This panel sessions focuses on the theme of designing interfaces, which use gesture and movement variables or inputs as they main ways though which to interact with the system. The discussion will take a historical overview, looking at key innovations and contemporary concerns. Perspectives from artists, designers and engineers working in this field will be presented.

Speakers:
Ivan Franco, Creative Director of Y-Dreams and artist, PT
Frank Baldé, STEIM, designer, NL
Adriana Sa, artist and musician, PT
Chair: Takuro Lippit, musician and Artistic Advisor/STEIM, NL

Location:
Clube Português de Artes e Ideias
Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2o [ao Chiado]

Bios
Ivan Franco
Ivan Franco is an electronic musician and digital artist focused on the development of new interfaces with machines. He presented performances and installations in the main electronic arts venues of Barcelona(CCCB, Metronom, Phonos, Art Futura), developing common projects and collaborations, both as musician and interactive systems designer, with people like Konic Thtr, Su-studio, Bert Bongers, Carlos Zíngaro, Rui Horta, Marija Stamenkovic, Marko Brajovic or Pedro Carneiro. He is also the R&D Director of YDreams, in the fields of interactive and ubiquitous computing.

Frank Baldé
Frank Baldé was born in Delft, the Netherlands in 1956 and lives in a little village near Amsterdam. He has been making music since he was 7 years old. After his technical studies and playing in numerous pop groups he joined Steim Foundation in Amsterdam in 1985 and started his work as software designer. A big influence has been and still is, the close collaboration with Michel Waisvisz, the artistic director of Steim which resulted in a number of music programs for live performance.

Adriana Sá
Adriana Sá is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer composer-improviser.
Designing and building her instrumentation is part of the creative process.

Her philosophical principle of a musical plasticity connected with light, movement, architecture, weather, etc., finds expression both through digital and analogue, and often architecturally-scaled instrumentation. Her work relates to specific contexts.

Takuro Lippit
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) believes in the instrumental autonomy of the turntable and the musicianship of the DJ. He is a turntable musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music. His music focuses on the live reconstruction and narratization of the phonographically amplified - the music, the sound, the technology and the past. To achieve this, he uses a unique setup consisting of hand-made hardware interfaces and a custom Max/MSP software along with one turntable and DJ mixer. He is also a concert/event curator for electronic music and a researcher of music technology.
While studying Art History and Philosophy in Tokyo, he was active as a DJ in the underground electronic music scene and formed a collective called smashTV productions which organized genre-mixing events such as anti-Gravity and bistro-Smash!. In 2002, he moved to New York to pursue graduate studies in computer music and physical computing at NYU’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program). Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM’s (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab and is currently its Artistic Co-Director.
DJ Sniff regularly performs with computer musician Yutaka Makino as Audile and with saxophonist Keir Neuringer.