Critical Animals 2011 – call for #proposals #TINA #geekgirl

Critical Animals

 Critical Animals, a creative research symposium held as a part of This Is Not Art, is now calling for proposals to participate in the 2011 festival.

DEADLINE – APRIL 1, 2011
Critical Animals is a forum for students, researchers, writers, artists, thinkers and curious individuals who are critically engaged with creative and experimental art practices.

It’s an opportunity to present papers and ongoing research, as well as to challenge creative practices and work collaboratively with others in the field. Critical Animals aims to strengthen the links between practice and theory with a flexible definition of research that encompasses creative, experimental, interrogative and practice-lead approaches.

The symposium is particularly interested in promoting crossdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. In assessing your proposal they’ll be looking at how they can program you and your work to form interesting conjunctions with other artists and thinkers.

This year’s symposium will take place over three days, from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October, in Newcastle, NSW. Papers, panels, presentations. Critical Animals are keen to receive proposals from artists and researchers who are investigating or putting into practice specific areas of theory and philosophy. From explorations of form and methodology, to issues impacting on everyday life, they welcome research material and reflections on poetics, politics, aesthetics, practice-lead research, ecological art and ecopoetics, the social implications of art and the overlap between the arts and the sciences.

Experimental and non-traditional presentations are encouraged.

Submit proposals, questions, ideas and concerns to criticalanimals@gmail.com
www.criticalanimals.org

Electrofringe 2011 call for proposals #TINA #Newcastle #geekgirl

Electrofringe is calling for proposals for the 2011 festival as part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) group of festivals in Newcastle. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative uses of technology and electronic art forms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange. Proposals are accepted from a broad range of investigations including cross-disciplinary practice, media-based practice, networked and online collaborations and much more. Visit Electrofringe’s website for more detail and to download and application form.

Proposal deadline []:
31 March 2011

Electrofringe: 29 September – 3 October 2011

#Melbourne: Free Digital Light #Symposium #geekgirl

The Genealogies of Digital Light ARC Discovery Project [] presents Digital Light: Technique, Technology, Creation, a free symposium to be held at the University of Melbourne in March. This interdisciplinary symposium invites a number of leading international and Australian figures working with digital light-based technologies, including two artists previously commissioned by Experimenta, Lynette Wallworth and Van Sowerine.

Digital Light: 18 – 19 March 2011

Mu-Meson Archive March films. My pick – Manufacturing Female Sexual Dysfunction #geekgirl

Monday 7th March
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
Manufacturing Female Sexual Dysfunction

Viagra made billions for the pharmaceutical company that was first to get this product approved by the FDA and then on the market. Well that takes care of half the population. How do the pharmaceutical companies get their hands into the purses of women, they give us  Female Sexual Dysfunction (FDS). Is this a real medical condition or just a marketing strategy to create an illness putting our health and mental well being ahead of the all mighty dollar. Mu-Meson Archives Doors 7.30 for 8pm start  $10

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale (Sydney) at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone (02) 9517-2010

http://www.mumeson.org/

Out the Window: capture Los Angeles in two minutes #freewaves #riders #LA #geekgirl

OUT THE WINDOW
http://www.freewavesopencall.org/

What do you know about Los Angeles?   Want to share your knowledge on TV?

Submission deadline  March 1, 2011
Freewaves is seeking two-minute artists-activists-storytellers’  videos about places in Los Angeles (home, street, hood) to show to I million riders per day on all 2,200 Metro buses in L.A. County in June  and September-October, 2011. On Transit TV we will show animations,  documentaries, narratives and experimental videos about, by and in Los  Angeles.

Entry Form

Bionic Ear Institute Concert :: Interior Design #Melbourne #bionic #geekgirl

Bionic Ear Institute Concert :: Interior Design
Robin Fox’s ANAT Synapse Residency at the Bionic Ear Institute

Robin Fox, one of Australia’s leading audio-visual, sound and computer music artists, worked with researchers from the Bionic Ear Institutes Music and Pitch Project Team to create musical compositions tailored specifically for implant users. His research and collaboration with five other composors will culminate in Interior Design, a concert designed to be enjoyed by both cochlear implant users and audiences with normal hearing.

The Interior Design concert will be held on Sunday 15 February 2011 at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. There are two performances – 5.30 pm and 8.00 pm – and a free lecture for ticket holders (limited space) at 7.00 pm.

 Tickets are available from The Arts Centre.

the dark side of the summer of love #mumesons #film

Cover illustration: Yuko Shimzu

Mu-mesons January program is raucous and revolutionary. Most of the films appeal to me: but the dark side of the summer of love definitely stands out.

Monday 17 January, 2011
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives

The Dark Side of the Summer of Love
The Western World believed revolution was imminent in the 1960′s, obviously they had not looked deep enough into the dark side of the age of Aquarius. Authors such as Gary Lachman and Peter Levenda were well aware that the morning of the magicians was really the night of the living dead. Rolling underneath flower power power was a mystical fascism developed in secret labs and based on occult principles in the search of the control of the human mind. Charles Manson, Anton LaVey and the process Church of the Final judgment to name a few were all utilised by intelligence services to assist Mkultra and other shadowy covert ops.

Mu-Meson Archives
Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale (Sydney) at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase.
Phone 02 9517-2010
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10

Call for New Media Art :: Trafficked Bodies #stopslavery #GAATW #geekgirl

Online Exhibition :: Closes 15 March 2011

In collaboration with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) based in Bangkok, Thailand, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is looking for submissions of digital art for the exhibition Trafficked Bodies in conjunction with the festival theme of Checkpoints for 2011. The call is now open for submissions of new media art, database documentaries, locative and tactical media with a distributed network component, digital video designed for online exhibition platforms, experimental coding, data-visualization applications, experimental archiving, and other web-based media that engage the theme of Checkpoints for FLEFF 2011′s online exhibition, Trafficked Bodies.  One prize of 250USD will be awarded.

The exhibition will go live in April 2011 in conjunction with the festival in Ithaca (New York), USA.  Please send links to submissions with a brief bio in an email to curators Dale Hudson (UAE/USA) and Sharon Lin (UK/Singapore) at digifleff.gaatw@gmail.com

http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff

48Hour #Film Project – #Melbourne #geekgirl

48Hour Film Project – Melbourne
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**Register by November 30**
[www.48melbourne.com.au](http://www.48melbourne.com.au/)

The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) is a wild and sleepless weekend in which film making teams make a short movie in just 48 hours. That means – writing, shooting, editing & scoring it!

Everybody who has access to some camera and editing equipment can take part. For those who don’t have access to gear, we can arrange some hiring deals. We will screen ALL the films at the Big Sceen of the prestigious inner-city BMW Edge, Federation Square, that will be our homebase and screening venue for this year.

You will have the chance to win some sweet prizes & awards.

You can register as a team or find cast and crew using the starnow service.  Jump on boad and have the most exhausting but memorable, funny, sweaty and exciting 48 non-stop film making hours of your life!

The 48 Hour Film Proejct timeline is:

**3.12.10: The Kick Off**
Thats when it gets hot – the 48 hour countdown starts
**5.12.10: The Drop Off**
When you hand in your finished films
**17.12 & 18.12.10: Screenings at BMW Edge Theatre**
Two days in which we show ALL the films
**19.12.10 Awards Night & After Party**
The 12 best films are screened – and get awarded with cool prizes. Plus the after party!

Third Dimension – Arts Project Australia #Melbourne

Terry Williams Not titled (green animal/man)
2010 ceramic
26 x 9 x 8.5cm

Third Dimension runs until – 27 November 2010
Arts Project Australia

A sensorial extravaganza, Third Dimension encourages people to engage with art through touch, sound and sight.

The exhibition invites us to consider alternative ways in which art can engage, excite and inspire.

Participating Artists
Alan Constable, Valerio Ciccone, Paul Hodges, Ruth Howard, Kate Knight, Chris Mason, Kaye McDonald, Cameron Noble, Jodie Noble, Tim Noble, Chris O`Brien, Lisa Reid, Rebecca Scibilia, and Terry Williams.

Curated by artsworkers Katie Jacobs and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman.

Arts Project Australia is a not-for-profit organisation and has been promoting and developing the work of artists with an intellectual disability for 35 years.