The Cunningham Dax Collection presents Out of the Dark the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

Out of the Dark: the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust
The Cunningham Dax Collection
Presented in association with the Jewish Holocaust Centre
Opening 22 October 2009

Out of the Dark brings together a selection of artworks made by child survivors and children of survivors of the Holocaust. The exhibition explores the continuing psychological effects that the Holocaust has had throughout these generations. Out of the Dark considers the trans-generational emotional legacy of the Holocaust, viewed through the creative lens of its survivors and subsequent generations.

VISIT > Gallery hours: Wed – Fri 10am to 4pm, Saturday 1 to 5pm, Admission FREE
MAP > http://tiny.cc/FSKdV

The Cunningham Dax Collection
35 Poplar Road
Parkville, Melbourne 3052
Victoria
T 61 3 9342 2394
F 61 3 9381 2008
www.daxcollection.org.au

Grit Media. Shamelessly Disabled is on the lookout for Media Mentors

GRIT MEDIA is looking for volunteers to mentor or train people with disabilities in media, design, video or radio.

Deadline: ongoing

Check out www.gritmedia.org.au and contact director@gritmedia.org.au for more information.

For those interested in the participating in the Media mentorships…

Grit Media currently offers the disabled community the opportunity to reach beyond the parameters of its own imagination. For the next six months we are offering Mentored Placements in all types of creative media environments and for varying lengths of times. These placements can range from anywhere between four hours to up to a week depending on the individuals needs and the companies idiosyncrasies.

Organizations renowned for their cutting edge supremacy will now open their own doors of perception to allow anyone from the “allability” community to sample their cerebral smorgasbord of creatively inventive delights.

If you have ever desired to examine the realms of film, television, stills photography, print media, event management, video installation and beyond, or have ever wanted to see a director, producer or sound engineer (to name a few) at work, then please download an information/application form here.

The only stipulations for eligibility are that you are over eighteen, become a member of Grit Media (its free and without strings) and dare to dream big.

Grit Media Mentoring… be a part of it and be a part of history.

A Victorian, not-for-profit organisation with the purpose of producing media with, for and by people with disabilities.

The Gulf of Carpet Area. A site-specific video installation by Zoe Scoglio

29 September  – 10 October
Trades Hall, Victoria Street Wing Foyer
Corner of Lygon St and Victoria Pde, Carlton, MELBOURNE

Check out: Gulf of Carpet Area

You are invited to visit one of the great mysteries Down Under. Come and gaze at the wonders that lie deep within the abyss and discover the secrets hidden for centuries under the Gulf of Carpet Area. The region has been explored and charted, exposing the ever-changing substances that lie beneath our feet. Be careful of solid ground. The Gulf is one of the distinct physiographic sections of the larger (and surrounding) Bella Union province, which in turn is part of the larger Trades Hall physiographic division.

NOWHERELAND. The Paris Human Flesh Incident. A cross-media installation.

NOWHERELAND, is a cross-media installation combining video, installation, plastic food and surveillance technology.

24 September – 10 October
Blindside ARI
Level 7, Room 14, 37 Swanston St, Nicholas Building MELBOURNE

Find out more at http://www.blindside.org.au/2009/nowhereland.shtml

Blindside provides an environment for experimentation and encourages the creation and presentation of art works that are challenging and innovative. The program fosters exchanges between local and interstate artists.

Robogals, engaging girls in robotics.

Robogals Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, which aims to increase the number of girls undertaking science, engineering and technology courses at university. Robogals does this by engaging girls in robotics from a young age in a way that is fun and educational. The volunteer university students are trained in LEGO robotics and then visit schools to teach LEGO robotics to the students.

Robogals was founded in July 2008, and within three weeks, had enlisted the help of 80 university students. Within the next 2.5 months, Robogals taught over 120 girls from 7 schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. Since the founder moved to London, she has set it up in the United Kingdom, while the organisation has been successfully continued in Victoria, Australia, supported by the University of Melbourne and its students.

This organization has an international reach, operating in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Robogals

AFTRS in conjunction with the IGDA Sydney are running GameJam 09

Intense show’n’tells, pitches, discussions and lots of interaction!

An interactive event by gamers for gamers – a day of playing, learning about and making games. Come be a spectator, play to win, or get involved in the creative jam session. This free one day event features gaming competitions, seminars, networking and creative activities. The JAM starts with a gaming forum where anyone can register to be a presenter – share YOUR latest discoveries, opinions & ideas for games and virtual worlds. The JAM ends with a workshop & competition – where creative teams engage in a battle of ideas & rapid game-design, with prizes for best pitch!

Register to come along and/or participate – online at: http://www.gamejam.org.au

Show everyone YOUR latest ideas for games and virtual worlds

If you want to present for around 10-15 mins please book yourself a talk slot by checking out the GameJam wiki site

ADMISSION: Free!
LOCATION: AFTRS building at the Entertainment Quarter, 130 Bent St. Moore Park (next door to Fox Studios) Syd, AUS
WHEN: Saturday 10th October 2009
WHO: YOU’RE the stars, but we will have some cool folk like Dan Graf (Dr D Studios) & Ian Brown (Unity & CG creator)

OPEN TALKS & SCHEDULE
The talks will be about anything to do with
1 developing for or playing with console, pc games, alternate reality games, augmented reality, smart mobiles, serious games
2 offline, online games or creating and using virtual worlds
3 games, film cross-over, machinima, writing, artificial intelligence, social games
5 educational, fun or just plain ‘wtf’!.
6 The user or creator angle is fine (in otherwords talk us through one of your must play games!) – just make sure it is not too geeky or too fanzy!

Demos around the areas: big screen displays, play new games and demos.

Pic of the day, That Hussy killed Domo.

Source Picture is Unrelated

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, urban Melbourne metro life via a Dada vehicle

WORLD PREMIERE
Melbourne International Arts Festival, Arts House and Store Room Theatre present The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
Created and Directed by Anna Tregloan
Thu 15 – Sun 18 October

“Anna Tregloan’s mesmeric performance installation gave us a compelling taste of what an experimental agenda can achieve.” The Age

Have you ever overheard a conversation on the train and been transfixed? Did you let your mind wander? Did you fill in the gaps? Perhaps you invented the entire life story of the characters on which you eavesdropped? Under the acclaimed direction of Anna Tregloan, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places captures the complexity of urban life in a Dada inspired work where transcribed conversations, rants and whisperings uttered by everyday commuters on Melbourne’s metropolitan rail network are reinvented into a unique and seductive piece of theatre.

Unpredictable, roughly hewn and surprisingly tender, this work will showcase the topsy-turvy daily grind as four consummate performers take up the challenge of clowning their way through the abyss between what we assume about someone, what they believe of themselves and what might just be possible.

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places expresses not only the imagination of theatre, but also the imagination that dwells in every individual making for a precious night of theatre and a train ride in a truly unique world.

Director: Anna Treglaon. Producer: Todd MacDonald, Sound Design: David Franzke. Lighting designer: Niklas
Pajanti. Performers: Chris Brown, Rita Kalnejais, Heather Bolton and James Wardlaw.

Event information
Venue: Arts House, Meat Market 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
When: Thu 15 – Sun 18 October
Time: Thu and Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm and 4pm, Sun 2pm and 6pm
Duration: 65 minutes no interval
Tickets: Full $35 / Groups (8+) $31.50 / Concession $27.00
Bookings: www.artshouse.com.au (03) 9639 0096
or www.melbournefestival.com.au 1300 136 166

Fake New York Post makes New Yorkers wakeup to Climate Change

This week nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most alarming thing about it: the news came from an official City report.

Distributed by over 2000 volunteers throughout New York City, the paper has been created by The Yes Men and a coalition of activists as a wake-up call to action on climate change.

Although the 32-page New York Post is a fake, everything in it is 100% true, with all facts carefully checked by a team of editors and climate change experts.

“This could be, and should be, a real New York Post,” said Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men. “Climate change is the biggest threat civilization has ever faced, and it should be in the headlines of every paper, every day until we solve the problem.”

The fake Post’s cover story (“We’re Screwed”) reports the frightening conclusions of a blue-ribbon panel of scientists commissioned by the mayor’s office to determine the potential effects of climate change on the City. That report was released in February of this year, but received very little press at the time. Other lead articles describe the Pentagon’s alarmed response to global warming (“Clear & Present Disaster”), the U.S. government’s sadly minuscule response to the crisis (“Congress Cops Out on Climate”), China’s alternative energy program (“ChinaÕs Green Leap Forward Overtakes U.S.”), and how if the US doesn’t quickly pass a strong climate bill, the crucial Copenhagen climate talks this December could be a “Flopenhagen.”

The paper includes original investigative reporting as well. One article (“Carbon counter counts New Yorkers as fools”) reveals that Deutsche Bank – which erected a seven-story “carbon counter” in central Manhattan – not only invests heavily in coal-mining companies worldwide, but has recently entered the business of coal trading itself.

The paper has the world’s gloomiest weather page, covering the next 70 years rather than just 7 days. The “Around the World” section describes the disproportionate effects of climate change on poorer parts of the world, including extreme droughts, floods, famines, water shortages, mass migrations and conflicts. Developing countries will bear the brunt of climate change effects even though they have done very little to cause the problem.

To participate in civil disobedience visit http://BeyondTalk.net and pledge to risk arrest in a planned global action November 30, just before the conference in Copenhagen.

Links:

Fake New York Post: http://www.nypost-se.com/
Video News Release: http://www.nypost-se.com/video
City report on climate change: http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2009/NPCC_CRI.pdf
Wake-up call: http://www.tcktcktck.org/wakeup

World Television launches online video portal on Climate Change

World Television has launched climatetalks.tv, an online video news portal for journalists in the lead up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15). COP15, the most significant global meeting this year, will be held in Copenhagen between 7 and 18 December.

World Television, which has a long track record in environmental communications, has developed climatetalks.tv in order to host video footage and other multimedia assets related to climate change from a variety of sources to support broadcast, print and online journalists’ stories around the event.

Video footage will be available for download in broadcast-quality from October through until the end of December 2009 and beyond into 2010. In addition to providing the latest stories on the debate, the site also incorporates RSS-feed functionality so journalists can sign-up to receive alerts when new content is added.