Team Vic Cabal is a collaboration of disparate creative individuals, brought together expressly to address the issues raised by the Urban Realities competition. Rather than construct a team of designers with aesthetic commonalities, we have aimed to create a collective with multifarious skills, experienced in adapting programmed situations into particular urban environments. We range in expertise from urban theatre makers and architects through to hospitality managers and environmental artists.
Team Vic Cabal is:
Michael Lewarne (joint principal) Fabricator + Tectonic Coordinator
Michael is an architect, artist and performer; his skills and interests lie in the site specific construct. He is currently on a quest to make manifest the illusory. www.redshift.com.au
Thomas A Rivard (joint principal) Fabricator + Content Synthesist
Tom is an architect, educator, writer and artist; he heads Lean Productions, a multi-disciplinary practice making buildings, objects and fables, and dedicated to bringing together all manner of collaborators in the common (and uncommon) pursuit of the impossible and the improbable.
Francesco Amendola Construction Manager + Systems Engineer
Franc has 10 years in all aspects of the construction industry, building everything from cabinetry and housing to mine infrastructure and bridges. He is currently completing a degree in Environmental Engineering at RMIT.
Chris Bickerton Digital Fabricator + Sonic Nostalgist
Chris is a Sydney based designer and educator. When he’s not out exploring temples in remote areas of South East Asia or ranting about the inherent advantages of the Danish cycle ways system, he is tinkering with his gramophone collection and cataloguing his collection of early 20th Century popular music.
Tega Brain Sustainability Facilitator + Social Mediator
Tega is a Sydney based artist, maker and environmental engineer. She has spent time building wetlands, creating interactive digital environments, sculptural experiments and videos. www.tegabrain.com
Lian Loke Soft Surface Fabricator + Interactive Technologist
Lian is a performer, designer and researcher, with the body as the central focus of her interdisciplinary practice. She works across many mediums including interactive technologies, costume, performance and installation.
Sergei Netchaef Sound Programmer + Urban Flaneur
Entangled in an audio-visual-architectural web of output and observation, Sergei has most recently investigated a simple, mobile architecture to negotiate the urban fabric of Berlin. Sergei is currently back in Melbourne constructing a built critique of Eisenmann, Tschumi and Koolhaas as part of a Master’s in Architecture at RMIT.
Maz Salt Hospitality Manager + Experience Curator
Maz has lived, and occasionally worked, in Melbourne, Sydney, Glasgow and Istanbul. He has studied and discontinued studies at many things including architecture and economics. Currently residing in Melbourne with wife and young daughter, Maz has created the renowned Section 8 bar, Baba Restaurant and Southpaw Bar along with organised innumerable events. www.section8.com.au
Hiroyasu Tsuri aka TWOONE Graphic Designer + Installation Artist
Hiro is a Japanese artist resident in Melbourne who works in various materials and techniques, from spray paint, clay moulding, metal work, linocut printing and sculpting wood. www.twooneelephant.com
Dario Vacirca Urban Artist + Staging Producer
Dario is an artist and producer working across contemporary art platforms. His current focus is on new genre public art and the nexus between interactivity, art-performance, creative social systems and dialogue. www.welltheatre.com
Specific roles requested by the competition are:
Team leader - Michael Lewarne
Treasurer - Tom Rivard
Media/blogger - Lian Loke
Construction - Frank Amendola
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