tobias c. van Veen
[tobias c. van Veen] is a writer & technology combatant in Montréal wired to renegade soundsystems & turntable piracy. Since 1993 he has directed conceptual and sound-art events, online interventions and radio broadcasts, working with STEIM, the New Forms Festival, the Banff Centre, Eyebeam, the Video-In, Mutek, MDCN.CA, the Vancouver New Music Society and Hexagram. Hiswork has appeared in CTheory, EBR, Bad Subjects, Leonardo, FUSE (contributing editor), e/i (columnist), the Wire, HorizonZero and through Autonomedia, among others. His writing has been translated into Spanish, Lithuanian and French and his sound & net.art disseminated through Rhizome.org, Javamuseum.org, Kunstradio, Burn.fm, CiTR, Juniradio.net, Alt-X, various technology arts festivals, No Type¹s BricoLodge and the and/OAR labels. From 1993-2000 he was Direktor of the sonic performance
Collective [shrumtribe.com] in Vancouver and co-founder of technoWest.org, controltochaos.ca and thisistheonlyart.com. He currently hosts the Upgrade Montréal [theupgrade.sat.qc.ca] and is Concept Engineer at the Society for Arts and Technology [sat.qc.ca]. Tobias is doctoral candidate in Philosophy & Communication Studies at McGill University.
tobias c. van Veen is participating in
media art show ://selfportrait – a show for Bethlehem – show for Peace
Title: “self_portrait_24May06″, soundart, 2006
