[tobias c. van Veen]
is a renegade theorist and pirate, techno-turntablist and writer (Montreal). He is Concept Engineer at SAT [sat.qc.ca] and Project Leader of Sonic Scene in the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN). Since 1993 he has internationally curated over fifty independent conceptual and sound-art events, working with STEIM, Mutek, the New Forms Festival, the Banff Centre, the Video-In, Upgrade!, the Vancouver New Music Society and Hexagram. His work has appeared in CTheory, EBR, Bad Subjects, Leonardo, FUSE (contributing editor), e/i (columnist), Capital (columnist), Discorder (columnist), the Wire, HorizonZero and through Autonomedia, among others. His writing has been translated into Spanish, Lithuanian and French and his art disseminated through Rhizome.org, Javamuseum.org, Kunstradio, Burn.fm, CiTR, No Type’s BricoLodge and the and/OAR labels. From 1993-2000 he was Direktor of the sonic performance Collective on the West Coast (shrumtribe.com) and co-founder of technoWest.org and thisistheonlyart.com. Tobias is Ph.D candidate in Philosophy and Communication at McGill, Montreal and New School, NYC. He mixes a mean absynthe martini.
His blog resides at: http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog
tobias c. van Veen is participating
2008
the exhibition
“soundOBJECTS”
http://soundobject.newmediafest.org
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
for SoundLAB in the framework of the exhibition of digital art
“Digital Media” at La Nau Valencia/Spain – 17 April – 10 May 2008
2006
SIP – SoundLAB Interview
2005
as a curator
featuring these artists
Esther Bourdages
I8U
Tomas Phillips and Dean King
2004
as a curator
featuring these artists
Anna Friz & Annabel Chvostek
Carrie Gates
Max Haiven
Jon Vaughn
tobia c. van Veen