Steev Hise, born in Iowa and currently based in Portland, Oregon, has been creating experimental music, performance art, video, and internet art since 1990. At California Institute of the Arts he studied composition with Morton Subotnick and Wadada Leo Smith, sound design with Tom Erbe, and cultural studies with Dick Hebdige.

Hise's work centers around the appropriation and recontextualization of pre-existing cultural artifacts; in other words, making new art from the old. He has presented his work across North America and in Europe and Australia, and has collaborated with a variety of other artists including Wobbly, The Evolution Control Committee, People Like Us, and the Tape-beatles. In addition, he has been commisioned to compose music for several choreographers including Amy Drum and Jeanne Herring. In 2000 he received the New Langton Bay Area Award for his internet piece "Detritus Sound Consensus Bakery". Hise's recordings appear on his CD, "Original" (Illegal Art/Cha-Bashira) as well as various compilations including "Deconstructing Beck" (Illegal Art) and "The Toywar Soundtrack" (Etoy) .

Hise is a founding steering committee member of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and the founder of Detritus.net, an internet site dedicated to recycled culture. For more information on his work, or Detritus.net, see http://www.detritus.net/steev, or write to info@detritus.net.