the dark side of the summer of love #mumesons #film

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

Awesome circle cover #music #indiemusic #sydney

The Rabbit is eating the Snake.

http://ilovecircle.com/

Call for New Media Art :: Trafficked Bodies #stopslavery #GAATW #geekgirl

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

ISEA 2011 Istanbul #arts #geekgirl

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

McLuhan Galaxy 2011 Understanding Media Today #Barcelona #geekgirl

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/

Synapse 6 Residencies now open #ANAT #science #arts #geekgirl

Deadline for Applications: 5 pm, Friday 25 February 2011

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creative practitioners and science and research organisations for the 2010 Synapse Residency program. Now in its seventh year, the program is part of the Synapse initiative of the Australia Council of the Arts and ANAT, which supports collaboration between artists and scientists.

Guidelines and application forms can be downloaded at www.anat.org.au

Public Lecture: Robotic Art as technical & aesthetic innovation & activism #robots #geekgirl

Professor Simon Penny (University of California, Irvine)
60 Years of Situated Machines – Robotic Art as a site for technical and aesthetic innovation, activism and intervention
Presented by the Digital Cultures Program and the Centre for Social Robotics at the University of Sydney.

Time: 5:30-6:30pm, Thursday 16 December 2010
Venue: New Law Seminar Auditorium 101, University of Sydney
Map: <http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml>

Synopsis: This keynote will attempt to provide a context for the assessment of the contemporary condition of robotic cultural practices by reviewing the history of the field and the history of pertinent ideas and debates. In particular, attention will be drawn to the context of ‘cultural robotics’ as a highly charged cross disciplinary test-environment in which platonist computationalist approaches confront phenomenological realities of being-in-the-world. In the context of doing robotics for other-than-instrumental purposes, the politics and pragmatics of paradigms of top-down control confront the performative and processual practices of the arts. Questions of material instantiation, structural coupling and machine sensing provoke the reconsideration of notions of (machine) intelligence according to post-cognitivist paradigms. Interventionist and activist practices as well as emerging neo-formalist sensibilities will be discussed. The presentation will be illustrated with images and video of relevant works.

Bio: Simon Penny has worked as an artist, theorist, teacher and organiser in Digital Cultural Practices, Embodied Interaction, Interactive and Robotic Art for 25 years. His works involve custom robotic and sensor systems including novel machine vision systems. His art and writing address critical issues arising around enactive and embodied interaction, informed by traditions of practice in the arts including sculpture, video-art, installation and performance, and by ethology, cognitive science, phenomenology, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, robotics, critical theory, cultural studies, media studies and Science and Technology Studies. He founded the Arts Computation Engineering interdisciplinary graduate program (ACE) at University of California, Irvine. He was previously Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. <http://www.ace.uci.edu/Penny>

This event is part of the Robot Cultures research initiative and Cultures of Robotics Symposium <www.robotcultures.org> organised by the Digital Cultures Program <http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures> and the Centre for Social Robotics <http://www.csr.acfr.usyd.edu.au/> at the University of Sydney.

Swags for the Homeless #Australia #homeless #gifts #geekgirl

Swag

 I was really impressed to see that finally some worthwhile effort, design, technology and thought had been put into something comfortable, portable and practicle for Homeless people.

With a compelling headline of cardboard box, cement … or dignified backpack. The Swag may yet take on .. and at least serve to create some temporary comfort zone.

The statistics for homeless people are staggering, and as we draw closer to the holiday season perhaps we can all spare buying those expensive and futile gifts and give to people who really need it.

I really love these swags.

#Melbourne. DUST & ILLUSIONS. A Burning Man #Film #geekgirl

Melbourne. DUST & ILLUSIONS. A Burning Man Film
 
More Info GET TICKETS now: ($18 presales, $20 door)
http://dustandillusions.com/blog/melbourne-screening-dec-15th-2010

Dusts & Illusions
A Documentary film by Olivier Bonin. Madnomad Films 2009
…
Exploring the deep origins of the annual BURNING MAN festival Dust & Illusions examines the evolution of the largest counter-culture festival in North America from the 1970s until today.

Using rare and unseen archival footage, including interviews of the founders, artists and participants, Dust & Illusions reveals long-forgotten events and memories of key participants that shaped and influenced the festival in powerful ways.

Bringing a critical perspective, Dust & Illusions analyses the development of culture, art and community as experienced by the participants of BURNING MAN.

Screening ONE night only!
Wednesday, December 15 · 9:00pm – 11:00pm
Location Kino Cinemas
45 Collins Street
Melbourne, Australia

View the Trailers here: http://dustandillusions.com/trailers

City Breaks calling #Melbourne b-girls & b-boys for a dance jam #hiphop #geekgirl

THE PUSH’S CITY BREAKS #3

City Breaks at Signal, Melbourne’s new hip hop dance jam session returns for the final instalment for 2010 on Sunday 12 December!

Melbourne b-boys, b-girls, freestylers, funkstylers, dancers and anyone keen to watch the local crews jam, freestyle, train and battle it out should head down to the free session kicking off at 2pm!

Presented by The Push in partnership with City of Melbourne and KO Crew, City Breaks, aims to bring together the diverse hip hop and breakdance community of Melbourne who are currently creating impromptu performances in public spaces throughout the CBD.

The project aims to provide a safe and legal space for dancers to jam, collaborate, train and hang out!

The Push is a Victorian non-profit music organisation which runs a range of all ages, drug, alcohol and smoke-free events for young people to engage in the music and arts industries.

For more information contact The Push (03) 9380 1277.

What: City Breaks
Where: Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank (behind Flinders Street Station
towards Sandridge Bridge)
When: Sunday 12 December
Time: 2.00 – 5.00pm
Price: Free

city-breaks