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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It’s a jungle in here #interactive #Melbourne #geekgirl

It’s a jungle in here, a new interactive artwork by Melbourne artists Isobel Knowles
and Van Sowerwine, explores the boundaries between what’s ok and what’s not in
everyday encounters. Installed at Screen Space from 14 – 29 October, two participants become performers in a drama in which they have little  control. It follows in the footsteps of their 2010 Experimenta Commission You Were In My Dream which won the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award last year http://www.screenspace.com/screenspace

Network Nerds #Melbourne #geekgirl

MELBOURNE: SIGNAL IS LAUNCHING NEW PROJECT – NETWORK NERDS
Signal is launching it’s new social media program –  Network Nerds. This   project
offers young people the opportunity to work alongside social  media  guru, Craig  Lambie, who will share his knowledge and experience  of social  networking using
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr  and  beyond. The first Workshop will be held Saturday 22 October 2011 from 11am to 3pm and then every Thursday evening from 5 – 7pm until 1 December 2011. Contact Signal http://melbourne.Vic.au/signal

Professor Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture – FREE – Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize? #games #robots #geekgirl

Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize?

An interesting image for 2011. …

A player/character in the most recent Portal game is literally locked out of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant image of the human-computer interface a discussion will emerge to do with broader understandings of the digital humanities, media scholarship, and electronic literature. The focus for this approach will be the question famously posed by Richard Lanham’s: “how do the humanities humanize?”

Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University of Technology) will moderate a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following his presentation.

Date: Monday 10th October, 2011
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm.
Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria 179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3)
Australia

Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literature pioneer, both as a theoretician and as a writer, and has published many of articles on the topic of games, network literature and digital media theory. From 1995-99 he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and he is a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). His hypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary critic Robert Coover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext fiction works Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others. His recent work engages with digital games and its interface with media theory, electronic writing and scandal. His current work in progress is “Sc4nda1 in New Media,” an Arcade Essay that converges philosophical meditation with an actual video game. It can be accessed at http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm.

Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology. This visit has also been supported by the School of Media and Communication, RMIT and Sydney University.

International Kunst Force – Rebecca Power #Melbourne #femart #geekgirl



A series of ink and watercolour of women in the military. The exhibition uses humor, beauty and satire to explore feminist themes.

Showing at ‘Art at St. Francis’ – 326 Lonsdale St, Melbourne runs until Sept 11th, 2011. Mon – Fri 9-5pm or by appointment.

More info rebeccah@rebeccahpower.com

“My ink and watercolour paintings address feminist issues and explore themes such as archaeology and anthropology. The media is used in such a way as to make the most of the expressive appearance of painterly drips and bleeds creating an ‘other worldly’ or ‘dream like’ quality. I also create special site-specific murals painted directly onto a wall that provides context for my works and reinforce their meanings.” Rebecca Power

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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*.

Animal welfare & compassion in world farming activist Peter Stevenson guest lectures in Australia in August.

Victorian (Melbourne) date promoted here: but you can also view dates around Australia at the Voiceless website.

As a leading European expert on animal welfare, Peter describes Australia’s live export trade as “the world’s worst”. He explains that conditions in Indonesian abattoirs could not have improved in just one month and that the resumption of trade was met with shock in Europe.

In Australia for Voiceless’s Animal Law Lecture Series, Peter discusses European Union (EU) bans on some factory farming practices and how this cruelty continues in Australia. He suggests that better animal welfare can actually be more profitable for farmers and that changing consumer sentiments are driving more ethical products in Europe.

To listen to Peter’s full interview, please visit the website of ABC Radio National Breakfast.

Monday 15 August 2011
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm (doors open at 12.50pm)
Venue: Melbourne Law School
University of Melbourne
Ground Floor G08
185 Pelham St, Carlton, VIC 3053

Register Now! To view our flyer for this event, please download this pdf .

Details: This lecture, kindly supported by University of Melbourne Law School, will be chaired by Ruth Hatten, Legal Counsel of Voiceless and will feature guest speaker Peter Stevenson and Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan of the University of Melbourne.

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Monday 15 August 2011
Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm (doors open at 5.45pm)
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Level 36, Bourke Place
600 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Register Now! To view our flyer for this event, please download this pdf .

Details: This lecture, kindly supported by Corrs Chambers Westgarth, will be chaired by Ruth Hatten, Legal Counsel of Voiceless and will feature guest speakers Peter Stevenson and Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan of the University of Melbourne.

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.

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All the best,
Andrez Bergen

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.