Extropia
The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future is a two-day conference examining how two of the 21st Century’s driving forces, religion and technology, will continue to re-shape each other and, in the process, re-cast our understanding of “humanity” in the Third Millennium. Centered on, but not limited to, virtual worlds and social networking technologies, speakers and panelists will also examine changes precipitated by the biotechnology revolution, cognitive science, information technologies and robotics.
Time and Place Start Time: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8:00am
End Time: Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 5:00pm
Location: Extropia Core and Al Andalus Generalife
Second Life
Conference website: http://zones.extropiacore.net/religion/index.html
Distribution platforms, open platforms, Creative Commons licenses, portable content, videocast – what is it, what does it all mean for filmmakers & artists, and how can it be used to their advantage? Join us at FRAMED #04: DIGITISE ME!, for our regular free lunchtime seminar series, at Digital Harbour Theatrette (Melbourne).
Presented by OPEN CHANNEL, FRAMED #04 speakers include:
Andrew Apostola, Portable Film Festival (facilitator)
Jim Shomos, Producer, Forget the Rules
Dr Lisa Dethridge, author of WRITING YOUR SCREENPLAY
Thea Baumann, Media artist and curator, & Executive Producer, APHIDS
Sherwin Akbarzadeh, Project Manager, TALKING DOCKLANDS
When: Thursday 5 June, 12.30 – 2pm
Where: Digital Harbour Theatrette, Innovation Building, 1010 Latrobe St, Docklands
RSVP: marketing@openchannel.org.au
FRAMED 08 IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY FILM VICTORIA
Opening on Saturday June 7th Texta has some floral field drawings (no nudes this news) as part of THE FORTUNE GARDEN, a plastic paradise of an installation by Elaine Su-Hui Chew at Brunswick Bound.
Check out the event at
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19937388581
If you’re not a member already, join up the Brunswick Bound group so u can keep posted of upcoming shows at this Sydney Road (Melbourne) art gallery.
Also check out the last showing of ESKY, the hand made inflatable igloo bar (with the most delicious Strait vodka ever) on Saturday at the Meat Market in North Melbourne.
http://www.whereisesky.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14469133340
Saturday 31 May
Don’t forget you can also SMS the word “esky” on the day to 0428 477 128 to find the location throughout the festival!
It’s a fantastic project coordinated by Keg de Souza and Christie Petsinis as part of the Next Wave Festival. ESKY wants to quench you from 2 pm.
Observatory Hill, Sydney
Roll up, roll up, Sydneysiders! In honor of their 150th Anniversary celebrations, Sydney Observatory has commissioned Kirsten Bradley to create one of her Solar-Powered Cardboard Planetaria as part of the general festivities on Observatory Hill.
A chance to contemplate the night sky of 1858, from the comfort of a Solar-Powered Cardboard Planetarium… in the auspicious surrounds of the Sydney Observatory Gardens, atop Observatory Hill. Bring a picnic. Bring your friends. And bring a kid, if you can find, borrow or hire one…
The Observatory grounds will be open from 10am-4pm each day of the June Long Weekend (7th-9th June 2008) and, in addition to the Solar-Powered Cardboard Planetarium, I believe you will be able to view the Sun through filtered telescopes set up on the grounds, see inside bits of the Observatory that you usually cannot, do other stuff and generally take in the gobsmacking view of Sydney harbor, while contemplating the firmament above from your picnic rug and intermittently toasting the universe. Cheers!
Details:
http://thejunefox.blogspot.com/2008/05/cardboard-planetarium-at-sydney_29.html
Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 10:00am
End Time: Monday, June 9, 2008 at 4:00pm
Location: Sydney Observatory Gardens
Street: Observatory Hill, the Rocks
City/Town: Sydney, Australia
Carolyn Porco received her PhD from CalTech in 1983 from the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, then joined the faculty of the University of Arizona and was made a member of the Voyager Imaging Team. In 1990 she was selected as the Imaging Team leader for the Cassini-Huygens mission, which is ongoing, and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerationS (CICLOPS). She is also currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In 1991 Porco talked to Natalie Angier at the New York Times for an article about the lack of women in scientific leadership positions:
“Scientists can be like schoolyard toughs,” said Dr. Caroline Porco, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who has been appointed head of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft mission, scheduled to fly past Saturn in the early 21st century. “I grew up as the only girl with four brothers, but still I wasn’t prepared for what I encountered at Stanford when I went there in 1974, as a graduate student. You’d present your results, and somebody would say, ‘How did you get here? Why are you wasting my time? If you had half a brain you could have done that calculation.’ ”
What is more, said Dr. Porco, if she had had the inclination to respond in kind, “the guys would probably say, ‘She’s a pushy bitch.’ ” And Porco does apparently have a reputation for aggressiveness (at least according to this 2004 article).
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🙂 Highly recommend watching the video it’s awesome and Carolyn is a great presenter. You’ll be blown away by what Cassini captured!! It’s pretty awesome.
