Mark Amerika public lecture: Nov 15 #Melbourne #remixthecontext #transmedia #geekgirl

Mark Amerika public lecture and conversation with Dan Angeloro (Sodajerk)

The Centre for Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University invite you to a public lecture:  Mark Amerika: “Remixthecontext: the transmedia artist in network culture”

The lecture will be followed by a Conversation between Mark Amerika and Dan Angeloro (Soda_Jerk)

When: 15 November 2011, 6.30pm
Where: Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library Victoria, Melbourne
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/visit/how-get-here

Remix is a widespread practice of recombining existing material to make something new —including covers, sampling, mash-ups, smash-ups, cut-ups. Mark Amerika looks at how new media artists, many of whom identify with the historical avant-garde, are expanding the forms of remix art to foreground an anti-disciplinary [anti-authoritarian + interdisciplinary] approach to both contemporary practice and theory. Amerika will discuss his experimental art, theory, and pedagogy, including his recent projects Immobilité and remixthebook.

Mark Amerika is a cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, VJ artist, and remix artist. He has been named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century. Amerika is widely exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at major art galleries and biennales. He is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Principal Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne. http://markamerika.com www.remixthebook.com

Dan Angeloro is one half of Soda_Jerk, a collaboration working together since 2002. In their video installations and performance lectures, Soda_Jerk work with audiovisual samples to create speculative narratives that interrogate historical events and cultural trajectories. Soda_Jerk are the recipients of the 2011 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship and a 2011 British Council Realise Your Dream Award. http://www.sodajerk.com.au

For futher information, please contact
Norie Neumark, Director, Centre for Creative Arts
n.neumark@latrobe.edu.au
or Natalie Pirotta, Coordinator, Centre for Creative Arts
CentreCreativeArts@latrobe.edu.au

Professor Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture – FREE – Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize? #games #robots #geekgirl

Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize?

An interesting image for 2011. …

A player/character in the most recent Portal game is literally locked out of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant image of the human-computer interface a discussion will emerge to do with broader understandings of the digital humanities, media scholarship, and electronic literature. The focus for this approach will be the question famously posed by Richard Lanham’s: “how do the humanities humanize?”

Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University of Technology) will moderate a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following his presentation.

Date: Monday 10th October, 2011
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm.
Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria 179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3)
Australia

Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literature pioneer, both as a theoretician and as a writer, and has published many of articles on the topic of games, network literature and digital media theory. From 1995-99 he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and he is a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). His hypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary critic Robert Coover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext fiction works Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others. His recent work engages with digital games and its interface with media theory, electronic writing and scandal. His current work in progress is “Sc4nda1 in New Media,” an Arcade Essay that converges philosophical meditation with an actual video game. It can be accessed at http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm.

Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology. This visit has also been supported by the School of Media and Communication, RMIT and Sydney University.

Calling all Self publishers of the world! #zines #videos #geekgirl

Hi Self Publishers of the world, as you may or not know the library has an exhibition at Salford Art Gallery running from 15th October 2011 to 29th January 2012.

Pink Mince

I am looking to show a film at the exhibition made up of short videos that contributers to the library have made of themselves. The video will explain why you personally self publish and about the zines you produce. To submit please email me your short talking head videos no longer than five minutes. I will compile and edit these together and add captions for the finished film. All are welcome to contribute to this project and I would like an eclectic range of zine makers to participate covering all the genres etc. So wherever you are making your zines it would be great to hear from you.

Kind regards, Craig

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www.salfordzinelibrary.blogspot.com
www.craigjohnbarr.co.uk
www.matthewwalkerdine.co.uk

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

Invitation to Sprint on Internet Security #now #journalism #security #geekgirl

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Invitation to Sprint on Internet Security
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Basic Internet Security Book Sprint
April 28  – May 1 (2300 CET)
Open to anyone remote or real space (Berlin).

Help us write an introductory book on Internet Security!

Greenhost.nl have brought their staff to Berlin for a Book Sprint on Internet Security. It’s intended as a basic introduction and giving some attention to the needs of journalists.

The topics include Email Security, Browser Security, Personal Data Security, VPN, & Mobile Security. The sprint is happening right now and finishes Sunday May 1. You are invited to contribute and help write the book. Contributions can include any of the following :
* read the material and give us feedback (chat active on the edit page)
* write chapters or parts of chapters
* proof read
* provide illustrations
* add extra chapters / sections (discuss this with us in chat first
* technical checks
* language checks
* any other way you want

Contribute here:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/edit/

We will be there waiting! If you wish to attend in real space (Berlin) please contact Adam Hyde : adam@flossmanuals.net
Thanks to Buro 2.0 for providing the venue for this sprint (http://www.buero20.org/).

Sprint facilitated by Adam Hyde.

Charity Comic for Queensland Flood Relief ‘Tides of Hope’ #popculture #comic #supanova #geekgirl

Tides Of Hope - Supanova

Supanova are proud to be publishing a collectable, limited edition comic-book, written and illustrated by some of the world’s finest creators, to benefit Queensland flood-relief charity activities!

The special one-off comic limited to 1000 copies, ‘Tides of Hope’ is the local comic-book industry’s response to the tragedy, with the project coming to fruition with its sale at the Supanova Pop Culture Expos in Brisbane  and Melbourne.

Inspired by Sydney based comic-book writer Christopher Sequeira, who edited the comic and contributed a story illustrated by hotshot Marvel Comics artist (and visitor to Supanova in Brisbane) Leinil Francis Yu, the comic became reality through his and the combined efforts of Art Director and contributor, Tim McEwen, Publisher and Supanova Event Director, Daniel Zachariou, and all the other amazingly talented individuals who provided their time and art; 47 creators in all!

Sequeira relates that “Seeing true heroism, sacrifice and pathos on my nightly TV screen made me think of the potential of some creative folk reflecting and paying tribute to that in comics-form; so, why not put out the call for help? And our professional colleagues, world-wide, did not shirk that call – they leapt at the chance. They made it a brilliant, moving collection.”

‘Tides of Hope’ is 36 pages with 100% of proceeds from its $10 cover price going to charity while an auction of all the artwork, kindly donated by the illustrators, will ultimately be added to that pool of funds with comic-art collector, dealer and expert Royd Burgoyne also donating his time and expertise to do so.

Chris Claremont, Greg Capullo, Chris Sequeira, Tom Taylor, Colin Wilson, cover-artist Stewart McKenny, Jeffrey ‘Chamba’ Cruz, Jon Sommariva, Tim McEwen and many other contributors are attending the Brisbane and Melbourne expos and will be able to personally sign copies.

MELBOURNE 2011
April 8-10
Melbourne Showgrounds

#Poems on #Pillows launched by Australian Poetry Ltd in Association with Sydney Writers’ Festival and Sebel.

As a partnership with the Sydney Writers’ Festival <http://www.swf.org.au/> and Sebel Pier One Sydney<http://www.sebelpierone.com.au/>, *Australian Poetry Ltd* is thrilled to launch Poems on Pillows.

*Ever dreamed of jumping between the sheets with one of Australia’s top authors?*

*Or getting under the covers with a leading Australian publisher?*

*Well, now is your chance!*

If you live in NSW, you’re invited to submit a poem with the theme of ‘Sweet Dreams’ (maximum of 10 lines). Seven poems will be selected. Over the seven nights of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, a different poem will be placed on the pillows in every room at the Sebel Pier One Sydney hotel, where leading authors and publishers may be staying during the festival.

COMPETITION DETAILS
Entry Fee

$15 AP Member;  $20 non-member; $10 for every further entry by the same poet
(you can enter as many times as you like)

Competition closes Mar 31, 2011 (5pm).

Judging panel
Made up of Australian Poetry, Sydney Writers’ Festival and Sebel Pier One Sydney representatives.

How to Enter
Email your entry or entries (and contact details) to leah@australianpoetry.org . By emailing a submission, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood the below terms and conditions. http://www.australianpoetry.org/blog/2011/02/21/poems-pillows/

#loveit!

Digitise The Dawn: help the NLA digitise the first Australian newspaper to be run by women. #feminism #geekgirl

Digitise the Dawn

Donna Benjamin has started a campaign to raise funds to give the National Library of Australia so that they will Digitise the
first Australian newspaper to be run by women.

Louisa Lawson founded The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women in 1888 and ran it for 17 years.  She was a pivotal figure in winning women the right to vote in Australia, and her publication played a key role in the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Donna discovered The Dawn is not yet online whilst doing research for her talk she gave at this year’s Haecksen miniconf. She contacted the library to find out if / when they might intend to add it to the Trove collection at http://trove.nla.gov.au

A brief email exchange with the Director of the digitisation project spurred her to try and raise the relatively small amount needed to see this happen.

After initially setting up a chipin, she has now set up a website with a direct paypal donate button – but will also accept direct deposits, cheques and money orders.

Even more than your money – Donna would appreciate all of us  helping to spread the word. Louisa Lawson is one of our founding feminists – and The Dawn trumpeted the charge.
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Digitise The Dawn
Raising funds to digitise Louisa Lawson’s Journal for Australian Women
http://digitisethedawn.org
http://twitter.com/digitisethedawn

The Future Writer’s Festival – Nov 12th, 2010 #Melbourne #futurewriters #geekgirl

Future Writers Festival blog http://tinyurl.com/28bqj8f & NMIT Future Writers Festival at Westgarth Books http://tinyurl.com/36zuqdl

The festival will be held at Westgarth Books, 77 High St, Westgarth, Melbourne, Australia on 12 November from 11-5pm.

Men of letters hosted by Women of Letters #fundraiser #Melbourne #geekgirl

And now it’s the men’s turn - Men of letters – October 31 at the Thornbury Theatre (Melbourne)

After a whirlwind road trip incorporating four states, 23 letter-writers, and more hastily scribbled postcards than you could poke a Kilometrico at, Women of Letters is moving to its new permanent home at the Thornbury Theatre with a special one-off testosteroney line-up.

On October 31^st, co-curators Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy will host for the very first time their inaugural all-male Men of Letters, featuring a relatively gasp-inducing range of the country’s finest and most dapper talent. They will go where no man has gone before – into the celebration of the lost art of letter writing.

Singer/songwriter PAUL KELLY, sartorially elegant bandleader DAVE GRANEY, writer/performer JOHN SAFRAN, The Chaser’s CHAS LICCIARDELLO, star of stage and screen EDDIE PERFECT, The Gin Club frontman BEN SALTER, Spicks and Specks’ ALAN BROUGH, troubadour TIM ROGERS, political scribe and author BOB ELLIS and last but not least, Australia’s most decadent food critic MATT PRESTON will each be penning and reading a letter to ‘The Woman Who Changed My Life’.

There’ll be a DJ set by the inestimably lovely EMMA PEEL, wine, and copious amounts of letter writing.  Stamps and envelopes will be provided, and in the spirit of participation attendees are encouraged to pen short notes. Men of Letters  kicks off at 3.00 pm – doors open at 2.20 pm – and bookings are essential.

For $20 that’s a fairly formidable afternoon’s entertainment. All funds raised to go Edgar’s Mission.

The Thornbury Theatre is at 859 High Street, Thornbury. Tickets – http://www.thethornburytheatre.com