Daan Roosegaarde (Netherlands) Exhibited Artwork: Dune 4.1 《沙丘4.1》 (2007) Daan Roosegaarde is a young artist working in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and the Berlage Institute, a Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture in Rotterdam. Roosegaarde's work explores the dynamic relation between architecture, people and new media. His sculptures are a collision of technology and the human body. In this interaction the sculptures create a situation where visitor and (public) space become one. Roosegaarde's projects have been shown at international exhibitions at V2, Netherlands Media Art Institute & 5th Triennale in Slovenia and published in Items, NRC Handelsblad and MARK. Currently Daan is the creative director of Studio Roosegaarde, an artistic laboratory in which series of interactive artworks are created. www.studioroosegaarde.net Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 FM3 (Beijing) Exhibited Artwork: Buddha Machine 《唱佛機》 (2005) Founded in 1999 by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian, two active members of the Beijing music scene, FM3 are considered pioneers of electronic music in China. Known for dedicating prime space for "live" aspects within their work, FM3 produces mysterious, meditative and minimalist soundscapes, while subtly adding elements of Chinese folk tradition into a universe abundant in micro-sounds and synthetic glitches. In 2004, FM3 was commissioned by the Louvre museum in Paris to provide a new soundtrack for the 1930s film "La Croisiere jaune." The project concluded with three live performances at the Louvre Auditorium in early June. FM3's sound installations have been featured at the 2004 Shanghai Bienalle as well as the Beijing-Tokyo Art Project, the Dashanzi International Art Festival and the Kulturhallen Dampfzentrale in the Swiss capital of Bern. The mass-produced FM3 Buddha Machine loop box was named of the best "boxed sets" of 2005 by the New York Times and was one of the top selling electronic releases of 2005-06. www.fm3buddhamachine.com Graffiti Research Lab (USA) The Graffiti Research Lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source tools for urban communication. The goal of the G.R.L. is to technologically empower individuals to creatively alter and reclaim their surroundings from commercial and corporate culture. G.R.L. agents are currently working in the lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies for the state-of-the-art graffiti writer. www.graffitiresearchlab.com G.R.L have been invited to Festival 2007 for a special city-wide performance which will be documented and discussed at our keynote conference. Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Henry Chu (Hong Kong) Selected work: The Sound of Market 《股•市•聲•動》 (1996) A Hong Kong based new media artist / interactive web designer, Henry Chu began his digital design career back in Hong Kong after he finished his Electronic & Electric Engineering Degree in University of Auckland (New Zealand), setting up his own design studio pill & pillow to extend his creativity and technical expertise to help clients to create interactive online experience. Henry has received various awards from local and international design/art competition/festival, including HKDA awards, 6-time Favourite Website Awards winner, ifva (Hong Kong independent Short Film & Video Awards) and the London International Awards. Henry is also a resident artist of Videotage and was also a guest lecturer of The Hong Kong Polytechnic and School of Creative Media of City University and The Art School. In 2007, he joined Hong Kong Designer Association as an executive committee member, and member of jury of Digital Media in London International Awards. www.pillandpillow.com Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Interactive Sonic Systems (Spain) Exhibited Artwork: Reactable 《影聲桌子》 (2005) The team of digital luthiers, including Marcos Alonso, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner, in addition to guest musicians Carlos López and Claudio Nervi, work under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà, in the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain. Its main activities concentrate on the designical applications for mobile devices. mtg.upf.edu/reactable Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Jens Brand (Germany) Exhibited Artwork: Global Player 《地球播放器》 (2004) Jens Brand lives and works as a composer, musician, visual & audio-visual artist and organiser in Dortmund, Germany. His pieces can appear as concerts, performances or installations. Recent works have ended up being mixtures of these genres, developed as logical and absurd games between the audience and the artist. His experiments with everything that can be considered to be art are not supposed to establish a belief or truth, but try to offer a fruitful soil for research, communication and progressive failure. Pieces used in the collaboration with Sam Ashley, such as Motors and Styrofoam, Mini Fan Music, piano or ratchets appear as short duration installations that evoke something Jens considers to be "electronic music without speakers". www.jens-brand.com Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Kingsley Ng (Hong Kong) Exhibited Artwork: Musical Loom 《音樂紡織機 》 (2005) Kingsley Ng received Gold Medal for the Interactive Media category of the 12th Independent Film and Video Award in Hong Kong and for the Interaccess Visual Arts Award 2003 in Toronto. He works with various media including tangible digital interface, sound, print, ready-made and site-specific environment. His interactive installations have been featured in Ircam - Centre Pompidou in France, City Sonics Festival in Belgium, Fabrica Research Centre in Italy and Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Canada. He obtained his Post-graduate Diploma from Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France (with the felicitation du jury l'unanimite), with a honour bachelor degree from Ryerson University - New Media Arts in Canada, and an exchange semester at the Roskilde University Centre in Denmark. The original work is a production of Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts www.kingsleyng.com Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Kiyoshi Furukawa (Japan) Exhibited Artwork: Small Fish 《小魚兒》 (1999) Kiyoshi Furukawa is a composer and media artist. He studied composition under Yoshiro IRINO at Tokyo University for Music and under Yun ISANG and Gyoergy LIGETI at Music Academy in Berlin and Hamburg. In his compositions and artworks, he focuses on the relationship between new media and music. He was invited as a guest composer to Stanford University, California, in 1991, and participated in the artist-in-residence program at the ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. He was received, among others, awards and scholarships including the "PRISMA Prize", Hamburg (1990), the "Siemens Project Scholarship" (1992 | 1993) and the "North German Radio (NDR) Music Prize" (1994). In 1997, Furukawa was commissioned by ZKM to compose and produce a multi-media opera project "GODS YET TO BE BORN" to commemorate the opening of the new building. In 2000, he has been appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Inter Media Art at GEIDEI Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Since 2002, he performed numerous workshops on new media art and music all over the world. Furukawa's collaboration with Wolfgang Munch and Masaki Fujihata will be presented at Microwave 2007 Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Masaki Fujihata (Japan) Exhibited Artwork: Small Fish 《小魚兒》 (1999) Masaki Fujihata is one of the pioneers of new media art in Japan. His artworks encompass areas of digital imaging, video and non-linear media installations. His interactive networks art installations, such as FIELD WORKS, NUZZLE AFAR and OFF SENSE, examine the relationship between virtual and real space, communication and user interaction. He exhibited extensively throughout Asia, Europe and United States and was awarded, among others, with a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica for his piece GLOBAL INTERIOR PROJECT (1996). Board member of Japan Animation Film Association, Member of ASIFA (1987); Associate Professor (1990), and Professor (1998) at Keio University, Faculty of Environmental Information; Professor, GEIDEI Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Department of Inter Media Art (1999). Since 2005, he is Professor and Director of the Graduate School for Film and New Media at GEIDEI Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music. Fujihata's collaboration with Kiyoshi Furukawa and Wolfgang Munch will be presented at Microwave 2007 Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Wolfgang Münch (Germany) Exhibited Artwork: Small Fish 《小魚兒》 (1999) Wolfgang Münch is a media artist and art educator. He studied Fine Arts in a pre-computer era in Stuttgart, Germany and Vienna, Austria. In 1996, he joined the ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, as programmer and software designer. He was teaching Interactive Media at Merz-Akademie Stuttgart (1997), Hong Kong Art Centre / AS (2003) and LASALLE Singapore (2003), and has been artist in residence at ZKM (2002, BUBBLES), and IAMAS Institute for Advanced Media Arts and Science Ogaki, Japan (2003, OBAKE). In his artworks and research, he examines cultural implications of media technology and human computer interfaces. He participated in numerous international media art exhibitions and festivals. In 2004, he has been appointed inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Media Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore. hosting.zkm.de/wmuench Munch's collaboration with Kiyoshi Furukawa and Masaki Fujihata will be presented at Microwave 2007 Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述 Yao Bin (China) Exhibited Artwork: Luminescent Rain 《超光速形式Ｃ》 (2007) Yao Bin graduated with a master of Fine Art from Hiroshima City University in 2000, and went back to China in 2005 to establish a new media art organization -- Beijing Cubic Art Center. In recent years he participated in: Texas Electronic Art Festival, USA; department workshop, Rutgers University; NewYork Pureproject; Dutch V2 Electronic Art Festival; O7's Theme; HK Videotage; Beijing CIGE Multi-Media Arts International Lab & Forum; Hong Kong Microwave International New Media Arts Festival etc. Yaobin is currently the representative of 11-ART.COM and part-time teacher at Central Academy of Fine Arts. www.11-art.com Artist & Technical Statement > 藝術家及技術陳述