Urban Codemakers #Melbourne #geekgirl

MELBOURNE: TROY INNOCENT’S INTERACTIVE ARTWORK URBAN CODEMAKERS
Commissioned as part of the City of Melbourne’s Laneway Commissions 2010
[http://tinyurl.com/3xfuujc],

Troy Innocent’s Urban Codemakers uses online and real world games to explore the ways in which urban spaces are constructed through institutional and private codes. The narrative of Urban Codemakers is shaped by audience members contributing to blogs, participating in field work, or participating in game activity as it moves between the virtual and real world. Visit the Urban Codemakers website  [http://tinyurl.com/33r3bcz] to registar to play the game or visit the Guildford Lane complex to experience the physical manifestation of the work.

Guildford Lane, Melbourne, CDB
Until 30 January, 2011

Third Dimension – Arts Project Australia #Melbourne

Terry Williams Not titled (green animal/man)
2010 ceramic
26 x 9 x 8.5cm

Third Dimension runs until – 27 November 2010
Arts Project Australia

A sensorial extravaganza, Third Dimension encourages people to engage with art through touch, sound and sight.

The exhibition invites us to consider alternative ways in which art can engage, excite and inspire.

Participating Artists
Alan Constable, Valerio Ciccone, Paul Hodges, Ruth Howard, Kate Knight, Chris Mason, Kaye McDonald, Cameron Noble, Jodie Noble, Tim Noble, Chris O`Brien, Lisa Reid, Rebecca Scibilia, and Terry Williams.

Curated by artsworkers Katie Jacobs and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman.

Arts Project Australia is a not-for-profit organisation and has been promoting and developing the work of artists with an intellectual disability for 35 years.

Australia Day Film Competition – How would you capture the Reel Australia? #competition #film #geekgirl

Australia Day Film Competition
Entries Close: Friday December 3
www.aussievault.com.au

How would you capture the Reel Australia?

The Australia Day Council of NSW (ADCNSW) has launched the inaugural Reel Australia Short Film competition, giving short film enthusiasts across the country the opportunity to be recognised by telling the real Australian story through film.

Proudly supported by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the ADCNSW is calling on all Australians to grab their video cameras, explore and share their interpretations of who we are as a nation in a two minute film.

“One of Australia’s favorite leisure activities is indeed attending the cinema and Reel Australia arrives amid exciting times as the global box office for this year’s Australian films pushes beyond $100m. We’ll be watching this competition closely, both for compelling reels about what it means to be Australian, but also of course for promising new talent!” says AFI CEO Damian Trewhella.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule documentary and talk – #Melbourne #psychedelics #dimethyltryptamine #geekgirl

The Spirit Molecule flyer

Undergrowth.org and Entheogenesis Australis –  present the 2010 Spirit Molecule documentary Australian tour, with screenings along the east coast in December followed by talks with the writer/director Mitch Schultz.

The Spirit Molecule documentary
(75 mins, 2010, written & directed by Mitch Schultz)
After over 40 years of dormancy, a new psychedelic revolution has emerged.

At the nexus of this next-generation mystical revival, lies a molecule  naturally produced abundantly throughout the plant and animal  kingdoms. Regarded as the world’s most potent psychoactive compound by  scientists and psychedelic explorers alike, dimethyltryptamine (or  DMT) is also naturally produced in the human brain.

In the early 1990s, Dr. Rick Strassman conducted the first government- sanctioned, human psychedelic research with DMT. Dr. Strassman’s  research serves as the narrative backbone for The Spirit Molecule. A  documentary described as a psychedelic Baraka meets What the Bleep do  We Know, the film presents an intriguing discourse on the science of  the soul, and will undoubtedly open Pandora’s Box. By challenging  current misconceptions about this class of compounds, The Spirit  Molecule unravels fascinating parallels in neurology, quantum physics  and human spirituality.

In stylized scenes reminiscent of Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone  bookends, Joe Rogan (Fear Factor), alongside an impressive collection  of accomplished minds and a group of Strassman’s own brave psychonauts  shepherd the audience through the great unknowns of the DMT experience… revealing the molecule’s ubiquitous nature, its role in  our culture, evolution and life itself. Stunning visualizations and highly conceptual imagery intuitively weaves a visual landscape, and a  fascinating snapshot of our understanding of consciousness today.

Could Dimethyltryptamine, a simple molecule with a complex name, hold  the key to understanding reality, consciousness and our relationship  to both?

Many who have experienced DMT profess this, and much more…http://undergrowth.org/spiritmoleculetour

With an exclusive 20-minute short film, “Surfing” by Verb Studios (Tim  Parish), narrated by Rak Razam and soundscapes by Buttons Touching,  based on the book Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

SCREENING: MELBOURNE
Wed December 1st, 9pm to 12pm
CINEMA NOVA P: (03) 9349 5201
380 Lygon Street Carlton VIC 3053

BUY TICKETS here for this event and other Australian screenings:   http://www.showclix.com/

Tickets are AUD $23/20 concession, and advance bookings are essential. http://undergrowth.org/spiritmoleculetour

The Future Writer’s Festival – Nov 12th, 2010 #Melbourne #futurewriters #geekgirl

Future Writers Festival blog http://tinyurl.com/28bqj8f & NMIT Future Writers Festival at Westgarth Books http://tinyurl.com/36zuqdl

The festival will be held at Westgarth Books, 77 High St, Westgarth, Melbourne, Australia on 12 November from 11-5pm.