Mark Amerika public lecture: Nov 15 #Melbourne #remixthecontext #transmedia #geekgirl

Mark Amerika public lecture and conversation with Dan Angeloro (Sodajerk)

The Centre for Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University invite you to a public lecture:  Mark Amerika: “Remixthecontext: the transmedia artist in network culture”

The lecture will be followed by a Conversation between Mark Amerika and Dan Angeloro (Soda_Jerk)

When: 15 November 2011, 6.30pm
Where: Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library Victoria, Melbourne
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/visit/how-get-here

Remix is a widespread practice of recombining existing material to make something new —including covers, sampling, mash-ups, smash-ups, cut-ups. Mark Amerika looks at how new media artists, many of whom identify with the historical avant-garde, are expanding the forms of remix art to foreground an anti-disciplinary [anti-authoritarian + interdisciplinary] approach to both contemporary practice and theory. Amerika will discuss his experimental art, theory, and pedagogy, including his recent projects Immobilité and remixthebook.

Mark Amerika is a cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, VJ artist, and remix artist. He has been named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century. Amerika is widely exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at major art galleries and biennales. He is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Principal Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne. http://markamerika.com www.remixthebook.com

Dan Angeloro is one half of Soda_Jerk, a collaboration working together since 2002. In their video installations and performance lectures, Soda_Jerk work with audiovisual samples to create speculative narratives that interrogate historical events and cultural trajectories. Soda_Jerk are the recipients of the 2011 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship and a 2011 British Council Realise Your Dream Award. http://www.sodajerk.com.au

For futher information, please contact
Norie Neumark, Director, Centre for Creative Arts
n.neumark@latrobe.edu.au
or Natalie Pirotta, Coordinator, Centre for Creative Arts
CentreCreativeArts@latrobe.edu.au

The Body is a Big Place #installation #art #Sydney #geekgirl

Installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest

The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.

November 4 – 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am – 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh/Redfern, Sydney, Australia
www.performancespace.com.au

Burlesque Ball – Melbourne Show #burlesque #theatre

Burlesque Ball

Starring:
Catherine D’Lish (Seattle),
Tigger! (New York),
Melody Mangler (Vancouver),
Imogen Kelly (Sydney),
Lola The Vamp (Melbourne),
Rita Fontaine (Sydney)
& Bella de Jac (Melbourne)

Melbourne 11th Nov

The final tease: www.burlesqueball.com

Center for Chemical Evolution: Seed Grants #artists #evolution #chemistry #geekgirl

Center for Chemical Evolution :: Exploratory Seed Grants for Visiting Artists
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, USA :: Proposals due 1 December 2011

The Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) is an NSF and NASA funded, multi-institutional research effort to study the question and determine the origins of evolution. The scientists at CCE are at the forefront of demonstrating that small molecules present in the early earth and its atmosphere react with one another, self-assemble and respond to environmental pressures to form larger molecules that resemble biology’s macromolecules.  With this research, the CCE is able to test the basic theory that formation of these important materials could ultimately have led to evolution.  The central mission of the CCE is to bring this cutting-edge research to the public, to diversify the audience of people interested in chemistry and to use these discoveries to educate and generate excitement about science. The CCE, with the Center for Creative Arts at Emory University is looking to provide seed funds of up to US$3000 to creative and performing artists who are interested in collaborating with CCE scientists to create unique works of art that explore the theme of Chemical Evolution and develop an outreach plan to bring these works of art to diverse audiences.
http://www.centerforchemicalevolution.com

_Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_

 _Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_  _Call for Submissions for Exhibition closes 4 November 2011_ 

This exhibition will be used to examine interactions between humans, technology, and biology, with the aim of re-invigorating the social, cultural and environmental value ofv non-human life. Artworks that contain / deal with “wet biology” are encouraged, ethics /quarantine clearance must also be confirmed if this is required.  The exhibition will be held at the Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Please email word documents and Jpegs  to Donna Franklin at donna_franki@yahoo.com,  including an Artist Statement, 300 word Biography, contact details and a photograph of proposed work or previous work for further information.  The Exhibition will run for two weeks in either May or June 2012. 
http://www.sca.ecu.edu.au/

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney #magic #science #art #geekgirl

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney_  _Exhibition 3 – 26 November 2011 ::
Artist & Curator talk 5 November 2011_ 

Hokus Pokus visually references 19th century magic, early cinema and traveling science shows, alluding to the proximity between the history of magic and the genesis of both optical time-based media and the brain sciences. This new interactive artwork examines illusionistic and performative aspects of magic to explore human perception, senses and movement.  A magician appears on 3 separate screens performing tricks that use sleight-of-hand and deception. How the tricks unfold over time and across the screens depends on the participant’s movements and reactions in the space.  The installation continues Michele Barker and Anna Munster’s artistic research into perception, neuroscience and the histories of visual culture and media. It takes inspiration from recent neuroscientific interest in magic as a way of unraveling the relations between vision and movement in human perception. 
http://www.performancespace.com.au/

Subsonic Music Festival__ :: Call for Artists_ #deepspaceelectronicmusic #subsonic #geekgirl

Exhibit & participate in the Subsonic Festival :: Applications close 31 October 2011
Subsonic Music Festival will be held 2 – 4 December 2011 in the picturesque surrounds of Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort, Barrington Tops, Northern NSW. Dedicated to deep space electronic music, Subsonic brings together a line-up of international artists in an immersive, multi-sensory environment with an unconventional edge.  The festival is  looking for creative people (18yrs+) who have amazing, large-scale artwork and crazy roaming performances that they would like to display on the green, verdant landscape of Barrington Tops. These may include sculptors, LED artists, performers, installation artists, painters, graffiti artists, video artists, carpenters and costume designers.  If you are creative but don’t want to submit your own artwork, you can sign up for volunteer art team.
http://www.subsonicmusic.com.[20]au/

Ecsite Annual Conference 2012 :: Space and Time, Unlimited #France #science #technology #geekgirl

Ecsite Annual Conference 2012 :: Space and Time, Unlimited_ _31 May – 2 June 2012 :: Toulouse, France ::

Submissions due 25 October 2011

Space and time pervade contemporary science and technology; from cosmic exploration to minute nanotechnologies, or the plodding tempo of evolution to the speed of light. Some of the most intriguing scientific inquiry and discovery has, and continues to be, built on principles of space and time.  These two concepts literally and symbolically challenge science centres and museums with endless options and opportunities. Exhibitions and collections, institutional strategising, communications and marketing, education, learning and social presence & time and space have unlimited influence over all facets of our work. The 2012 Ecsite Annual Conference 
will seek to address how science centres and museums can use time and space to communicate science in new and innovative ways to remain relevant to audiences and whether institutional spaces keep up with the times in an unlimited way.  Submit session ideas to the 2012 Ecsite Annual Conference and share your vision of how to make science centres and museums timeless spaces. 
http://www.ecsite.eu/ 
http://www.ecsite.eu/annual_conference/call-for-proposal

GNOME Outreach Program for Women internships #gnome #opensource #downunder #geekgirl

In an effort to get more women involved in Free Software, the GNOME project is sponsoring several internships for women from December 12, 2011 to March 12, 2012. These dates are aimed at the college women from the Southern Hemisphere who will have a school summer break during this time, but any woman available for a full time internship is welcome to apply. Please consider applying for the program, encourage someone else to apply, or help us spread the word!

The application deadline is October 31. The applicants need to get in touch with individual GNOME projects that participate in this effort ahead of time to decide which project they are interested in working on and make a small contribution to the project.

Participants will work remotely from home, while getting guidance from an assigned mentor and collaborating within their project’s team and the rest of the GNOME community. The projects include developing software for the core desktop, file management, messaging, popular applications, educational activities, and the platform libraries. There are also non-coding projects, such as graphic design, documentation, and marketing. The stipend for the program is $5,000
(USD).

Please visit http://www.gnome.org to learn more and apply. The mentorship opportunities are also available throughout the year for anyone interested in getting started contributing to GNOME outside of the internship program.

Kat Macleod’s – Page Girls Fashion Illustrations #michi #sketches #Melbourne #geekgirl

Drawings from Michi in print.

Kat Macleod returns to Lamington Drive for her third solo exhibition opening on Thursday October 20. Entitled ‘Page Girls’, the show presents a series of Macleod’s original Michi Girl illustrations, previously published in Michi’s two books, bestseller Like I Give a Frock (2008, Penguin), and encyclopaedia of fashion What On Earth Are You Wearing? (2010, Penguin). Michi is a fictional weather girl and fashion commentator created by Chloe Quigley and Daniel Pollock. She writes a daily email newsletter that reaches the inboxes of tens of thousands of people around the world every day. The exhibition coincides with the auspicious occasion of Michi’s 10th birthday and features a series of redheaded beauties hand-picked by Macleod from her personal collection, complete with signature imperfections which reveal the process of metamorphosis behind the illustrations.

Page Girls also includes eight limited edition A4 archival prints of iconic Michi Girls, and one limited edition collectable A2 poster. Michi Girl merchandise will be available in the Lamington Drive shoppe, including postcard book, notebook and Michi Girl books.

Since her last solo show in 2009, Macleod has illustrated two books, the aforementioned What On Earth Are You Wearing?, and Sequins & Sequence (2010, ERM books). These join the shelf with her previously illustrated titles – Bird (2002, 3 Deep Design), The Cocktail (2005, Hardie Grant) and Michi Girl’s Like I Give a Frock. Her illustrations have appeared on runway invitations for Collette Dinnigan, album artwork for Clare Bowditch, on the pages of Chinese Vogue, Numero Tokyo and Australian Vogue Entertaining + Travel, as well as limited edition products for Heide Museum of Modern Art, The Australian Ballet and Third Drawer Down.

She has held two solo exhibitions, The Tiniest Spark (2008) and Slight Inclusions (2009), at Lamington Drive gallery, and runs the Ortolan graphic design studio with two of her best friends. In December 2011, Macleod will hold an accompanying solo exhibition at Lamington Drive’s exciting new temporary gallery at Chadstone Shopping Centre.

http://lamingtondrive.com/exhibitions/event/page-girls/