You were in my Dream – online interactive artwork #geekgirl

You were in my Dream – online interactive artwork

You Were In My Dream is an online interactive artwork that invites you to leap and cavort with some crazy characters in a bizarre ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ animation. Turn on your webcam for some seriously hysterical identity theft!

Work by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine

Life In A Day a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you #geekgirl

One World. 24 Hours. 6 Billion Perspectives
Saturday July 24, 2010
www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On Saturday July 24 you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator) and directed by Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void).

The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and on YouTube. If your footage makes it into the finished film, you’ll be credited with as a co-directors and you could be one of 20 contributors heading to Sundance for the premiere.

Open Call: Learn to Play – Call For Proposals – Build Your Own World #geekgirl

Submission Deadline 31 July 2010 :: Cupertino, USA

Are you a game maker? Are you telling compelling stories about your life or the world around you? Are you doing interesting things through games and interactivity that cannot be done elsewhere? Learn to Play is calling for submissions around games as art on the theme ‘build your own world’. Learn to Play will be opening this fall as parallel programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

http://learn.toplay.us/

Interactive Sound Exhibition – constellation: a durational chamber work: Liquid Architecture #Melbourne

“constellation: a durational chamber work” by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey at Red Gallery (North Fitzroy, Melbourne) is a set of performance interruptions that occur daily during the exhibition period, accumulating over the entire period. On the first day, one piece is performed. By the last day, all pieces are performed.

Madeleine and Tim commissioned a collection of composers to create new work to become part of a larger piece, responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Artists created a collection of objects, scores, instructions, installations and video which Madeleine and Tim have assembled into an interactive sound exhibition, a chamber orchestra of sound. constellation imagines these entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of people in the process of creation. constellation is supported by the New Music Network, Liquid Architecture and Arts Victoria.

Runs until July 17th, 2010 – check website for more info:

For more information on constellation – including performance times
For all Liquid Architecture programs and event schedules.

Virion – screen based digital art exhibition – Artists Submissions Now Open until July 14th. #geekgirl

Virion July 19 – August 1: Artists Submissions Now Open

Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience throughout Brisbane. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each. All submissions also play on the Virion website. Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represents a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices. Screens include: AXIOM Estate Agents, The Exchange, Blue Lotus, Urban Dental, Health Stream Fitness Club, QUT Health Clinics – Podiatry and Optometry, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, the Creative Industries Precinct, H‐Block Gallery and The Edge.

Online Artist submissions are now open.
To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.

‘the creative class doesn’t exist’ #arts #artspace #cognitivecapitalism

‘the creative class doesn’t exist’
With Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos
Location: Artspace

In Sydney for one public event only: Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos in dialogue on artists, precarity and collective experimentation.

The changing boundaries between work and leisure, the conquering of distance via tele-technologies and the exponential expansion of the culture industries in the late twentieth century are supposed to have created a new ‘creative class’. People who work in the media, the Internet, museums and the entertainment industry seemingly comprise this engine-room of neoliberalism. Yet the segmented and differential nature of these industries generates a situation where most artists, for example, declare an income from their activities that falls below the poverty line. Contrary to the idea that the creative class embodies the values and privileges of the expanding creative industries, many artists and art workers instead find themselves in the same boat as intermittent, casualised and precarious workers.

In this conversation between the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato and the artist Angela Melitopoulos, a space opens up for questioning the current place of artists and of ‘creativity’ within cognitive capitalism. They discuss the contradiction deep at the heart of creative industries and contemporary cognitive capitalism: the erasure of non-productive time, which is precisely the time required for creation to take place at all. They debate the question, initiated by Marcel Duchamp, of how ‘an-artist’, rather than the Artist, might function to open up new ways of feeling, doing and saying and of experimenting with new institutions that might promote different forms of collective creation.

Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher who lives and works in Paris. Among his recent publications are: Lavoro immateriale. Forme di vita e produzione di soggettivita (1997); Videofilosofia. Percezione e lavoro nel postfordismo (1997); Tute Bianche. Disoccupazione di massa et reddito di cittadinanza (1999); Post-face à Monadologie et sociologie (1999); Puissance de l’invention. La psychologie economique de Gabriel Tarde contre l’economie politique (2002); Les Revolutions du capitalisme (2004).

Angela Melitopoulos, is an time-based artist, realizes video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces and curates exhibitions and seminars. Her work focuses on duration and mnemonic micro-processes in documentation. Her work has been shown in many international video and film festivals, exhibitions and museums (Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York). Currently she is a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in the University of East London.

6 July 2010, 6:00pm
ARTSPACE

T: +61 2 9356 0555
F: +61 2 9368 1705
artspace@artspace.org.au

Semantic Clutter – 11 sound and new media artists #Melbourne #liquidarchitecture

Semantic Clutter is the creative detritus as generated throughout the artists work process. It is their fleeting ideas, forgotten moments of genius and experimental experiments that fall by the wayside during their pursuit of the elusive final piece.

In alignment with the Liquid Architecture ethos, eleven Sound and New Media Artists will inhabit West Space Gallery over a period of 17 days to question, construct and collaborate amongst themselves. Punters are invited to experience their Semantic Clutter on a first-hand basis via a range of openhouse events. These include opening and closing night performances, alternating exhibitions and an unlocked rehearsal door where you may stumble across a “Work In Progress”.

Selected artists include:

Martin Kay
Kit Webster
Alister Mew
Kirri Buchler
Tessa Elieff AKA Tattered Kaylor
Matt Tierney AKA M Leaf Tierney
Lizzie Pogson
James Wright
Paul Candy
Adam Hunt

Opening Drinks: Thursday July 1^st 5–7pm, free entry

Closing Performance: Saturday July 17^th, $5 entry

Semantic Clutter will run from July 1^st to July 17^th inclusive. Detailed programs with Who/When, Performance/Exhibition times/Opening hours are available online at http://www.westspace.org.au/ and http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/

Flyers will be lurking at West Space gallery and other Liquid Architecture events.

Soda_Jerk ‘After the Rainbow’

2010 Emerging Writers Festival – Friday 21 – Sunday 30 May #Melbourne

Venues: The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas Melbourne Town Hall ● State Library of Victoria ● City Library ●Federation Square  

Bookings:  www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au

New Festival Director Lisa Dempster is thrilled to announce the the program for the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival, Australia’s only literary event dedicated to writers of all ages and styles.

2009 saw 6000 people attend the festival’s 15 sell out events with 300 writers, performers, publishers and mentors contributing to the event. In 2010, the EWF will double in size, curating 30 events and featuring 350 writers and artists as the festival stretches the definition of writing styles to include song writing, copywriting, poetry, prose fiction, comedy, writing for video games, journalism, screenwriting, theatre, experimental writing forms, memoir, blogging, opinion, comic writing and more.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival highlights will include:

First word – BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, 7.30pm, Friday 21 May
The Emerging Writers’ Festival burst into life by presenting the best of the festival – exciting new works by emerging writers, a Call to Arms by romantic fiction writer Toni Jordan, and a comic debate asking  ‘Love Vs Angst – what makes a better writer?’ Come and feel the love!

Zine Bus – various locations, 11am to 5pm Saturday 29 May NEW EVENT 
All aboard the world’s first mobile zine fair! Travelling the streets of Melbourne and culminating in a guerrilla zine market  at Federation Square, the zine bus will be fully stocked with independent emerging zines, with the most innovative displays of art, creativity and DIY ever to take to the streets!

Twitterfest – twitter.com/emergingwriters – May 24 – 28 , 2pm daily  NEW EVENT
Taking the Emerging Writers’ Festival to the world. Daily throughout the festival, Twitterfest will host discussions and interview writers… on Twitter! It’s social media mixed with literary debate – jump online to join the discussion. Hosted by writers from across Australia.

Wordstock – BMW Edge – 7.30pm Thurs 27 May
New work inspired by the songs of AC/DC. With songs, comedy, short plays and performance pieces, rock n roll will be given a different sort of spotlight. A one night only event and a performance highlight of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Wordstock will reveals a whole new side of AC/DC. It will blow your mind (like dynamite.)  Hosted by iconic Melbourne rocker Clem Bastow.

You Can’t Stop The Musing: Disco Lecture – Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St Tues 25 May, 6pm NEW EVENT
Everybody knows disco is fun. But is it good for you? Now that Disco is back (trust us, it is), the time has come to determine, once and for all, whether it’s part of the problem or part of the solution. *Triple J’s Craig Schuftan *presents the case for and against in You Can’t Stop the Musing – the world’s first Disco-lecture. Expect to hear from The Silver convention, The Chic Organisation and the Frankfurt School

48-hour play generator – Malthouse Theatre – 5.30pm, Sunday 24 May
Six (somewhat) rehearsed readings. Six emerging playwrights are given just two days to write a new play each. Teamed with an established director and team of actors, the results are presented on a Sunday evening of madcap and totally raw theatre. Previous 48 hour plays have developed into full length works.

In the Pub series – 26 May 7.30pm, The Workers Club Fitzroy
I Write What I Want, When I Want. We lift the shroud on the mystery of freelance writing. Our freelance experts talk about their journeys as freelancers, the ups and downs as well as their secrets to success. From journalism to comedy, our panellists will entertain and enlighten. Panellists: Chris Flynn, Ben Pobjie and more. Hosted by Joanna Brookfield. 

The Page Parlour – The Atrium @ Federation Square, 12 to 5pm, Sunday 23 May
Featuring over forty stalls selling everything from posters to books, literary journals to hand-crafted stories – all the good stuff that you won’t find in Borders. The Page Parlour is an independent press fair gathering the undiscovered, the underground, the obscure and the amazing all in one convenient market location.

Town Hall Program – Melbourne Town Hall, 9am to 5pm, May 29 – 30
A range of panels, interviews and conversations about the art, craft and business of being a writer.. Covers all styles of writing, from prose fiction, to song writing, theatre, video games, copywriting, poetry, comedy and more! Guests include: Michi Girl, Guy Blackman, Benjamin Law, Patrick Cullen, Jill Jones, Sean Riley, Julian Shaw, Katherine Charles, Declan Fay, Tom Taylor, Mel Campbell, Jeff Sparrow, Steph Bowe, Jan Sardi, and many, many more!

Miss Despoina’s Hackspace Hobart – opening up the hood. #gurls #geekgirl

Our 2nd workshop 2010 – 17 April. Saturday 10:00 – 16:00
Moonah Arts Centre 65 Hopkins St   Moonah TAS 7009

All info @

Most of us work with computers one way or another processing programmes and surfing the net, but how often does someone not familiar with computers look inside the case and touch things?

After we pull apart the old computer hardware and name it, what then? This workshop is about making accessories with old computer electronics, mobile phones, tape recorders, even kitchen appliances.

Transform these old favourites into trinkets, wearables and all the while learn about computer or machine hardware.

Hardware is a mystery, may seem difficult but is actually a lot of fun. While involved in hand-on demolition and reconstruction learn about masters and slaves, the difference between memory and storage and the components of your computer.

Workshop involves:
Opening the guts (taking stuff apart
Fishing for components (choosing trinkets)
Making a wearable, (and even functioning), accessory
 

Things to bring:
An object to dismantle (and re-incarnate)
A piece of clothing to modify (optional)
Tools eg drills, screwdrivers, pliers (some will be provided)
Want to know more?

Want to be involved? http://sistero.org/mdhhh/