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Finlay Macdonald
Finlay Macdonald is a widely respected contributor to newspapers and publications throughout the country. He is the former editor of NZ Listener, commissioning editor for Penguin Books, and now writes columns, social commentary and edits the Sunday Star-Times books pages.
He has also worked for Metro Magazine, and as a writer for television, including documentary, serial drama and comedy.
At this year's Qantas Media Awards, Finlay was given the Best Overall Columnist Award for his weekly Sunday Star Times column. British-born Macdonald recently joined Radio Live, hosting a Sunday morning show with a focus on current events, politics and reviews. |
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Russell Brown
Russell Brown is one of New Zealand's most prolific independent journalists.
He has been writing about technology and media for The Listener since 1993 and has picked up a variety of awards there and at Unlimited magazine and Computerworld, where he was the country's first online news editor.
Last year, he received the inaugural Qantas Media Award for blogging, for his long-running blog Hard News.
Russell was the founding host of Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme in 2001, and edited the successful anthology about New Zealand identity, Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas About Ourselves.
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Nat Torkington
Nat Torkington ran the first web server in New Zealand and worked for a decade in America, splitting his time between Colorado and San Francisco where he chaired conferences for O'Reilly Media. He's co- author of the bestselling "Perl Cookbook", serves on the board of the Perl Foundation, and runs Kiwi Foo Camp in New Zealand where he consults. |
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Dr Wayne Hope
Wayne Hope is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His areas of research include public sphere analysis, political economy of communication, sport-media relationships and globalisation. He has published on these themes internationally and in the context of recent New Zealand history. He is at present writing a series of linked essays on temporality and global capitalism. |
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Julie Starr
A journalist by trade, Julie has worked in the media for 20 years or so in NZ and the UK. In that time she’s been a reporter, sub-editor, page layout sub, chief sub-editor, radio presenter, workflow specialist, change agent and editorial manager. Julie was part of the team who designed and launched the Daily Telegraph’s integrated web-and-print newsroom in the UK, having a particular focus on future workflows.
Julie is Editor-in-Residence at Wintec’s School of Media Arts in Hamilton, does some journalism teaching and presentations on changes affecting news companies, and takes on project work. She has a strong interest in designing newsroom workflows, news delivery and increasingly in using social networks and web applications to gather and distribute news. |
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Lawrence Arabia
Lawrence Arabia is the pseudonym of James Milne, born 1981 in Christchurch, also singer-songwriter of The Reduction Agents and former member of the Brunettes and the Ruby Suns. James has produced music for television, film and theatre and his songs appeared in Taika Waititi’s film “Eagle vs Shark.”
In the past year Lawrence has toured extensively around Europe and the UK with Feist and Okkervil River, appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, and been featured and reviewed in UK publications including the Sunday Times, NME, Uncut, Q, Independent, and Dazed and Confused.
Lawrence Arabia’s recent album ‘Chant Darling’ has been critically acclaimed and he has been a regular on 95bfm’s weekly top 10. |
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Phil Dadson presents EARS, a trio with John Bell and Paul Winstanley
EARS consists of improvisers John Bell, Phil Dadson and Paul Winstanley. EARS was first launched for the Vitamin-S Improvisers Festival, as part of the Auckland Festival Fringe, 2009, and continues to suprise and delight audiences with it's inimitable free sonic mix.
The work of intermedia artist and experimental composer Phil Dadson has been resonating throughout the international music and art worlds since the early 1970s. His sound-based artworks take many forms: from performances and videos to invented musical instruments, sound compositions and installations. A founding member of Scratch Orchestra in London, Dadson launched rhythm/performance group From Scratch in 1974, which subsequently performed to wide acclaim in New Zealand and overseas. Former senior lecturer and head of Intermedia at Auckland's Elam Art School, Dadson is also an award-winning film maker. During his 2003 Artist Fellowship in Antarctica, he travelled with scientists to take video and sound recordings in the remote dry valleys. In 2001, Dadson received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award, and in 2005 he was made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. In 2007 he under took an artist residency in India, and more recently has co-authored a guide to building slap tube instruments.
John Bell is one of the leading improvising musicians on tuned percussion in Australasia. John has performed with international musicians: Steve Lacy, William Parker, Han Bennick, Pierre Bastian, Francisco Lopez, Bob Sedergreen, Vinny Golia, Phil Dadson, Rod Cooper, Mike Cooper, Frank Gibson Junior, Tim O’Dwyer, Clayton Thomas, Anthony Donaldson, Eugene Chadbourne and Johannes Bauer
Paul Winstanley is an improvising electric bass player, composer and conceptual music specialist who performs with bass and idiosyncratic electronic audio processes. He has recently returned from a tour in the USA and also performs with abstract electro-acoustic groups Audible 3, Plains and Lippizanas.
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DJ Cian
Cian has been DJing since 1989. Originally from England he has for most of the last 20 years resided in New Zealand.
He has held down residencies in clubs in the US, Canada, Brazil, Australia and of course in NZ.
Over the years he has supported many international DJs: Kenny Dope, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Giles Peterson, Derrick May, Kid Loco, Blackalicious, Norman Jay and Rockers Hi Fi.
In 1996 while in San Francisco he worked at the infamous ‘Groove Merchant’ record store where he compiled and licensed the ‘Virtual Brasilia’ compilation, Cosmic Flux Musiq.
Cian, along with Manuel Bundy and Submariner host a local monthly club night called The Turnaround. After 5 years this night of Hip Hop and New Beats is stronger than ever and has fast become a legendary gig on Auckland’s underground club circuit.
Most recently Cian can be heard on Base FM and George FM in Auckland. He also owns his own Conch Records on Ponsonby Road that specialises mainly in vinyl and is frequented by many of Auckland’s DJ community. | |
