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/

Gertrude St Projection Festival call out #Melbourne #geekgirl

MELBOURNE: GERTRUDE STREET PROJECTION FESTIVAL 2012 CALL OUT

The Gertrude St Projection http://www.thegertrudeassociation.com/ is calling for proposals for the July 2012 Festival on the theme “Elements”. If you are a projection artist, artist, filmmaker, design professional or student, download an entry form via the Gertrude Association and submit by 5pm, 4 November. Proposals must be for site specific, moving image or still projection installations that respond to buildings or sites along Gertrude Street, Fitzroy,Melbourne,Australia.

Deadline: Friday 4 November 2011
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It’s a jungle in here #interactive #Melbourne #geekgirl

It’s a jungle in here, a new interactive artwork by Melbourne artists Isobel Knowles
and Van Sowerwine, explores the boundaries between what’s ok and what’s not in
everyday encounters. Installed at Screen Space from 14 – 29 October, two participants become performers in a drama in which they have little  control. It follows in the footsteps of their 2010 Experimenta Commission You Were In My Dream which won the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award last year http://www.screenspace.com/screenspace

Network Nerds #Melbourne #geekgirl

MELBOURNE: SIGNAL IS LAUNCHING NEW PROJECT – NETWORK NERDS
Signal is launching it’s new social media program –  Network Nerds. This   project
offers young people the opportunity to work alongside social  media  guru, Craig  Lambie, who will share his knowledge and experience  of social  networking using
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr  and  beyond. The first Workshop will be held Saturday 22 October 2011 from 11am to 3pm and then every Thursday evening from 5 – 7pm until 1 December 2011. Contact Signal http://melbourne.Vic.au/signal

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…

WHAT: Storytelling: Tales from the Union Art Collection

WHO: Curated by Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan. Featuring works by Bill Henson, Trent Parke, Terry Gilliam, Del Kathryn Barton, Hayley Linz, Gareth Sansom,  Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Matheus Van Helmont and Albrecht Dürer.

WHEN: Opening Thursday October 13, 6pm. October 10-November 4, Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm.

WHERE: Verge Gallery, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Road, University of Sydney. Australia

CONTACT: Greg Shapley on (02) 9563-6218, g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au 

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…

Original artworks from these, and other artists, will be on display at Verge Gallery as part of an exhibition that playfully joins the dots between some of the University of Sydney Union’s most interesting art acquisitions. This century-old art collection contains a prestigious and eclectic range of works. Student interns turned curators, Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan have selected works from this collection that are dying to be seen and heard. Each one beckons you in closer, throws an arm around your shoulder and whispers historic tales of intrigue and suspense. Collectively, they chatter away inviting audiences to become involved in the bigger conversation on the nature of art and the human condition. Visitors are asked to document what they hear on large scrolls that, in turn, become part of the show. Also involved in this grand narrative are works by Trent Parke, Del Kathryn Barton, Gareth Sansom, Hayley Linz, Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Albrecht Dürer and George Milpurrurru.

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

Maturity: PROJECT – Laith McGregor #masculinity #bogan #geekgirl

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Maturing is a satirical social commentary about masculinity and the absurdity of what popular culture perceives as the definition of masculinity. McGregor uses facial hair as a ‘signifier of male authenticity’ and proceeds to metamorphose into an ϋber male. Through this process he transforms into various male role models; sportsmen, movie stars and the family father figure. By contorting his face into various expressions, he satirises stereotypes that personify society’s ideals of masculinity, including that of the quintessential Australian bogan.

In filming a close-up of his face, McGregor evokes a sense of voyeurism. The intimacy is immediately uncomfortable as the viewer is privy to a personal moment of self exploration and reflection.  The artist examines his face; pouting and contorting, trying on different personnas, contemplating as if deciding what character he will become next. Using his face as a blank canvas, he starts to draw facial hair using a pen and begins his transformation into a myriad of male personalities. It is a mesmerising journey of self discovery and an in-your-face mockery of the male – a mockery that resulted in a rash that persisted for three days after the work was completed.

Exhibition and further info on at the Art Gallery of Ballarat

Runs until Sunday, 25 September 2011

Night Projection Window
Admission: Free
Street Address
40 Lydiard Street North
Ballarat VIC 3350

International Kunst Force – Rebecca Power #Melbourne #femart #geekgirl



A series of ink and watercolour of women in the military. The exhibition uses humor, beauty and satire to explore feminist themes.

Showing at ‘Art at St. Francis’ – 326 Lonsdale St, Melbourne runs until Sept 11th, 2011. Mon – Fri 9-5pm or by appointment.

More info rebeccah@rebeccahpower.com

“My ink and watercolour paintings address feminist issues and explore themes such as archaeology and anthropology. The media is used in such a way as to make the most of the expressive appearance of painterly drips and bleeds creating an ‘other worldly’ or ‘dream like’ quality. I also create special site-specific murals painted directly onto a wall that provides context for my works and reinforce their meanings.” Rebecca Power

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