Mysterious Melbourne Multimedia show… by fuguestate #arts #geekgirl

MELBOURNE:  FUGUE STATE EVENT

“We hope that in the near future you will be able to make your way to an unfamiliar location at a specific time. Indeed, it is unusual to ask this of you without a full explanation of the reason and context, however please understand that we are hoping you may be that reason. I can say little more other than to reassure you that you will be treated with the utmost dignity, kindness and respect and that this somewhat curious entreaty involves no financial transaction of any kind.” – fuguestate.info.  Bookings essential to attend this multimedia event.

16 – 29 April 2012

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.

Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat

All the best,
Andrez Bergen

#Melbourne Art Fair 2010 – #geekgirl

Melbourne Art Fair 2010
4-8the August

Melbourne Art Fair is an exhibition of leading contemporary art, presented by over 80 selected national and international galleries. The biennial event features paintings, sculpture, photography, installations and multi media art works of over 900 artists and attracts up to 30,000 visitors.

Melbourne Art Week 2010 will be launched with the Melbourne Art Foundation Lecture presented by a Bill Henson.  This is followed by six days of events, functions and entertainment, including: the Galleries and Collectors Dinner, the celebrated opening night Vernissage and after party, free Lectures, Forums and Artist Talks, receptions for international guests, industry parties, walking art tours of Melbourne, live radio broadcasts from the venue, private morning teas, free Guided Tours, the launch and gifting of the Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, Project Rooms, Music Music Music! Fair Shake music night, and other public events and functions, and most importantly the Melbourne Art Fair exhibition of over 80 galleries and 10 project rooms held in the Royal Exhibition Building and surrounds.

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

Tortuga Artists Road Trip – #Sydney – April 23rd

Start Time: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 6:00pm
Location: TORTUGA STUDIOS
Street: 31 Princes Highway, St Peters, Sydney, NSW

Description.Steeped with promise, danger and diesel, the open road snakes into the distance, a strap of liquorice writhing in the sun. It holds the allure of a destination unknown, punctuated by the roar of the road train, strings of redneck towns like gaudy necklaces, and the steady beat of the motor as you head outback…

ROAD TRIP
A Tortuga Studios group show
Over 35 emerging and established visual artists, photographers, sculptors, installation artists, multi-media, projection and film artists let loose in an inner city warehouse to explore a destination unknown.

Live music from La Mancha Negra and Glitch Jukebox
Opening night: 23rd April 2010 6pm – 10pm
Exhibition runs: 24th April – 2nd May 2010 By Appointment

Garth Knight, Jesse Cox, Jess Cook, Sam Ash, Johnny Bell, Elise Vaughn, Mini Graff, Will Coles, EARS, Shabnam Hameed and Madeleine Hetherton, Valentina Schulte, Perran Costi, Peter Strong, Jacq Sherry, Rachael Lafferty, Anthony Sawrey, Brian Paisley, Dillon MacEwan, Sergio Abugattás Tenaud, Pierre Cavalan, Jo Shand, Terry Archer, Alien Proof Construction, Marty Jay, Claire Conroy, Jess Pickford, Nicole Goldspink, Mark Swarz, Brent Reid, Ganbold Lundaa, Darian Zam, Azelia Maynard, Sarah Harvie, Andrea Davies, Kassandra Bossell, Justin Maynard, Alasdair Nicol, Hiske Weijers
and more…

Wilkins Hill – Windows impersonating other windows #Artspace

EXHIBITION: 5 March — 10 April 2010

Wilkins Hill
Windows impersonating
other windows

Wilkins Hill’s new multimedia installation Windows impersonating other windows addresses the structures of communication through abstracting relationships between words, objects and meanings.  The installation can be understood as extending the artists’ interest in the underlying processes involved in the communication of meaning between an artwork and an audience, building upon earlier works such as The Plague of Inheritance (2006), Sunny (2005) and the True meaning of Christmas (2004).

Throughout 2008 and 2009 Wilkins Hill participated in residency projects in Berlin, Paris and Hamburg during which time they began experimenting with language translation, utilising the inherent gaps and misunderstandings between languages as departure points for creativity. Produced when in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, their video work Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs, bestiality, nazi aryanism (2009) incorporated speech recognition software and automated translation websites as a way to generate poetic texts and narratives that were then edited into a corresponding visual structure. Windows impersonating other windows incorporates translation devices in a similar fashion, creating a space for deeper consideration of how meaning is extracted from our physical environment.

ARTIST DISCUSSION
Saturday 6 March, 2010, 3.00pm
Wilkins Hill, Sam Smith and Simon Denny will be joined by Reuben Keehan.

Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
www.artspace.org.au

The Nauru Elegies #Melbourne #DJSpooky

A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture

The Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru. The work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. It has been realised through the collaboration of composer Paul D. Miller, best known as DJ Spooky, and architect Annie K. Kwon.

The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.

Venue: Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building,
Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates: 19 February – 6 March. Times: 10-5 daily

http://www.experimenta.org/

Peter Greenaway creates the Last Supper to be served in Melbourne

Acclaimed as an extraordinary spectacle of sound, light and multimedia magic, Melbourne Festival invites you to the Australian premiere of one of this year’s most exciting and affordable events on offer.  From Saturday 10 October, North Melbourne Town Hall will be transformed into the Santa Maria delle Grazie of Milan, with visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s acclaimed masterpiece Leonardo’s Last Supper.

Screening every half hour for only $10 for adults and $5 for children, Melburnians are sure to be mesmerized as Greenaway gives new life to one of the world’s most iconic and mystifying masterpieces, merging visual arts, cinema, music and cutting-edge technologies.

A master of cinematic magic, Greenaway has created an inspiring multimedia event in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. This is a perfect, three-dimensional sculptural clone of Milan’s crumbling, 510-year-old chapel wall and painting, with live projections of images and light as well as a life-size physical reconstruction of the table in the painting accompanied by a soundscape of voice, music and atmospherics.

The Last Supper depicts the moment when Christ announces that one of the apostles will betray him and disruption ensues. Greenaway’s sensitive spectacle delves into this moment. It uncovers truths about the painting and its influence, and reveals obscure details lost to time, overpainting and restorations.

“To the strains of modern opera, he used cutting-edge technical trickery to make Leonardo’s Christ appear like a three-dimensional hologram while a radiant sun rose and fell over his head. He turned the original colourful image red, grey and black before the artist’s gentle brush strokes were replaced with a chalk outline of the 13 figures, as if Leonardo had drawn a crime scene. Dawn broke, dusk fell and by the end the disciples had been dramatically cast into the shadow of prison-like bars,” Robert Booth, The Guardian.

This exact recreation of the chapel wall - to the same size and scale, and featuring the same characteristics and texture of the original - has been achieved through a groundbreaking combination of sophisticated technology and craftsmanship.  Leonardo’s Last Supper places Peter Greenaway among the great artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.

Greenaway conceived Leonardo’s Last Supper in response to a deep fascination with visual literacy and explores the potential interaction between 114 years of cinema and eight thousand years of painting.

More info at the Melbourne Festival website

Random Acts of Elevator Music visit Sydney

Random Acts of Elevator Music at Don’t Look Gallery

Making their first business trip from Melbourne, Random Acts of Elevator Music perform at the experimental new media art space Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, on Friday the 9th of October at 7.30pm.  The show incorporates the acclaimed Random Acts of Elevator Powerpoint display, featuring highlights from office life and rare elevator footage, along with their trademark soothing tones, melodies and oscillations.  Joining them for a rare solo live set is Sydney sound artist Shannon O’Neill.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

The original City Frequencies installation was a live surround-sound audiovisual performance held at the Melbourne Town Hall for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, utilising the sounds and sights of the Melbourne CBD as source material.  In 2004 City Frequencies recorded the conversations of Fitzroy café-goers at Kent Street Cafe, using the tapes to create the Café Voyeur installation.

Shannon O’Neill is a Sydney sound and multi-media artist.  As well as making sound and music under his own name and as Time Being, he has been a member of the groups Wake Up and Listen, The Splinter Orchestra, Plenum, Projek Lansac and Undermind.  Shannon has been a director of the Electrofringe festival, the Disorientation series and the Sydney Liquid Architecture festival and is the founder and director of Alias Frequencies, an organisation that promotes and publishes music and media art.  He has written extensively on sound and media art.

WHAT: Random Acts of Elevator Music + Shannon O’Neill
WHEN: Friday October 9, 7.30pm
WHERE: Don’t Look Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd
Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW (426/428 bus)
COST: $10

For further information visit: www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs
www.twitter.com/cityfreqs

World Television launches online video portal on Climate Change

World Television has launched climatetalks.tv, an online video news portal for journalists in the lead up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15). COP15, the most significant global meeting this year, will be held in Copenhagen between 7 and 18 December.

World Television, which has a long track record in environmental communications, has developed climatetalks.tv in order to host video footage and other multimedia assets related to climate change from a variety of sources to support broadcast, print and online journalists’ stories around the event.

Video footage will be available for download in broadcast-quality from October through until the end of December 2009 and beyond into 2010. In addition to providing the latest stories on the debate, the site also incorporates RSS-feed functionality so journalists can sign-up to receive alerts when new content is added.