Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2 #unconstrained #geekgirl

_Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2: Unconstrained_ 
_Call for projects closes 12 December 2011_ 

Technological frontiers have expanded beyond the ability of an individual to comprehend their complexity. Yet, these frontiers permeate our everyday experiences. How does your smartphone function? How was your toaster made? What tools do you use to earn money? How many different forms of communication do you experience in one day? How well do YOU understand the technology in your life? How well do you need to? Media Lab Melbourne is seeking proposals for devices or services as statements on the complexity of our everyday technology and systems. Successful applications will work with Media Lab Melbourne and collaborators to realise these proposals during a sprint over 9 days beginning on the 21st of January 2012.  As this is a collaborative sprint it is not important what skills you have but how effective your idea is!  Media Lab Melbourne will support projects with technical and production support. Should a person live interstate and wish to attend, we are also able to provide basic travel and accommodation for the duration of the sprint.  Selected participants will be notified on the 16th of December.  At this point there will be a second call for collaborators to assist in the creation of the selected projects. Applicants who are not selected in the initial call are welcome to participate as collaborators. 

http://www.medialabmelbourne.com.au/

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.

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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The Body is a Big Place #installation #art #Sydney #geekgirl

Installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest

The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.

November 4 – 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am – 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh/Redfern, Sydney, Australia
www.performancespace.com.au

Burlesque Ball – Melbourne Show #burlesque #theatre

Burlesque Ball

Starring:
Catherine D’Lish (Seattle),
Tigger! (New York),
Melody Mangler (Vancouver),
Imogen Kelly (Sydney),
Lola The Vamp (Melbourne),
Rita Fontaine (Sydney)
& Bella de Jac (Melbourne)

Melbourne 11th Nov

The final tease: www.burlesqueball.com

Center for Chemical Evolution: Seed Grants #artists #evolution #chemistry #geekgirl

Center for Chemical Evolution :: Exploratory Seed Grants for Visiting Artists
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, USA :: Proposals due 1 December 2011

The Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) is an NSF and NASA funded, multi-institutional research effort to study the question and determine the origins of evolution. The scientists at CCE are at the forefront of demonstrating that small molecules present in the early earth and its atmosphere react with one another, self-assemble and respond to environmental pressures to form larger molecules that resemble biology’s macromolecules.  With this research, the CCE is able to test the basic theory that formation of these important materials could ultimately have led to evolution.  The central mission of the CCE is to bring this cutting-edge research to the public, to diversify the audience of people interested in chemistry and to use these discoveries to educate and generate excitement about science. The CCE, with the Center for Creative Arts at Emory University is looking to provide seed funds of up to US$3000 to creative and performing artists who are interested in collaborating with CCE scientists to create unique works of art that explore the theme of Chemical Evolution and develop an outreach plan to bring these works of art to diverse audiences.
http://www.centerforchemicalevolution.com

_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/

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney #magic #science #art #geekgirl

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney_  _Exhibition 3 – 26 November 2011 ::
Artist & Curator talk 5 November 2011_ 

Hokus Pokus visually references 19th century magic, early cinema and traveling science shows, alluding to the proximity between the history of magic and the genesis of both optical time-based media and the brain sciences. This new interactive artwork examines illusionistic and performative aspects of magic to explore human perception, senses and movement.  A magician appears on 3 separate screens performing tricks that use sleight-of-hand and deception. How the tricks unfold over time and across the screens depends on the participant’s movements and reactions in the space.  The installation continues Michele Barker and Anna Munster’s artistic research into perception, neuroscience and the histories of visual culture and media. It takes inspiration from recent neuroscientific interest in magic as a way of unraveling the relations between vision and movement in human perception. 
http://www.performancespace.com.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/

Kat Macleod’s – Page Girls Fashion Illustrations #michi #sketches #Melbourne #geekgirl

Drawings from Michi in print.

Kat Macleod returns to Lamington Drive for her third solo exhibition opening on Thursday October 20. Entitled ‘Page Girls’, the show presents a series of Macleod’s original Michi Girl illustrations, previously published in Michi’s two books, bestseller Like I Give a Frock (2008, Penguin), and encyclopaedia of fashion What On Earth Are You Wearing? (2010, Penguin). Michi is a fictional weather girl and fashion commentator created by Chloe Quigley and Daniel Pollock. She writes a daily email newsletter that reaches the inboxes of tens of thousands of people around the world every day. The exhibition coincides with the auspicious occasion of Michi’s 10th birthday and features a series of redheaded beauties hand-picked by Macleod from her personal collection, complete with signature imperfections which reveal the process of metamorphosis behind the illustrations.

Page Girls also includes eight limited edition A4 archival prints of iconic Michi Girls, and one limited edition collectable A2 poster. Michi Girl merchandise will be available in the Lamington Drive shoppe, including postcard book, notebook and Michi Girl books.

Since her last solo show in 2009, Macleod has illustrated two books, the aforementioned What On Earth Are You Wearing?, and Sequins & Sequence (2010, ERM books). These join the shelf with her previously illustrated titles – Bird (2002, 3 Deep Design), The Cocktail (2005, Hardie Grant) and Michi Girl’s Like I Give a Frock. Her illustrations have appeared on runway invitations for Collette Dinnigan, album artwork for Clare Bowditch, on the pages of Chinese Vogue, Numero Tokyo and Australian Vogue Entertaining + Travel, as well as limited edition products for Heide Museum of Modern Art, The Australian Ballet and Third Drawer Down.

She has held two solo exhibitions, The Tiniest Spark (2008) and Slight Inclusions (2009), at Lamington Drive gallery, and runs the Ortolan graphic design studio with two of her best friends. In December 2011, Macleod will hold an accompanying solo exhibition at Lamington Drive’s exciting new temporary gallery at Chadstone Shopping Centre.

http://lamingtondrive.com/exhibitions/event/page-girls/