Dr. Jondi Keane

Jondi Keane – jondikeane.com– is an arts practitioner, critical thinker and Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne. Over the last 27 years he has exhibited and performed in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. Recent creative projects include the READING ROOM exhibition at the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2008), the installation-performance Tuning Fork: Shopfront at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane (2008) and Tuning Fork: Drill Hall at Critical Path in Sydney (2009). He has published on embodiment, experimental architecture and practice-led research in a range of journals including Ecological Psychology, Janus Head and Interfaces, and book chapters in E. Holland, D.W. Smith and C. Stivale (eds), Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (Continuum, 2009) and in J-J. Lecercle and F. Kral (eds.) Architecture and Philosophy- New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa & Madeline Gins (Rodopi Press, 2010). He co-organised an online conference on Arakawa and Gins (March 2010), the proceedings of which are to be published in a special issue of Inflexions journal. He collaborates with Pia Ednie-Brown in the production of research papers, workshops and creative projects.

Dr Pia Ednie-Brown
Pia Ednie-Brown – onomatopoeia.com.au– is a designer, educator and theorist with creative research practice Onomatopoeia. She is an Associate Professor at RMIT University’s School of Architecture and Design, in Melbourne, Australia, based in the Architecture program and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL). Her creative work includes interactive architectural installations, drawing and sculptural pieces, video performance, participatory workshops, and writing. Her research has been concerned with emergence, technology, embodiment and affect, ethics and aesthetics, and sustainability. She has directed numerous creative research projects involving multiple disciplines across the arts and sciences. Her book Plastic Green: designing for environmental transformation (RMIT Publishing, 2009) is an outcome of one of these projects. From 2009 to 2011 she led an Australian Research Council Discovery project (with Prof. Mark Burry, Oron Catts, and Dr Andrew Burrow), seeking to re-theorise innovation for contemporary design practices in terms of coupled ethical and aesthetic concerns therein. She collaborates with Jondi Keane in the production of research papers, workshops and creative projects.

Scott Andrew Elliott
Scott Andrew Elliott is a Canadian artist and teacher in the Environmental Art department of the Aalto University School of Art and Design.  His work is focused primarily on environmental installations in the form of large site specific architectural works. Each work demands active participation from visitors.  The projects examine the relationship between person and architectural environment.

Elliott has presented his work in Canada, Finland, and France.

The duo of Lori Felker and Adam Strohm have been collaborating for over ten years. Their most recent work is a series of videos that explores divergences from the documentary form through a playful obfuscation of the lines between fact and fiction and the nebulous relationship that binds text and image. During their stay in Tallinn, Felker and Strohm will collect aural, visual, and written source material for an upcoming short video, experimenting with the repetition of daily accumulation as a generative process.

Lori Felker employs many forms/formats, practices frequently with others, and tries hard not to shy away from expressing her thoughts on human behavior, travel, inter-activity, frustration, failure and political irritants. Her work has screened internationally at festivals such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival; NYFF: Views from the Avant-Garde; VideoEx, Zurich; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; and  Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, Portugal. Lori is currently a member of the faculty and staff at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Festival Coordinator for the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Adam Strohm is a writer of words, maker of sounds, and creator of two-dimensional images. His writing appears regularly on the pages of Dusted Magazine and Signal to Noise.

Felker and Strohm live in Chicago with Czubek.

Peter Nicholson is a cellist, improviser and composer living and working in Scotland.  He is establishing a reputation as a musician who works across a wide spectrum of genres and forms and who brings together diverse elements of musical language.

Peter became interested in improvised music shortly after coming to Glasgow in 2002, when he played in a free improvising trio called the Age of Wire and String with Neil Davidson and Jamie Allen. Just after this he joined the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with whom he still plays. Recently he has released a duo CD on the Iorram label with saxophonist Raymond MacDonald called ‘Street Level’.  Peter has performed as in improviser in solo and small group contexts throughout Europe and the UK. 

As a composer Peter has written music for The One Ensemble, a group he has played and toured with extensively since 2004.  He also has a solo album called ‘Shutters Drawn’.  The latter is comprised of both songs and multi-instrumental compositions. He is currently working on material for a new solo album.

As a cellist he is classically trained and has worked with various orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and with musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Kevin Ayres. In February 2010 he joined the Viridian String Quartet, ensemble in residence at the University of Glasgow.

Recent solo performances have included performances at Le Weekend Festival 2010 and at festivals in Paris, Lyon and Geneva and at the Avantgarde festival in northern Germany (www.avantgardefestival.de).

During a brief residency in Tallinn, Peter will perform and lead workshops in music improvisation.

For the Ptarmigan residency programme, the collaborative project Hardcore Metaphor (Denmark) will open a pop-up Artist's Café in Tallinn's Pelgulinn neighbourhood.  Café Hardcore Metaphor will be open to the public during the weekends, serving coffee, cake and a special surprise of the day.  The café will host a small library of reference books and self-published artist magazines and serve as a platform for a variety of events, such as The London Urban Gothic Lecture and The Three Day Puzzle Lock-In.