ABOUT LEMUR

Biographies

Eric Singer

Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer, and the Founder and Director of LEMUR. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. He has over 20 years of music and arts programming, engineering and performance experience in the areas of interactive music and graphics systems, alternative controllers, networked multimedia environments and robotics. He performs and lectures around the world with electronic musical instruments and teaches workshops on a range of art and technology subjects. He is known internationally for his software and hardware products for interactive art and music creation.

An accomplished musician, Singer has toured and recorded with many bands on tenor, alto and baritone saxes. He is also a founding member of the Brooklyn-based arts collaborative The Madagascar Institute and has contributed to many of the group's spectacular projects. As captain of the Madagascar InstituteÍs Brooklyn Benders, he led the team to the semi-finals on The Learning ChannelÍs Junkyard Wars television show. In addition to directing LEMUR, Singer works as an independent Arts Engineer and Consultant; runs Eroktronix, his company which creates and markets electronics technology for the arts; and has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program.

Leif Krinkle

Leif Krinkle has been collaborating with artists, musicians and designers from around the world for more than ten years, developing multidimensional media and challenging the potential of traditional art forms. In 2000, Leif created Krinkle New Media, a production company specializing in interactive sound and video production. He has since produced internationally acclaimed musicians, designed multimedia performances, and engineered interactive installations. Today Leif is earning his MasterÍs Degree in Interactive Telecommunications at NYU and experimenting with robots, multi-screen displays, interactive performance and algorithmically generated art.

leifkrinkle.com

Camila Cano

Camila Cano is an audio engineer and musician interested in electronic music. She started her musical career early in life doing music for theater and playing the saxophone. As an assistant engineer, Camila has worked in several music productions. Currently, she lives in New York City where she studies music theory and composition at the CUNY.

Boris Klompus

Boris Klompus is a musician and writer. Working within the electronic realm of music, Boris specializes in sound creation and placement. He is currently working on the synthesis of sound and story by creating an audiobook with a full soundtrack.

sydtheephantasm.com

Travis Collins

Travis Collins is a Brooklyn based musical artist. He received his MA from NYU's Music Technology program in 2007 and has been pursuing his interests in audio production, instrument construction and installation design.

Victoria Estok

Before deciding to go back to school, Victoria Estok worked as an environmental educator and advocate in both urban and back country settings. It was during this time she became aware of a deep seated need to uncover the intentions behind everyday actions. She is interested in expressing emotional undercurrents and ideas through sculpture, sound and electronics.

Kazuyo Inoue

Kazuyo Inoue was born and raised in Japan. She left her home country to study Fine Art in Paris, France, with a focus on sculpture. She has since relocated to New York. In 2006, she earned her MFA degree in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts. She incorporates new technologies with non-technological elements into her art work. She searches for a method of expression that breaks down cultural and personal barriers. Inoue's works have been chosen for solo exhibition and group exhibitions in the USA, France and Japan. In 2003, she was invited to contribute work to the ArtSUN Show at the City Museum of Kurahiki in Japan, where she was one of three Japanese artists not residing in their homeland. This particular invitation is considered an honor by the creative community and is coveted by contemporary working artists.

Jesse Fox

Jesse Fox is a musician and an engineer. He studied music composition and physics at Bates College before getting a masters degree from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. While there, Jesse took special interest in the design of human-computer interfaces and haptic feedback, especially as applied to new musical instruments. Besides actively performing as a percussionist, Jesse continues to write new music, make instruments, build bicycles, consult as an acoustician and perform engineering work for artists interested in new media.

jessefox.com

Roberto Osorio-Goenaga

Roberto Osorio-Goenaga is a music technologist and sound artist. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Puerto Rico (2003) and a Master of Music Technology degree from NYU (2005). His work has traditionally been based around the framework of digital audio, including the development of VST plug-ins, Max/MSP externals, and stand-alone software development in C/C++. He has experience in physical computing and PIC programming, and also plays guitar and bass.

www.zdomain.net

R. Luke DuBois

R. Luke DuBois holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia, NYU and the School of Visual Arts. He has done interactive programming and music production work for many artists, most recently Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Elliott Sharp and Michael Gordon and is a co-author of Jitter real-time video processing and performance software from CyclingÍ74.

www.lukedubois.com

Bob Huott

Bob Huott is a professional sound engineer, sound designer, musician and instrument designer. A graduate of SUNY Fredonia's music/engineering program under Dave Moulton, he has wide-ranging experience in audio for music, radio, video production and post-production. He has engineered sessions with Zap Mama, Sly Stone, James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave and many others. Bob has designed and built several new instruments. An early project, the Ski was built using Tactex fiberoptic sensors, while a more recent prototype uses hardware of his own invention. After studying interaction design with Bill Verplank, Bob recently completed a residency at the Banff Centre.

Evan Cairo

Evan Cairo was born Rolf Evan Cunningham in Massachusetts to opera singer/set/prop designer parents and raised in Germany, England and France amongst the castles and history of the old world. Deposited in the coniferous wilderness of Maine to battle out his adolescence, Evan eventually travelled to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts where he learned very quickly that even in art school, they want to put you in neat, convenient little boxes. Changing his name in an attempt to conjure and bait adventure, excitement and romance, he leapt into the arms of MTV Animation and Nickelodeon where he learned a lot about corporate art and design. Striking out on his own, he has been working as a freelance designer, photographer, illustrator and maker of video. In 2001, after narrowly escaping the dot com implosion, Evan began adding fine art to his list of professional activities. After 8 years entrenched in the lively underground art and music scene collaborating with many groups, he has journeyed to the verdant burg of philadelphia to lead a jet-setting, bi-city lifestyle where he finally has room to work on larger scale projects and murals, while still maintaining a foothold in the new york art scene by collaborating with LEMUR and completing projects of his own in the form of murals and gallery shows. His work often deals with humanity, isolation, estrangement, technology, dreams and the bizarre. He loves the wide open spaces of the American West, cats, crépes, color, texture, robots, tentacles, music and bicycles.

www.cairobot.com

Ajay Kapur

Ajay Kapur graduated with a BSE computer science degree from Princeton University in 2002 under the mentorship of Perry Cook. He studies tabla and sitar in Mumbai, India, at the Alla Rakha Institute of Music and The Ustad Siraj Khan Institute of Sitar. Ajay has been playing percussion instruments for 19 years while studying world rhythms, composition, Indian classical theory, and computer based music theory. He has been collaborating and mentored in the art of building robotic musical instruments by Trimpin and Eric Singer. Ajay is currently a Ph.D. student at University of Victoria working towards an Interdisciplinary degree in Music, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Psychology with a focus on Intelligent Music and Media Technology. He is also founder of the KarmetiK Underground, a live electro acoustic tribal dance music band.

www.karmetik.com, www.ajaykapur.com

Jeff Feddersen

Jeff Feddersen has been an Adjunct Professor at NYU and is currently a Technology Researcher at Honeybee Robotics in New York City. He has worked with artists ranging from filmmaker Jem Cohen to media artist Ben Rubin and with institutions including the Walker Art Center, The American Museum of Natural History and Minnesota Public Radio.

Milena Iossifova

Milena Iossifova is a Bulgarian-born multimedia artist and holds a Masters degree from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. She has presented her work at Creative Time (NY), the North-West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival (Portland, USA), the SlunceLuna Electronic Music Festival (Trigrad, Bulgaria), the DUMBO Arts Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Launch Option (Berlin, Germany) and the Sammlung Essl for Contemporary Art (Vienna, Austria).

Bil Bowen

Bil Bowen is a composer, sound designer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and recording engineer. His work is heard on major record label releases, video games, web sites, radio broadcasts and independent film releases throughout the world.

Kevin Larke

Kevin Larke has been a Software Engineer at Ensoniq Corporation, an Adjunct Instructor at the NYU Music Technology Department and a Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab, where he worked on Tod Machover's opera Resurrection.

David Bianciardi

David Bianciardi is a musician and interactive technology designer and the founder of Audio, Video & Controls, a firm providing show control systems to clients such as AT&T, Eerie World Entertainment, Interactive Technologies and Miramax Films. In 1998, he co-founded Synesthesia and co-created Interactive Dance Club, an unprecedented multi-participant environment featuring interactive music, lighting and live computer-generated imagery, which premiered at SIGGRAPH 98.

Rocio Barcia

Rocio Barcia is an interactive-media video artist interested in combining the physical and the virtual through installations and performances. She studied cinema and performing arts for three years in Buenos Aires. Her video-art piece, 'Adamaris,' was a finalist in the Aguante Buenos Aires Festival in 2003. Currently, Rocio is a graduate student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is exploring different ways of combining video, performing arts, and physical computing to produce a narrative cinematic atmosphere.

Chad Redmon

Chad Redmon has worked on a broad variety of projects including live video mixing, environmental design, web animation, game design, interactive installations, performance art and film. Currently Chad is working with Eric Logan as the MAJESTIC 12, a visual design group focused on live video mixing and content creation for parties and raves. MAJESTIC 12 has performed over 150 shows, including work with such noted acts as The Roots, LTJ Bukem and the Last Poets. He has also collaborated with several fringe art groups such as the fire circus Magmavox and the Brooklynbased multidisciplinary machine art collective, the Madagascar Institute.