Our Director

Thomas Hajdu is Professor and Chair of Creative Technologies at the University of Adelaide, where he is the Director of the Sia Furler Institute for Contemporary Music and Media. 

Tom Hajdu

Tom Hajdu, Director

Tom has over 30 years of experience in leadership, music, media, creativity, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. 

Tom received a PhD and MFA from Princeton University, the Presidential MBA in Leadership from Pepperdine University and BMus from the University of British Columbia.

In 1990, he co-founded tomandandy, which he built into one of the largest music production companies in the world. 

He's collaborated with some of the most influential artists in the world, has worked with best of breed advertising agencies  and with film studios(Sony,and Universal).  

Tom is also CEO of Disrupter, a strategic innovation company. 

Tom was South Australia's first and only Chief Innovator. He was responsible for the Gigcity Initiative and brought the South Australian Government to the White House in 2016, which recognised Adelaide as the first gig city outside of the United States, to join the US Ignite Smart City Initiative.

Tom has sat on many award juries, including the Australia Council for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts. He is currently a member of the Digital Advisory Group for the Australia Council for the Arts.

Recently Tom launched a new initiative intersecting Art and Artificial Intelligence launching AI artistic research initiatives including Laurie Anderson as the first AI artist-in-residence called the Art Intelligence Agency. 

  • Tom Hajdu’s work in film and television

    2019
    47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Haunt, The Silence, Lucky Day, The Infiltrators 

    2018
    La voix humaine, The Wolf's Call 

    2017
    Wish Upon, 47 Metres Down

    2016
    The Wilding (TV Movie), City of Joy (Documentary), The Monster, Havenhurst 

    2015
    Hitting the Apex, Sinister 2, 7 Minutes 

    2014
    H8RZ, Girl House, Animal 

    2013
    Anatomy of Violence (TV Movie), Innocence, Family Tools (TV Series) (9 episodes), Blaze You Out 

    2012
    Resident Evil: Retribution, The Apparition, Resident Evil: Underground (Short), Citadel 

    2011
    Identity (TV Movie), Charge (Documentary), Fastest (Documentary), The Details, I Melt with You

    2010
    And Soon the Darkness, Resident Evil: Afterlife 

    2009
    The Good Guy 

    2008
    The Echo, The Strangers, Sleep Dealer 

    2007
    P2 

    2006
    The Covenant, The Hills Have Eyes, Right at Your Door

    2005
    Love, Ludlow 

    2004
    Anonymous Rex (TV Movie), Meltdown (TV Movie), Freshman Orientation, Mean Creek 

    2003
    Faster (Documentary) 

    2002
    The Rules of Attraction, The Mothman Prophecies 

    2001
    Chaos Rising: The Storm Around 'Natural Born Killers' (Video documentary short) 

    2000
    No Maps for These Territories (Documentary), Sonic Cinema (TV Series), The Beat (TV Series), Waking the Dead

    1997
    Going All the Way 

    1996
    Mocking the Cosmos (Short) 

    1995
    Mr. Stitch (TV Movie), Shreddin' H2O (TV Series), United States of Poetry (TV Mini-Series documentary) 

    1994
    TV Nation (TV Series documentary) 

    1993
    Killing Zoe 

    1992
    Choices (TV Movie) 

    1991
    Words in Your Face (TV Short) 

    1990
    Buzz (Global TV Series) (1990)