Garth Paine
Garth Paine is a senior lecturer in Music Technologist and Research
Associate of MARCS at the University of Western Sydney. He is
internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity
in new media arts.
His immersive interactive environments have been exhibited
in Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
He has been part of the organising and peer review panels for
the International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression
(NIME) since it’s inception and invited as guest editor of Organised
Sound, a pre-eminent international journal on music technology
published by Cambridge University Press.
He is often invited to run international workshops on interactivity
for musical performance and commissioned to develop interactive
system for realtime musical composition for interactive dance
and theatre performances. He has been selected as one of ten
creative professionals internationally for exhibition in the
10th New York Digital Salon; DesignX Critical Reflections, and
as a millennium leader of innovation by the German Keyboard
Magazine in 2000.
Dr Paine has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts
New Media Arts Fellowship at RMIT University in 2000, and The
RMIT Innovation Research Award in 2002. He is a member of the
advisory panel for the Electronic Music Foundation, New York
and one of 17 advisors to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the
Future, a project focused on formulating an evolving set of
principles (theory), that describes a taxonomy / design space
of electronic musical instruments. Dr Paine was the only Australian
artist selected in 2004 for the Sonic Difference exhibition
at the Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, and in 2006 his innovative
ensemble, SynC, with Michael Atherton, is one of only 20 international
performance ensembles selected to perform at the Centre Pompidou,
IRCAM.
Contact: Garth