Biography - Hazel Smith

Hazel Smith works in the areas of poetry, experimental writing, performance, multi-media work and hypertext, and her web page is at www.australysis.com. She has published two volumes of poetry: Abstractly Represented: poems and performance texts 1982-90, Butterfly Books, 1991 and Keys Round Her Tongue: short prose, poems and performance texts, Soma Publications, 2000. She has made two CDs of her performance work, Poet Without Language and Nuraghic Echoes; is a member of the multi-media group austraLYSIS; and co-author of a number of multi-media and hypermedia works. Hazel has given poetry performances in many countries including Australia, Great Britain, USA, Belgium and New Zealand, on the ABC, BBC and US radio, and at numerous international poetry festivals. From 1991-2001 Hazel was a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of New South Wales. She is now Senior Research Fellow in the School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra, and Deputy Director of the Canberra Centre for Writing. She is co-author with Roger Dean of Improvisation, Hypermedia And The Arts Since 1945, Harwood Academic, 1997, and author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography, Liverpool University Press, 2000. She is currently working on a book, The Writing Experiment, for Allen and Unwin.

Biography - Roger Dean

Roger Dean is an Australian composer/improviser, sound and multimedia artist: his website is at www.australysis.com. He has performed in more than 30 countries, as bassist, keyboardist, and lap-top computer artist, and is is developing computer-interactive networked improvisation, sound and intermedia work. His compositions include computer and chamber music, and he has been commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Alpha Ensemble, the Wallace Collection (UK), Chaconne Brass (UK) and others. His works are published by Open University (UK/USA), Red House, La Trobe University, and Sounds Australian, on cd-rom with the International Computer Music Association, and on the web (multimedia commissions from the Australian Film Commission, Overland Express, and others). His music is also available on more than 30 commercial recordings, including CDs on Audio Research Editions, Discus, Mosaic, Soma, Future Music Records (FMR) (UK); Jade , Rufus andTall Poppies. (Australia); and Crayon, and Frog Peak (USA). He has published two books on improvisation in music, and with Hazel Smith he wrote Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945, Harwood Academic, 1997.. His most recent book on computer-interactive sound improvisation is in press with A-R Editions (USA; with cd-rom).. He is the founder and director of austraLYSIS, the international sound and intermedia arts group. He was until early 2002 the foundation director of the Heart Research Institute, Sydney and is currently the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra.