Miles Thorogood: Curriculum Vitae
Born in Sydney, Australia
Living in Vancouver, British Columbia
e: miles.thorogood [at] gmail [dot] com
web: www.milesthorogood.com
Studies
2011 – PhD student, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology.
2010 MA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
2007 Honors in Computer Music, Australian National University, Centre for New Media Arts.
2006 BA digital arts, Australian National University, Centre for New Media Arts.
2001 Certificate of Contemporary Music and Studio Practice, Canberra Institute of Technology.
Research
2011 Simon Fraser University, Research assistant for Philippe Pasquier and Arne Eigenfeldt.
2010 Emily Carr University/Lat49, Research and development on locative and network media iPhone library.
2009-2010 Emily Carr University, Research assistant for Maria Lantin, project Breath IO.
2010 Emily Carr University, Research assistant for Ruth Beer and Jim Budd, project Catch and Release.
2009 Emily Carr University, Research assistant for Glen Lowry, Henry Tsang, Simon Levin, project Miraya.
2009 Design and development of LED system Kingsway Luminaries, for artists David MacWilliam.
2008 Development of RF data sonification and visualization system, for artists Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere.
2004-2006 CSIRO, Working with a research team to propose and realize projects in the field of human interaction and computers, Commonwealth Scientific and Industry Research Organization, ICT Centre, Australia.
Publications
2011 Stefanescu, I, Klaus Engel, and Miles Thorogood, “EUPHONOPEN: An Instrument for the Performance of Drawings”, CLIEC 2011, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2010 “Formations”, 2010 ECUAD Programming Arts Conference proceedings, editor, Vancouver.
2009 Work “The Developers” described in Real Time magazine issue 89.
2007 Work “Chatter and Listening” described in Real Time magazine issue 80.
2007 Thorogood, M. “Chatter and Listening: A Wireless Multi-node Sound Sculpture”, ACMC, Aust.
2007 Florian Floyd Mueller, Gunnar Stevens, Miles Thorogood, Shannon O Brien and Volker Wulf. “Sports over a Distance”. published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Springer London.
2007 Mueller, F., O’Brien, S., Thorogood, A. (2007) Jogging over a Distance. Interactivity CHI ’07
2007 Mueller, F., O’Brien, S. & Thorogood, A. (2007) Jogging over a Distance: Supporting a “Jogging Together” Experience Although Being Apart. CHI ’07: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. San Jose, CA, USA. ACM, 2579 – 2584
2006 Thorogood, M. “Algorithm Gadget”, Proceedings of Australian Computer Music Conference, Aust.
2005 Thorogood, M. Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Networked Physical Communication, CSIRO ICT Conference, Aust.
Teaching
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2012 ISMA 205 Interactivity: Web Essentials
2012 SP CEIN 150 iPhone App Making.
2011 ISMA 208 Programming for Creative Practice.
2011 FA CEIN 250 Advanced App Making.
2011 FA CEIN 150 iPhone App Making.
2011 SU CEIN 150 iPhone App Making.
2010 DIVA 315 Programming for Artists.
2010 Instructor/TA for AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forum.
2008 Young Musicians Society Summer School, designed and held courses in Digital Music, Creative Arts and Video Production. Canberra, Australia.
2007 Questacon Education staff Interacting with numerous peoples at different levels of understanding to inform and educate on science based knowledge. Australia.
Community
2011 Speaker at New Directions in Drawing Symposium, Vancouver.
2010 Emily Carr Graduate show committee.
2009-2010 Emily Carr Senate member.
2009-2010 Emily Carr Student Union representative.
2009 Technical Line Producer, Almost Perfect, Banff New Media Institute.
2009 Workshop on Open Source software and audio editing. Almost Perfect program, Banff, Canada.
2007 Conference coordinator, Australasian Computer Music Conference.
2006 Interstate committee representative for AGIdeas Design Foundation, Melbourne.
2005 co-producer new music/media event for Monopod productions, Canberra.
2005 Curator & promotions manager, Extrapolate: Discovery Centre, Canberra.
Residencies
2010 River Market, artist in residence. New Westminster, Canada.
2010 Oboro, residency. Montreal, Canada.
2010 Euphonopen, residency. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
2009 Banff New Media Centre. Alberta, Canada.
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Imaging Vancouver. Interactive display and video. Connecting the Dots, Vancouver.
2011 Illuminate Yaletown ’11, Kinetic Floating Pixels, Interactive sound and light sculpture with Shaun Mavronicolas.
2010 Disrupting Currents, Sound design and sonification of data, with artits Ruth Beer, Jim Budd and Kit Graur, VIVO.
2009 Interactive Futures ’09, Connoted Topography, Interactive 3D audio iPhone App, Concourse, Vancouver.
2009 E-Mixer, Peripheral Travel, Interactive interface for iPhone navigating a 3D audio space, Surrey Art Gallery.
2009 Dorkbot, The Developers, Bamboo and leather sculpture piece using mathematical models for structural patterns, concept of modern human development, CCAS, Canberra, Australia.
2009 Not That Grad Show, Hill range in Ngunnawal territory, Real-time audio visualization. Concourse, Vancouver.
2008 The Drift on Main, Dislocation, Collaborationwith Holly Schmidt. Little Mountain Studios, Vancouver.
2006 Dust06, National Museum of Australia.
2005 Dust05, National Museum of Australia.
2002 Fruition, Collaboration in sound designand light sculpture with Anna Jagiello, Toast, Canberra, Australia.
2001 Sealed Set, Collaboration in sound design and sculpture with Caroline Huff, Watson Arts Centre, Australia.
Commissions
2011 Composing You, Locative media and sound sculpture public art installation in collaboration with artist Judy Jheung and musician Gary McFarlane, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC.
2010 JigSaw Kiosk, Commissioned by Jig Saw Interaction for the design and programming of interactive video kiosk.
2010 Life Light, Public artwork in collaboration with Morgan Rauscher, River Market, New Westminster.
2010 Emily Carr Graduate Catalogue, Design and development of the 2010 graduate catalogue for the iPhone.
2010 102.7FM, 16 Days Glisten, CRES Media Arts, The Vancouver 2010 Olympics Sound Art commission.
2010 Break Apart, Multitouch interactive software for the BC Pavilion, Vancouver Winter Olympics, VAG.
2010 Snowflakes, Multitouch interactive software for the BC Pavilion, Vancouver Winter Olympics, VAG.
Selected Performance
2011 Mesosphere Opus III. Dancer: Darcy McMurray, Sound: Heartbreak House & Faye Mallett, Director / Choreographer: Maia Love, Interactive Artist: Miles Thorogood. Connecting the Dots, Vancouver.
2011 Mesosphere. Dancer: Darcy McMurray, Sound: Heartbreak House & Faye Mallett, Director / Choreographer: Maia Love, Interactive Artist: Miles Thorogood. New Forms Festival 11, Vancouver.
2010 BreathIO opening. Audio: Zoe and Miles Visuals: Maria Lantin, Leila Sujir, Thea Jones. Oboro, Montreal.
2008 Thorogood, M. & Schmidt, H. (2008) Dis:location [performance/installation]. Vancouver, B.C. Little Mountain Studios.
2007 Loud is Boring, Electroacoustic performance, The Front Gallery, Canberra.
2006 Amsterdam, Audio: Gary France, Warrick Lynch, Miles Thorogood, Toast Nightclub, Canberra.
2006 The Make it Up Club, Audio: Warrick Lynch, Miles Thorogood, Melbourne.
2005 Australian Choreographic Center, Dance: Michelle Noris, Jacqi Cornforth Audio: Warrick Lynch, Miles Thorogood.
2005 Gadget, Live audio performance, experimental sound + vision, The Australian Choreography Centre, Video: Josh Wodak, Dave Wolf, Audio: Steve Law, Somaya Langly, Kimmo Vennonan, Warwick Lynch and Miles Thorogood.
2005 Fibre Motion, CCAS, Sculpture: Belinda Jessup, Alistair Riddell, Lucie Verhelst, Audio: Somaya Langley, Warrick Lynch, Miles Thorogood.
2005 Electrofringe, Video: Josh Wodak, Audio: Warwick Lynch and Nick Nicoleski and Miles Thorogood, Newcastle.