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Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl are PhD candidates at K3, Malmö University, Sweden from 2008 to 2013 where they seek to further explore their joint artistic practice which involves collaborations, words, sounds and communication technology. Kristina Lindström holds an MA in Interaction Design from Malmö University, 2003. Åsa Ståhl holds an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2001. Their collaboration started at the IT-research institute the Interactive Institute in 2004 with the project [visklek] – the social game Chinese Whispers on answering machines. Since then they have continued their practice-led artistic research concerning collaborative storytelling, processes and structures for participation on different platforms.

Kristina and Åsa have exhibited their work in Sweden, Stockholm Stadsmuseum and Malmö Museum among other places, as well as abroad, for example at gallery seisporseis in Mexico, Athens Video Art Festival in Greece and at Digitally Yours in Finland. They’ve had a research residency with NIFCA on Soumenlinna, Finland and a group residency at the Nordic Centre for Artists in Dale, Norway. Kristina and Åsa have developed courses at Malmö University. Experimental Radio Production is one of them. They also host workshops nationally and internationally, write, and lecture on playful and nonanxious communication with a special interest in words and sounds. They work together and sometimes in other constellations or on their own. For more: www.misplay.se

Siri Austeen

Born 1961, lives and works in Oslo. Austeens works often incorporates sound as a carrying element; sound as a phenomena and as a medium for artistic investigations. The focal interest is to investigate reality and the act of listening – to life, within or around ourselves. Sources and shapes used are diverse: documentary material, pop elements, scientific sound, and extended vocal elements. Over the last years Siri Austeen has been occupied with multi source installations, as well as site related projects focusing on sound in public space. At the moment Siri Austeen is actively engaged in developing a sound for Vågan kommune in Lofoten. She will also participates in the exhibition Absorpsjon og resonans at Henie Onstad kunstsenter (20 Nov. - 25 Jan. 2009). For more information: www.austeen.no

Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
is a sound artist and musician based in Amsterdam and Ljubljana. His works encompass audiovisual and mixed media installations, sound interventions in public spaces, composed and improvised (electro) acoustic music, sound design for video, and music for silent film. His works were shown and performed in various art galleries, museums and music festivals across Europe. Among others: Public Space With a Roof Gallery - Amsterdam, State Museum of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki - Greece, Ars Electronica - Festival for Art Technology and Society -Linz - Austria, De Appel - Amsterdam, Madrid Abierto - Madrid, Museum of Modern Art – Ljubljana, Kapelica Gallery -Ljubljana, SKUC Gallery - Ljubljana, Musica a Metronom - Barcelona, Gaudeamus Music Week – Amsterdam, Forum neuer Musik - Kšln, EuroJazz Festival - Tomar – Portugal, festival of contemporary music Contemporanea 2004 – Udine, AV Festival - Newcastle Upon Tyne, CMMAS - Morelia, Mexico. He has commissioned pieces by Barton Workshop Ensemble (Amsterdam), Percussion Group The Hague and Slovenian Cinematheque.

In 1996 he formed together with Tomaz Grom the electro acoustic improv duo TILT, with which he performs live. As improviser he has also performed with Will Guthrie, Alzheimer Trio, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, The Same Girl (Gilles Aubry, Nicolas Field), Sabine Vogel, Dirk Bruinsma. So far he has released two CDs with duo Tilt. He is founder of international cycle of sound events, lectures and workshops Bitshift in Kapelica Gallery - Ljubljana, which started in 2001. Born in 1972 (Ljubljana – Slovenia), he received BA - main subject clarinet - at Trondheim Music Conservatory (Norway) and BA in music composition at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he received his MA at Interfaculty Image and Sound – ArtScience, and where he also followed Sonology course.

More information: www.taogvs.org and www.realitysoundtrack.org

Brandon LaBelle
(US) is an artist and writer working with sound and related cultural narratives. He is currently Professor at the National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, and Guest Professor at the Free University of Berlin. Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear (1999), Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (2001), Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (2003) and Radio Territories (2007), along with a series of monographs (Critical Ear series) on sound and media artists. As an artist he is active in the fields of sound installation, performance and public interventions. His installation work has been featured internationally, including the exhibitions and festivals Sampling Rage (1999) at Podewil Berlin, Sound as Media (2000) at ICC Tokyo, Bitstreams (2001) at the Whitney Museum New York, Pleasure of Language (2002) at the Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam, Undercover (2003) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, and as part of Tuned City (2008), a festival on sound and architecture, Berlin. In addition he presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005), and his Prototypes for the Mobilization and Broadcast of Fugitive Sound was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello gallery, Prato, in 2007. His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle, Germany and at the Casa Vecina, Mexico City, 2008. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006).

Jana Winderen
studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London (1990-93) with a background in

Mathematics and Chemistry at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked in Bergen and Oslo as an artist and producer/curator of independent international art projects; “12 Nights”, “Street Level”, “Motlyd”, “freq_out 2″, “Bandrom3″. At Atelier Nord Jana Winderen produced the “Generator.x” conference and “Trolley Singers” and “ABA logic”. She is presently working as a freelance producer. Jana has exhibited and performed her work in Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, France, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Japan, China and Thailand. Sound has taken a predominant place in Jana’s work since 1992. Her sound installation work is primarily concerned with interactions with the audience and the acoustics of a specific space. In the 1990s she worked predominantly in public spaces… Since 2004 she has been touring with an interactive sensor instrument for the production “The art of walking on water”, made in collaboration with Jørgen Troeen and Trond Lossius. Earlier works include “Hard Rain” (2006), an interactive sound installation based on motion tracking, which was exhibited at “The Idea of North” in Canada and in the exhibition “Up.2.Date” in The Netherlands. Jana is also a member of the group sound installation “freq out” curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, recently shown at “Happy New Ears” in Kortrijk, Belgium (2008). Jana has for the last 3 years been researching the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses is brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from unseen sources of sound. Her most recent sound works include “Submerge” (2008), for Fargfabriken Norr in Sweden, based on hydrophone recordings in the local lake, “Rainbow Audio Transformation” (2008) at Extra City in Antwerp, Belgium and the 6 channel sound installation “+4¡C - from Folgefonna to the North Sea” (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary of Edvard Greig, “Greig07″ in Norway. Future projects includes an album released through Touch based on hydrophone recordings from the Icefjord Kangia by Ilulissat in Greenland, and the installation “Voices from the Deep” in collaboration with Chris Watson. Recently BBC Radio 4 followed Jana on her recording trip to the Barents Sea for the radio series “World on the Move”. More information: http://www.janawinderen.com