Gary Hayes
LAMP Director, AFTRS

Gary Hayes is the Director of LAMP and has been at the forefront of worldwide emerging media development and production since 1993. After joining the BBC in London as an editor he quickly moved on to lead the BBC's development of the Internet, interactive TV and emerging platforms from 95/04 as Senior Producer and Development Manager. The BBC grew from a linear broadcaster to world leader in cross-platform services during this period.

Gary devised and produced many of the BBC's 'firsts', Digital Text, the first broadcast interactive TV service, 'Nomad' the first live internet documentary, 'X-Creatures' the first broadband TV service and in '96 introduced the first video and audio onto the BBC's internet sites. He also produced and devised over 20 other eTV and broadband TV services including Top of the Pops, Travel Show, State Apart and several future BBC cross-platform navigators. Gary created numerous courses and seminars on Interactive thinking for linear producers and was a leading part of BBC strategy teams from 2001 in preparing for on-demand, cross-platform services. He also chaired the Business Models Group from 99-03 for TV-Anytime (the lead media-on-demand standards body).

Living and consulting in the US during 2004, he line-produced Showtime's PVR enhanced L-Word, as part of AFI digital labs and devised a range of new on-demand program formats for two national TV networks. A specialist in personalised digital TV over broadcast and broadband networks, Gary evangelises on the empowerment potential of non-passive media.

He runs a blog on Media Personalisation at www.personalizemedia.com and an Interactive producers site at www.garyhayes.tv

Mark Pesce
www.playfulworld.com

Known internationally as the man who fused virtual reality with the World Wide Web, Mark Pesce has been exploring the frontiers of the future for over two decades.

The author of five books, Pesce is widely respected as a technologist, futurist, philosopher and thinker able to translate abstract concepts into concrete explanations. Mainstream publications such as Forbes ASAP, TIME Digital, WIRED and The New York Times have profiled him and his views on the interactive age. A well-respected journalist, Pesce has written for WIRED, Feed, Salon, PC Magazine, and serves on the editorial board of TRIP magazine.

Mark will introduce and discuss Blue State a new collaboration with John Tonkin, which we will be presented in Interactive City at ISEA 06.   Blue State generates a data shadow drawn from all network visible entities as they move through relational space; entities are recorded and visualized... http://01sj.org/content/view/377/49/

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John Emery
Head of Literature Board of the Australia Council - www.ozco.gov.au

John will present 'The Story of the Future', an Austraia Council initiative which aims to encourage novelists, poets, dramatists, children's and other literary writers to collaboratively develop their digital narrative skills and projects within studio teams. It will model the creation of the next generation of sophisticated games and other digital and cross-platform narrative forms.

John Emery has published 4 works of fiction - winning National Short Story of the Year and being Short-Listed for the Adelaide Festival Award for Novel. As a screenwriter he adapted his own short story into Backroads for Phil Noyce. He adapted another of his stories for Scott Hicks' first feature, Freedom. Other screenplays followed, including Fever and Strangers with Craig Lahiff. He won an Awgie award for a mini-series adaptation. He has written & produced documentaries ad training films. John served as a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council 2000-2004 and was co-Head of Screenwriting at AFTRS until 2005. He is now Director of Literature at the Australia Council.

Kylie Robertson
Kylie is an award-winning graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & TV

Originally trained as a scientific photographer, Kylie progressed to international recognition as an interactive filmmaker, her graduate film ' Silent Passages' winning a spot at MILIA 2000 Cannes and festival screenings around the world.

She has finished stage one development of her pilot mobile series Girl Friday funded by the AFC, Film Victoria and Digital Pictures and is preparing stage two, production of a Public Pilot. She has also piloted an original concept, Jupiter Green, an interactive drama series in conjunction with the AFC and Sensis. She has also recently received funding for the development of an advanced pitch document for a pilot interactive series called Rock Chickz

Until December 2005, Kylie worked within the design team at Digital Pictures Interactive Melbourne, her role encompassing senior interactive design and studio management. Her work spanned both broadcast and interactive platforms and can be seen on DVD menus such as the Butterfly Effect, Whaler Rider, Oils on The Water, Kath & Kim, and Swimming Pool.

Kylie has recently partnered with Debra Allanson, ex CEO of Screen West in a new business venture called Ish Media. The business aims to serve as a bridge for the film and television industry to interactive narrative development and multiplatform entertainment. Her work Girl Friday is featured in d/Art/06/mobile at the Sydney Opera House

www.girlfriday.tv

Larissa Hjorth
Artist and lecturer, BA (Digital Art), Games Program, School of Creative Media, RMIT

Larissa Hjorth's practice over twelve years has incorporated video, photography, sound and even smell in order to explore the ways in which domestication and commodification are negotiated through everyday practices.

Over the last five years her work has been influenced by the cultural shifts in the Asia-Pacific region; in particular, the role of mediated forms of communication such as the mobile phone. Her current project, society of the phoneur, looks at the way in which mobile phones are used in different cultural contexts and how they have been adopted in particular locations to signify types of social positions. Recently returned from an AsialInk residency in Seoul, ROK Larissa observes and explore on how portable media devices infiltrate social networks and their transformative effect of interpersonal relations.

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Drew Macrae
Australian Film Commission. Policy Officer, Publishing, Policy & Research Office. www.afc.gov.au

The AFC through new intititives including the ICD Interactive Media Fund aims to encourage professional development of film and television practitioners and digital media producers to engage with interactive content for online and broadband applications.

Fostering an understanding within the filmmaking and digital media production community of the current and future potential for the development of interactive content, Drew Macrae will provide an overview of the AFC current role and how it aims to postion Australian content creators to respond to emergent and developing technologies and markets.

John Butterworth
CEO of AIMIA Australian Interactive Media Inustry Association

Founded in 1992, AIMIA is the peak national industry body representing the Interactive Media and Digital Content sectors in Australia and is a consortium member in the highly successful Mobile Journeys program. www.aimia.com.au

Leslie Nassar
http://mojourno.com/leslie

Based in Sydney, Leslie works with broadcasters, artists, aggregators, and carriers world-wide to help them create mobile experiences that don't suck. Leslie is the designer and developer of the Podcast Publisher system. Used by ABC Radio National to make 29 shows available online and via the iTunes Music Store, Podcast Publisher has helped the ABC serve over 4-terabytes of audio content each week.

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