Add-Art Firefox add-on

Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators. Learn more about Add-Art http://add-art.org/content/background

It is little more than a decade since artists first began using the Internet as the “medium” of their art. Net Art 1.0 uses the Web 2.0 platform of Add-Art to present “ads” — sedimentary reminders — for a handful of the early works of net and related art, which pressaged the present with uncanny precision.
http://add-art.org/content/net-art-10

America unmasked:the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009

The USA has a new president but an old problem – and nothing typifies it like today’s Ku Klux Klan. The photographer Anthony Karen gained unprecedented access to the ‘Invisible Empire’ Klan members gather at a cross ‘lighting’ in Scottsboro, Alabama.

These images show members of the Ku Klux Klan as they want to be seen, scary and secretive and waiting in the wings for Barack and his colour-blind vision for America to fail. Anthony Karen, a former Marine and self-taught photojournalist was granted access to the innermost sanctum of the Klan. He doesn’t tell us how he did it but he was considered trustworthy enough to be invited into their homes and allowed to photograph their most secretive ceremonies, such as the infamous cross burnings.

When he talks about the Klan members he has encountered he tends not to dwell on the fate of their victims. Karen’s feat is that he takes us to places few photojournalists have been before, into the belly of the beast. The scenes he presents portray a kinder, gentler Klan. The mute photographs present an organisation that is far less threatening than the hate group of our popular imagination. Consciously or otherwise, his photographs hold our imagination in their grip while doing double duty as propaganda for the extremist right, much as Leni Riefenstahl’s work did for the Nazis.

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Eat the Suburbs

One day in the not too distant future the Eat the Suburbs website will be a community hub for co ordinating the research and ideas for what will become a brilliant Energy Descent Action Plan for certain parts of the Melbourne suburbs.  This site also hosts a wiki (under development) – a place where we can structure and develop these ideas, and work towards a coherent plan.

The name Eat The Suburbs was suggested by Asha B – and it captures one of the central themes of dealing with energy descent™: edible landscapes!

Get Involved: you can post comments on the website and have into into how it will develop, get involved in networks active in permaculture activities.

http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/

Permablitz

Permablitz is a social enterprise committed to improving the sustainability of our cities and suburbs.  Pb use a sustainable design system called permaculture to help communities move away from denial and dependent consumerism to engagement and responsible production.  Our core focus is helping people sustainably grow food where they live, building healthy community in the process.  Rather than depressing people with the bad news, we empower them with the good news – that the solutions are at hand – and get on with having fun rolling them out.
 
Permablitz started in April 2006 with a collaboration between permaculture students and a South American community group in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Since then, over 30 permablitzes have been held and permablitz has gained an international reputation as a successful tool for fast-tracking the suburbs towards sustainability.

Get Involved: check out the events calendar for the next permablitz in a local backyard and come along, get your hands dirty and learn as you go.

web: http://permablitz.net

Play Like a Girl Jam Sessions – Melbourne

PLAY LIKE A GIRL JAM SESSIONS for women musicians * * * The Glasshouse, 51 Gipps St, Collingwood, Melbourne * * * Last Tuesday every month (see our gig guide for dates and special guests) * * * Time: 7pm register to jam (all women musicians welcome) * * * Host act performs 7-7.45pm * * * Jam 8 – 10pm * * * BYO instruments; backline gear & PA provided * *

* WOMEN MUSICIANS OF ANY LEVEL OF ABILITY WELCOME

Play Like A Girl is a network and jam session for women musicians, created to: 1) Provide an opportunity for women musicians to network, gain inspiration and support from each other; 2) Encourage women of all ages to develop and maintain viable and rewarding careers in music; and 3) Create a ‘safe space’ for women musicians of all genres and levels of musical ability to jam together and expand their creativity, skills and networks.

For further details plesae visit the website.

www.myspace.com/iplaylikeagirl

Go Font Urself art exhibition

SYDNEY
Where: Peer Gallery – 153 Bridge Road, Glebe NSW 2037
Date: 25 February 2009
Time: 6:30pm
Website: www.gofonturself.com.au
About: Thirteen Australia artists showcase type based artworks that reinvent the uniqueness of the alphabet.

MELBOURNE
Where: Don’t Come Gallery – 314 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Date: 4 March 2009
Time: 6:30pm
RSVP: By sending an email to gofonturself@peergroupmedia.com along with your details.
About: Thirteen Australia artists showcase type based artworks that reinvent the uniqueness of the alphabet.

In honour of International Women’s Day AussieChix have organised a Gaming Hackfest

In honour of International Women’s Day, albeit slightly late, AussieChix in Sydney are meeting for a gaming hackfest: participants will be building a small game in the Python programming language. Check out http://www.pyweek.org/ for small games already built in Python.

What about non-programmers and non-Pythonistas? If you’d prefer to work in another language go ahead, we’re encouraging Python only because of the toolkits and because many of us know it. If you’re a non-programmer, we want you on hand for design and testing. Really, we do. Have a look at the previous PyWeek games for an idea of the need for images and sprites too.

What if I don’t have any ideas? We’ll grab the source code from some previous pyweek challenges, so you could modify those rather than build from scratch.

Equipment needed: you will need a laptop. If you don’t have one and want to come post to the AussieChix list, someone may be up to rustle up a spare. If you’re using Python, you will need that installed, we’ll send out a list of suggested third-party libraries shortly. We strongly suggest you have them installed and tested before showing up, simply so as not to lose half the day to installation. Please also bring a plate of food to share.

Can men come? Since we have limited room, this depends on the number of attendees. Women will be given preference. Email the RSVP address and let us know you’re interested, we’ll get back to you no later than the 7th. (Standard LinuxChix “be polite, be helpful” rules apply to all guests, and male guests in particular are asked to remember that most women are coming to code or do some image/level hacking, not to have a man teach them how to do these things. Wait to be asked for your help.)

Date: 14th March 2008
Time: From 11am
Location: Maroubra, Sydney, Australia
RSVP for street address

RSVP: RSVPs are required, please email rsvp.sydney@au.linuxchix.org

Save the Males – Barons Brewing Co. Short film competition

Create a ‘Save the Males’ themed short film and you could win $5000!  As part of their ‘Save the Males’ campaign Barons Brewing Co. have launched a competition for young filmmakers to create a viral video. The winning viral will win $5000 cash and their viral will be released and seeded on youtube, the Barons website, social networks and online forums.

Barons are looking for funny, innovative videos to help promote the Barons brand with exciting content. Entry to the competition must be made via the Barons website and entrants must be a member of the Barons Squadron (entry
to the Barons Squadron is free and can be made online). Each valid entry must include; a bottle of Barons beer and a person must say ‘Save the Males’ and ‘Barons Brewing’ must also be mentioned during the video.

Barons believe that the world’s spiraled into a mad pit of sad, PC, metro, safeness.  As a result, the male as we know him is facing extinction. Barons Brewing Co. recently launched their ‘Save the Males’ campaign and with the help of Jungleboys, together they created five cutting edge viral videos. 

Barons existing virals at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yksWTOEqsUc

Enter online at http://www.baronsbrewing.com

New Livewire online community connects young Australians living with serious illness

Livewire, a new online community that is the first of its kind in Australia for Aussies between 10 and 21 living with serious illness or disability. It is a free service designed to provide a safe and supportive online community to connect children and young people living with these health conditions.

An estimated 450,000¹ young Australians aged between 10 and 21 are currently living with a serious illness, chronic health condition or disability.

Livewire aims to have a significant impact on the social and emotional wellbeing of its members, to help relieve stress and anxiety, alleviate boredom and to help empower them to develop new life skills and make new friends.

Find out more information should visit www.livewire.org.au or contact member.services@livewire.org.au