Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is an artist with an international practice who works with software, wireless mediums, online audio and video, sound art, new technologies and more traditional forms of broadcast. He has also gained extensive management experience, having managed the radio station Contact89FM (Hamilton, New Zealand) and held the position of CEO for 95bFM (Auckland, New Zealand).

Adam also established and managed New Zealands first community television station, Static TV. Adam has also worked at management level internationally in the IT sector as Business Development Manager at Australias Virtual Artists http://www.va.com.au (Adelaide, Australia), as well as managing the Software and Web Development departments at the renown Dutch Internet Service Provider XS4ALL (Amsterdam).

Adam then co-founded r a d i o q u a l i a http://www.radioqualia.net in 1998 with New Zealander Honor Harger. r a d i o q u a l i a works in the fields of art, science and technology. The principal interest of r a d i o q u a l i a is in the ways that broadcasting technologies such as radio and online streaming media can be used to create new artistic forms, and in ways that sound art can be used to illuminate abstract ideas and processes.

In late 2002 Adam also started his own consultancy - The Streaming Suitcase http://www.streamingsuitcase.com - specialising in online audio and video training and system design for cultural institutions.

Clients have included:
Tate Modern http://www.tate.org.uk, the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, USA http://www.walkerart.org, The Virtual Arts Network (an initiative of the Asia Society, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New England Foundation for the Arts, SF MOMA, and the Walker Art Centre), The Science Musem in London http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk, the Foundation for Film, Art and Creative Technology – FACT http://fact.co.uk and Montevideo http://www.montevideo.nl.

Adam has recently become a writer for the Open Source magazine Free Software Magazine http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com, and now predominantly works as a freelance software developer, producer and artist, and has gained an international reputation for his work in these areas. Early in 2005 Adam was based in New Zealand on a four month digital artist residency, followed by a programmers residence at mi2 http://www.mi2.hr.

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