Rachel O’ Dwyer (Editor in Chief)
Rachel O’Dwyer teaches on the MSC for Interactive Digital Media in the Computer Science Department of Trinity College Dublin and is undertaking a PhD in the Centre for Telecommunications Research, Department of Electronic Engineering, TCD on the political economy of mobile networks, funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). She is an associate researcher in the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCam) where she leads the postgraduate seminar on ‘audio cultures’ from which the journal Interference arises. She is co-facilitator of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA 2.0) with Benjamin Gaulon, dedicated to showcasing the work of artists and technologists and providing a forum for the intersection of these disciplines www.data.ie. Her practice based work includes experiments with locative media, ambient interfaces and data sonification. She has curated various panel discussions, workshops and exhibitions on subjects such as mobile computing, contemporary soundscape ecology, network culture, and electromagnetic spectrum policy within Dublin and internationally. She has published essays on audio culture and various aspects of technology studies with a particular focus on mobile sound and more recently the political economy of network infrastructure, including a book chapter in a recent Cambridge Scholars Publication ‘Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media’.
Sven Anderson (Journal Manager)
Sven Anderson is an artist researcher and interactive designer. He is currently working towards a PhD at Trinity College Dublin that situates the practice of sound installation in public space within the larger fields of architecture and urban design. His research explores how the practice of sound installation can be integrated within architectural, landscape, and urbanist design methodologies, with a strong focus on how site-specific sound installations function within public spaces. Anderson has been based between Ireland and the US since 2002, and his work has been installed and performed in Ireland, England, Germany, and the US.
Sarah Dunne
Sarah Dunne is a visual artist and musician based in Dublin. She completed her BA at Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2006 and her MA at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton in 2007. Her MA practice was concerned with the role of sound and vibration in generating spatial ‘presence’ and how a sculptural object can be altered by sound. She is currently undertaking a PhD in the sculpture department in National College of Art and Design.
Jessica Foley
Jessica Foley is an artist, writer & educator based in Dublin.
She graduated with distinction from the M.A. Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD in 2007. Prior to this she studied at L.S.A.D. gaining a first class honours Higher Diploma in Art & Design Education in 2005, and awarded an honours B.Des. in Visual Communication in 2004.
She has exhibited widely since 2007, showing work at thisisnotashop, P.S.1 Moma, NYC, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NYC, Tate Modern, London, and Triskel/The Black Mariah, Cork. She has had her texts published by CIRCA, Variant, an-magazine, and has written catalogue essays for CREATE/Art@Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, and Project Arts Centre, providing editorial assistance to the Visual Art team at Project Arts Centre for Forms of Imagining Issue#1.
Her work involves writing, image making, both visual & sonic, and collaborative activities with various individuals & groups. In 2007 Jessica founded The Writing Workshop with Jessamyn Fiore, and this has become a constant forum & means through which her art making & writing develops. Through an evolving practice Jessica attempts to make written & sculptural responses to actual environments & situations while allowing these responses to echo off into imagined places, weaving narratives & thoughts, often through a kind of poetry, in an effort to explore time, space & experience, systems & technologies. Her most current work involves the articulation & development of fictional characters through writing & installation (see Difference Engine) and exploring local histories of occupation and how these can be connected & traced to a global story (see Occupational Detour).
Susan Gill (Publicity Manager)
Susan Gill completed a B.A (hons) in Anthropology at D.B.S in 2006. She then obtained H.Dip at NUI Maynooth in The Anthropology of Ireland in European and Global Context in 2007, and completed a research based M.A in Anthropology, also at NUI Maynooth in 2008. She is currently a funded full-time postgraduate student a DIT, and joined the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) as a research scholar in 2008. Her research interests include: popular music, cultural and creative industries, digital economics and Marxist anthropology.
Linda O Keeffe (Reviews Editor)
Linda O Keeffe is a sound artist based in Dublin Ireland. She received a BA in Fine Art from IADT, 2002, and an MA in Fine Art Virtual Realities from The National College of Art and Design, Ireland in 2004. She received a Post Graduate Diploma in Media Studies in 2008 and is currently pursuing a PhD in the Sociology Dept. at N.U.I. Maynooth exploring the ‘Sociology of the Constructed Soundscape’. She is a lecturer at N.U.I.M in the Media Dept. and at Kairos Comms. O Keeffe has exhibited in China the USA, Canada and Europe. Her work is predominantly sound based with a focus on installation and performance. She has recently released an album with Farpointrecordings, Metamorphosis and Praxis. Her publications include, Sound is not a simulation: Methodologies for examining the experience of soundscapes, a book chapter to be published by IGI Global for the publication, Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments, and The separation from the natural to the synthetic soundscape: the case for improving sounds in Gaming, presented at the Audiomostly Conference 2009.
