Cover illustration: Yuko Shimzu
Mu-mesons January program is raucous and revolutionary. Most of the films appeal to me: but the dark side of the summer of love definitely stands out.
Monday 17 January, 2011
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
The Dark Side of the Summer of Love
The Western World believed revolution was imminent in the 1960’s, obviously they had not looked deep enough into the dark side of the age of Aquarius. Authors such as Gary Lachman and Peter Levenda were well aware that the morning of the magicians was really the night of the living dead. Rolling underneath flower power power was a mystical fascism developed in secret labs and based on occult principles in the search of the control of the human mind. Charles Manson, Anton LaVey and the process Church of the Final judgment to name a few were all utilised by intelligence services to assist Mkultra and other shadowy covert ops.
Mu-Meson Archives
Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale (Sydney) at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase.
Phone 02 9517-2010
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
The Rabbit is eating the Snake.
http://ilovecircle.com/
Online Exhibition :: Closes 15 March 2011
In collaboration with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) based in Bangkok, Thailand, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is looking for submissions of digital art for the exhibition Trafficked Bodies in conjunction with the festival theme of Checkpoints for 2011. The call is now open for submissions of new media art, database documentaries, locative and tactical media with a distributed network component, digital video designed for online exhibition platforms, experimental coding, data-visualization applications, experimental archiving, and other web-based media that engage the theme of Checkpoints for FLEFF 2011’s online exhibition, Trafficked Bodies. One prize of 250USD will be awarded.
The exhibition will go live in April 2011 in conjunction with the festival in Ithaca (New York), USA. Please send links to submissions with a brief bio in an email to curators Dale Hudson (UAE/USA) and Sharon Lin (UK/Singapore) at digifleff.gaatw@gmail.com
http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
All deadlines extended until 15 January 2011
The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology will be held 14 – 21 September 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. The ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition will coincide with the Istanbul Biennial and will provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase contemporary new media arts.
ISEA2011 invites proposals for panels, artworks, papers and workshops from artists, scientists and academics interested in how the digital and electronic media are re-shaping contemporary society and behaviours.
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/isea2011
Call for Papers :: Deadline 7 January 2011
The International Conference McLuhan Galaxy Barcelona 2011 Understanding Media,Today will be held in Barcelona 23 – 25 May 2011 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Canadian thinker Marshall McLuhan. The aim is to bring together researchers, scholars and McLuhan Fellows to reflect on different aspects of McLuhan’s contribution. The conference in Barcelona will be networked to a series of conferences that are going to take place in Toronto, Berlin and Rome in other dates, to celebrate the 100 Anniversary of McLuhan.
This is an excellent opportunity not only to review McLuhan’s thought but also to update them in relation to contemporary questions centred in the digital forms of production, co-production and consumption of intelligence, memory, self, identity, desire, body, art, design, collaboration and technology in the society of knowledge. Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers/abstracts to the topics that are being addressed by the conference.
http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net/
