Taxonomy Lab call for submissions. ILK #1

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
http://taxonomylab.tumblr.com
Taxonomy Publishing invites you to submit your original art work for ILK MAGAZINE ISSUE #1.

ILK aims to present and disseminate the work of experimental artists in quarterly issues.

The form of each issue will be determined by the art submitted and we are open to ideas from artists. Sketches, Scans, Photographs, Texts,Visual Essays and more are welcome.

ILK #1 will be available in a limited edition PDF format for worldwide distribution via Taxonomy’s website. Not constrained by theme or medium, ILK welcomes audio and video links, text and images. Each buyer will receive a individually numbered digital issue for the price of a sub-standard cup of coffee. All funds go toward generating the next issue of ILK.

Issue 2 will contain both physical and digital editions

To submit:

A short bio.
Up to 6 good quality images you would like to have published in the first issue of ILK
Email taxonomypublishing@gmail.com

A short description of your work – 300 words max or sample of text or idea for spread.

Submission closes 30 April 2012

#Melbourne #Art: Stay Home Sakoku: The #Hikikomori Project Exhibition at West Space #geekgirl

STAY HOME SAKOKU EXHIBITION AT WEST SPACE

eugenia_lim_sakoku

Stay Home Sakoku: The Hikikomori Project is an introverted performance/installation exploring the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori or ‘shut in’ syndrome. Over one week, Lim lived in a bedroom-style installation within West Space. Although physically ‘on view’ to gallery goers, communication between herself and the outside world occured via a web portal or ‘hiki-site’ through which people can chat with her via smartphones or home computers.

Background

Hikikomori confine themselves to their rooms for months and, in extreme cases, years on end. Without physical contact, hikikomori exist in isolation. Yet, many survive on a diet of pop culture and live a networked existence through an online community of forums, games and chatrooms. Increasingly, through our daily engagement with Web 2.0, we are all becoming networked beings. Stay Home is a project for anyone whose life intersects with technology and the Internet.

Project collaborators are Dan West, Yumi Umiumare and David Wolf. Stay Home Sakoku: The Hikikomori Project is part of the Today Your Love program. Eugenia Lim inhabited the room for one week, however the installation will be on display until 14 April. Eugenia and her collaborators are supported by the Australia Council and City of Melbourne.

http://www.stayhomesakoku.com/

Exhibition runs
Fri 30 Mar –Sat 14 April 2012

EUGENIA LIM (SAKOKU HAS LEFT THE BUILDING)
Live-in performance and online conversation
Thur 22 Mar – Thur 29 Mar 2012

Language of Life: #Biomimicry in #Architecture, Art, Design and Science #Sydney #binarism #geekgirl

Language of Life - Biomimicry in Architecture, Art, Design and Science

What is the song a hummingbird sings? What do graffiti artists and street cats have in common? What formations are shared between a microcosm and the universe? Can buildings be interactive?

Biomimicry seeks to solve human problems using ideas from our biological world. Deeply embedded in nature are formulas that aid in finding solutions in our everyday lives. The exhibition ‘Language of Life’ showcases a shared interest between architects, visual artists, fashion designers and scientists in a collection of works that not only transcribe nature into their own fields, but identify and interpret what is useful to them, opening a conversation between these different fields.

Lucian Gormley and Hugo Raggett challenge the notion of architecture as static with their adaptive constructions of interactive hexagonal cells. Guy Morgan interprets the night sky in his vast paintings and video works that play with the psychology of vision, drawing out the colour that is there, but invisible to us at low light. Nicola Coady, combining two forms of culture, explores microbe colonies as living decorative devices by coating lampshades in yoghurt and allowing nature to take its course.

In contemporary design, architecture and the visual arts, we are increasingly working with material phenomena, interactive behaviour and complex, interdependent, structural relationships that are deeply embedded in nature. These works interrogate the familiar fabric of our existences that deem us human. Between nature and nurture, between artifice and art, they challenge our notion of the human/nature binarism.

Language enables conversation, by initiating communication, and this is what the exhibition aspires to do, opening a platform for interdisciplinary communication. ‘Language of Life’ explores artistic, technological, computational and philosophical trajectories through observations of natural expressions and biomimetic processes. The exhibition collates installations, paintings, animations, experiments and devices developed in different disciplines of the University of Sydney: Sydney College of the Arts; The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning; Medical Science, and the School of Engineering. Curated by Dr Dagmar Reinhardt, Lecturer of Digital Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, and Greg Shapley, Verge Gallery.

WHAT: Language of Life: Biomimicry in Architecture, Art, Design and Science (art exhibition)
WHO: Artists include: Caitlin Abbott, Eduardo Barata, Iain Blampied, Nicola Coady, Michiru Cohen, Armando Chant, Kate Dunn, Lisa Fathalla, Lucian Gormley, Tyrone Jandey, Flora Mavrommati, Guy Morgan, Luke O’Donnell, Hugo Raggett, Donna Sgro, Ian Stewart, Alexandra Smith, Will Swan, Sara Sweet and Elmar Trefz. Curated by Dagmar Reinhardt and Greg Shapley
WHEN: Opening March 29, 6pm. March 30-April 6 (Monday-Friday 10am-5pm)
WHERE: Verge Gallery, City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

CONTACT: Greg Shapley on (02) 9562-6218 or email g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au

Rayna Fahey’s politically dangerous exhibition – It’s Never Too Late To Mend #radical #craft #Melbourne #geekgirl

it's-never-too-late-to-mend

It’s Never Too Late To Mend – an exhibition of Rayna Fahey’s politically dangerous and exciting application of conscious craft love. A survey of Fahey’s commitment to the radical application of craft through the method of cross stitching.

Editor of radicalcrossstitch.com, co-founder of the infamous Craft Cartel and founder of the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle, Fahey is best known for reclaiming ugly industrial settings and transforming them through conscious craft love.

Her work has featured in exhibitions across Australia, Aotearoa, Sweden and Lithuania. Fahey was also featured in the critically acclaimed documentary, Making It Handmade which screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival and on ABC2.

Making It Handmade will have a special screening at the Incinerator Gallery with its director Anna Brownfield in attendance.

Fahey said her work uses seemingly innocuous craft to communicate challenging concepts about society and our environment, in a thought provoking manner. ”In light of the recent resurgence in the popularity of craft, this exhibition is not only about asking questions about the reasons we craft, but is also a call out to the craft community to strive for excellence in design.

“I am truly honoured to be pressing these discussions in a building connected to such a strong design history of function and beauty.

“The exhibition challenges traditi onal views on the nature of craft and will allow audiences to get a fresh perspective on its use in the 21st century.

“Kitsch and irony have been used by artists for decades to convey their message, but I reject kitsch and instead pay upmost respect to the history and traditions of craft.“

It’s Never Too Late To Mend celebrates ‘domestic arts’ as more than just a passive pastime, showing that conscious craft is an active, intelligent and even politically dangerous craft,” said Miss Fahey.

Just as the Incinerator use to be used for burning rubbish and is now a gallery, Rayna Fahey is using traditional craft to make contemporary statements on the world around us.

It’s Never Too Late To Mend will have a twilight opening on Friday 13 April at 6pm. The exhibition will run until Sunday 13 May.

Making It Handmade will screen on Thursday 19 April at 7pm at the Incinerator Gallery.

Incinerator Gallery
180 Holmes Road
Moonee Ponds VIC 3039
incineratorgallery.com.au

Call for Visual Contributions: #Anthology // #Occupy #Amsterdam #tactics #geekgirl

*OCCUPY READER* 
*Call for Visual Contributions:  Anthology // Occupy Amsterdam * 

A group of artists, writers & activists is currently writing an Anthology of ideas, tactics, & concepts, inspired by our experience at Occupy Amsterdam. One goal of this anthology is to offer proposals, visions and reflections. We want to investigate the elements of the political visions that functioned within Occupy, in terms of aims, strategies, analysis as well as tactics – so that the Occupy experience can help to nourish future forms of activism. How can Occupy be extended – beyond the camp, into the future, into the rest of the city, the country, the world?

The anthology will have an open form that will include texts of many different kinds and authors addressing a great variety of subjects. In order to accommodate this, we have chosen to organize the anthology into 99 lemmas, like an encyclopedia. An entry could be any kind of text, from short definitions to complete essays, from histories to images.

We are still interested in expanding our range of contributors, in particular we are looking for visual contributions of various kinds – illustrations, autonomous works, visuals inspired by Occupy, for graphic novels, archive material, photographs, drawings, cartoons, posters, flyers…. We would be happy to receive your contribution! More info and a detailed list of Lemmas (=Tags) can be found on the website.

*DEADLINE: * 
March 10th, 2012 

more info: http://readingatoccupyamsterdam.blogspot.com/

Film By Democracy – #vote #youtube #geekgirl

Film By Democracy
Open to ideas
Youtube link.

Film by Democracy introduces a global experiment in filmmaking whereby the audience creates the film that they want to see.

Through online voting, debates and creative submissions, you decide on every aspect of the production. From story and title, to cast, crew and soundtrack, we will quite literally be making it up as we go along. Site launch March 1, 2012

Whatever the result, you’ll be able to view it online for free.

Our first production has the working title ‘Project A’. Get started right now by voting for the genre.

More Info for Film By Democracy

Call for Submissions :: #Siggraph 2012

Siggraph 2012 :: 5 – 9 August 2012  Los Angeles, USA
39th International Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques
Call for Submissions :: Various closing dates for different categories
The SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience including a three-day commercial exhibition that attracts hundreds of exhibitors from around the world. SIGGRAPH is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. In addition to SIGGRAPH’s leading-edge technical program, the conference’s installations provide close-up views of the latest in digital art, emerging technologies, and hands-on opportunities for creative collaboration. Catagories still open for submission include Emerging Technologies (closes 21 February 2012), Panel Discussions and Poster presentations (closes 21 February 2012), Computer Animation Festival (closes 9 April 2012) and Siggraph Dailies (closes 1 May 2012).

http://s2012.siggraph.org

Prix ARS Electronica 2012 :: International Competition for #CyberArts #geekgirl

Call for Entries closes 2 March 2012 :: Register Online to Enter
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. Prix ARS Electronica 2012 is calling for entries in the following catagories: Computer Animation / Film / VFX; Interactive Art; Digital Musics & Sound Art; Hybrid Art; Digital Communities; a youth catagory – u19–Create Your World and [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant.   The competition is organised by the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in collaboration with the OK Center for Contemporary Art and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the prizes will be awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival held in Linz, Austria from 30 August – 3 September 2012.
http://www.aec.at

Serial Space Time Machine Commission Call Out #experimental #arts #geekgirl

In  2012 Serial Space is introducing a brand new platform for the   development
and presentation of interdisciplinary and experimental art   practices: Time Machine
[http://serialspace.org/events/112/call-out-time-machine/].

Time Machine will be a week long festival of experimental, time-based art taking
place at alternative spaces across  Sydney during 16-29 July. In  the lead-up to
this festival, Serial  Space will offer a number of   commissions and development
residencies for  the creation of new work   to be presented in the festival. Serial
Space is seeking bold, ambitious, experimental and  exciting ideas to support
and  present as part of Time Machine.

Deadline: 19 February 2012

EVA London 2012 :: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts #technologies #applications #geekgirl

EVA London 2012 :: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
10 – 12 July 2012 :: Call for Proposals closes 22 January 2012
The EVA London annual conference tracks and presents the development and application of electronic visualisation technologies in art, music, dance, theatre, the sciences and other fields Conference themes will particularly include new and emerging technologies and applications, including but not limited to: visualising ideas and concepts, imaging and images in museums and galleries, digital performance, music, sound, film, animation, medical humanities, reconstructive archaeology and architecture, digital and computational art and photographyand technologies of digitisation. EVA London invites proposals for papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions, especially look for presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications.
http://anat.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=09202d672e6c4a5aa81916e2c&id=48e7061062&e=b877c16989