BIOS

Thea Baumann is a media artist, curator, and producer. In 2005 she was awarded an Emerging Producers in Community (EPIC) initiative through the Australia Council for the Arts to implement the media arts programme Manhua Wonderlands through MAAP: Multimedia Art Asia Pacific.

Madeleine Allen-Cawte works with collage, performance, video and the alphabet. She has co-operated the White House (artist-run-space and curiosity chamber), and been involved in festivals such as NextWave and Straight Out of Brisbane.

Luke Ilett aka Collapsicon is a mixed media artist who works with new media, video, game and instrument design. Producing music as collapsicon he creates a dark fusion of sci-fi, game boy and electro funk with a heavy influence of hip hop. www.collapsicon.net

Madeleine King is a Brisbane based artist whose practice awkwardly fuses film, video, costume and fashion design. She co-runs an artist space called The White House and has recently setup her own label, Haphazardous Waste: www.myspace.com/haphazardous_waste

Alice Lang is a Brisbane based artist, was awarded the Queensland Art Gallery Hobday and Hingston Bursary in 2004, was artist in residence at Metro Arts in 2005 and is currently undertaking a two month residency at the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture in Dawson City, Canada.

Jean Poole aka Sean Healy is a Melbourne based writer and video producer, currently teaches digital media @ RMIT. Sean is an active writer of digital art and culture and instigated Electrofringe festival in Newcastle back in the 90s! www.skynoise.net

Van Sowerwine is a New media artist who works in the areas of animation, installation and interactives. www.vansowerwine.com

Spat + Loogie are Kat Barron and Lara Thoms, a Sydney based duo, who create multi-form works, often involving installation, video, performance and new media. They have collaborated since 2002, showing works at The Performance Space, Pact theatre, and various Sydney galleries and festivals. Current works include community projects in Redfern and Bankstown as well as reinventing google image search. www.spatnloogie.com

David Spooner communicates with his audience in languages of secrets. These secret languages exist between the individual viewer and their associations of hidden meaning that Spooner enhances with subterfuge and innuendo with his odd placement of objects in his art.

Jemima Wyman is studying a MFA at CalArts in Los Angeles on a Samstag Scholarship. Her recent exhibitions include Whak’emall at 507Rose in Los Angeles(2006), CC06 at ACMI in Melbourne(2006), Primavera at Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2005) and Prime at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane (2005).

Emile Zile is an Australian-Latvian artist and a graduate of Media Arts RMIT (Honours). His single-channel videos, text installations, live video performances and photography have been exhibited at various institutions, including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Museum of Design Zurich, Tel Aviv Cinematheque and Seoul Fringe Festival.