This year, the award-winning Chunky Move work GLOW returns to Melbourne for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Created by Chunky Move Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek and interactive software creator
Frieder Wei GLOW is an intimate, interactive solo performance in which the motion of the human body is used to trigger and control music, lighting and animation. Beneath the glow of a sophisticated video tracking system,
a dancer mutates in and out of human form into unfamiliar, sensual and grotesque creature states.
October 12 – 27, Chunky Move Studios
Performance times: Tuesday – Saturday 6pm and 7pm | Sunday 4pm and 5pm.
Tickets: $25 full / $18 concession – purchase through Ticketmaster –
www.ticketmaster.com.au phone 1300 136 166
Chunky Move
111 Sturt Street, Southbank
http://www.chunkymove.com
John Cage’s Musicircus is a large-scale simultaneous performance event involving musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets and a pony. Audiences are invited to move around BMW Edge anytime from dusk to dawn to explore works by local and international artists all being performed together at the one time. The very first Musicircus in Melbourne is based on a John Cage event first performed in 1967. Using the architecture of Cage’s work, and the architecture of the building, over 200 performers will come together for John Cage’s Musicircus. Drop in for an unforgettable
simultaneous performance moment or join the all-night event marathon where you never know who’ll be performing when.
WHEN: Fri 26 Oct from 6.48pm – 5.20am (Dusk til Dawn)
Food and drink will be on sale throughout the evening
FREE
WHERE: BMW EDGE, Fed Square, Melbourne
For more information on the Melbourne International Arts Festival see:
http://www.melbournefestival.com.au
Baby Love (2005) is art that moves you and your imagination.. Climb aboard a giant teacup and glide into a futuristic fantasy with a dummy-sucking baby doll clone to your favourite love song at Sydney’s new home for contemporary arts, CarriageWorks.
This October school holidays, CarriageWorks’ cathedral-scale foyer will play home to 6 giant teacups, each with a larger-than-life baby doll clone.
Baby Love is a wi-fi mobile installation by New York based Ta iwanese artist, Shu Lea Cheang, who calls cyber-space ‘home’. Shu Lea is a multi-media artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production.
Baby Love is an embracing interactive, kinetic and sonic experience, alluding to both past and future as the teacups evoke the nostalgia of amusement park rides and clash with the futuristic vision of cloned babies.
The public can contribute to the joyride soundtrack by uploading songs via the web at www.babylove.biz which go directly to the installation. The songs are transmitted wirelessly via Memory-Emotion data to the babies. When the rider selects their love song of choice to begin their teacup ride, the ME data is retrieved, jumbled and eventually crashes.
The cloned babies of Baby Love are an updated version of the central figures in Ryu Murakami’s Coin Locker Babies. In the novel, twins born from lockers at a Yokohama Station spend their lives haunted by the sound of their mother’s heartbeat.
Cheang’s clones were inspired by scientific research into the development of biobots and artificial life forms. It is an installation which fuses nostalgia for a seemingly simpler age without boggling interactive technology and our contemporary obsessive immersion in the virtual life of the internet. Cheang seems to be asking where will the ever new frontiers of the web take us?
Presented by CarriageWorks, Experimenta and Awesome Arts Baby Love is an umbrella event of Art and About 2007, presented by City of Sydney
DATES Monday 1 Oct – Friday 2 Nov | Mon – Sat | 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 5pm
TICKET PRICE Free
http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whatson/whatson.html
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If you were waiting for YouTube to roll out a maps feature to browse geotagged videos, the solution has come in the form of a new Google Earth layer . With the layer enabled, videos will pop up anywhere you are on the map and play on the video’s page on YouTube if you click the thumbnail. PC users get a slightly better experience than Mac or and Linux users, as the videos will play right inside the application.
Like other layers in Google Earth, you need to turn this one on to start seeing videos. You’ll find it under the “featured content” section. Once enabled, each video shows up as a little YouTube logo that can be clicked for more information, such as a video thumbnail preview, how many views it has, and a community rating.
