Greg Ackland (SA)

Photography/Video/New Media
Greg Ackland’s recent works deal with themes of fear, identity, isolation,
survival and belonging. He creates confronting images where there is no
clear order of events, or explanation for these situations. His figures are
stripped of individual identity and left in a state of limbo, a flux, a
non-space in both time and position. These works are journeys without
destination, events without outcome, and occupy the intervals between points
of departure and arrival. This work has been selected for the Hatched ’05 :
National Graduate Exhibition at PICA.

As a lecturer in Photography/Digital Media at Adelaide Centre for the Arts,
Greg is currently leading the trialing of a student blog “New Media Art:
Changing Channels In The Dark” for the Helpmann Academy’s New Media
Collaborative Group. With a background in TVC production he has technical
skills in video/sound/editing and support, and was a Technical Advisor to
Laurent Mulot (France) for “They Come Out At Night: Step One”.

He is interested in interrogating the possibilities that new technologies
offer. He asks; “how can the still image become a performance?”

Kirsten Bradley (VIC)

Kirsten Bradley works across media and disciplines in the production of a range of public artworks, interactive installations, light sculptures, live audiovisual performances and projections for theatre and dance. As a member of Victorian based ‘Cicada’, Kirsten works as a creative producer and curator on a range of independent projects, provides creative and technical consultation for organizations, and curates screen-based work with a focus on public and urban screen-environments. Kirsten is particularly interested in work which re-defines urban space and expands the possibilities of play and discovery within everyday environments.

Kirsten is currently working on a range of projects including Vine, an interactive organic skin for buildings and MOB, an audiovisual performance project looking at the human crowd as a discrete organism. Kirsten is currently manager/curator of LUME, Australia’s first public urban screen-space dedicated to Australian Screen culture in Melbourne.

Scot.d.Cotterell (TAS)

is a media artist exploring intuition, chance, and notions of play and
unrepeatability through sound, vision, and live processing. Scot has
performed improvised/experimental audio in both solo and collaborative modes
across the country. Originally from Melbourne and now based in Hobart, Scot
has self-released two albums under the moniker 'UltraSound' using modified
electronic toys and software composition. He has shown 2-d & Installation
works in four group shows and two solo shows, performed in new noise bands
Tar Victim and Elvis Christ, produced audio for advertisements, short films
and artists as well as recently hosting workshops in multimedia for
performance. Scot’s recent works are based around interactive audiovisual
systems and the
behavioural/ perceptual changes that occur through their use. Scot is
currently creating and performing dark, atmospheric noise under the name
USER.

Scot’s work is informed by the streaming, never-ending nature of man-made
media, ideas of energy transference and invisibility, fragments of the past,
and qualities inherent in a medium, the crackle of vinyl, the flicker of VHS
tape, blocky mpeg compression, the sound of AM radio.

www.scotdc.vze.com

Sohail Dahdal (NSW)

Sohail Dahdal is a filmmaker, new media artist and interactive designer, Sohail is an ideas person, and has worked on a conceptual level designing many of Australia’s pioneering multimedia CD-ROMs, installations, and websites, and documentaries. Sohail is an award winning filmmaker, always looking at films with an eye to the future.

One of Sohail's latest projects is Long Journey, Young Lives, an online documentary - now also on CD-ROM & DVD- on child refugees and the impact of detention centres – online at: www.abc.net.au/longjourney. The documentary was commissioned and funded by the ABC/AFC and won the Australian National Youth Media Awards 2002 for best online feature; was part of the official selection at the Stuttgart Winter Film Festival; and was presented as best-of TRUE STORIES in the International Film Festival, Rotterdam.

Sam Haren (VIC)

Sam Haren graduated from the directing course at the Flinders University Drama Centre in 2000. He is a founding member of The Border Project and has directed/ co-directed all of the company’s work, including Please Go Hop! with Ingrid Voorendt (Adelaide Fringe 2004 and Next Wave Festival), The War (Gorge ’03 at the AFCT), Despoiled Shore Medeamaterial Landscape with Argonauts, and the creative development of Disappearance. Sam has also founded The Remote Telemetry Dialogues, an ongoing creative conversation with director Steve Mayhew, and created and manipulated Super Dimension Fortress One (Feast Festival 2004). In 2001, Sam directed Fronteras Americanas (American Borders), which toured to Singapore later that year, and was part of Kultour 2003 around Australia. He is currently developing The Rope Project in conjunction with APL and is creating a new intercultural work between the Flinders Drama Centre and the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Sam was awarded the Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship for 2002 and undertook a three-month internship with The Wooster Group in New York, working on their production of To You, The Birdie! He also observed Forced Entertainment’s research and development of The Travels in the UK. He has worked with Leigh Warren and Dancers and the Australian Dance Theatre as a dramaturg and researcher, and as an assistant director to Simon Phillips on The Tempest (Melbourne Theatre Company), to Rosalba Clemente on Holy Day (State Theatre Company of SA / Playbox) and to Mary Moore for The Memory Museum (Centenary of Federation).

Simone O’Brien (VIC)

Simone O’Brien specialises in contemporary physical performance processes, initiating and creating innovative work across media and disciplines. Simone has worked with a variety of physical theatre companies such as Legs on the Wall, The Partyline, and Club Swing; participated in national and international circus training projects with The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Circus Oz, The Circus Space (London), Jean Palacy School of Flying Trapeze (Paris), and master classes with Philippe Gaulier, Wendy Houston/DV8, and Enrique Pardo. She has toured nationally and internationally with Stalker, Club Swing and Circus Oz. Simone is currently the recipient of an Asia Link grant and is in East Timor facilitating performance workshops and researching her new project (sic), in which she seeks to use her own experiences of serious illness and surgical intervention as a catalyst for wider-ranging investigations into the social representation of the apparently dysfunctional body, and its mobilisation within social, cultural and imaginative space.

Noëlle Janaczewska (NSW)

Noëlle Janaczewska is a multi-award winning, Sydney-based writer whose plays, radio scripts, libretti, fiction and essays have been performed, broadcast and published throughout Australia and overseas. The recipient of a Centenary Medal, Noëlle’s radio dramas Glissando 24 and Slowianska Street won AWGIE Awards in 2001 and 1999. Her play Songket, produced by the Griffin Theatre Company and The Studio at the Sydney Opera House to a sell-out season in June 2003, won the 2002 Griffin Playwriting Award and the 2001 Playbox Asialink Playwriting Competition. A graduate of Oxford and London Universities with a Doctorate from Sydney’s UTS, Noëlle’s current projects include solo performance texts, music-theatre scripts, and a multi-part work across media: Various Koreas—exploring her fascination with the DPRK, its southern twin and the Korean diaspora.

Elka Kerkhofs (NT)

Elka Kerkhofs was born in Belgium and has a Masters in Visual Arts – Photography, and a Diploma in Contemporary Music. Now based in Darwin, she has established herself in the performing arts industry as a hybrid artist, working with video, sound and performance, and as a director, writer, filmmaker, sound and lighting designer. In 2000 Elka created the work Blood Vs Wine in collaboration with Tracks Dance. In 2001 Karelka Productions produced a multimedia work The Tube. She was the Multicultural Artist in Residence with Darwin Theatre Company in 2002 – 2003 where she directed Site 3 and her one- woman show What’s That Donkey For? In 2004 Elka and Tracks Director David McMicken collaborated to create the multimedia dance performance Rust.

Jason Lam (NSW)

Jason Lam is a performer, visual artist and filmmaker. As a performer he received a 'Foot in the Door' Grant from the Australia Council and has worked with Sydney Dance Company, Opera Australia, TasDance, One Extra, Bondi Ballet and independently with choreographers such as Jason Pitt. He is a visual artist and filmmaker, collaborating with Sydney Dance Company and Jason Pitt on the creation of visual projections and design for several works. He has a Bachelor of Digital Media (COFA, UNSW), and has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. He is also in demand as a teacher, designer and sound designer.

Fiona Malone (NSW)

During the five years spent dancing in Brussels with dance/technology/architecture company Charleroi Danses, Fiona developed an interest in exploring the possibility of creating real-time interactive performance environments where each of the performance tools are affected by one another and the performer is able to affect his/her performance environments through the use of different interactive technologies. As an independent artist Fiona continues to choreograph, perform and collaborate with artists as well as creating her own productions. Some of these artists include Luke Smiles & Ben Cisterne, 4bux Progressive Arts, Meryl Tankard, Dean Walsh, John Utans, Henri Ougike and Akram Khan. Some of her choreographic works include Ignus Fatuus, Boite, Vertical Bath, Bamboo Bathing, Juxta Classic and her recently commissioned work for Quantum Leap `The Roll of Honour'. The Adelaide Critic’s Circle awarded Fiona `The Innovation in Arts Award 2004' for her interactive dance/theatre production `The Obcell’ and `D/vision’ (which was a commissioned work for the ACArts students in Adelaide). The Australian Dance Awards nominated Fiona for `The Most Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance’ for `The Obcell’ in 2004 and for `Most Outstanding Female Performance’ for her performance in Garry Stewarts (ADT) `Age of Unbeauty’ in 2002.

Stephen Noonan (SA)

Stephen Noonan is a performer whose primary tool is the body. With a focus on performer /audience relationship his work draws upon ritual, humour and the act of witnessing. He has performed with Unreasonable Adults, Restless Dance Company, Dance Exchange, para//leo, Outlet Dance Company, Yashchin Ensemble, Slack Taxi, KneeHigh Puppeteers, Safe Chamber and Soft Crash, independent choreographers Ingrid Voorendt and Helen Omand. In 2003 Stephen undertook an Asialink performing arts residency at the Hong Kong Art Centre. He has been artist in residency at Woomera Detention Centre, National Choreographic Centre in Montpellier, France and Pitjantjatara Aboriginal Lands community in Central Australia.

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