HiGH ViZ Vogue – Bike #Fashion Jam #Melbourne #bicycles

DIY cycling gear workshop to keep the cops and the fashion police happy

11:00 – 13:00
Saturday 19 June 2010
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria & Louisa Streets, Coburg

Craft Cartel, alarmed by sights of fluoro lycra clad cyclists and equally aghast at the thought of coming a cropper while partaking in our favourite form of transport, are proud to present a solution: High Viz Vogue, a DIY bike fashion workshop.

This event, part of the Moreland City Council Coburg Carnivale, invites members of the public to adapt helmets and other clothing bits they’d like to make roadway and catwalk friendly, or to start from scratch using supplied materials. Local designers Miss Viz will be on hand to provide guidance and there will be displays of innovative bike fashion solutions such as designer Ann Maher’s ‘biker bustle’.

The event will culminate in a fashion parade with prizes supplied by Crumpler and will be followed by a celebratory ride through Moreland to parade the new hip gear led by Sugar Spokes all female bike crew.

“We don’t think riders should have to choose between having a sore body and being an eye-sore,” says Cartel co-founder Casey Jenkins, “You can look hot while you’re cycling and still keep yourself safe, we’re going to show you how.”

Free! No experience necessary! All materials supplied. Ace prizes to be won.

Produced by Ann Maher, Rahne Widarsito & Casey Jenkins

Media contact: Casey Jenkins, casey(at)craftcartel(dot)com ph.0439 354 560

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Melbourne Craft Cartel
www.craftcartel.com
for crafty types who don’t dig rose-scented doilies

Power Shift 2010 – Youth Summit for Climate Change and #Sustainability

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is a coalition of Australia’s largest youth organisations and over 50,000 young people from across Australia. Their mission is to build a generation wide movement to solve climate change before it’s too late, through bringing about short term political impact and long term cultural change.

AYCC plan an innovative youth summit to be held in  Geelong that hopes to change the way young people see the climate crisis. Offering new skills, connecting with other awesome people and giving you the power to make a difference.

Come to Power Shift 2010 in Geelong from to August 14 to 15.

Why now? Because there will be a federal election in the next few months and at the moment, neither major political party has a strong climate policy.

That’s just not good enough! The AYCC has a positive, achievable vision for Australia’s renewable energy future, and Power Shift will give us the skills to turn this into reality.

Shift the power to a clean, sustainable future, and tell me more about Power Shift 2010.

Power Shift is part conference, part festival, part training, part celebration of the power of young people to change the world, and so much more. Listen to amazing keynote speakers, participate in hands on workshops, connect with people from your region, hear live music and make new friends. Join a generation-wide movement and gain the new skills, resources and networks you need to lead creative climate actions in your community.

AYCC can’t announce the speakers just yet, but last year they had Al Gore (via video), Tim Flannery, Senators Nick Xenophon and Christine Milne and Brooke Satchwell from Neighbours.

The Light in Winter – Federation Square installation

4 June – 4 July 2010, FREE

From large-scale light installations, projections and torch-led tours to Indigenous storytelling and Sudanese hip-hop, The Light in Winter celebrates the warmth of  community and shared cultural experiences.

Directed by Robyn Archer, this free, month-long program also features a new, specially commissioned work, Solar Equation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – one of the world’s greatest installation artists.

The Light in Winter is proudly supported by The City of Melbourne. To find out more about what’s happening in Melbourne this winter, visit www.thatsmelbourne.com.au.

Solar Equation - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

While Lozano-Hemmer has toured the world with his many works, Solar Equation marks his Australian debut. This specially commissioned piece is a faithful three dimensional simulation of the sun that uses live mathematical equations to simulate the turbulence, flares and sunspots on the sun’s surface. MORE

Solar Equation – Julie Renouf

As part of Federation Square’s Environmental Sustainability policy, the energy that is used to power The Light in Winter, the Big Screen and all external events at Fed Square, comes from wind-generated, Green Power.

Oil Painting: The Supreme Discipline of Art. The Oil Slick, the size of Peurto Rico is beginning to paint the coastlines

Digital Oil Paintings: http://UBERMORGEN.COM/DEEPHORIZON

The supreme discipline of art – oil painting – is back. It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people. Ever since, crude oil has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, raising the prospects of a historic environmental disaster. Winds from the southeast have nudged the slick northward, where it floated Saturday near the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi and has begun to paint the coastlines.

Finally oil painting has evolved into generative bio-art, a dynamic process the world audience can watch live via mass media. Never before has this art form been as revelant and visible as today – only 9-11 was nearly as perfect, but in the genre of performance art. An oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million liters of oil – a unique piece of art.

We exclusively use aerial images from the oil spill. The files are ready-mades but we waived our right to use them “as is” and decided to use a special digital technique to produce a statement about the disconnection of form and color and about contemporary and futuristic imaging procedures. We use a compressor (sorenso codec) and consumer video editing-software and manually loop 2 frames,  the image becomes liquid, transforms and deformes. These visualisations represent the “Verkuenstlichung” of nature and the “Vernatuerlichung” of art. Unedited oil-paintings of the event can be found via search-engines, on boston.com or on the NASA Earth Observatory website.

UBERMORGEN.COM are well known for similar projects. What they wanted to achieve with these alienating and retro-visual “web-paintings”, as they call it, is not clear. “Since we work for digital penetration of the art market ” declared Hans Bernhard “we should get used to radical changes of our networked point of view and in particular about new forms of digital painting”.

Social media for sustainability gatherings – free sessions with #Melbourne SM guru Keren Flavell

A recent addition to the networking events calendar is the Social Media for Sustainability meetup run by Keren Flavell. It happens every Thursday evening from 6-7pm at CERES Education Centre (Lee Street entrance), Brunswick, Melbourne.

Get together with people to discuss how social networking sites can help promote sustainability and other social causes.

It’s free to attend and a great way to meet like-minded people and learn something new.

Contact: keren.flavell@gmail.com

Join the meetup crew: http://www.meetup.com/Social-Media-for-Sustainability/

2010 Wetlands Festival celebrates World Migratory Bird Day

2010 Wetlands Festival has been rescheduled and they are seeking expressions of interest from local performers. The event will take place on Sunday, 9th May, 1230 – 5pm, at Nudgee Beach Foreshore, (Australia) celebrating World Migratory Bird Day. This date shares the principles of the original event, World Music for Migratory Waderbirds, as the finale to the 2010 Wetlands Festival. 

Now calling on expressions of interest from performers and musicians interested in being part of this wonderful community celebration. If you would like to be involved, email: sean.marler@brisbane.qld.gov.au

PICNIC OF THE DAMNED – a fond farewell to Kyeemagh beach

Kyeemagh beach, at the mouth of the Cooks River, Botany Bay, has never been a Bondi or Manly, but recently, this small, working class beach has simply disappeared. A victim, not of rising tides and climate change, Kyeemagh beach succumbed to the NSW Government’s desalination juggernaut (whose pipe runs from the plant itself at Kurnell, under Botany Bay to Kyeemagh).

On March 6, 4pm, there’ll be a picnic to commiserate this disappearance, next to this ghostly strip, outside the perimeter of the security fence marking the no-go zone. Bring a picnic basket and blanket, and come dressed a la Picnic at Hanging Rock. Documentation from the picnic will be used for an exhibition in May by Greg Shapley.

WHAT: Picnic of the Damned
WHERE: Near where the beach used to be, next to the Cooks River – opposite General Holmes Drive & O’Dea Ave, Kyeemagh (near Brighton Le Sands), Sydney, Australia
WHEN: Saturday March 6, 4pm-6pm
WHO: Contact Greg Shapley on 0401 152 434 or email gshapley@gmail.com

Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Mobility

Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Mobility
Various Locations :: March 18 – 20, 2010

Revolving around the concept of Sustainable Immobility, the festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. The festival aims to realise the fundamental promise of the information age that communication technologies can replace the need for physical mobility, and thus both contribute to ecological stability as well as a more rewarding both deep-local and translocal life-style. The festival asks audiences and presenters to travel no further than local/regional boundaries to attend.

http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/

Free seminars on social media marketing by Keren Flavell #geekgirl endorsed!

Creator of wholesome media, Keren Flavell is offering free seminars on using social networking for promoting your social cause.

Hosted at CERES Environment Park (Melbourne) from 7PM – 8PM on Thursday evening (Feb 25th & March 4th) – contact Keren to reserve your place!

First session, will focus on how to set-up and use a Facebook Fan Page. The following week she’ll be talking about Twitter and other social networking sites.

Keren is committed to assisting people who are seeking to create positive change in our world. Be part of the magic.!!

http://wholesomemedia.wordpress.com/

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/