Bob Jarvis is an Australian creative technologist working with music, vision, and code to explore the bleeding edge of multi-modal composition and performance.
Bob’s diverse and award-winning creative output has been exhibited internationally. Selected creative output includes Belief System, a 120-channel spatial audio installation touring internationally with Ranters Theatre, and shortlisted for The Blake Art Prize. Luminesce, a live audio-visual collaboration with vocalist Gian Slater won The International Visual Music Award in Frankfurt in 2015. The practice-led research work Aileron One broke ground with a world-first integration of music technology and full-sized aircraft, enabling music to be performed via the expressive medium of gliding flight.
Alongside their creative output, Bob works as Director of Technology for Melbourne interactive arts company Playable Streets, contributes to multiple open source software projects, lectures and supervises at several universities, and consults as a certified trainer in the Max multimedia programming environment. Bob’s current work focuses on themes of belief, ontology, and post-materialism.
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Publications
2020
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
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)
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