Ben Byrne

/ Listener, organiser, and teacher experimenting with digital media, music and design while living through big tech and climate crisis

/ Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

/ Current teaching the course 'Curating and Producing the Digital'

/ Director of Avantwhatever

/ Past curatorial projects include RMIT Digital Media's Extremely Online in 2021, the wrong biennale 2019-2020, ABC Radio National program Soundproof's Live Proof in 2015, Seven Thousand Oaks Festival of Art and Sustainability's 'Touch at a Distance' at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2010, University of Technology Sydney Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008, Electrofringe Festival of Electronic Arts 2006 & 2007, and Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts Sydney 2005-2007