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The Institute for Social Research in conjunction with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation are delighted to present a public lecture from information technology pioneer and visionary Ted Nelson.
Monday, 4 April
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm
Venue: State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette
This is a free event but Bookings are essential. Contact isradmin@swin.edu.au indicating the number of tickets required.
The computer world could be completely different A Public Lecture From Ted Nelson
Fish, they say, aren’t aware of water. Most people, including computer scientists, don’t notice the hidden assumptions and traditions that have structured today’s computer world and digital documents. These assumptions push the real problems into the laps of users and programmers. Almost nobody notices the consequences of this locked cosmology. While there is no right or wrong computer world; what is wrong is that there is only one computer world, with no other choices.
We will consider some alternatives.
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Theodor Holm Nelson is an American designer, generalist, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms “hypermedia” and “hypertext” in 1963, and is also credited with first use of the words micropayment, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and dildonics. He is the most important computing visionary of our time. The main thrust of his work has been to create a different kind of electronic document which allows many forms of connection, instead of the “paper simulation” of Word, PDF and the World Wide Web. Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960, a project that has inspired a whole generation of computer programmers, hobbyists and developers. The effort is documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib/Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. He has just published an autobiography, Possiplex.
For a video snapshot of Ted Nelson’s challenge to computing norms see:
Ted Nelson on Pernicious Computer Traditions: http://bit.ly/LlmpI
Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space: http://bit.ly/FM0qu
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Ted will also be giving this lecture in Sydney on Wednesday 6 April:
http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/ted_nelson.shtml
LONDON: LABORATORY EXCHANGE – CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
The Arts Catalyst is offering a six-day intensive exchange laboratory for artists, designers, synthetic biologists, engineers and others. The Arts Catalyst, UCL and Synthetic Aesthetics in partnership with SymbioticA Exchange Laboratory will host the laboratory which will take place at University College London 4 – 9 July 2011. Application is necessary, visit the website for more information.
The exchange process is intended to explore and challenge the notions of synthetic biology, the level of control and manipulation of living systems, the application of engineering logic, and the social and cultural dimensions of synthetic biology; with the hope to inspire proposals for future projects from all participants.
4 – 9 July 2011
WHO
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Calling creatives of all stripes who have an inquisitive mind, an innovative approach and a desire to collaborate to participate in the 2011 Splendid program.
Splendid is open to artists (under 30 years or in the first 5 years of their practice) who work in the visual arts, theatre, dance, design, installation, architecture, digital media, sound, text and other creative pursuits.
WHAT
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We are seeking the next generation of young and emerging artists to participate in a 3 week intensive residency to dream up ideas
and create work for festival audiences.
The Splendid program offers participating artists opportunities to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment that encourages critical thinking and experimentation. “Splendid is attractive because you are dreaming up ideas while having to apply them to a real life rampaging rock context.” – Willoh S. Weiland, Splendid Artist 2010.
The Splendid program includes a residential Arts Lab, mentorship and opportunities to tour your work to major festivals around the world.
Collaborations and ideas conceived in the Arts Lab may enter a 4 month consultation and development period. Project proposals will then be submitted for presentation at Splendour in the Grass 2012.
The Lab will be facilitated by leading local and international artists including Fernando Llanos (Mexico Рvideo art), David Clarkson (innovative physical theatre), Natalie Jeremijenko (USA Рenvironmental art & design), Craig Walsh (site-specific projections), Paul Gazzola (Berlin Рcollaborative practice), T̩cha Noble, The Kingpins (art direction and performance) and more. Successful applicants to the 2011 Splendid program will:* Attend the Arts Lab from Monday 25 July to Friday 12 August, 2011.
* Participate in artist talks and a festival symposium.
* Receive tickets to Splendour in the Grass 2011.
* Submit a concept proposal for a new work to be commissioned by
Splendour in the Grass.
* Be given a fee to cover accommodation, travel and incidentals.
Still unsure of what we’re about? Come along to one of our briefing sessions. Meet people who have been through the Splendid program. We’ll let you know what Splendid is, why we do it and what we’re looking for from artists around the country. Find out when we’re visiting your city [http://www.splendid.org.au/events.shtml].
WHERE
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The 2011 Splendid Arts Lab residency will take place over 3 weeks in Lismore, NSW and the surrounding (rainbow) region and will include attendance at Splendour in the Grass at Woodfordia, QLD.”Different regions inspire people in different ways and to
escape the city and work in the country where the stories are different and the landscape is bigger can often be an inspiring change for artists.” – Julian Louis, Artistic Director of NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) and producing partner of Splendid.
WHEN
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Monday 25 July to Friday 12 August 2011
HOW
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Complete the Splendid 2011 Application Form. Download it HERE
[http://www.splendid.org.au/documents/application_form.pdf].
The Totally Huge New Music Conference is on In September 2011! It takes place in Perth, Western Australia. Please go to the link below to see the call for papers, abstracts due end of May. http://www.tura.com.au/node/80
The theme this year is
Immanence
Keynote Speaker: Marina Rosenfeld
The inexorably slippery nature of contemporary culture and postmodern phenomena, such as the deconstruction of identity and distrust in metanarrative, arguably squeeze the individual into reliance only upon the present moment. All music emerges (and dissipates) in the moment, drawing on the immanent “a-subjective pre-reflexive consciousness” defined by Deleuze in his Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life (2001).
The 2011 Totally Huge New Music Conference is inclusive and devised to appeal to practitioners and academics, audiences and artists. As such, the Conference Convenors welcome proposals involving any aspect of new music, sound art, sound in the media arts, and the study of auditory culture and environments in relation to the arts. We are specifically seeking papers and sessions addressing new music, musicology and sonic practices in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
The THNMF conference is a fully DEST refereed conference that offers opportunities for presentations of refereed and non refereed papers, performances, demonstrations and workshops held over two days, and there is the opportunity for publication in the conference proceedings, Sound Scripts – published by Tura New Music, now in its 4th volume.
The Conference is presented by Tura New Music, in association with the Faculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Dr Cat Hope
|CREATEC Post Doctoral Research Fellow
|Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
| Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley, WA 6050
| Tel: 61 8 9370 6826 | Fax: 61 8 9370 6665
