2008 Featured Artists
Richard Devine
During the past three years, Richard Devine has remixed top Warp artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More). He has released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide. ...more...Paul DeMarinis
Paul DeMarinis has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d'Automne a Paris. ...more...Iancu Dumitrescu
Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian composer whos compositions are based on ultra-spectralism and acousmatics from a phenomenological point of view (Ed. Husserl), in which sound is subject to analysis and dissociation, (harmonical multisounds - diagonal sounds) processes which confer a genuine force of suggestion and penetration. ...more...Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti Research Lab is an art group dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication. The members of the group experiment in a lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies. ...more...Simon Reynolds
Born in London in 1963, Simon Reynolds began writing about music and popular culture as a founding member of Monitor, a pop journal based in Oxford, where he had studied history. Monitor lasted six issues before expiring in 1986, by which time he had joined the British weekly music magazine Melody Maker as a staff writer. ...more...Announcements about more Featured Artists will be made soon. In the meantime, we are currently accepting submissions in all catagories. To submit, please see the Submission Page.
Past Sparks Festivals have featured a diverse array of guests, including Alvin Lucier, Morton Subotnick, DJ Spooky, Scanner, free103point9, Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, Phillipe Manoury, Paul Lansky, and others.