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Some of the many practitioners, speakers and performers who will be appearing at Creative Sydney 2011.
Matt Stinchcomb
Matthew Stinchcomb, 35, is Etsy's European Director. In this role he oversees the company's marketing, operations, and the management and development of its community in Europe. He has worked in digital media since 1997, and at E ...
Philip Cronin
Philip Cronin is Intel’s General Manager for Australia and New Zealand. His role encompasses managing the sales and marketing of Intel’s computer business and promoting the company’s position as a leader in providing techno ...
Peter Davison
Peter Davison left his senior management gig at Melbourne IT to start a "guerilla" venture capital firm with a University mate in the late 1990s. The firm's big investments with seed stage with PayPal and early stage with Anonymizer. ...
Jodie Fox
Jodie Fox is one of the three co-founders of Shoes of Prey, a website where women can design their own shoes. Jodie manages the product research, development and communications for Shoes of Prey. To date campaigns run by Shoes of Prey have receive ...
Ben Briand
With a background in fine arts, Ben Briand is a creator of films, commercials, music videos and video installations. Recently the Cannes Young Director Award winner completed three distinct short films, 'Apricot', 'Castor & Pol ...
Sonia Sharma
Sonia is an Associate at Maddocks, where her practice focuses on the areas of intellectual property, technology and telecommunications. She has advised a number of start-up businesses on their IP and commercialisation strategy. She also advis ...
Dr James Bradfield Moody
James Bradfield Moody is Executive Director of Development at the CSIRO, regular panelist on ABC’s “The New Inventors”, and co-author of “The Sixth Wave: How To Succeed in a Resource-Limited World”. Moody received his ...
Amy Broadfoot
Amy Broadfoot has a passion for travel, film and business. In mid 2009 she decided to combine these passions to form a film marketing and business consultancy firm, Amičko Films. This draws on her experience in marketing at Taskovski Fil ...
Kath Melbourne
Kath currently works at The Australia Council, focusing on ArtStart and the Opportunities for Young and Emerging Artists programs. Passionate and committed to the arts since she was blue haired, wearing Doc Martins and listening to Nirvana; th ...
Andrew Simpson
Andrew Simpson has built a reputation for his elegant design aesthetic. After completing an honors degree in Industrial Design from the University of Technology, he then built up a design consultancy called Vert Design. He is committed to designin ...
Simon Moss
Simon is a co-founder of ImageBrief and has been in IT sales and marketing for over 15 years. Simon is also a Director of Picdesk and manages the largest social media community for Photo Editors, Art Buyers and Creative Directors. Simon is passion ...
Colleen Morgan
Colleen is a designer, researcher and teacher, and is currently completing a PhD in Communication Design. Her practical experience is varied, from jewellery design, to creating games for mobile phones, to designing intelligent systems to foster in ...
Gary Hayes
Gary is the Head of Multi-platform/Transmedia education at Metro Screen, as well as an award winning multi-platform producer, author, educator and director. He runs the virtual design company MUVEDesign and recently founded multi-platform deve ...
Marcus Gillezeau
Filmmaker Marcus Gillezeau is the President of Metro Screen and the principal partner in Firelight Productions, which specialises in all-media drama and documentary production. He has delivered more than 30 hours of prime time television to al ...
Raju Varanasi
Raju Varanasi is the Director of the NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre at the NSW Department of Education and Communities. Mr Varanasi’s work in this role aims to promote a culture of innovationand organisational learning across ...
Roy Weiland
Roy Weiland has always had a passion for the art of story telling, and is the author of the children’s book “Barton the Ghost Catcher”. Metro Screen’s Raw Nerve initiative helped him convert it into a short screenplay, whic ...
Dog Money World
Dog Money World is a creative collective which explores the exploding ways new media can engage and excite users across multiple platforms. They apply an integrated approach using popular devices such as Mobile and Web, combined with traditional m ...
Lucas Abela
Lucas Abela is one of the most innovative and surprising artists working in the world of audio performance. His early work as a turntablist saw him jump on electro acoustic trampolines and perform death-defying duels with amplified samurai swords. ...
Christopher Nicholls
After enjoying a successful career in high end IT marketing and business, Christopher left to pursue his passion for music. After developing and managing a large and popular symphony orchestra, while also witnessing the significance of music for h ...
Laura Scrivano
Laura Scrivano is a theatre director, writer and filmmaker from the NSW South Coast. Her recent projects include ZEBRA! for Sydney Theatre Company (Assistant Director), the short film Hairpin (Writer/Director/Producer), Rapid Response (Creati ...
Warren Armstrong
Warren Armstrong is a new media artist whose web-based art, sonification and augmented reality works have been exhibited around Australia and New York. His most recent works include the Information Virus (2010), a 3D augmented reality work; and th ...
Rick Viede
Rick Viede is an Australian writer and performer. He created the satiric “aspiring inspirational personality” Glace Chase that has played to critical acclaim with seasons at Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, at festivals around Australia ...
Jiao Chen
With a commitment to bold, engaging and culturally diverse storytelling, Jiao is part of the new wave of Creative Producers in Australia. After gaining valuable filmmaking expertise working with industry leaders on film (“Mao’s Last Da ...
Jeremy Somers
Jeremy is the Director & Designer or We Are Handsome - A swimwear & fashion label that sprang from a little spark of an idea in 2009. Despite knowing nothing about the rag trade, Jeremy's 'little project' has become an inte ...
Snakes and Ladders Productions
Pete Moore & Patrick de Teliga started working together as a team at AWARD School, and later made a short film for Triple J which screened on TV as a finalist. From that they landed a job to make a documentary on artist Paul Davies, as well as ...
Keg De Souza
Keg de Souza is an inter-disciplinary visual artist, bookbinder and anarchitect. One of the key themes of her work is an investigation of spatial politics, both through the built environment and social space. She publishes printed matter under the ...
Shakthi Sivanathan
As the Director of CuriousWorks, Shakthi has delivered a series of creative initiatives - including an ongoing series of live performances and forums with The Migrant Project, and the development of a best-practice model for using digital med ...
Caitlin Park
Caitlin Park is an up-and-coming folktronic artists, making a name for herself for her abstract composition, electro-acoustic stylings and film nostalgia. National and international bill partners have helped showcase Caitlin Park to a vast audienc ...
Andrew Khedoori
Andrew began broadcasting as a volunteer at one of Sydney's longest running community station 2SER where he now works as Music Director. He's also worked as a writer for various magazines and newspapers, done publicity for record companies ...
Chris Johnson
Chris manages the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP) which works with community radio stations to generate airplay opportunities for Australian music artists. He previously ran Hobart’s Edge Radio for five years.
Dan Zilber
Dan came on board as FBi's Music Director when the station first began broadcasting full time in 2003, then Australia's youngest Music Director. He's the reason the station sounds so good. FBi plays 50% Australian Music, half of that f ...
Nick Findlay
Nick Findlay has been working in radio since he was 16, moving his way through community radio (including three years at FBi) with a solid passion for music. After graduating from AFTRS in 2005, Nick started work at triple j and is the current Ass ...
Sabiene Heindl
Sabiene Heindl is project managing the international roll out of the Music Matters campaign in Australia and New Zealand. Music Matters is a collective of people across the music community formed to remind listeners of the value and signific ...
Emily Copeland
Emily Copeland is the Head of Commercial Integration for XYZ Networks' Music Channels - Channel [V], [V]HITS, MAX and CMC. Her role encompasses the creative integration of brands into music environments, the creation of branded content and the ...
Joe Lawlor
As one half of the filmmaking partnership desperate optimists, over the last 7 years Joe Lawlor has co-directed with Christine Molloy a series of beautiful, critically acclaimed films, shot on 35mm widescreen, which explore the relationship betwee ...
Sister Jane
From Highway 61 to the Hume, Sister Jane’s country rock’n’roll with a British/Australian psychedelic flavour is the perfect backdrop for rich vocals. Think The Doors meets The Pixies - this band has a classic sound and a mesmeris ...
Magnetic Heads
Formed by Jonathon Desmond Miller (a.k.a Des Miller), Magnetic Heads’ sound is like nothing else you'll hear around Sydney. Jangling 12-string guitars, tambourines and twisted synth hooks are presided over by Miller’s penetrating a ...
The Maple Trail
The Maple Trail charges forth in a calamitous chorus of layered, epic, bright and summery folk songs. After a string of home recorded demo’s and EP’s, The Maple Trail joined the friendly ranks of the Broken Stone Records family to ...
Dean McEvoy
Dean has had a varied career starting in business consulting, marketing and advertising with big business via Arthur Andersen and a small advertising agency that launched Microsoft in Australia. He then translated business strategy into code with ...
Colab
Colab seeks to bring innovation to the design of eyewear; working with some of the world's most talented street artists, graphic designers, musicians and creatives, Colab is a meeting of creative minds with a global view. Curate ...
We Buy Your Kids
Webuyyourkids is Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney, who are based in Newtown, Sydney. They are exhibiting artists as well as commercial illustrators operating as a small multi-disciplinary design studio, collaborating with a set of talent ...
Brian Fravel
Brian Fravel is Intel’s Director of Marketing for Brand Strategy and Management. As a 13 year veteran of Intel, Brian has held a variety of product marketing, customer marketing and campaign roles, as well as played a prominent part in major ...
Pip Jamieson and Matt Fayle
In the thick of the global financial crisis Matt Fayle & Pip Jamieson quit their MTV dream jobs to launch creative community The Loop. In sixteen short months, the creative industry-networking site they founded with their joint ...
Matt Barrie
Matt Barrie is an award winning entrepreneur, technologist and lecturer. He is Chief Executive of Freelancer.com
Nicole Dennis
Nicole is concerned with improving the experience of place by making places relevant, exciting and nurturing to the people that use them. Working as an Urban Planner at AECOM, a multi-disciplinary consulting firm, where she collaborates ...
Elias Bizannes
Elias Bizannes is an Australian innovator that is based in San Francisco. He is known for his work on StartupBus, Silicon Beach, and Data Portability. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2005, first as an auditor and then as an ...
Tim Levy
After realising that he is too lazy to write a diary, Tim started taking photos to help remember what actually happens in his life and surrounds. Being a lover of ‘street photography’, he sometimes decides to photograph questionabl ...
Michaela Sanders
Michaela Sanders likes to film weird things. And make weird images. This weirdness has seen the light of day in the likes of art, music videos, fashion prints, video art, short films, and commercials.Born in New Zealand and bred around the world, ...
Greedy Hen
"Their work is like the accidental joy of seeing the strings AND the hands in a puppet show" -Steak Mountain. Greedy Hen is a multi-disciplinary studio functioning partly as an art collective and partly as a design studio, housing th ...
raumlaborberlin
raumlaborberlin is a network-collective of 8 trained architects in Berlin, working cross-disciplinary on issues of urban transformation and urban renewal. For each project raumlaborberlin designs and puts into action a custom-tailored team of expe ...
Katja Aßmann
Head of Programming for Visual Arts and Architecture of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 and Head of Project Management for the Initiative StadtBauKultur of the state North Rhine-Westphalia. Katja Aßmann studied Architecture and ...
Matt Kuperholz
Matt “M@” Kuperholz is a Principal at Deliotte Analytics. He is formally trained in actuarial science and computer science and has been in a deep and meaningful relationship with computers since he was 7 years old. His technical sk ...
Fabien Riggall
Since setting up the world's largest short film network, Future Shorts, in 2003, Fabien Riggall has honed his passion for cinema through an array of unique initiatives and events, enriching the culture around the medium. A firm believer in ...
Markus Ambach
Markus Ambach is known as an artist and author of numerous theme-oriented projects. Since 2009 he has been operating an open, internationally acting project platform named MAP Markus Ambach Projekte. MAP sees itself as independent, artist-gene ...
Danny Yau
Danny Yau is an independent marketing and digital consultant for the music industry. For the past twelve years he has worked at Warner Music, Alternative Distribution Alliance, EMI and BMG on the forefront of digital technology in Australia an ...
Simon Wood
Simon is the Production Designer at Team Bondi, creating LA Noire. He started as an Industrial Designer, then crossed into films, worked on The Phantom Menace, Tomorrow Never Dies (Bond 18), Thunderbirds and others that didn't make it. The ...
Sandra Bender
Sandra currently heads SBS Subscription TV Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Special Broadcast Services. In this role, Sandra leads the corporate, creative and content directions for STVDIO, a dedicated arts channel, and the World Movies Chan ...
David Albert
David is the CEO of Alberts, one of Australia’s oldest independent music rights management businesses dating back to 1884. The company has published and manages the recordings of some of Australia’s and the world’s most successfu ...
Philip Mortlock
Philip Mortlock is the Head of Creative with indie music company Alberts. Philip started in the music business designing record covers. Landed a job at Warner Music Australia where he developed an expanding career in marketing, A & R and ultim ...
Kate Hurst
Kate Hurst is Hurst & Co’s principle consultant with over a decade’s worth of valuable business experience working within creative industries.Transforming her own fashion label, Kate Hurst, from a small grass roots start-up into a ...
Nicholas Pickard
Nicholas Pickard, 32, has worked in the arts, media and government forover a decade. Collaborating closely with major arts, screen and cultural industry organisations he has sought to increaseaccessibility and advance the public/private investme ...
Tim Barker
Dr Tim Barker is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working in the area of new media theory at the iCinema Research Centre, The University of New South Wales. His current research involves an exploration of the new experience of time and p ...
Polly Rowe
Polly Rowe has been Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company for three years. As a member of the company's Artistic Team she is involved in programming, commissioning and project development. Before joining STC ...
Olga Titarenko
Initially trained as a multimedia designer, Olga discovered an interest in marketing and digital advertising whilst working for one of Australia’s largest accommodation groups. A BA degree complemented by a Business Diploma majoring in Digit ...
Damien Butler
Damien Butler started his creative studio after leaving art school to enable him to work on hybrid art /design projects and experiments. After becoming an adjunct lecturer at University of Sydney, Damien saw a lack of experimentation after artist ...
Oliver Palmer
Oliver has over 15 years experience in the digital arena, as co-founder and Head of Innovation at TigerSpike, he combines his experience in technology with his passion for research and development to ensure TigerSpike remains an industry leader in ...