Melbourne City Wiki

Tell Melbourne what you hope for it’s future. Write a message or add a drawing; be its voice and imagination. Help craft a future for Melbourne’s next generations.

City Wiki is based on the concept that the future of design for cities will be strongly centered on human interaction supported by multimedia and technology. The interactive installation is a means of recording collective ideas and personal responses. Photos, video footage and comments of City Wiki are posted online daily, promoting ongoing discourse and further involvement in creating a future for our city.

17 – 24 July, 24 hours
Location: Higson Lane, Melbourne
Phone: +61 3 9654 3644
Cost: Free

Source: State of Design

Ballarat Cross Cultural Collaboration Exhibition

A coming together of Victoria’s visual artists, poets, writers, filmmakers and performers. A range of artists books, multi-media, 2D works and installations will be showcased across the University of Ballarat’s Post Office Gallery and the City of Ballarat’s Mining Exchange.

Collaborations include:
Elizabeth Presa with performance dancer Janette Hoe; Lauren Berkowitz with Fabrice Meliquot (France); poet Dominique Hecq with sound artist Catherine Clover; Bruno Leti with poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe;  as well as, installation artists Dr Domenico de Clario, Dr Colleen Morris and Jeanette Mc Whinney.
Until ­ Sat 27 June
Arts Academy, University of Ballarat
Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St Ballarat, VIC 3375

Check out the details at
<http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/artsacademy/pogallery/index.shtml>

The Longest Night

TLN is a multimedia group exhibition featuring fourteen artists from the belly of Sydney’s underground arts scene. It promises to unearth the sometimes twisted talents of some of Sydney’s most prolific social commentators. The venue? Tortuga Studios, St Peters’ newest artist warehouse space. The date? Well, allow us some artistic licence… it’s on the 19th June at 6pm.

The significance of the longest night of the year, the Winter Solstice, is in the optimism of shortening nights and lengthening days, but The Longest Night has its own significance, a darkened, stilled world in the balance of the seasons.

Featuring the work of Terry Archer, Token, Perran Costi, Rachel Lafferty, Jacq Sherry, Bauxhau Stone, Peter Strong, Edward Horne, Alien Proof Constructions, Brian Paisley, Raul Eduardo, Pirate Photography, Jamil Stone and Franco, the show draws on what it means to exist as an artist in a warehouse environment. We celebrate the longest night under a sky of steel, enclosed by the walls of once proud brick factory, our urban industrial environment our inspiration. Also be sure to arrive early so you can warm up to some great music on the night, there will be a performance/film shoot by local band “The Snowdroppers” playing just after sunset followed by some great hearty art browsing winter tunes from Tortuga Studios D.J’s including Franco,Vapour and Mashy P.

Celebrate the Winter Solstice:
Friday, June 19, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: 31 Princess hwy 
Street: Princess Hwy – Sydney, Australia

Collected Thoughts 3 – Richard McLean

Produced by the  Cunningham Dax Collection. This short film documents the work and experiences of artist Richard McLean, featuring interviews with the artist, his family and a colleague. A trained and exhibiting multimedia artist and advocate,   Richard is also the author of /Recovered Not Cured: a journey through schizophrenia/, 2003 and /Ego and Soul/, 2008 (egoandsoul.com).

A selection of Richard’s artworks are included in the Collection’s current exhibition /9 LIVES: ON SUBJECT AND SUBJECTIVITY/ (until 16 October, 2009) which explores the lives of nine artists through their creative works. The evening will include a conversation between the artist and Dr Eugen Koh, Director of the Cunningham Dax Collection and Curator of /9   Lives/.

COLLECTED THOUGHTS 3: RICHARD MCLEAN -  6PM THURSDAY 28 MAY 2009  
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THE CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION
35 Poplar Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052
t 61 3 9342 2394  fax 61 3 9381 2008
www.daxcollection.org.au 

Earth at Don’t Look Gallery

Sunday, April 26 at 6:00pm.  Hiske Weijers with VJ Jax and Pete Jones

Artist, Musician, Composer Hiske Weijers presents an aural/sonic collage of leviathan proportions in collaboration with VJ Jax and her Psychic Date mate, Pete Jones. Prepare yourself for a “Trip” !!@#?? to a primal landscape where sound and vision collide in all their natural beauty !!!!! Not for the faint-hearted as sound levels may exceed 100db’s…ear-plugs available on request.

Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia (426/428/445 bus)
Phone:  0401152434
Email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
Web: www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery

David Kirkpatrick & STiCHi MONsTA -Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery

David Kirkpatrick is a sound and multimedia artist working in theatre, site specific projects and live performance. He networks electronics with life, society, and the environment using technologic elements that coexist with the real world. STiCHi MONsTA is Sam Dalley, Online Curator at Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre. He is currently exploring subconscious soundscapes through blurring reality and what it is to dream.  Together, they draw on influences ranging from Portishead to Lucier, Eno, Dr Dre, Nine Inch Nails, Ravel, Aphex Twin, Bartók, Severed Heads, Brubeck, Glass and Filastine to create their unique sound.

WHO: David Kirkpatrick & STiCHi MONsTA
WHEN: Sunday March 8 2009, 6pm
WHERE: Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill 2203
CONTACT: Greg on 0401 152 434, dontlookgallery@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery

Pulse – rooftops over Melbourne

Six innovative performers bring new perceptions of the urban landscape high above the city. PULSE will activate the City Village Rooftop at 225 Bourke St, Melbourne over 4 months, from February to May 2009, with a short season of 6 site-specific multimedia art performances. PULSE seeks to reveal new
relationships between the body and the architecture. PULSE imagines how Melbourne’s urban landscape looks, sounds and feels.
 
The first in the PULSE series incorporates: In Common Tongue by Martin Renaud. In common Tongue is a piece based on audience participation where his vulnerability as a performer is exposed via technology. Using sensors on his body and an 8 channel surround sound playback system he engages the public through sound as language.
 
In Common Tongue: 6 & 7 February (in case of rain 8 February), 8:30pm City Village Rooftop, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne (between Swanston St & Russell St)
Cost: $20 / $15 concession

Tickets at the door or email Thea Baumann at info@pulserooftop.com
 
http://www.pulserooftop.com

Pulse – Artists’ Vision of the City on a Rooftop

Six innovative performers bring new perceptions of the urban landscape high above the city. PULSE will activate the City Village Rooftop at 225 Bourke St, Melbourne over 4 months, from February to May 2009, with a short season of 6 site-specific multimedia art performances. PULSE seeks to reveal new relationships between the body and the architecture. These performances use the rooftop as a second street, reading the pulse of the city through multimedia installation, with video projection, surround sound, interactive art and audience participation. By bringing together a range of practitioners from different disciplines, PULSE imagines how Melbourne’s urban landscape looks, sounds and feels.

“PULSE is an acronym, literally from the idea of ‘Performing the Urban Landscape through Site Specific Events. We’re both fascinated by the potential of this unusual site with its fantastic night views of the city skyline.”
 - Michael Hornblow and Martin Renaud, Co-Artistic Directors of PULSE

PULSE February Season Program
Sound Art: 6 & 7 February (in case of rain 8 February), 8:30pm 

+ Martin Renaud – Common Tongue
In Common Tongue Martin Renaud presents a piece based on audience participation where his vulnerability as a performer is exposed via technology. Using sensors on his body and an 8 channel surround sound playback system he engages the public through sound as language.

+ Jeffrey Hannam & Karl Willebrant – Metamorphosis 4 2
Sound artist Jeff Hannam and bass player Karl Willebrant weave a sonic composition across different vantage points on the rooftop, manipulating a range of electroacoustic sources through an 8-channel sound spatialisation system.

City Village Rooftop, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne (between Swanston St & Russell St)
Cost: $20 / $15 concession
Tickets at the door or email Thea Baumann at info@pulserooftop.com

http://www.pulserooftop.com

Microwave Jingle Bells Will Heat Up Your Geekest Jolly Spirit

Ideas company AKQA has created one of the coolest Christmas video cards I’ve ever seen: 49 microwave ovens stacked on a wall, all set to play Jingle Bells.

From Gizmodo – Check out the video

Zaneta Vangeli Archive 1 – Adelaide

Archive 1 is a selection of prints and video art from Zaneta Vangeli’s prolific practice of twenty-odd years. A multimedia artist, Vangeli realises her ideas with paintings, objects, photography, video and film.

“The artist is profoundly concerned with the cultural and political context of her own country: Macedonia. Her critical thinking challenges polarised cultural, social and politically engaged art. That is, in parallel to addressing urgent cultural and political questions in the most thoughtful and reflective way, Vangeli boldly tackles even the most metaphysical of issues—such as truth, the battle between good and evil, comprehension of God’s nature and actions, etc.”

14 November – 13 December
11-5 Tuesday-Friday, 2-5 Saturday
EAF at The Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Adelaide

http://eaf.asn.au/2008/vangeli.html