non Troppo", the Italian answer to the famous "Fantasia" by Walt Disney; and in 1987, as a break from animation, he even produced one live action feature film, "Under the Chinese Restaurant", featuring Nancy Brilly, Amanda Sandrelli and Bernard Blier. His popular animated character "Mr. Rossi" has achieved cult-status in Italy over the years, starring in innumerable animated short films and also three feature films destined to both TV and cinema: Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness (1976), Mr. Rossi's Dreams (1977), and Mr. Rossi's Vacation (1977). Bruno is also well known for applying animation as a visual communications tool to make hard scientific concepts more understandable to the common audience. In conjunction with Piero Angela, he has delivered about 100 shorts belonging to the scientific TV column "QUARK". Throughout his career, Bruno's many animated shorts and TV-serials have been sold and screened all over the world, and also received many awards, including The Golden Bear for "Mr Tao" at the Berlin Film Festival; an Oscar Nomination for "Grasshoppers" in 1991; awards for the best international short in Tehran and at the Brazilian film festival Anima Mundi in 2001; the Pulcinella Award 2003 for best TV series addressed to all audiences; the Flashmeister Films Festival jury-award 2004 for the quality and originality of his Flash films; and the career award "Premio delle Mura", of the International Film festival of Bergamo. He has been a member of many international juries all around the world, and his own works have been the core focus for theses on animation studies in more than 10 universities In December 2000, to celebrate his 40 years of activity in the cinema industry, a special exhibition was mounted in the Museum of Porta Romana in Milan, and then also presented in the Teatro Sociale of Bergamo. In 2002, Antonio Vincenzo Boscarino published the book "L'estetica di Bruno Bozzetto", and in 2003, the Italian Cineteque of Milan published "La fabbrica dell' Animazione, Bruno Bozzetto nell' industria culturale italiana", edited by Il Castoro, Milano, 2003, and cured by Bendazzi and De BertiOver, along with a DVD compilation of the most popular TV highlights of the 1960's and 1970's made by Studio Bozzetto ("Sigle animate. Le sigle TV della Bozzetto Film realizzate da Guido Manuli"). Over the past few years, Bruno has been experimenting with new 2D animation techniques in many of his works, and occasionally dedicates his free time to illustrations for magazines such as "Donna Moderna", "Valore", "Qui Bergamo" and "Corriere della Sera". In CeC & CaC 2006, Bruno Bozzetto's work will be represented by "Flash Films", a special selection of newer shorts rendered entirely in Flash Animation. |
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Abbas (poetry, prose, drawing, flashworks) (India)Shamima Abbas is a girl with lots
of dreams, eager to convert them into reality; always ready to
accept challenges, eager to convert them into success. Living
the life of a normal person, but with polio in both legs, she
holds a postgraduate degree in Commerce, and quite successfully
runs her own business. Her talent for putting feelings into words
began to emerge a few years ago, when she started writing poems
and short stories in response to the enthusiastic appreciation
of her friends. And then she moved on to presenting them independently
as finished works, by building them into Flash-animations, till
"my creativity was speaking with action". Her works
have been published variously, including on a CD-Gazette of "The
IDEA".For CeC & CaC 2006, Shamima Abbas has very specially formatted a few pages and flashworks from her personal website into a linear narrative and communication, for screening as an Unaccompanied Presentation. |
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Pagel (art-video) (USA)Nate Pagel grew up in California and New York. He began his studies and early career in the sciences, studying engineering, but moved on to study painting and photography at Rice University in Houston, Texas, followed by serving a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding at the University of Sydney. While working for Apple Computer, Nate began experimenting with computer-based multimedia as art work in 1994. He moved to creating interactive CD-ROM experiences and web sites for a variety of firms in Texas and California while developing expertise with digital video and effects. This work has in total garnered over 40 industry awards. During this time, Nate also began collaborating on virtual reality and teleconferencing projects with the Electronic Café International in Santa Monica, and also the University of Texas Professors Marcos Novak and Allucquere Roseanne Stone. Nate contributes to artistic projects that incorporate video, sound, graphics, multimedia, theatre, dance, the Internet, virtual reality, videoconferencing and other interactive technologies. He specializes in conceptual work, video production, effects, lighting and stage design. His collaborations with the Sharir Dance Company, using video in conjunction with interactive technology and live performance have been performed for audiences internationally. As a video producer and artist, his work has been shown in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New London (Connecticut), New York City, Oberlin, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Monica, Tempe, Amsterdam, Hanover, Klagenfurt, Lisbon, London, Rotterdam, Sydney and Oslo. For CeC & CaC 2006, Nate Pagel is sending in a brief special DVD for screening as an Unaccompanied Presentation |
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 Chiara
Passa (art-video, installations & multiple media)
(Italy)Chiara Passa was born in Rome
and studied at Salerno's Artistic Lyceum and also the Fine Arts
Academy of Naples and Rome, before taking her Master's at Salerno
University's Faculty of Communications Science, in "New
Audiovisual mediums". She now lives and works in Rome, continually
applying technology towards deriving an intrinsic language of
these new mediums by rigorously experimenting with the unknown
creative possibilities they offer. The limit between abstraction
and a search for image composition is indefinite and at the borderline
of her artwork, with explorations of the same theme using animations
and video-installation towards different formal solutions. Her
animations are a constant study of geometric shape, in three-dimensional
performance orientated visions of a virtual space, forcing the
viewer to confront an 'oddity space'. Others (net-art) works
that she has created for public spaces, such as "Art Calling-Digital
Art Stories", have had phone booths used as a communicative
medium for people to listen to stories about digital art, while
her web projects (such as ideasonair.net) prompt discourse on
concepts such as identity/sharing, space/time, medium/message.
Since 1998, Chiara Passa's works and presentations have been
featured or exhibited in cutting edge creative-media events across
Armenia, Argentina, Turkey, Finland, Canada, South Korea, Latvia,
USA, Thailand, Russia, Spain, France, Greece, Syracuse, Germany,
Chile, Rome, UK, Switzerland.For CeC & CaC 2006, Chiara Passa is sending in a brief special DVD for screening as an Unaccompanied Presentation. |
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Antoine Labadie (digital-still-imaging + Curating
a consolidated presentation from artists in Taiwan, China, USA)
(USA/Taiwan)John Antoine Labadie was born in Seattle, USA, trained as a sculptor at the Dayton Art Institute and then earned a bachelor's degree in painting from the University of Dayton, a Master's, in perceptual psychology from Wright State University and an interdisciplinary Doctorate from the College of Design, Architecture Art & Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He has worked professionally in industrial engineering, photography, scientific-illustration and as a writer, editor and artist for several newspapers, magazines and academic journals. He has also held positions with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Edison State College, Urbana University, the University of Dayton and California State University, Santa Barbara, the University of Texas at Austin, and Boston University. Since 1994, he has been a faculty member in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and is the founder of the Digital Arts program there. He also serves as Director of the UNCP Digital Academy, a multi-departmental collaboration offering undergraduate new media courses, and a range of creative and technical media services and activities. During the past ten years his own artworks have been exhibited in more than 200 national and international exhibitions and are held in numerous private and museum collections. He has published more than 150 articles on subjects ranged through high performance automobiles, Native American rock art, Mayan archaeology, scientific illustration, time management, digital resources management and processes of digital art making, He is an advisor and board member on numerous international projects including the International Digital Arts Association (Melbourne, Australia); the Academy of Electronic Arts (New Delhi, India); the International Association of Computer Graphics (St. Petersburg, Russia); the Museum of Computer Art (Brooklyn, New York) ; and also regularly serves as visiting artist/artist in residence, as with Taiwan National University of the Arts, United States National Park Service; Troy University, Alabama; the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Chung Yuan Christian University Chung-Li, Taiwan; Beijing Film Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China. John is currently a Fulbright Senior Scholar, serving as an "Internationally Outstanding Lecturer" at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, and is most happily married to Margie Beth Labadie: artist, collaborator and muse. For CeC & CaC 2006, John has contributed a special DVD presentation of his latest series of digital-still-imaging titled "Made in Taiwan". He is also very kindly serving the event as a co-curator to consolidate 2-3 additional presentations of works by 2-3 other artists, all as unaccompnaied presentations.
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 Wilfried
Agricola de Cologne (net & video artist-curator)
(Germany)Agricola de Cologne is a virtual instance, a multidisciplinary media artist, founder and director of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, an award winning experimental platform for art and New Media, operating from Cologne/Germany. Since its foundation in 2000, he has realized a variety of New Media art projects based in both Internet and physical space, networking more than 1000 New Media artists, 50 curators and numerous institutions & organizations around the globe. He was earlier an independent curator between 1989 and 1994, when he organized several cultural projects in Europe, but since 2001 he has been mainly producing net-based events and entities, including for instance 18 showcases and global competitions of net-based art between 2001-'04, for the JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art. The "VideoChannel" of his NewMediaArtProjectNetwork currently networks 17 curators, who in turn network about 150 video artists from their home countries, to create a unique video collection on the theme "memory & identity". This is entirely available online, but has also been presented completely and in selections in many festivals and media exhibitions since 2004. He is also co-curator and co-organizer of several such media art events, and has made several short-films that have been presented in various festivals. As an independent artist, he has had more than 100 solo exhibitions in cooperation with more than 70 museums throughout Europe since 1985. And since 2000, his online and offline multi-media works has been featured in more than 200 media exhibitions and festivals around the globe, inclduing ZKM Karlsruhe/G 2005, Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile 2005, Biennale de Montreal 2004, Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia 2004 , Biennale of New Media Art Merida/Mexico 2003, FILE 2001-2005, Videoformes 2001-2002-2003-2005, Art on the Net 2001,2002, Mediaterra Athens 2002, ISEA 2002 Nagoya/Japan, SENEF Seoul 2004 & 2005, Arcipelago Rome 2005, and so on. For CeC & CaC 2006, Agricola de Cologne is providing, for screening as an 'Unaccompanied Presentation', "Selection '03" ~ a special collection of short videos by various artists curated by him as one of his many ongoing projects These are: 1. Daniel Lo Iocono's "Digital Snapshot" 2. Jens Salamander's "Colossus" 3. Christina McPhee's "Salt" 4. Empar Cubells' "Infern Domestic" 5. Calin Dan's "SimpleCity" 6. Dana Levy's "Time with Hans" 7. Agricola de Cologne's "Truth_Paradise Found" 8. Maragrida Palva's "No Title" 9. Rafael Alcala's "Smoked" 10. Ji Hyung Kim's "Wo-men, Wo-rld" |
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Transmediale Art-Video
Selection 2005 (courtesy: Mr. Thomas Munz, Creative Director),
Total running time: 63 min (Germany/Global) The award competition of transmediale is now in its 18th year. This continuity of selecting and presenting video art has fostered the popularity of the festival, and the great quality of the participating works from all over the world. For the transmediale.05 competition in 2004, again more than 900 works were submitted. The selection consists of eight outstanding video works that participated in this year's international competition of the Berlin based media art festival, and gives an insight into current artistic video production. For the video selection programme of transmediale.05, the jury deliberately chose works that differ strongly in the way they were produced. Consequently, these videos give a wide-ranging insight into the dimensions of current artistic video production in form and content. The programme includes works by: 1. Chris Oakley ~ "The Catalogue" (5:00, 2004, uk). Oakley's video work deals with the retail environment. It places the viewer into the position of a remote and dispassionate agency, observing humanity as a series of units whose value is defined by their spending capacity and future needs. 2. MYLICON/EN ~ "CHROM" (4:23, 2004, it). An imaginary raid into an operating-theatre: an anaesthetized video/body, a temporary loss of consciousness, a state in which everything flows and the boundaries between body and space become blurred. 3. Corinna Schnitt ~ "Living A Beautiful Life" (13:00, 2003, de). From their stylish Los Angeles villa, an attractive married couple pontificates on how ideal their lifestyle is. At first it appears as though the interview is for real, however as time passes, the pair seem more and more like actors. 4. NomIg. ~ "pdx_01" (7:32, 2004, ca). The audiovisual composition explores the strength within an 'ebb and flow' relationship between audio and video, the relationship between video and the 'space' in which it is presented, and the juxtaposition of abstract and concrete imagery as a theoretical tool. 5. Lina Selander ~ "Reconstruction" (6:30, 2004, se). A video and sound composition created from old photos with scenes from a typical family album. The motif remains hidden, the viewer only sees the back of the photos. What is visible however, is holes, threads and notes on the prints which connect people and visual elements on an abstract plane. 6. Juan Romero ~ "A Pragmatic Of Links" (10:30, 2004, es). 'A Pragmatic of Links' is an attempt to stage a parasitological vision based on image processing, whilst focusing on interference and broken imagery as a central dramaturgical element. 7. Le Collectif Magique ~ "BIC BAC JOB" (13:00, 2004, fr) 'The ghost of the ghost of my youth' as the four French artists alternatively call their video work, oscillates between Lyçeé Raymond Naves and a derelict factory. The non-linear and highly subjective narration revolves around Nicolas Santenas Santos, lead guitarist of 'Hypnolove'. 8. Johann Lurf ~ "(ohne titel)" (3:00, 2003, at). Bit by bit the screen fills up: 12 clips are put into context with each other through split screens. Voices, languages and sound begin to overlay, different genres, in colour and black and white, compete for the viewer's attention. |
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 Karin
Kuhlmann (digital-still-imaging) (Germany)Karin Kuhlmann studied photography and graphic design before spending 25 years as a commercial artist in the advertising industry, and has lived all her life in the North Rhine Westfalia region of Germany. With the entry of computers into her work in 1994, she soon discovered the creative potential presented by this new artistic tool for again taking up her original passions for the still-image as art, and meandered rapidly toward the abstract and the mathematical. In 2000 she launched her own Web site and the rest is digital-imaging history. Her works have become primary resource materials for students and teachers from all over the world working on anything from homework, essays, lectures and term papers through to dissertations on computer graphics or a digital artist. Some of her works now illustrate chapters on new art, new media, hypermedia communication, mathematics and fractals in several educational programs and schoolbooks. She has been variously awarded all over the globe for her imaging, and her works have been exhibited in numerous different countries. She has also been featured with her works in several cutting-edge specialist publications over the past few years, most recently including "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications" (USA), and "Idea Graphics and Design" (Taiwan). Karin also occasionally collaborates with artists from other disciplines, and is currently working on a series entitled "Music" along these lines, which goes forward from an experimental collaboration and presentation with electronic music and also the Polish opera singer Monica Kopec in Krakow, November 2004. Also up in early 2006 is her taking part in an exhibition titled "Electric Paint: The Computer as 21st Century Canvas", which will tour the US after opening at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, in the spring. For CeC & CaC 2006, KArin Kuhlmann has contributed a small selection of recent images for screening as an Unaccompanied Presentation |
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Tibor
Kovacs-egri.(digital-still-imaging, Art-Video, International
Digital Art-video) (Hungary) Tibor Kovacs-egri is a professional graphic artist based in Budapest, who's independent and experimental e-Creative works have also been featured in various different national and international exhibitions over the past few years. Affiliated to the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists, Tibor believes that the fine arts-just like art in general-have developed always in parallel with other spheres of learning and thinking. "The manner of expression in the works of the fine arts corresponds to the way man has seen things, to his aesthetic world of taste in different epochs. The materials and means have followed the new possibilities continually being offered by science, and the thoughts and feelings presented in the works have always been strongly influenced by the spiritual questions of the time, and the attempted answers to them. In recent decades the development of electronic communications and computer technology have caused a revolution in the way images are produced." And so, Tibor takes full advantage of new technologies in producing his works, working instinctually to represent the human in the mystical while sticking faithfully to his roots in the aesthetic norms of traditional graphic art. Computer technology has just multiplied the means of this artist, enabling him to realize his graphic concepts faster and more precisely than ever before, and bring his experiments in the world of forms and colors out of the restrictions of pencil or brush. Tibor's work will be represented in 3 parts: [1] a slide-show of some of his own digital-still-imaging [2] "International Virtual Exhibition of Digital Fine Art": a video-presentation of digitalstill-imaging by 22 artists from around the world, orchestrated by Tibor into video for the Budapest Today Festival, 2004. Artists represented in this by their digital-imaging are: Christian Couette, Bernard Dumaine, Ingrid Kamerbeek, Christiane Schimmel, Norbert Strippel, Craig Blair, Ursula Freef, Darin Ingalls, Pygoya, Sylvie Robert, Hans-Georg Tuerstig, Nita Jawary, Parys St. Martin, Vlado Franjevic, Afanassy Pud, Uly Paya, Zazie, Willem den Broeder, Shankar Barua, Istvan Horkay, Eszter Kneiz amd Tibor Kovacs-egri,.. with music by György Jellinek Gaál & Shankar Barua. Please note that only segments from this collection will be screened. [3] "Evocation", a new art-video he has produced, with artworks by himself, Zazie and Bernard Dumaine, choreography by György Jellinek Gaál, performance by the EuroDance Studio, and music by Shankar Barua (3min. aprox). Of this, Tibor says,"I wanted to represent the life of my friend (György), in 3 minutes, and also connect different art techniques and different artists' works in collaboration." György Jellinek Gaál is a choreographer and ballet artist based in Budapest, who "began to learn dance in 1957, and the learning process didn't finish yet. Nietche wanted to see a dancing god. Krishna is a god, a goddess and a dancer in one person. The dance is inherent to each people ~ 'let's the music play!.'" Shankar Barua is introduced separately in this document. He is also the Creative Director of CeC & CaC 2006. |
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Cynthia Beth Rubin & Bob
Gluck (art-video, 4-5min.) (USA) "Layered Histories" is the imaginary story of an actual 13th century illuminated Bible, the Marseilles Bible, as told through a fluid |
3D
imaging) (USA)
3. James Edwards
was born in New York City, and grew up in Pasadena,
California. He received his B. A. in Art and M.F.A. degree in
painting and drawing from the University of California at Santa
Barbara, and is currently a professor in the Department of Art,
University of South Carolina, where he teaches drawing. During
his career, Edwards has worked with drawing, painting, video,
photography and digital computer media, and has received individual
artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
and the South Carolina Arts Commission. His award winning work
has been included in hundreds of exhibitions nationally and internationally
and is included in over 30 public and corporate collections.
His current digital prints incorporate drawing, scanned objects,
and digital photography. He explains, "The immediacy and
accessibility of digital imagery allow me to scan the landscape
for places where humans have left residue of their behavior.
Speculating on the enigma of location and behavior, a digital
print is created containing a drawing, a scanned object and a
satellite image. I do not intend to suggest cause and effect
relationships between these elements, or clichéd reminiscence,
but rather a controlled displacement of space, referring to the
complexity of social, political, and human issues."
till imaging & transmedia
work ~ university art professor and independent artist) (USA/Taiwan)