Raul Vincent Enriquez My new media work has shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Cal Arts, Makor, the Knitting Factory, Third Place Gallery, the New York Digital Salon, Galapagos Art Space, the X/Fest 2003, Sin-e, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Mastel + Mastel Gallery, the Prix ARS Electronica 2002 and at the Berlin Resonant-Wave Festival. As a sound designer, I designed all of Reza Abdoh's U.S.and European Dar A Luz theatre productions and playwright/director Juliana Francis' GO GO GO and SAINT LATRICE. My process is influenced by my childhood hobby of gluing macaroni to coffee cans and spray painting them gold...and by making excellent burritos and salsa verde.

* Larry Shea is a New York based artist working with film, video and interactive digital media. Utopian ideas as played out in resort environments, political activism and its sense of purpose, sexuality and our attempts to contain it all inform his work. He has exhibited his single channel films & videos in many venues including The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Mix New York; MIX Brazil, Outfest LA and the 2000 Ars Electronica Festival in Lintz, Austria; as well as on cable and the internet. His recent short film Jouissance won "Best Short Experimental Film" at the Milan International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Recent interactive works explore the dynamics of public speech and the human voice through the creation of computer-choreographed interactive spaces. People participate verbally in elaborate sound sculptures that reveal unexpected qualities and meanings, seemingly inherent in the original speech. His interactive sound sculpture "Well Wishing" will next be presented at the D.U.M.B.O.Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY in October 2004. He received his MFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and has taught at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New School for Social Research,NYC; and The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Larry is the Executive Director of Mix: The New York Queer Experimental Media Festival in New York.

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Alexis (Lex) Bhagat is a writer and sound artist from New York. He studied art and ecological design at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. (1997) Bhagat writes about sound art, urbanism and prisons. Since 2002, Bhagat has been in collaboration with the Chronoplastics curatorial group on a collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists entitled Sound Generation: Recording - Tradition - Politics, (Forthcoming from Autonomedia.)

Recent Works: Bandshell Ghost, part of Sous les Paves, la Radio!, a radiophonic haunting of the southern part of Tompkins Square Park. Produced in association with Brooklyn Interactive Outreach Network during the New York Psychogeographical Conflux, May 2004

Lecture #2: On the Possibility of Life without the Sun, an audio "lecture" in the form of a sound collage, dealing with authority, anti-authority, gravity, sunlight, "the underground" and space travel. Radio broadcast at Version_04, Chicago

Recent Talks „Art and Anarchism‰ (panel) at Renewing the Anarchist Tradition, Plainfield, Vermont, September 2004

"The Protest Genre after N30" at An Evening of Aesthetic Protest. Bluestockings Bookstore, November 2003

"Regarding Sound as Art" at Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Mass., WGDR, Plainfield, Vt., and Le Societe des Artes Technologiques, Montreal. August, 2003.

Notable past projects include: Whitman Death Songs (2002), Vehicle for Conversation (Troy, NY: 2000) and the ATM Poetry Opens (NYC: 1994)

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Ian Epps is a Sonic/Visual Artist, customizing his life and belongings, in Brooklyn, NY.

Ian Epps is interested in treating sound as units, much like building blocks. These blocks become pieces of information that synthesize space. Each block has a voice and sings, but together sounds out the warmth and infinitely complex nature of a composed environment.

He has played performances alongside and in collaboration with Rafael Toral, Ogurusu Norihide, Takeshi Mitsuhashi, Richard Devine, Dave Gross and Liz Tonne, Richard Zvonar, Dan Walsh, Joe McPhee, Andrew Deutsch, and Pauline Oliveros.

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Koutaro Fukui (360 record/on;(do)/FatCat record) Japanese sound artist living in Chicago. Being interested automatic composition and structure of music. For performance, He use Melodic lowercase electronica with using Laptop and guitar. Also, he is one of founder of MP3/ComputerProgram label called "on;(do)"

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Jodi Rose is a nomadic writer and sound artist currently working from Melbourne and Sydney. Born to young hippy parents on national TV in the ABC documentary series Chequerboard, Rose was prepared at a very young age for the life of an Artstar. Her adventurous nature and curiosity about how the world looks and sounds from different angles was manifested early. A nomadic childhood and fascination with telephones have greatly influenced Rose's creative development and vocation.

Training at Sydney College of the Arts led to founding the Cult of the Mad Genius Artstar, (COMGAS). The work of COMGAS is diverse and eclectic, connected by a desire to explore the gaps and spaces in the fabric of cultural production. Rose is dedicated to creating work that takes place outside the framework of traditional art-world venues and is accessible to the community at large. COMGAS works range from the infamous "Anti-Art Certificate", to Otira's"Tele- Seismic Emergency Phone", the "Mythopoeia" series in Alice Springs and Bega, "Architectonics of Delirium", and her current global bridge project "Singing Bridges." (www.singingbridges.net)

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Biography Melissa Lockwood was born in Iowa in 1965; at age thirteen, she moved out into the world on her own after her mothers death. She moved in with neighbors, continued school and began her adventure of living in the unknown. This is where her understanding of chance operations, faith and love for the unknown were born. As a sound artist Melissa Lockwood works with found material, absorbing and transforming it, allowing the found material to tell its own story through the application of chance operations and digital mixing effects, creating new one-of-a-kind sound pieces with sonic influences of their own.

* Greta Byrum is a sound and word artist living in Brooklyn. She has been working on communications networks since 1997, when, as a Fulbright Scholar, she traveled to Jena, Germany (the heart of Germany's 18th-century brand-new print media hub) in order to study new genres, philosophies, and social/artists‚ networks that formed following the invention of the Schnelldruck (fast printing press). She has since continued to study the ways in which new technologies as well as „obsolete‰ technologies can be used as media for social, political, and artistic networks. Greta holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in German Literature and Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University, and was the recipient of a fellowship from the Corporation of Yaddo in the summer of 2004. She has just completed her first full- length play, "Coil," a speculative version of a true-life 1896 dinner party attended by Nicola Tesla, Sarah Bernhardt, and Swami Vivekananda.

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More artists (bios forthcoming):

Larry Shea Tarikh Korula Kat Aaron Nick Chapman Ben Owen Lee Azzarula Melissa Lockwood Andrew Freemont-Smith Isaac Lution Aaron Hailey Chris Leo Kevin Shea Kyle Forrester Ben Simon Great Small Works Black Label Bike Club

& thanks to artists Aaron Sinift and Melissa Lockwood for fantastic wall murals in the studio: "Two Madonnas and a Monster."