James Stuart - Director, Producer & Writer

James Stuart is a poet, editor/curator and new media artist with a focus on language-based collaborative projects. Through non-generic productions, he also co-directs arts and debate night The Salon. In 2007, he edited and designed an e-anthology of text-based art and inter-media writing, The Material Poem. He is completing a Masters of Creative Arts at UTS, centred on poetry as material form.

As a poet, James has won a number of awards, grants and fellowships, including the 2004 Newcastle Poetry Prize’s New Media category for the poem Frequencies (with Karen Chen) and the 2002 Australian Young Adult Poetry Fellowship. His new media poem In Between Berowra (with Karen Chen) was featured as part of the Berowra Visions: Margaret Preston & Beyond exhibition at the Macquarie University Art Gallery (2005) and ARTEXTART (National Young Writers Festival, 2007).

He has contributed as a panellist, performer and/or events coordinator to the Sydney Writers Festival, National Young Writers Festival, Electrofringe, Australian Poetry Festival, St Kilda Writers Festival and Live Bait Arts and Music Festival Bondi. He is presently employed as the Communications Manager for one of Australia’s largest architectural practices.
www.nongeneric.net

Karen Chen - Artist & Animator

Karen Chen is an artist, designer and flash-animator. She earned her Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication from Monash University in 2002.

Based in Melbourne, she has worked in design studios and in-house firms as a designer specialising in print, new media, publication, corporate identity, packaging and illustrations. Over the past 5 years, she has also worked as a freelance designer whilst maintaining several new media collaborative projects alongside James Stuart, together winning the Newcastle Poetry Prize New Media Category. Through her employment her work has covered the genres of hospitality, corporate, entertainment and commerce.
www.karenchen.com

Guillaume Potard - Sound Designer

Guillaume Potard is a sound scientist and artist. Using purpose made apparatus, Guillaume explores the frontiers of sound and its physiological, emotional and intellectual aspects.

In 2006, Guillaume completed a PhD on three-dimensional audio at the University of Wollongong. As part of his thesis, Guillaume developed a novel 16-speaker based 3-D audio rendering system (the CHESS system). In 2004, Guillaume was the sound engineer for "Listening to the mind listening" project (concert at the Sydney opera house in July 2004). Guillaume creates sound installations using electronics, materials and software. In his installations, Guillaume prioritises interactivity, amusement and sonic quality, in order to address a young and older public.

Some of his tracks were released on 'liquid architecture' 2004 CD, were aired on ABC television (Catalyst program) and were played at international conferences in Sydney and London. In 2006 Guillaume earned an Australia council ’Sounding out’ grant to build ’The pipe machine’, a new hybrid musical instrument, sound processing machine and interactive installation. Guillaume is currently employed as a sound researcher and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) engineer in Sydney.
www.gpotard.com