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Shaxeb S.
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CeC is an annual creativity carnival in India organized by the Academy of Electronic Arts to bring together creative practitioners from India and around the world. It features presentations, performances, and screenings from illustrious participants across fields like education, science, technology, and the arts. The document provides information on CeC's vision and past speakers from 2006-2010 who represent countries like the UK, Germany, Japan, USA, Spain, Norway, Switzerland.

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Vision ¡°To develop CeC into India¡¯s finest offering as a broad-based and advanced creativity carnival catering to practitioners and audiences across India and the world¡± Presentations Performances Screenings
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CeC Past Speakers / Performers Shankar Barua (India) Shankar, besides practicing across the arts, has for many years been networking e-Creative Practitioners globally with The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], The AeA [Academy of Electronic Arts] and CeC & CaC [Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave]. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The Electronic Music Foundation and EMF-Institute, and has also been a featured speaker and course-advisor to several top Indian institutes of creativity education. Lawrence Casserley (UK) Lawrence Casserley , composer, conductor, percussionist/vocalist and electroacoustic musician, has more than a quarter century of experience as a composer, performer and improviser of electroacoustic music, with a particular emphasis on live performance. His first live electroacoustic works were composed and performed in 1969 and he has continued to use electroacoustic means in performance, often combined with light, theatre, mime and/or video. He was on the staff of the Royal College of Music, London, where he became Professor in Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music, for more than twenty-five years. Lawrence, is on the Advisory Board of CeC.
CeC Past Speakers / Performers Bettina Wenzel (Germany) Bettina Wenzel is a vocal-artist, searching beyond the limitations of the human voice. Besides her composition of vocal pieces, she establishes relationships between video and voice, in a play between reality and illusion, trying to stick both sides together as close as possible by real time interactions between voice and images. In her piece ¡®fresi.son¡¯, walls subtly start to move and to turn into waves in response to her voice. A virtual dialogue between light and voice is the main subject of ¡®neon.son¡¯. The pieces for voice & tape create the illusion of a virtual choir. Her recent works ¡®black-fan-quartet¡¯ and ¡®tree¡¯ developed in collaboration with the filmmaker Shrikant Agawane, were presented at the National Centre for Performing Arts during an arts residency she served in Mumbai, August 2009. Emma Ota (Japan) Emma is a curator and researcher based in Tokyo. Her practices focus upon media arts and international exchange. She has worked for the media arts organization Trampoline, based in Germany and the UK, and co-curated the Radiator Festival for Art and Technology in 2005. In this yea, she also initiated the project Traversing Territories, fostering collaboration between students and young artists in Japan and UK. In 2006, she established the project Dislocate for art, technology and locality, which brings together international artists and experts in the discussion and debate of the role of new media in relation to our environment.
CeC Past Speakers / Performers Dafna Naphtali (USA) Dafna is a sound artist /improviser/composer from an eclectic musical background. As a singer/guitarist/electronic-musician, she performs and composes using her MAX/MSP programming for sound processing to alter the sound of her singing, vocalisms, and personalized recordings as well as the sound of her accompaniments. She collaborates and performs regularly with many well known experimental musicians and co-leads Digital Chamber Punk Ensemble. She¡¯s received numerous grants (NYFA, NYSCA, Meet the Composer, Experimental TV Center). Dafna also teaches and conducts workshops at universities in the US and Europe, and holds a Masters in Music Technology from NYU, where she is part-time faculty. Hans Tammen (USA) Hans creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He discovers hidden sound properties through means of his modified ENDANGERED GUITAR, interactive software programming, stereo and multichannel sound systems, and by working with the room itself. Signal to Noise called his works ¡°¡­a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage¡±, All music guide recommended him as ¡°¡­clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.
CeC Past Speakers / Performers Ima Pico (Spain / UK) Ima is a visual artist and digital muralist based in Manchester, UK. Her recent works explores media saturation in contemporary culture through the use of photography and digital manipulation. She has exhibited internationally in galleries and museum in solo and group exhibitions and organizes exchanges with artists from different regions in Europe, US and Asia. Ima undertakes curatorial projects under the name Black Duck to promote the work of contemporary artists working in performance, installation, digital media and video to an international audience. Michael Ormiston (USA) Michael is UK¡¯s leading Mongolian Overtone (Khoomi) Singer / Teacher and multi-instrumentalist playing Morin Khuur (Mongolian Horse Head Fiddle), Tibetan Singing Bowls, Ney (Turkish end blown flute), Harmonic Flutes etc., alongside live electronic processing. His music crosses the borders between traditional, contemporary, ambient, free-improv and meditation genre. Michael¡¯s original compositions have been used on TV (BBC and Channel 4), Theatre (Theatre de Complicite), Dance (Ballet Frankfurt Dancers) and performance (London Jazz Festival).
CeC Past Speakers / Performers Lionel Dentan (Switzerland) Lionel started off playing the guitar, including studies at the Lausanne Classical Conservatory, and graduated to learn Jazz and Oriental music. He studied Turkish Saaz with Mousto Mustafa and is now training in Sitar in the style of Imdadkhani Gharana. Lionel is primarily an electronic composer and live performer playing sythesizers, laptops, Saaz, Rebab and Sitar, in radical explorations of different genres of music ranging from Hindustani Classical through to Middle Eastern styles, via abstract electronic and ambient sounds. Joker Nies (Germany) Joker is a musician, sound designer and engineer, photographer and technical editor for the German Sound & Recording and Keyboards magazines, based in Cologne. Since the early 80s, he has been experimenting with all kinds of electronic sound- sources, such as modular-analog synthesizers, individually designed electronic devices, DSP-based systems and software- based sound sources. During the early 90s, modifying the Omnichord became his initiation into what is known as Circuit- Bending. Since that time, Joker has converted many simple music toys into alien sound devices. Joker also holds workshops, lectures and tutorials all over the world on Circuit-Bending, Creative Circuit-Design and also software synthdesign in MAX/MSP.
CeC Past Speakers / Performers Ingrid Lode(Norway) Though born in the tiny town of Fraenas, nestled between mountains and the Atlantic ocean, studies in music led Ingrid to Trondheim in Norway, where she now lives, playing, teaching and studying music. Her formal training lies in violin, piano, guitar, singing, drums, choir, jazz and all ballet besides modern dance. She is also a trained music teacher, focussed primarily upon improvisation and singing. Ingrid has been / is part of the bands, Kobert (Jazz trio), Trondheim Voices and Intervolution, along with Lawrence Casserley and Aparna Panshikar, that played concerts in Germany and Berlin. Kurt Korthals (USA / Germany) Kurt is a software developer with the legendary music software company Native Instruments. Since his adolesecence , Kurt has worked with many bands, cinematographers, dancers, visual artists and produces his own music with instruments and tools such as the clarinet, various analogue synthesizers and digital machines. His musical style is difficult to describe as it often crosses musical boundaries, mixing experimental, Hip-Hop, world music and field recordings to create artful compositions of melodic instrumental music. In doing so, Kurt brings acoustics, vintage electronics and cutting-edge music software together, naturally, until the songs seem to write themselves.
CeC Complete List of Participation and Content For the complete list of Speakers / Performers and Video Collections between CeC 2006-2010, kindly refer to CeC Participation 2006-10.XLS
CeC Core Information Organizing Body: The Academy of Electronic Arts (AeA) (also known as The Academy of Experimental Arts) is a Public Benefit Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution Objective with CeC: To periodically bring together unique creative knowledge and practices from India and the world in order to create a diversified and expanding network of individuals and a range of collaborative opportunities that would empower a culture of innovations and creative practices across society and life in general CeC Genesis: New Delhi, 2006 (in partnership with India International Centre) CeC Next Edition: The 6th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (Feb 2011, Sattal Estate)
AeA Credits ? Historical Electronic Arts Archives: CeC¡¯s founding body, The AeA (Academy of eArts) maintains what is widely regarded, in informed circles, to be one of the most significant global archives of electronic arts in the early 21st century ? Illustrious Network of Participants: CeC¡¯s major credits have been in the area of primary participation¡ªwhich is by invitation only,¡ªwith illustrious individuals from international networks of education, science, technology and arts embracing the platform. Whereas we presently network more than 2000 creative practitioners across space and professions, this constituency is also always growing by continuously ongoing processes of research and outreach ? National TV Coverage: A 23min. video documentary of CeC 2007 was nationally telecast several times that summer by Lok Sabha TV. Some other channels have carried shorter reports of various iterations of the incident ? EdgeLogue: A 2-Day segment on the lines of CeC has been commissioned by Delhi International Arts Festival 2010 as part of its schedule

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  • 1. Vision ¡°To develop CeC into India¡¯s finest offering as a broad-based and advanced creativity carnival catering to practitioners and audiences across India and the world¡± Presentations Performances Screenings
  • 50. CeC Past Speakers / Performers Shankar Barua (India) Shankar, besides practicing across the arts, has for many years been networking e-Creative Practitioners globally with The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], The AeA [Academy of Electronic Arts] and CeC & CaC [Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave]. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The Electronic Music Foundation and EMF-Institute, and has also been a featured speaker and course-advisor to several top Indian institutes of creativity education. Lawrence Casserley (UK) Lawrence Casserley , composer, conductor, percussionist/vocalist and electroacoustic musician, has more than a quarter century of experience as a composer, performer and improviser of electroacoustic music, with a particular emphasis on live performance. His first live electroacoustic works were composed and performed in 1969 and he has continued to use electroacoustic means in performance, often combined with light, theatre, mime and/or video. He was on the staff of the Royal College of Music, London, where he became Professor in Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music, for more than twenty-five years. Lawrence, is on the Advisory Board of CeC.
  • 51. CeC Past Speakers / Performers Bettina Wenzel (Germany) Bettina Wenzel is a vocal-artist, searching beyond the limitations of the human voice. Besides her composition of vocal pieces, she establishes relationships between video and voice, in a play between reality and illusion, trying to stick both sides together as close as possible by real time interactions between voice and images. In her piece ¡®fresi.son¡¯, walls subtly start to move and to turn into waves in response to her voice. A virtual dialogue between light and voice is the main subject of ¡®neon.son¡¯. The pieces for voice & tape create the illusion of a virtual choir. Her recent works ¡®black-fan-quartet¡¯ and ¡®tree¡¯ developed in collaboration with the filmmaker Shrikant Agawane, were presented at the National Centre for Performing Arts during an arts residency she served in Mumbai, August 2009. Emma Ota (Japan) Emma is a curator and researcher based in Tokyo. Her practices focus upon media arts and international exchange. She has worked for the media arts organization Trampoline, based in Germany and the UK, and co-curated the Radiator Festival for Art and Technology in 2005. In this yea, she also initiated the project Traversing Territories, fostering collaboration between students and young artists in Japan and UK. In 2006, she established the project Dislocate for art, technology and locality, which brings together international artists and experts in the discussion and debate of the role of new media in relation to our environment.
  • 52. CeC Past Speakers / Performers Dafna Naphtali (USA) Dafna is a sound artist /improviser/composer from an eclectic musical background. As a singer/guitarist/electronic-musician, she performs and composes using her MAX/MSP programming for sound processing to alter the sound of her singing, vocalisms, and personalized recordings as well as the sound of her accompaniments. She collaborates and performs regularly with many well known experimental musicians and co-leads Digital Chamber Punk Ensemble. She¡¯s received numerous grants (NYFA, NYSCA, Meet the Composer, Experimental TV Center). Dafna also teaches and conducts workshops at universities in the US and Europe, and holds a Masters in Music Technology from NYU, where she is part-time faculty. Hans Tammen (USA) Hans creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He discovers hidden sound properties through means of his modified ENDANGERED GUITAR, interactive software programming, stereo and multichannel sound systems, and by working with the room itself. Signal to Noise called his works ¡°¡­a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage¡±, All music guide recommended him as ¡°¡­clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.
  • 53. CeC Past Speakers / Performers Ima Pico (Spain / UK) Ima is a visual artist and digital muralist based in Manchester, UK. Her recent works explores media saturation in contemporary culture through the use of photography and digital manipulation. She has exhibited internationally in galleries and museum in solo and group exhibitions and organizes exchanges with artists from different regions in Europe, US and Asia. Ima undertakes curatorial projects under the name Black Duck to promote the work of contemporary artists working in performance, installation, digital media and video to an international audience. Michael Ormiston (USA) Michael is UK¡¯s leading Mongolian Overtone (Khoomi) Singer / Teacher and multi-instrumentalist playing Morin Khuur (Mongolian Horse Head Fiddle), Tibetan Singing Bowls, Ney (Turkish end blown flute), Harmonic Flutes etc., alongside live electronic processing. His music crosses the borders between traditional, contemporary, ambient, free-improv and meditation genre. Michael¡¯s original compositions have been used on TV (BBC and Channel 4), Theatre (Theatre de Complicite), Dance (Ballet Frankfurt Dancers) and performance (London Jazz Festival).
  • 54. CeC Past Speakers / Performers Lionel Dentan (Switzerland) Lionel started off playing the guitar, including studies at the Lausanne Classical Conservatory, and graduated to learn Jazz and Oriental music. He studied Turkish Saaz with Mousto Mustafa and is now training in Sitar in the style of Imdadkhani Gharana. Lionel is primarily an electronic composer and live performer playing sythesizers, laptops, Saaz, Rebab and Sitar, in radical explorations of different genres of music ranging from Hindustani Classical through to Middle Eastern styles, via abstract electronic and ambient sounds. Joker Nies (Germany) Joker is a musician, sound designer and engineer, photographer and technical editor for the German Sound & Recording and Keyboards magazines, based in Cologne. Since the early 80s, he has been experimenting with all kinds of electronic sound- sources, such as modular-analog synthesizers, individually designed electronic devices, DSP-based systems and software- based sound sources. During the early 90s, modifying the Omnichord became his initiation into what is known as Circuit- Bending. Since that time, Joker has converted many simple music toys into alien sound devices. Joker also holds workshops, lectures and tutorials all over the world on Circuit-Bending, Creative Circuit-Design and also software synthdesign in MAX/MSP.
  • 55. CeC Past Speakers / Performers Ingrid Lode(Norway) Though born in the tiny town of Fraenas, nestled between mountains and the Atlantic ocean, studies in music led Ingrid to Trondheim in Norway, where she now lives, playing, teaching and studying music. Her formal training lies in violin, piano, guitar, singing, drums, choir, jazz and all ballet besides modern dance. She is also a trained music teacher, focussed primarily upon improvisation and singing. Ingrid has been / is part of the bands, Kobert (Jazz trio), Trondheim Voices and Intervolution, along with Lawrence Casserley and Aparna Panshikar, that played concerts in Germany and Berlin. Kurt Korthals (USA / Germany) Kurt is a software developer with the legendary music software company Native Instruments. Since his adolesecence , Kurt has worked with many bands, cinematographers, dancers, visual artists and produces his own music with instruments and tools such as the clarinet, various analogue synthesizers and digital machines. His musical style is difficult to describe as it often crosses musical boundaries, mixing experimental, Hip-Hop, world music and field recordings to create artful compositions of melodic instrumental music. In doing so, Kurt brings acoustics, vintage electronics and cutting-edge music software together, naturally, until the songs seem to write themselves.
  • 56. CeC Complete List of Participation and Content For the complete list of Speakers / Performers and Video Collections between CeC 2006-2010, kindly refer to CeC Participation 2006-10.XLS
  • 57. CeC Core Information Organizing Body: The Academy of Electronic Arts (AeA) (also known as The Academy of Experimental Arts) is a Public Benefit Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution Objective with CeC: To periodically bring together unique creative knowledge and practices from India and the world in order to create a diversified and expanding network of individuals and a range of collaborative opportunities that would empower a culture of innovations and creative practices across society and life in general CeC Genesis: New Delhi, 2006 (in partnership with India International Centre) CeC Next Edition: The 6th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (Feb 2011, Sattal Estate)
  • 58. AeA Credits ? Historical Electronic Arts Archives: CeC¡¯s founding body, The AeA (Academy of eArts) maintains what is widely regarded, in informed circles, to be one of the most significant global archives of electronic arts in the early 21st century ? Illustrious Network of Participants: CeC¡¯s major credits have been in the area of primary participation¡ªwhich is by invitation only,¡ªwith illustrious individuals from international networks of education, science, technology and arts embracing the platform. Whereas we presently network more than 2000 creative practitioners across space and professions, this constituency is also always growing by continuously ongoing processes of research and outreach ? National TV Coverage: A 23min. video documentary of CeC 2007 was nationally telecast several times that summer by Lok Sabha TV. Some other channels have carried shorter reports of various iterations of the incident ? EdgeLogue: A 2-Day segment on the lines of CeC has been commissioned by Delhi International Arts Festival 2010 as part of its schedule