[microsound-announce] ADAMS HYDE ARTIST PRESENTATION | 08/01/2010 19H | NK - BERLIN

Andre Castro andrecastro at c-e-m.org
Sun Jan 3 08:34:48 EST 2010


ADAMS HYDE ARTIST PRESENTATION

Friday 8th January 2010 at 19:00

NK - Berlin

http://www.nkprojekt.de


Adam is an artist with an international practice who works with
software, online audio and video, sound art, new technologies and more
traditional forms of broadcast.
He has also gained extensive management experience, having managed the
radio station Contact89FM (Hamilton, New Zealand) and held the position
of CEO for 95bFM (Auckland, New Zealand). Adam also established and
managed New Zealand’s first community television station, Static TV.
Adam has also worked at management level internationally in the IT
sector as Business Development Manager at Australias Virtual Artists
(Adelaide, Australia), as well as managing the Software and Web
Development departments at the renown Dutch Internet Service Provider
XS4ALL (Amsterdam).

In addition to management experience in the IT sector Adam has an
established reputation as a free software programmer. Adam has developed
several free software applications including the FrequencyClock , and
ReCo(de)R. Adam is an active member of the free software development
group DYNE and is co-founder of the Open Source Streaming Alliance.

In late 2002 Adam also started his own consultancy – The Streaming
Suitcase – specialising in online audio and video training and system
design for cultural institutions. Clients have included Tate Modern, the
Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, USA, The Virtual Arts Network (an
initiative of the Asia Society, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New England
Foundation for the Arts, SF MOMA, and the Walker Art Centre), The
Science Musem in London, the Foundation for Film, Art and Creative
Technology – FACT, and Montevideo.

In 2006 Adam also formed the group SIMPEL and has exhibited the Paper
Cup Telephone Network (San Francisco Exploratorium, 21Grand Gallery
Oakland, and ISEA 2006) and Wifio which was premièred at Waves (Riga,
2006). Earlier in the year Adam attended residencies in New Zealand,
Latvia, and Slovenia. In 2006 Adam also curated a series of panel
discussions about the future of television for the Rotterdam
International Film Festival.

In 2007 Adam founded FLOSS Manuals Stichting for the development of a
collaborative platform for manuals on free software. The project has
been awarded a grant from Digitale Pioneers (Amsterdam) and Adam is
currently working developing the platform at FLOSS Manuals. In 2008
FLOSS manuals won the New Zealand Open Source Award.


More info on Adam and his work:
http://www.radioqualia.net/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam/




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Elsenstr. 52/
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