PDTG Report 2008 - Petra Gemeinboeck

European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists (e-MobiLArt) - Rovaniemi, Finland

In August 2008 I traveled from Sydney, Australia, to Rovaniemi in Finland to participate in the second workshop as part of the European Mobile Lab for InteractiveMedia Artists (e-MobiLArt).

PDTG Report 2008 - Jesse Stevens

Linux Audio Conference 2008 - Cologne, Germany

LAC 2008 showcased much of the world's Open Source work in the fields of audio, video, interaction, and much more.

PDTG Report 2007 - Boo Chapple

Mutamorphosis Conference - Prague & Re:Place Conference - Berlin

The Mutamorphosis conference and accompanying Enter 3 Festival was a large event that brought together several generations of the art/science community. The paper that I presented, 'Bodies of Water, Bodies of Waste, Continuous Bodies', was well received. From Prague I caught the train to Berlin to attend the Re:Place Conference, where I presented a paper entitled 'Sound, Matter, Flesh: A history of crosstalk from medicine to contemporary art and biology'.

PDTG Report 2007 - Duke Albada

Material City & SIAL Sound Studio Creative Lab - Melbourne, Australia

Material City is a platform for dialogue and creative engagement that brings together artists, writers, historians, academics and arts workers to consider the complexities and challenges of working in the urban environment.

SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory) is a three-day workshop that focused on spatial, cultural, social and technical aspects of designing sound works for urban spaces, through site-specific events, lectures and
practical studio tutorials.

PDTG Report 2007 - Ross Bencina

Residency at STEIM - Amsterdam & LOSS Livecode Festival - Sheffield, UK

In July 2007 I traveled from Australia to the Netherlands and the UK with the support of ANAT's professional development travel fund. The purpose of the trip was twofold: (1) to undertake a residency at STEIM, Amsterdam in collaboration with Australian artists Somaya Langley and Danielle Wilde; and (2) to attend the LOSS Livecode Festival in Sheffield, UK Both activities were successfully undertaken and have been of great value to the ongoing development of my practice.

PDTG Report 2007 - Sumugan Sivanesan

Sounds Unusual Festival 2007 - NT, Australia

Sounds Unusual 2007 was an ambitious, unique and exciting project. Co-ordinated by the ever enthusiastic Robert Curgenven, it drew upon the resourcefulness of outback communities and the DIY ethos of artist run scenes in the cities. The festival collected and connected artists via a program of performances, events, workshops, field trips and coincidences, that eventually resolved as the collaborative installation “Intervenience (Island Crossing)” at the Darwin Visual Arts Association

The Festival program ran in Alice Springs from September 8 – 20, then in Darwin from September 25–28.

PDTG Report 2007 - Ben Blakebrough

2nd International Artist Air Show - Essex, UK

In July 2007 I flew to London to participate in the 2nd International Artist Air Show at the invitation of Arts Catalyst, UK Art Science organization where I presented the inaugural performance of my project the Winged Self. After many months of preparations and preliminary testing I was ready to present this bodily form of flight to the public.

PDTG Report 2007 - Van Sowerwine

MoKS International Artist in Residence Program - Mooste, Estonia

From the 1st to the 30th of August 2007 I participated in the MoKS International Artist in Residence program in Mooste, Estonia. I participated in the residency with Camilla Hannan, a sound artist with whom I collaborate to create the sound/visual duo Vanilla.

For me, the aim of the residency was two-fold. Camilla and I needed time and space away from our separate practices to concentrate on developing and extending Vanilla. I also wanted the opportunity to create work in a non-deadline based context and to be able to experiment with different techniques and artforms.

PDTG Report 2007 - Kenzee Patterson

Transit Lounge Residency - Berlin, Germany

During April and May of 2007 I participated in a one-month long residency in Berlin called “Transit Lounge.” The entire project spanned six months, and involved sixteen artists, architects and writers based in Australia and in Europe.

PDTG Report 2007 - Ruth Fleishman

Residency at the John David Mooney Foundation - Chicago, USA

I spent three weeks at the John David Mooney Foundation on a residency. JDMF is a center that aims to facilitate the dialogue that can occur between art, architecture and community. The residency culminated in an exhibition and the results of the exhibition will be documented in a text to be published in 2008. Themes for the residency revolved around interpretations of utopian concepts in architecture, art and futurism.

PDTG Report 2007 - Sarah-Mace Dennis

ISOLATION: Disconnection, Solitude and Seclusion in a Connect World - Hobart, Australia
School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania. 14th – 16th December 2006.

This conference invited researchers and practitioners from diverse fields to come together and discuss the way that critical concerns in social, political, creative and spatial disciplines have contributed to the reinterpretation of notions of connection and disconnection, redefining our understanding of what it means to be isolated.

PDTG Report 2006 - Sean O'Connell

ANAT's reSkin Lab - Canberra, Australia

I received assistance in January 2007 to attend the reSkin Wearable Technologies Lab through generous support of the ANAT Professional Development Travel Fund. The three-week reSkin Lab brought together a broad range of participants, from hardened interactive arts practitioners, to softer crafts makers such as myself, musicians, fashion designers, and computer programmers.

PDTG Report 2006 - Rainer Linz

Fugue exhibition at ULUS Gallery - Belgrade, Serbia

Fugue is an international collaborative art/science project based around a simulated artificial immune system. The work is the product of a team of artists and scientists led by visual artist Gordana Novakovic based at UCL in London, and includes Dr Peter Bentley (computer scientist), Anthony Ruto (3D modelling), Dr Julie McCleod (immune system scientist), Richard Newcombe (motion detection system design and programming) and Zoran Milkovic (installation design) as well as myself (sound design and programming).

PDTG Report 2006 - Robin Fox

New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference - Paris, France

The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference provides an annual forum in which technology based instrument builders; designers, programmers and practitioners can demonstrate and discuss recent developments in the field of human/machine interaction. The ‘musical’ factor limits this potentially enormous field by drawing attention to the distinctly music based possibilities of gesture mapping, virtual instrument design, mobile technologies and networked performance among a myriad of other technical concerns.