[-empyre-] Bios of this month's featured guests on Computational Poetics

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Bios of this month's featured guests on Computational Poetics:

KENNETH NEWBY
Kenneth Newby, BA, MFA (Simon Fraser University), is a media artist working
at the boundary conditions between embodied practice and responsive media.
Recent sound works include a commissioned web-audio work for AudioSpace at
Open Space; a composition for gamelan orchestra and chorus, Dreams He is a
Ball of Fire... Or a Butterfly, recently published as part of the New Nectar
CD of contemporary compositions for gamelan; and his commissioned work for
spoken word and sound design, Seasonal Round. A co-director of the
Computational Poetics Research Group, he is currently developing a series of
collaborative works combining live animation, performance documentary, and
music techniques for performance and installation. A co-founder of the New
Forms Media Society, Kenneth is currently on faculty at the School for
Interactive Art & Technology, Simon Fraser University, and the Integrated
Media Program, Emily Carr Institute, and has taught as visiting faculty in
several international fine and performing art universities.

MARTIN GOTFRIT
Martin Gotfrit studied film and music at Concordia University and completed
a Masters degree in Communications at McGill. As a composer his work
includes electroacoustic and acoustic scores for feature and documentary
film, video, theatre, dance and the concert stage. As a sound designer he
has worked as a practitioner, consultant and teacher. Actively engaged in
computational art for many years, Gotfrit was one of the founders of the
federally funded Centre for Image and Sound Research (1988 - 1992). The
designer and curator of the Music Machines show (B.C. Science World, 1989),
he was also the facilitator of the "Computed Art" Summer Intensives at SFU
in the 1990s. He currently co-directs the SHHRC funded Computational Poetics
Research Group (with Kenneth Newby & Aleksandra Dulic). He has been on
faculty at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
since 1981 where he currently holds the position of Director.

ALEKSANDRA DULIC
Aleksandra Dulic studied visual arts and film animation at the University of
Arts in Belgrade. She completed her Master of Fine Arts at Simon Fraser
University in 1998 and has since traveled in Bali, Indonesia to study the
contemporary tradition of shadow play as a source for new media performance
and animation. She has created a variety of interactive installation works,
painting exhibits, produced documentary films and animations for television
broadcast and festivals across Europe and Canada, and has received a number
of awards for her short animated films. Aleksandra has taught computer art
and media performance as visiting faculty at the Fine Arts University in
Belgrade and National Academy of Arts in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.
She is one of the founders of the NewForms Media Society and the New Forms
Festival. She is currently teaching and working towards her PhD in media art
at Simon Fraser University and is a part of the Computational Poetics
Research Group.

ANDREAS KAHRE
Andreas Kahre is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician, whose
work involves images, sound and text in many different configurations. Born
in Germany, he studied visual art and art history at UBC and since then has
been involved in the creation of more than a hundred interdisciplinary
projects with theatre, dance and music ensembles across Canada, as well as
creating text-based performances, site-specific projects, sound art and new
paper theatre. As an improviser, Andreas has worked with many musicians
including the performing ensembles Hextremities and Cymbali and in
collaborations with François Houle, Lori Freedman, Alan and Amir Koushkani,
and projects with Talking Pictures, Standing Wave, Hard Rubber Orchestra,
and the Vancouver Community Gamelan. Andreas teaches sound design for
theatre at UBC and is editor/curator of FRONT Magazine at the Western Front
in Vancouver.