The Don’t Look 2203 Collective presents ‘Don’t Shop’.
This exhibition will showcase some of the great ZINES that are being made by individuals and collectives around Sydney (for the uninitiated, Wikipedia describes a zine as “a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images”. They are generally fiercely independent and an antidote to the mind-numbing mass media).
More than that though, these zines will come alive spreading into the gallery via graph art, video projections, sound and other mediums. Come and have a look at the exhibition and take away a zine in the process (some are *free* while most just charge to recover printing costs).
WHO: Zine artists and the Don’t Look 2203 Collective
WHEN: Opening: June 6-21, 2008
WHERE: Don’t Look 2203, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney
(a block back from the corner of New Canterbury Rd and Marrickville Rd)
CONTACT: Phone: Matt on 0404 654 757, Email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
ENTRY: Gold coin donation to assist with costs
ProPublica, the not-for-profit investigative journalism initiative of former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger that was announced last year is now up and running. The project is funded with some $10 million in annual pledged donations from a mix of contributors and has vowed to create investigative journalism for a variety of news outlets and aggregate other US investigative journalism on its site.
http://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-the-starting-line
A Jo Lloyd presentation
Wednesday 25 – Sunday 29 June 2008
Arts House, Meat Market, North Melbourne Town Hall
A dog attacks a child at a party. A robbery victim lies bleeding. Who really knows what went on?
Apparently That’s What Happened is a new dance work that explores the aftermath of those moments when, faced with sudden drama, we react in ways we never would have predicted. Disturbing incidents where each witness has a different perspective.
Audience members will leave with their own account of what happened – not one viewer will experience the performance in the same way weather they be a victim or voyeur.
Jim Mielke’s wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html
There are a steadily growing set of devices upon which any click is a hassle. The most numerous and obvious example is the cellphone, where the keypad is often a finicky and unpleasant way to enter any click at all.Then there are devices such as the Chumby (www.chumby.com) for which the content displayed is configured online via a Web site which allows for both a selection of content to be made, and also the order in which that content will be displayed to be set.
Therefore, there is a growing number of people who don’t just want one click. Instead, they want no click. Or in other words, they want “set and forget”.
