(re)Actor3 Keynotes

Martyn Ware - (re)Actor3 Keynote
(re)Actor3 will open with a keynote address from Martyn Ware. Martyn, the founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, is one of the leading figures in electronic music. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 27 year career to date, working with Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples.

Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique ‘Heightened Reality’ three-dimensional sound technology and bespoke musical composition in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world who include The Science Museum, London, The Royal Ballet, and collaborations with the artists Cathy De Monchaux, Tim Head, Gary Stevens, David Bickerstaff and Philip Tsiaras (at the 2003 Venice Biennale).

Recently Martyn was part of the collective representing Britain at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006. Echo City, developed under the leadership of Jeremy Till, Director of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, is an "urban register" describing Sheffield at a variety of scales from 1:1 to 1:10 million and Martyn’s soundscape projected Sheffield's relationship with the world at large. He also lectures extensively on music production, technology, creativity and soundscape composition at universities and colleges across the UK and Europe.

Yvonne Rogers - HCI 2008 Keynote
Yvonne is a professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Computing Department at the Open University and directs the Pervasive Interaction Lab. She is also a visiting professor of Informatics at Indiana University (where she was from 2003-2006). From 1992-2003 she was at the former School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex University. She have also spent sabbaticals at Apple, Stanford University, University California San Diego, and the University of Queensland.

She researches and teaches in the areas of HCI, ubiquitous computing and CSCW. A particular focus is augmenting and extending everyday learning and work activities with novel technologies. This involves designing enhanced and engaging user experiences through using a diversity of technologies, including mobile, wireless, handheld and pervasive computing.

Tom Lloyd - (re)Actor3 Chair
Director, DreamTime Film. After a degree in film, Tom worked in Soho as assistant film editor on 35mm commercials. He shot a promo for the band The Orb, then left the city for a life on the road with horses, returning to film through an MSc in Creative Technology at Leeds Metropolitan Universtity, and with a stint as camera assistant at Cosgrove Hall Films, Manchester. Tom has spent the last seven years working as a video artist and film maker with arts company Welfare State International, and for The Sage Gateshead, Whitewood and Fleming, The Ruskin Foundation, Lancaster University and others on film projects and large scale, sensor-based video installations. As Creative Associate for Lanternhouse International, Tom directed Supercasino, a 10 minute short for North West Vision and the UK Film Council, which was selected for Cannes Film Festival Short Corner earlier this year. Also this year, Slave Label which he directed for Whitewood and Fleming was screened at The Royal festival Hall as part of the Freedom and Culture weekend. In 2007 Tom established Dreamtime Film Ltd to enable him to pursue his own projects. When he is not working, Tom can be found mixing visuals at club nights and festivals, or at home in the Lake District with his wife Tasha, daughter Florence and his herd of fell ponies.