Leslie Hill and Helen Paris curious.com

curious.com, performance and multimedia company, comprises artistic directors Leslie Hill (US) and Helen Paris (UK). Their work, which includes live performance, net.performance, installation, film and video has been commissioned and shown internationally by institutions such as the Arts Councils of England and Scotland; the Institute for Contemporary Arts (London); The Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow); Artec (London); the London Arts Board; the National Endowment for the Arts, US; The London Filmmakers Co-op; London Electronic Arts; the Arts and Humanities Research Board; the Institute for Studies in the Arts (Phoenix, where Leslie and Helen were resident artists for three years); and Artsadmin, where Helen is an Associate Artist.

Leslie and Helen are also authors of Guerilla Performance and Multimedia (2001), designed as a practical guide for artists engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including live art, digital art, installation, and hybrids of theatre and visual art.
curious.com’s work includes I Never Go Anywhere I Can’t Drive Myself, a live art road-trip through two-lane byways and information super highways, and the creation of an extensive road-trip web site for virtual travellers (www.placelessness.com/drive); Vena Amoris, a public performance utilising mobile phone technology to explore audience and performer relationships via live and mediated moments; Random Acts of Memory [RAM], an (a)synchronous interplay of unreasonable facsimiles and unfaithful self portraits, rendered via circuits and synapses, investigating the relationships between digital and synaptic memory, replication and interpretation; and On the Scent, a live art installation exploring the olfactory relationship to memory and emotions, made in collaboration with Dr Upinder Bhalla, olfactory scientist, Bangalore, India.
curious.com are currently based in London.

Derek Kreckler

Derek Kreckler has been a practising artist for more than twenty years. Trained as a visual artist (sculpture), Kreckler works across the visual, performing and media arts, his practice encompassing installation, sound, video, sculpture, performance and theatre. His work has been presented in major international events including various Sydney Biennales, the 1997 Festival of Perth and at Edge '88 in London, Britain’s first international festival of experimentation in the arts. He was awarded a prestigious twelve-month residency at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in New York (PS1) and was a participant in the Fire and Life project between India and Australia. His work for radio, Yurabirong, commissioned by The Listening Room, ABC Radio National, has been broadcast many times. He is currently employed as Coordinator of Electronic Arts and Lecturer of Sound Design for Film and Theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Margie Medlin

Australian media artist Margie Medlin works in the fields of film, lighting and projection design, developing film and video installations that explore the interrelations of dance and the moving image. Margie has worked with Danceworks, Dance Exchange, Chunky Move, Ros Warby, Company in Space, Lyon Ballet, John Jaspers and Lucy Guerin Company, receiving a New York Dance and Performance award (Bessie) for her lighting of Guerin's Two Lies. She has made a number of film and video installations. Margie is currently working with Company in Space, and Ros Warby, and recently completed an artist’s residency at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Andrew Morrish

Andrew Morrish is a freelance performer, researcher, facilitator and teacher. He began improvisational performance work with Al Wunder's Theatre of the Ordinary in Melbourne in 1982. From 1987 to 1999 he was one half of the improvisational duo ‘Trotman and Morrish’ which performed widely in Australia and the US. Since 2000 he has undertaken the development of his solo practice, leading to Relentlessly On... (2001: Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra) and GOSH! (2002) at Performance Space, Sydney with Tony Osborne and Peter Trotman. In 2000 he initiated Rushing for the Sloth, an ongoing monthly improvisational performance at Omeo Dance Studio in Sydney.

Robert Pacitti

Robert Pacitti has produced and performed live theatre works for diverse sites world-wide. He has worked throughout Europe and the US with a range of other companies and artists, including Blast Theory. He is currently the Artistic Director of The Pacitti Company, formed in 1991 and based in London. Unequivocally process led, its studio-based practice forms the backbone of its operation. Utilising theatre as a mechanism for creating new and dynamic discourses around society and the artform, the company engages aspects of visual arts, music, film, storytelling, new technologies, science, medicine, politics, psychology, history and philosophy as components of its theatre. The company has been described by The Guardian (UK) as “the most unusual and unsettling theatre currently in London.”

Presently a lecturer in Advanced Practice at Cheltenham College of Arts, and an assessor and adviser for the Theatre Unit at London Arts, Robert has lectured, facilitated workshops and delivered conference papers throughout the UK. In 2000 he was awarded a Live Art Development Agency ‘One to One’ Bursary through which he invited German artist Raimund Hoghe to be his mentor for the year.