Maya Deren’s films screened with experimental live soundtracks #Melbourne #geekgirl

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Five of Melbourne’s best experimental acts have organised the opportunity to see them play new soundtracks live to the films of Maya Deren.

Maya Deren was the first lady of avant-garde film making in the 1940′s and 1950′s, not only a filmmaker in her own right but also collaborating with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Antony Tudor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren Her films are a wonderfully textured and moodily lit black and white and deal with themes such as ritual, movement, violence and beauty.

On 4th September  Occult Blood, Rottuer, Siilt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos will play their own unique soundtracks to her films,
including improvisations between Occult Blood and Rotteur, – Sillt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos.

The films screened are:

Occult Blood: At Land
Rotteur: Ritual in Transfigured Time
Electronic Shaman: Meshes of The Afternoon
Siilt: Meditation on Violence
Abre Ojos: The Very Eye of Night

With collaboration performances to:
Witches Cradle and an edited version of Divine Horsemen- The Living
Gods of Haiti

Occult Blood: noise wall degrading tape loops vocals to resurrect Maya herself http://www.myspace.com/occultblood
Rottuer: Rotteur makes cold, desolate soundscapes, haunted by droning machinery and sparse abstracted electronics. http://www.myspace.com/rotteur
Electronic Shaman: follower of the left hand path delivers resonance from the forgotten tombs of the old ones and stygian vistas of distant worlds http://electronicshaman.com
Siilt: siilt is dusty voltage-controlled atmospheres and loops by s.klein, also of Terminal Sound System (Extreme Music, AU) and HALO
(Relapse Records, USA). www.antisound.net
Abre Ojos: is improvised sound and vision for dystopian meditation http://abreojos.net

Saturday 4th September
Doors open 2.00pm at Loop Bar 23 Meyers Place Melbourne, Tix $10 full/ $5 Conc.
http://www.looponline.com.au

IRREGOLARE (Irregular) a #cyberpunk science fiction novel #geekgirl

IRREGOLARE (Irregular) a cyberpunk science fiction novel by the young Italian writer VINCENZO BOSICA

Irregular is a cyberpunk novel, a dystopian sci-fi noir, with a strong personality, which leaves no roads to the benevolence and traps the readers with his adrenalinic speed. The work revive the legendary Blade Runner locations in futuristic thriller / detective story. The technological implications are extremely detailed and based on careful research, while the protagonists are complex and imperfect, always on the Razor’s Edge. The plot unfolds through a murky and dangerous investigation of a brutal murder, which ends to interweave events and personalities at a dizzying pace, in a world polluted by violence and corroded over limits, where the average life expectancy has surpassed the century through advances medical and cybernetic implants.

In this plausible and not so distant future, the demographic collapse was averted through a rigid birth control managed by a permanent identification for each person who does not allow a new life without a previous death. In this claustrophobic scenario, the detective Shaun Morrison, awaiting a promotion to sergeant and always on fighting with his superiors for his unorthodox action, investigating the case with all technological means available arriving at what seems an illegal trade of cybernetic parts. But the survey escapes completely out of hand when is discovered someone who goes beyond the law, beyond the normal, beyond the rules: an irregular.

Thus began a hunt relentlessly, which accompanies the reader until the end of the novel, through reversals of scene, never trivial. Irregular is a “one breath book” despite the constant and massive technological presence. It is a book for everyone, not just for sci-fi fans, which offers dazzling action interludes, a plot worthy of the best yellow story and above manages to give a breath of freshness to the Italian narrative.

http://irregolare-sf.blogspot.com/
IRREGOLARE by Vincenzo Bosica

The Other Film Festival 2010 #Melbourne #candopeople #geekgirl

THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL 2010

PROUDLY PRESENTED BY ARTS ACCESS VICTORIA IN ASSOCIATION WITH MELBOURNE MUSEUM
WEDNESDAY 25 – SUNDAY 29 AUGUST
THE AGE THEATRE, MELBOURNE MUSEUM
www.otherfilmfestival.com
off2010@artsaccess.com.au

Gays on boats are my worst nightmare #ausvotes #wrongchoice

Scott Pilgrim vs the World was lame…

.. the end.

MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL #muff #geekgirl

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) proudly announces the full 2010 program for its 11th annual festival.MUFF XI will run from 20 – 28 August at three venues across Melbourne; the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick, Thousand Pound Bend in the CBD, and Open Channel’s Shed 4 Cinema in the Docklands.

Further… MUFF Festival Director Richard Wolstencroft wishes to shoot post MUFF late 2010, using the new MUFF camera, the Canon XL H1, and a team of talented crew and actors he has got to know through MUFF and his own cinema practice. For this project he is looking for some crew to collaborate with on an exciting new low budget narrative digital feature.

Visit MUFF website for program and details

Indonesian Film Festival – #ACMI #Melbourne #geekgirl

Explore the flow from Indonesia

At approximately 5am on May 29 2006, villagers living in the Sidoarjo district of East Java, Indonesia noticed plumes of gas and heavy liquid pouring from a crack in the earth. Experts believe the mud volcano was triggered by an unstable commercial drilling operation just 500 feet from the volcano epicentre, though the company denies responsibility. Four years on, the flow of mud and toxic gases continues. It is expected to continue for the next 30 years, in fact, spilling the equivalent of 60 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of mud onto the surrounding countryside every 24 hours. And while the Indonesian government and commercial interests haggle over liability, 30,000 people have been displaced, their homes literally drowned in the flood. This year, the Indonesian Film Festival includes a short film called Children of Mud, which takes us into the human heart of the Sidoarjo disaster. It follows Rafi, a boy whose district is slowly sinking, as he sets off on a quest to find medicine for his mother, who has been poisoned by the toxic fumes spilling from the volcano. Against the backdrop of a decimated land, Children of Mud is a story of love and survival. The festival also features survival stories of a different kind, such as Paul Agusta’s groundbreaking experimental film At the Very Bottom of Everything (Official Selection: 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam), which chronicles his battle with bi-polar personality disorder, and Shackled Woman (Best Film, 1980 Festival Film Indonesia), an Indonesian classic recounting a depressed woman’s imprisonment by her father and husband. These compelling stories screen alongside drama, romance, thriller and comedy, all fresh from Indonesian shores. Get along to the film festival and see a fascinating corner of Southeast Asia through the eyes of its most talented filmmakers. 20th – 26th August, 2010.

Source: ACMI

The Collective have returned in 2010 with “Re_Collection” #Melbourne #arts #geekgirl

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“The Collective are a group of seven artists who also are linked by their professional contributions to the museum profession. In this, their second exhibition together, they explore ideas of time, permanence and memory through a  range of media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.

Sarah Edwards tackles notions of status and reverence through the re-presentation of discarded objects, re-establishing their permanent place in memory.  Ben Healley photographically captures the fleeting, forgotten moments of a sleeping city, while Colleen Boyle examines the relationship between time and representation via the heavens. Rod Gray stirs up the memory of our subconscious with his paintings of dreamlike landscapes, whilst Lee-Anne Raymond depicts concepts of time and space via illusion and myth. Brendon Taylor tends a sculptural hand to our fragmented, personal memories, while Sarah Parker toys with ideas of transfiguring the ordinary, re-presenting it as a fragile ceramic object.”

In this, their second collaborative exhibition together, the group present their responses to time, permanence and memory.

Opening night Sept 1st 6-8pm
Red Gallery
157 St. Georges Road,
Fitzroy North, Melbourne
03 9482 3550

Helping kids who play computer games to be active #CSIRO #kids #geekgirl

CSIRO has developed computer software that aims to encourage children to be more active when playing computer games.

Designed as an add-on to popular computer games that do not ordinarily encourage physical activity, it works by exploiting the children’s desire to win.

Through the Preventative Health Flagship, CSIRO experts in information and communication technologies (ICT) took a game that is usually played sitting down and devised a way for them to earn extra points if they jump up and down.

Dr Shlomo Berkovsky and his team developed the concept using the open source game Neverball, where players have a certain amount of time to guide a ball through a maze, and shortened the time.

“The only way an average player can complete the maze and go on to the next level of the game is by getting up and jumping around. Every jump earns a second of game time,” Dr Berkovsky said.

Modified and unmodified versions of the game were tested on 270 primary school children in Hobart, Tasmania. Those playing the modified game jumped an average of 257 times in the 20 minutes they spent playing the game.

Dr Berkovsky said the trials showed children playing modified games spent 25 per cent of their gaming time being active, whereas those playing unmodified games were active for just 3 per cent of the time.

“The children enjoyed playing the modified game as much if not more than the unmodified version and their parents were particularly pleased with how much exercise they seemed to be getting,” he said.

CSIRO’s approach can be applied to any game where there’s a parameter that can be measured, like time, and which it makes sense to reward, in the context of the game.

The work recently won the research and development (R&D) category of the 2010 Tasmanian iAwards, sponsored by the Australian Information Industry Association.

Source: CSIRO

Patchworked first solo #Melbourne show for Nicole Tattersall #animalrights #WSPA #geekgirl

At Large Gallery are proud to present “Patchworked”,  the first ever Melbourne solo exhibition by Nicole Tattersall. Opens Friday 17th  run until Thursday 30th September, 2010.

“Patchworked” is heavily influenced by the art and craft techniques of times gone by, Australia and a recent trip to Germany. Incorporating these factors with her passion for animal rights and the encouragement of using ones imagination. Working with more illustrative styles both in 2D and 3D formats, has allowed Nicole to get a little darker.

In the exhibition there are 3 illustrations, reflecting upon WSPA’s (World Society for the Protection of Animals) campaign against the live export of sheep.  These illustrations have been designed to be a conversation starter about the topic. Much like most of works planned for “Patchworked”.

Patchworked – Solo Show
At Large Gallery
208 High St, Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Exhibition Opening: Friday 17 September 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition: Friday 17 September – Thursday 30 September 2010

Website: www.atlargegallery.com or www.nicoletattersall.blogspot.com