Brainwaves shaping video-images 10th Dec, 2009 #Federation Square #Melbourne

(Karen Casey & Harry Sokol) present ‘Spectacle of the Mind’ on stage and the big screen at Federation Square, Melbourne. Three performance artists – Jill Orr, Stelarc and Domenico de Clario will wear EMOTIV Epoc EEG headsets and their brainwaves will affect video-images produced by Karen Casey.

Thursday 10 December, 8-12pm
Federation Square, Big Screen
Melbourne, Australia

Check out the details at http://www.globalmindproject.com

Enrol now: Video Journalism with Carmela Baranowska #Open channel #Melbourne

Starts January 7 | Enrolments close December 22

Cross-media skills are essential for journalists. This practical course gives you the knowledge you need to plan, shoot and edit stories as a single-person crew. You will be guided by Walkley Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Carmela Baranowska (Scenes From An Occupation, Taliban Country) and screen your story to a news producer. This course is suitable for print journalists or emerging documentary makers.

Open Channel Training | Under Video Journalism

Streamflow Conditions and Timestamp. An online exhibition, 24 hours of networked #writing starts Dec 5, 09.

Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks
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Timestamp
24 hours of networked writing

an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press
http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez Breeze (AU)
José Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)

code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics

TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST]

Beginning at 4:35pm MST (sunset in Denver, Colorado) on December 5, 2009, the artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours* through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means.

Each artist will occupy a 4-hour shift, and the schedule is designed to facilitate audiences outside of the artists’ individual timezones. Writing or links to activity will be posted to the shared twitter account, “timestampstream” and intercepted at Subito Press. You are invited to follow along and respond.

The performances will end at 4:35pm MST on Sunday, December 6.

*see schedule of shifts at the end of announcement and use this link to translate into your timezone:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

SITES: http://www.streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

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twitter.com/timestampstream (follow/respond)

STREAMFLOW CONDITIONS: EXHIBITION & EVENT DETAILS

Streamflow Conditions** is an online exhibition of electronic literature and networked writing curated by Judd Morrissey at the invitation of Subito Press at the University of Colorado. Beginning with a site-specific consideration of the Colorado landscape and its engineered waterways, the selection of works examines discrete markers in the contemporary data-scape of writing within networked culture. The artists and works chosen each represent an innovative use of language in conjunction with code, data, or networked spaces. The exhibition as a whole engages the overflowing boundaries between presence, process, and object at a time when currents of digital literary practice meet the culture and corpus of writing online (& the imminent google waves).

**gallery of works still under construction but please explore the site.

TIMESTAMP SHIFTS
[ use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]

1. Dec. 5, 4:35pm MST: Mez Breeze

2. Dec. 5, 8:35pm MST: Ian Hatcher

3. Dec. 6, 12:35am MST: Rui Torres

4. Dec. 6, 4:35am MST: José Carlos Silvestre

5. Dec. 6, 8:35am MST: Roderick Coover

6. Dec 6, 12:35pm MST: John Cayley

Forever Michael – 7 minute video touring some of the hundreds of Second Life tributes to Michael Jackson

Forever Michael (Sin City)

Designed around spontaneous memorials that are erected around key sites at the time of celebrity deaths, this installation both pays tribute to and comments in the mass hysteria surrounding Michael Jackson’s untimely passing. First reported on celebrity gossip site TMZ.com, Michael’s death sparked an unprecedented internet frenzy, with Twitter recording over 5000 Jackson Tweets a minute. Over 11 million people watched his memorial live on the web, and tributes, traditionally found on the street were springing up on social networking sites and virtual reality applications such as Second Life.This traditional tribute memorial combines both the physical and virtual with a 7 minute video touring some of the hundreds of Second Life tributes to Michael Jackson. Streaming along the bottom of the screen are the sensationalized headlines which appeared, and continue to appear, on TMZ.com. Ending with paparazzi footage of Michael in the last month of his life, we are both voyeur and sympathiser as we watch a lonely figure being hunted and trapped by a mob of ever-persistent cameramen who feed the frenzy that surrounded him in life, and now in death.

“Michael Jackson kept his most stunning performance for the very end. Always able to command an audience, he knew how to bring whole arenas to fits of exultation with his moves and then silence them to the point of tears with his poetry. He was brilliant, excessive, maudlin, tacky and possibly criminal, but you could never ignore him. So it was fitting that in death, he momentarily silenced the largest arena humanity has ever known, the Internet.” TIME MAGAZINE, JULY 2009

Join us for one of Don’t Look’s final exhibitions!

What: Forever Michael (Sin City)
Who: Georgie Roxby Smith
Where: Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia
(a block back from the corner of New Canterbury Rd and Marrickville Rd).
When: Opening — Wednesday 9 December, 6.oopm
(see the exhibition for the next ten days through the front window)
Contact: dontlookgallery@gmail.com, Greg -0401 152 434

Womens Circus Presents, HerStory. Celebrating 18 years of spectacular performances.

The WOMEN’S CIRCUS presents HERSTORY (in conjunction with BigWest Festival)

This year the Women’s Circus turns 18, and to celebrate the not-inconsiderable feat of surviving as a community arts organisation in a competitive world, they present HerStory, a tale of what it means to be lost and find yourself, to be earth-bound and learn to fly, to be shy and step out from behind the mask. Using the language of circus interwoven with video projection and a narrative of personal anecdotes, HerStory will take the audience on a wild ride from the Circus’ own birth to her coming of age.

Following the Women’s Circus tradition of performing in unique and unusual venues in the western suburbs, HerStory will be performed at the Living Museum of the West, a significant historical industrial site in the history of Melbourne. HerStory will transform the superbly restored bluestone building and surrounding parkland into a dynamic circus extravaganza with performers roaming the parklands and entertaining guests for an hour prior to the show; and during interval be dazzled by a spectacular fire act in the park.

In conjunction with the show is a free exhibition celebrating 18 years of the Women’s Circus and its influence on the development of contemporary social and physical circus in Australia. The exhibition includes posters, behind the scenes photographs, circus diaries
and costumes, as well as footage from past performances.

Performance Dates: Friday 20 November to Sunday 6 December 2009
Thursday, Nov 19/26, Dec 3, pre-show 7pm, show starts 8pm
Friday, Nov 20/27, Dec 4, pre-show 7pm, show starts 8pm
Saturday, Nov 21/28, Dec 5, pre-show 6pm, show starts 7pm
Sunday, Nov 22/29, Dec 6, matinee, pre-show 1pm, show starts 2pm

Where: Living Museum of the West, Pipemakers Park, Van Ness Avenue, Maribyrnong, Melbourne

Melways Ref: 28B10

Tickets Available to purchase on-line at www.womenscircus.org.au
Full $32 / Conc. $26 / Children $15

Public inquiries: Telephone (03) 9687 3665 or email info@womenscircus.org.au

The ends of the Earth a mixed media installation

Exploring Environmental Degradation through Mixed Media Installation

Jane Castle & Linda Dement, wax box blood(detail), 2009

Jane Castle and Linda Dement present a malevolent installation involving leaking and congealing blood, video loops on hacked digital players, anomalous machinery and a soundscape from recordings made at the ends of  the earth.

runs until 28 November, 2009
SASA Gallery
Kaurna Build, City West Campus
Cnr Fenn Place & Hindley Street
South Australia

Check out the details at:
University of South Australia

Australian Sex Discrimination Act Video

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act. Adele Horin talks with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick and author and feminist Anne Summers about that period in the Women’s Liberation movement, the landmark Act and what needs to change.

Watch the Sydney Morning Herald video.

RSPCA Animal Walk is back. Help celebrate RSPCA Awareness Week

To celebrate RSPCA Awareness Week (Oct 1 – 8), the RSPCA has launched a digitally restored version of its most famous television advertisement – Animal Walk.

From the biggest elephant to the smallest wombat, the iconic production from the RSPCA will amble back onto television screens over the coming weeks.

Created 21 years ago, Animal Walk was the first brand ad of its kind in Australia and remains one of the most recgonised advertisements ever made in this country.

The production not only introduced Australians to their favourite little bandaged wombat but it was actually responsible for coining the RSPCA’s slogan: For all creatures great and small. The wombat went on to become the RSPCA’s much-loved mascot.

Watch the Animal Walk Video

Hitler Finds Out About iSnack 2.0

Hitler is unimpressed with the name Kraft have chosen for their new Vegemite-based spread.

YouTube

The Gulf of Carpet Area. A site-specific video installation by Zoe Scoglio

29 September  – 10 October
Trades Hall, Victoria Street Wing Foyer
Corner of Lygon St and Victoria Pde, Carlton, MELBOURNE

Check out: Gulf of Carpet Area

You are invited to visit one of the great mysteries Down Under. Come and gaze at the wonders that lie deep within the abyss and discover the secrets hidden for centuries under the Gulf of Carpet Area. The region has been explored and charted, exposing the ever-changing substances that lie beneath our feet. Be careful of solid ground. The Gulf is one of the distinct physiographic sections of the larger (and surrounding) Bella Union province, which in turn is part of the larger Trades Hall physiographic division.