I Need More … from the Tim Burton Wonderland Flickr Gallery

Chris Cote, Ink, 11in x 14in.

Tim Burton Wonderland Gallery

Source: http://tinyurl.com/2fvsee4

Virion – screen based digital art exhibition – Artists Submissions Now Open until July 14th. #geekgirl

Virion July 19 – August 1: Artists Submissions Now Open

Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience throughout Brisbane. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each. All submissions also play on the Virion website. Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represents a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices. Screens include: AXIOM Estate Agents, The Exchange, Blue Lotus, Urban Dental, Health Stream Fitness Club, QUT Health Clinics – Podiatry and Optometry, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, the Creative Industries Precinct, H‐Block Gallery and The Edge.

Online Artist submissions are now open.
To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.

‘the creative class doesn’t exist’ #arts #artspace #cognitivecapitalism

‘the creative class doesn’t exist’
With Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos
Location: Artspace

In Sydney for one public event only: Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos in dialogue on artists, precarity and collective experimentation.

The changing boundaries between work and leisure, the conquering of distance via tele-technologies and the exponential expansion of the culture industries in the late twentieth century are supposed to have created a new ‘creative class’. People who work in the media, the Internet, museums and the entertainment industry seemingly comprise this engine-room of neoliberalism. Yet the segmented and differential nature of these industries generates a situation where most artists, for example, declare an income from their activities that falls below the poverty line. Contrary to the idea that the creative class embodies the values and privileges of the expanding creative industries, many artists and art workers instead find themselves in the same boat as intermittent, casualised and precarious workers.

In this conversation between the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato and the artist Angela Melitopoulos, a space opens up for questioning the current place of artists and of ‘creativity’ within cognitive capitalism. They discuss the contradiction deep at the heart of creative industries and contemporary cognitive capitalism: the erasure of non-productive time, which is precisely the time required for creation to take place at all. They debate the question, initiated by Marcel Duchamp, of how ‘an-artist’, rather than the Artist, might function to open up new ways of feeling, doing and saying and of experimenting with new institutions that might promote different forms of collective creation.

Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher who lives and works in Paris. Among his recent publications are: Lavoro immateriale. Forme di vita e produzione di soggettivita (1997); Videofilosofia. Percezione e lavoro nel postfordismo (1997); Tute Bianche. Disoccupazione di massa et reddito di cittadinanza (1999); Post-face à Monadologie et sociologie (1999); Puissance de l’invention. La psychologie economique de Gabriel Tarde contre l’economie politique (2002); Les Revolutions du capitalisme (2004).

Angela Melitopoulos, is an time-based artist, realizes video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces and curates exhibitions and seminars. Her work focuses on duration and mnemonic micro-processes in documentation. Her work has been shown in many international video and film festivals, exhibitions and museums (Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York). Currently she is a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in the University of East London.

6 July 2010, 6:00pm
ARTSPACE

T: +61 2 9356 0555
F: +61 2 9368 1705
artspace@artspace.org.au

The Memorial – Death be Kind #exhibition #Melbourne #arts

The Memorial
A display-case collection of inherited objects from
over 100 people, plus accompanying zine.

June 29th – 25th July, 2010
The Memorial

For the first exhibition of DEATH BE KIND Claire Lambe and Elvis Richardson in collaboration present The Memorial an elaborate display-case housing a collection of beloved objects that once belonged to a deceased relative, friend, acquaintance or lover chosen by over 100 people from all walks of life who have kindly participated in this project.

The Memorial presentation is reminiscent of the small private museum and employs the language of display to create symbiotic dialogues through the relational placement of the works. A complex display case has been constructed so as to elevate the importance and meanings of the beloved objects and gently navigate the viewers experience of the gallery space.

The Memorial retells the stories behind the objects that we keep to evoke memory of the deceased, how these objects maintain ongoing relationship with the dead, and how these material possessions remain important in memory making. Each object has been documented and texts collected from the holder about their object to create a catalogue of texts that caption the objects personal meanings in a zine.

DEATH BE KIND is a twelve month project by artists Claire Lambe and Elvis Richardson.

Upstairs @ The Alderman - 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, Melbourne, Australia
the gallery will feature a series of curated exhibitions bringing together artists and ideas around the circumstance of death.

Opening hours:
Tuesday 6-8pm
Saturday & Sunday 2-6pm
Or by appointment 0401 346520
www.deathbekind.com

Free digital media workshop with UK artist – Robin McNicholas, 30th June & 1st July, #Melbourne

Join UK digital media artist Robin McNicholas in a workshop on making moving images through craft techniques and digital media. The workshop will explore alternative ways of making images using unusual and everyday materials. Young artists, designers, musicians or performers interested in digital media, animation or music video production are invited to participate. The workshop is free, eligible participants must have a Healthcare card, not be in full-time study and be aged between 16–28.

Two day workshop 12–3pm on Wednesday 30th June and Thursday 1 July.

Robin McNicholas is a UK based artist and member of Flat-e, www.flat-e.com. Supported by the British Council in partnership with
Jesuit Social Services, Artful Dodgers Studios.

Numbers are limited, please contact Artful Dodgers studios to book in, or for more information.
T: 03 9415 8700
E: forest.keegel@jss.org.au
W: www.Artfuldodgers.tv
Artful Dodgers studios, 1 Langridge Street,
Collingwood, Melbourne 3066.

Sum of these holes: new pinhole works by Steph Tout #Melbourne

until – 1 July 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

An exhibition exploring perceptual processes through dreamlike photographs of place, taken with a camera made from a biscuit tin. Photographer Steph Tout has used simple hands-on technology drawn from more than a century ago to create stunning images that immerse the viewer in a variety of intricate, non-linear yet cohesive landscapes.  Impressions have been gathered from sites both wild and urban, from Kinglake’s regrowth to the cobbled streets of Brussels. Tout’s photographs from the past two years are brought together in her first Melbourne solo show.

www.stephtout.com.au
www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au

#Robot Dreams – When the artist interacts with Artificial Intelligence #geekgirl

Nam June Paik Andy Warhol Robot, 1994 Sculpture Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
© 2010 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Photo: Helge Mundt, Hamburg

The Museum Tinguely in Basel and Kunsthaus Graz are co-organising an exhibition that addresses the subjects of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Robotics”. The title Robot Dreams is borrowed from a short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov, a biochemist and extraordinarily prolific writer of science fiction, in which Elvex, a robot, has to be destroyed because he has a dream in which he plans a revolt and starts to disregard the Three Laws that are intended to keep him subservient to humans.

Robots in everyday life
The exhibition looks at recent advances in Artificial Intelligence research and, through the medium of artistic projects, seeks to explore the broad topic of Robots and its association with various concepts. The questions here focus in particular on the interaction between man and machine, Embodiment, the feedback from these developments and its influence on human perception and behaviour, and the use of robots in everyday life. What is regarded today as utopian, even a source of disquiet, may tomorrow be part and parcel of household appliances. Communicating with the refrigerator, autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and adaptive seat memory electronics in cars are already contemporary reality, as are nano-robots for medical use or software that is able to learn from its mistakes and adapt appropriately.

Contemporary art and science
The artists had virtually complete freedom to produce the works shown in the approximately 1000 m2 exhibition space devoted to Robot Dreams. They provide answers from very different perspectives to the question as to what contemporary art can contribute to our understanding and handling of the latest developments in the natural sciences. The visitor becomes an active participant in multimedia environments that illustrate the possibilities and limits of this interaction. John Bock’s history-inspired film oeuvre and Virgil Widrich’s anthology of film cover a century of the development and aesthetic of films and literature on robots and robotics. Kirsty Boyle’s work is influenced by Japanese Karakuri figures and combines contemporary research with the great tradition of Japanese automata. Using the technique of speech recognition, Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth create an interactive experimental setting that leaves us uncertain as to whether we are (still) humans or machines, while Jon Kessler’s huge, circular installation inspired by Alexander Calder and Sisyphus elucidates the absurd logic behind acts of war.

9th June to 12 September 2010

Website: http://www.tinguely.ch

Playlist – a reinvention of obsolete technology and art.

iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technologies is proud to announce Playlist: Playing Games, Music, Art, an exhibition focused on the artistic reinvention of obsolete digital media. Produced and hosted by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial (Gijon, Asturias) in the frame of the Mediateca Expandida, Playlist now moves to Brussels enriched with twelve new participants and a broader range of artworks.

Open from June 4 until August 21 2010.
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Koolmijnenkaai 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels

For more information visit www.imal.org

Cherchez la Femme III: Feminism and Sport #melbourne #feminism #geekgirl

Description
Gear up for the third instalment of Cherchez la Femme: Feminism and Sport. Is the Australian obsession with sport an intractable problem for the feminist project? Is it just institutionalised aggression, bloodlust and body fascism? Or can it be a space in which women take power, channel their own aggression, and feel part of a community? The panel will be made up of athletes, fanatical consumers of sporting coverage, critics of the elite codes, sporting enthusiasts, game-goers and all manner of other feminists for a full and frank appraisal of how women fit in to a discussion about sport and our society.

Speakers: Lisa Gye, boxer Mischa Merz, roller girl Genevieve ‘danger’ Berrick and Seb Prowse

Tuesday, July 6, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
The Fox Hotel
351 Wellington St (cnr Alexandra Pde)
Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
View Map

HiGH ViZ Vogue – Bike #Fashion Jam #Melbourne #bicycles

DIY cycling gear workshop to keep the cops and the fashion police happy

11:00 – 13:00
Saturday 19 June 2010
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria & Louisa Streets, Coburg

Craft Cartel, alarmed by sights of fluoro lycra clad cyclists and equally aghast at the thought of coming a cropper while partaking in our favourite form of transport, are proud to present a solution: High Viz Vogue, a DIY bike fashion workshop.

This event, part of the Moreland City Council Coburg Carnivale, invites members of the public to adapt helmets and other clothing bits they’d like to make roadway and catwalk friendly, or to start from scratch using supplied materials. Local designers Miss Viz will be on hand to provide guidance and there will be displays of innovative bike fashion solutions such as designer Ann Maher’s ‘biker bustle’.

The event will culminate in a fashion parade with prizes supplied by Crumpler and will be followed by a celebratory ride through Moreland to parade the new hip gear led by Sugar Spokes all female bike crew.

“We don’t think riders should have to choose between having a sore body and being an eye-sore,” says Cartel co-founder Casey Jenkins, “You can look hot while you’re cycling and still keep yourself safe, we’re going to show you how.”

Free! No experience necessary! All materials supplied. Ace prizes to be won.

Produced by Ann Maher, Rahne Widarsito & Casey Jenkins

Media contact: Casey Jenkins, casey(at)craftcartel(dot)com ph.0439 354 560

–
Melbourne Craft Cartel
www.craftcartel.com
for crafty types who don’t dig rose-scented doilies