Startup Muster - Australia's Top Start-up Event SOUTHSTART
30+ years of making
50+ keynotes. 25 cities. 13 countries. Awards, installations, events, and published work spanning three decades at the edge of technology, creativity, and culture.
This is an ongoing excavation, not a finished record. Thirty years of output doesn't organise itself - talks, panels, collaborations, publications, and installations accumulated faster than any archive could keep pace with. I'm working through it properly now: sifting old hard drives, following the long memory of the internet, giving each piece a real home here rather than leaving it scattered and unattributed. What you see is real. There's a lot still to surface.
Awards & Recognition
Startup Muster - Australia's Top Start-up Event SOUTHSTART
Startup Daily - Australia's Startup Event of the Year SOUTHSTART
Startup Muster - Australia's Top Start-up Event SOUTHSTART
Startup Muster - Australia's Top Start-up Event SOUTHSTART
FWA - Digital Pioneer
Webby Award Honouree - Charles Ives Music Studio · w/ Boston Symphony Orchestra
Webby Award Honouree - American Airlines Flagship Experience
FWA - Site of the Day - American Airlines Flagship Experience
Computer Arts - Feature Article
Japanese Web Magazine - Feature
TASCHEN: Flash Sites
TASCHEN: Music Sites
Create Online Magazine - Sound Issue Feature
TASCHEN: Web Design - Best Studios
TechTV - Television Segment / 4-Part Series
FWA - Site of the Day - CRASH!MEDIA
FITC - Best Audio - Bacardi Freestyle
FWA - Site of the Day - Bacardi Freestyle
IronFlash Award - FITC
Communication Arts - Interactive - Best Music/Entertainment
Looplabs showcased by Steve Jobs at Apple Keynote · Safari launch, San Francisco
IronFlash Award - FITC
Canadian Digital Creativity - Top 50 Innovator
SxSW - Best International Design
Webby Award - Music
SxSW - Best Non-Profit
SxSW - Streaming Audio
FlashForward - Best Audio
FlashForward - Best Sound
FITC - Best Audio
FWA - Site of the Month - Looplabs
FWA - Site of the Day - Looplabs
Create Online - Feature
Ultrashock Award - Looplabs
Macromedia Site of The Day
Macromedia Canadian Showcase
Speaking & Keynotes
50+ keynotes on interactivity, music, and the future - in more than 25 cities across 13 countries.
Future Horizons - SH*FT HAPPENS · Melbourne
SOUTHSTART - Culture Jam · Adelaide
SOUTHSTART - Salon of the Future · Adelaide
Creative Revolutionaries - Future of Music · Adelaide
Demand Solutions - The Minecraft of the Music Industry · Washington DC
Digital Media Wire - Music Marketing · New York
Winter Music Conference - Fireside with Martin Kierszenbaum · Miami
FITC - Source + Imagination · Toronto
Esquina Norte - Re:Discovery · Tijuana
FITC - Source + Imagination · Toronto
Flash On The Beach - Choose Your Own Adventure · Brighton
FlashBelt - Re:Discovery · Minneapolis
FlashPitt - Re:Discovery · Pittsburgh
OFFF - Re:Discovery · Lisbon
OFFF - Interactive Imagination · New York
FlashBelt - Let's Get Physical · Minneapolis
Flash On The Beach - Let's Get Physical · Brighton
Visual & Sound - Interactive Imagination / (H)API · Tainan
Cyber Arts - Interactive Imagination · Toronto
FlashForward - Let's Get Physical: Extending Flash · Seattle
FlashForward - Aural Fixation: Dynamic Flash Audio · Seattle
OFFF - Interactive Imagination · Mexico City + Barcelona
FITC - Perceptive Interactions + Alternative Interfaces · Hollywood CA
FITC - WTF is Phlash 5 · Hollywood CA
FlashForward - Interactive Animation: Sight, Sound, Motion · Austin TX
Esquina Norte - Sound Designs · Tijuana
Adobe MAX - Interactive Imagination · Singapore · Seoul · Taipei
Flash On The Beach - Something Completely Different · Brighton
FutureFilmFest - Interactive Expressiveness · Bologna
FITC - Behind the Music / Source + Imagination · Toronto
FlashForward - Sound Ideas · San Francisco + New York
BD4D - Motion Music · London
Spark Festival - Interactive Expressiveness: Image & Sound · Amsterdam
DesignFest - Interactive Expressiveness: Image & Sound · Toronto
FITC - Aural Stimulation · Toronto
FlashForward - Aural Stimulation · San Francisco
Flashbelt - Interactive Sound with Flash · Minneapolis
OFFF - Experimental Audio · Valencia
FlashForward - Chronic Sonic · New York
Media Elements - Physical Interactions / Interactive Audio Concepts · Holland
SxSW - Award Winners Panel · Austin TX
FlashForward - MX Audio FX · San Francisco + New York
FITC - MX Audio FX / Connecting to the Future of Flash · Toronto
MMUG - 1000 Pounds of Sound · Ottawa
BD4D - Audio Visual Experimentation · London
Digital Arts World - Web Audio · London
FlashForward - Flash Audio · New York
FITC - Flash Audio · Toronto
Books & Publications
KNOWHERE: Collection of Poetry · Self-published
TASCHEN: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today
TASCHEN: Flash Sites
TASCHEN: Music Sites
Flash 8 Essentials
TASCHEN: Web Design - Best Studios
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Demystified
Flash MX 2004
Flash Live! - Flash Communication Server MX Real Time Applications
Flash MX Audio Magic · New Riders Publishing
Flash 5 for Dummies
XML in Flash
Installations
Born On The Internet
2015 · New York
Generative audio-visual installation in collaboration with Scott Draves, inventor of Electric Sheep. Drew live UGC music from the Looplabs platform and merged it with generative visuals from Draves' distributed computing project.
Infinivision
2008 / 2021 · Lisbon (OFFF) · Austin (SxSW) · Toronto (Touch Gallery)
A temporal photo installation exploring time, space, and memory. A mirror as interface - the viewer becomes part of an ever-accumulating visual record.
Watch on Vimeo →Infinite Sound @
Sweden + Online
Generative audio piece - an indeterminate audio installation created with composer Kenneth Kirschner. Perpetually in motion, never repeating.
Exposure
2005 · Barcelona + Holland
Moments merged in time. A temporal video installation exploring time, space, and memory - how the accumulated weight of presence creates something new.
Crowd Control
2004 · Toronto
Generative art collaboration with Greg Hermanovic, founder of TouchDesigner. An early experiment in real-time generative systems driven by collective behaviour.
Events Produced & Directed
Adelaide, South Australia - Annual
Australia's premier startup and innovation conference. Co-owner and Creative Director since 2018. Connecting founders, investors, and builders across the Asia-Pacific region. Named Australia's Top Start-up Event three years running.
Adelaide, Australia - Scotch College
Curated and produced a full-day TEDx youth event. Speakers included a NASA Space Engineer, a Sonic Activist, a World Champion Inventor, and student changemakers.
Andrea Boyd (Space Engineer) · d'Arcy Lunn · Gabriel Akon (Sonic Activist) · Jaemin Frazer · Kat Dunn · Macinley Butson (Inventor) · Riki Theodorakakos
Amsterdam - Club 11
Held above Amsterdam with 12 full-screen projection screens and a panoramic view over the city. Followed the close of SPARK, Europe's first Flash Conference - uniting digital creatives from across the continent. Six projection-wide pieces, including an astonishing installation by Marius Watz spanning all 12 screens. Partnered with QBN for a global digital art submission gallery.
Casey Reas · Marius Watz · Oculart · Jared Tarbell · Lia · Michael Chang
Toronto - Republik
Held at Toronto's most technological club - rotating plasma screens, large-scale projections, fibre-optic curtains, and 200,000+ watts of audio. Living inside TRON.
Jared Tarbell · Geoff Lillemon · GMUNK · James Paterson · Tronic Studio
Toronto, Canada
Created to give local creatives a space to connect and take their online world offline. A celebration of creative imagination - part showcase, part gathering, all energy.
Transfatty (NYC) · Brendan Dawes (UK) · Greg Hermanovic (TouchDesigner founder) · Maracatu
New York - Remote Lounge
Held at the groundbreaking Remote Lounge - fitted with 50 CCTV cameras, 70 screens, and remote-controlled camera kiosks. An onslaught of visual candy with the industry's top interactive, motion, and print designers.
Joshua Davis (Praystation) · Ze Frank · Brendan Dawes · Patrick O'Brien (Transfatty) · Tim Nolan · Jemma Gura (Prate) · Dustin Hostetler (upso) · Evan Mathis · Charles Foreman (setPixel)
Toronto - Indian Motorcycle Club
Erik Natzke · The Horus Project · Image.org · FA83 · BrainJam Studios · Half-Loaded Mutual
New York - Pseudo Headquarters, SoHo
An early pioneer in the concept of the unconference. Part party, part un-conference - an experiment in community and events in the burgeoning days of the interactive web. Live punk bands, Japanese electronic artists, talks, presentations, and installations. A joyful human experience caught at the intersection of all things creative and technology.
Amit Pitaru · James Paterson · setPixel · Himawari · Licky · threadless
Toronto - The Guvernment Night Club
Canada's flagship interactive design conference, produced and co-curated. Brought together the world's leading interactive designers, developers, and artists.
Pete Barr-Watson · Mike Chambers · Brendan Dawes · Erik Natzke · Robert Reinhardt · Phillip Torrone · Joshua Davis · Colin Moock · Robert Penner · Grant Skinner + many more
Toronto - Design Exchange
Canada's first Flash conference. Co-founded and produced.
Ed Apostol · Mike Chambers · Jason Krogh · Henry Lee · John Nack · Todd Purgason · Phillip Torrone · Robert Reinhardt · Colin Moock · Robert Penner + many more
Toronto - CN Tower
A catered takeover of the top of the CN Tower to launch FITC. As part of the evening, Craig hosted a one-hour conversation on the world's highest observation deck with Brendan Dawes (UK), Todd Purgason (US), and Pete Barr-Watson (UK).