• AGF (a.k.a. Antye Greie) is a musician, producer,
and e-poet. In 1996, with Von Jotka, she formed the electronic
pop duo Laub, which recorded a series of records on the Kitty-Yo label.
As Kitty-Yo’s
web manager, AGF became interested in the artistic exploration
of digital technology, an interest manifested on her first
solo record, Head Slash Bauch, in which she translated fragments
of HTML script and software manuals into a form of electronic
poetry and deconstructed pop. Her follow-up record, Westernization
Completed, won an Award of Distinction at the 2004 Ars Electronica
festival. Since 2002, she has been engaged in an ongoing
collaboration with Sue Costabile involving live audio-visual improvisation.
This work can be seen and heard on mini-movies, a DVD released last
year on Asphodel. AGF has collaborated with Vladislav Delay, Craig
Armstrong, Kataryna Zavoloka, and QUIO. She also performs and records
with the laptop quartet Lappetites, which also includes Eliane
Radigue, Kaffe Matthews, and Ryoko Kuwajima. Her recordings have appeared
on the Mille Plateuau, Orthlorng Musork, Disco Bruit, Sprawl, Crosstalk,
Quecksilber, and other labels. She lives in Berlin.
www.poemproducer.com
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• Michael Bell-Smith operates in the gaps
of animation, internet remix culture, and music. His short digital
loops, shown on small screens or painting-like wall monitors, portray
landscapes, cityscapes, and figures to engage viewers in social allegories.
Whether through his animations, his explorations of generic
musical tropes or his re-configurations of pop culture ephemera, the
excitement lies in grasping the layers of sound and image, how they
came together, and the way things do, or don't, change. Recent exhibitions
include: The Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland (screening)
(2006); LISTE, the Young Art Fair, Basel (2006); Vilma Gold, London
(2006); Foxy Production, New York (solo) (2006); BankART, Yokohama,
Japan (2006); Glassbox, Paris (2006); PROJEKT 0047, Berlin (2005);
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2005); Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley,
CA (2003). Bell-Smith holds a BA in Semiotics from Brown
University, Providence, RI.
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• Tony Cokes is a post-conceptualist
whose practice foregrounds social critique. His video, installation,
and sound works recontextualize appropriated materials to
critically reflect upon our production as subjects under capitalism.
Cokes' video and multimedia installation works (which sometimes
embrace collaborative working methods) have appeared in exhibitions
at The Museum of Modern Art; MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; the
Whitney Museum of American Art; Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany;
and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His numerous media festival
screenings include The San Francisco International Film Festival,
American Film Institute, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, International
Film Festival Rotterdam, Seoul Film & Net Festival, and Rencontres
Internationales Paris-Berlin. Cokes teaches in the Department
of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence, RI
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• Tony Conrad is a pioneer of minimalist music, structuralist film, and avant-garde video. He was a key member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, the drone-based minimalist ensemble that flourished in the mid-1960s. He went on to collaborate with Faust, Gastr del Sol, Pauline Oliveros and others, and to perform and record as a solo artist. His film The Flicker (1966), which consists entirely of stroboscopic light patterns, is a key work of structuralist cinema. Conrad’s work in film and video has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S. 1, The Kitchen and other prominent venues. He is Professor of Video in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. tonyconrad.net
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• Christoph
Cox is a philosopher, critic, and curator. He is the author
of Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California
Press, 1999) and co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
(Continuum, 2004). Cox writes regularly on contemporary art and music
for Artforum, The Wire, and other magazines. He is editor-at-large
at Cabinet magazine and co-curator of Cabinet’s CD series.
In 2005, Cox curated the exhibition “Group Loop” at G
Fine Art Gallery in Washington D.C. This fall, he curated “Invisible
Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany” at The Kitchen in
New York City. His critical writing examines the ontology of sound
and the role of sound in visual arts contexts. He has written essays,
chapters, and articles on the work of Steve Roden, Christina Kubisch,
Carsten Nicolai, Kaffe Matthews, Francisco Lopez, Alvin Lucier, Marina
Rosenfeld, and others, and has contributed catalogue essays for exhibitions
at MassMoCA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the New Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seattle Center, the South London Gallery, and
Sonambiente 2006. Cox is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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• Sue C. (a.k.a. Sue Costabile) is a visual
and performing artist. Inspired by the work of Stan Brakhage and Nicolas
Schöffer, Costabile creates live experimental cinema from digitally
manipulated photographs, drawings, watercolors, handmade papers, fabrics,
and lighting effects. Costabile has collaborated with Morton Subotnick,
Luc Ferarri, Laetitia Sonami, Joshua Kit Clayton, and others. Since
2002, she has been engaged in an ongoing collaboration with AGF involving
live audio-visual improvisation. This work can be seen and heard on
mini-movies, a DVD released last year on Asphodel. Costabile has performed
at the San Francisco International Film Festival, REDCAT (Los Angeles),
Ars Electronica (Linz), MUTEK (Montreal), SONAR (Barcelona), and other
prominent venues. Last spring, her experimental film “FortyThousand3Hundred20Memories” had
its world premiere at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. She currently
teaches “Math & Media” at
the California College of Arts (CCA) in Oakland.
www.sue-c.net
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• Diedrich Diederichsen is an author and curator. He was the editor of the prominent German magazines Sounds and Spex and is a regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, Tagesspiegel, Tageszeitung, Theater heute, and other publications. His recent publications include Golden Years: Dokumente und Materialien zur queeren Subkultur 1959–1974, (Co-Editor); Musikzimmer; Personas en loop; Sexbeat; 2000 Schallplatten von 1979–1999; Der lange Weg nach Mitte: Der Sound und die Stadt; Loving the Alien (Editor); Politische Korrekturen; Yo! Hermeneutics: Schwarze Kulturkritik: and Pop, Medien, Feminismus (Editor). He has curated exhibitions such as “Die Kraft der Negation” (Theater der Welt Cologne/Volksbühne Berlin); “BildSchirmAuge” (Bauhaus Archiv Berlin); “Cross Gender/Cross Genre” (Steirischer Herbst, Graz); “Loving the Alien”(Volksbühne, Berlin); and “Sample/Zitat”(Portikus, Frankfurt). Diederichsen is currently a professor at Merz Akademie and co-leader of the Department of Theory.
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• Renée Green is
an artist, media practicioner and writer. Her work employs film, video,
sound, image, text, and spatial and social productions to explore
questions of history, memory, identity, and representation. Green's
exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen throughout the world,
including solo exhibitions at Portikus (Frankfurt), Centro Cultural
de Belem (Lisbon), Fundacio Antoni Tapies (Barcelona), Contemporary
Arts Center (Cincinnati), Vienna Secession, Stichting de
Appel (Amsterdam), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).
Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions such as Documenta
XI, Johannesburg Biennial, Kwangju Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Aperto,
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Institute of Contemporary Art
(London), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MACBA (Barcelona), Museum
Ludwig (Cologne), and the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Green
has contributed writings to Texte zur Kunst, Spex, October, Transition,
Public Culture, Frieze, Flash Art, and many other publications. She
is currently Dean of Graduate Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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• Art Jones is an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video and hybrid media. His films/videos, CD-ROMs, live audio/video mixes, and installations often concern the inter-relationships between popular music, visual culture, history, and power. Jones’s work makes extensive use of popular music and mainstream media culture as raw material to be sampled and re-combined in order to examine implicit meanings or to suggest new ones. Working with a particular genre or mode, the work seeks to explore, destroy, or re-orient the conventions of “the media.” As a VJ he has performed with a variety of musicians and artists, including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks, and Anti-Pop Consortium. He is a current member of the ITEL Media group and a former member of the Not Channel Zero television collective. His work can be seen internationally in festivals, museums, bars, galleries, and living rooms. He is from the Bronx, New York, and lives and works in New York City
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• Douglas Kahn is a leading theorist of sound art and experimental music. He holds a PhD in art history, an MFA in “post-studio arts” (Cal Arts), and an MA in experimental music composition from Wesleyan University, where he studied with Alvin Lucier and Ron Kuivila. Kahn is the author of Noise Water Meat (MIT Press, 1999), and co-editor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant Garde (MIT Press, 1992). He has written catalogue essays, journal essays, book chapters and magazine articles on contemporary media artists such as Christian Marclay, Paul DeMarinis, James Tenney, Joyce Hinterding, Nigel Helyer, and Rosemary Laing. He is director of the Program in Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis.
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•Robert
Lippok is a musician,
sound artist, visual artist, and set designer. In 1995, with his brother
Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider, he formed the influential rock-electronica
band to rococo rot. Over the past decade, the group's releases have
appeared on various labels, among them Kitty-Yo, City Slang, Staubgold,
and Domino. To rococo rot has also collaborated with visual artists
such as Olaf Nicolai, Doug Aitken, and Takehito Koganezawa. The band
composed a new version of Walter Ruttman's Weekend and has contributed
to radio plays produced by Bayerischen Rundfunk and Radio Copernicus.
Lippok's solo CD open close open was issued by Raster-Noton in 2001;
and his solo performance "Falling into Komeït" was
presented by Monika Enterprises in 2004. As a visual artist, his works
consistently confront architectural space. He participated in the
exhibition "Space to Face" (Westfalen Kunstverein, Münster,
2004), in which audio-concepts developed by 4 different artists for
the exhibition space serve as interim projects. Lippok's audio-visual
work is regularly shown at Berlin's Wohnmaschine Gallery; and his
installation "Tannover" was shown earlier this year at Berlin's
HAU 1 Theater. He lives in Berlin.
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• Christian
Marclay is an audio-visual artist based in New York City. In the late 1970s, concurrent with the birth of hip hop, Marclay pioneered the use of turntables and found recordings to make experimental music in the context of art. Marclay has also developed a body of visual art (photography, collage, sculpture, video, and installation) that often recontextualizes the visual artifacts associated with popular music. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, The Whitney Museum of American Art and other venues. His turntable work has been recorded on the Asphodel, ReR, Atavistic, Victo and other record labels.
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• Joe Milutis is a writer, media artist whose work with sound has included audio essays, experimental music, radio drama, live radiophonic performances, and sound design for theater and film (as well as the intersections in between). He is the author of the new book Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and has contributed to journals and magazines such as Cabinet, ArtByte, Wide Angle, Film Comment, and Afterimage. His radio, video, sound-for-film and internet work has been presented at venues such as The Next Big Thing, Alt-X, Resonance FM, Ocularis, Anthology Film Archives, Hyperrhiz, Black Maria Film Festival, Location One, Deep Wireless, LA Film Forum, Aurora Picture Show, and Bamboo Theater . He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Visual Arts at Brown University.
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• Camille Norment is a multi-media
artist whose work is particularly concerned with the way
that the body is inscribed with meaning through its negotiation with
its surroundings, and with the tensions created by uncanny and contradictory
experiences. Her installations are often interactive environments
that employ sound, light, video, film, electronics and other media
to engage the viewer/auditor physically and psychologically. Norment
has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and Europe, and has recently
been included in exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern (Bern, Switzerland);
the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo, Norway); the Charlottenborg
Fonden (Copenhagen, Denmark); the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York);
and at the 2003 Venice Biennale. She is currently professor of Art
at Malmö University,
Sweden.
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• Scott Pagano is a cutting-edge digital artist
whose work aims to take “music video” into new, unimagined territories. As filmmaker, motion designer, and spatial reconstructionist, he creates moving image content utilizing shards of architecture, dysfunction, and futurism. With influences ranging from cinema to minimal painting, his work offers a re-envisioned perspective on the graphic stratas that saturate our visual perception. His meticulously constructed abstract artworks push the boundaries of audio-visual composition and process exploration using a dynamic mix of cinematographic and synthetic imagery. His music video and motion art work has been screened in venues ranging from international film festivals to MTV. He has worked with a wide range of notable musicians including BT, Christopher Willits, Funkstörung,
Joan Jeanrenaud, Kid606, Kronos Quartet, Twerk, Richard Devine,
and Speedy J. www.neither-field.com
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• Daniel Perlin works across media creating
sound, video, objects and installations. His art
work has been shown at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counci,
The Chelsea Art Museum, TN Probe Tokyo, Temporary Contemporary
Gallery, London, and Guggenheim Film. Recently, he has collaborated
with Natalie Jermijenko on the installation For the Birds
for the Whitney Biennial 2006, Koolhaas, Kwinter, Fabricius
on the installation of Mutations, and with Vito Acconci on
the public sound installation Viraphone in Madrid, Spain.
He has also been the sound designer for such films
as as Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy, Errol Morris' Fog Of War
and Phil Morrison's Junebug. danielperlin.net
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• Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist
based in Los Angeles. His work often involves the interplay
between conceptual systems and intuitive processes. Roden’s
paintings, sculptures, and sound installations have been
exhibited at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, the San Diego Museum
of Contemporary Art, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, SculptureCenter, the
Henry Art Gallery, Singuhr-Hörgalerie,
San Francisco Art Institute, Studio la Citta, and many other
galleries and museums. He has released audio CDs on Trente
Oiseaux, Line, Sonoris, en/of, Semishigure, and other labels.
www.inbetweennoise.com
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• David
Shea is a composer and improviser whose work explores interconnections
between the eastern and western classical traditions, film music,
experimental and club music, technology and intuitive performance.
Shea came to prominence in the late-1980s as a member of New York’s
vibrant downtown music scene. He worked closely with John Zorn’s
projects and ensembles, performing and recording Zorn’s Cobra,
Elegy, Absinthe, Godard, Spillane and other pieces. He has released
more than twenty recordings of his own music on the Tzadik, Sub
Rosa, Staalplaat and other labels. These recordings feature Shea’s
sampler in conjunction with improvising or classical ensembles.
Shea has also composed music for dance, collaborating with choreographers
such as Karole Armitage, David Hernandez, and Davis Freeman. He
is active as a film composer, having recently composed a soundtrack
for Johan Grimonprez’ film Dial History, another for the feature
film Celebration, and another for Herman Asselberg’s
AM/PM. With his wife, the visual artist Kristi Monfries,
he runs the audio-visual label Metta Editions. Shea lives
and works in Melbourne, Australia. www.dshea.net
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• Philip Sherburne is
an American-born writer and DJ living in Barcelona. He has
lectured at the Tate Modern, SFMOMA, PS1 and the Mutek Festival.
His essays and articles have appeared in The Wire, The Village
Voice, XLR8R, Slate.com and many other magazines.
www.philipsherburne.com
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• David Toop is a musician, writer and curator
of sound. Since the 1970s, he has been an important presence
on the English experimental and improvised music scenes. With Max
Eastley, he recorded New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments for
Brian Eno’s
Obscure label in 1975. Since then he has collaborated with
an extraordinary variety of musicians, among them John Zorn, Evan
Parker, Scanner, Flying Lizards, Prince Far-I, Kaffe Matthews, and
Akio Suzuki. Toop has released a dozen other solo/duo records and
a series of influential compilations. He is the author of four books,
including Rap Attack, among the earliest critical studies of hip hop,
Ocean of Sound, a key text in the emergence of audio culture, and
Haunted Weather, a series of meditations on sound in the arts. In
2000, he curated “Sonic
Boom,” the largest-ever exhibition of sound art in the UK. And,
in 2005, he curated “Playing John Cage” at Bristol’s
Arnolfini Gallery and “Sound Out” on
the streets of Cork, Ireland. He lives and works in London.
www.davidtoop.com
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• Stephen
Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond,
Virginia and New York City. Solo exhibitions of his work
have recently been presented at Museum 52 (London), The Project
(New York City), and Galerie Almine Rech (Paris). His work has also
been shown in prominent group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, “Greater
New York” (PS1), “What Sound Does a Color Make?” (Eyebeam), “Treble” (SculptureCenter),
and “Sonambiente” (Akademie der Künste, Berlin).
Vitiello has released solo CDs on New Albion, Hallwalls,
Sub Rosa, Sulphur, and JDK Records. He has collaborated with Tony
Oursler, Constance DeJong, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Scanner,
Frances Marie-Uitti, Andres Bosshard and others. His most recent
work involves a set of collaborations with painter Julie Mehretu.
Vitiello curated the sound component of the Whitney Museum’s
exhibition “The
American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000.” He has also
curated “Young and Restless,” a video program for the
Museum of Modern Art, and “New York, New Sounds, New Spaces” at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. He currently serves
as archivist for The Kitchen and curator of The Kitchen’s
archival CD series. Vitiello is Assistant Professor of
Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). www.stephenvitiello.com
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• Christopher
Willits is a musician and multimedia artist based in San Francisco, California. He studied electronic music at Mills College, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, and John Bischoff. Willits’ music spans a broad spectrum of styles and features his unique use of the guitar with custom-made signal processing. He has released music on the Ghostly International, 12k, Sub Rosa, Nibble, Ache Records, Fällt, Yacca, and Plop labels. His recordings and performances have garnered critical acclaim from numerous publications including The Wire, The BBC, Grooves Magazine, XLR8R, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and URB magazine. Willits has collaborated with fellow Bay-Area experimentalists Matmos and Kid606, and with Ryuichi Sakamato, Latrice Barnett, Douglas Murray, Scott Pagano, and others. christopherwillits.com
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