Serial Space Time Machine Commission Call Out #experimental #arts #geekgirl

In  2012 Serial Space is introducing a brand new platform for the   development
and presentation of interdisciplinary and experimental art   practices: Time Machine
[http://serialspace.org/events/112/call-out-time-machine/].

Time Machine will be a week long festival of experimental, time-based art taking
place at alternative spaces across  Sydney during 16-29 July. In  the lead-up to
this festival, Serial  Space will offer a number of   commissions and development
residencies for  the creation of new work   to be presented in the festival. Serial
Space is seeking bold, ambitious, experimental and  exciting ideas to support
and  present as part of Time Machine.

Deadline: 19 February 2012

Entries Now Open: The Other Film Festival #disability #cinema #geekgirl

THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL 2012 ENTRIES NOW OPEN!

Yes, it’s on again! Australia’s only disability film festival is calling for films made by, with or about people with a disability or who are deaf.

Films may be any form, genre or length. Click HERE for details about how to enter a film.

New!
All entrants will receive a five-day Festival Pass, including our fabulous Opening Night party. Your film will also receive a title page on IMDb.com, the world’s leading film database.

Entries Close 16 March 2012

About The Festival
Since 2004, The Other Film Festival has screened an international program of outstanding contemporary cinema about the experience of disability. In September 2012, the festival will offer forums on cinema, access and disability-related issues, there will be workshops and opportunities for professional development and some surprise international guests that we will announce closer to the festival.

The festival will continue to lead global-best practice in cinema access. In 2012, all films will be captioned (or subtitled) and audio-described; the festival venue will be fully wheelchair accessible; Auslan interpreters will sign all spoken events; and the program will be available in a range of alternative accessible formats.

» Take me to The Other Film Festival webpage

Santa Fe International New Media Festival – Call for Sumissions #currents2012 #arts #geekgirl

Santa Fe International New Media Festival_ _22 June – 8 July 2012 :: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA :

Call for Sumissions Submissions due 1 February 2012. Digital Dome submissions due 2 March 2012

The 3rd Annual Santa Fe International New Media Art Festival will explore the role of technology and the diverse applicaiotns of New Media in the arts. The Festival will be held in venues throughout Santa Fe including the digital dome facility at the Institute for American Indian Arts. #currents 2012 will also offer panel discussions and workshops and multimedia performances. Submission categories include single channel video, video and sound installations, interative new media, animation, computer/software modulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental or interactive documentary video, digital dome projection, art-gaming and web-art. http://www.currentsnewmedia.org/submissionguidel.html

Gertrude St Projection Festival call out #Melbourne #geekgirl

MELBOURNE: GERTRUDE STREET PROJECTION FESTIVAL 2012 CALL OUT

The Gertrude St Projection http://www.thegertrudeassociation.com/ is calling for proposals for the July 2012 Festival on the theme “Elements”. If you are a projection artist, artist, filmmaker, design professional or student, download an entry form via the Gertrude Association and submit by 5pm, 4 November. Proposals must be for site specific, moving image or still projection installations that respond to buildings or sites along Gertrude Street, Fitzroy,Melbourne,Australia.

Deadline: Friday 4 November 2011
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Kaleidoscope of imagination — Mudfest paper-free – student art festival #Melbourne #Uni #geekgirl

Artist Bree O'Dwyer

About

Mudfest is the University of Melbourne’s student arts and drama festival and in 2011 will run from the 18th – 28th August.  Over 21 years Mudfest has grown to become the largest student arts festival in Australia, and the program includes theatre, creative writing, dance, cabaret, visual art, opera, musical theatre, installation and performance and everything in between! The theme for this year’s festival is the ‘Kaleidoscope of imagination’ - celebrating and showcasing the creative and imaginative talents emerging from the University of Melbourne.

The Mudfest student arts and culture festival has grown to encompass all forms of artistic expression since it began in 1990. Presented every two years by the University of Melbourne Student Union, Mudfest nurtures, encourages and supports new and innovative arts practices amongst the students, whilst also providing them with professional and creative development opportunities.

Ten days of unbridled, back-to-back artwork. It’s by the students, for the students. Show us how you see the world.

Mudfest 2011: 18^th- 28^th August.

For tickets, program details and further information visit: http://mudfest.org.au/

http://twitter.com/#!/mudfest2011

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002347879401

This year Mudfest is also a paper-free festival!!

Hmm… Hand Made Musical Festival #Melbourne #experimental #music #geekgirl

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Curated and organised by dedicated experimental instrument builders Rod Cooper, John Jacobs and Ben Kolaitis, the Hmm… festival celebrates all things handmade in contemporary experimental instrument building and design.

With talks, workshops, performances, makers market and installations Hmm… will showcase unconventional and surprising sound devices from circuit bent toys, handcrafted resonators, hacked TV’s pirate transmitters and fruit controlled synthesizers!

The festival will feature installations and performances from a diverse line-up of renound local, interstate and international experimental sound artists.

Let them help you be the future of sound, it’s in your hands!

Melbourne, 9-28th August 2011

Special performance by electronic poet and Hmm… festival curator John Jacobs.

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John will be performing his experimental comedy on ridiculous cracked robot toys at KIPL – 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne on Saturday evening 20th August

Trouble magazine says: “John Jacobs has been making different types of electronic music in Sydney since the early 1980’s, from industrial noise through to the dance-floor. Deeply involved in the radical politics and strategies of the Post-Punk subculture, John produced experimental radio on SkidRowRadio, 2JJ and 2SER. At the same time he was engineering for ABC Radio National where he now produces the critically acclaimed Night Air and Pool a site for collaborative arts projects.

Committed as always to the DIY spirit of the counter-culture John believes entirely in the benefits of the hands on magic of improvised circuitry. A certain mystical zeal underpins his work, this zeal extending out to the work of his colleagues. He makes instruments that are art-objects fused with comedy, wonder and irony, many integrating into the bodily electronic circuit of the player themselves.”

Other things to check out:

Hacked robots<>, bent toys<>, recycled resonators<>, fruit synthesisers<>, recombinant violins<>, even human circuits, they all make music!

For more information contact: handmademusicfest@gmail.com

The 2011 *Hmm… *(Hand Made Music) festival is a grassroots, maker’s initiative proudly supported by *Next Wave*, *BUS Projects*, *KIPL* and *West Space*.

Splendid Think Tank :: Lismore, NSW :: 4 – 5 August 2011 #artlab #thinktank #geekgirl

Splendid Think Tank :: Keynote Address, Panel Discussions & Public Art Lab _Lismore, NSW :: 4 – 5 August 2011 _

The Splendid Think Tank  is a two-day event bringing together contemporary art practitioners with key festival representatives from across Australia, to explore the risks and rewards of embracing new art, ideas and experience in a festival context.  As a finale showcase event for the Splendid program, the Think Tank is a way to connect with and fuel future collaborations between festival directors and artists.  The Think Tank will explore Splendid Arts Lab as an exportable model for developing conceptually strong, interdisciplinary, large-scale public artworks that are participatory and can be marketed effectively to mass audiences.  Limited spaces are available and bookings are essential.

http://splendidthinktank.org

Poetry in Film Festival #poetry #Melbourne #film #geekgirl

POETRY IN FILM FESTIVAL

Entries Close: September 9
More Info

The Poetry in Film Festival (PIFF) aims to raise awareness and appreciation of poetry in popular culture while showcasing the talents of up-and-coming Australian independent filmmakers. This year, PIFF held a national competition for writers to create a poem on the theme
“communication”. Out of 150 entries the winning poem is “Four Letters, Three Words.” by Belinda Hilton.

Filmmakers are asked to interpret the winning poem into a four to seven minute short film. The PIFF Screening and Awards Night will be held at the Palace Cinema Como in Melbourne. The best films will be shown at the Screening and Awards Night on Sunday October 9 at Palace Cinema Como.

The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival needs your support! #opensource #donate #NZ #geekgirl

The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival needs your support!

The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival will take place on 11th November 2011 (with a bit on the 10th and 12th, depending on where you are in the world).

This is the 5th annual festival of cyberformance in UpStage
// please forward widely – appologies for x-posting //

UpStage is a web-based platform for live, collaborative performance, presenting an annual international festival of cyberformance by artists from around the world. The platform is free and open source, and it’s free for you to attend the festival – online, wherever you are. UpStage is currently unfunded, with everything done by dedicated volunteers.

We are now working towards the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, and we warmly invite you to contribute to our donations campaign. This is to enable us to provide appropriate technical, artistic and organisational support to the wonderful artists whose work has been selected for the festival (for more information about the festival and the artists, visit http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2350).

If everyone who reads this email contributes just 11 [insert your local currency here] we will easily reach our target of NZ$10,000 (that’s about €5000). Whatever amount you are able to donate will make a difference – whether it’s 11, or 111, or more, all donations are gratefully received.

** If you’re a New Zealand tax payer, you can claim a tax rebate on your donation – just ask us for a tax receipt.

To make a donation with a credit card or via PayPal, click here: http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=278

For more information about UpStage and the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, visit http://upstage.org.nz

Thanking you in anticipation, on behalf of the UpStage community,

Helen Varley Jamieson & Vicki Smith

The Carbon Festival plus Ladie Killerz #Melbourne #killerz #hiphop #aerosol #party #geekgirl

BETWEEN APRIL 29TH AND MAY 1ST, MELBOURNE WILL PLAY HOST TO CARBON, AN EVENT THAT BRINGS TOGETHER SOME OF TODAY’S MOST INTERESTING CREATIVE MINDS TO PRESENT, DISCUSS AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH LOCAL AUDIENCES VIA A SERIES OF FOUR DISCUSSION FORUMS, EACH FOCUSED ON A SPECIFIC ASPECT OF CONTEMPORARY STREET FASHION, DESIGN AND CULTURE. THESE FORUMS ARE SURROUNDED BY MULTIPLE SIDE-EVENTS INCLUDING ART SHOWS, PARTIES AND CONCERTS.

Associated with:
Exhibition & Event – Ladie Killerz #4 – VIC
This weekend (April 29th) Footscray hosts the massive event Ladie Killerz #4, and what an event it looks set to be. We caught up on all the details and got a few words from one of the organisers, Joske, and have put together a small run down on the event.

“Ladie Killerz is a weekend long, travelling festival,” Joske remarked. “We’ll be celebrating ladies and their killer skills in all things art, music and film and we’ll be showcasing woman in hiphop, and in particular graffiti. Confirmed aerosol artists currently number at around twenty five, with ladies travelling from; Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide – and many more female artists are submitting work into the art exhibition.”

http://acclaimmag.com/carbon/

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