Second #Experimenta Artist Lab #Melbourne #UtopiaNow #fb

Due to popular demand and overwhelming success, Experimenta will be running a second Experimenta Artist Lab as part of Experimenta Utopia Now, International Biennial of Media Art.

Experimenta Artist Lab is a space for innovation, experimentation, creative collaborations and learning new skills. The ‘workshop’ style lab is designed to give artists, designers and other creative types the tools and skills they need to move their existing practice into the interactive realm introducing them to the basic technology needed to produce physically interactive artworks. The second Experimenta Artist Lab will be run by Jesse Stevens and Tim Humphrey
who both have extensive experience running workshops as well as working with interactive technology in a variety of artistic and creative contexts will facilitate the workshop.

Sunday 14 March, 10am — 5pm
$85 (lunch and all equipment provided)
Melbourne venue – TBC
No experience with microcontrollers/sensors needed

Places are limited, so BOOK NOW  – call: (03)96509977 or email:
experimenta@experimenta.org
Visit experimenta.org for more information

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Critical Animals is calling for proposals for the 2010 festival.

Critical Animals is the creative research arm of This is Not Art, held each October in Newcastle, NSW. CA welcomes proposals for papers, panels, presentations, performances, exhibits, installations and happenings. The symposium is interdisciplinary and unthemed – it is an opportunity to present research material and creative practice with the thought to
generating discussion and collaboration. In particular we look for artists that engage with creative research, challenge their medium or reflect upon their practice.

Details of the callout <> *Applications close Wednesday 31 March.*

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Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Mobility

Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Mobility
Various Locations :: March 18 – 20, 2010

Revolving around the concept of Sustainable Immobility, the festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. The festival aims to realise the fundamental promise of the information age that communication technologies can replace the need for physical mobility, and thus both contribute to ecological stability as well as a more rewarding both deep-local and translocal life-style. The festival asks audiences and presenters to travel no further than local/regional boundaries to attend.

http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/

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CitySwitch urban interventions – Exhibit

Event: CitySwitch urban interventions
What: Exhibit
Start Time: Tuesday, February 23 at 5:00pm
End Time: Saturday, February 27 at 8:00pm
Where: Hunter St Mall & Renew HQ 3 Morgan St Newcastle AUSTRALIA

CitySwitch is an international exchange between Japan and Australia, where urban designers, architects and artists workshop ideas over 5 intense days, to collaborate on the creative activation of urban spaces.

23-27 Feb 2010

CitySwitch Lab invites you to downtown Newcastle to collaborate with a team of architects, artists, and designers from across NSW and Japan for the 2nd international workshop on urban revitalisation.

… “We are working on the ground to create four catalytic interventions within downtown Newcastle”

… “Artists, architects, creators, and thinkers of the city are all invited to take part in the workshop”

You can join in on the workshop (each day), come to free lectures (Tues/Weds/Thurs 8pm), or come and view the completed exhibitions/installations/projects (Saturday 27th, from 2pm).

The workshop includes the collaborative design and production of four different urban intervention projects, a series of international lectures, and a range of social events. The workshop culminates in a public show to exhibit, critique and celebrate the works on Saturday the 27th of February.

**International guest creators include: Satoru Yamashiro (Tokyo, Japan), Toshinori Esumi (Izumo, Japan), Jin Hidaka (Japan) and Jun Inokuma (Tokyo, Japan). **

Full details http://cityswitchlab.org/newcastle/index.php

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Momoyo Torimitsu Miyata Jiro Performance #Melbourne #robotics

Watch as life-size robotic businessman Miyata Jiro crawls his way commando-style through the Melbourne CBD battlefield like so many before him.  Tended to by his lovely nurse artist Momoyo Torimitsu – performances are not to be missed!

12 February 2010,  from 6:30pm – beginning at The Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, 25 Collins St, Melbourne

13 February 2010, the Arts Centre Precinct – check out experimenta.org for times!

15 February 2010, Collins Street– check out experimenta.org for times!

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Experimenta Utopia Now – Opening Night #Melbourne

EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW
International Biennial of Media Art
Ominous to optimistic. Innovative and interactive.

Opening Night
Thursday 11 February 2010 7pm
the Arts Centre, BlackBox, Melbourne

Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of Media Art chases the dream of a perfect world. Showcasing more than 35 works from countries including Australia, Japan, Austria, India, Germany, Canada, France, Taiwan and the UK, Experimenta Utopia Now critiques the scope for happiness on earth as we know it, pokes fun at social and physical
boundaries and questions the human race’s ability to preserve itself.

EXHIBITION DATES:
12 February 2010 — 14 March 2010
Open Sunday — Thursday 10am – 6pm
Friday & Saturday 10am – 8pm
All ages welcome/Suitable for all ages FREE!
www.experimenta.org

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By Means of a Sigh – Interactive Screen Work #Melbourne

By Means of a Sigh is an interactive video installation by Canadian artists Jean Dubois and Chloe´ Lefebvre that invites the viewer to call a number on the screen with their mobile phone and lend their breath to inflate two bubble gum bubbles being blown between two people on the screen.

Venue: Big Screen Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
(opposite Flinders St Station)
Dates: 1 February — 14 March 2010
Screening Times: On rotation — every day!
Visit: fedsquare.com for more info

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Forum – Paradise Lost or Utopia regained? Interactive Media Art #Melbourne #free

Public Forum chaired by Darren Tofts (Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology and a leading academic in the field of media art).
Australian and international artists explore the opportunities for interactive art to take us into uncharted territories, ask some tough questions about the current state of media art in the twenty-first century and ponder the future of the medium.

Panel members include interactive media artists: Van Sowerine (Australia), Christa Sommerer (Austria), Niklas Roy (Germany), David Kousemaker (Amsterdam), Jean
Dubois (Canada) and Matthew Gingold (Australia)

Date: Friday 12 February 2010
Time: 6pm for a 6:15pm start — 7:45pm
Venue: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Studio 1, Federation Square, Melbourne

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Experimenta Artist Lab – presented by Australia Media Artists Jesse Stevens and Time Humphries #Melbourne

Experimenta Artist Lab is a space for innovation, experimentation, creative collaboration and learning new skills. The ‘workshop’ style lab is designed to give artists, designers and other creative types the tools and skills they need to move their existing practice into the
interactive realm by introducing them to the basic technology needed to produce physically interactive artworks.

Date: Sunday 21 February 2010
Time: 10:00am — 5:00pm
Venue: Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne (Behind Flinders St
Station towards Sandridge Bridge)
Age group: 18+ (no experience with microcontrollers/sensors needed)
Cost: $85 (lunch and workshop materials provided)

Bookings for all Workshops:
Call 03 9650 9977 or email experimenta@experimenta.org

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The Undiscovered Press #Zinemakers in Melbourne at Sticky Shop

Unleashing the zine habit to the masses.

12 zinemakers from all around the country are unleashing their extreme and slightly undiscovered zine making practice on to the masses. Evolving into a pretty eclectic show of the art of zinesters, the participating zinesters are Androniki Douramakos, Arlene TextaQueen, Marc Martin, Brendan Halyday, Fergus, Mary-Helen Daly, Sarah Foster, On Wednesday, Diego Bonetto, Pat Grant, Michelle Vandermeer and Mel Stringer.

Any questions? Contact Melissa at theundiscoveredpress@gmail.com or 0448595571.

Start Time: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 12:00pm
End Time: Friday, February 26, 2010 at 6:00pm

Sticky ShopDegraves Street Subway, Platform
Melbourne, Australia

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