Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands [possibly also Berlin, Sao Paulo]
Genres: Interactive art, Performance, Sound/Music, software, media art, radio, internet
Languages: English
Interest: Free + Open Source software, field recording, environmental sounds, digital signal processing, audiovisual sythesis, microsound, participatory art, web-based projects, databases, abstract video, improvisational electronic performance, Pure Data, Linux, copyleft, radio waves, networked art, hacking, process, errors, accidents... basically I'd like to advise students who are just as interested in how to get there as in where "there" is, who work accross audiovisual genres and who want to really push the medium they work in to new levels, whatever that medium may be. Artists interested in exploring the free software/copyleft communities are encouraged to get in touch as well.
Bio: Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). He has also worked with RIXC/Re-lab, a net.radio group in Latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. In August 2001, Derek helped organize the Acoustic Space Lab, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, community radio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment, as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data. He has been giving workshops on Free + Open Source multimedia tools for two and a half years, in various locations in Europe, North and South America.