_Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_

 _Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_  _Call for Submissions for Exhibition closes 4 November 2011_ 

This exhibition will be used to examine interactions between humans, technology, and biology, with the aim of re-invigorating the social, cultural and environmental value ofv non-human life. Artworks that contain / deal with “wet biology” are encouraged, ethics /quarantine clearance must also be confirmed if this is required.  The exhibition will be held at the Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Please email word documents and Jpegs  to Donna Franklin at donna_franki@yahoo.com,  including an Artist Statement, 300 word Biography, contact details and a photograph of proposed work or previous work for further information.  The Exhibition will run for two weeks in either May or June 2012. 
http://www.sca.ecu.edu.au/

Subsonic Music Festival__ :: Call for Artists_ #deepspaceelectronicmusic #subsonic #geekgirl

Exhibit & participate in the Subsonic Festival :: Applications close 31 October 2011
Subsonic Music Festival will be held 2 – 4 December 2011 in the picturesque surrounds of Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort, Barrington Tops, Northern NSW. Dedicated to deep space electronic music, Subsonic brings together a line-up of international artists in an immersive, multi-sensory environment with an unconventional edge.  The festival is  looking for creative people (18yrs+) who have amazing, large-scale artwork and crazy roaming performances that they would like to display on the green, verdant landscape of Barrington Tops. These may include sculptors, LED artists, performers, installation artists, painters, graffiti artists, video artists, carpenters and costume designers.  If you are creative but don’t want to submit your own artwork, you can sign up for volunteer art team.
http://www.subsonicmusic.com.[20]au/

The Joy of Loss #QUT #multiplatform #ipad #geekgirl

BRISBANE: IDA PROJECTS PRESENTS THE JOY OF LOSS EXHIBITION

Artist/composer David Sudmalis brings his latest project, The Joy of Loss, to The Block with the support of IDAprojects and QUT from 16-28 September.

The Joy of Loss is a multi-platform investigation of the emotional terrain sculpted through loss, transformation and transcendence. Immersive sound, silent interviews, live performance and an iPad orchestra come together in this exhibition to develop a shared emotional understanding of loss and its joyous cathartic qualities.  Presented by IDAprojects and QUT Creative Industries Precinct.

You can follow the project with David on his blog www.thejoyofloss.blogspot.com or submit your stories via Twitter with #TheJoyOfLoss.
16 – 28 September 2011

‘The art of Hacking’ with all my favourite gurls #hacking #ethics #code #geekgirl

With works by: Heath Bunting, Harmen de Hoop, moddr_, Cornelia Sollfrank, The Yes Men, ÜBERMORGEN.COM <http://xn--bermorgen-p9a.COM> and Nancy Mauro-Flude / Mez Breeze / Sara Platon. 
 
‘The art of Hacking’ focuses on the artistic side of hacking. The artists in this exhibition highlight the imperfections of our surroundings and daily lives. The projects subvert, improve on or circumnavigate ‘official’ systems and practices and offer alternatives. Superficially, hacking is often associated with spreading online viruses and other digital attacks. Officially these criminal activities are not really known as hacking, but as ‘cracking’. The real practice of hacking is done based on far more positive and artistic motives. It’s a state of mind and there are elaborate ethical codes within the hacker community. 
 
In short creative hacking combines artists’ technical skills with the optimism to solve problems and the urge to overcome artistic limitations. The basis for these works lies in a technical, online methodology that spreads into the physical world through the tangibility of the artworks. 
 
About the works:
The British artist Heath Bunting gives insight into the networks at play that constitute an identity, like banks, health care and education. By using these different networks Bunting creates new synthetic identities. In his ‘Identity Bureau’ one can purchase official and legal UK identities. This project has been made possible in collaboration with SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain. http://irational.org/ 
 
The American creative activism duo, a pair of notorious troublemakers The Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) targets leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else in order to publicly humiliate them, a practice that they call ‘identity correction’. Next to displaying a few projects by The Yes Men, NIMk collaborates on a ‘Yes Lab’ together with the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, the Dutch Theatre Festival, SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain, and Partizan Publik. http://theyesmen.org/ 
 
The office installation “DOUBLETHINK Knowledge Bureau” reflects and demonstrates both the Austrian art collective UBERMORGEN.COM’s artistic actionism as well as the necessary tools and rules for any clandestine media hacking operation today. http://www.ubermorgen.com/ 
 
The Rotterdam based lab moddr_ has hacked digital ‘footprints’ with projects like ‘Web 2.0 Suicide Machine’ and continues to do so more recently with the ‘Bin Lover’ project; a new piece by moddr_ residence artist Philipp W. Teister. ‘Bin Lover’ gives trashed files a new lease of life. The piece cleverly uses the apparent security of desktops, and will be shown alongside a number of related projects. http://moddr.net/ 

The German artist Cornelia Sollfrank presents three works in which art hacking strategies are being used to deconstruct myths about genius, originality and authorship. http://www.artwarez.org/ 
 
And by using the work by the Dutch artist Harmen de Hoop, you yourself can get started as an activist by copying and spreading pamphlets containing the text ABOLI$H CAPITALI$M NOW! in the public domain. http://www.harmendehoop.com/ 
 
Error_in_Time(v.t_3)_ sister0, Ko66 and Netwurker_Mez give us insight into geek space from the perspective of a female hacker. This isn’t a work about identity – its about identity theft. Nancy Mauro-Flude: Artistic and Conceptual Director, in collaboration, like any good homebrewed craft, with Australian artist Mez Breeze explores environments that involve online socializations or encounters. http://unhub.com/netwurker
 
Swedish/Dutch Sara Platon founder of www.genderchangeracademy.com deals with computers the hard way, demystify its senses, follows the busroute to the CPU and touches it innerparts.

Nancy Mauro-Flude exiled co-founder of Moddr_&  a Genderchanger Academy convert, is based in Tasmania and continues her performance-based collaborations&  interrogations of the possibilities and constrictions of media technologies. http://sister0.tv/ 
 
  With:
 • An artist talk by Heath Bunting, Harmen de Hoop, and moddr_ on
 Sunday the 11th of September at 15.00 hrs.
 • A panel discussion on the subject of hacking moderated by Jaromil
 and Cecile Landman with Rop Gonggrijp, Karin Spaink, Patrice Riemens
 and Heath Bunting taking place in October.
 • moddr_ presents several workshops within the framework of ‘The Art
 of Hacking’. 
 
 Information about these activities will be announced on www.nimk.nl and via other social media. 

Media Art History REWIRE Conference #mediaart #rewire #UK #geekgirl

   _MediaArtHistory REWIRE Conference _  _28 – 30 September 2011 :: Liverpool, UK_
  
The Rewire conference will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, and will illuminate the global phenomena of media art by discussing new paradigms for media art histories including Science and Technology Studies and Cybernetics, the connections between such histories and those of new technologies and computing, the relations between media art and craft, media archaeology, and institutional and curatorial responses to media art. Rewire will be supplemented with performances, book launches, workshops and special events, and runs concurrently with the AND Festival which will be hosted at numerous sites across Liverpool. http://www.mediaarthistory.org/

6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games #games #players #imagination #geekgirl

_6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games_ _29 – 31 January 2012 :: Madrid, Spain :: Abstracts due 1 October 2011_ 

 The call to  submit papers to the 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games is now open. The conference theme is The Nature of Player Experience. Over the past decade, the topic of player experience has attracted attention from a multitude of disciplines and practices focusing on computer games. Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games and will refer to specific examples from computer games rather than merely invoke them in general terms. Papers should examine the philosophical underpinnings of player experience from a variety of perspectives. Some papers may be accepted for alternative forms of presentation, such as poster sessions, workshops, or demonstrations.  http://2012.gamephilosophy.org

Kaleidoscope of imagination — Mudfest paper-free – student art festival #Melbourne #Uni #geekgirl

Artist Bree O'Dwyer

About

Mudfest is the University of Melbourne’s student arts and drama festival and in 2011 will run from the 18th – 28th August.  Over 21 years Mudfest has grown to become the largest student arts festival in Australia, and the program includes theatre, creative writing, dance, cabaret, visual art, opera, musical theatre, installation and performance and everything in between! The theme for this year’s festival is the ‘Kaleidoscope of imagination’ - celebrating and showcasing the creative and imaginative talents emerging from the University of Melbourne.

The Mudfest student arts and culture festival has grown to encompass all forms of artistic expression since it began in 1990. Presented every two years by the University of Melbourne Student Union, Mudfest nurtures, encourages and supports new and innovative arts practices amongst the students, whilst also providing them with professional and creative development opportunities.

Ten days of unbridled, back-to-back artwork. It’s by the students, for the students. Show us how you see the world.

Mudfest 2011: 18^th- 28^th August.

For tickets, program details and further information visit: http://mudfest.org.au/

http://twitter.com/#!/mudfest2011

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002347879401

This year Mudfest is also a paper-free festival!!

Calling all Self publishers of the world! #zines #videos #geekgirl

Hi Self Publishers of the world, as you may or not know the library has an exhibition at Salford Art Gallery running from 15th October 2011 to 29th January 2012.

Pink Mince

I am looking to show a film at the exhibition made up of short videos that contributers to the library have made of themselves. The video will explain why you personally self publish and about the zines you produce. To submit please email me your short talking head videos no longer than five minutes. I will compile and edit these together and add captions for the finished film. All are welcome to contribute to this project and I would like an eclectic range of zine makers to participate covering all the genres etc. So wherever you are making your zines it would be great to hear from you.

Kind regards, Craig

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www.salfordzinelibrary.blogspot.com
www.craigjohnbarr.co.uk
www.matthewwalkerdine.co.uk

Hmm… Hand Made Musical Festival #Melbourne #experimental #music #geekgirl

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Curated and organised by dedicated experimental instrument builders Rod Cooper, John Jacobs and Ben Kolaitis, the Hmm… festival celebrates all things handmade in contemporary experimental instrument building and design.

With talks, workshops, performances, makers market and installations Hmm… will showcase unconventional and surprising sound devices from circuit bent toys, handcrafted resonators, hacked TV’s pirate transmitters and fruit controlled synthesizers!

The festival will feature installations and performances from a diverse line-up of renound local, interstate and international experimental sound artists.

Let them help you be the future of sound, it’s in your hands!

Melbourne, 9-28th August 2011

Special performance by electronic poet and Hmm… festival curator John Jacobs.

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John will be performing his experimental comedy on ridiculous cracked robot toys at KIPL – 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne on Saturday evening 20th August

Trouble magazine says: “John Jacobs has been making different types of electronic music in Sydney since the early 1980’s, from industrial noise through to the dance-floor. Deeply involved in the radical politics and strategies of the Post-Punk subculture, John produced experimental radio on SkidRowRadio, 2JJ and 2SER. At the same time he was engineering for ABC Radio National where he now produces the critically acclaimed Night Air and Pool a site for collaborative arts projects.

Committed as always to the DIY spirit of the counter-culture John believes entirely in the benefits of the hands on magic of improvised circuitry. A certain mystical zeal underpins his work, this zeal extending out to the work of his colleagues. He makes instruments that are art-objects fused with comedy, wonder and irony, many integrating into the bodily electronic circuit of the player themselves.”

Other things to check out:

Hacked robots<>, bent toys<>, recycled resonators<>, fruit synthesisers<>, recombinant violins<>, even human circuits, they all make music!

For more information contact: handmademusicfest@gmail.com

The 2011 *Hmm… *(Hand Made Music) festival is a grassroots, maker’s initiative proudly supported by *Next Wave*, *BUS Projects*, *KIPL* and *West Space*.

Making it Handmade screening on ABC2 #subversive #plush #Melbourne #geekgirl

Think craft is for grannies? Think again.

A seditious and subversive subculture is gaining momentum in Melbourne. But rather than wielding megaphones and placards, they’re cross-stitching slogans on hurricane wire and constructing plush female genitalia from craft supplies.

Following four local women who’ve taken a seemingly staid past-time and injected it with a youthful, modern aesthetic, filmmaker Anna Brownfield shows a side of craft more closely aligned with punk DIY culture than with Martha Stewart and ‘home sweet home’ tapestries.

“I wanted to show that craft was no longer daggy but had moved into a new era and was being reclaimed by women who had been brought up as feminists.” – filmmaker Anna Brownfield

Starring
Pip Lincolne, Gemma Jones, Faythe Levine, Rayna Fahey, Casey Jenkins and the awesome Melbourne craft community

Sunday, August 14 at 9:30pm – August 15 at 12:30am

In your lounge room with the TV on to ABC2