Experimenta is calling for proposals from Australian artists to create media artworks for the 2009 Biennial of Media Art, EXPERIMENTOPIA. In the rapidly shifting context of the beginning of the 21st Century – amidst personal, technological, economic, environmental, and political change – there are many different ways to move, directions to take, and personal
choices to make. Located in the heart of this setting, Experimentopia asks: what matters to you?
Experimenta will be commissioning new works for up to $6,000 each to be included in our exhibition of exceptional Australian and international media artworks. Successful proposals for the commissions will respond to the exhibition theme, engage audiences, use technology creatively, and can be audio/visual, installation, or object-based. Preference will be given to proposals for interactive works.
Deadline: Friday 25 July 2008
Works to be completed by: 1 May 2009
For more information please download the application form and guidelines from http://experimenta.org or request it to be sent by email from: kentia@experimenta.org
A narrative in three parts where Miss Roder may or may not be revealed. Late at night in an old warehouse in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, a search will be conducted. Employing tactics of confusion, observation, surveillance, and confession, we look for the answers to the question; Who is Miss Roder?
Artists from London, Chicago, Brisbane and Melbourne chart the extremity of analogue and digital performance, with influences including expanded cinema, noise, video mixing, and contemporary performance. Each work explores erformance within cinema through various means–from the prepared screens of Guy Sherwin, the responsive environment played by Jon Pak, to the ritualised actions of Ben Russell. Intermission: Who is Miss Roder? will leave a lasting memory of captured images in a woven narrative that brings gesture, intervention, and feedback to the fore of the cinematic experience.
Intermission: Who is Miss Roder? is presented by the Melbourne International Film Festival and Greyspace. In association with OtherFilm. Supported by Arts House.
Program 1: Signs in the debris
Stilted and banal, the consumed rituals of a cruel world
Vijay Thillaimuthu, SONE, Dirk de Bruyn, Ben Russell
Friday, August 1, 9.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Program 2: The sleight of hand
Illusionist constructions, light, and distorting lenses
Abject Leader, Guy Sherwin with Lynn Loo
Saturday, August 2, 4.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Program 3: And, is she here?
Codes and intrusions–tensions in public place and personal space
Jon Pak, Steven Ball, Botborg
Saturday, August 2, 9.30 pm – 11.30 pm
All programs can be enjoyed on their own or part of the on going narrative, Who is Miss Roder?
Location
45 Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bar open 30 minutes before program commences
Trasharama A-go-go, Australia’s NASTIEST short film festerval/competition is stalking short films for the 2008 tour. Send in your horror, sci-fi, bad taste comedies, grind-house trailers, sick animations, dodgymentaries and other filmic disasterpices. It doesn’t matter if it’s 20 years old or 20 minutes old, shot on 35mm or camera phone!! You can be in the running for some awesome prizes courtesy of Madman Entertainment, Polyester Books, Inside Film, Smoke & Mirrors, Crumpler, Blackflys Eyewear, Force Entertainment, Movie-Maniacs, Siberian Comics, Chainsaw Horror plus more…. As well as having your film screened to a National audience!!
Only $10 to enter (before August 14) or $15 late entry fee (until Sept 9).
http://www.trasharama.com.au
A bold satirical comment on the chemical-industrial food complex, Poultrygeist forces us to ask why – in the 118-year history of cinema – have we never been shown this before?
Poultrygeist: Kate Graham and Jason Yachanin as Wendy and Arbie Troma – the production company that brought you the low budget schlock-horror classics The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must Die <>- has ruffled feathers in the gorehound community with its latest release Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead <>, a moving tale about a fast food restaurant built on a native American burial ground that inevitably results in a disco-dancing chicken/human hybrid zombie apocalypse.
(Transvestism-obsessed director Lloyd Kaufman says it’s a “fromage” to the film The Happiness of the Katakuris <> directed by Takashi Miike.)
Poultrygeist isn’t subtle. In one scene a rectum is ripped out and tossed on a sizzling griddle.
“McDonald’s moved into the neighborhood next door and put their garbage in front of the Troma building,” director Lloyd Kaufman told the Arizona Star. “[Now] there are rats the size of raccoons in the basement.”
In short Poultrygeist – described by Variety as “a veritable Cluckwork Orange” – is the movie Fast Food Nation could have been if it hadn’t sucked.
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Toys leave China in containers, etoy enters China with a container: The SARCOPHAGUS opened its gates Monday, June 9 at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing. The community of the living and the dead woos for the Chinese and unpacks Timothy Leary only steps from the Forbidden City. After weeks of construction, the NAMOC opens SYNTHETIC TIMES, a global media art group show curated by Zhang Ga in collaboration with TATE London, MOMA New York, Eybeam, and Pro Helvetia.
To adapt MISSION ETERNITY to the Chinese market and build on a corporate tradition (etoy.FIZZLE*), etoy trades intangible assets for a new currency: The etoy.AFTERLIFE-CERTIFICATE (http://www.etoy.com/blog/) is designed to light up the boundary between life and death. Inspired by an old Chinese tradition of using fire to transfer assets to the dead (hell bank notes*), etoy collaborated with young graphic design talent – (Ruan Qianrui) to create the first note (beta v.01) equivalent to 1/1000 of an etoy.SHARE. With each certificate, a part of the etoy.BRAND goes up in smoke.
Exhibition: National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
No. 1 Wusi Street Dongcheng District, Beijing 100010 P.R.China
Jun 10, 2008 -July 3, 2008
Share with the living and burn for the dead/your agents in Beijing ! 😉
http://www.etoy.com
http://www.missioneternity.org
