The four core members/artists of the WIRED Lab first met and talked about collaborating in 2006 at the unsound06 experimental arts festival, which was held in Junee, Coolamon and Wagga Wagga. The core members include: Sarah Last, Alan Lamb, David Burraston and Robin Fox. They consequently formed The WIRED Lab in 2007.

DAVID BURRASTON

David Burraston is an artist/scientist involved in technology and electronic music since the late 1970s. He had an innovative role in the foremost UK telco’s R&D laboratory in diverse areas such as Artificial Life, Virtual Reality and Visualisation. Self taught in the areas of music composition/technology, chaos and complex systems, he is recognised as a leading practitioner/theorist in the field of generative music, producing both peer reviewed publications and musical compositions. He is also a peer-reviewer for the MIT Press journals Leonardo Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, Computer Music Journal and on the editorial board of Leonardo Transactions. In January 2008 David became a member of the Australia Research Council funded initiative COSNET (Complex Open Systems Research Network). David is a founding member of the Electronic Music Foundation Institute. David was part of the team that designed and built The Wires installation at The WIRED Lab and is a member of the Board of Directors.

His PhD thesis in Computing Science developed and applied fundamental new concepts, arising out of generative music practice, to a key problem in complex systems. This has served as a foundation methodology for creative practice and complex systems research, an area David calls Creativity and Complexity. The outcomes of his research have been recognised by international peers, evidenced by the acceptance of papers into significant journals such as Leonardo and Digital Creativity. The international peer reviewed Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) voted his PhD top among all submitted abstracts in 1st half of 2007 because of its special relevance to art/science. His current work is aimed at tackling more key questions in complex systems from a creative practice perspective, drawing inspiration from natural and artificial complex systems. These key questions address the definition of randomness, structure and high level descriptions of information processing in complex systems. He has been operating an independant art/science music studio called Noyzelab since 1981.

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SARAH LAST

Sarah Last is an artist and freelance curator who has been producing site specific cross-media projects in rural NSW for the past 10 years. She was a core member of the Wagga Space Program (2000-2006), and more recently a founding member of WIRED Lab.

Sarah prefers to not distinguish her curatorial work from her arts practice, as she thinks they have very similar processes and concerns. Her regionally based projects reflect creative curatorial interests in pluralistic cross-media approaches to the production of art, and how this challenges conventions and provides decentralised modes of production, consumption and historicisation.  Sarah’s curatorial practice conveys a sustained interest in peoples perceptions of art and a belief that this is largely influenced by the ways in which people access and experience art, consequently her projects have utilised regional and unconventional non-institutional contexts as a means to challenge preconceived notions of art and the spaces in which it exists.

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ALAN LAMB

Alan Lamb is an artist, retired biomedical research scientist and GP. His investigations of The Wires have their foundations in site-specific installation, experimental audio and sound composition. Lamb’s formal investigations of The Wires started in 1976 with his discovery of a 1km stretch of abandoned telephone wires on a farm in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, the 12 telegraph poles and 6 unsheathed wires made a soft “…singing” noise. Lamb called these wires the Faraway Wind Organ, and learnt to record them and later devised compositions with these recordings.

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ROBIN FOX

Robin Fox tours the world with his audiovisual laser oscilloscope performances, he recently received a doctorate for his laser compositions and is highly regarded in both visual and sound art realms. Robin creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope with a high powered audio controlled laser system using Max MSP programming. Fox wishes to eventually use the wires as a control source for the laser, with the wire(s) determining the movement of laser light. This process will visually manifest the audible with patterns and 3 dimensional architectures of light.

Fox is a regular performer and speaker at Festivals around Australia (What is Music, Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, SOOB, NowNOW, Big Day Out) and performs regularly across Europe and Asia.

He also has a PhD in composition, from Monash University focussing on the development of multi-channel performance ecologies and the design of interactive electro-acoustic situations that explore the dynamic between performer, space and computer and an MA in musicology, which documents the history of experimental music making in Melbourne 1975-9.

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