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education

since 2006

PhD student in Applied Information Technology - IT-University of Göteborg, Sweden
2002-2006
PhD student in Informatics - Göteborg University, Sweden (changed institution in 2006)
2000-02 MSc in Engineering Physics (electroacoustics) - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (more)
1996-99 Licence ès Sciences Physiques (condensed matter) - University of Geneva, Switzerland (more)
1993-96 French Baccalauréat Scientifique (physics-chemistry), with mention - Geneva, Switzerland (more)

 qualifications

research


Concept development, interaction design, prototyping, user studies, paper writing, reviewing, lecturing, project leading

engineering Electroacoustics, music acoustics, signal processing, electronics, optics, physics, media tech

computer Pd, Max/MSP, Cubase, Aladdin DSP, PSpice, Basic, Origin, Matlab, Maple, Pascal, Delphi, EditDV, html + regular office programs

languages 1rst language: French
Fluent: English, Swedish
Comprehension: Norwegian, Danish
Notions: Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Wolof

experience Research, project management, teaching, web-design, logistics (workshops, exhibitions, demos, installations, festivals), audio engineering (studio and concert), office work, etc. Good at both team and individual work, comfortable with specialised as well as multi-disciplinary research contexts

activities
conferences &
festivals with publications


(for more info about the projects mentioned here, see projects)
2006
Context Photography (w/ M. Håkansson presenting & S. Ljungblad) at NordiCHI'06, Oslo, Norway
Mobile Music workshop series featured at Futuresonic, Manchester, UK (not present)
Report about the Mobile Music Workshops (w/ Behrendt etc) at NIME'06, Paris, France
BashoCam (w/ Svante Hermansson) at CHI'06 in Montreal, Canada
Context Photography (w/ M. Håkansson presenting & S. Ljungblad) at CHI'06, Montreal, Canada
2004 Sonic City at UbiComp'04, Nottingham, UK (not present)
Sonic City at NIME'04, Hamamatsu, Japan
Picture This! (w/ S. Ljungblad presenting & M. Håkansson) at CHI'04, Vienna, Austria
2003 Sonic City at Cybersonica'03, London, UK
Sonic City (w/ R. Mazé) at NIME'03, Montréal, Canada
Smart-Its (w/ Ljungblad & Skog) + Total Recall (w/ Holmquist & Sanneblad) at CHI'03, Ft. Lauderdale, USA (not present)

2002 3D Sound poster at CHI'02, Minneapolis, USA
2001

Student volunteer at PEVOC IV, Stockholm, Sweden

demos & exhibits
& performances


2006
Placard headphones festival (ToToGo) in Göteborg (co-organiser with sync24 and Berman)
2005
Random Access Memory 4 sound installation at Klubb Koloni (Göteborg), with Alexander Berman and David McCallum
Context Photography demo at UbiComp'05, Tokyo, Japan
"Important message from the public" street performance, with Alexander Berman and others
2004 EC Agent demo at the European Union's IST 2004 event, The Hague, Netherlands
Making stuff w/ Berman, Frankki & Bugmann, Dance&Theatre festival 2004, Göteborg, Sweden
Context Photography design exhibition (w/ M. Håkansson & S. Ljungblad), DIS'04, Boston, USA
Hacking the Streets exhibition at Rotor Gallery, Valand School of Arts, Göteborg, Sweden
Mobile Life exhibition, SITI conference, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Tejp demo, UbiComp'03, Seattle, USA
2002 Sonic City demo (w/ R. Mazé), UIST'02, Paris, France
Smart-Its restaurant demo, 2nd Disappearing Computer Jamboree, Ubicomp'02, Göteborg, Sweden
every year

Project demos at the Viktoria Institute's open house

workshops

2007
4th Mobile Music Workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in collaboration with STEIM and Waag Society - steering committee with Atau Tanaka and Frauke Behrendt
2006
Mobile Troops workshop at Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway
Network Performance workshop at IRCAM, Paris
3rd Mobile Muisc Technology workshop, Brighton, UK - co-organiser with Frauke Behrendt & Drew Hemment
2005 PLAN:MRL technology workshop at the Mixed-Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, UK
Doctoral colloquium (UbiComp'05), Tokyo, Japan
2nd Mobile Music Technology workshop (NIME'05), Vancouver, Canada - co-organiser with L. E. Holmquist & Atau Tanaka
Attack of the PANTs (Portable Art Noise Things) - co-organiser with David NG McCallum & Tobias Good
Designing Robot Applications for Everyday Use (Viktoria Institute), Gbg, Sweden - student volunteer
2004 Motstånd: Hack Your Toys, Göteborg - co-organiser with J. Frankki, A. Berman & D. Tinlun Chan
Applications of New Interaction Techniques (CID & Equator), Stockholm, Sweden
Hacking the Streets (by K. Moriwaki & J. Brucker-Cohen, Outside In), Göteborg, Sweden
Mobile Music Technology 2004 (Viktoria Institute), Göteborg, Sweden - invited speaker
2003 Physical Interfaces - Workshop on Real World User Interfaces (Mobile HCI 2003), Udine, Italy
Movement in the City (by B. Brown, at Mobility Studio, Interactive Institute), Stockholm, Sweden
Interaction with Sound in Public Space (Interactive Institute), Stockholm, Sweden
2002 BTnode Smart-Its workshop (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland
Wearables and Textiles workshop (Play Studio, Interactive Institute), Göteborg, Sweden
South African HCI development consortium DevCon (CHI'02), Minneapolis, USA - observer
Smart-Its hackfest (TeCo), Karlsruhe, Germany

seminars, panels & presentations


2007
Talk at Pecha-Kucha Göteborg
2005
Talk about Ubiquitous Computing and everryday creativity at the Trondheim Matchmaking festival for new technologies and electronic arts in Trondheim, Norway
Presentation at Kanta Horio's seminar in production application, Dept of Media Art, Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University
Ubiquitous Music panel (w/ Holmquist, Tanaka, Anttila, Bassoli & d'Arcangelo) at SIGGRAPH 2005, in Los Angeles, USA

PLAN:ICA, London, UK
2004 FAL presents at MIT Medialab, Boston, USA
Design for Hackability panel (w/ Galloway, Brucker-Cohen, Goodman & Hill) at DIS'04, Boston, USA

Mobile Services for Everyday Creativity seminar (w/ Håkansson & Ljungblad), Viktoria Institute
Mobile Life presents at Medialab Europe, Dublin, Ireland
2003 Soundspaces, Instruments & Environments panel (w/ J. Eacott, D. Toop, M. Eastley & DJ Spooky) + Sonic City at Cybersonica'03, London, UK
[fringe] (w/ R. Mazé & M. Jacobs), Göteborg, Sweden
2002 interactiondesigngroup seminar (w/ R. Mazé), Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

teaching

2005 Assistant for Christian Decker's lecture and student assignements about u-particles at the Intelligent Products course, Intelligent Systems Design programme, IT-University Göteborg, Sweden
Interaction with Sound and Music (for sound-art students) lectures at the Information Art & Design Course, Dept. of Interaction Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Interaction with Sound and Music (for design students) lectures at the Interaction Design project course, HCI / Interaction Design programme, IT-University Göteborg, Sweden
2003 Introduction to Music Technology lectures at the Intelligent Products course
Intelligent Systems Design programme, IT-University Göteborg, Sweden
2002 Music Technology workshop (w/ R. Mazé) at the Ubicomp course
HCI / Interaction Design programme, IT-University Göteborg, Sweden

reviewing

2008
CHI 2008
2007
ICMC 2007
Mobile Music Workshop 2007
NIME 2007
CHI 2007
2006
Meta-reviewer in the NIME 2006 programme committee
CHI 2006
ICMC 2006
2005 Mobile Music Workshop 2005
ACE 2005
NIME'05
Graphics Interface 2005
2004 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal - Tangible Interfaces in Perspective issue
2003 UbiComp'03
2002 UIST'02
UbiComp'02

press

2007

Context Photography featured along with other Mobile Life projects, in the mobil.se article "Bäst i Världen?"
Interviewed on the Leo&Leo med Jens radio programme on k103
2006
Interview by Régine Débatty on We Make Money Not Art
Reportage on the ToToGo headphones festival on the k103 radio station
2005
In the Siggraph'05 review "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be" in Editors Guild Magazine
Sonic City featured in El Mundo (Spain's 2nd largest daily newspaper): Transforma el ruido de tu barrio en una sinfonía
Contribution to PLAN:ICA mentioned in netartreview: PLAN Report: Reflections on the Pervasive & Locative Arts Network launch at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, February 1-2, 2005 (by Naomi Spellman)
2004
Article about Context Photography in Göteborgs Posten
Tejp project mentioned in FORM: Längtande kuddar, lysande gardiner (p. 4 of pdf)
Sonic City project featured in Ny Teknik: Staden som instrument
FAL and Sonic City project featured in Metro: Musik som förändras av miljön
A. Galloway writes about Sonic City in Receiver: Mobility as World-Building / Technology at Play
Picture This! project featured in Ny Teknik: Så ser ljud ut på bild
Interviewed by David Toop in Vodafone's Receiver webmag: Walking through sound
2003 Tejp project featured in Wired News: Balancing Utility With Privacy (+ story images)
Sonic City project featured on the radio programme Harddisken, Danmarks Radio - P1: Lyd i byen
1996
Soul Syndicate on the TV programme 'Mon Voisin est Formidable' (Television Suisse Romande)

awards

2004

Mobile Life awarded Best Swedish IT-Research Project 2004, SITI conference, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Total Recall winner of CHI fringe, CHI'03, Ft. Lauderdale, USA

networks

project networks


Mobile Life, Smart-Its, EC Agents


research
 communities


NIME, ICMA, UbiComp, ACM Sigchi, Convivio, PLAN

new media
 collectives


[fringe], Goutte d'Or, Hugz


  more about me
misc occupations
1996 Office work at Regards Africains magazine, Geneva, Switzerland - volunteer
1995-96 Logistics and sound engineering for Soul Syndicate (association for the promotion of alternative youth culture) Geneva, Switzerland - volunteer
1995 Sound engineering at Institut Florimont and Traverse youth centre, Geneva, Switzerland - volunteer
1994

Trainee at Shazam recording studio, Geneva, Switzerland

misc education Evening courses in Japanese (Folkuniversitetet - 2000-01) and photography (Ifage - 1998)
Computer music & sound engineering program (Traverse, 1994-95)
Windsurfing certificate (Genève plage - 1993)
Dance classes in ballet, modern/jazz, tap dance, flamenco (CPM), lindy-hop (SSS) & a bit of capoeira (Abadá) - ISTD certificates in modern theater dance & tap dance (1990), obtained at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique de Genève
Sunday school in Arabic (84-9?)

hobbies Photography, dancing (especially lindy hop and drum&bass), urban exploration, going to concerts, exhibitions, and electronic arts festivals, reading, writing, learning foreign languages, traveling, buying records, making diy things (such as pärlplattor), and watching television (lots of it)

interests Sound, architecture, street art, old north pole expeditions, discarded electronics, musicals, danish design, vintage audio equipments, tea, vinyl, bakelite radios, short movies, power tools, booming sound systems, harbours, and tractors

music taste
Jazz, funk, hip-hop, dance-hall, electronic music, balkanese and west african folk music, british urban music with plenty of bass in it (d&b, jungle, grime, etc)



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