Bateryoperated
www.batteryoperated.net

Battery Operated have been working together since 2000 when they met in Melbourne, Australia. Made up of Tomkz (sound), Wade Walker (sound) and beewoo (video), their first release was ‘Chases Through Non-Place’ on Mixer records from Amsterdam in 2000. After releasing this album they decided to start their own label…..hence C0C0S0L1DC1T1. Their second album – ‘Vecuum’ – was the labels first release and things went on from there. Touring for 3 years across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Canada, meant too many bad aircraft meals but also brought around many invites from festivals and galleries around the world. Along with doing installations often connected to the themes dealt with on their albums, Battery Operated undertook remixes for a slew of artists and appeared on compilations such as Bip Hop’s Generation series. After re-releasing ‘Chases Through Non-Place’ as a double CD with the associated video presented, they have released all their albums through C0C0S0L1DC1T1, including ‘Aprotic’ by Battery Operated + Made (Mike Williamson of the Gescom, Skam crew from Manchester). Their subsequent album ‘re.CORD’ found them reworking conspiracy theories from artists such as Richard.H.Kirk, Sachiko.M, Gate and label mate ‘Identification’. For this project the video artist - Emma McRae undertook the 52-minute video work which sits on the DVD.

Projects:
Vecuum
Chases through non-place
Scalene
Aprotic
Broken Channel
re.Cord

Beewoo
www.beewoo.net

Beewoo has shown her work throughout many galleries, festivals and media events around the world over the past 5 years. Using Image/ine, VNS and Max MSP, she has been producing interactive environments for gallery spaces and then taking those applications into clubs and media events to take the visual aspect of club/media spaces to another place…away from icandyville. Her painstaking video work produced for Battery Operated CD releases and live performances have made folks think differently about how visual environments interact with sound, the proof of this being that people come to see her video work as much as they do to listen to the sound. Given her training in the visual arts as a photographer, it also means that she has been producing artwork and photographs for album covers as well, producing work for David Shea + Scanner, Battery Operated and Identification amongst others.

Projects:
Vecuum
Chases through non-place
Scalene
Parpulse Tuck
re.Cord

Emma McRae

Emma is a Melbourne based writer/artist, and a curatorial assistant at the Experimenta Media Arts. Educated in the arts, with an extensive professional career in CG design, video editing, compositing, and animation, Emma McRae’s purely artistic efforts have been featured at a number of exhibitions and magazines. Her writing has been published in art.es in Spain, and her experimental video works have been screened and performed at galleries and festivals nationally and internationally including ISEA, Japan; Futuresonic, Manchester, UK; Sound Sumit, New Castle, Australia; Champ Libre, Montreal; Gwangju Biennale, Korea and MAAP, Singapore.

Projects:
Scalene
Parpulse Tuck
re.Cord

Graham Clayton Chance

Based in Manchester, UK Graham is a video, installation and performance artist. He is currently designing the media staging of a performance text on Urban Youth culture for Melbourne festival 2006. For his upcoming release with C0C0S0L1DC1T1 he will be collaborating with UK based sound artist Ian Heywood.

Projects:
Parpulse Tuck

Julio Soto
www.lunapictures.com

Julio Soto is a Spanish video and film maker currently working out of New York City, USA. He has shown his video work (‘Invisble Cities’ being the most well known) in many festivals and galleries in countries such as US, Spain, Denmark, Italy, England, Romania and Sweden. Recently he has won the Best Experimental Film at the Brooklyn International Film Festival, exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Italy. Julio had worked previously with ‘Propaganda Films’ and subsequently in 2002 along with Alexander Stikich, he formed Luna Pictures with the philosophy of applying their artistic and creative talent to the making of films. Radiophobia was their first documentary film about the current environmental and sociological conditions in Chernobyl after the meltdown of the Nuclear plant in 1986. Check out the Luna Pictures website to see the latest projects they are working on.

Projects:
We Are All Drifting

Mitchell Akiyama

Toronto born, Montreal based, Mitchell Akiyama is primarily a sound artist who also works with video and film from time to time. For the Scalene project, released on C0C0S0L1DC1T1, he collaborated with Identification to produce 6 short works about a specific piece of architecture in Montreal, Canada. Originally trained in classical music and jazz, Akiyama began composing electronic music five years ago. He has since come to incorporate traditional instruments and real world sound sources in his compositions, fusing the organic and digital. Akiyama has played extensively in Europe and North America at festivals such as sonar and mutek alongside the likes of Oval, Francisco Lopez and Tomas Jirku. Aside from running the label intr-version, Akiyama releases include albums for intr_version records, substractif, and raster-noton.

Projects:
Scalene
Parapulse Tuck

Ryosuke Aoike
www.aoike.ca

Originally from Yamaguchi, Japan, Ryosuke currently lives and works in Montreal. After finishing his studies in Japan he ventured to Canada to work in the field of Film production. This is when he made his first animation Catman, which was picked up by Shinichi Hirasawa, president of Creative Artists. Inc. He currently makes a wide range of animation work for the web, dvd and t.v.

Projects:
Ghost Storey's