From left to right: Andrew, Samuel, Wade, Peter
BIOGRAPHIES
Ian Andrews
Ian Andrews, born 1961 is a Sydney based independent film, video and sound artist who has been practicing since 1981. Beginning with experimental audio collage, Andrews gradually moved into the production of film and video, and film and video soundtracks, and then to electronic music, digital animation and interactive net art; http://ian-andrews.org
Much of Andrews’ work consists of video/sound collage, “cut-up,” and agit-prop culture jamming utilising a diverse range of visual styles – from animation to “found” footage. The work is often characterised by themes such as technology and subjectivity.
Andrews has exhibited his works in various international film and video festivals including festivals in Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Naples, Catania, Amsterdam, Berlin and Wellington, in addition to numerous events throughout Australia. He has spoken about and presented his work at various conferences, both nationally and internationally. In June 2001 he presented a retrospective of his work, from 1983 to 2000, as part of the Sydney Film Festival.In 2004 he exhibited work at Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, the FILE festival in Sao Paulo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (as part of ISEA2004).
Wade Marynowsky
Wade is a Sydney based media artist working in audio-visual performance,
installation, music and video. Since 1998 Wade has exhibited and performed
extensively. Recent highlights include his installation Autonomous
Improvistation v1 at Artspace Sydney, 2007,the demux launch
at the
Performance space, Sydney 2007, performing performing at Nuit
Blanche, Toronto, Canada and performing Apocalypse Later at ISEA2004,
(whilst cruising the Baltic Sea). Wade performs under many aliases such
as Marynowsky, The pink gimp, The_Geek_From_Swampy_Creek, AC-3P and Spanky.
In his performances he uses custom-built software for live audio-visual
processing often exploring the tension between his wet and dry AV transformations.
Wade started demux with Peter Newman in 2006 with the assistance of the
Australia Council for the Arts
Music Board. www.marynowsky.net
Peter Newman
Peter is a musician and time-based artist living in Sydney. He composes
highly textural sound-driven audiovisual works for live performance, installation
and screening/playback. These works explore the musical qualities of composed
sound in a symbiotic relationship with moving image, often in a multi-speaker,
multi-screen environment. His music is concerned with drawing a sense of
musicality from non-musical sources, such as field recordings and sound
captured from video. In a performance context, he utilises a software-based
framework for structured improvisation, which he has been developing for
several years. He has performed and exhibited widely within Australia for
the last four years.
Andrew Gadow
Andrew is a Western Sydney based artist working in the realms of time based media. He has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally over the past 7 years. His work can also be seen in private collections throughout Australia. Andrew also forms part of the duo P.A. with fellow artist Phil Williams. Andrew’s work takes its basis in the representation of time-based mediums of sound and video, specifically the technologies involved in, and the electronic languages related to the representation of these mediums. Creating abstract imagery directly related to the glitches, whirrs, whoops and buzzes of audio, Andrew’s work has become renowned for its synasthetic behavior.
Samuel Bruce
Samuel creates generative audio-visual works using the open source softwares, Processing and Pure Data. These semi autonomous software structures are presented variously in video, performance and installation contexts. He is interested in the interaction of complex systems, observed in and around himself, and reflects them as abstract digital processes. Current work makes use of physics simulation to create virtual structures whose motion is mapped into image and sound. He has exhibited as part of the group Dysfunctional Feed, in group shows at Blacktown Arts Centre and Rocketart, Newcastle, and in 2006 had his first solo exhibition at Pelt Gallery.