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A picture of shaking instrument hand-made during ElectroFringe (Newcastle, Australia - 10/03)
WORKSHOP LEADERS & COLLABORATORS
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The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops are co-developed and co-led by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate as an HEA MMRP (Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He worked as an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC from 2006/7. From 2001-4 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received a Masters from ITP in 1999 and was an Interval Research Fellow from 1999-2001. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Rhizome.org, and Gizmodo, and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5), and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (NYC).
Jonah URLs
Projects and Work:
www.coin-operated.com/projects
Katherine Moriwaki
Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04, 06), ISEA (04), Ars Electronica (04), and WIRED Nextfest (05). Katherine recieved her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and currently teaches at Parsons School of Design's MFA Design Technology Program and has taught at Rhode Island School of Design's (RISD), Design Media Arts Program. She is a 2004 recipient of the Araneum Prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO.
Katherine URLs
Projects and Work:
www.kakirine.com
Collaborators
For the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop we usually collaborate with a local sound artist or musician who uses equipment with MIDI input. This person would provide either a sequencer for the sound output or has worked with MIDI/Digital Audio creation with computers. Below is a list of past collaborators for the workshops:
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MSC @ Urban Learning Space, Glasgow, Scotland
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David Bernard |
MSC @ Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
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Marc Nimoy
Marc Nimoy is a Composition-Experimental Sound Practices MFA student at CalArts and received his B.A. in Music Performance from UCLA. He is a working musician, teacher, and programmer and likes building things like electronic instruments and clean-looking software interfaces. He performs regularly in the Los Angeles area as a laptop rockstar and has only recently started focusing on sound sculptures and installations. |
SIGGRAPH 2005
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Ludica |
Aesthetics Technology Lab, Ohio University, 2005
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Drew Hudgins |
MSC @ Transmediale 2004
Berlin, DE 2/04 |
Carsten Borchert
Carsten has been working with computers since the 1980s, atari, a little bit basic-programming and in early 1990s started to work with midi, cubase, atari, making some midi based music. He also is part of a project of an intermediation between artists and computers such as project oriented computer courses, workshops, consulting and agency @ zoomwerk. |
MSC @ Electrofringe 2003
Newcastle, AU 10/03 |
Nik Wishart (ToyDeath) |
MSC @ DATA:BASE 2003
Dublin, IRL 4/03 |
Ambulance
Ambulance are dunk+trev, dublin duo who have been collaborating in electronic music since 1997. With 5 singles and an upcoming album release on 'planet-mu', Mike Paradinas' electronica label (often described as 'warps r&d department), single and compilation releases on Dublin labels 'frontend synthetics', 'lazybird', 'umack', 'synergia' and 'The fear', remixed by decal, max tundra, and spectac as well as live appearances with sigor ros, squarepusher, and the 'dublin electronic arts festival', Ambulance are certainly an active force in the Dublin electronic music scene.
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