Bring The Cure to Melbourne #demandit #music #widget #geekgirl

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McLuhan Galaxy 2011 Understanding Media Today #Barcelona #geekgirl

Call for Papers :: Deadline 7 January 2011

The International Conference McLuhan Galaxy Barcelona 2011 Understanding Media,Today will be held in Barcelona 23 – 25 May 2011 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Canadian thinker Marshall McLuhan. The aim is to bring together researchers, scholars and McLuhan Fellows to reflect on different aspects of McLuhan’s contribution. The conference in Barcelona will be networked to a series of conferences that are going to take place in Toronto, Berlin and Rome in other dates, to celebrate the 100 Anniversary of McLuhan.

This is an excellent opportunity not only to review McLuhan’s thought but also to update them in relation to contemporary questions centred in the digital forms of production, co-production and consumption of intelligence, memory, self, identity, desire, body, art, design, collaboration and technology in the society of knowledge. Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers/abstracts to the topics that are being addressed by the conference.

http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net/

Synapse 6 Residencies now open #ANAT #science #arts #geekgirl

Deadline for Applications: 5 pm, Friday 25 February 2011

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creative practitioners and science and research organisations for the 2010 Synapse Residency program. Now in its seventh year, the program is part of the Synapse initiative of the Australia Council of the Arts and ANAT, which supports collaboration between artists and scientists.

Guidelines and application forms can be downloaded at www.anat.org.au

World Aids Day – Take Action. No Discrimination. #dec1 #aids #geekgirl

world aids day

Take Action. No Discrimination
World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December 2010 and this year has the theme, Take Action. No Discrimination.
The global event was established by the World Health Organization in an effort to raise public awareness about HIV issues, including the need for support and understanding for people living with HIV.

www.worldaidsday.org.au

Sydney: Call for artworks for dorkbot group show #dorkbot #geekgirl

Dorkbot Sydney is calling for media and electric works for their exhibition, Dorkbot Sydney Group Show, which will be held at Sydney Artist Run Initiative Serial Space. The aim of the show will be to exhibit work by ‘people doing strange things with electricity’. Submissions should not be limited to artworks only, rather, Dorkbot encourages applicants to picture something between an art exhibition and a science fair.

“PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY”
deadline: 6 December 2010

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!

#ISEA2011 Call for Papers, Panels, Workshops & Artworks #geekgirl

Istanbul, Turkey :: Deadline for submissions
1 December 2010

The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology will be held 14 – 21 September 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. The ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition will coincide with the Istanbul Biennial and will provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase contemporary new media arts.

ISEA2011 invites proposals for panels, artworks, papers and workshops from artists, scientists and academics interested in how the digital and electronic media are re-shaping contemporary society and behaviours.

http://doc.gold.ac.uk/isea2011/

STOPCRUSH.ORG – Ban animal torture videos – stop the sickos!! #fb #HR5566 #geekgirl

Animal “Crush” Video Awareness Week – STOPCrush.org

Monday, November 15 at 12:00am – November 22 at 12:00am
Facebook / The Internet / Your Bed / Your Couch
You DO NOT need to physically show up anywhere

THIS IS A WORLDWIDE EVENT ON FACEBOOK/THE INTERNET. You DO NOT need to physically show up anywhere!

Change your profile picture to an image in support of making ANIMAL CRUSH VIDEOS illegal again. This photo does NOT have to be graphic or even one of ours. With HR 5566 being part of lame duck voting sessions which would make these videos BANNED in the US, this is a very important time and event.

GET PICTURES HERE, OR MAKE YOUR OW…N:
http://www.stopcrush.org/?page_id=9
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41551&id=123901460968753

What are Crush Videos?
Crush videos feature small live animals, such as kittens, puppies, reptiles, mice and rabbits being slowly tortured in the most horrific ways imaginable; including being burnt alive, cut with pruning sheers, nailed to the floor, skinned alive, beaten, stabbed, and having their limbs broken.

All of these videos share a common theme: the animals are incrementally crushed by a woman with high heels/other body parts. Most people view these materials for sexual gratification, but these videos are becoming increasingly popular just for their shock value alone on “gore sites”.

Mess & Noise Bike Fest – curate a night of bands for the upcoming Bikefest #Melbourne #festivals

Mess & Noise:
http://www.messandnoise.com/news/4117764

Bike Fest website:
http://www.melbournebikefest.com.au/

See bicycle parts, frames and components transformed from their typical functionalities into works of art. The Circular Bike comprises donated bicycles from Monash University’s Uni-Cycle bike share scheme. The bikes have been deconstructed from their singular bike form and reassembled to create a single, circular structure that can be ridden and enjoyed by many.

Contrasting the traditional chandelier with the functional form of the bicycle wheel, the Bicycle Chandelier merges the mechanical with the decorative to create a suspended work of art. Created using lights, wheels and aluminium rims donated by Velocity Wheels.

Fest runs (cycles through to): 25th – 28th November, 2010

DMT: The Spirit Molecule documentary and talk – #Melbourne #psychedelics #dimethyltryptamine #geekgirl

The Spirit Molecule flyer

Undergrowth.org and Entheogenesis Australis –  present the 2010 Spirit Molecule documentary Australian tour, with screenings along the east coast in December followed by talks with the writer/director Mitch Schultz.

The Spirit Molecule documentary
(75 mins, 2010, written & directed by Mitch Schultz)
After over 40 years of dormancy, a new psychedelic revolution has emerged.

At the nexus of this next-generation mystical revival, lies a molecule  naturally produced abundantly throughout the plant and animal  kingdoms. Regarded as the world’s most potent psychoactive compound by  scientists and psychedelic explorers alike, dimethyltryptamine (or  DMT) is also naturally produced in the human brain.

In the early 1990s, Dr. Rick Strassman conducted the first government- sanctioned, human psychedelic research with DMT. Dr. Strassman’s  research serves as the narrative backbone for The Spirit Molecule. A  documentary described as a psychedelic Baraka meets What the Bleep do  We Know, the film presents an intriguing discourse on the science of  the soul, and will undoubtedly open Pandora’s Box. By challenging  current misconceptions about this class of compounds, The Spirit  Molecule unravels fascinating parallels in neurology, quantum physics  and human spirituality.

In stylized scenes reminiscent of Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone  bookends, Joe Rogan (Fear Factor), alongside an impressive collection  of accomplished minds and a group of Strassman’s own brave psychonauts  shepherd the audience through the great unknowns of the DMT experience… revealing the molecule’s ubiquitous nature, its role in  our culture, evolution and life itself. Stunning visualizations and highly conceptual imagery intuitively weaves a visual landscape, and a  fascinating snapshot of our understanding of consciousness today.

Could Dimethyltryptamine, a simple molecule with a complex name, hold  the key to understanding reality, consciousness and our relationship  to both?

Many who have experienced DMT profess this, and much more…http://undergrowth.org/spiritmoleculetour

With an exclusive 20-minute short film, “Surfing” by Verb Studios (Tim  Parish), narrated by Rak Razam and soundscapes by Buttons Touching,  based on the book Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

SCREENING: MELBOURNE
Wed December 1st, 9pm to 12pm
CINEMA NOVA P: (03) 9349 5201
380 Lygon Street Carlton VIC 3053

BUY TICKETS here for this event and other Australian screenings:   http://www.showclix.com/

Tickets are AUD $23/20 concession, and advance bookings are essential. http://undergrowth.org/spiritmoleculetour