Google finally announced its long-awaited mobile strategy. Sadly, the strategy does not include a “GooglePhone.” You won’t be able to go to the Google booth in the mall and pick up a Google-branded handset.What is happening is that Google is spearheading the “Open Handset Alliance,” a group of companies participating in a standard for mobile applications. Google’s big contribution to the Alliance is Android, a mobile phone operating system. But the software itself will most likely end up in dozens of phones, under various brands, available on several carriers.
Read: Google unveils cell phone alliance
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Tuesday November 13, 6-8pm
Basement Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
On Tuesday 13 November visionary designers and Artists In Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston, present an artist’s talk and presentation of their work, including The Art Unit.
Ben and Andrew established the company Bluebottle 3 in Melbourne in 1991. They have worked in every state and territory in Australia and are renowned for their creative and innovative approach to lighting and design. They have worked in theatres, galleries and museums, as well as a host of less conventional spaces. Together they have worked on an extensive range of events including installations, music performances, exhibitions, dance performances, and other special events Ben and Andrew are highly-regarded in the arts industry as theatre lighting and design professionals, and they are both leaders in their field. The pair is interested in extending the possibilities of design and the integration of light and the surrounding environment.
Footscray Arts is located on the Maribyrnong river bicycle path, which crosses the Footscray Road bicycle path from the Melbourne city.
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MASTERCLASS IN STREET ART USING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES
3-7 March 2008 Artspace @ Adelaide Festival Centre Applications close November 16, 2007
Applications are now open for participation in a week-long masterclass with the Graffiti Research Lab (NY).
Evan Roth and James Powderly (Graffiti Research Lab) are dedicated to outfitting street artists with open source technologies for urban communication. The goal of GRL is to technologically empower individuals to creatively alter and reclaim their surroundings from unchecked development and corporate visual culture. GRL have been touring the globe (SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, Numusic Festival, Art Rotterdam) demonstrating and teaching new graffiti technologies and DIY skills to diverse public audiences. Their work has been featured in the NY Times, Wooster Collective, TIME Magazine, Visual Resistance and The Village Voice. In 2006, Ars Electronica presented GRL with an Award of Distinction in Interactive Art.
Evan Roth is a media maker interested in uses of technology in popular culture and the urban environment. Evan received an MFA from Parsons where he now teaches courses on visual programming and Geek Graffiti. He is also a senior fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab, an open source creative technology research and development lab for the public domain. He is the creator of Graffiti Analysis (video), a project that uses motion tracking, computer vision technology, and a custom C++ application to record and analyse a graffiti writer’s pen movement over time. Evan’s media experiments include Explicit Content Only and Graffiti Taxonomy.
James Powderly is an artist and engineer working in the field of robotics, physical computing and artificially intelligent art. James studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, receiving his Master’s Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program. From 2002, James worked at Honeybee Robotics where he developed technology for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover that is currently on the surface of the red planet. James has previously worked at Eyebeam OpenLab as an artist in residence, he is a partner in RobotClothes, and the co-founder of the Robotics Society of America New York City Chapter.
Download application forms from www.anat.org.au/graffitiresearchlab or www.carclew.com.au. For further information and application forms please contact Annemarie Kohn on 08 8267 5111 or akohn@carclew.org.au.
For examples of GRL’s work visit: www.graffitiresearch.com.
Presented by Carclew Youth Arts in association with the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and the Australian Network for Art and Technology.
Editor’s pick:
Friday 16th November
Eye to Eye – Ground breaking reality television with Errol Morris. Interviews include: In the Kingdom of the Unabomber
When psychologist Gary Greenberg wanted to broaden his career, he sought guidance from a more established writer. Unfortunately his mentor turned out to be Ted Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber. The Little Grey Man Forget 007…the real deal in the world of secret agents is Antonio Mendez, a CIA operative for 25 years specializing in multiple identities. You’re Soaking in It After her stepson’s shotgun suicide Joan Dougherty was left with a broken heart…and a bloody mess. But as she scrubbed away at the grisly remains of death, a business was born. Mr Personality On a scale of 1 to 22, how evil are you? Forensic psychologist Michael Stone has designed a fascinating formula to calculate a criminal’s cruelty quotient. Mu-Meson Archives doors 7.30 for 8pm start with supper $10
For More extensive and detailed information please visit
Mu-Meson Archives web site
http://www.mumeson.org
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Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale, Sydney, NSW at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone (02) 9517-2010
STILL HERE: humour in post-communist performance video
Guest curator: Simon Rees
Until 17th November
Artists include: Jesper Alvaer, AZORRO, Kuba Bakowski, Blue Noses, Pavel Braila, Olga Chernysheva, Chernyshev & Efimov, Oskar Dawicki, Esto TV, Gints Gabrans, Arunas Gudaitis, Evaldas Jansas, Tigran Khachatrian, Oleg Kulik, Gabriel Lester, Marko Lulic, Dainius Liskevicius, Marko Maetamm, Mindaugas Navakas, Katrina Neiburga, Cristi Pogacean, Reinis Petersons, Arturas Raila, Kriss Salmanis, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
According to the old ruby, “laughter is the best medicine”. Considering that humour often mixes anxiety and aggression it might be thought of like chemotherapy—a bastard child of mustard gas warfare—part killer and part cure. Its affects are unpredictable and oftentimes uncontrollable. Sounds like the perfect antidote if control is the disease. There is a sense in which eastern European artists who have made their career in the post-communist 1990s are survivors who continue to self-administer their cure as the classic symptoms of (their) social disease remain and new forms of the malaise continue to be diagnosed, including: consumerism, cronyism, class divide, cultural disavowal, nationalism, nostalgia, artistic and political recidivism, and poverty. Joined by a colleague, senior Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Navakas jigs and jogs on the spot in an exhibition space. The two artists visibly feel the effects of their age as they dance. They are the last remaining members of a firebrand group of artists associated with the soviet independence movement-15 years on their comrades have succumbed to conservatism (and even aligned themselves with the former enemy). By the end of the performance the artists are puffed but defiantly-still here. Still Here presents work by artists from Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. Developed for Artspace by Simon Rees, curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Artspace
43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
artspace@artspace.org.au
www.artspace.org.au
