Jason Sweeney

Artist, Concerned citizen, Event planner, Filmmaker, Gay, Idea generator, Musician, Performer, Writer/Editor

Jason Sweeney’s interdisciplinary practice in the last 12 years has been in the emerging, risk-taking and constantly developing fields of digital art and technology, music, sound installation, performance art, interactive community art projects, online art, experimental film and screen culture. Since 2003 he has collaborated with some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies and organisations as well as directing and creating a number of his own interactive works for the internet and participatory community engagement projects for galleries and theatre spaces. As a composer of electronic music, he has also been releasing music internationally with two bands, Panoptique Electrical and Pretty Boy Crossover, via the record label, Sensory Projects. Music from the releases has been used since in short and feature films, as well numerous theatre and dance productions around the world.

Art and participation. Introversion and silence. Creativity for all.

I am currently developing a project called Stereopublic. The wish for this project is to create an ever-growing ambient sound map of your city via both an online space and a smartphone application. A short sound work will be made and named after the city location chosen. These sound pieces will then form part of a larger audio-walk, where public can take either a physical map and/or smartphone and set of headphones into their city, locate their space and experience the physical space and unique sound work on site.

Curation, Film - Directing, Producing, Writing, Editing, Live Art & Performance, Participatory Art, Song Writing, Sound composition

The project 'Stereopublic: Crowdsourcing the Quiet' is one of the TED Prize City 2.0 awards. I attended TEDGlobal 2012 to meet with attendees, participate in the conference and to make contact with some incredible minds. Attendance at the conference also allowed me to introduce myself to many inspiring TEDx'ers!

Working really quickly and rigorously. Speaking softly. Avoiding small talk.