Hallo folks --
I'm based at CU-Boulder at the moment as a visiting lecturer of
Digital Art in the Dept of Art & Art History, but returning to Europe
in January 2004 where I have been based since 1989 involved in
teaching (in many Northern European art/design academies) and
surviving on public cultural patrimony monies. Since 1995 I lived
out of a suitcase and taught in 15-20 universities a year, doing
seminars and workshops around the title "networking and creativity."
I've been a networker since the early 80's via the cassette
underground and global mailart network and subsequently in the early
90's using the possibilities of telecom networks for a/synchronous
collab and performative work. Lately I'm deep into live streaming
performances w/ audio/video using VDMX and keyworx/keystroke working
with radiostadt1, radiotopia, (no)music, open radio, and other orgs,
as well as facilitating some fun 24-hours happenings
http://neoscenes.net/projects/difusion1 &
http://neoscenes.net/projects/difusion2. I recently wrote an article
for AcousticSpace3 (riga) entitled 1+1=3 that outlines some of my
practices and ideas around human networks and collaboration
http://neoscenes.net/texts/xchange3 .
I'm a member of the Icelandic Artists Union and the Finnish Arts Org
MUU, and technically doing my doctorate at the Media Lab of the Univ
of Art & Design Helsinki, something I may never complete, but...
My first degree was in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado
School of Mines and subsequently had a short career (4 years) as an
international explorationist (I call it the Imperialist Vanguard
these days) for a major oil company, so I have some deep first-hand
knowledge of the regime in power in the US these days (and their
level of corruption). I returned to school to get an MFA in
photo/electronic media after some years in NYC working as a master
printer and hanging with my brother who was a fashion photog
circulating in the 80's club scene (danceteria, studio 54,
palladium). Got the opportunity to study with Stan Brakhage on the
way...
I've got a substantial webspace at http://neoscenes.net that started
in early 1994 on the Icelandic Educational Network when I was
starting up the Electronic Media program at the Icelandic National
Academy in Reykjavik... I'm no designer, and am pondering how to
migrate 2000 pages of stuff to something that looks better...
cheers
jh
PS -- Stefan -- I helped facilitate an interesting collaborative
network project with an Icelandic colleague, the P.A. & R
(printmaking, art and research) that brought students at the
Frankfurt a/M art school into a collab network with three other
European schools between 1995-2000, it was one of the few successful
long-term art/edu collab things around Europe at that time...
I did a search in my mail folder -- and, yes, now I recognize your
name -- we were both in a project "sound calendar" that Mathias Fuchs
curated a few years back... and didn't we meet in Riga at the
happening in 2001 at RIXC?