Digital Fringe is calling for Youuuuuuuuu.

Ferret around your hard drives for (video, stills or audio), dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens in Melbourne.

Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the world: from retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys.

Visit digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works and for more festival info, or contact us – people@digitalfringe.com.au

Digital Fringe is produced by Horse Bazaar as part of the MelbourneFringe Festival (September 23 – October 11)

Happy 40th B’day, Internet!

40 techno-drenched years ago the Internet began its primordial binary crawl towards media domination:

“In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s.”

Inform: An Interactive Fiction Design System

Inform: An Interactive Fiction Design System

“Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world’s best-known writers of IF.”

Mythical Creatures

Mythical Creatures

Find an annotated version here.

Arts Access Victoria. In celebration of International Day of People with a Disability

WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
Arts Access Victoria, in partnership with the City of Melbourne, is inviting artists & filmmakers with or without a disability to participate in an exciting new opportunity called WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? in celebration of International Day of People with a Disability, 3 December 2009.

How Does It Work?
Ten artists/ filmmakers will be chosen to form five partnerships. Each of the five partnerships will develop a project idea to then pitch to a panel of professional artists. The partnership with the winning pitch will receive a small amount of seed funding to develop their project.

Interested?
Complete the Expression of Interest Form, attaching a brief outline of your project idea in 300 words or less. Artforms can include Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Writing, Filmaking / Multimedia or combinations of the above. To download a copy of the Expressions of Interest Form go to http://www.artsaccess.com.au/news/index.cfm?id=462

If your have any queries, please can contact Jo Cohen at Arts Access Victoria email Jo at jcohen@artsaccess.com.au

Expressions of Interest are due by 5pm, 7 September 2009.

WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? is supported by a grant to Arts Access Victoria from the City of Melbourne and the MetroAccess initiative, a partnership between the City of Melbourne and the Department of Human Services.

Dancehouse presents Open Season

A season of multi-artform performances.

17 – 20 September, 2009

Curated by Dancehouse Artistic Director David Tyndall, Open Season brings together a four-day showcase of eight unique works by established and emerging Melbourne contemporary artists.

In June this year Dancehouse called for expressions of interest from artists of all disciplines – dancers, choreographers, writers, performance artists, musicians, animators or anything in between – for the opportunity to present their works as part of Open Season.

Eight distinctive and intriguing works have been selected and incorporated into two different programs running for two days each – Program A and Program B. Audiences will be treated to solo performers and groups, dance, 3D clay animation, wall paintings, physics, the sounds of birds, improvisation, paper bags, video projections, memories and of course, buckets.

Visit www.dancehouse.com.au

Scinema 2009 film festival highlights

SCINEMA 2009 film festival highlights include:

• Between the Folds, by US filmmaker Vanessa Gould, which tells the story of ten artists and scientists who abandon their careers to forge careers as modern day paper folders
• Australia’s Andrea Ulbrick’s Rodney’s Robot Revolution documentary about the race to create the world’s first affordable personal robot
• The Good Heart Attack by UK duo Uli Hesse and Sean Davidson about how a strange paradoxical discovery is saving lives
• UK filmmakers Sasha Andrews and Jeanne Guiraud’s Sound Waves tells the story of two families with deaf children and Cochclear Implants
• Big Bang in Tunguska by Germany’s Christop Schuch explores the scientific origin of the largest explosion recorded in human history

The full program, including details of the guest speaker’s presentations around the country, is available online at: http://www.csiro.au/scinema/

Scinema part of National Science week August 15 to 23, 2009.

SCINEMA, a science film, video and multimedia festival, brings a program of science drama, documentaries, and short subjects, as well as a number of guest speakers, to venues from Cairns to Hobart, and Sydney to Perth.

Melbourne Liquid Architecture at Westspace

Expect a wondrous world of automated contraptions, supermagnets, long wires, ping pong balls, multi-speaker sculptures, cellular automata and electronics. They will be creating an exhibition of constantly transforming kinetic sculptures that explore the chaotic interplay between sound, light, air, water and electricity.

runs until ­ 25 July
West Space, 1st Floor, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne
More details at  www.westspace.org.au

Artist Revisits Australian Television’s Biggest Kleenex Moment in ‘The Death of Molly Jones’.

Like many Australians, artist Jo Kerlogue vividly remembers mourning much loved Molly Jones from the popular Australian soap A Country Practice. Described as Australian television’s biggest ‘Kleenex moment’, the two episodes screened over two nights in 1985 are the subject of her latest solo exhibition ‘The Death of Molly Jones’.

Masquerading as alter-ego Nonchalant Sally, Jo Kerlogue will exhibit a camp, nostalgic re-evaluation of history. Armed with the tools of parody ‘The Death of Molly Jones’ will re-assess received wisdom and dominant Australian culture through the satirical vehicle of illustration montage. The Death of Molly from A Country Practice is both a vivid emotional memory shared by many Australians and a metaphor of the Australian contemporary condition.

“Impending homosexuality, detachment from extended family through immigration and living in suburban Adelaide altered my understanding of significant sentiment”, says Kerlogue. “Instances, regarded as meaningful, such as births, deaths and marriages were qualified through the characters from soap operas, who became ‘real family’ albeit, one made up of light and electronics”.

Possibly the only artist ever to undertake a Masters degree as an alter-ego, Kerlogue explains, “We have entered an age where fleshy analogue organisms intertwine with digital electronics and binary codes to create a new breed of bio-cybernetic creatures. In a world of images and simulations Nonchalant Sally is a cultural product, an attempt to answer the question; how does an artist compete in a world which is essentially a gigantic McFlurry of images?”

‘The Death of Molly Jones’ will combine a myriad of illustration montage with an installation of theatrical lighting, live classical music, recorded sound and moving image. The result is an unconventional and emotive, multi-media illustration experience, in the Old Port Adelaide Waterside Worker’s Hall, opening on Tuesday July 7th at 6.30pm until July 18, 2009 in conjunction with Vitalstatistix Theatre Company.

About Jo Kerlogue and Nonchalant Sally
Jo Kerlogue has exhibited work in Busan, Korea, Adelaide and Melbourne and is currently undertaking a Masters Degree in Illustration at the University of South Australia. Kerlogue and alter-ego Nonchalant Sally illustrate for a variety of formats including mobile phone, large scale digital projection, packaging, fabric printing, illustration performance, the world wide web as well as the traditional gallery setting. Nonchalant Sally Illustration and Art work are for the culture savvy consumer, always willing to remain one step ahead of the cultural zeitgeist.

Websites:
www.nonchalantsally.com
Also check out the Nonchalant Sally Blog as there will be a  ‘Death of Molly Jones’ video posting after the opening night and pics
www.nonchalantsallynews.blogspot.com/

Desktop Create Awards

The call for entries in the 2009 create:awards is now open so get cracking and submit your entry before 3pm on July 15th (deadline extended) to share in up to $50,000 in cash and prizes. Now in it’s fifth year the Desktop create:awards have not only spent the past half decade showcasing the best in Australian design from a broad range of industry fields including illustration, photography, website design, animation, print, multimedia, packaging and emerging talent. In 2009 Desktop are looking to take create: to a whole new level by introducing the first ever Desktop design expo to be held in conjunction with the awards event, transforming create: into a huge industry celebration designed to bring together everyone from designers and creatives through to freelance design warriors and advertising agencies, printers and paper merchants, marketing managers and software and hardware developers.

More info from Desktop mag -Create Awards.