Robin Fox is an artist straddling the often artificial divide between audible and visible arts. As an audio-visual performance artist his work has featured in festivals worldwide. His audio visual films for the cathode ray oscilloscope are documented on the DVD release backscatter (2004) with more recent works Volta and 5 Creation Myths being exhibited as video works at the RoslynOxley9 gallery in Sydney, the Asian Art Biennale in Taipei and the Miniartextil International exhibition in Como, Italy.
His groundbreaking work with Chunky Move has contributed to the recent piece Mortal Engine winning a Helpmann Award for Best Visual Production and an honorary mention at the illustrious Prix Ars Electronica. Future projects include a photography exhibition called Proof of Concept opening at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne July 2010 and a research project with the Bionic Ear Institute composing music for cochlear implant wearers.
Musically he has released 3 albums with composer/performer Anthony Pateras (Editions Mego/Synaesthesia) and one with double bassist Clayton Thomas (Room 40). He has also performed with the likes of Oren Ambarchi, Lasse Marhaug, Jerome Noetinger, Stephen O’Malley and Erick D’Orion among numerous other encounters. His recent (2010!) solo LP/Cassette on deMego A Handful of Automation is his first full length solo audio release.
He also has a PhD in composition, from Monash University focussing on the development of multi-channel performance ecologies and the design of interactive electro-acoustic situations that explore the dynamic between performer, space and computer and an MA in musicology, which documents the history of experimental music making in Melbourne 1975-9.
