The Australasian CRC for Interactive Design (ACID) is proud to announce the first International Symposium And development workshop for Network Jamming from ther 3rd-12th of August 2009 at the Kelvin Grove campus of Queensland University of Technology.
The workshop will bring together world leaders in generative music making software and educational development, Music Industry and community partners and music educators from the USA and Sweden.
International Guests include:
- Dr Eva Saether Lund University Malmo Academy of Music, Sweden.
- Dr Alex Ruthmann University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
- Dr Matthew D. Thibeault University of Illinois Urbana Champaign USA.
Australian researchers:
- Steve Dillon (QUT)
- Andrew Johnson (UTS)
- Wayne Taylor (QUT)
- Michael Dezuanni (QUT)
- Jeremy Yuille (RMIT)
- Andrew Brown (QUT)
- Andrew Sorensen (QUT)
- Thorin Kerr (QUT-RA)
- John Ong (QUT)
- Barbara Adkins (QUT)
- Bert Bongers (UTS)
- Adam Postula UQ
The workshop will develop experience design resources and new jamscenes to provide access to collaborative performance for people of diverse cultures and abilities. We will work with a range of new controllers to enable access for disabled performers and develop application scenarios for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program.
Postgraduate researchers from Australia, USA and Sweden will work with Industry, community and academic professionals to create a global network for Generative arts resource production and research into meaningful engagement.
