Professional Activity

Before joining the faculty at Georgetown, Collier Hyams toured internationally and recorded as a world-fusion rock musician and media artist based in New York. Brought up by artist-musician parents in Thailand, Bavaria and other locations rich in Cultural Arts. Hyams' practical experience ranges from spending summers with the Ga tribe in West Africa studying Ghanaian social drumming to hiking the Highlands and Islands of Northwest Scotland learning ancient Gaelic musical traditions such as the Highland bagpipe and lilting. In addition to degrees earned in visual and media arts, his primary music teachers have been Ga drum master Yacub Addy, noted Sitar and Sarod scholar Veena Chandra, Great Highland Bagpipe teacher PM D.F.Lindsay and Flamenco guitar teacher Maria Zemantauski. He has worked with Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier, Will Calhoun (Living Colour), Sean Lennon, Duncan Sheik, Sussan Deyhim, media artist Shirin Neshat, noted film composer Richard Horowitz, performance artist Laurie Anderson, performance artist Julia 'Duka Delight' Heyward and many others including touring as leader of The 50 Man Machine and as a member of the Neil Anderson Group, Rathkeltair, VR media band Chromatophoria and the International Dub Corps. Live performance highlights include appearances at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, New York's Lincoln Center and bagpipe performances on-stage with Ireland's The Chieftains. Hyams was also previously on the faculty/staff at RPI's iEAR program.

Sample publications include CD's and DVD's:

50 Man Machine (multiple)
Something Scottish (multiple)
Sussan Deyhim: Madman of God
Rathkeltair (multiple)
Neil Anderson Group (multiple)
International Dub Corps: Wonder Where You Are
Paired Pipes at Christmas
Collier Hyams: Scream (Band Crazy)
Sacred Fire (multiple)

Print:

The 50-Man-Machine, Thesis/CD-ROM 1998-9

Post Human: Artistically Expressing the Need for Stronger Awareness of the Environmental Crisis, Thesis/Video 1993

MoFo I and MoFo II, graphic novels, Mindleach Press, 1990-1993