Feminist art in the 1970s and 1980s in Australia – A different temporality #Melbourne #feminist #geekgirl

Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Soft geometry 1982

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia

A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 brings together feminist approaches to temporality in the visual arts, with a focus on the late 1970s and early 1980s in Australia.

Rather than simply presenting a summary of feminist practice at the time, the selected works reflect prevalent debates and modes of practice. They focus upon dematerialisation of the art object, the role of film theory, and the adoption of diaristic and durational modes of practice, including performance, photography and film.

The exhibition presents the work of Micky Allan, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Bonita Ely, Sue Ford, Helen Grace, Lyndal Jones and Jenny Watson.

According to Max Delany, director of MUMA, the exhibition is long overdue.

“Focussing on a critical, albeit under-represented, period in recent contemporary art practice, A Different Temporality invokes a radical history and dynamic body of work, of particular relevance to the social turn in current art practice, which we hope will stimulate new debates and further action and reflection,” Mr Delany said.

A Different Temporality presents a diverse selection of art that engages with the concept of temporality as both metaphor and subject.  While it might not openly exemplify an overriding logic, the collection illustrates various feminist approaches to history, as well as repetition and flow, and the concept of cinematic montage – which continue to resonate in the present.

Dr Kyla McFarlane, exhibition curator said the artists represented in the exhibition shared an interest in time, seen through the adoption of mediums including film and performance, which places them at the forefront of innovative art practice.

“The diverse – sometimes oppositional – approaches to political and cultural debates by these women artists shows us something of the complex recent history of feminist art practice in Australia,” Dr McFarlane said.

A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice will be on display at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield campus until 17th December 2011.

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

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

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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

Welcome Obama -wherever you lay your hat is home! #lol #geekgirl

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Source: heatworld

Drupal Downunder call for talks closes Mon 14th Nov #drupal #opensource #downunder #geekgirl

http://drupaldownunder.org/call-sessions
Call for talks closes Monday 14th Nov.

Conference season is in full swing. Wordcampgc just past, OSDC coming up, LCA around the corner. It’s miniconfs and campsaganza!

Drupal Downunder takes place in Melbourne on the eve of linux.conf.au. The weekend of Sat 14 – Sun 15 January with preconf workshops on Fri 13.

If you’re of a webby persuasion, and have knowledge and experience to share, please consider putting in a talk proposal.  We’re keen to reach out and learn anything relevant – not just Drupal stuff.  A lot of Drupal sites run on Linux, most use MySQL, some PostgresQL, they all need a web-server, they all need to pay heed to available network resources.

If you’re into design or usability, or typography or HTML5, CSS, Javascript, or anything to do with the openweb – then please please please give me a moment of your time and submit a talk proposal by Monday!

Or encourage someone you know with something to share!~:)