Open Ear, formed in 2006, is a loose collaborative group of like minded individuals creating audio-visual art and organising live events within club, gallery, open air or site specific venues. Our principal interests include collaboration, live performance, generative audio-visual work, hybridised art, DIY soundart, circuit-bending and networks.

Open Ear consists of:

Paul Adams - http://www.youtube.com/prof... is a electronic sound artist/programmer and experimental writer. His sound work focuses on the manipulation of accidental sounds and composition through aleatoric process. He has a Degree in "Sonic Arts" from Middlesex University and is currently researching electronic music performance interface design as part of a MA in "Electronic Arts" also at Middlesex. His writing could be classed as experimental fiction and focuses on the creation of narrative through object orientated methods.

Garrett Lynch (IRL) - http://www.asquare.org/ is an artist, lecturer, curator and theorist. His work deals with networks (in their most open sense) within an artistic content; the spaces between artworks, artist and audience as a site, means and location for artistic initiation, creation and discourse.

Educated to degree standard in Visual Communication (specialised in Multimedia) in England and masters level in France at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Garrett is currently Senior Lecturer in New Media at Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, Wales and has previously taught on new media courses in England at Canterbury Christ Church University, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and the University of Hertsfordshire.