Bloodbath Roller Derby – still time to win tix #bumpp #geekgirl

BLOODBATH double pass giveaway.
Want to win a double pass to the BLOODBATH Oct 9th at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney? Post your best photo of A PRIOR ROLLER DERBY EVENT, be it as an audience member, in costume, or team-mate or war wound focused; we want to see you at your Roller Derby best!

Join the facebook group, post your pic to the photo album, and tag your name to enter the contest! Winners will be revealed on Friday 8 October 2010. C’mon! Do it!

BLOODBATH is a collaborative distributed artwork by Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League. BLOODBATH features artists Linda Dement, Kate Richards, Sarah Waterson, Francesca da Rimini, and Nancy Mauro-Flude, each with recognised track records in new media, data visualisation, mediated performance and/or work with embodiment or violence. At an all girl flat track roller derby game, Sydney, 9 October 2010, sensors on the helmets of players feed data to their five artworks, generating digital elaborations of the moves and collisions on track.

Life In A Day a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you #geekgirl

One World. 24 Hours. 6 Billion Perspectives
Saturday July 24, 2010
www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On Saturday July 24 you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator) and directed by Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void).

The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and on YouTube. If your footage makes it into the finished film, you’ll be credited with as a co-directors and you could be one of 20 contributors heading to Sundance for the premiere.

Who said scientists can’t dance? Video Competition for chance to win $1,000 USD #verygeeky #geekgirl

“Dance Your Ph.D.” video competition is inviting applications from anyone who has a Ph.D. or is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in a science-related field to transform their research into an interpretive dance and submit it for a chance to win up to $1,000 USD. Finalists from each category will have their Ph.D. dance videos screened at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. This is your chance to prove to the world that scientists CAN dance!

http://www.facebook.com/danceyourphd
http://gonzolabs.org/dance/

Interactive Sound Exhibition – constellation: a durational chamber work: Liquid Architecture #Melbourne

“constellation: a durational chamber work” by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey at Red Gallery (North Fitzroy, Melbourne) is a set of performance interruptions that occur daily during the exhibition period, accumulating over the entire period. On the first day, one piece is performed. By the last day, all pieces are performed.

Madeleine and Tim commissioned a collection of composers to create new work to become part of a larger piece, responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Artists created a collection of objects, scores, instructions, installations and video which Madeleine and Tim have assembled into an interactive sound exhibition, a chamber orchestra of sound. constellation imagines these entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of people in the process of creation. constellation is supported by the New Music Network, Liquid Architecture and Arts Victoria.

Runs until July 17th, 2010 – check website for more info:

For more information on constellation – including performance times
For all Liquid Architecture programs and event schedules.

Virion – screen based digital art exhibition – Artists Submissions Now Open until July 14th. #geekgirl

Virion July 19 – August 1: Artists Submissions Now Open

Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience throughout Brisbane. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each. All submissions also play on the Virion website. Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represents a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices. Screens include: AXIOM Estate Agents, The Exchange, Blue Lotus, Urban Dental, Health Stream Fitness Club, QUT Health Clinics – Podiatry and Optometry, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, the Creative Industries Precinct, H‐Block Gallery and The Edge.

Online Artist submissions are now open.
To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.

Free digital media workshop with UK artist – Robin McNicholas, 30th June & 1st July, #Melbourne

Join UK digital media artist Robin McNicholas in a workshop on making moving images through craft techniques and digital media. The workshop will explore alternative ways of making images using unusual and everyday materials. Young artists, designers, musicians or performers interested in digital media, animation or music video production are invited to participate. The workshop is free, eligible participants must have a Healthcare card, not be in full-time study and be aged between 16–28.

Two day workshop 12–3pm on Wednesday 30th June and Thursday 1 July.

Robin McNicholas is a UK based artist and member of Flat-e, www.flat-e.com. Supported by the British Council in partnership with
Jesuit Social Services, Artful Dodgers Studios.

Numbers are limited, please contact Artful Dodgers studios to book in, or for more information.
T: 03 9415 8700
E: forest.keegel@jss.org.au
W: www.Artfuldodgers.tv
Artful Dodgers studios, 1 Langridge Street,
Collingwood, Melbourne 3066.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival – Friday 21 – Sunday 30 May #Melbourne

Venues: The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas Melbourne Town Hall ● State Library of Victoria ● City Library ●Federation Square  

Bookings:  www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au

New Festival Director Lisa Dempster is thrilled to announce the the program for the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival, Australia’s only literary event dedicated to writers of all ages and styles.

2009 saw 6000 people attend the festival’s 15 sell out events with 300 writers, performers, publishers and mentors contributing to the event. In 2010, the EWF will double in size, curating 30 events and featuring 350 writers and artists as the festival stretches the definition of writing styles to include song writing, copywriting, poetry, prose fiction, comedy, writing for video games, journalism, screenwriting, theatre, experimental writing forms, memoir, blogging, opinion, comic writing and more.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival highlights will include:

First word – BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, 7.30pm, Friday 21 May
The Emerging Writers’ Festival burst into life by presenting the best of the festival – exciting new works by emerging writers, a Call to Arms by romantic fiction writer Toni Jordan, and a comic debate asking  ‘Love Vs Angst – what makes a better writer?’ Come and feel the love!

Zine Bus – various locations, 11am to 5pm Saturday 29 May NEW EVENT 
All aboard the world’s first mobile zine fair! Travelling the streets of Melbourne and culminating in a guerrilla zine market  at Federation Square, the zine bus will be fully stocked with independent emerging zines, with the most innovative displays of art, creativity and DIY ever to take to the streets!

Twitterfest – twitter.com/emergingwriters – May 24 – 28 , 2pm daily  NEW EVENT
Taking the Emerging Writers’ Festival to the world. Daily throughout the festival, Twitterfest will host discussions and interview writers… on Twitter! It’s social media mixed with literary debate – jump online to join the discussion. Hosted by writers from across Australia.

Wordstock – BMW Edge – 7.30pm Thurs 27 May
New work inspired by the songs of AC/DC. With songs, comedy, short plays and performance pieces, rock n roll will be given a different sort of spotlight. A one night only event and a performance highlight of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Wordstock will reveals a whole new side of AC/DC. It will blow your mind (like dynamite.)  Hosted by iconic Melbourne rocker Clem Bastow.

You Can’t Stop The Musing: Disco Lecture – Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St Tues 25 May, 6pm NEW EVENT
Everybody knows disco is fun. But is it good for you? Now that Disco is back (trust us, it is), the time has come to determine, once and for all, whether it’s part of the problem or part of the solution. *Triple J’s Craig Schuftan *presents the case for and against in You Can’t Stop the Musing – the world’s first Disco-lecture. Expect to hear from The Silver convention, The Chic Organisation and the Frankfurt School

48-hour play generator – Malthouse Theatre – 5.30pm, Sunday 24 May
Six (somewhat) rehearsed readings. Six emerging playwrights are given just two days to write a new play each. Teamed with an established director and team of actors, the results are presented on a Sunday evening of madcap and totally raw theatre. Previous 48 hour plays have developed into full length works.

In the Pub series – 26 May 7.30pm, The Workers Club Fitzroy
I Write What I Want, When I Want. We lift the shroud on the mystery of freelance writing. Our freelance experts talk about their journeys as freelancers, the ups and downs as well as their secrets to success. From journalism to comedy, our panellists will entertain and enlighten. Panellists: Chris Flynn, Ben Pobjie and more. Hosted by Joanna Brookfield. 

The Page Parlour – The Atrium @ Federation Square, 12 to 5pm, Sunday 23 May
Featuring over forty stalls selling everything from posters to books, literary journals to hand-crafted stories – all the good stuff that you won’t find in Borders. The Page Parlour is an independent press fair gathering the undiscovered, the underground, the obscure and the amazing all in one convenient market location.

Town Hall Program – Melbourne Town Hall, 9am to 5pm, May 29 – 30
A range of panels, interviews and conversations about the art, craft and business of being a writer.. Covers all styles of writing, from prose fiction, to song writing, theatre, video games, copywriting, poetry, comedy and more! Guests include: Michi Girl, Guy Blackman, Benjamin Law, Patrick Cullen, Jill Jones, Sean Riley, Julian Shaw, Katherine Charles, Declan Fay, Tom Taylor, Mel Campbell, Jeff Sparrow, Steph Bowe, Jan Sardi, and many, many more!

GREEN THUMBS BY KOTOE ISHII – APRIL

Green Thumb is a new work by Kotoe Ishii that will introduce a simultaneously innocent and disturbing intimacy to the public space of Federation Square, (Melbourne) and is the penultimate Next Wave Time Lapse work.

Adapted from the 1950s children’s picture-book of the same name, Green Thumb is a short video using photographic stop-motion techniques, created on a loop. There is no dialogue, just natural, ambient sounds. Continuing Kotoe’s long-held investigations into the physical effect of repressed emotions on the body, Green Thumb sees a series of repeated actions/movements in public space. Specifically, the video features Kotoe’s own thumb, shot in close-up, inserting itself into various holes in the urban landscape. As she does this, plants and trees sprout from the holes.

Find out more at next wave

FOLD a/v collaborative platform Wed March 10 #Melbourne #HorseBazaar

• HOLY BONER AV SET – Lovers of horror and noise, HOLY BONER feat. Brad Smith (drumkit/screams of agony) & Nik Kennedy (electronics/voices from the grave) reprise their collaboration with visual artist Grand Guignol AKA Tina Douglas.  + special guest victims Zev Langer (zombie groans) and Diana Szabo (bloodcurdling screams) make the noise to go with it. Lionel will get his revenge!
• EARLE STUART / SEAN BAXTER – Legendary outsider Hip Hop MC, Earle Stuart (from the incredible Curse Ov Dialect), joined by percussion nut Sean Baxter.
• DJ CRUMBS (Max Kohane) between the acts!

Wed March 10, 2010

8:30pm

$10 (full) / $5 (conc)

@Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

www.myspace.com/stuttermelb

His Savage Mistress – video of Gianni Menichetti by Lina Eve