Fibreculture Journal 15 – Remix launched. Good reading that will keep you busy for a while. #fb #in

The Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. The Fibreculture Journal encourages submissions that extend research into critical and investigative networked theories, knowledges and practices.
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What Now? : The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue15/

It became a minor phenomenon during 2007. By September 2009 it was a virus out of control. Described in Wired as a ‘popular internet meme’ (Wortham, 2008), the obsessive serial mash-up of a key sequence from Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2004 film of the last days of Adolf Hitler, Der Untergang (The Downfall), is suggestive of the cultural logic of the contemporary formation known as remix. Remix culture is comprised of what could loosely be termed amateurs and professionals engaged in the practice of creatively re-using found material. The distinction is useful in identifying the aesthetic and material differences between dedicated intermedia remix artists (Negativland, Martin Arnold, Craig Baldwin, Soda_Jerk), artists who incorporate elements of remix into a broader audiovisual practice (Philip Brophy, Candice Breitz, Christian Marclay, John Zorn) and the vernacular audio-visual mash-up/remake/dub/scratch aesthetics associated with a broad range of online practices. The domestication of audio-visual literacies in the digital age has meant that the processes of sampling, editing and compositing – once the province of dedicated adepts – have become second nature for a generation weaned on computers and digital technology. Audio-visual remix attests to a utilitarian competence in ‘writing’ for the communications paradigm of the internet and networked conditions that Gregory L. Ulmer famously termed ‘electracy’; a concept that prioritises the notion of the ‘remake’ and the use of found material (Ulmer, 1989, 1994, 2005, Tofts, 1996). As well, this pervasive cultural competence (in Chomsky’s linguistic sense of the term) attests to the dramatic distribution of the material means of production into the hands of consumers.

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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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

Even Books want your 101 word story

Write a story of exactly 101 words. it can be about anything – but lets be real, MOST stories are actually about love.

send to evenbooks@evenlovershavefights.com by TUES 24 NOV!

it’ll be easier than offline flirting, more fun than oversharing on your first date.
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DIY news website created by Journalism 2.0 author Mark Briggs

Journalism 2.0 author Mark Briggs has created, a step-by-step guide to creating an independent news website from scratch. Presented by J-Learning, an online guide for creating hyper-local community media and a project of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, the site emphasises accessibility and open-source technology.

Find out more about “Newspaper in a box”

Disability journalism award

The inaugural Yooralla Media Awards, celebrating excellence in journalism on disability issues, is currently looking for entries. Awards cover print, radio, television and online media.

If you’ve run a story on disability issues this year, visit the awards website for details on how to submit your work. Entries close October 30.

http://www.yoorallamediaawards.com.au/

Online Divas is proud to present M I S S B L O G

M I S S B L O G , a bloggers conference dedicated to teaching women how and why to blog!

Speakers include:
Yiying Lu, creator of the twitter fail whale, will talk to us on the importance of twiiter
Samantha Brett, Australia’s favourite blogger
Kate Kendall, online editor from marketing magazine
Alex Brooks from renovation rescue, SMH’s leading real estate blogger
Hollie Turner – taking you on a beginners guide to blogging for your business survival

For Info visit: http://www.miss–blog.blogspot.com

From Sometimes Love Beth, an adventure in postcards.

The humble postcard celebrates its 140th birthday in October 2009*, the month we publish From Sometimes Love Beth, a compendium of all things postcarderly by author and artist Beth Sometimes.

On the eve of 2008, Beth set herself a challenge to send a postcard to somebody or something every day for the next year. From her new home in Central Australia, her mostly handmade cardboard communiqués radiated throughout the country and beyond – to friends, exes, strangers, mountains, stars and just about anything she wanted to reach out and touch.

Some postcards she raced, others she designed to make posties blush, while other focus on Beth’s experiences working with indigenous Australians in the Central Desert. Each contains a piece of writing of some significance; moments in time and personal reflections that create their own poetic narrative as public and exposed as a postcard itself.

Collected are the best of the postcards and 20 challenges to inspire readers to set off on their own postal adventures (tear-out postcards are included so there’s no excuse). This is a uniquely celebratory book that explores the themes of isolation and connection, brings people together and influences by delight.

Beth Sometimes

Author and artist Beth Sometimes – pictured above – will be on a publicity tour and available for interview in Adelaide (1-5 October), Newcastle (6 October), Melbourne (7-8 October) and Sydney (9 October). She is also available to write articles on anything to do with postcards.

For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Shirley Hardy-Rix, at shirley@hardyrix.com.au or 0412 057 288.

GG: It’s really an awesome book and you should get a copy, oh and one for a friend too !

(GREAT GIFT IDEA for 09)

ISBN 978-0-9806378-0-9, RRP is $29.95.
To purchase a copy online, visit the Affirm Press website: www.affirmpress.com.au

Topic for Blog Action Day 2009 is…Climate Change.

BAD press release…

We’re thrilled to announce that after receiving more than 10,000 votes from past Blog Action Day participants, the issue overwhelmingly voted as the topic for Blog Action Day 2009 is…Climate Change!

You can now register for Blog Action Day 09 by going to: www.blogactionday.org

To be a part of this year’s event, all we ask is that you commit to writing one  post, in your own voice, on October 15, on the topic of climate change.

You can learn more about the issue of climate change and see sample topics you might write about — like the connections between climate and clean energy, food choices, green products, health, transportation, and the broader economy.

LOVING RICHARD FEYNMAN by author Penny Tangey

Loving Richard Feynman is a contemporary, realistic story for young adults told through a series of letters written by fourteen-year-old Catherine to the deceased, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Richard Feynman. Catherine, who is socially awkward and a self-confessed nerd, loves science and idolises the American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb.

She decides to write to him in an attempt to unload her thoughts and feelings. Catherine finds this much easier than trying to communicate with someone who’s real. Catherine is an only child who has a very close bond with her scientist father. He often mentors her through, not only school work, but friendship issues as well. Catherine’s world is thrown into chaos when her parents separate as a result of her father’s infidelity. Her father – her rock – has let her down. She confides even more in Richard Feynman.

As the narrative progresses, Catherine’s insecurities, fears and misinterpretations of her journey through adolescence slowly unravel. This is paralleled with her decreasing admiration for her idol as she discovers more about Feynman’s personality and his discoveries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Penny Tangey stepped into the stand-up comedy scene after winning the Victorian final of Triple J’s Raw Comedy Competition in 2001. Since then she has performed regularly in Melbourne and been involved in many festival shows. In 2003 she was selected for the prestigious Comedy Zone. This show is produced by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to showcase Australia’s best young comedians. In 2004 Penny appeared on Stand-up! on ABC TV.

Penny was a 2006 recipient of a Brian Macarthy Memorial Award (Moosehead) for her show Kathy Smith Goes to Maths Camp. The Moosehead is an in-kind grant awarded to an innovative proposal for a Melbourne Comedy Festival show.

Penny lives in Melbourne.

Published by UQP /Available now / ISBN: 978 0 7022 3725 6 / RRP: $17.95

This Is Not Art

A supercharged convergence of writers, performers, thinkers, independent and industry musicians, creative researchers, electronic artists, dilettantes, and DIY culture makers in a showcase featuring over 400 local, national and international artists.

TINA present Australia’s most exciting and emergent exhibitions, screenings, performances, panels, workshops, talks, gigs, interventions, live art and special events in five days of creativity and absolute madness!

Features: Zombie Rights March, Zine Festival,heck way too many to mention. Check out all the This Is Not Art participants here.

This Is Not Art
Office: 3/231 King Street, NEWCASTLE, Australia 2300
Phone: (02) 4927 0675 Fax: +61 2 4927 1475
Email: admin@thisisnotart.org
www.thisisnotart.org

independent, emerging & experimental annual arts & media festival

01 – 05 October 2009
Newcastle, Australia