05 PM | 08 Oct

Virgin inks deal with BoingBoing

BoingBoing is joining the mile high club. Boing Boing TV, a new venture borne from the popular BoingBoing.net technology blog, will be available to all passengers on Virgin America airline flights beginning next month.

The budget airline, based in San Francisco and a member of the Virgin Group, announced Friday it has an exclusive relationship to deliver in-flight daily video reports “with the same irreverent and eclectic content” that’s made BoingBoing.net a popular blog. Boing Boing editors Xeni Jardin and Mark Frauenfelder will host the three-to-five minute video reports.

“By offering Boing Boing TV’s unique brand of content to Virgin America flyers, even before we begin offering broadband on our flights in 2008, we are unveiling a completely new inflight entertainment experience,” said Charles Ogilvie, Virgin America’s director of inflight entertainment, in a statement. “This exclusive partnership with BoingBoing TV will deliver high-quality video entertainment with a twist, just like what you would expect from Virgin America.”

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05 PM | 08 Oct

ANAT relaunches Synapse

The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) continues the growth of its art research science program by relaunching www.synapse.net.au – a database of international art/science collaborations.

The revamped database has been expanded to include commentary on this rapidly advancing area of practice, as well as up-to-the-minute details of projects undertaken by artists and scientists, within Australia and internationally. As such, it is an excellent and unique resource for researchers and those interested in the intersections between science and the arts.

The database can be searched by artist, science organisation, or project and contains details of residencies, exhibitions, research projects and areas of science interest, as well as a gallery of works resulting from partnerships that have taken place over the past decade.

Aside from its archival and research functions, ANAT hopes the database will encourage artists, scientists, researchers, curators and their allied industries to develop innovative and dynamic collaborations into the future.

02 PM | 29 Sep

Georgia METAXAS: lower your ears

Exhibition Dates: 12 October – 02 December 2007 Opening: 3.00pm Sunday 14 October, 2007

Utilizing the conventions of portraiture, and evoking the aesthetic of early documentary photography, Metaxas has turned the humble haircut into a poignant moment of reflection.

Metaxas’ images of hairdressing clearly belong to this documentary tradition of photography,with their full-frontal perspective and the absence of any embellishment or interpretation. Capturing portraits of the sitters before, during and after the event, she records each individual’s transformation in a straightforward way.

Metaxas says:”The simple act of having a haircut makes you feel better about yourself and how you appear to others. I found the transformation of the sitters as it revealed itself to me a fascinating one. By documenting this process, I aim to cast the viewers gaze back to these individuals, unflinchingly, but not without empathy.”

Working in a social documentary context over several years, Metaxas is known for her work on issues of identity and belonging. Although these themes are still integral to her work, a recent shift has found her exploring a broader notion of ritual, examining the more universal aspects of life. The haircuts are in keeping with this and allow the transformation of the simple haircut into a dramatic event.

Monash Gallery of Art 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 T: +61 3 9562 1569 M: 0411 964 382 F: +61 3 9562 2433 E: markh@monash.vic.gov.au W: www.mga.org.au

Gallery, gift shop, licensed cafe and sculpture park Tue-Fri: 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun: 12pm-5pm, Mon and public holidays: closed

01 PM | 28 Sep

Mu-Mesons: Oct

For a more comprehensive and detailed program please visit Mu-Meson Archives web site http://www.mumeson.org http://www.mumesonarchive.org http://www.mumesonarchive.net http://www.mumesonarchive.com

Highlights to mark down in your diary New night Marginalized Movies Wednesday 3rd October “Who Killed Teddy Bear? Wednesday 17th October Worlds Greatest Sinner 1962 Friday 5th October Urgh! A Music War (1981) Saturday 6th October Miss Death presents Little Red Ridding Hood vs. the Monsters (1961) scored live by Darth Vegas @ Chauvel Cinema Thursday 11th October Directors Cut: RICHARD The Most Interestingest Person I’ve Ever Met Friday 19th October Trasharama A-Go-Go Film Festival Sunday 21st October Miss Deaths Knitting Group Thursday 25th October Directors Cut: Trash Video’s Andrew Leavold  in THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG: Friday 26th October Weng Wengs Third Movie D’WILD WILD WENG (1981) Saturday 27th October  Sounds of Seduction: Monster Mash

Note this is a Sydney based film event run monthly. You can ring the organisers on (02) 9517-2010 or refer to the websites for times and locations.

12 PM | 28 Sep

Scot Cotterell

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Scot Cotterell (Tasmania)

October 2 6-8pm Footscray Arts

Scot Cotterell is a media artist, writer and curator based in Tasmania.

A recent installation, ‘The Life Death Oppositional comprises the residue of two separate google image searches using the terms ‘life’ and ‘death’ as provocations. Partly as a response to recent realist photography, but also to do with setting parameters within a system in order to facilitate the creation of art; a kind of improvisatory structure, I conducted the two searches and chose only images that were photographic and only images that appeared in someway posed or constructed. The connection of photography to visual truth of an actual event is a core interest in this work. The images used now exist beyond the camera that may have created them; they are searchable database items, files on a cd, and now digital prints. I have retained no record of their origin.’

http://www.scotcotterell.com

INFO: —– October 2,  6-8pm Footscray Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray

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