Desktop Create Awards

The call for entries in the 2009 create:awards is now open so get cracking and submit your entry before 3pm on July 15th (deadline extended) to share in up to $50,000 in cash and prizes. Now in it’s fifth year the Desktop create:awards have not only spent the past half decade showcasing the best in Australian design from a broad range of industry fields including illustration, photography, website design, animation, print, multimedia, packaging and emerging talent. In 2009 Desktop are looking to take create: to a whole new level by introducing the first ever Desktop design expo to be held in conjunction with the awards event, transforming create: into a huge industry celebration designed to bring together everyone from designers and creatives through to freelance design warriors and advertising agencies, printers and paper merchants, marketing managers and software and hardware developers.

More info from Desktop mag -Create Awards.

Melbourne International Animation Festival

The Melbourne International Animation Festival, featuring the latest and best animation from around the world, rolls into town from the 22-28 June, 2009 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square!

The Melbourne International Animation Festival now in its 9th year is one of the largest collections of independent animation gathered at any festival in the world, screening 350+ films in competitive, student, curated & retrospective programs. The festival aims to challenge and inspire audiences with thematic, visual and technical diversity from award winners, outstanding industry veterans and those wonderful newcomers who are exploring their talent on screen for the first time. Whether poetic, narrative driven, experimental, solely digital, comical, dramatic or inspired by the documentary form, MIAF’s passion for showcasing outstanding works from Australian and International animators is a not to be missed celebration for filmmakers, lovers of animation and the general public alike.

Melbourne International Animation Festival,
22-28 June 2009
ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Tickets Bookings: ACMI Box Office 03 8663 2583
Visit the Melbourne International Animation Festival website.

WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon

June 14 – October 4, 2009

“Games are the most elevated form of investigation.” -Albert Einstein

“WoW is the most sophisticated happiness engine that exists now.” -Dr. Jane McGonigal

“Games may provide new ways for museums to have a profound impact on society if they are designed, as alternate-reality games are, to change people’s real-world behavior.” -Dr. Jane McGonigal

WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon explores various forms of cultural production based on World of Warcraft in particular and on gaming in general. While surveying Warcraft’s Fifteen-year history, the exhibition looks at artistic practices that have been influenced by game culture. The actual works by the producer of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment (headquartered in Irvine, California), provide a starting point and reference.

Fourteen international artists were selected to consider this movement with the following themes in mind: elements of desire, the collapse of fantasy, medievalism, creative critiques, and public intervention. Artists in this exhibition take on the visual marker of World of Warcraft to consider, implications of gaming, and their greater impact on our culture. In addition to the works of these artists, fan art and the growing culture of machinima (computer animation that uses the graphic engines from video games) will be explored in this exhibition.

Laguna Art Museum

More information on WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon

Also check out the /hug machinima world at http://thirdfaction.org/blog/

One minute challenge for filmmakers

The competition is for filmmakers to produce an original and imaginative film that works within the confines of sixty seconds. The categories for submitting your film are Film, Animation, Mobile File, Documentary, Machinima, Experimental, Title Sequence, Film Trailer, Ident, Advert. Each month we will show the films sent to us which are open for a public vote to decide which film wins each month and goes into the grand final of the twelve best films of the year. At the end of the year the best 12 selected films will be judged by the public to decide which film is the Winner of the prestigious Renderyard 1 Minute Challenge award. You can submit as many films as you like. Your film must be no longer than 1 minute in length.

To submit a film please click the link.

Polly Maggoo wants your films

All genres of films are eligible (documentary, experimental film, fiction, art video, animation, etc.) if their subject is directly or indirectly related to scientific topics (including fundamental sciences, life sciences, medicine, the environment, and social and human sciences).

Applications due: 1 June
Find out more at: www.pollymaggoo.org/doc_polly/risc-2009.html

NO VACANCY ART MARKET – Melbourne

NO VACANCY ART MARKET – MELBOURNE
20 ARTISTS STALLS
No Vacancy Art Market – 24 April – 17 May

No Vacancy Art Gallery is hosting a unique and inspiring collection of local Melbourne artists for the inaugural No Vacancy Art Market. Twenty stalls presenting emerging and established local talent will pop-up in the Gallery’s inner-city space at QV over four weeks. Illustrators, artists, jewellers, designers, animators, rare booksellers and an eclectic mix of hand-picked others will come together to showcase their wares and offer a rare opportunity to collect original work. Come and join us from Friday 24 April to take advantage of late trading hours and the opportunity to gain an insight into the artists’ methods and pick up affordable gems by local artists.

What: No Vacancy Art Market

Where: No Vacancy Gallery, 27-33 Red Cape Lane (QV Building), Melbourne

When: 24 April – 17 May
Times: Thu-Fri – 11am – 9pm, Tues-Wed, Sat-Sun – 11am to 5pm

How Much: A dollar a kilo
Enquiries to the Gallery – email info@no-vacancy.com.au or phone (03) 9663 3798.

Stay posted at www.no-vacancy.com.au/market.html

Big Eye, Aboriginal Animations

Brisbane: An exhibition of the moving image, including stop-motion, 3D and other animation techniques, Big Eye showcases Aboriginal animations from Australia and Canada in a unique cross-tribal exchange of ideas and world views. Aboriginal Australian artists Aroha Groves, Frank McLeod & Aboriginal Nations, the Gunbalanya Community & Gozer Media, Christine Peacock, Rebekah Pitt & John Graham and artist/curator Jenny Fraser, are joined by Aboriginal Canadian artists Dark Thunder Productions, Raven Tales, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito & Abtech, Rabbit and Bear Paws, and The Healthy Aboriginal Network.

29 April to 15 May
The Block QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue
Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia

Check out: www.ciprecinct.qut.edu.au/shows/details.jsp?news-event-id=23115

Mary and Max – 3CR fundraiser

See the animated masterpiece MARY AND MAX with 3CR on Thursday 16 April 6.45pm at the Kino (Melbourne) and meet the director Adam Eliot

Adam Eliot (Harvie Crumpet) and his film crew have created a funny and bittersweet tale of oddballness, friendship and humanity (sound familiar?!) with their first feature length adventure. Adam shall be there to introduce the film.

Book your ticket now for only $20 full and $16 concession -  go to http://www.3cr.org.au and pay online with your credit card or paypal account or call the station b/hrs on 03 9419 9377.

Find out more about the film at http://www.maryandmax.com/

The 12th over the fence short film festival

“For short films with an excellent sense of humour.”

The Over The Fence Short Film Festival is the coolest, boldest, funniest film festival in the land. Animation, Drama, Documentary, Mocumentary and Experimental comedy! So if you’re thinking about making a comedy…if you’re in the middle of making one…or you’ve finished your comic masterpiece – then get cracking !!!

Entry deadlines:
$35 Before April  24 – Mid Deadline Special
$45 From April 24 – June 30,  Deadline
$55 LATE FEE – until July 10.

Visit http://www.overthefence.com.au to download an entry form that can be sent to:

Over The Fence
PO Box 468
Hamilton Hill WA 6963

Films entered must be no older than 2005 and no longer than 20 minutes.

Contact : Deanna 0415 221 024 or Greg (08) 9337 6049
http://www.overthefence.com.au
mail@overthefence.com.au or deanna@overthefence.com.au

Location Location Location! Melbourne Arts Project Exhibit

Location Location Location! encompasses themes and concepts surrounding architecture, interiors, the urban and suburban. Works from a wide range of mediums-2D, 3D and animation- explore the built environment and the way we inhabit it.

A number of these works investigate the local and often immediate Northcote environment, celebrating the iconic weatherboard house in its various stages of development and decay. Immaculate attention to detail and a celebration of materiality are engendered in the works of Chris Mason and Chris O’Brien, the latter of whose ‘houses’ are the starting point for intricate narratives, bold characters and social commentary.

Gallery Talk:
Saturday 18 April from 11 – 11.30am
Talk presented by Gallery Manager Sim Luttin.

Exhibition Dates:
Thursday 19 March – Friday 24 April 2009
Free and open to the public.

Location:
Arts Project Australia Gallery
24 High Street
Northcote Victoria 3070 Australia
T: +61 (03) 9482 4484
E:info@artsproject.org.au
web: www.artsproject.org.au