10 AM | 22 Nov

Digital Art Commission Call Out: My Big Gay Family #Melbourne #Gay #geekgirl

The City of Darebin is presenting, as part of Midsumma Festival 2012, a celebration of ‘My Big Gay Family’. Expressions of Interest are invited from digital artists to design, develop and prepare for presentation a public projection for the ProjectarT space at Northcote Civic Square between January 15 and February 5, 2012. The selected artist will be paid $2000. What does ‘Big Gay Family’ mean to you?

ProjectarT is a facility to enable the projection of digital art onto the south wall of the Northcote Town Hall overlooking the Civic Square.

To request an artists’ brief or for further information please call (03) 8470 8458 or email Bel Schenk, Arts and Cultural Development Officer.

Expressions of interest are due by 5pm, December 7, 2011.

Source: http://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/eNewsletter/eNewsletter.asp?id=103

09 AM | 22 Nov

Three performative Video works by Emile Zile #Melbourne #video #byob #geekgirl

An evening of three performative video works by Emile Zile [http://emilezile.com/] Emile Zile at the Open Archive project space. Pre-recorded music, Facial recognition, Office stationery; Stone, Portraiture, Cinema, YouTube, Liquids; Sweat, Voice, Scream, Smile. Building on a background of single-channel and performative video art, Emile Zile’s current research focuses on photographic portraiture with contemporary image-making techniques, site-specific audiovisual performance and the use of the internet as a site for mourning, transgression and revelation.

97 Nicholson Street Abbotsford, Melbourne,Victoria. 30 November 2011, 7pm Also of interest  

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a series of one-night exhibitions where artists are invited to bring their own “beamers” and explore the medium of projection by creating a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance. Organised by Ry David Bradley, Antuong Nguyen, Sam Hancocks and Emile Zile, initiated by Rafaël Rozendaal.
Tristian Koenig Gallery Level 1, 18 Ellis Street, South Yarra 16 December 2011

01 PM | 18 Nov

Launch of the Giant Theremin #Melbourne #MMW #geekgirl

Standing more than seven metres tall, the Giant Theremin was created by local audiovisual performance artist Robin Fox.

The launch features two original music and dance works created by some of Melbourne’s leading creatives.

The mesmerising choreography of Green Room Award winner Stephanie Lake (Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin), developed to complement a sound map created by Robin Fox, culminates in ‘Vanishing Point’ a striking contemporary dance performance.

Dexter, best known for his infectious mixes of dubstep, tribal and soul beats, performs a sound map played by krump, traditional and break dancers in a hip-hop spectacular. With a career spanning over two decades, he started out as a mobile DJ, then progressed to party rocker and member of the Avalanches, placing at the DMC World DJ Championships. His most recent project is Grrilla Step.

An initiative of the City of Melbourne, supported by VicHealth.

Location Signal forecourt 1 Flinders Walk Northbank Melbourne, Australia

Contact details melbournemusic@melbourne.vic.gov.au

Date & times for Artist performance: 19/11/2011

Saturday: 8:30pm – 9:30pm

This event repeats one week later on Saturday 26 November, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

The Giant Theremin will be on Les Erdi Plaza until 29 February and can be also be played by members of the public: Sunday to Thursday: 8am-10pm; Friday to Saturday: 8am-11pm.

MMW site http://tinyurl.com/ceralvd What is a therimen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin