Making it Handmade screening on ABC2 #subversive #plush #Melbourne #geekgirl

Think craft is for grannies? Think again.

A seditious and subversive subculture is gaining momentum in Melbourne. But rather than wielding megaphones and placards, they’re cross-stitching slogans on hurricane wire and constructing plush female genitalia from craft supplies.

Following four local women who’ve taken a seemingly staid past-time and injected it with a youthful, modern aesthetic, filmmaker Anna Brownfield shows a side of craft more closely aligned with punk DIY culture than with Martha Stewart and ‘home sweet home’ tapestries.

“I wanted to show that craft was no longer daggy but had moved into a new era and was being reclaimed by women who had been brought up as feminists.” – filmmaker Anna Brownfield

Starring
Pip Lincolne, Gemma Jones, Faythe Levine, Rayna Fahey, Casey Jenkins and the awesome Melbourne craft community

Sunday, August 14 at 9:30pm – August 15 at 12:30am

In your lounge room with the TV on to ABC2

Eyebeam Summer School Art Hack Weekend:: New York #hackers #hackathon #arts #geekgirl

_Eyebeam Summer School Art Hack Weekend _Free Event :: 5 – 7 August 2011 :: New York _

Artists, designers, and developers can join Eyebeam Art & Technology Center and The Creators Project August 5th-7th for Art Hack Weekend, a two-day,
open-source hackathon that celebrates new artistic experiences.  Design, code and prototype projects that re-imagine the way we create, consume, and
interact with media.  The project is interested in exploring how new technological advancements in fields like motion tracking, depth mapping, holographics and 3D visuals, gesture control, augmented reality, projection mapping, and networked environments can be transformed into tools that help change the way we experience and connect with art both on and offline, and/or creating entirely new artistic experiments.

http://eyebeam.org/events/art-hack-weekend

Splendid Think Tank :: Lismore, NSW :: 4 – 5 August 2011 #artlab #thinktank #geekgirl

Splendid Think Tank :: Keynote Address, Panel Discussions & Public Art Lab _Lismore, NSW :: 4 – 5 August 2011 _

The Splendid Think Tank  is a two-day event bringing together contemporary art practitioners with key festival representatives from across Australia, to explore the risks and rewards of embracing new art, ideas and experience in a festival context.  As a finale showcase event for the Splendid program, the Think Tank is a way to connect with and fuel future collaborations between festival directors and artists.  The Think Tank will explore Splendid Arts Lab as an exportable model for developing conceptually strong, interdisciplinary, large-scale public artworks that are participatory and can be marketed effectively to mass audiences.  Limited spaces are available and bookings are essential.

http://splendidthinktank.org

Australia INfront Visual Response #5 – Woman #looking #gallery #geekgirl

infront visual response - woman gallery

Not sure who the artists is, so if you know let me know.

Source: http://www.australianinfront.com.au/involved/vr/visual-response-05-woman/gallery

Turing Centenary 2012: Invitation to New Media Artists Call for Expressions #code #geekgirl

Due 29 July 2011

2012 is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician, code-breaker and computer pioneer. This will be marked by an extensive series of events, which is being coordinated by the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee. As Turing worked at the University of Manchester for the last six years of his life, Manchester is one of the two main centres of this events programme – the other being London, where he was born.

The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) plans to celebrate the Turing centenary throughout 2012. As Turing was a great innovator, MOSI is keen for its events to feature innovative creative works inspired by Turing and utilising the digital media made possible by the achievements of the early computer pioneers. MOSI invites written expressions of interest in this project which should include a description of the nature of the proposed work, how it links to Turing and the likely hardware requirement.

Contact Pauline Webb
Collections Manager MOSI
p.webb@mosi.org.uk
http://www.turingcentenary.eu/

Make More Monsters – Deborah Kelly #monsters #geekgirl

beastliness by deborah kelly

Gallery Projects
20 July – 21 August 2011

Make More Monsters consists of two interrelated components that use the gallery space as a site of both presentation and production. The exhibition is an exhortation and an open-ended proposition: let us work, what can we make?  In the form of an evolving month-long workshop, interested participants will be invited to come and engage in a collective collage, using the vast array of sources and elements Deborah Kelly has collected since adolescence. 

Dedicated in part to marking twenty years since the publication of Donna Haraway’s 1991 Cyborg Manifesto, the workshops will consist of shared readings of this seminal work, and other texts suggested by participants, informal discussions thereof, as well as the collaborative creation of a large-scale collective collage. Make More Monsters is intended to prefigure optimised social relations; to rehearse, in the words of Sydney collective Squatspace, a brief utopia.  

Kelly will also present her most recent work Beastliness (2011), an animation based upon a series of analogue paper collages completed over the past three years, having worked with animators Christian Heinrich and Chris Wilson, as well as The Brutal Poodles who have produced the original soundtrack. Beastliness manifests and exemplifies a number of the central concerns within Kelly’s collage practice: the vigour of hybridity and the representation and mythologizing of the feminine.  

The workshops will be held at Artspace on Sundays 2-4pm for the duration of the exhibition, with a final session 2-4pm Saturday 20 August in which participants will decide the fate of the collective work.  

ARTSPACE, Sydney
43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia

T: +61 2 9356 0555
F: +61 2 9368 1705
artspace@artspace.org.au
www.artspace.org.au
Gallery Open 11am – 5pm Tues – Sun
Office Open 10am – 6pm Mon – Fri
Closed on public holidays
Admission is free, except for special events

Splinterfields: Mathematickal Arts #programming #mathematics #textiles #machineart #geekgirl

http://fo.am/mathematickal_arts ///

Start: 2011-07-23 00:00 GMT+2
End: 2011-07-25 00:00 GMT+2

What: Mathematics, Textiles & Computer Programming workshop
When: 23rd – 25th of July 2011
Where: FoAM, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, 1080 Brussels, Belgium

Mathematician & machine artist Tim Boykett (Time’s Up, AT) and textile designer & educator Carole Collet (Central Saint Martin’s, UK) will lead a 3 day workshop bringing together The Arts of Mathematics, Textiles and Computer Programming.

Mathematickal Arts workshop investigates the tangible, abstract and conceptual threads binding materials and machines in a series of practical and theoretical experiments. Participants will use knots, weaving, sorting algorithms, notation and geometry to explore unfamiliar territories of mathematics or crafts using familiar practices of artistic and technological experimentation.

If you are interested in taking part in this workshop, places are limited, so please send an email to info@fo.am with a brief statement of intent before 12th of July.

“To me the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space. A bit of string affords the dimensional latitude that is unique among the entities [...] another dimension is added which provides an opportunity that is limited only by the scope of our own imagery and the length of a ropemakers coil.”
–Clifford W Ashley, The Book of Knots.

This workshop is a part of Resilients (http://fo.am/resilients) and
Splinterfields (http://fo.am/splinterfields)

Honor Harger – now that’s the kind of Big Bang I’m talking about! #planets #pulsars #geekgirl

Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including “the oldest song you will ever hear,” the sound of cosmic rays left over from the Big Bang.

http://tinyurl.com/675oupw

Venice: The Invisible Pavilion at the Venice Biennale #invisible #geekgirl

THE INVISIBLE PAVILION

The Invisible Pavilion [http://tinyurl.com/424yt54] is a non-invitation, experimental, hallucinatory augmented reality experience that will run for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale (1 June – 30 November 2011) as a squatted stage on which a performance flow of artworks will fill the whole area of the Giardini. Anyone with a smart-phone (iPhone or any other Android-based phone and Layar) will be able to move around the traditional pavilions in the Giardini area of the Biennale and see, through their phone screens, another immaterial/invisible exhibition.

1 June – 30 November 2011

Call Out Spain: Vida 13.2 Arts and Artificial Life International Awards #geekgirl

Fundación Telefónica announces the Vida 13.2 Art & Artificial  Life International Competition [http://tinyurl.com/5umdxxb], which for the last twelve years has  awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums  offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life. The  projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on  the notion of life through current research and technology. Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary  projects that respond to new development in Artificial Live.

Deadline: 27 July 2011

Extended deadline:  7 August