/* New Form 2012 Roundtable: Interactive Arts and Technology */
String[] speakers = {"Nicolas Sassoon", "Andres Wanner", "Jesse Scott", "Jonathan Tippett"};
String moderator = "+Philippe Pasquier";
void setup(){size(600,400);}
// Introduction by moderator and speakers at 1pm sharp.
void draw() {
// Moderator picks an audience member
fill(random(255));
// Ask thought provoking question
text(speakers[int(random(4))]+moderator, random(-489,489), random(600));
// Speaker answers
delay(0);
// Everyone thinks
}
// Repeat until aborted at 2pm

In his artistic practice, focused primarily on sonic arts, Philippe Pasquier studies and exploits the various relationships and synergies between art, science and technology. In the last ten years, he has been acting as a performer, director, composer, musician, producer and educator in many different contexts. He also serves, or has served, as an active member and administrator of several artistic collectives and companies (Robonom, Phylm, Miji), art centers (Avatar, Bus Gallery) and artistic organizations (P: Media art, Machines, Vancouver New Music) in Europe, Canada and Australia. Philippe Pasquier is currently Assistant Professor, SIAT, Simon Fraser University.

Nicolas Sassoon & Sara Ludy have a deep collective interest in pixelated virtual architecture and are both members of the online art collective Computers Club. Sassoon has an extensive collection of architectural animated gifs on his own site and considers them representatives of an ideal, only achievable in virtual space. Ludy, with a background in interior design, creates videos of catalog-like architecture melting together in saw-toothed fades. WALLPAPERS, a collaborative project and a catalogue of digital patterns, exhibited online at w-a-l-l-p-a-p-e-r-s.net and offline through site-specific installations such as NFF 2012.

Jesse Scott & Mirae Rosner create and exhibit work in the genre formerly known as New Media. Graffiti Research Lab Canada is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, street artists, and political protesters with open source tools for urban communication.

Jonathan Tippett is an artist and a mechanical engineer based in Vancouver, BC. Since graduating from UBC in 1998, his engineering work has been in the fields of marine hydraulics, fuel cell systems and, neurovascular implants. His passion for sculpture lead him to experiment with ceramics, wood, composites, and metal, and eventually to co-own Claytek Studios, a ceramics studio in Vancouver. He founded Industrialus Design in 1999 and built a metal fabrication and machine shop where he developed his technical art work and began to apply engineering as a medium for creative expression. His work was influenced by his interest in extreme sports, martial arts and drumming. It evolved to focus on interactive kinetic sculptures, which aim to explore the relationship between humans, machines, energy, automation and physical skill.

Andres Wanner of Pixelstorm makes Art and Information Design. He is a permanent faculty at SIAT in Vancouver and has been teaching internationally at Art and Design Universities since 2002.

Rob Calder founded Secret Study after working in a variety of fields such as a touring musician, Label Manager, Commercial Photography Producer, and Artist manager for independent music projects. Rob began his musical experience in classical music and the local indie rock band, The Salteens, and is co-owner of the west coast independent record label and artist management company, Boompa Records. Over the years, Rob has licensed independent music to Film, TV, and Advertising clients, landing successful placements in Grey’s Anatomy, The L-Word, and campaigns for Zellers and RW&CO. Rob has also worked as a producer for Redpath Studios and Tesla Productions working with a variety of photography projects for Kokanee, Vitamin Water, and BC Hydro.

Moderated by Rob Calder, this panel will look at the current state of Canada’s electronic music scene and discuss areas including recording, record labels, management, performance and touring.

Sean Horton (founding director, curator & creative director of Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music Performance, Visual Art & New Media)

After cutting his teeth as a deejay and musician in the Detroit area where he was born in raised, Sean headed West until his van broke down in Seattle Washington in 1995. After working as a fisherman that winter in Alaska, he discovered The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1999 (Audio Engineering and Marketing). In 2002 Sean moved to back Seattle for a career in marketing/media-branding for the start-up PlayNetwork, where he currently resides as Director of Music Services. In 2003 Sean founded the Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music Performance, Visual Art and New Media in Seattle. Over the past decade, the Decibel Festival audience has grown 10 times its original size (2,500 in 2004 to over 23,000 in 2011) making it one of the largest festivals of its kind in North America. In addition to his work at PlayNetwork and Decibel Festival, Sean has been a musician for 24 years, a deejay for 18 years and a recording artist/composer under the moniker Nordic Soul for over a decade.

This panel will consist of a 40min artist presentation by AUDiNT (Steve Goodman [Kode9] / Toby Heys) including a reading, followed by Q&A session with members of the audience.

Hailing from Toronto, Jamie Abugov, aka DJ Tusk, is also a designer and member of the Lighta! Sound Bass Station.

AUDINT is a research cell investigating how ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic frequencies are used to demarcate territory in the soundscape and the ways in which their martial and civil deployments modulate psychological, physiological and architectural states. Re-formatted in 2008, AUDINT currently consists of Toby Heys and Steve Goodman. For the New Forms Festival the history of AUDiNT – since its formation by 3 members of the Ghost Army in 1945 – will be presented in the form of a multi-media presentation. The live composition will patch together a mix of the whispered and the unsound into an audible journey that – links the underground groove of the Large Hadron Collider with the vaults of the Bank of Hell ; connects the Dead Record Network with the Phantom Hailer ; and traces the evolution of the Wandering Soul Tapes to the viral dynamics of the online spectreware named IREX2.