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Bob Jarvis is an Australian artist and researcher working with music, vision, and code to explore the bleeding edge of multi-modal composition and performance.

His award-winning interactive, recorded, and performed audio-visual works have been exhibited internationally. Bob works as Director of Technology for Melbourne interactive arts company Playable Streets, lectures and supervises at RMIT University and The Victorian College of the Arts, and offers one-on-one tuition as a Max Certified Trainer.

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Publications

2020

Robert Jarvis, Darrin Verhagen Composing in Spacetime with Rainbows: Spatial Metacomposition in the Real World Audio Mostly, Graz

Robert Jarvis Aileron One: Flight Path as Musical Form The Australasian Computer Music Conference, Canberra

Yan Wang, Zhuying Li, Robert Jarvis, Joseph La Delpha, Rohit Ashok Khot, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller WeScream!: Toward Understanding the Design of Playful Social Gustosonic Experiences with Ice Cream DIS, Eindhoven

2019

Yan Wang, Zhuying Li, Robert Jarvis, Rohit Ashok Khot, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller iScream!: Towards the Design of Playful Gustosonic Experiences with Ice Cream CHI, Glasgow

Yan Wang, Zhuying Li, Robert Jarvis, Angelina Russo, Rohit Ashok Khot, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller Towards Understanding the Design of Playful Gustosonic Experiences with Ice Cream CHIPlay, Barcelona

2018

Yan Wang, Zhuying Li, Robert Jarvis, Rohit Ashok Khot, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller The Singing Carrot: Designing Playful Experiences with Food Sounds CHIPlay, Melbourne

Alistair McLean, Robert Jarvis Electric Sheep: Designing Improvised Musical Play CHIPlay, Melbourne

Joseph La Delfa, Robert Jarvis, Rohit Ashok Khot, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller Tai Chi In The Clouds: Using Micro UAV’s To Support Tai Chi Practice CHIPlay, Melbourne

Awards

2018

RTP Scholarship RMIT University, Melbourne

2015

Visual Music Award Institute for New Media, Frankfurt

2012

Vice Chancellor’s Award, The International Space Time Concerto Competition The University of Newcastle

2005

Elder School’s Jazz Award The University of Adelaide

Education

2021

Max Certified Trainer Cycling ‘74

2013

Master of Computing (Dist.) RMIT University

2006

Bachelor of Music (Hons.) Adelaide University

Employment

2019 - Current

Lecturer Victorian College of the Arts (Interactive Composition)

2017 - Current

Director of Technology Playable Streets

2021

Lecturer RMIT University (Interactive Media)

2015 - 2018

Software Developer The National Gallery of Victoria

2017 - 2018

Lecturer RMIT University (Experimental Digital Experience)

2015 - 2016

Lecturer Victorian College of the Arts (Vision and Interactivity)

2014 - 2016

Co-Director Blunk

2014

Lecturer RMIT University (Design for Interactive Media)

2010 - 2012

Lecturer Collarts (Music Theory and Improvisation)