Tilman Küntzel
www.tkuentzel.de

Born 1959 in Hessen (southern Germany)
1982-1990 studied fine arts in Hamburg with Prof. Claus Böhmler and Henning Christiansen.
1992-1998 lecturer at the College of Lüneburg in the department of aesthetics & communication.
1993 DAAD-scholarship with Allan Kaprow at the University of California, San Diego
2002 winner of the first German Sound Art Award, Sculpture Museum Marl /SWR
2004 initiator and curator of the symposium, exhibition and concerts STARE ÜBER BERLIN – sound art
meets bioacoustics; on the aesthetics of birdsongs.
2005 Initiator of the project WORLD CUP’06 - RADIO COMMENTARIES IN NATIVE TOUNGUES –
SYNCHRONOU RECORDINGS
2007 guest lecturer at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, faculty Fine Arts for Sound Art.

Jabier Martínez Perdiguero

Research Engineer in the Software Engineering field and AI student from the Basque Country. He enjoys experimenting with sounds and his work could be heard at Spanish based platforms as Resonancias http://www.ccapitalia.net/reso/ or Plataforma-LTW http://plataforma-ltw.netlabel.es/ .

Michael James Olson
www.michaeljamesolson.com

Michael James Olson has composed for a variety of ensembles and fixed media, and is currently interested in works that integrate electronics with live performance.
Michael’s music explores dense sonic landscapes that reveal perspectives on his life and surroundings. His works have been presented at the FEASt Festival (Florida), Electroacoustic Juke Joint (Mississippi), Channel Noise (Georgia), and Asim’tria Festival (Peru), among others. Presently, Michael is pursing a M.M. in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University where he studies composition with John Thompson.

Carl Palme
http://www.knopfkino.de

Sonic and visual artist Carl Palme (b. 1977) researches on the cultural
impact of the digital turn. Carl did his masters in media studies about
the DVD as key to a new understanding of digital film and culture. Lives
and works in Berlin.

work
title: The Player Is The Instrument: etude pour lecteur DVD
year: 2009
duration: 5 min. and 9 sec.
URL for download: http://www.knopfkino.de/data/palme_soundlabVII.zip
statement:

10 years ago the rapid hacking of DVD Video, a brandnew format at that
time, indicated the arrival of a new digital era.
This work is trying to perform another hack with DVD Video.

It all began during the debugging of a sophisticated DVD game. I
discovered overwhelming features of set top DVD Players. Certain
programming of the disc resulted in a unique audible output. I do not
speak about the ordinary electric output, measurable through jacks and
plugs. I discovered the DVD player as a solo instrument that creates
sonic waves.

Characteristically the act of playing the instrument is split in two
parts. The programming of the disc (diachronic) and the possible
interaction using the remote control while having the disc in the DVD
player (syncronic). The specifications and condition of the machine
itself i.e. the box, the drive and the electronic parts of the DVD
player define the sonic peculiarity of the single machine as an instrument.

Very similar to a punch card organ that can not play without a card, the
DVD player will not work without its disc. Knowing that it comes from a
film projecting machine the sound of the DVD player will typically
remind listeners of the 35mm film projector sound. On the one hand the
latter probably is a culturally deeply embedded sound that comes to our
minds quickly in case a soundtrack to the film is missing. On the other
hand and despite all differences concerning analogue versus digital, the
playing technique still is based on rotation, which explains sonic
similarities. Anyway the sonic monotony an the smoothly irregular rhythm
let us drift away imagining… interrupted by someone pushing the open
button on the remote control, which results in a big bang, a reboot of
the system.

All sounds appearing in the work are created by one single set top DVD
player. Everything was recorded in two mono channels using a cymbal and
a voice microphone. The DVD machine was placed on a wooden stand as a
natural amplifier. The final piece is a mix of three life recordings of
the DVD player performing with one disc – a DVD Video game including
advanced scripting. The only human interaction is pushing the open button.

”Etude pour lecteur DVD” is a first approach to understanding DVD
players as instruments. The work does not exhaust the range of sounds a
DVD player can create.
.

Alberto Picciau

http://www.myspace.com/albertopicciaumura
Work Experience and Art Exhibitions

Celebrate Brooklyn, New York.
Music Festival Audio Intern.

Bunker records 3082 (LP)
Publication of two tracks by the alias Voltron st-727 in a electronic music compilation
( HYPERLINK “http://www.godspill.net/Shop.aspx?prod=00000157″ http://www.godspill.net/Shop.aspx?prod=00000157).

“Hablar en Arte”, Madrid, Spain.
Selected in the art sound contest “En el Aire”.

“Blow Up Magazine” (http://blowupmagazine.com/), Italy.
Demotape rewiew.

musician

Günter Schlienz

Education:

1977-81: Primary School

1981-87: Secondary School, Diploma

1991-93: Vocational Baccalaureate Diploma

1987-91: Professional Training Electronics Technician, Apprenticeship Diploma

1995-2003: Scholastics in History, Social Science and Literature at the University of Stuttgart. Master of Arts.

Work Experience

1991-1997: Jobs as electronic technician. First jobs in small clubs as sound engineer.

1997-2003: Sound engineer for speech recordings at Sony.

Since 2000: Sound engineer at „Tonstudio Favoritenpark“

Since 2003: Freelancer as sound engineer:

Technical administration of various events. Design and installation of lighting and sound equipment for public and private institutions. Advice and sales for light and sound. Musical support for Internet sites. Commissioned work for TV Stations.

Since 2007: Freelancer as sound engineer for the Staatstheater Stuttgart:
Support of various opera productions, from the rehearsals to the performance.
Archiving of recordings and database maintenance.
Maintenance of technical devices of the Staatstheater Stuttgart.

Musical CV:

After an early musical education on a recorder I taught myself how to play the guitar.

1988-1993: Early experiences on stage as guitar player of rock and folk formations.

1994-1995: Teaching and Wanderings. Street Musician, learning how to play the electric guitar, building of DIY pedals.

1995-2001: Electric guitar player in psychedelic rock bands. More than 150 gigs between 1996 und 2001 in Germany.

Since 1998: Experimental musician with “navel”, live and studio.

Since 2003: Building of DIY synthesizers and playing them in the studio and live as „gage“

Alexander Schubert
www.AlexanderSchubert.Net

Alexander Schubert was born in 1979 in Bremen and studied computer science and biology in Leipzig focusing on neuroinformatics and cognitive science. During his studies he has worked as a musician and composer in a variety of different environments. In addition to this, Schubert worked for one year at the ZKM (Centre for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe at the Institute for Music and Acoustics. Since 2007 he has started a degree in multimedia composition at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Drama.
Schubert’s research interest explores cross-genre interfaces between acoustic and electronic music. Musical pieces for audio tapes and the formal notation of compositions for live electronics belong just as much to his work as the design of software-setups and manipulation / design of instruments for an intuitive handling in an improvised context (see “Weapon of Choice”). A permanent focus of his work is the combination of notated and improvised music — both in aesthetics and structure. His technical training is the basis of a differentiated utilisation and individual design of sound synthesis and controllers (e.g. in the installation “A Set of Dots”).
Apart from working as a composer and solo musician Schubert is also the founder of the ensembles “Schubert-Kettlitz-Schwerdt” (for improvisations solely based on noises) and the electronic trio “Trnn”. The formation “Ember” (saxophone, drums, piano, electronic) mainly realises minimal, poly-rhythmic pieces that are a mix of free jazz and contemporary chamber music. Schubert has contributed to a variety of different projects as a musician, composer and programmer (e.g. for the “Wiener Festwochen”, Staatsoper Berlin). Alexander Schubert curates the music festival contemporary electronic music in Leipzig and runs the publishing company “Ahornfelder-Verlag” for experimental audio and book releases. In 2009 he was awarded with a Bourges residency prize. His works have been played for example at: ICMC Montreal, SSSP Leicester, Klangwertage Hamburg, ZKM Karlsruhe, SMC Porto, Ahornfelder Leipzig, Bipolar Festival, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Disparate Bodies Festival, Headphone-Festival, Komponistenforum Mittersill, Maribor Slovenia, Hilltown Festival Irland.

Ashley Scott
http://www.catfingers.net

I am a musician & artist based in Sydney, Australia.

Johannes S. Sistermanns
www.sistermanns.eu

Johannes S. Sistermanns
(*1955 Cologne, Germany)

He stages his composition as Electroacoustic (multi channel) Performances,
SoundPlastic, Radioart, Music Theatre and Urban Environment.

He was taught in ‚Tao of Voice method by Prof. Stephen Cheng, New York, as
well as in Classical North Indian Singing at the Banares Hindu University
B.H.U. and in Calcutta. 1976-84 he studied at the Musikhochschule Köln New
Music Theatre with Mauricio Kagel, Piano with Klaus Runze and Rhythmik with
Holmrike Leiser. Doctorate 1989 in Musicology. Performances, exhibitions,
teachings, stipends and artist/composer-in-residence took him to Japan,
China, Australia, USA and Europe. He performs/exhibits in International
Festivals, including Knitting Factory New York 1995, Melbourne Festival
1997, Goethe-Institut Tokyo 1997/Kyoto 1998, Worldexhibition EXPO 2000
Hannover, Adelaide Festival 2000, International Summercourse Darmstadt 2004
/ 2006, Turning Sounds Warshaw 2005, Donaueschinger Musiktage
1996/1999/2005, 1. Shanghai International Electroacoustic Music Festival
2006, ISCM World New Music Festival Stuttgart 2006, Australasian CompMusic
Conference ACMC 2008 Sydney, Klangbiennale2 HR Radio Frankfurt - in Radio
Stations (WDR, SWR, HR, SR, DLR, RBB Berlin, ORF Kunstradio Vienna, ABC
Radio Sydney). He received Grants like the Kunststiftung NRW Duesseldorf,
Ministry for Culture NRW Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation/SWR Radio
Freiburg, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Berlin, The Japan Foundation Tokyo,
Filmfoundation NRW Duesseldorf, ZKM Karlsruhe, Artist-in-Residence CACSA
Adelaide, University Wakayama Japan, Composer-in-Residence at VICC
Visby/Gotland and EMS Stockholm/Sweden, Awards a.o.’Zeitgleich’ Composition
Award ORF Radio + TRANSIT Innsbruck 1995, Karl-Sczuka-Foerderpreis (support
grant winner) SWR Radio 1997, 2. Prize Memorial Kehl/Germany and the ‚German
Soundart Award 2008’ Skulpturenmuseum Marl / WDR Radio.

2004 + 2006 he is Lecturer at the ‚International Summer Courses for New
Music’ in Darmstadt, Germany.

Matthew Sochocki
matthewsochocki.blogspot.com

Matthew Sochocki is a sound artist, sculptor, musician and writer. He
creates unique stringed instruments and investigates aural experience
through the use of sound to create a physical landscape using drones,
noise, altered sound and extreme amplification. He graduated Cum Laude
from the College of New Jersey with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2005,
and in 2008 received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design. During graduate candidacy, he
studied under sound artist Abinadi Meza and prior to this time he
worked for Matthew Barney on the production of Drawing Restraint 9.

Kathrin Stumreich
www.kathrinstumreich.com

1976 in Austria;

working an living in Vienna
Education:Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp 2003; University of Applied Arts Vienna (Digital Art)

Justin Randolph Thompson
Born in Peekskill,NY USA June 17, 1979,

Lives and Works in Florence, Italy

Education
2003 American University, MFA 2001 The University of Tennessee, BFA

Solo and Two Person Shows
2009 Southern Trees;Santa Reperata Contemporary Art Gallery; Florence
2009 Martirio; Brooklyn Public Library/ Business Library; Brooklyn,NY
2008 I got somethin’ for your…; number_5 GmbH; Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Maybe it Runs in the Family; Buffalo Arts Studio; Buffalo, NY
2007 La Ruota degli Innocenti (Sponsored by the Fulbright Commission); Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence

Group Shows
2009 Vuelta al Cole, Galeria Altamira, Gijon, Spain
2009 Funktified, Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
2009 Open Doors: Taller de Jannis Kounellis; Villa Iris of the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain
2009 Elsewhere: I am here; MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia
2009 Tools for Revolution; Rotte Metropolitane; Villa Romana, Florence
2008 Gen X: Postboomers and the New South; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2008 Valcellina Prize; Museo del Tessile, Pordenone
2008 Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize; Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
2007 Drift; Rush Arts Gallery New York, NY
2006 Legion (NY,NY); NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL

Awards/Residencies
2009 Residence/Workshop run by Jannis Kounellis, Fundacion Marcelino Botin; Santander, Spain
2008 Winner of Revolutionary Sound, Sound Art Competition; Radio Papesse(section of Palazzo delle Papesse)
2008 Jerome Fellowship; Franconia Sculpture Park
2008 Finalist Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize

Articles and publications
2009 Justin Randolph Thompson Shrines and Found History; Sculpture Magazine International by critic Elaine A. King; May 2009 Vol.28 No.4 pg. 42-47

Collections
Mobile Museum of Art; Mobile, AL, Brooklyn Public Library/ Business Library; Brooklyn, NY, Albornoz Palace Hotel; Spoleto, Salem Art Works Sculpture Park; Salem, NY, Collezione Contini Bonacossi; Capezzana, Premio Valcellina Collection, Maniago, Collezione Civica di Fiber Art di Chieri, Chieri(TO)

John Harold Transue
http://www.johntransue.net

Born in Philadelphia 1984. Graduated University of Delaware BFA in sculpture 2008. Currently working in Princeton, NJ as a design assistant and residing in Bucks County, PA. I have only exhibited in University shows.

This work is a performance of spoken onomatopoeias. It was conceived and recorded in one take. The performance is about memory, thought process, the vocalization of thought process, and the appropriation of an internet list of onomatopoeias. This recording was made using Audacity (a free digital audio editor) and a Logitech web cam microphone.

Hsiao-Lan Wang
http://www.hsiaolanwang.com

Bio

Hsiao-Lan Wang, a native of Taiwan, composes extensively for
orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and electronic media.
Her music investigates the fundamental elements of musical
communication through new timbral, formal, and technological
relationships. Notable recognition from various national and
international awards includes Pauline Oliveros Prize and Libby Larsen
Prize from International Alliance for Women in Music, Athena Festival
Chamber Music Composition Competition, American Composers Forum,
Pierre Schaeffer Computer Music Competition (Italy), Craig and Janet
Swan Composer Prize for Orchestra, Composers Competition by Chamber
Orchestra of Denton, Awards from ASCAP (American Society of Composers,
Authors, and Publishers), Logos Foundation (Belgium), Bourges Electro
Acoustic Music Festival (France), and Dutch National Radio. Ms. Wang
is also a frequent participant at music festivals throughout North
America.

In addition to her career as a composer, Ms. Wang extends her musical
platform to conducting of orchestral, choral, and contemporary chamber
music. Given her special interest in contemporary music, she has
continuously conducted works by both developing and established
composers of our time, including numerous world premieres. She has
served as the associate conductor of the Nova Ensemble at University
of North Texas and the Flower Mound Community Orchestras.

Ms. Wang received her BA in Music Composition and Theory from the
National Institute of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan) in 1999 and MM in
composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2002. She
is presently a DMA candidate in composition at the University of North
Texas while teaching music technology and composition courses at
Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Advocacy for women’s
music has been an area where she devotes much of her energy in recent
years. She currently serves as the president of International Alliance
for Women in Music.

Biying Zhang
www.biyingzhang.net

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts; anticipated graduation, 2011

School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University, Medford, MA

Areas of Concentration: Drawing/Painting, Art History, Sound Art, Film

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2008

Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Areas of Concentration: Drawing/Painting, Sculpture

AWARD

. Mima Weissmann Memorial Fund for the Study of Ceramic Arts for Summer, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 2009

. Dean’s Discretionary fund Project Grant SMFA, Boston, 2009

. Dean’s Discretionary fund Project Grant SMFA, Boston, 2008

. Second Prize Student Annual Painting Show Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China, 2006

. First Prize Student Annual Drawing Show, Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China, 2005

EXHIBITIONS

. CONSTELLATIONS project, the Metro Arts gallery, City Center of Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, 2009

. The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA, 2009

. ART In Embassies Program, Ambassador’s Residence, CARACAS, VENEZUELA, 2009

. The Embassy gallery Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Pl, Edinburgh, 2009

. December Solo Show Bukowski Tavern, Cambridge ,MA,2009

. The Norfolk NYC Gallery, Manhattan, NY, 2009

. The True Art Gallery, Needham, MA, 2009

. Mind is a Beautiful Beast, Medicine Wheel Gallery, sponsored by National Alliance on Mental Illness, Boston, MA, 2009

. The 4th Student Show, Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University Hillel Center, Boston, 2009

. The BAG Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2008

. The Inside Out Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2008

. Graduation show, Main Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 2008

. Outstanding Student Annual show, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 2004-2006

PUBLICATIONS:

. Charcoal drawing “Portrait” joined student Outstanding Works Exhibition, and awarded first prize. Print Publication, 2006

. Published in Excellent Painting Collection; Foundation Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2006

. Published in Charcoal Drawing Studies; Foundation Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2005
. Took part in the VCD recording of “November the Fifth,” education plan of Chinese Education Department, 2005

Vasco Araújo
www.vascoaraujo.org

Born in 1975 in Lisbon, city where he lives and works. He studied sculpture at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Lisbon from 1994 to 1999, continuing his education in the Advanced Plastic Arts Course at the Escola Maumaus in Lisbon, from 1999 to 2000. In 2002 he received the prize “Novos Artistas da EDP, Electricidade de Portugal”, for which he created the exhibition Sabine/Brunilde, shown in 2003 at the SNBA space in Lisbon. In 2003 and 2004 he was included the Core Program of resident artists at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (USA). In 2005 he took part in the Artist-in-Residence program at the Couvent des Récollets in Paris (France). He has regularly exhibited in Portugal and abroad since 1999. Amongst his group exhibitions, the most important have been his participation in the “Experience of Art”, La Biennale di Venezia. 51st International Exhibition of Art, Venice; “Dialectics of Hope”, 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, (both in 2005); Solo (For Two Voices), CCS, Bard College (2002), New York; “The World Maybe Fantastic” Sydney Biennial (2002), Sydney; Trans Sexual Express, Barcelona (2001), a Classic for the Third Millennium (2001), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona. His work has been published in various books and catalogues and is represented in several public and private collections, such as at the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne (France); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal); Fundación Centro Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía – COFF (Spain); Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Centro de Arte (Spain); Fundação de Serralves (Portugal); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA).

Susana Mendes Silva
www.susanamendessilva.com

(Lisboa, 1972). Susana Mendes Silva has created a varied body of work since the mid 1990’s, making use of such diverse media as photography, video, installation, drawing, and performance. She has worked from a specifically female consciousness and sensibility, building a body of work that is fragmented and antilinear, one that exudes poetic irony and finesse, balancing itself on the fine line of indifference and invisibility, intimacy and aggression. She lives and works in London and Lisbon. She studied Sculpture in FBAUL (Lisbon, PT), and is a MPhil/PhD candidate in Fine Art (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College, London; and was awarded a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Mendes Silva is a Research Assistant at the University of Évora, and teaches in the Landscape Architecture degree since 1999.

Paulo Mendes
www.paulomendes.org

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1966. He works in Lisbon and Oporto.
Graduated in Arts, Paulo Mendes is a visual artist, curator of exhibitions and producer of cultural projects. Founder and member of the cultural association PLANO 21 (www.plano21.net).
He has been exhibiting his artwork, both individually and collectively, since the early nineties, having curated several independent and institutional exhibitions in the last twenty years that promote the development of a new generation of Portuguese creators. His work is characterized by the contamination between several fields – cinema, design, architecture, music, theatre, dance -, and by the diversity of media which each project determines – painting, drawing, photography, video, installation and performance. He also engages in work in the editorial and graphic design areas. His production takes on strong contours of political affirmation, generating resistance to the normalized models of reception. By addressing social reality, the author takes on a deceptive and interventional stance and thwarts the expectations of the spectator. Art, in Paulo Mendes’ view, should be characterized by its criticism and through forms of comprehension capable of generating discussion and resistance to the systems of power: “Art should be a space for discussion, not for exclusion.”

Maria Lusitano
www.marialusitano.com

Born in Lisbon in 1971 and lives in Malmö, Sweden. BA Hons degree in Medicine from the University of Coimbra in 1997. In 2002, she concluded the Advanced Course in Fine Arts at the Centre of Visual Communications and Art, Ar.Co, where she won the João Guimarães scholarship in 2000–2001 and the EDP scholarship in the following year. She attended the Visual Arts course at Maumaus – School of Visual Arts between 2000–2003. In 2003 she obtained an Honorary Mention in the EDP New Artists Prize.

José Maçãs de Carvalho
www.curtasmetragens.pt/agencia/realizadores/228/

(Anadia, Portugal, 1960). Graduated with a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the University of Coimbra in 1984. He concluded his graduate degree in Art Management at the Institute of European Studies in Macau in 1998. He received scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1994, the Oriente Foundation from 1999 to 2009, the Camões Institute in 2001, the Portuguese Center of Photography in 2003 and the Institute of Arts (Pontuais) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2005, he commissioned “My Own Private Pictures”, at the Plataforma Revólver, in the scope of the LisboaPhoto. He was nominated for the BESPhoto 2005 prize (January to March of 2006, CCB, Lisbon). In 2006, he showed his photography and videos in the following expositions: “Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin”, Jeu de Paume; “Catódica: International Videoart review”, Trieste; “Festival Número”, Teatro S. Jorge, Lisbon; “Momentos da vídeo-arte portuguesa contemporânea”, (PhotoEspaña) C. Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid; “Portuguese Screen. Videoart Showcase”, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon and “BESPhoto”, CCB, Lisbon. In 2007, he exhibited individually “Video Killled The Painting Stars”, Galeria Solar-Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde and Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon (video) and “It´s a lonely Planet – Part I”, Galeria VPF Cream Art, Lisbon (photography). And in 2008, ”The Return Of The Real 2”, Museu do Neo-Realismo, V. F. Xira (video and photography).

João Pombeiro
http://joaopombeiro.com

(Leiria, 1979). Lives and works in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
He graduated in the Course of Visual Arts of ESAD. João Pombeiro has showed regularly since 1998 and has taken part in several national and international group shows. “Looking for Freedom” and “International Intrigue,” Rosalux Art Office, Berlin, stand out of his recent solo shows.
“Like various contemporary artists, João Pombeiro makes use of movie classics – such as Hitchcock for his video work. His minimal and discreet intervention suits a time in which the ‘cultural consumer’ intends to re-interpret, intervene and shuffle the cards. One could almost speak of a ‘revenge’ of the consumer. In “International Intrigue”, the various levels of interpretation are multiplied by the surprising combination of the various languages normally available on DVD. The video questions the standardization of culture and tastes but also the invisible frontiers of every language, its hermetic character, its inalienable particularity and the mystery of its sound. João Pombeiro works with various media (painting, installation, video, design). In all of them, there is an irony of refreshing simplicity”. (Tiny Domingos)

Francisco Queirós
www.franciscoqueiros.com

Born in Lisbon (1972), studied painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts.
Lives and works in Sintra, Portugal.
He has exhibited in one-man and group shows regulary, presenting video, sculpture, installation and drawings since the late nineties. Of special note among his recent solo shows are: “yupi” (Museu de Arte Contemporãnia de Serralves, Porto, 2003), “yeah” (Centre d´Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, 2003), “Bacteria” (Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa, 2005), “Angelo Mai” (Ex - Chiesa San Romano, Roma, 2005), “o dia em que troquei fazer tudo por não fazer nada” (Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporãnea, Lisboa, 2007), “já viram alguem levar um tiro e não deitar sangue” (Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporãnea, Lisboa, 2009) e “Meathaus” (Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisboa, 2009).
“Francisco Queirós (Lisbon, 1972; lives and works in Sintra) is one of the most exciting figures on the present Portuguese art scene. His output is defined by the use of video and the creation of installations that build a visual universe which is easily recognisable for its strangeness and singularity.
At an early stage, the works were based on the construction of narratives related to the world of children, but subverted by perverse actions borrowed from the world of adults. His latest works defend an iconographic and space-time ambiguity to better hint at an atmosphere of ambivalent sensations”. “Francisco Queirós” by Miguel von Hafe Pérez

Fernando José Pereira
www.virose.pt/fjp

(Porto, 1961) Lives and work in Oporto, Portugal.
Graduated in Fine Arts – Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Oporto (1987), PhD in Fine Arts at the Vigo University, Spain (2002). Investigator at CECL (Lisbon University). Schoolarships from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: As graduated student – 1985/87; As investigator in Fine Arts – 1988/89: As PhD student – 1997/2001. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and beyond. He works with video projects and installations, primarily exploring notions and interpretations of territory, borders, access and exclusion.
Pereira is founder (1997) and co-director of Virose, an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation dedicated to art and media technology (www.virose.pt), as well as a teacher in the Painting Department of the Fine Arts School at the University of Oporto.

António Olaio
http://www.youtube.com/user/aolaio

Born in 1963 in Sá da Bandeira. Lives & works in Coimbra, Portugal
Degree in Fine Arts (Painting), University of Fine Arts of Porto, Portugal
Teaches at the Architecture Department of the Faculty of Science
Filmography: Kuenstlerleben, duration: 8’ 38’’, 2010 Na Cátedra de S. Pedro, duration: 1’, 2010 My own moon, duration: 4’ 3’’, 2009 La Prospettiva is sucking reality, duration: 2’ 45’’, 2009 What happened to Henri Matisse?, duration: 3’ 30’’, 1999 Where are my glasses? duration: 2’ 10’’, 1999 What do you want for Xmas? duration: 3’ 10’’, 1999 Today I discovered stereo sound , duration: 3’, 1999 My left hand is changing , duration: 5’ 36’’, 1999 I have seen the Light , duration: 5’ 25’’, 1999 Foggy days in old Manhattan , duration: 2’, 1999 Bambi is in jail , duration: 5’, 1999 Potato farm , duration: 3’ 20’’, 1999 If I wasn’t an artist , duration: 2’ 10’’, 2001 Red rainbows, duration: 4’ 35’’, 2004 I’m invisible , duration: 4’ 34’’, 2005 Pictures are not movies , duration: 4’ 29’’, 2005 Rosebud, duração 3’ 10’’, 1999 Sit on my soul , duration: 3’ 40’’, 1999 20 years in a plane , duration: 3’, 2006 Under the stars , duration: 4’ 40’’, 2006 Shave your heart before you love – duration: 2’ 42’’, 1999 Telepathic agriculture , duration: 4’ 55’’, 2005 Telepathic agriculture 2ª versão, duration: 4’ 55’’, 2005 Sunset TVs , duration: 6’ 15’’, 1999 Sunset Daisy – duration: 3’, 1999 Deadly Resurrection - duração: 4’ 19’’, 2005 (video de instalação no Convento de Santa- Clara-A- Velha, Coimbra). Twins – duration 5’ 50’’, 2003 What makes a home a house?, duration: 3’ 21’’, 2002 My home is a logo, duration: 3’ 37’’, 1999 Translating Johnny, duration: 3’ 24’’, 2006 Blaupunkt blues, video, duração: 4′, 2007 Post-Nuclear Country, 30’ , 1993

Brigid Burke
www.brigid.com.au

Brigid is an Australian, clarinetist, composer, visual artist and video-maker. She has had works performed extensively both nationally and internationally. Most recently ABC Saturday Afternoon Sessions Australia, Generative Arts Festivals in Milan Italy, New Music Network, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, the 2009 International Video Dance Festival of Le Breuil France and 21th Instants Video Festival in France, Futura Music Festival Paris France. Also performing solo clarinet, live electronics (laptop) and electronics at The International Clarinet Festivals in Japan and Canada and numerous performances at the International Computer Music Festivals in Seoul and Australia.

In 2009 she has been Artist in Residence at ADM NTU Singapore and in 2008 she was a recipient of an Australia Council Performing Arts Music Project Fellowship.

Her involvement New Music has led her to integrate sound, visuals (DVD) and theatre in her performances of her own work and in collaboration with other composers/performers. Other ensembles Brigid performs with are Tri Duo (with Grania Burke), Carte Blanche (with Ros Bandt), David McNicol, Ollie Bown, The Australian Chamber Ensemble and The Free Music Ensemble.

She has received commissions from the Australian Broadcasting Commission ABC, Australian Asian Foundation, Japanese Printing Corporation, ANAT, South Australian Govt., Australia Council and Universities have supported Brigid in her performances, compositions and artwork. She has a Master of Music in Composition from Melbourne University Australia