Collaborators

• About CuriousWorks

2008

Hugo Bowne-Anderson

• Researcher & Writer
• PHD Student, Pure Mathematics, University of NSW

Hugo was a researcher and writer for CuriousWorks throughout the first half of 2008, trawling the physical world and the internet for information concerning such varied phenomena as issues of social justice, the production of both real and virtual electronic instruments, and the development of open source technologies. He distilled this information into his role as a project producer for a real-time triggering system in CuriousWorks’ April Kinect lab at Casula Powerhouse; and as a writer of various pieces on CuriousWorks which will be published on this website over the last quarter of 2008 and in physical publications in the future.

Hugo’s most recent non-academic pieces have appeared in the Australian, HEAT magazine, and CRACK, a publication released in conjunction with a National Young Writers’ Festival program of the same name. He is also currently completing his PhD in Pure Mathematics at UNSW.

Mark Havryliv

• Coder and Engineer
• PhD candidate, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong

Mark was part of April’s Kinect lab at Casula Powerhouse. He developed the code for a real-time, audiovisual triggering system, specifically for use with a small, hand-held infra-red device.

Mark Havryliv is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Wollongong specialising in the design and construction of haptic, force-feedback devices for musical performance; he works with Professors Greg Schiemer and Fazel Naghdy on an ARC Industry Linkage grant.

He has previously attained a Bachelor of Music (Composition) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004 and a Masters – Research in Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong, creating games to be controlled by musical instruments. During this time Mark was the primary research assistant on the ARC Discovery project ‘The Pocket Gamelan’ with Greg Schiemer, a project that developed software for real-time, multi-user musical performance on mobile phones. Mark is also a co-collaborator with Alon Ilsar on an Australia Council New Instrument Grant, the ‘Air-Drums’, a wireless virtual drumming interface. Mark has presented his research at national and international conferences including New Interfaces for Musical Expression, International Computer Music Conference, Australasian Computer Music Conference, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, and the International Conference on Game Research and Development. He was also first runner-up in the ‘Trailblazer’ research contest at UoW for research relating to his Masters thesis.

Filigree Films

• 100 Blind Deals DOP & Production Manager
• Film Production Company

Filigree Films offer full preproduction, production and post-production services in 35mm, S16mm, HD, DVCam, MiniDV, digital and non-digital photography. They have been collaborators with CuriousWorks since its inception in 2005. Filigree played a critical role in the shoot for CuriousWorks’ first narrative-based short film, 100 Blind Deals. Vincent Tay, one half of Filigree Films, was the DOP for the shoot and Iqbal Barakt, the other half of the company, acted as production manager. 100 Blind Deals is currently in post-production and the 20 minute HD film will be part of The Migrant Project interactive DVD.

2007

This City is a Body

• A Migrant Project Performance at Hyde Park Barracks Museum
• Artists & Crew

Barbra Drummond
Latai Taumoepeau
Paul Cordeiro
Mahesh Radhakrishnan
Robin Dixon
Aimée Falzon
Marc Chee
Elias Nohra
Shakthidharan
Filigree Films

Pixelsquared

• A digital arts incubation program
• Tutors & Participants

Peter Cossey
Elias Nohra
Shakthidharan
Madeleine Allen
Monica Tan
Jessica D’arenzio
Mohamed Hasabro

2006

Grounded

• A Migrant Project Performance at Seymour Centre
• Artists & Crew

Iqbal Barkat
Marcia Beckett
Mick Boraso
Paul Cordeiro
Joel Corpuz
Pat Davidson
Robin Dixon
Aimee Falzon
Habib Hayek
Kishan Jeyendran
Christina Kenny
Elias Nohra
Steven Papadakis
Glen Purdham
Mahesh Radhakrishnan
Hazem Shammas
Kate Shanahan
Jasmine Lee Sheppard
Rebecca Sng
Latai Taumoepeau
Miles Thomas
Shakthidharan

Drifting

• A Migrant Project Performance at Canberra Multicultural Arts Festival
• Artists & Crew

Elias Nohra
Mahesh Radhakrishnan
Miles Thomas
Latai Taumoepeau
Jasmin Lee Sheppard
Jane Grimley
Jenni White
Robin Dixon
Aimee Falzon
Shakthidharan
Glen Purdham
Marcia Beckett
Mick Boraso
Kishan Jeyendran

2005

Standing

• A Migrant Project Performance at Performance Space
• Artists & Crew

Albert David
Gary Lo
Elias Nohra
Mahesh Radhakrishnan
Rebecca Sng
Miles Thomas
Katy Cuthbert
Stuart Gibson
Jane Grimley
James West
Jenni White
Robin Dixon
Phillip Lawson
Aimee Falzon
Shakthidharan