August 2009—February 2010 :: Instant Places Canada Code
Generative video commission for the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

August 29—December 12, 2009: travel via surface transport from Makkovik Labrador to British Columbia. Location sound and image recordings, 22 performances across Canada.

February 4—21, 2010: Generative video installation Instant Places Canada Code presented at Cultural Olympic Digital Edition exhibition CODE LIVE 1, Vancouver.

May—July 2009 :: Instant Places Argentina/Uruguay
Residency projects from base in Buenos Aires
Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas (CEIArtE)

May 7, 2009: Buenos Aires node of Alvin Lucier's "Quasimodo, the Great Lover", an international telematic realization for the Deep Wireless festival. Collaboration with dreamSTATE/Hector Centeno (NAISA space, Toronto), Gayle Young/Reinhardt Reitzenstein (Grimsby), directed by Matt Rogalsky and Laura Cameron in Kingston.

May 9, 2009: Performance at Encuentros de Cooperación e Intercambio (ECI) - Artes Electrónicas, CEIArtE, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires

May 28/29 2009: Live relay from ElephanteCasa in Buenos Aires to CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary, Canada. Live electronics by Carlos Murat, Alberto Rebecchi, Laura Kavanaugh, and Ian Birse, followed by concert recordings from Instante Sonoros 09, by Federico Barabino, Maia Mónaco/Roberto Pouyau/Caco Fernández, and Bonavena vs. Lombroso + Zelmar Garín.

June 14, 2009: Electronic sound and live video performance at Instante Sonoros/Domus Artis, Buenos Aires.

June 24, 2009: TANGLO, live sound and video performance at EMS09. Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.

July 17, 2009: TANGLO II, live sound and video performance. Museo de Arte Moderno y la Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires, Conciertos en el LIMb0.

July 19—22, 2009: Instant Places/Punta Carretas, Uruguay. Location intermedia project completed by a live sound and video performance July 22 at the Auditorio de la Facultad de Artes, Montevideo.

March 1—29, 2009 :: Instant Places New York

March 1—14, 2009: Instant Places/Brooklyn residency at Diapason, concluding performances for multichannel sound and live video March 13 and 14.

March 22, 2009: MIXMATCH, sound performance at ABC No Rio. Laura Kavanaugh (MAX/MSP live sampling), Blaise Siwula (reeds), Ian Birse (piano, contact pickup).

March 24, 2009: Sound performance at Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn. Max/MSP mutations of location recordings and amplified objects from the Coney Island shore.

March 29, 2009: Live sound and video performance at SHARE NYC, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn.

January 17, 2009 :: Art's Birthday 09
HOME FREE, live manipulation/rebroadcast of international audio streams

October 7—26, 2008 :: SoundPlay Festival, Toronto
Composers in residence, New Adventures in Sound Art. Artist talk and premiere of HEAD! SMASHED! IN! BUFFALO! JUMP! October 24, performance for 12 speaker sound array and live video, collaboration with Darren Copeland. Live to air preview CKLN FM October 9, workshop on media performance October 26.

September 3—7, 2008 :: Junction Festival, Toronto
CITIZEN, public projection project, image generation transforms of residents’ portraits.

June 22, 2008 :: Odd Obsession Movies, Chicago
BOTANICA, generative map of ways to get lost in Chicago.

June 15, 2008 :: WLUW FM, Chicago
53 MISTAKES, four-hour live to air performance.

June 7, 2008 :: Heaven Gallery, Chicago
UPSIDE, live sound and image transforms.

April 10—14, 2008 :: Birdo Flugas, Shiogama/Sendai
Live sound and image manipulations in shopping arcade, also webcast relay April 11 to the Audio over Networks conference at the Banff Centre, Canada.

April 8, 2008 :: Superdeluxe, Tokyo
TOKYO RODEO, live image/sound transforms in four-channel sound space.

April 6, 2008 :: FBI FM 94.5, Sydney, Australia
Interview with host Brooke Olsen and featured compositions on 'Sunday Night at the Movies'.

March 21—23, 2008 :: Radio Son Verde, Tokyo
ONOMAT series of ‘pirate radio’ broadcasts, relay to Resonance FM London on March 22.

February 22, 2008 :: Cafe Independants, Kyoto, Japan
Image transforms and live sound manipulations of location recordings and prepared piano.

February 4—16, 2008 :: Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka, Japan
INSTANT PLACES FUKUOKA, February 8 performance of amplified drawing/live video and wrapped guitar, February 15 internet audio relay to CJSW FM in Calgary, February 16 performance completion of Instant Places, image transforms and live multichannel sound.

January 17, 2008 :: Art's Birthday 08
FISH FEET, live manipulation/rebroadcast of international audio streams.

October 25, 2007 :: INTHEMIX, Improvised Media Arts Festival, Toronto
THE OUTCOME WILL BE DETERMINED BY SIMPLE POWER, Live sound/gesture capture performance.

September 25—27, 2007 :: The Guild Inn, Scarborough ON
REMOVABLE ROOM/GUILD INN, sound and image performance environment in greenhouse, performance at twilight September 27.

September 20—22, 2007 :: London Ontario Live Arts festival
INSTANT PLACES/LONDON, nightly performances in downtown courtyard, video projections on library wall, four-channel sound.

September 6—9, 2007 :: Junction Arts festival, Toronto
PLACETIME 3, sound and image performance environment, daily performances.

May 8—12, 2007 :: Send + Receive Festival, Winnipeg MB
REMOVABLE ROOM/WINNIPEG, transformed environment created at AceArt gallery over four days. Performance of live audio and video and webcast May 10.

April 13, 2007 :: Latitude 53, Edmonton AB
PLACETIME 02, live performance of multichannel audio and video.

April 4— April 28, 2007 :: Western Front, Vancouver BC
OPERATOR, noise opera using overheard cellphone monologues and computer-controlled grand piano.

March 23—May 13, 2007 :: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria BC
THE FORTRESS OF HISTORY, offsite performances, gallery installation, interventions in the AGGV virtual gallery.

February 1 and 2, 2007 :: University of Regina
Media arts workshop, February 1; Art For Lunch performance February 2.

January 17, 2007 :: Art's Birthday, Neutral Ground, Regina
CHOWDOWN, three hour audio webcast, remote jamming with the Western Front.

January 16—20, 2007 :: Neutral Ground, Regina
REMOVABLE ROOM/REGINA, temporary structure created at Neutral Ground gallery over four days. Performance of live audio and video January 20.

January 12, 2007 :: University of Calgary
Visiting artist performance and talk.

December 30, 2006— January 1, 2007 :: Radio Removable Room Kipling, SK
MATCH BOX, three-day audio webcast of MAX/MSP prepared piano transformations.

October 30, 2006 :: In/Fuse, Assumption Chapel, Windsor ON
PLACETIME, live performance of multichannel audio and video.

October 25—28, 2006 :: Pen Centre, St. Catharines ON
REMOVABLE ROOM/ST CATHARINES, temporary structure created in Pen Centre shopping centre over three days. Performance of live audio and video October 28, audio webcast.

October 9—14, 2006 :: Tone Deaf Festival
REMOVABLE ROOM/KINGSTON, temporary structure created in Modern Fuel gallery over six days. Performance of live audio and video October 14, three-hour audio webcast.

June 3, 2006 :: MUTEK, Montreal
DANS LE BAIN, Performance for headphone listeners and webcast, electronic sound and live video.

March 27—March 31, 2006 :: Hart House, Toronto
THREAD, Scratch Festival collaboration with the ArrayMusic ensemble. Contact pickups on throat, chair, shoes of instrumentalists. Six-channel sound, live video.

March 7—17, 2006 :: Instant Places, Videographe/PARC, Montreal
SOUFFLE, open studio sessions leading to performance diffusion of sounds and images from Montreal streets through a multichannel sound field and over a network of nine video screens.

February 20—24, 2006 :: Struts Gallery, Sackville NB
INVENTIONS I—V, daily open studio performances, three-hour live radio event February 24. Six-channel sound with video display.

February 10, 2006 :: Struts Gallery, Sackville NB
FISHBOWL, video performance inside room sealed with translucent plastic. Webcams, surveillance camera/monitor.

January 17, 2006 :: Art's Birthday, Sackville/Toronto/Vancouver/Vienna
GLEE CLUB, a performance for live and processed vocal sounds at Struts Gallery in Sackville. Audio stream to local broadcasters in Sackville, Toronto, Vancouver and Vienna, collaboration with Helen Pridmore and W.L.Altman.

November 18, 2005 :: Perimeter Institute, Waterloo ON
Live video for Steve Reich’s CITY LIFE, commissioned by NUMUS and the Kitchener/Waterloo Symphony.

October 17, 2005 :: MST:3 Festival, Calgary
SLOWERTHANLIGHT_2, audio performance in indoor/outdoor space.

July 26—30, 2005 :: Cache-Cachet , Neutral Ground, Regina
COLLECTOR project, final performance July 30. Two video projections, four-channel sound.

May 16—June 3, 2005 :: Instant Places, Western Front, Vancouver
WHERE THE BLAZED TRAIL MEETS THE BOULEVARD, open studio sessions and mobile interventions leading to final performance June 2. Two video projections, four-channel sound.

February 9, 2005 :: Alberta College of Art and Design
NEST, performance, live sampling of audio and video from objects found in Perth, also artist talk.

December 6—9, 2004 :: Brisbane, Australia
Series of four workshops in MAX/MSP/Jitter.

November 16, 2004 :: Tura New Music + BEAP 04, Perth, Australia
Audio/video performance, also collaboration with Perth violist Cathy Potter.

November 11—14, 2004 :: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art + BEAP 04
COLLECTOR_1, collaboration project integrating digitized work from Perth artists Chrissie Parrot (dance), Rob Muir (text), Cat Hope (music), and Tanja Visosevic (images). Final audio/video performance by Kavanaugh and Birse November 14.

November 10, 2004 :: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art + BEAP 04
MAX/MSP/Jitter workshop.

October 8—November 8, 2004 :: Instant Places/Kellerberrin, Australia
EAST IS EAST, audio/video installation and performances during one-month residency.

October 7, 2004 :: 2MBS Radio, Sydney
Live-to-air audio performance collaboration with Sydney sound artists Shannon O'Neill and Ben Byrne.

October 6, 2004 :: University of Technology, Sydney
Audio performance, artist talk.

September 30—October 3, 2004 :: Instant Places/Newcastle, Australia
Open-studio installation presented by the Electrofringe Festival.

September 27, 2004 :: Frequency Lab, Sydney
Audio performance with networked computers, amplified objects, stereo sound.

September 23, 2004 :: 1/4 Inch, Sydney
Audio video performance with two video projections, networked computers, stereo sound.

September 3—12, 2004 :: Instant Places/Guelph, Ontario
Audio/video environment with two video projections, networked computers, four-channel sound, found objects.

May 12—23, 2004 :: AMAAS Conference Grande Prairie, Alberta
SL0WERTHANLIGHT, solar power audio/video environment.

April 10—17, 2004 :: Instant Places/Images Festival Toronto
BEELINE, self-generating installation and performance environment.

January 25, 2004 :: WKP Kennedy Gallery North Bay
SLOW GEOMETRY, performance in audio/video environment.

January 22, 2004 :: Music Gallery Toronto
DOMINO MATRIX, audio performance in surround space, collaboration with Matt Rogalsky

October 24, 2003 :: Dangerous Currents Festival Vancouver
STATIC, surround audio/video performance.

October 12—18, 2003 :: Instant Places/Victoria
FALL, Open Space Gallery, audio/video installation and performances in surround space.

September 22, 2003 :: Struts Gallery Sackville NB
Audio performance, collaboration with Lorne Altman.

September 21, 2003 :: Galerie Sans Nom Moncton NB
Audio/video performance.

September 15—20, 2003 :: Instant Places/Halifax
SALT, Khyber Centre for the Arts, audio/video installation and performances in surround space.

September 8—!2, 2003 :: Instant Places/Chicoutimi
DELUGE, Sequence Gallery, audio/video installation and performances in surround space.

September 13—December 14, 2003 :: Journées Sonores, Montreal
Audio art piece in group installation.

May 7—11, 2003 :: Instant Places/Kitchener
FUNCTION ROOM, Open Ears Festival, audio/video installation and performances in surround space.

May 16, 2003 :: Festival International de Musique Actuelle Victoriaville
PRIMITIVES, audio/video installation and performance in surround space.

Nov. 30, 2002 :: Silke Arp Bricht, Hannover, Germany
INCENTIVE, audio/video performance in suround space.

Nov. 29, 2002 :: Hoerbar, Hamburg, Germany
WHAT COMES AFTER THE FLESH; audio/video performance.

Nov. 22, 2002 :: Tarragona Cultura Contemporania, Tarragona, Spain
STRAND; audio/video performance.

Nov. 21, 2002 :: LEM Festival, Barcelona, Spain
AIRPORT, audio/video performance.

Nov. 14-17, 2002 :: Interfiction/Artefaction!, Kassel Documentary Film Festival
SPLICE, internet/performance piece updated over three days.

Nov. 1-10, 2002 :: LoungeLab / Backup Festival Weimar, Germany
Nov. 7, OPENING NIGHT/CLOSING NIGHT, mobile sampling+ playback of reception sounds. Nov. 8, DUST, electronic sound performance. Nov. 7-10

Oct. 26, 2002 :: GEMS Concert series, McGill University Montreal
REDSHIFT, audio/video performance.

Oct. 23, 2002 :: Art Station Mt. St. Hillaire
NATURE, audio/video performance using material recorded in the interpretive centre.

October 17-18, 2002 :: Tangente Montreal
Two audio/video performances using material recorded on Montreal streets.

Sept. 28, 2002 :: Ramada Golf Dome Saskatoon
Audio/video performance in golf dome, projections, material recorded in dome.

June 28, 2002 :: Nach Hause III, Calgary
WHERE IS TAHITI, audio/video performance using powerbook, samplers, analog effect feedback loops, small speakers.

Nov. 2, 2001 :: Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland
SLOW; audio/video performance.

Oct. 26, 2001 :: MOZG, Bydgoscz, Poland
BIRD, CAGE, AND ALL THE GOLD; sound performance using feedback loops in analog mixers, guitar prepared with contact pickups, four-channel gate.

Oct. 21, 2001 :: Forbidden Radio, Budapest
Interview, broadcast of ANTI-ACTION recording with Sores Zsolt.

Oct. 19, 2001 :: Studio of Janos Sugar, Budapest
OPEN; four-hour performance using real-time sampling and manipulation of audio and video.

Oct. 18, 2001 :: Art Institute of Hungary, Budapest
Artist talk, audio/video performance.

Sept. 28, 2001 :: Underground Radio, Hamburg
Interview, broadcast of CHECK (Ian Birse, Laura Kavanaugh 2001).

Sept. 28, 2001 :: Hoerbar Club, Hamburg
THE BROTHERS DISAPPEARED, audio/video performance.

Sept. 24, 2001 :: Labor Sonor, Berlin
PARADE; sound performance

February 1, 2001 :: Momentum @ Yardbird Suite, Edmonton
CYLINDER (Laura Kavanaugh, 2001), solo performance with sampler and electronics, improvised duo with Ian Birse, keyboard, electronics, PARALLEL LIVES (Ian Birse, 2OO1), collaboration with Russel Whitehead, Michelle Milencovic, Ian Birse.

November 30, 1998 :: The New Gallery, Calgary
CYCLE, improvised performance using video, audio loop, taped composition, live sound.

July 29, 1998 :: University Radio, Sackville, NB
Live audio art broadcast, spoken words, found sounds.

May 6, 1997 :: The New Gallery, Calgary
Exhibited SOLAR SPHERES, an eight-painting series, presented as part of a multi-media event.


Other collaborations

August 13, 2001 :: The New Gallery, Calgary
UNRAPPED, live video manipulation, collaboration with Dan Meichel, saxophone, Chris Brown, percussion.

May 28, 2001 :: Space for Space, Calgary
FLYING OBJECTS, sound performance with sampler and electronics, collaboration with Cody Oliver.

April 19, 2001:: Mountain Standard Time Festival, Calgary
SONIC GARDEN, sound performance with sampler and electronics, collaboration with Jasmin Poon, quartz resonators.

February 1, 2001 :: Momentum @ Yardbird Suite, Edmonton
CYLINDER (Laura Kavanaugh, 2001), solo performance with sampler and electronics, improvised duo with Ian Birse, keyboard, electronics, PARALLEL LIVES (Ian Birse, 2OO1), collaboration with Russel Whitehead, Michelle Milencovic, Ian Birse.

November 29, 2000 :: LEAPS concert series, Cambridge , UK
Realization of WAVE TRAIN (David Behrman, 1966),using grand piano, electronics,guitar pickups.Trio collaboration with Matt Rogalsky.

November 2O, 2000 :: The Bonnington, London , UK
Solo perfomance using sampler and electronics, also quintet collaboration with Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman, and John Bisset.

June 11, 1998 :: New York, NY
improvised sound recording, trio collaboration with Tom Hamilton.

June 8, 1998 :: New York, NY
improvised sound recording, collaboration with Blaise Siwula.