100 ways to say I Love You – Call for Participation

October 2010 :: SASA Gallery University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

This work is situated around shifting language use with digital communication and the subconscious interplay of symbol/number in nonverbal mobile communication. In examining the interaction between the user and the mobile interface, many sequences of I love you (ILY) are used when sending the endearment. For example to send message ILY on a Motorola v3 requires the sequence; ok v 9 9 9 9 L- v v v v L-L- 4 4 4 4 #5 5 5 # 9 9 9 L- L-

To achieve an authentic outcome to the project the artist is seeking contact with interested people to share their interfacial sequence in the sending of the message ”ily to someone they ‘love’. If you are interested in being involved, please contact Jaynie Langford at jnilalang@gmail.com

Mobile Film – Call for Submissions #Australia

Mobile Screenfest is the first mobile phone film festival of its kind in Australia. Proudly presented by ARAYA PICTURES, this is the first festival where all films and photographs are shot entirely on mobile phones. The festival aims to recognise the growing global phenomenon of shot-on-mobile content. Mobile Screenfest seeks creative shot-on-mobile memories, stories and entries that will set high standards for user generated content in Australia.

This contest is free to enter and there is no training required. Over $10,000 in prizes are on offer.

Deadline is 22 August.

Guidelines and application form for Mobile Screenfest here

Museum Victoria is offering a $5,000 award for up to 2 young emerging new media artists

Museum Victoria are looking for innovative proposals for digital projects that can be exhibited online as part of a 3 year project called Talking Difference.

The aim is to inspire conversations between and within cultures about difference and commonality.

Your project could utilise any form of digital media. It could be a short film, interactive game, online interactive artwork, digital public art project, mobile phone application… the possibilities are endless.

 For more information and application form go to:
 http://museumvictoria.com.au/talkingdifference

By Means of a Sigh – Interactive Screen Work #Melbourne

By Means of a Sigh is an interactive video installation by Canadian artists Jean Dubois and Chloe´ Lefebvre that invites the viewer to call a number on the screen with their mobile phone and lend their breath to inflate two bubble gum bubbles being blown between two people on the screen.

Venue: Big Screen Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
(opposite Flinders St Station)
Dates: 1 February — 14 March 2010
Screening Times: On rotation — every day!
Visit: fedsquare.com for more info

Are You Australia’s fastest texter? Melbourne heats

LG hunts for a champion to represent Australia in the LG Mobile World Cup

LG Electronics (LG), is officially on the search for the fastest texter in Australia. The Australian winner will walk away with $10,000 and a trip to New York to represent Asia Pacific in the LG Mobile World Cup where they will compete for the ultimate prize of $100,000 USD.

LG are inviting people to prove their texting competency in the qualifying events that will take place in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne during October.

Australians will send more than 24.8 billion text (SMS) messages by the end of 2009, with this number expected to increase to 25.9 billion in 2010. (Source: Gartner, August 2009). It seems there should already be some experts out there with potentially the fastest thumbs in the world!

The Melbourne  heats of the LG Mobile World Cup will take place in Westfield at the following locations:

Melbourne

Melbourne Central
Cnr Latrobe and Swanston St
Melbourne VIC 3000

Friday October 30: 9am – 5pm
Saturday October 31: 10am – 5pm

More info at the LG website  www.lge.com.au

Future shots, sustainability film challenge for young Victorians

Future Shots is a short film challenge to all young people living in Victoria.

Tackling one of the most important issues affecting the world today: SUSTAINABLITY

The challenge is to make a film of three minutes or less, of any type or genre that addresses the key question:

Sustainability: What’s it all about?

Future Shots is looking for creativity, inspiration, discussions and solutions.

You are encouraged to explore, interpret, and then commit to film your personal ideas about sustainability, what it means to you and your community and how you think it can be achieved.

Films entered into Future Shots by the 21 September, 2009 will be placed in the draw to win either a Sony HandyCam or an Ipod Touch.

If you have already completed a short film under three minutes on sustainability don’t miss this opportunity to be in the draw for another great prize.

Read the Future Shots guidelines to make sure your film meets the requirements, and enter.

More info at Future Shots. And yeah you should be under 21 years of age…;)

isnort, i cannot believe its not cocaine

Forget the Virtual Pint – it’s piss. What YOU need is an unlimited supply of ‘Class A’ Virtual Narcotics.

Be the envy of the in-crowd. Get ejected from nightclubs. Shock and amaze your so-called friends. Get oral sex from Z-list celebrities.

Introducing The iSnort – an ultra-edgy simulated iPhone / iPod Touch application.

Go on.. give it a toot… it’s virtually addictive. Download The iSnort v0.1 now for £5 – all future versions and updates are included in this one-off subscription.

netboot.me: Boot Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

Ever wanted to boot up any old o/s at any old time? Well, as long as you have your machine wired + good to go you can – by using a nifty l’tle aid called netboot.me:

“netboot.me works through the magic of netbooting. There are a number of ways to boot a computer with netboot.me. The simplest is to download a bootable image and burn it to a CD, USB memory stick, or floppy disk. Boot off it on any networked computer, and it will automatically fetch the latest boot options from netboot.me and let you choose from dozens of installation, recovery, testing, portable desktop and other tools. You can also start netboot.me from any computer running gPXE, or from any netbootable computer with some simple tweaks to your DHCP server.”

National call for mobile phone poetry

RMIT University is calling for poems that will be bluetoothed to peoples’ mobiles during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Poems need to be 140 characters or less, in any style or subject matter. Twitter page to follow from August 22nd, 2009 is #RMIT_Poetry.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 31 July

For more information, visit

Mobile Textualism

<http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/poetry>

Pizza Hut iPhone App

This is being touted as the best commercial iPhone App ever, hmmm shame about that. However, if you’re interested and you may well want to try and copy the App for good not evil and animal slaughter. Go configure…

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