Garth Paine is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in new media arts. His immersive interactive environments have been exhibited in Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He has been part of the organizing and peer review panels for the International Conference On New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) since it’s inception and invited as guest editor of Organized Sound, a pre-eminent international journal on music technology published by Cambridge University Press. He has been selected as one of ten creative professionals internationally for exhibition in the 10th New York Digital Salon; DesignX Critical Reflections, and as a millennium leader of innovation by the German Keyboard Magazine in 2000. Dr Paine has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Fellowship at RMIT University in 2000, and The RMIT Innovation Research Award in 2002. He is one of 17 advisors to the UNESCO funded Symposium on the Future, a project focused on formulating a taxonomy of electronic musical instruments. In 2006 his innovative ensemble, SynC, with Michael Atherton, is one of only 20 international performance ensembles selected to perform Pompidou, IRCAM.