Venice: The Invisible Pavilion at the Venice Biennale #invisible #geekgirl

THE INVISIBLE PAVILION

The Invisible Pavilion [http://tinyurl.com/424yt54] is a non-invitation, experimental, hallucinatory augmented reality experience that will run for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale (1 June – 30 November 2011) as a squatted stage on which a performance flow of artworks will fill the whole area of the Giardini. Anyone with a smart-phone (iPhone or any other Android-based phone and Layar) will be able to move around the traditional pavilions in the Giardini area of the Biennale and see, through their phone screens, another immaterial/invisible exhibition.

1 June – 30 November 2011

Call Out Spain: Vida 13.2 Arts and Artificial Life International Awards #geekgirl

Fundación Telefónica announces the Vida 13.2 Art & Artificial  Life International Competition [http://tinyurl.com/5umdxxb], which for the last twelve years has  awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums  offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life. The  projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on  the notion of life through current research and technology. Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary  projects that respond to new development in Artificial Live.

Deadline: 27 July 2011

Extended deadline:  7 August

Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat #novel #launch #Melbourne #geekgirl

Dear Geekgirl,

The Australian book launch for new novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is all sewn up for Wednesday August 10th @ the Miss Libertine gallery For Walls in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD: http://www.misslibertine.com.au/

The event will take place from 7:00pm to 10:00pm, and I’ll be coming down from Tokyo to do a reading, Q&A session and book signing. We’ll also be showing visuals and playing audio influences from the novel – including noir and classic cinema stuff.

Backtracking a bit to fill you in, my name is Andrez Bergen and I’m an expat Aussie journalist/musician (from Melbourne) who’s been ensconced in Tokyo these past 10 years.

My novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat was  just published as a paperback, and I’ve attached a copy of the Kindle & iPad digital media promo files for you in case you’re interested in a peek.

So what’s the book all about, in a tightly-wound nutshell?

Think sci-fi/noir/post-apocalyptic tones set in Melbourne, Australia as the last city in the world. Melbourne, after all, is my home town. But it’s also heavily influenced by Japan, a country I’ve lived in for the past 10 years, and the novel also owes about 60% of its content to classic noir cinema.

We’ve been getting fantastic feedback from people at The Age, Vice magazine, Impact, Lip mag, Farrago, ABC Radio National, etc – you can check out the praise here: http://tobaccostainedmountaingoat.weebly.com/praise.html

It’s also the July Book-Of-The-Month at the Chuck Palahniuk website The Cult.

The novel is now available direct from Another Sky Press in America or via Amazon, and has been distributed to independent (physical) bookstores.

Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat

All the best,
Andrez Bergen

=== GOSUB10-004 – expr~ === expr~ from 0xA is GOSUB10′s fourth release. #geekgirl

0xA is a band made not out of people, but objects and patches. Snippets of codes that bleep and blink are added and modified in the online repository, where it all began. As the repository grows, 0xA evolves with it. Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee and Olivier Laruelle are the current active contributors. They have performed 0xA across Europe, North America and Asia in galleries, clubs and festivals.

expr~ is the first music release of 0xA, consists of retro sounding tracks made almost entirely with the [expr~] object in Pure Data. No tweaking of number boxes and sliders, no clever generative algorithms, just switch the audio on and listen.

URL: http://gosub10.org/GOSUB10-004.html

The source code for this release (implemented in Pure-data) is free software distributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 or greater). For repository, see:  http://gitorious.org/0xa

Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License.

Experimenta collaborates with Signal and Melbourne #Jazz Festival to bring Young Urban #Mesh Workhouse

If Melbourne were a work of art, what would it be? A graffiti-covered wall, or video installation? Or maybe a free-form saxophone solo? To capture the textures, sounds and shapes that make up Melbourne, SIGNAL is hosting the Urban Mesh Workhouse, bringing together artists and young urbanites to mesh their creativity. Actors, architects, animators – the workhouse will feature leading artists from different fields in six three-day sessions running from April to September as part of a collaborative project with the Melbourne [Jazz Festival] and [ Experimenta]. Young people are invited to drop in for a single session, or come back for all six, to make your mark on the final work, to be exhibited as the Urban Mesh Manifestation. Check out [SIGNAL] for details on all workhouse sessions and a list of artists participating inthe 6 sessions including Experimenta Utopia Now artist Rowan McNaught and Experimenta Commissioned artists Isobel Knowles and Jesse Stevens.

All Workhouse sessions run Friday 6 – 9pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am -  4pm

Check out the websites for more details!

Mardi Grass Mind Candy #Nimbin #hippies #pot #maryjane #woohoo #geekgirl

Mardi Grass Mind Candy
Midday – 6pm Saturday 30 April
NIMBIN TOWN HALL

MCs: Miss Guidance, Neil Pike & JulianR
…
Join Pragmatic Visionaries & Solipsistic Psychonauts for an afternoon of Debate, Discussion & the Occasional Stoned Rave

Outrageous Truths & Believable Lies!

Mind candy? Afternoon distraction or hours of brain bending banter? You decide! This year the Nimbin Mardi Grass is playing host to a series of panel discussions to be held in the Town Hall from midday to 6pm on Saturday 30 April, focusing on the big issues: the legal, medical, spiritual, cultural & political aspects of plant life. For this reason we’ve assembled a cast of academics, intellectuals, professionals, politicians, public servants, activists, hippys, poets, career bullshit artists and just plain ol’ troublemakers to stir the pot (as it were).

Mardi Grass Mind Candy is excited to announce that Paul Cubitt, President of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition [LEAP] Australia will speak on our panel discussing policing choices. The panels will also feature international guest speaker, Dr Robert Melamede, CEO and President of Cannabis Science, Inc., as well as Australian drug law reform luminaries, Sandra Kanck, SA spokesperson for Families and Friends of Drug Law Reform, Prof Paul Wilson, Chair of Criminology, Bond University, and Dr Alex Wodak, President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation. A full listing of our other magnificent speakers appear in the program below.

Whilst we recognise the ultimate futility of spending too much time trying to talk about what is essentially a non-verbal experience (getting high), there’s also quite a few pot-related topics that do need some discussion:

Midday – 1pm
THE GREEN GODDESS
Entheogenic cultures can increase benefits and reduce risks, offering a different approach to Western-style legal regulation
FACILITATOR: Dr Des Tramacchi
PANELISTS: Greg Kasarik [Community of Infinite Colour], Frank Kirk, Dr Bob Melamede [Cannabis Science, Inc.]

1 – 2pm
POLICE FORCE OR POLICE SERVICE?
What is good policing? What choices do police have?
FACILITATOR: Prof Paul Wilson, Bond University
PANELISTS: Steve Bolt, Paul Cubitt [Law Enforcement Against Prohibition], Dr John Jiggens, Sandra Kanck [Families and Friends of Drug Law Reform], Dr Alex Wodak [Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation]

2 – 3pm
BONG ON AUSSIE, BONG ON ~ DID CANNABIS CULTURE GET DUMBED DOWN?
Is anyone still getting high or are we just getting wasted?
FACILITATOR: JulianR
PANELISTS: David Hallett, Greg Kasarik [Community of Infinite Colour], Frank Kirk, Dr Bob Melamede [Cannabis Science, Inc.], Neil Pike [Pagan Love Cult], Alan Salt [HEMP Embassy]

3 – 4pm
LEGISLATING FOR LEGOLAND?
How do we react to drug policy?
FACILITATOR: Erik van Keulen
PANELISTS: Stephanie Clerc [Happy High Herbs], Mulga, Jake Potkonyak, [Students for Sensible Drug Policy], Torsten Wiedemann [Koda Phytorium]

5 – 6pm
HOW TO LEGALIZE DRUGS?
How can we proact in the drug policy discourse?
FACILITATOR: Erik van Keulen
PANELISTS: Tony Bower [Mullaways Medical Cannabis Pty Ltd], Dr Graham Irvine, Sandra Kanck [Families and Friends of Drug Law Reform], Dr Andrew Katelaris, Joe King, Dr Alex Wodak [Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation]See More

Saturday, April 30 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
(be there or be straight!)

Newstweek #remote #manipulate #news #geekgirl

New project by Danja @k0a1a.net whose started a ‘critical engineering’ movement with Julian Oliver.

Newstweek is a small, innocuous device allowing remote agents to manipulate the news read by other people on wireless hotspots.

Danja and Julian are pleased to announce a new video about Newstweek, outlining the project’s technical and tactical extents.

The Newstweek project page is here:  http://newstweek.com

You can find it here: http://vimeo.com/21707290

IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME EXHIBITION #Melbourne #RMIT #geekgirl

Acting as an electronic mirror, video has occupied a unique role in the way artists have explored changing notions of selfhood. It’s Not You, It’s Me illustrates a varied and exciting approach to performative video, self-representation and roleplay. Works by Wil Box, Clare Rae, Dominic Redfern and Cassandra Tytler will be displayed at the RMIT Project Space Spare Room.

Until 21 April 2011

Craft Cubed Satellite Event Call Out #craft #HYBRID #geekgirl

Craft Cubed is Craft Victoria’s annual festival. The event promotes experimental, skilled and ideas-based craft and design and provides a broad platform for participation and exchange across the entire craft and design community. Craft Victoria invites applications for national satellite events including exhibitions, installations, open studios, workshops, and other projects that take place during the festival period. The theme for Craft Cubed 2011 is HYBRID. Recognising the fluidity essential to experimentation, the theme will explore collaboration, new technologies, cross-disciplinary practice and emerging forms of craft and design.

The Super Maker project will see The Social Studio transform Federation Square’s Atrium into a magical tent featuring dynamic textile design. The Social Studio is a creative space in Collingwood that incubates fashion design talent from new and emerging migrant communities, creating employment and training opportunities.

Apply here.
Application deadline: 30 April 2011

Low Lives 3 – International Call for Proposals #performance #geekgirl

Deadline: March 20, 2011

About Low Lives:
Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work.

Important Dates:
March 20, 2011: Submission deadline
April 1, 2011: Artists notified on selection
April 29, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 1 – 8:00pm – 11:00pm (U.S. EST)
April 30, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 2 – 3:00pm – 6:00pm (U.S. EST)

More info & Updates
For additional information please see www.lowlives.net