Machinista Glasgow organisers biogs.

To view the biogs from the Russian online team and the category supervisors please visit:
www.machinista.org

Robb Mitchell:
Event organiser, curator and artist whispered to be the shadowy force behind the celebrated Chateau. Founder and two-times director of Free Gallery, Glasgow where his recruitment campaign "Curator Wanted: No Experience Necessary" brought world wide attention to a disused hairdressers basement. Trained in Environmental Art (Glasgow) and Multimedia Technology (Napier University). Has exhibited or worked in and/or for far too many other cultural venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
www.chateaugateau.co.uk, www.lethaprojects.com/majorityrules-home.html

David Bernard:
Audiovisual performer and club visuals provider with Pointless Creations, MIDI instruments designer with The Sound Surgery and regular event/ club/ free party organiser with various Glasgow collectives. Based in Scotland since1991, his background includes Product Design Engineering [BSc, Strathclyde University] and Electronic Imaging [MSc, Dundee school of television and imaging]. Received the John Logie Baird young innovator's award in 1999 for his collaboration on the Skins MIDI Drum Project. Pointless Creations performed in Perm and Moscow for Machinista 2003.
www.pointlesscreations.co.uk, www.digitalcow.net, www.thesoundsurgery.co.uk

Guy Veale:
DJ / electronic musician / event organiser / tour manager living in Glasgow since 1992. Resident DJ @ "Solar" 92-94, performed regularly @ clubs and free parties across the UK, Europe & USA for over 14 years. Currently working on a number of projects involving internationally funded collaborations with artists from various record labels & production companies. Long-term associate & part-time member of "Spezialmaterial" collective from Switzerland.
www.spezialmaterial.ch

Torsten Lauschmann:
Artist and musician, studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and Media Art at HfG Karlsruhe (ZKM). He has been exhibiting and performing his artwork/videos/music/software in the UK and internationally since 1997. Last year he was selected for the Scottish Participation at the Venice Bienale. He is a founding member of german Club/Art Organisation "Vene Hammerschlag".
Since 1998 various regular Music/DJ/VJ collaborative projects in Glasgow (Idealhome, Elbowwobble, Horseplay, Das Booty). In 2002 he started his solar-powered Laptop busking under music-alterego "Slender Whiteman", support act for Ladytron, SchneiderTM and Dadelius. Loves sausages.
www.lauschmann.com (under construction), www.slenderwhitemann.com, www.egoburger.com (under construction)

Geraldine Greene :
Lighting/set designer, qualified architect and community worker. Longtime member of free party collective RADAR Soundsystem and visuals crew Pointless Creations. Instrumental in the Raymundo European tour of 2002.  The only native Glaswegian in the Machinista Glasgow team.

Marianne Greated :
Co founder and director of leading Glasgow mobile gallery “Switchspace”. Has organised over 50 exhibitions in alternative locations since 1999 including disused flats and industrial spaces. Trained in Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art, Marianne has exhibited her own work widely within Scotland.  Her personal current science-art project tours to Athens this summer.
www.switchspace.co.uk

Rachel Graham :
Full time music promoter and programmer for the Glasgow School of Art. GSA is one of Scotland's most important alternative venues - in the past year guest performers have included The Scissor Sisters, Q-Bert, DJ Dexter, Midnight Mike, Jimi Tenor, Swayzak, Ugly Duckling, Miss Kitten, Jolly Music, The Bug and the DMC championship scottish heats whilst nurturing local talent such as Franz Ferdinanad and Park Attack.
Studied Fine Art Photography and Genetic Biotechnology (Indiana).  Born Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Josh Hale:
Researcher at Glasgow University's Computer Vision and Graphics Lab in the field of human motion and animation techniques. He has also spent many months at ATR International in Kyoto Japan. He studied computer science at Oxford University (BA) where he also won the C.A.R. Hoare prize for computation, Edinburgh university (M.Sc.) and Glasgow University (Ph.D.).
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/halej

Teresa Dillon:
Performance practitioner, researcher and event organiser, whose interests lie in the use of digital technologies within performance and the role of technology within society. Teresa’s particularly interested in technologies influence on identity, memory and perception and its use in sociocultural, collaborative and creative contexts. Teresa is currently working on various mixed-media performance projects and as a researcher at NESTA Futurelab, Bristol, UK.
www.nesta-futurelab.org

Simon Yuill:
Glasgow-based artist who works with code. He is interested in both the formal aesthetics of code and its relationships to societal structures. He makes software, organises public events engaging in these issues and writes. He is part of the code art group slateford.
www.spring-alpha.org, www.slateford.org, www.lipparosa.org, www.livingzeroes.org

Willie Sullivan:
Strategic communicator and organiser. He is Director of Taleem Trust a charitable organisation whose is aims to develop cross community cohesion by building Social Capital.

Vicki Anderson:
Vick is a marketing executive for The Big Issue in Scotland Magazine and an accomplished musician. Has previously worked in advertising, production and marketing for various entertainment publications in London, Canberra and Sydney. Studied Art History and Curatorship at Australian National University.