A Public Lecture from Ted Nelson #Melbourne #xanadu #geekgirl

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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

www.sisr.net
www.apo.org.au
www.creative.org.au
www.inside.org.au

Ted will also be giving this lecture in Sydney on Wednesday 6 April:

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/ted_nelson.shtml

Call Out: SymbioticA Exchange Laboratory

Artist call out to participate in Splendid #ArtsLab #collaboration #geekgirl

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 – video art), David Clarkson (innovative physical theatre), Natalie Jeremijenko (USA - environmental art & design), Craig Walsh (site-specific projections), Paul Gazzola (Berlin – collaborative practice), Técha 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].

Call out: The Totally Huge New Music Conference #Perth #immanence #Deleuze #geekgirl

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

Elusive Light exhibition #WA #wabi-sabi #arts #geekgirl

Elusive Light by Stephen Armitstead & Lia McKnight…Exploring many meanings of the word light, using objects, photography, video and sound.

Exhibition runs until 10 April 2011. Artist talk 2nd April.
Heathcote Museum & Gallery (Western Australia)

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This exhibition of work by Lia McKnight and Stephen Armitstead is about turning glimpses into long looks. It is about finding beauty in the fragile and transitory, and then trying to hold it for long enough so everyone can see it. It is about revealing the contradictions between our aesthetic observations and their ultimate expression as art. At the heart of all art practice that gives form to ideas there are contradictions They are the intractable relationship of opposites that are at the centre of our attempts to unravel what we observe and then explain to the world.

Light is at the heart of this exhibition, but not the constant, steady illumination that we associate with naturalistic painting. In naturalism the assumption is that the world is stable and ordered and that art’s great task is to reveal that to us. Naturalism emphasises the solidity of objects, their permanence, and by implication, their authority; but as soon as one grasps the artful contradictory fiction of naturalism – for the world isn’t stable and permanent – we are free to explore other ways in which the complexities of the world can reveal themselves. This exhibition encourages us to look at the world differently, to appreciate the seemingly inconsequential and to gain pleasure in unravelling how we have learned to look. It is in this way that we can re-imagine how the world can be understood.

The artists have drawn widely on a set of experiences about ideas and materials that are contemporary, but a contradiction of art making is that the present can be understood by looking backwards over its shoulder at what happened in the past. A thousand years ago in China, the poet and critic Su Shi wryly observed the futility of trying to understand the value of art in terms of how it did or didn’t resemble the world.

For Su and others like him, the world had to be transformed by the artist through a work of art that revealed how the artist had been touched, physically and emotionally, by the world. This is a contradiction as big as naturalism’s but it gives us another perspective on how to understand how McKnight and Armitstead are working. McKnight has been drawn to the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-sabi where beauty is found in the fragility and transience of the materials and the combination of hopefulness and sadness.

Low Lives 3 – International Call for Proposals #performance #geekgirl

Deadline: March 20, 2011

About Low Lives:
Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work.

Important Dates:
March 20, 2011: Submission deadline
April 1, 2011: Artists notified on selection
April 29, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 1 – 8:00pm – 11:00pm (U.S. EST)
April 30, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 2 – 3:00pm – 6:00pm (U.S. EST)

More info & Updates
For additional information please see www.lowlives.net

#Poems on #Pillows launched by Australian Poetry Ltd in Association with Sydney Writers’ Festival and Sebel.

As a partnership with the Sydney Writers’ Festival <http://www.swf.org.au/> and Sebel Pier One Sydney<http://www.sebelpierone.com.au/>, *Australian Poetry Ltd* is thrilled to launch Poems on Pillows.

*Ever dreamed of jumping between the sheets with one of Australia’s top authors?*

*Or getting under the covers with a leading Australian publisher?*

*Well, now is your chance!*

If you live in NSW, you’re invited to submit a poem with the theme of ‘Sweet Dreams’ (maximum of 10 lines). Seven poems will be selected. Over the seven nights of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, a different poem will be placed on the pillows in every room at the Sebel Pier One Sydney hotel, where leading authors and publishers may be staying during the festival.

COMPETITION DETAILS
Entry Fee

$15 AP Member;  $20 non-member; $10 for every further entry by the same poet
(you can enter as many times as you like)

Competition closes Mar 31, 2011 (5pm).

Judging panel
Made up of Australian Poetry, Sydney Writers’ Festival and Sebel Pier One Sydney representatives.

How to Enter
Email your entry or entries (and contact details) to leah@australianpoetry.org . By emailing a submission, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood the below terms and conditions. http://www.australianpoetry.org/blog/2011/02/21/poems-pillows/

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Critical Animals 2011 – call for #proposals #TINA #geekgirl

Critical Animals

 Critical Animals, a creative research symposium held as a part of This Is Not Art, is now calling for proposals to participate in the 2011 festival.

DEADLINE – APRIL 1, 2011
Critical Animals is a forum for students, researchers, writers, artists, thinkers and curious individuals who are critically engaged with creative and experimental art practices.

It’s an opportunity to present papers and ongoing research, as well as to challenge creative practices and work collaboratively with others in the field. Critical Animals aims to strengthen the links between practice and theory with a flexible definition of research that encompasses creative, experimental, interrogative and practice-lead approaches.

The symposium is particularly interested in promoting crossdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. In assessing your proposal they’ll be looking at how they can program you and your work to form interesting conjunctions with other artists and thinkers.

This year’s symposium will take place over three days, from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October, in Newcastle, NSW. Papers, panels, presentations. Critical Animals are keen to receive proposals from artists and researchers who are investigating or putting into practice specific areas of theory and philosophy. From explorations of form and methodology, to issues impacting on everyday life, they welcome research material and reflections on poetics, politics, aesthetics, practice-lead research, ecological art and ecopoetics, the social implications of art and the overlap between the arts and the sciences.

Experimental and non-traditional presentations are encouraged.

Submit proposals, questions, ideas and concerns to criticalanimals@gmail.com
www.criticalanimals.org

Australia Post launches 100 Years of International Women’s Day stamp #purplepantsday #stampcollecting #IWD #geekgirl

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Australia Post is commemorating the centenary of International Women’s Day (IWD) with the release of a special stamp issue.

The centenary of IWD is being celebrated around the world on 8 March 2011 and provides a unique and global opportunity to reignite, inspire and channel women’s equality for the future.

“I am delighted that Australia Post is supporting the centenary of IWD with a commemorative stamp. The stamp recognises the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future and is an indelible channel through which we can promote positive change and raise awareness of the issues women face in their everyday lives,” said the Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis.

The first IWD was launched by Clara Zetkin (Leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) on 19 March 1911 when more than a million European women and men united to call for an end to discrimination and for the right of women to vote, work and hold public office. The success of the first IWD exceeded all expectations.

The first Australian IWD rally took place on 25 March 1928 in the Sydney Domain, with marches in Sydney and Melbourne following in 1931 and involving hundreds of participants. The first official government-sponsored IWD in Australia was held in 1975, when the UN declared International Women’s Year, and was witnessed by one of the biggest street marches in Australia. Today IWD is characterised by a mixture of celebration of past achievements and looking ahead to the future challenges and opportunities for women.

The centenary of IWD stamp was designed by Stacey Zass, using a combination of images and graphic elements, including the symbol for women.

Anna Lumb: Big Shoes to Fill at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival #girlcomedy #retroschtick #geekgirl

Anna Lumb - Big Shoes

Big Shoes to Fill: An Exposé of a 50 Ft. Woman

Direct from the cabaret circuits of Melbourne, London and Edinburgh,  and a critically acclaimed audience hit at the Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, Anna ‘Pocket Rocket’ Lumb brings her sassy solo show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the first time.

Bringing her world-renowned circus and cabaret skills to her home town, the Pocket Rocket cheekily presents the story of an over-sized woman in a normal sized world, and really does have big shoes to fill as she sets out to follow the footsteps of some of comedy’s biggest female stars to bring some girl power to the typically male world of the Comedy Festival.

A colourful slapstick circus delight, Big Shoes to Fill is a message of self-confidence for the down-trodden and different, delivered via a package of unique hilarity and outstanding physical feats.

How does she get into a taxi, or find shoes to fit?  Where does she find places to eat out?  Let alone a date…!

A hilarious parable of strength, fragility, challenge and triumph featuring strongwoman feats, hula hoops, slapstick, lycra, bananas and an eclectic soundtrack with the title track by Mikelangelo and music mixed by DJ Lazer Ferrari.

‘Adorable retro schtick.’   Helen Razer, The Age

‘A tidy little packet of fun by a feisty rising starlet.’ RHUM Magazine

LISTING INFORMATION
Venue: Trades Hall – Old Council Chambers, Cnr Lygon and Victoria  Streets (Melbourne)
Dates: 12th – 24th April (not Mondays), Preview 12th April
Tickets: Full $20.00, Conc/Group $18.00, Preview/Tight Arse Tuesday/ LaughPack $15.00

Times: 7:00pm (6:00pm Sundays)

Bookings: Ticketmaster or www.comedyfestival.com.au