The Ludeans are at play in the laneways of Melbourne #urbancodemakers

In 2010, the Ludeans are at play in the laneways of Melbourne. Guildford Lane complex, an area transformed from industrial thoroughfare to a residential and contemporary art precinct has become the new centre for the Urban Codemakers. This game is played out in the heart of the City of Melbourne and you are invited to step into its world.

Join the Urban Codemakers at urbancodemakers.net

The guild leaders will be undertaking fieldwork during September and October so the big city game will happen during November, December and January…

Will you be an ecologist, a codemaker or an urbanist?

About the Urban Codemakers
Activities range from community consultation, advising councils on city planning policies, and research into the role of ubiquitous media in shaping urban space. Developing a transdisciplinary approach to urban design called ‘urban codemaking’. This is an experimental approach that draws upon game design, computational semiotics and generative systems for urban planning. Currently testing this strategy on the streets of Melbourne – a city known for its unique urban character resulting from a blend of planned and unplanned urban spaces.

Guildford Lane Complex, Melbourne, Australia
Runs until Oct 31st, 2010

THE JULIA MORRIS FILM FESTIVAL – or “JMOFEST” #media #geekgirl

ABOUT THE JULIA MORRIS FILM FESTIVAL
 
After 6 months in LA Julia Morris is returning to Australia to launch her own film festival – After all you are no one in Hollywood without a film festival.
 
The Julia Morris Film Festival – or ‘JMoFest’ for short – invites people to make their very own short film (max 3 min long). It won’t matter if the movie is made on a professional movie camera or on a mobile phone, whether it’s funny, sad, scary or surreal.
 
The only rule is that the film has to feature the Julia mask (or even multiple masks) – which will also be available as a download from www.juliamorris.com. And if someone doesn’t fancy making a movie, they can send in a photo!
 
People will upload their creations onto the worldwide interweb for everyone to admire by the closing date of 31st October 2010. Then Julia will select her favourites for a special screening event in Sydney in December 2010. The overall winner will receive a fabulous prize and an award!
 
For all the competition details, instructions on how to submit videos/pictures and loads of inspirational ideas just go to www.juliamorris.com/jmofest.
 
The only question that remains is, as Julia would say, “Why wouldn’t you?”

UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries – Call for Artists #women #geekgirl

UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries – Call for Artists
Artists, writers   musicians :: Various Locations & Deadlines 

The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme aims to promote the mobility of young artists through art residences abroad, gives priority to artists and artist residency institutions from the global south and promotes the participation of women in international artist residencies.

Participating institutions select three candidates for each bursary and submit the list of names to UNESCO for review by an international selection panel, which makes the final selection taking into consideration the priorities of the residency, geographical distribution and gender equality.

http://www.unesco.org/culture/aschberg

SymbioticA Symposium :: Unruly Ecologies

SymbioticA Symposium :: Unruly Ecologies
26 - 28 November 2010 :: Perth & Mandurah, Australia

The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete statistics and the need to act in a world without balance. While multiple flora and fauna databases have been established and are being coordinated, there is an urgent need to engage even more proactively with complex ecosystems and human responses. Artists, scientists, humanities scholars and conservationists will come together to talk of the matters of concern around the potentials and futures of biodiversity.

SymbioticA Symposium

EVO* 2011 Call for Papers : evolutionary computing #geekgirl

EVO*  2011 Call for Papers
Deadline 22 November 2010 :: Conference 27 – 29 April 2011 :: Italy

Evo* comprises of the premier co-located conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computing and will feature the latest in theoretical and applied research, including the stream evomusart: 9th European event on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

http://www.evostar.org

IQ2 live debate: #Feminism Has Failed #Melbourne #geekgirl

As Australia assesses the vote for its first female prime minister, Intelligence Squared tackles its most controversial debate yet: Has feminism failed?

After generations of effort, women still bear a disproportionate burden of domestic labour. Women are under-represented in the senior ranks of politics, business and the professions. If the minority government doesn’t hold, Julia Gillard’s prime ministership may be the shortest in our history. What role did her gender play at the ballot box? Statistics show women continue to be denied equal pay for equal work and young women are less likely to identify as feminists than their mothers. What does this say about feminism? Has it failed to mobilise and inspire? Or should feminists be celebrating a deeper victory in which a new generation of young men and women take equality for granted?

Intelligence Squared is a provocative and informative series of live debates on hot-button issues, offering a sometimes fiery, often controversial and always entertaining forum for healthy argument. The format is the traditional Oxford-style debate, with one side proposing and the other opposing a sharply framed motion. Three speakers argue on each side of the motion. After the formal rguments, the debate is thrown open to the floor for moderated questions. The live audience votes both before and after hearing the arguments, so each debate has a clear measure of how far people have actually been swayed.

Intelligence Squared in Melbourne is a project of the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.

More about the speakers:
Virginia Haussegger is a journalist, author and social commentator. Her writing includes a seminal article on feminism and childlessness, and the book Wonder Woman: the myth of “having it all” She currently presents News on ABC TV, Canberra.

Gay Alcorn is a Walkley award-winning journalist who joined The Age in 1989.  She was Washington correspondent from 1999-2002 and was appointed editor of The Sunday Age in 2008.

Stephen Mayne is a Walkley award-winning journalist, shareholder activist and founder of Crikey and the Mayne Report. He has also run as an independent in State and Federal elections.

Jennifer Byrne has 26 years experience in television, radio and print journalism and over this time, has interviewed many world leaders, international thinkers and writers. She is currently presenter of the First Tuesday Book Club on ABC TV.

Monica Dux is a Melbourne writer. She has published widely on women’s issues and co-authored the book The Great Feminist Denial. She is currently working on a book about modern motherhood.

Wendy McCarthy was a founding member and co-convenor of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in 1972. She has been an educator, advocate and social commentator, and a company director for the past forty years.  

Debate date: 22 September 2010
http://tinyurl.com/333mmfq

Tennis Film Festival – submit your best stroke to Changing Ends #film #geekgirl

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**Entries Close: January 14, 2011**
[www.changingends.com.au](http://www.changingends.com.au)

The Australian Opens popular tennis short film festival “Changing Ends“ is returning in 2011 and entries are now open.
 
Tennis fans and budding film-makers are invited to create a 90-second tennis film with the theme Take Two. The best will be shown on giant screens at Australian Open 2011 with the No.1 entry winning $5000.  The judging panel of four includes Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley and top Australian tennis player Sam Stosur. A Peoples™ Choice Award of $2500 will be voted by the cast and crew of Australian Open 2011 including players, tournament staff and fans coming to watch the tennis.  

In 2010 the Changing Ends Tennis Film Festival was won by two Melbourne film-makers, Matt Kennedy and Francis Caldow, who found themselves out of work and with time to spare during the summer break. Their winning entry “When I Grow Up“centered around the modus operandi of an experienced Australian Open linesman. It featured on multiple websites including [www.australianopen.com](http://www.australianopen.com), [www.changingends.com.au](http://www.changingends.com.au), the official Australian Open You Tube Channel and it was aired by Australian Open host broadcaster, the Seven Network.

Entries will be published on (www.changingends.com.au) as they come in.

Couch Fest Films 2010 (Seattle, USA) #couches #strangers #geekgirl

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**Entries Close: October 8**
[www.couchfestfilms.com](http://www.couchfestfilms.com)

Couch Fest Films is a cozy shorts film fest hosted in strangers’ houses.

There is no submission fee and Couch accepts all genres of films from all over this over-populated planet.  Films must be under 6 minutes and completed after January 1, 2009. While people might be sitting on a couch to watch your film, there is absolutely no requirement for your film to have a couch in it.

Australian Made:100 Years of #Fashion #NGV #facebook #allfrockedup #geekgirl

Australian Made:100 Years of Fashion tells the story of our unique style from the 1850s to 1950s.
 
To celebrate this fascinating exhibition and to pay homage to the stylish grannies, aunts, mothers and fathers who blazed the Australian fashion trail, we’re asking Facebook fans to show off their favourite fashion items, inherited from a stylish relative.
 
From Aunty Fay’s fifties frock, to Pop’s panama hat, send us pics of your family’s most treasured hand-me-downs and you could win a NGV Shop voucher!
 
NGV Facebook page
 
How to enter:
Email your photo (no larger than 1mb please) to facebook@ngv.vic.gov.au
Photos will be posted to the Granny’s Gowns album on our Facebook fan page.
The photo with the most ‘likes’ when the competition closes will win a $50 NGV Shop voucher.
Competition closes 5pm, Friday 24 September.
 
Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion
Until 23 January 2011
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
Open 10am-5pm. Closed Mondays
Free entry

Games Developers’ Association of Australia calling for GCAP 2010 abstracts #gamers #geekgirl

The GDAA is calling for Abstracts for GCAP 2010

The Game Developers’ Association of Australia has announced that the annual Game Connect Asia Pacific event scheduled will head to the Gold Coast in October. In an event that will be held simultaneously with the EB Games vendor show, Australia’s mini E3, the event will focus on the changing game development ecosystem and Australia’s future role in the global industry.

Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP 2010) will focus on the key theme ‘The Player Experience’ and will explore the world of video games from the eyes of the game player, ensuring an interactive, thought provoking and insightful conference program.

As such, this year’s conference will take a holistic view of the development process, exploring how every single line of code, piece of art, business and marketing decision ultimately impacts on our audience. A strong focus will be placed on the rapid iteration of ideas and how every studio is able to create a catalogue of concepts for presentation to the global publishing and game playing audience.

“With such an exciting and thought provoking theme as ‘The Player Experience’ at the very heart of what we’re doing this year, we’re gearing up for a community driven GCAP. This year the industry will come together to dissect the global games industry and look at how, with investment from every discipline in the game making process, we come up with amazing new game concepts and gameplay innovations,” commented GDAA CEO, Antony Reed.

 The GDAA is now putting out a call for the submission of abstracts for inclusion in the GCAP 2010 program.

GCAP 2010 will consist of a number of tracks – programming, art, design, audio, business development and marketing. The conference will also include multiple presentation formats, such as panels and round table discussions, lectures and hands-on workshops.

All keynotes, sessions and workshops will focus on various aspects of the overall player experience. To find out more about GCAP 2010, visit http://www.gcap.com.au/

To submit an abstract, please send to abstracts@gcap.com.au  Submissions close, COB Friday 10 September, 2010