ARTISTS

ARTHUR and CORINNE CANTRILL
EXTRA SPECIAL GUESTS

Arthur and Corinne Cantrill (Melbourne)
Take a peek at 'The Screen and Beyond: Cantrills Expanded' for an overview of Arthur and Corinne's work in expanded cinema.

Floterian

Light-Shards

Ramayana-Legong

Bouddi

Cone

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Abject Leader
Abject Leader (Brisbane) are Sally Golding (film, projectors) and Joel Stern (concrete sound) performing expanded cinema pieces for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, instruments, and cardboard boxes. Sally and Joel also curate screening programs as Abject Leader cinema for festivals including Liquid Architecture, Openframe, and the Now Now.

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Natasha Anderson
Natasha Anderson (Melbourne) is an artist/musician who uses the unique combination of contrabass recorder, electronics, voice and mixed media to create works in which objective framings of sound, presence and image are brought into question. Constantly shifting between dialectic extremes of frequency, the digital and the bodily, the processed and the instrumental, and the visual and the sonic — she creates for an audience multiple and conflicting points of focus.

For OFF, Natasha performs 'latex screens', a live multimedia work for digital video, screens, [plastic, latex] and music performance [contrabass recorder, garklein, voice and electronics]. It combines video crafted from its own handmade projection screen with deconstructed woodwind articulation and gestures that move quickly from real-time processing to the acoustic. Ultimately it is a work in which the source of sounds, images and gestures, whether electronic, instrumental or bodily, become tangled and confused.

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Lloyd Barrett
Lloyd Barrett's (Brisbane) art reflects a fascination with audio and visual interactions in both real and imagined space. His work has taken the form of multi-channel sound-pieces and films including "The Drift" and "Let's hear it for the Vague Blur" (co-directed by Joe Musgrove). An active member of Brisbane's sonic art scene for a decade, Lloyd promotes, collaborates, organises and enlivens the community through his numerous ventures. For OFF, Lloyd co-facilitates the Acoustic Ecology workshop and Soundwalk, and premiers 'Mise En Scene', his multilayered audio project exploring the nature of diegetic and non-diegetic narrative elements in film sound.

the vague blur

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Pia Borg
Pia Borg (Melbourne), constructs non-conventional, expressionistic narratives utilising traditional animation techniques - each frame is carefully composed from a montage that encompasses old photographs, found objects, human hair, scanned textures, dust, insects and discarded 16mm footage. At OFF Pia performs as 'pride and prejudice' with sound artist Mark Harwood, utilising voice, audio and unique projections with intent to evoke "the uncanny".

when

objects

dream

'footnote'

'15281'

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Botborg
Botborg (Brisbane) perform live audio-visual performances using a complex feedback web, consisting of mixers, cables, screens and camera. Sound and image fuse into a self perpetuating synaesthesia of colour & rhythm, generated (in real time) entirely by device feedback through electronic circuits and the performance space.

Read 'NeuroArt For The Not Faint At Heart' by Fiona Hogg.

stills

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botborg

dvd

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Tara Cook
Tara Cook (Sydney); "my art is independent of me"

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Louise Curham
"Louise Curham (Sydney) is at the forefront of Australian moving image art. As well known for curating innovative expanded cinema events in non-traditional exhibition spaces as for provocative Actionist performances, Curham is highly regarded in the experimental film world for her work using "obsolete media." Her hand-worked Super 8 films reinvent the home movie medium of years gone by....."

excerpt from 'Alchemical torture' by Danni Zuvela for REALTIME

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dada-meinhof with Danni Zuvela and Tina Blakeney
dada-meinhof (Dave Kimball and Graeme Cakebread), Danni Zuvela and Tina Blakeney (Brisbane) are a collective, liberating live, band-oriented rock and video art from traditional genre restraints with unrehearsed, automatic/improvised performances featuring unique combinations of members and materials. Saccadic visuals knawing at the edges of perception in the OFF perfor-menace include fed-back ruminations on the military industrial complex, nature's fury visited on Bunjalung, and minimalist exploration of oil aesthetics. Danni is an OFF curator/organiser.

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Dirk de Bruyn
Dirk de Bruyn (Melbourne) has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos over the last 30 years. He has received funding to produce a number of films, but has continued to maintain a no-budget, independent, self-funded focus for much of his work. He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta), been involved with Fringe Network and been a member of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group. He has written about and curated various programs of film and video art internationally and written extensively about this area of arts practice. During the late '90s he was involved in an independent weekly screening program of film and video art at the Café Bohemio. He is currently teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Lawrence English
A sonic shape-shifter, Lawrence English's (Brisbane) audio works have sprawled over a range of areas. Interested in the potential of seemingly unrelated music and sound elements -- from experimental soundscapes and free improvisation to processed beat works and concrète-influenced compositions -- his back catalogue spans a dynamic range of frameworks. London's Time Out referred to his output as 'ambient twisted soundscapes and challenging sonic scree´. For OFF he presents a new screen-based work exploring notions of the storm and turbulence.

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Sally Golding
Sally Golding (Brisbane) is a filmmaker, projectionist and audio-visual archivist whose work moves between materialist abstractions and dreamlike narrative forms. Using 16mm technologies and photographic darkroom processes, Sally deconstructs cinematic materials and apparatus, creating unique works realised as performed projection. She performs at OFF as 'Abject Leader' with Joel Stern, and co-facilitates the 'film re-film' workshop. Sally is an OFF curator/organiser.

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Eve Gordon
Eve Gordon (Auckland) has too short a name do describe the shear enormity of her activities. She needs at least another 8 middle names to represent all her achievements. Apart from working as a trained actor, trapezest, film producer, vocal artist, theatre divisor, dance/theatre performer and teacher (sorry out of breathe after that) she has also been interested with working with handmade film. Having first gained an interest in film from working as a projectionist at a cinema, Eve has started experimenting with handdrawn film animation. After working on a few short direct films last year that were featured in the Alleluya Noise Festival, the Wellington Fringe Festival, soon to be in the Auckland Film Archives "Window" exhibition and a film program at the Physics Room in Christchurch, Eve and Sam Hamilton started working and expanding their experiments with 16mm film into a 3 projector/screen live manipulated performance which they premiered at the Transacoustic festival last year in December.

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Sam Hamilton
Sam Hamilton (Auckland) sits free in the shallow waters of borderline music, demanding rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty within music. "hey dickhead, your guitar is out of tune!" From the NOWnow description; "Auckland based sound artist, organiser and basic font of enthusiasm. Sam is busy young man doing what all busy young men should be doing - promoting and making creative, disturbing, and ingenious music." Groups and collaborations include The New Zealand Music Group,City Peoples Farmers Music, Sci Hi, Empirical orchestra, Damo Sazuki Group, Tall Dwarfs, and too many more to mention. Sam also organises a plethora of events in Auckland such as the Alleluya Noise Festival, Tumbling Strain Series, Borderline music club, etc. When we asked him what he would be playing on tour he said "feedback stuff through malfunctioning gear".

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Camilla Hannan
Camilla Hannan (Brisbane) is a sound designer, composer, installation artist and performer. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally. Camilla is interested in notions of space, light and noise structure. Her CD "More Songs Aout Factories" - an open love letter to industrialisation - is released  though Cajid Media.

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Mark Harwood
"Normality kills Mark Harwood (Melbourne), it is the ultimate boredom"

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Jim Knox
Jim Knox (Melbourne) is variously a curator, broadcaster, filmmaker and musician. In 2005 he was founding director of ignifuge in Melbourne (regular monthly concert series, 'Articulating Space', recorded for broadcast by ABC-FM; among some 2 dozen other events, Australian premiere screenings of work by Vera Chytilova and Stephanie Maxwell); he also produced short films by Dirk de Bruyn, Pia Borg and Callum Cooper. In the past he's co-ordinated the screen programs for the What Is Music? and Liquid Architecture Festivals; he continues to manage the Outlands Ecoplex outdoor cinema for the Meredith Music Festival. In 2006 he's co-director of the inaugural Mudgee Experimental Music Festival (November). "broadcast interference" is his current project for ABC RN. His short films have been screened on SBS-TV and at festivals internationally, and his electroacoustic music has been released commercially by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/23five, Synaesthesia, and Otomo Yoshihide's Creativeman label (a long time ago).

Anyways his interests include a fascination for the structural logic of sound in relation to dynamic moving image. Phenomenology and behaviourism. And a passion for marginal culture, per se.

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Anthony Magen
Anthony Magen (Melbourne) is interested in the relationship between people within the landscape and this concept covers many surfaces and textures from urban masterplanning to small scale sonic sculpture, responses to understanding 'NOISE' and what it means to people and places.

He has been exploring the otic sense through field recordings and contact mic experiments and with many australian improvisors, electrofringe 2004 (Instant Places workshop + J.stern + P.blamey) and SooB 2004 (Brisbane noise orchestra + j.stern + C.Cooper) and regular Melbourne night (plug n' play) and is an avid contributor to the rotating members of the splinter orchestra. Recent sound works include Reconciliation as part of the 2005 NowNow festival held in Sydney and dropping ephemeral sonic interventions in Melbourne that appear and disappear in an irregularly coherent fashion. Working within the landscape architecture professional means projects can range in scale from town masterplans to designs for a childrens playground requiring varying responses in development and construction. These processes inform and reveal a desire to infuse 'process focused' landscape work with an audible twist.

flathead

electrofringe handmade bits

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Velvet Pesu
Velvet Pesu (Brisbane) is an artist and musician committed to raising social and ecological awareness; her works are an organic investigation into the passage of time. Velvet's OFF installation features her highly distinctive decomposed, texture-based artworks, presented in a luscious immersive atmosphere.

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Van Sowerwine
Van Sowerwine (Brisbane) is a media artist who explores ideas of childhood and its darker underpinnings. She works with stop motion animation and installation, and has screened and exhibited her work in Media City Seoul, 2005 Cannes Film Festival, and 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

'sharper than a serpents tooth'

'what big eyes you have'

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Joel Stern
Joel Stern (Brisbane)  spends his time making music, writing, organising concerts and screenings, and studying for his MA. He has performed throughout Europe, Japan, New Zealand and at the major experimental music events in Australia, using a combination of modified instruments, custom microphones, feedback devices, and field recordings. Joel currently plays in free noise bands 'impromptulons', 'no guru' and 'gyanism', and collaborates with whoever else happens to be around. In between, he co-runs the record label ' naturestrip' and the radio show 'audiopollen' on 4zzz. Joel is an OFF curator/organiser.

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The Lost Domain
The Lost Domain (Brisbane) formed in 1990 and have gradually transformed their home territory, that of a noisy stringband, to encompass oral storytelling, free-form rock'n'roll, and drone and jazz-based improvisation, but still, however, remain closely-linked to the "common stock" nineteenth century rural musics that originally inspired them. For OFF they provide a spontaneous soundtrack to the new film 'Memorium' by legendary Melbourne avant-garde filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn.

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Sarah-Jane Woulahan
Sarah-Jane Woulahan (Brisbane), artist, poet, filmmaker, other half of video music team Squareyed Films.

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