Pulse – rooftops over Melbourne

Six innovative performers bring new perceptions of the urban landscape high above the city. PULSE will activate the City Village Rooftop at 225 Bourke St, Melbourne over 4 months, from February to May 2009, with a short season of 6 site-specific multimedia art performances. PULSE seeks to reveal new
relationships between the body and the architecture. PULSE imagines how Melbourne’s urban landscape looks, sounds and feels.
 
The first in the PULSE series incorporates: In Common Tongue by Martin Renaud. In common Tongue is a piece based on audience participation where his vulnerability as a performer is exposed via technology. Using sensors on his body and an 8 channel surround sound playback system he engages the public through sound as language.
 
In Common Tongue: 6 & 7 February (in case of rain 8 February), 8:30pm City Village Rooftop, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne (between Swanston St & Russell St)
Cost: $20 / $15 concession

Tickets at the door or email Thea Baumann at info@pulserooftop.com
 
http://www.pulserooftop.com

Applications for Project NEXT are now open.

*Project NEXT*, is the working title of a new topical 10 x 30min program which will be on your screens later this year – on ABC1, ABC2, the web, mobile phones and online.

Seeking applications from creative people between the ages of 18 and 30 to work as reporters, producers, camera/directors, editors, graphic artists, researchers and web content producers.

Applications to work on Project NEXT close at 5pm Monday, 16 March 2009.

If you want to apply or find out more information go to:  <http://www.projectnext.net.au/

Brought to you by ABC TV <http://www.abc.net.au/tv/> and Zapruder’s other films <http://www.zof.com.au/>, the people who brought the Chaser team to TV, and the creative force behind *The Gruen Transfer <http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/>*, and *Enough  Rope <http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/>*, are looking for creative young people who are original thinkers with a view about what’s happening in Australia and the world, to work on *Project NEXT*.

Founders and Survivors – a convict database

People who attended LCA or the microconference in October may have heard  about Founders and Survivors, a project to build a massive family history database of Australian convicts and their descendants.   There was a report on this project recently in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. http://is.gd/hdVq-

Gog Classic 1950s sci fi movie in 3D presented by Mu-Mesons

Gog (1954) in 3D – Classic 1950s sci fi movie. Scientists working on induced hibernation for space travel are killed, apparently by machines acting independently. Security agent Sheppard arrives at the secret underground space research base to investigate possible sabotage. Shot in 3D, but released mainly in regular 2D. 3D glasses will be provided but if you have your own bring them along.
Monday 23rd February …
Annandale Hotel (Sydney) 7.30 $5 suggested Donation
17 Parramatta Rd Annandale, Sydney. Ph (02) 9550-1078

In association with — For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives
web site http://www.mumeson.org

Don’t Look Now Gallery

screwsLoose is Tim Hilton and Sari TM Kivinen, both performance artists active in the local Sydney art and nightclub scene. As a collaborative act screwsLoose (a dynamic duo) explores its own duo dynamic in tragic-comic ways, mashing experimental music, movement, improvisation, excessive costuming and make-up, with its penchant for playdough.
screwsLoose
Sunday Feb 8, 6pm (performance)

Intimacy Hospital
By Alexis Armytage, David Urquhart, Frank Jones, Irit Pollak, Jacqueline Olivetti, Matt Rochford (the 2203 collective) and special guests
Opens Friday February 13, 6pm, Thur Feb 12 – Sat March 7 (exhibition)

‘Intimacy Hospital’ explores intimate moments experienced by the artists, making public acts, events, spaces and moments that are normally hidden away.  In a similar way that artist, Sophie Calle, adds personal decorations to a public phone booth, Intimacy Hospital will ‘curtain-off’ these moments placing them in the public space of the gallery for anonymous guests to view. Frank Jones comes to terms with his hairy back in a video about showering in the rear alley of the gallery, David reveals his very intimate relationship with Fido… a red corduroy dog which he has slept with for almost 70 years, Jacqueline looks at the lover/carer relationship examining the medical paraphernalia involved in her mother and father’s relationship. The hospital is now open to the public, the moments are clinging to life support and trying to stay warm.  Enter… if you have the stomach for it.

Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery: 2009 Program
419 New Canterbury Rd Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ph: 0401 152 434
Director/curator: Greg Shapley

EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery

1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction & Fantasy

A fantastic series started by the UK – Guardian that suggests 1000 Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels everyone must read.! Sure the neat little précis of each novel hooks into the e-commerce cart of the Guardian online bookstore, with the potential to buy. But personally I don’t mind – after all – once something whets your appetite why not own it too.

Btw, this is part 1 so bookmark the site …

Guardian UK

The amazing intelligence of crows – Joshua Klein

Crows are pretty clever and if you don’t think so watch this video.

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.

YouTube Video

Sleeveface

Definition: One or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.

Do you have a world class Sleeveface picture? Do you have a heartwarming story or testimonial about Sleeveface? Has Sleeveface improved your relationships? Are you Phil Collins? If the answer is ‘yes absolutely’ you can email submit@sleeveface.com. You can also post Sleevefaces on Facebook or Flickr.

Check out the instructional video or just have fun seeing how creative people can be with album covers.
Sleeveface.

Artnodes e-journal on art, science and technology

Artnodes is an impressive e-journal promoted by the Universitat of Oberta de Catalunya which analyses the intersection between arts, science and technology. It fosters a number of projects, such as Yasmin and Labs.

LABS
International database of abstracts of doctorate theses and essays on art, science and technology. Artnodes-UOC Project, Leonardo-ISAST and Pomona College.

YASMIN
Network, debates and news list on the intersections between art, science and technology in the Mediterranean basin. Artnodes-UOC Project, Leonardo-ISAST, OLATS, University of Athens and Unesco Digiarts.

How Buildings Learn TV series – Jason Kottke

…is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998 (archives).

In 1997, the BBC aired a three-hour documentary based on Stewart Brand’s book, How Buildings Learn. Brand has posted the whole program on Google Video in six 30-minute parts: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six.

If you’re hesitant about whether to watch the series or not, check out this two-minute appetizer of perhaps the meatiest tidbit in the book: the oak beam replacement plan for the dining hall of New College, Oxford. (via smashing telly)

Source: http://www.kottke.org/08/08/how-buildings-learn-tv-series