[ISEA2013] Panel: Michael Day, Roger Mills, Daniel Scott & Sam Spurr – Panel Statement

Panel Statement n.a.

Panel: Visualising Gesture and Effect

  • Michael Day is a lecturer in the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building at UTS, where he has been lecturing and tutoring in lighting, ergonomics, human behaviour and theatre design subjects since 2000. In 2011 he launched a new Master of Design Coursework Degree in Lighting Design. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Architecture and Masters in Design Science (Illumination) from the University of Sydney. Over a period of 40 years his international architecture, interiors and lighting design practice has completed over 200 projects in 11 countries. He has also designed exhibitions, events, plays and operas in England, Nigeria, SE Asia and Australia as well as writing, directing and designing for film. Michael was an instigator of the first Vivid/Smart Light Sydney Festival in 2009 and was one of the artists with an installation along the Light Walk in The Rocks. For the Festival he also curated the (sm)art light exhibition and organised  the Smart Light Symposia at UTS, as well as having a concurrent exhibition of his lighting research projects at the DabLab Gallery at UTS. For the 2013 Vivid Festival he is working on public interaction projects at UTS, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
  • Roger Mills is a lecturer at UTS and a musician, sound artist and writer whose practice and research focuses on improvisation, networked music, sound installation and experimental radio. He is founder of the networked music ensemble Ethernet Orchestra, which informs his research into telematic sound and intercultural interaction in networked improvisatory performance. Roger is currently undertaking a doctorate at the University of?Technology, where he also lectures in media arts production and sound and music design. International performance and exhibition credits includes a Golden Eye award for contrapuntal radio performance Idea of South (Sydney) 2008, score for BAFTA award winning dance performance, At Swim Two Boys, Earthfall, UK, The International Theatre Soundscore and Music Composition, Prague Quadrennial 2011, and From Gormley to Gaga: Exhibition of British Theatre and Sound Design, V&A museum London, 2012.
  • Daniel Scott is a technical artist and software developer who has worked in motion-capture, camera tracking and research and development for animated films including Happy Feet 2 and Walking with Dinosaurs 3D. Daniel holds a Masters of Animation from The University of Technology, Sydney and is currently assisting with the motion-capture and software development of tranSTURM.
  • Sam Spurr is an architectural theorist and designer working across academia, journalism, design and curatorship.  She is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide. Sam was the founding director of the Interior and Spatial Design program at the UTS in 2009. She has taught in tertiary education for over a decade prior to this including as a full-time lecturer in architecture at UTS. She has been invited to run studios and workshops in Berlin, Beirut, Prague, Helsinki and Montreal. Sam has exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2011, The Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, the ?Sydney Biennale 2012 and the Storefront Gallery NYC (2012). Sam was awarded her doctorate from the University of New South Wales in 2007 for her thesis titled ‘Performative Architectures’. She is a regular contributor to both academic journals and architecture and design magazines.