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PARTICIPANTS
Hundreds of creative practitioners, entrepreneurs and organisations are participating in Creative Sydney 2010. They include:
Chris Bosse - LAVA
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
German-born architect Chris Bosse is director of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture and Adjunct Professor at the UTS. LAVA was founded in 2007 with offices in Sydney, Stuttgart and Abu Dhabi. Whilst Associate Architect at PTW Arc ...
Matt Jackson - Drawing Book Studios.
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Prior to running Drawing Book Studios Matt Jackson spent 5 years pin-balling between the Arts and Commerce faculties of Melbourne University ending the game with the highest score in Marketing communications and distinctions in Brand Management an ...
Yiying Lu - Yiying Lu
Dates:
11 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Yiying is known for creating the iconic "Fail Whale" illustration used by social networking service Twitter, which has been featured in the BBC, the New York Times, CNN, Sydney Morning Herald, the National Public Radio (US), W ...
Ralph Myers - Belvoir St Theatre
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ralph Myersis one of Australia’s foremost set designers. He has designed for most of the country’s major theatre companies including extensively for Company B Belvoir and Sydney Theatre Company as well as Melbourne Theatre Company, Bel ...
Chris Searl and Campbell Milligan - Monster Children
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Various Locations in Sydney
Monster Children is a split between art director Campbell Milligan and photographer Chris Searl. After having worked in magazine publications for over eight years, Campbell has a strong knowledge for what the market lacks and what the readership w ...
PVT (DJ Set)
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
THE transformation of common metals into gold was a central feature of alchemy, the ancient study of elements and their metamorphosis into new forms. Alchemists rejected the magic that explained the world, moving instead to new methods ...
Sass & Bide
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Sass & Bide is one of Australia's most loved fashion brands, recognised globally for modern, distinct designs. Sass & Bride is the namesake label of Sarah-Jane Clarke (Sass) and Heidi Middleton (Bide), This duo broke the rules, followe ...
Tim Jones - Seymour Centre
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Tim took up the reigns as the Artistic Director and General Manager of the Seymour Centre, University of Sydney in January 2009. Since arriving he has re-branded the Centre and established a new artistic direction, engaging more with the Univ ...
Sean Ashby - AussieBum
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Sean is not the average businessman; in fact he is not the average anything. Arguably this is the reason aussieBum has become more than a brand – it has become an Australian cultural icon. Since starting the company 9 years ago, the men& ...
Richard In Your Mind
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Richard In Your Mind was originally conceived as a recording project by former roommates Richard Cartwright (guitar, vocals, harmonica, sitar and other assorted instruments) and Conrad Richters (bass, synth, guitar) in 2006. The band qui ...
Rebekah Cambpell
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rebekah Campbell is one of the Australian music industry’s best known names – or best kept secrets. It depends who you are. To record companies, artist managers, and most of the artists, she’s a familiar and at t ...
Matt Fayle and Pip Jamieson - The Loop.
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Matt Fayle and Pip Jamieson are the brains behind The Loop (www.theloop.com.au), an Australian networking & portfolio site for creative professionals. The Loop is a market-tailored alternative to existing international networking and employmen ...
Douglas Lance Gibson - Mountain Fold
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Mountain Fold is a new music quarterly based in Sydney, Australia. It is an interview-based magazine concentrating on both Australian and international acts. While primarily music focused, Mountain Fold also acts as a forum to discuss art, fi ...
Chris Ying - McSweeney’s (USA).
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s is an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. Their namesake quarterly fiction journal, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, has featured work by Roddy Doyle, Jim Shepard, Stephen King ...
James Hackett - Hackett Films
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
James Hackett is an Animation Director constantly sought out for his expertise crossing the line between animation, live action and experimenting with the latest production technologies. James founded Hackett Films in 2003, after 10 yea ...
Chris Gibson - University of Wollongong
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chris Gibson’s research projects combine geographical methodologies and cultural theory in the study of creative industries, regional development and sustainability. He is a Chief Investigator on several major Australian Research Council pro ...
Brooke Johnston and Sarah Thornton - The Finders Keepers.
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Finders Keepers are design and art markets dedicated in supporting young emerging designers and bringing new contemporary design to the forefront in Australia. Their bi-annual event started at CarriageWorks in Sydney's innerwest in 2008 an ...
Flutter Lyon aka Robyn Wilson - View of Courage Studios
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Robyn Wilson is a dynamic creative director and live performer working across projects in experiential design, costume and fashion design, large scale graphics and live sound and video works. She has directed a plethora of projects for her own Vie ...
Sixty40
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Led by Directors Matt Taylor and Mark Simpson, Sixty40 is a studio of design and animation ninjas working with a long list of ecstatic customers, including MTV, Channel [V], Disney Channel, Comedy Channel, ABC Kids, Reach Out, Warp Records, Kmart, ...
Chris Brennan-Horley - University of Wollongong.
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chris Brennan-Horley is a geography PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong. His research interests involve developing new methods for mapping creative industries in urban and regional locations. Most recently, he completed in-depth mapping ...
Joseph Allen Shea - IZROCK
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Allen Shea is an independent curator, publisher and gallerist. Believing everyone should be able to view and be touched by art, Joseph works primarily with self-taught artists and those who began working outside the art world establishment. ...
Andrew Moffitt and Mark Moffitt - MOFFITT.MOFFITT.
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
In 1998 we began our careers in creativity at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) UNSW where we studied a BA in Design which covered a range of different fields including graphic, object, motion, and environmental design. We went on to care ...
Seekae
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Since independently releasing their debut album “The Sound of Trees Falling on People” in December 08’ Seekae instantly impressed their audiences selling out of their initial pressing. This compelling release ...
St Augustine Academy
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Alvin Manalo and Adrian Amores are the team behind the dynamic label Saint Augustine Academy. The pair have proven to be the perfect combination of creativity and business acumen needed to survive the unpredictable fashion industr ...
Husein Alicajic - 2ndsight
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Recently awarded Best in Show at the 2008 Promax awards and Best Unproduced Movie Trailer at the 2009 International Golden Trailer Awards in Los Angeles, Huseinʼs depth of knowledge, experience and natural talent allows him to apply his collab ...
Ben Peacock - Republic of Everyone
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ben is an author, cancer survivor and co-founder of do-good communications agency, Republic of Everyone. In his job as a Creative Director, he has worked all over the world, launching the Toyota Prius into Euro ...
Rachel Botsman - Author, "What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption"
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rachel is the co-author of the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Harper Business, October 2010). She consults, writes, and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging ...
Rhoda Roberts - Vibe Australia
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rhoda’s involvement in the arts is extensive. She was the founder and Artistic Director of the annual International festival The Dreaming based at Woodford QLD, she was the Artistic Director of Sydney Dreaming Festival and the former Artisti ...
Dom Alessio - Triple J Home and Hosed
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Dom Alessio plays guitar. There’s a chance you’ve never heard his bands though. That’s because he’s had more success when he’s spruiking other people’s music rather than his own. Dom is one half of the team that ...
Dean Sewell and Andrew Quilty - Oculi
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
In 2001, a select group of award-winning photographers, united by their commitment to documentary-storytelling, formed Oculi. Oculi was purposefully formed as a collective compounding the individual’s strength and honesty of imagery within ...
Rebecca Carrasco
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rebecca has received many awards as a Writer & Art Director including Golds at The One Show, One Show Entertainment, Cannes, Clio and New York festivals. Her work has also won at D&AD and The Andys and she has been invited to judge interna ...
Shady Lane
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pop/electronic four piece from Sydney SHADY LANE mix simple folk songs and atmospheric pop with experimental electronica, field recordings and a few noisy beats. After a highly successful album release in 2009, the band has shared ...
The Paper Scissors
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
They are four men that make up a band. They have one self-titled EP and an album titled 'Less Talk More Paper Scissors' under their collective belt. Both received critical acclaim and various accolades in Australia.
Margaret Pomeranz - ABC TV
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Margaret is currently the co-host with David Stratton of At The Movies on ABC TV, where they moved in July 2004. Margaret has served as a member of the Advertising Standards Board, is a past President of the Film Critics Circle of Australia, a ...
Ute Noll - On Photography (Germany)
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ute Noll has been in the editorial and photography business since 1994. Ute started off at the innovative and award winning youth magazine "jetzt" of the daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Munich, she worked for the develo ...
Cloud Control
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
2010 has already been a busy year for Sydney psycoldelic/folk quartet Cloud Contol. After their single "Gold Canary" cracked the BBC's alternative music channel Radio 6, the band headed into the famous Albert's Studio with Yo ...
Liane Rossler - Dinosaur Designs' Pacific Islands Project
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Liane is a co-founder of GreenUps, Sydney Green Drinks, Co founder & Gritter at Knitty Gritty & Loopy, and Co founder & Collaborator of Pacific Islands Project (PIP). She is a member of The Voiceless Council, an Amb ...
Cameras
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Cameras offer a distinctive sound. With two songwriters sharing lead vocal duties, they intertwine a dizzying intensity with a haunting atmosphere. CAMERAS find their sound in the anthemic crescendo of Arcade Fire meeting the smoky ...
Parades
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Parades are a young art rock band from Sydney who wisely choose to create their own music with no outside input or interference. Parades’ debut album Foreign Tapes is out now via Dot Dash Recordings.The album is expansive and ambitious ...
Coalition of the Willing
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
'Coalition of the Willing'is a collaborative animated film about an online war against global warming in a 'post Copenhagen' world. ‘Coalition of the Willing’has been crafted by a network of 24 artists from around t ...
Ross Dawson - Future Exploration Network
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and authority on business strategy. He is the Founding Chairman of four companies including leading future think-tank Future Exploration Network, an ...
Andrew Dowe - Alchemy Equities
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Andrew Dowe is an accredited Australian Small Scale Offerings Board member. He has a Bachelor of Industrial Design with Honours. Highly commended Finalist in Australian Design Awards. Master of Commerce in Marketing and International Business. And ...
Clare Stewart - Sydney Film Festival
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Clare Stewart is Festival Director of Sydney Film Festival. In 2008, SFF introduced of an international Official Competition for films that are ‘courageous, audacious and cutting-edge’ which was won by Bronson in 2009 and&nbs ...
Two Thousand
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
TwoThousand http://www.twothousand.com.au is a website and weekly eNewsletter for people who believe the best things in Sydney are often hard to find. It’s compiled by a gaggle of writers who spend most of their time and almost al ...
Adam Hinshaw and Elisa Lee - GPS Create
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Elisa Lee and Adam Hinshaw, working as GPSCreate, are a commercial and creative partnership formed in the mid 90’s era of CD-Rom multimedia. Elisa and Adam continue to work together today to create innovative and interactive new media projec ...
Georgie Swift and Milenka Osen - TMOD
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Georgie Swift and Milenka Osen created TMOD after completing their Design studies together at The College Of Fine arts (COFA, UNSW) in 2007. TMOD is a driven by a desire to design without constraints, merging boundaries and challenging the e ...
Rob Belgiovane - Belgiovane Williams Mackay (BWM)
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rob Belgiovane is a founding partner and Executive Creative Director of Belgiovane Williams Mackay (BWM). The agency recently received the prestigious AdNews magazine ‘Creative Network of the Year” award. ...
Barry Mowszowski - Ogilvy Sydney
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Barry is a highly awarded creative strategist whose career has been spent working in boutique creative agencies in San Francisco, New York and Sydney. The highlight of his 7 years spent working in the US was his role in establishing Dro ...
Rick Chen - Fund Break
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Being a new Australian crowdfunding website and community for creative projects and ideas, Fundbreak provides project creators with a platform to present their ideas to a worldwide audience. Co-founder Alan Crabbe and Rick Chen are very posit ...
The Noise
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Described by FBi Radio as “fantastic classical musicians… a million miles away from classical music”, The NOISE is one of Sydney's most exciting new bands. To hear The NOISE at one of their improvised live sh ...
Alex Munt - Director, LBF
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Alex Munt is writer-director of 'LBF' - a forthcoming indie 'pop-art' feature film based on the novel by Cry Bloxsome (XO Films). He is a Lecturer in the Department of Media, Music & Cultural Studies at Macquarie University and ...
Songs
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Songs are walking the hard path back to modernism with a shrug. The Sydney based band make echo heavy drone pop that gives modern music the cold shoulder. Squeezing into the gap between pop, minimalism and no wave, the sound of Son ...
Laura Scrivano - Rapid Response
Dates:
5 June 2010
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rapid Response uses theatrical composition techniques to create short, responsive, site specific performances that subvert, challenge and entice audiences. Collaborating artists work with a theme or current issue, a list of ingredients, set tasks ...