Originally from the USA, fields received a Ph.D. in Media Arts from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000 before moving to Beijing to assist with the establishment and development of media arts programs and curriculum in some of the country’s top institutions including China’s Central Conservatory of Music and Peking University.

An advocate for research-creation, Field’s own domain of practice lies within the area of telematic arts, specifically digital music, while focusing theoretically on issues related to ontology and the technology of inquiry. As well as write and perform his own electroacoustic compositions, Fields has been involved in several sound installations and networked performances internationally, has developed collaborative online work environments for students, and has published widely. He is also co-organiser of the Musicacoustica Festival, Beijing.

Perceiving the Internet to be more than a conduit of communication, but also a medium for artistic creation, performance, exploration and experimentation, at the University of Calgary Fields focuses on building high-speed networks that facilitate live, real-time interaction between participants operating within various media (be they musical, visual, physical, etc), thus establishing dynamic collaborative environments that are not tied to one location, but exist in multiple places at once.

NRPA was founded in 1981 with the purpose of supporting and developing radio art, a cultural movement encompassing experimental sound-based practices conceived to operate within the specific parameters associated with broadcast radio. The organization was considered to lie at the international forefront of radio art distribution between 1987 and 1998, during which over 300 works for public radio were commissioned and disseminated via the weekly program series New American Radio.

Taking heed of significant cultural shifts resulting from the expansion and proliferation of wireless and digital modes of communication, the NRPA extended its mandate in 1996 to support the then burgeoning practice of net art by launching Turbulence. The project and its associated website currently remains dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting the work of artists who either use existing applications and technologies or develop new ones to create innovative, hybrid or networked art forms that use the Internet as a primary medium. The organisation’s key channels for facilitating the creation and reception of new works are its Artists’ Studios, Guest Curator, Spotlight and Events programs. Importantly, the Turbulence website houses an online archive of over 160 projects commissioned by the body throughout its 13 year life.

Other NRPA supported projects affiliated with Turbulence include the Networked_Performance research blog (2004 -), a valuable resource that chronicles the wide range of issues and perspectives linked with various network-enabled practices, and the Networked_Music_Review blog (2007 -), which accommodates the present legacy of New American Radio by gathering data on projects, performances, composers, musicians and software tools related with emerging networked musical explorations made possible by computers, the Internet and mobile technologies.

Dorkbot is a worldwide movement characterised by regular open community meetings under the principles of open access, hacking, experimentation, making, community art practice, and collaboration. The Sydney chapter tends to be led by (but not limited to) art practitioners and characterised by an interests in installation, sound and projection experiments.

Cited from the Dorkbot Sydney website, Dorkbot aims:

‘To bring people together from different fields who are interested in doing strange things with electricity; be you artist, engineer, musician, electrician, software developer, hermit, whatever. Regular meetings pose as an opportunity for public discussion, peer review and exploration of ideas, experiments and finished works and also to solidify and invite growth, encouragement and collaboration in a community of curious people.’ Dorkbot Sydney is generally held the last TUESDAY of the month.. Dorkbot Sydney is a non-profit organization and so it is free to come and be a member of the audience or make a presentation although we welcome donations to help with the basic costs of running the event. ]]> http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/events/dorkbot-sydney/feed 0 -33.890418 151.2091862-33.890418151.2091862 http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/people/joyce-hinterding http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/people/joyce-hinterding#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:45:49 +0000 Xavier http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/?p=139 Joyce Hinterding produces works that explore physical and virtual dynamics. Her explorations with acoustic and electrical phenomena have produced large sculptural antenna works, video and sound-producing installations and experimental audio works.

Joyce Hinterding’s Recent individual exhibitions include:  AV festival, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, England, (2008) Biennale of Sydney, (the world may be) fantastic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2002), Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Converge: where art and science meet (2002); 7 Istanbul Biennial, Yerebetan Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey, (2001), Joyce’s live solo sound performances include, The NowNow festival (2008) Sound and Electricity, The Performance Space (2006), Audiotheque, The night air, ABC radio national (2005).

David Haines and Joyce Hinterding live and work in the Blue Mountains, NSW Australia and work both collaboratively and independently.

Their collaborative work has produced large scale immersive video and sound works that explore the tension between the fictive and the phenomenal. This work incorporates Joyce’s investigations into energetic forces and David’s concern with the intersection of hallucination and landscape.

Most recently they have exhibited their collaborative work in the exhibitions ; Turn and Widen, The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Korea (2008), Superlight, The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Art on the edge, San Jose Museum Art, California, USA, (2008), Waves – The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany, (2008), (in)visible sounds, Montevideo, The Dutch Institute for Time based Art, Netherlands (2007), V2 Zone, Act interact, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2007). ReSearch, The Sendai MediaTech in Sendai, Japan (2006). Under the Radar, FACT, (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology) Liverpool England (2006), Waves (Electromagnetic Waves as medium for Art), Riga, Latvia (2006), The 26th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004); Liquid sea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2003); Space odyssey: sensation and immersion, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2002-01.