Call for Submissions :: #Siggraph 2012

Siggraph 2012 :: 5 – 9 August 2012  Los Angeles, USA
39th International Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques
Call for Submissions :: Various closing dates for different categories
The SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience including a three-day commercial exhibition that attracts hundreds of exhibitors from around the world. SIGGRAPH is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. In addition to SIGGRAPH’s leading-edge technical program, the conference’s installations provide close-up views of the latest in digital art, emerging technologies, and hands-on opportunities for creative collaboration. Catagories still open for submission include Emerging Technologies (closes 21 February 2012), Panel Discussions and Poster presentations (closes 21 February 2012), Computer Animation Festival (closes 9 April 2012) and Siggraph Dailies (closes 1 May 2012).

http://s2012.siggraph.org

The Body is a Big Place #installation #art #Sydney #geekgirl

Installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest

The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.

November 4 – 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am – 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh/Redfern, Sydney, Australia
www.performancespace.com.au

Subsonic Music Festival__ :: Call for Artists_ #deepspaceelectronicmusic #subsonic #geekgirl

Exhibit & participate in the Subsonic Festival :: Applications close 31 October 2011
Subsonic Music Festival will be held 2 – 4 December 2011 in the picturesque surrounds of Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort, Barrington Tops, Northern NSW. Dedicated to deep space electronic music, Subsonic brings together a line-up of international artists in an immersive, multi-sensory environment with an unconventional edge.  The festival is  looking for creative people (18yrs+) who have amazing, large-scale artwork and crazy roaming performances that they would like to display on the green, verdant landscape of Barrington Tops. These may include sculptors, LED artists, performers, installation artists, painters, graffiti artists, video artists, carpenters and costume designers.  If you are creative but don’t want to submit your own artwork, you can sign up for volunteer art team.
http://www.subsonicmusic.com.[20]au/

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

Artist call out to participate in Splendid #ArtsLab #collaboration #geekgirl

WHO
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Calling creatives of all stripes who have an inquisitive mind, an innovative approach and a desire to collaborate to participate in the 2011 Splendid program.

Splendid is open to artists (under 30 years or in the first 5 years of their practice) who work in the visual arts, theatre, dance, design, installation, architecture, digital media, sound, text and other creative pursuits.

WHAT
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We are seeking the next generation of young and emerging artists to participate in a 3 week intensive residency to dream up ideas
and create work for festival audiences.

The Splendid program offers participating artists opportunities to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment that encourages critical thinking and experimentation. “Splendid is attractive because you are dreaming up ideas while having to apply them to a real life rampaging rock context.” – Willoh S. Weiland, Splendid Artist 2010.

The Splendid program includes a residential Arts Lab, mentorship and opportunities to tour your work to major festivals around the world.

Collaborations and ideas conceived in the Arts Lab may enter a 4 month consultation and development period. Project proposals will then be submitted for presentation at Splendour in the Grass 2012.

The Lab will be facilitated by leading local and international artists including Fernando Llanos (Mexico – video art), David Clarkson (innovative physical theatre), Natalie Jeremijenko (USA - environmental art & design), Craig Walsh (site-specific projections), Paul Gazzola (Berlin – collaborative practice), Técha Noble, The Kingpins (art direction and performance) and more. Successful applicants to the 2011 Splendid program will:* Attend the Arts Lab from Monday 25 July to Friday 12 August, 2011.

* Participate in artist talks and a festival symposium.
* Receive tickets to Splendour in the Grass 2011.
* Submit a concept proposal for a new work to be commissioned by
Splendour in the Grass.
* Be given a fee to cover accommodation, travel and incidentals.

Still unsure of what we’re about? Come along to one of our briefing sessions. Meet people who have been through the Splendid program. We’ll let you know what Splendid is, why we do it and what we’re looking for from artists around the country. Find out when we’re visiting your city [http://www.splendid.org.au/events.shtml].

WHERE
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The 2011 Splendid Arts Lab residency will take place over 3 weeks in Lismore, NSW and the surrounding (rainbow) region and will include attendance at Splendour in the Grass at Woodfordia, QLD.”Different regions inspire people in different ways and to
escape the city and work in the country where the stories are different and the landscape is bigger can often be an inspiring change for artists.” – Julian Louis, Artistic Director of NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) and producing partner of Splendid.

WHEN
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Monday 25 July to Friday 12 August 2011

HOW
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Complete the Splendid 2011 Application Form. Download it HERE
[http://www.splendid.org.au/documents/application_form.pdf].

Elusive Light exhibition #WA #wabi-sabi #arts #geekgirl

Elusive Light by Stephen Armitstead & Lia McKnight…Exploring many meanings of the word light, using objects, photography, video and sound.

Exhibition runs until 10 April 2011. Artist talk 2nd April.
Heathcote Museum & Gallery (Western Australia)

elusive-light

This exhibition of work by Lia McKnight and Stephen Armitstead is about turning glimpses into long looks. It is about finding beauty in the fragile and transitory, and then trying to hold it for long enough so everyone can see it. It is about revealing the contradictions between our aesthetic observations and their ultimate expression as art. At the heart of all art practice that gives form to ideas there are contradictions They are the intractable relationship of opposites that are at the centre of our attempts to unravel what we observe and then explain to the world.

Light is at the heart of this exhibition, but not the constant, steady illumination that we associate with naturalistic painting. In naturalism the assumption is that the world is stable and ordered and that art’s great task is to reveal that to us. Naturalism emphasises the solidity of objects, their permanence, and by implication, their authority; but as soon as one grasps the artful contradictory fiction of naturalism – for the world isn’t stable and permanent – we are free to explore other ways in which the complexities of the world can reveal themselves. This exhibition encourages us to look at the world differently, to appreciate the seemingly inconsequential and to gain pleasure in unravelling how we have learned to look. It is in this way that we can re-imagine how the world can be understood.

The artists have drawn widely on a set of experiences about ideas and materials that are contemporary, but a contradiction of art making is that the present can be understood by looking backwards over its shoulder at what happened in the past. A thousand years ago in China, the poet and critic Su Shi wryly observed the futility of trying to understand the value of art in terms of how it did or didn’t resemble the world.

For Su and others like him, the world had to be transformed by the artist through a work of art that revealed how the artist had been touched, physically and emotionally, by the world. This is a contradiction as big as naturalism’s but it gives us another perspective on how to understand how McKnight and Armitstead are working. McKnight has been drawn to the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-sabi where beauty is found in the fragility and transience of the materials and the combination of hopefulness and sadness.

Invisible by Night – Part of the Mortality Exhibition at ACCA #Experimenta #Melbourne #mortality #geekgirl

Sydney artist Lynette Wallworth was commissioned by Experimenta in 2004 and this year is part of Mortality, an exhibition showcasing some of the world’s leading artists who explore life’s journey from the moment of lift-off to the final send-off, which is being presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Invisible by Night is an interactive projection that evokes the personal stories of the people interred at Melbourne’s Princes Bridge Morgue (where the Melbourne Visitors Centre now stands) between 1871 and 1888.

runs until – 28 November, 2010
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC
FREE!

epi-thet AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #mixedmedia #geekgirl

EXPERIMENTA PRESENTS

epi-thet, by Melbourne artists Madeline Flynn, Tim Humphrey and Jesse Stevens, is a mixed media sound installation activated by the audience.  epi-thet uses data from public domain genetic databases to create sound and image. Using an algorithm that maps data from the genetic process to sound parameters, and information drawn simply from posture, a composition unique to  each individual participant is created.

Within the cavernous space of the Meat Market, three microscopes sit on platforms waiting for the audience to bring them to life. Hidden within each microscope is a tiny animation, an enticing assembly of images and words that we use to describe ourselves and each other. By approaching the platforms, audience members activate their own captivating sound and light experience that is created from the viewer’s height and posture. Just as our genetic makeup determines what makes us individual, how we move as individuals affects how we experience the intriguing work epi-thet.

Inspired by an ANAT Synapse Residency with Dr Shane Grey at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, musicians and composers Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey have been working since 2008 on the sonification of research data, making it possible to hear as well as see a representation of the genetic process.

Experimenta is pleased to present this project as part of the
Melbourne International Arts Festival

Arts House, Meat Market
5 Blackwood Street
North Melbourne, 3051
until Saturday 23 October, 2010
1pm – 9pm. FREE!

Feature artist Nicole Tattersall #surfboards #melbourne #arts #geekgirl

Based in Melbourne, Australia Nicole Tattersall is a self taught artist whose works vary in mediums such as stencil art, watercolour, ink and installation. Her main source of inspiration is mother nature coupled with the city lights of Melbourne. Throughout her school life she excelled in art and graphics, though it wasn’t until late 2004, 3 years after completing secondary college did Nicole start to create works for placement in galleries and pursue her creative career. 

Nicole’s style has change several times throughout the years from the simple outlines to the urban inspired stencil works and now starting to explore more experimental techniques. Using a selection of mediums, she favours acrylics, pens, markers and spray cans.

Being passionate about animal rights has lead Nicole to create works for WSPA Australia and to aid in their campaigns, with her own works or by being an advocate by speaking about issues.

Using her Events Management skills Nicole has curated and organised a selection of group exhibitions and art events; Random Collective, Art On Your Sleeve, Street Art For Ashes, Melbourne Curvy 6 book launch at Magnation and Split Personalities, a duo show she did with fellow artist Megan Dell.

Artist Statement
“I create works in various mediums that lend themselves to convey the context of the piece and the overall feel of the work, this can be from the innocence and creative minds of two children dressing up as ghosts to the dirty look created to interrupt streets of a busy city. 


Using stenciling as a technique came about when I wanted to start to customise my own surfboards and was exposed to a large variety of applications for stenciling when I visited the Melbourne Stencil Festival in 2006 at Rose St.

In contrast watecolours, ink and charcoal are another preferred medium which allow for a level of naive-ness to be expressed. 

Animal rights, the protection of the environment and the thought of using ones imagination are reoccurring themes in my works and are heavily influenced by my time spent at various beaches, surfing, my family, trips away, the urban jungle of the city and world news”.

Works by Nicole currently reside in private collections throughout Australia as well as Internationally.

jump-surfboard

About the Surfboards
My first major exhibition was “Artsticks 2″ held at the Surfing World Museum in Torquay in 2006. The theme for the exhibition was the surfboard as the canvsa and I had painted various stencils onto a board given to me by friend, which had been snapped at the nose. The board has since been repainted over.

I first got into stenciling as a technique to customise my own surfboards and was exposed to a large variety of applications for stenciling when I visited the Melbourne Stencil Festival in 2006 at Rose St. I’ve since developed and gone beyound the humble surfboard and get friends to paint mine for me now.

When Megan Dell and I were thinking about “Split Personalitoes”, a duo exhibition we had at No Vacancy Gallery in February 2010. I felt it was time to go back to my roots. After doing some asking around I was able to get my hands on some broken boards and started to work out what I wanted to paint on them. “Face & Fringe” is a classic stencil of mine so had to be included. I love my animals and what better than a sea turtle! “Jump” features a girl in bathers jumping off a pier, which is a very beachy thing to do. “Surfing Aisling” is named after a very good friend of mine who I use to go surfing with until she moved north to warmer waters. It features a girl just hanging out on her board, which is what me and her use to do alot together. Chatting about all the things one does over coffee, just in this case in between sets.

I felt that to display the boards properly they needed to be suspended by leg ropes so that their movement would reflect that of a surfers lifestyle.

Patchworked – Solo Show
At Large Gallery
208 High St, Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Exhibition Opening: Friday 17 September 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition: Friday 17 September – Thursday 30 September 2010

Website: www.atlargegallery.com or www.nicoletattersall.blogspot.com

The Collective have returned in 2010 with “Re_Collection” #Melbourne #arts #geekgirl

re_collection 7

“The Collective are a group of seven artists who also are linked by their professional contributions to the museum profession. In this, their second exhibition together, they explore ideas of time, permanence and memory through a  range of media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.

Sarah Edwards tackles notions of status and reverence through the re-presentation of discarded objects, re-establishing their permanent place in memory.  Ben Healley photographically captures the fleeting, forgotten moments of a sleeping city, while Colleen Boyle examines the relationship between time and representation via the heavens. Rod Gray stirs up the memory of our subconscious with his paintings of dreamlike landscapes, whilst Lee-Anne Raymond depicts concepts of time and space via illusion and myth. Brendon Taylor tends a sculptural hand to our fragmented, personal memories, while Sarah Parker toys with ideas of transfiguring the ordinary, re-presenting it as a fragile ceramic object.”

In this, their second collaborative exhibition together, the group present their responses to time, permanence and memory.

Opening night Sept 1st 6-8pm
Red Gallery
157 St. Georges Road,
Fitzroy North, Melbourne
03 9482 3550