Aussiecon 4: World Convention of Science Fiction & Fantasy #Melbourne #geekgirl

Entries close: August
Screenings: September 2-6
www.aussiecon4.org.au

Aussiecon 4 is the 68th world convention of science fiction and fantasy. This event will be held in Melbourne in early-September and will host 1,500 authors, artists, filmmakers and fans of sci-fi, fantasy and horror from around the world. The organisers are looking to put together a program of Australian sci-fi, fantasy, horror and animated films from the past 5 years.

More Info: fanboy@gmail.com

Australiana exhibition on at Arts Project Australia #Melbourne #painters #disabilitynot

Steven Worrell
Dame Edna 2010
gouache on black rag paper
38 x 28.5cm

Australiana is a loud, bold and colourful exhibition of a loud, bold and colourful land.  Far removed from notions of patriotism, politics or nationalism, this collection of works reveal a great love, an adoring lens through which the wonder and hilarity of our Great Brown Land can be viewed.

Created with a loving hand and an innate, familiar knowledge of the subject, these works catch the eye, capture the heart and make us feel at home.  Australiana – like our country itself, is really an experience, not just a show.  Upon entry, viewers will become immersed in the tastes, sounds and sights of the kitsch, the entertaining, the sporting and the clichéd; the rock, the sails, the bridge.  Amongst this virtual tour of the Great Down Under there are truly some stand-out; Steven Worrell’s haunting portryal portrayal of Ned Kelly, Michael Trasancos’ loving and painterly cataloguing of native mammals, and Lisa Reid’s detailed, near photorealistic rendering of the Big Pineapple, to name just a few.

Venue: Arts Project Australia
Until: 21  July 2010

Last Words – a group exhibition that explores language, knowledge and communication #australia #asia

Split over two exhibition periods and featuring artists from Australia and the Asia region, Last Words is a group exhibition that explores language, knowledge and communication in an age of cultural diversity and globalisation. It is the culmination of a series of mid-career solo exhibitions and performances, which 4A has undertaken throughout 2010 that tackle ideas of communication.

When we talk about our contemporary locations, they are increasingly defined by the interaction of local, national and global references. It is a world that is undergoing constant change and expansion, where culture, geography and traditional forms of identification are neither consistent or certain. What happens when our boundaries – geographical, psychological, physical and cultural – dissolve? How, then do we articulate history, politics, where and how we live?

Last Words aims to set up a discourse around the ways in which meaning is constructed in a time of uncertainty, through artworks which act as a catalyst for reflection on the contemporary world.

A publication documenting the Last Words project will be available later in the year.

Artists in this exhibition include: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Eric Bridgeman, Zhang Ding, Hikaru Fujii, Archie Moore, Shen Shaomin.

Voiceless an independent non-profit think tank dedicated to alleviating the suffering of #animals in Australia. Grants now available

Voiceless – Grants (Category three)

The Voiceless Grants Program offers financial support to non-profit organisations, councils and universities for the design and implementation of projects which improve the lives of animals in Australia.

Over the past six years, Voiceless has awarded over $1 million to an amazing array of projects spanning the country for a variety of high priority animal protection issues.

Closing date: 16 July 2010

Lee-Anne Raymond – Painting 10A – are the burqa and nica a matter of fashion or choice? #Melbourne #painters

isochronos metamorphosis with nicab by lee anne raymond

Lee-Anne Raymond currently exhibiting in a group show Painting 10A, at the Brunswick Street Gallery #Melbourne. A range of artists will be represented, all are painters. Lee-Anne has created 4 new works challenging the misconception that the burqa and nicab are a matter of fashion or choice providing the wearer with security and empowerment.

Painting 10A
Until 14th July, 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery
2/322 Brunswick St
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

www.leeanneart.com
Humanist Transhumanist Catalogue

100 ways to say I Love You – Call for Participation

October 2010 :: SASA Gallery University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

This work is situated around shifting language use with digital communication and the subconscious interplay of symbol/number in nonverbal mobile communication. In examining the interaction between the user and the mobile interface, many sequences of I love you (ILY) are used when sending the endearment. For example to send message ILY on a Motorola v3 requires the sequence; ok v 9 9 9 9 L- v v v v L-L- 4 4 4 4 #5 5 5 # 9 9 9 L- L-

To achieve an authentic outcome to the project the artist is seeking contact with interested people to share their interfacial sequence in the sending of the message ”ily to someone they ‘love’. If you are interested in being involved, please contact Jaynie Langford at jnilalang@gmail.com

Who said scientists can’t dance? Video Competition for chance to win $1,000 USD #verygeeky #geekgirl

“Dance Your Ph.D.” video competition is inviting applications from anyone who has a Ph.D. or is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in a science-related field to transform their research into an interpretive dance and submit it for a chance to win up to $1,000 USD. Finalists from each category will have their Ph.D. dance videos screened at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. This is your chance to prove to the world that scientists CAN dance!

http://www.facebook.com/danceyourphd
http://gonzolabs.org/dance/

Open Call: Learn to Play – Call For Proposals – Build Your Own World #geekgirl

Submission Deadline 31 July 2010 :: Cupertino, USA

Are you a game maker? Are you telling compelling stories about your life or the world around you? Are you doing interesting things through games and interactivity that cannot be done elsewhere? Learn to Play is calling for submissions around games as art on the theme ‘build your own world’. Learn to Play will be opening this fall as parallel programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

http://learn.toplay.us/

Gallery 9 Presents ‘Ad Astra’ Exhibition

21 July – 14 August 2010 :: Sydney, Australia

Ad Astra, by artist Adam Norton, reflects on the desire for space travel, and contains a series of paintings comparing past individuals and present agencies involved in Space exploration, both physically and imaginatively.

For more information visit www.gallery9.com.au

Symposium on #Body, #Art, #Bioethics – #Perth

The Body, Art and Bioethics is a symposium exploring the culture and ethics of the use and ownership of living material, from the cell to the whole body, in art, science, law and philosophy. Speakers include Dr Catherine Waldby (University of Sydney), Elizabeth Costello (writer), Dr Ethan Blue (UWA), Kathy High (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dr Ionat Zurr (UWA), Dr Stuart Hodgetts (UWA), Oron Catts (Director SymbioticA).

Friday 6 August, 2010. $110 (including GST) registration. Students and unwaged free.

For more info email, sym@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
Or visit, http://www.bodyartbioethics.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/#