Ollie Bown is a researcher and maker working with creative technologies. He comes from a highly diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning over 15 years. He is interested in how artists, designers and musicians can use advanced computing technologies to produce complex creative works. His current active research areas include media multiplicities, musical metacreation, the theories and methodologies of computational creativity, new interfaces for musical expression, and multi-agent models of social creativity. He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of New South Wales.
Albums on Not Applicable:
Ben+Zamyatin – Ollie Bown & Ben Carey
I – Tangents
Erase – Brigid Burke & Ollie Bown
Flensburg – Icarus / Badun
All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds – Icarus
Rubik / Compression / Vero – Tom Arthurs / Ollie Bown Electric Duo
Carnivalesque – Icarus
Misfits – Icarus
Soviet Igloo – Icarus
Tracks on Not Applicable:
Spin – Lothar Ohlmeier / Ollie Bown
Elliogy – Icarus
Duetto (part I) – Maurizio Ravalico / Ollie Bown
Slog – Adem Ilhan / Ollie Bown
Duetto (part II, III) – Maurizio Ravalico / Ollie Bown
Static – Tom Arthurs / Ollie Bown Electric Duo
Tubes – Lothar Ohlmeier / Maurizio Ravalico / Ollie Bown / Tom Arthurs
She Closes Her Windows at Night – Adem Ilhan / Lothar Ohlmeier / Maurizio Ravalico / Ollie Bown / Tom Arthurs
Films on Not Applicable:
Strecken – directed by Britt Hatzius, music by Lothar Ohlmeier / Ollie Bown
Schneefall – directed by Britt Hatzius, sound and music by Ollie Bown
Treatment – directed by Yannig Willmann, music by Icarus
Carnivalesque Part 2 – directed by Laurent Duriaud, music by Icarus
A Film – directed by Daniel Clift, music by Icarus
Distributed Recordings:
Sylt – Icarus
Sylt Remixes – Icarus