The Nauru Elegies #Melbourne #DJSpooky

A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture

The Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru. The work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. It has been realised through the collaboration of composer Paul D. Miller, best known as DJ Spooky, and architect Annie K. Kwon.

The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.

Venue: Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building,
Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates: 19 February – 6 March. Times: 10-5 daily

http://www.experimenta.org/

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IBM FITT #Melbourne FREE Networking Event – Feb 23, 2010 #geekgirl

IBM FITT Melbourne FREE Networking Event – Feb 23

Hmmmmmm, senior female IBM executives…

   – Janet Matton – IBM Vice President Sales Operations And Executive
   – Nicole Crooks  – IBM Vice President, SO & Global Technology Services
   – Robyn Woodley – IBM Client Director BHP
   – Jane Chen  – IBM Executive IT Architect

The IBM panel will discuss matters related to their careers in the ICT industry, and the challenges and opportunities they see for business in 2010 and beyond.

After the presentations we will have question time for the audience to ask questions to the panel and then networking time and refreshments.

For more information, goto FITT website<>
(Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications)
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Date & Times:
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Arrive: 5.30pm
Finish: 7.30pm

Venue:
The Arts Centre
Level 8, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

The Arts Centre is a couple of minutes walk from Flinders Street Station
Or take any tram (except tram no.1) along St Kilda Road and disembark at the
Arts Centre. Stop number 14.

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Check out Mozo’s Vice Calculator and become Australia’s first vice president.

It’s on the search for Australia’s first “vice” president using the quirky Vice Calculator. The “vice” calculator shows how much you will spend on vices in your lifetime.

Here’s a chance to figure out your vices, either giggling heartedly or nervously at the results! Mozo is asking people to post their “vice score” and a campaign pledge on Facebook to win $5,000. Perhaps a great way to bring some levity to the excess of the silly season and fuel for a New Year resolution!

Check out the campaign landing page and maybe find out your vice score:

• http://mozo.com.au/vice-calculator

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Go Home On Time Day on November 25

Every year Australian workers give their bosses a $72 billion gift in the form of unpaid overtime, research released this week has revealed. The Australian Institute says a typical full-time employee is working 70 minutes of unpaid overtime a day, which equates to six-and-a-half standard working weeks. In response, they have launched national “Go home on time day”.

Why Go Home On Time?

Around half of all employees work more hours than they are paid for. On average, a typical employee works 49 minutes of unpaid overtime per day. For full-time workers, the average daily amount of unpaid work is 70 minutes, which equates to 33 eight-hour days per year, or six and a half standard working weeks. Put another way, this is the equivalent of ‘donating’ more than your annual leave entitlement back to your employer.

Overwork can have negative consequences for your physical and mental health, your relationships with loved ones and your sense of what is important in life.

Where did the idea come from?

Go Home On Time Day is an initiative of The Australia Institute, the country’s most influential progressive think tank. Based in Canberra, it conducts research on a broad range of economic, social and environmental issues in order to inform public debate and bring greater accountability to the democratic process.

Find out more here and lodge your Go Home on Time pass: http://www.gohomeontimeday.org.au/

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Docos wanted. Australian Ethical Documentary Australia Foundation callout

Australian Ethical, in association with Documentary Australia Foundation, is calling for film makers to submit a mini-documentary piece on the theme of ‘corporate responsibility and the environment’.The winning documentary piece will be awarded $12,500 in prize money, which will be presented at the Australian International Documentary Conference on 24–26 February 2010.

Entries close December 18

Australian Ethical website

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FamousWhenDead screens Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist, a documentary “focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation” it says rather modestly on the zeitgeist website.

Free screening at FamousWhenDead Gallery, Thursday 29 October, 7 pm.
Running time 90 mins.
For RSVP’s please  email JD Mittmann so he knows how many seats to supply.

FWD Gallery
207 Victoria Street
West Melbourne 3003 Australia

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Random Acts of Elevator Music visit Sydney

Random Acts of Elevator Music at Don’t Look Gallery

Making their first business trip from Melbourne, Random Acts of Elevator Music perform at the experimental new media art space Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, on Friday the 9th of October at 7.30pm.  The show incorporates the acclaimed Random Acts of Elevator Powerpoint display, featuring highlights from office life and rare elevator footage, along with their trademark soothing tones, melodies and oscillations.  Joining them for a rare solo live set is Sydney sound artist Shannon O’Neill.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

The original City Frequencies installation was a live surround-sound audiovisual performance held at the Melbourne Town Hall for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, utilising the sounds and sights of the Melbourne CBD as source material.  In 2004 City Frequencies recorded the conversations of Fitzroy café-goers at Kent Street Cafe, using the tapes to create the Café Voyeur installation.

Shannon O’Neill is a Sydney sound and multi-media artist.  As well as making sound and music under his own name and as Time Being, he has been a member of the groups Wake Up and Listen, The Splinter Orchestra, Plenum, Projek Lansac and Undermind.  Shannon has been a director of the Electrofringe festival, the Disorientation series and the Sydney Liquid Architecture festival and is the founder and director of Alias Frequencies, an organisation that promotes and publishes music and media art.  He has written extensively on sound and media art.

WHAT: Random Acts of Elevator Music + Shannon O’Neill
WHEN: Friday October 9, 7.30pm
WHERE: Don’t Look Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd
Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW (426/428 bus)
COST: $10

For further information visit: www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs
www.twitter.com/cityfreqs

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Online Divas is proud to present M I S S B L O G

M I S S B L O G , a bloggers conference dedicated to teaching women how and why to blog!

Speakers include:
Yiying Lu, creator of the twitter fail whale, will talk to us on the importance of twiiter
Samantha Brett, Australia’s favourite blogger
Kate Kendall, online editor from marketing magazine
Alex Brooks from renovation rescue, SMH’s leading real estate blogger
Hollie Turner – taking you on a beginners guide to blogging for your business survival

For Info visit: http://www.miss–blog.blogspot.com

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World Bank breaks rules in lending to palm oil companies

Campaign groups call for a suspension on lending to palm oil plantation developers after critical internal audit. The World Bank has admitted errors in its procedures for lending money and safeguarding against social and environmental abuses.

An internal audit found the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) had mis-categorised loans to the Wilmar Group, one of the world’s largest producers of palm oil and based in Indonesia.

Loans that should have been classified as higher risk were listed as ‘low-risk’ thereby avoiding more comprehensive social and environmental checks.

The Palm Oil industry has been linked to the large-scale destruction of forests in Indonesia – endangering wildlife and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

More from The Ecologist

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Rupert Murdoch is set to charge online readers for news content – but how do you make people part with their money?

Cash for clicks – Kevin Anderson asks what can be learned from the music, video and games industries.

With the recession cutting into profits at News Corp, Rupert Murdoch (sic) has had a change of heart about charging for content online. In 2005, he predicted that the future of content on the internet would be driven by advertising. Now, he believes that if people want their news online, they will have to pay for it.

More people than ever are reading news on the internet, but organisations have yet to find a way to translate those huge audiences into the kind of revenues they had in print. A handful of newspapers, most of them financial papers such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, have instituted digital subscriptions – it is as yet undetermined whether the FT’s introduction of a pay-per-view model next summer will replace or exist in conjunction with its subscription service – and the New York Times charges per article for premium content in its archives. But the planned standalone Sunday Times site will be a trial run for general news providers – and with the advertising market dropping, Murdoch is not alone in looking to charge for online content.

But to what extent are users prepared to pay for it? Music, television and film studios, along with newspapers and magazines, are looking for ways to generate revenue from the web. While some consumers seem prepared to pay for premium content and convenience, most industries still haven’t found the magic formula to convince enough of them to do so. Are there any lessons that the various media can learn from one another?

More from The Guardian

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