Robin Fox —

ROBIN FOX is a world-renowned audio-visual artist working across live performance, exhibitions, public art projects and dance.  His laser works that synchronise sound and visual electricity in hyper-amplified 3D space have been performed in over 50 cities worldwide. His new RGB Laser Show premiered at Mona Foma in 2014 and recently featured at Mutek Tokyo, Tramway Glasgow, the Barbican London, Vivid Sydney and the Powerhouse Brisbane. Design for dance highlights include Gideon Obarzanek’s Mortal Engine and Connected, Stephanie Lake’s Double Blind, Aorta and Dual, Antony Hamilton’s Drift and Keep Everything and Lucy Guerin’s Motion Picture and Conversation Piece. His sound work Interior Design: Music for the Bionic Ear was shortlisted for a Future Everything Award in the UK and selected by the Paris Rostrum of Composers in 2012. He has exhibited video and photographic works in numerous galleries and is continually developing new cross-media projects.

 Recent public art projects include designing and building a Giant Theremin for the City of Melbourne, a seven metre tall interactive musical sculpture and the White Beam and Colour Organ projects commissioned by MONA. Fox co-directed a sell out season of A Small Prometheus with Stephanie Lake involving fire powered kinetic musical sculptures for 2013 Melbourne Festival and new work Transducer co-composed with Eugene Ughetti recently featured at the Arts Centre Melbourne. Unsound Krakow and the Adelaide Festival commissioned his new AV performance collaboration Double Vision with Atom TM (Uwe Schmidt, Atom Heart, Señor Coconut). After it’s premiere at Unsound (Krakow) the work has featured at Mutek (Montreal), Sonar (Barcelona), Luminato (Toronto) and Outline (Moscow) in 2015. He holds a PhD in composition from Monash University and an MA in musicology. Robin is the founder and director of MESS, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio.