Past NIMEs

The conference began as a workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001 in Seattle, Washington. Since this NIME 2001, international conferences have been held annually around the world.

NB: The pages below are historic web documents, and are not updated. If you are looking for the proceedings of the conferences, all papers are located in the common NIME proceedings archive.

NIME 2024: Utrecht, Netherlands (live website)
NIME 2023: Mexico City, Mexico (live website)
NIME 2022: Auckland, New Zealand
NIME 2021: Shanghai, China
NIME 2020: Birmingham, UK
NIME 2019: Porto Alegre, Brazil
NIME 2018: Blacksburg, VA, USA
NIME 2017: Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
NIME 2016: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
NIME 2015: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
NIME 2014: Goldsmiths University, London, UK (archived site)
NIME 2013: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea. (archived site)
NIME 2012: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (archived site)
NIME 2011: University of Oslo, Norway (archived site)
NIME 2010: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (archived site)
NIME 2009: Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (archived site)
NIME 2008: University of Genova, Italy (archived site)
NIME 2007: New York University, USA (archived site)
NIME 2006: IRCAM, Paris, France (archived site)
NIME 2005: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (archived site)
NIME 2004: Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Hamamatsu, Japan (archived site)
NIME 2003: McGill University, Montreal, Canada (archived site)
NIME 2002: Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland (archived site)
NIME 2001: Seattle, Washington (archived site)

Conference Chairs

This list only contains the general chairs for the NIME conferences. Each year there were also several other chairs (paper, music, installation, workshops, etc.).

2024: Hans Leeuw and Martijn Buser and Marije Baalman
2023: Hugo Solís García and Eric Pérez Segura
2022: Sasha Leitman and Fabio Morreale
2021: Margaret Minsky and Gus Xia
2020: Lamberto Coccioli and Sally Jane Norman
2019: Rodrigo Schramm and Marcelo Johann
2018: Ivica Ico Bukvic and Matthew Burtner
2017: Dan Overholt and Stefania Serafin
2016: Andrew Brown and Toby Gifford
2015: Jesse T. Allison and Edgar Berdahl
2014: Atau Tanaka and Rebecca Fiebrink
2013: Woon Seung Yeo
2012: Georg Essl
2011: Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Kjell Tore Innervik
2010: Kirsty Beilharz and Andrew Johnston and Bert Bongers
2009: Noel Zahler and Roger Dannenberg
2008: Antonio Camurri and Gualtiero Volpe
2007: Carol Parkinson and Eric Singer
2006: Norbert Schnell and Frederic Bevilacqua
2005: Sidney Fels and Tina “Bean” Blaine
2004: Yoichi Nagashima and Michael J. Lyons
2003: Marcelo Wanderley
2002: Joe Paradiso and Sile O’Modhrain
2001: Ivan Poupyrev and Michael J. Lyons and Sidney Fels and Tina Blaine

Keynote speakers

2024: (Utrecht) Andi Otto, Kristina Andersen, Frank Wienk, Darsha Hewitt
2023: (Mexico City) Tania Candiani, Ariel Guzik, Arcángelo Constantini
2022: (Auckland) Hundred Rabbits, Khyam Allami, Sally Jane Norman
2021: (Shanghai) Roger Dannenberg, Yann LeCun, AnnMarie Thomas
2020: (Birmingham) Drake Music Labs, Lilja Maria Asmundsdottir, Crewdson & Cevanne, Dunning & Underwood
2019: (Porto Alegre) Marcelo M. Wanderley, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ana María Romano Gomez
2018: (Blacksburg) Onyx Ashanti, R. Benjamin Knapp, Ikue Mori, Pamela Z
2017: (Copenhagen) Ge Wang, Dorit Chrysler, Chris Chafe
2016: (Brisbane) Miya Masaoka, Garth Paine
2015: (Baton Rogue) R. Luke DuBois, Sile O’Modhrain
2014: (London) Hiroshi Ishii, Laetitia Sonami
2013: (Daejeon) Bill Verplank, Ajay Kapur
2012: (Ann Arbor) David Wessel, David Huron
2011: (Oslo) Tellef Kvifte, David Rokeby, Sergi Jorda
2010: (Sydney) Nicolas Collins, Stelarc
2009: (Pittsburgh) Paul DeMarinis
2008: (Genova) Andrew Gerzso, Xavier Serra
2007: (New York) Perry Cook, Trimpin, Teresa Marin Nakra
2006: (Paris) George Lewis, William Gaver
2005: (Vancouver) Don Buchla, Golan Levin, Bill Buxton
2004: (Hamamatsu) Robert Moog, Toshio Iwai
2003: (Montreal) Joseph Paradiso, Claude Cadoz, Michel Waiswisz
2002: (Dublin) Tod Machover, Joel Chadabe
2001: (Seattle) Max Matthews

Pamela Z Award for Innovation

This award recognizes a person who is doing significant work that improves the discussion about diversity in NIME - either through their research, connecting people or through actions such as organisation and awareness. It was named after Pamela Z because she was a keynote in the founding year, because she is a pioneer in this field and an extraordinary artist, and because spending time each NIME thinking about an award named after a prolific African American woman is a way of continually highlighting the value of her work, and representing voices that are often invisible in the community.

2024: Kate Bosen
2023: Patty Preece, Melania Jack, Giacomo Lepri
2022: Astrid Bin, Laurel Pardue
2021: João Tragtenberg Honorary Mention: Abby Aresty
2020: Doga Cavdir Honorary Mention: Patricia Cadavid Hinojosa
2019: Margaret Schedel Honorary Mention: Ximena Alarcón Díaz
2018: Sarah Belle Reid