Key Concepts
Science 2.0 generally refers to new practices of scientists who post raw experimental results, nascent theories, claims of discovery and draft papers on the Web for others to see and comment on.
Proponents say these “open access” practices make scientific progress more collaborative and therefore more productive.
Critics say scientists who put preliminary findings online risk having others copy or exploit the work to gain credit or even patents.
Despite pros and cons, Science 2.0 sites are beginning to proliferate; one notable example is the OpenWetWare project started by biological engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The first generation of World Wide Web capabilities rapidly transformed retailing and information search. More recent attributes such as blogging, tagging and social networking, dubbed Web 2.0, have just as quickly expanded people’s ability not just to consume online information but to publish it, edit it and collaborate about it—forcing such old-line institutions as journalism, marketing and even politicking to adopt whole new ways of thinking and operating.
Science could be next.
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: 25th May: Toft In Town.
Fresh from North American tour and LOAD records showcase at SXSW Lucas Abela is launching his new JUSTICE YELDHAM LP; BIRTHDAYS. The record consists of two live sets by the maverick amplified-glass player recorded during his & Keg’s recent tour of Europe.
Side A was captured in Marseille on the eve of Justice’s 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs birthday in Porto, and to top off the birthday cheer Keg also drew the cover illustration as a gift for Justice’s Birthday. The record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press (Australia). Of which only 25 or so are in the country as All Thumbs copies practically sold out during the aforementioned tour and will only be available at the show.
His sets have been described as “a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe”. By pressing his face and lips against the glass whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, he turns disguarded household windows into crude musical instruments. Resulting in a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical.
Justice Yeldham is the latest alter-ego of Australian sound performer Lucas Abela, whose past sonic experiments were conducted under monikers like A Kombi, Dj Smallcock & Peeled Hearts Paste. Initially classed as an experimental turntablist, although his early work rarely resembled anything in the field. Early feats, saw him stab vinyl with
Kruger style stylus gloves, bound on electro acoustic trampolines, drag race the popemobile across Sydney Harbour Bridge, perform deaf defying duet duels with amplified samurai swords, hospitalised by high powered turntables constructed from sewing machine motors, record chance John Peel sessions with the Flaming Lips, & be Otomo Yoshihides’ favourite entry into his Ground Zero remix competition; ‘Consummation’ even though instead of sampling the CD he destroyed it using amplified skewers!
He also founded and runs dualpLOVER (recording label, cd/dvd replicators, distributor and promoter of gigs and tours). Principally a live audio artist he’s been performing professionally for the past 14 years, ever since Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim stumbled across his late night radio performances in 1994 and asked him to play their 2nd What is Music? Festival. Since he’s toured the world extensively, performing in 35 coutries.
also appearing are Curse Ov Dialect with an all new show and the always entertaining Hi-God people + dj hate.
25th May
$10, 8pm
Toft In Town
252 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia
http://dualplover.com/justice.htm
http://www.myspace.com/thecurseovdialect
http://spill-label.org/hgp/hgp.php
http://www.thetoffintown.com/
The centerpiece of the recent “Form as Strategy” exhibit, at Columbia’s Buell Center, was a copper- and silver-plated board game called Le Jeu de la Guerre—a kind of modernist take on chess conceived in 1977 by the Marxist philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord, with inspiration from the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. Toward the end of his life, Debord, who led the situationist movement, in the late nineteen-sixties, wrote of the game, “I fear that this may well be the only one of my works that anyone will dare acknowledge as having some value.” By that point, a cardboard edition, intended for mass distribution, had been produced, along with a book detailing the rules. But the game’s fate was to be more like a cult object—a Dungeons & Dragons for scholars of the Parisian avant-garde.
Only a handful of the metal originals were ever made. Securing one, from Alice Becker-Ho, Debord’s widow, was a cumbersome ordeal that took months and required an intermediary in Switzerland, as Diana Martinez, who helped curate the exhibit, explained recently. Becker-Ho does not readily communicate by telephone and does not use e-mail, Martinez was told. “Then, one day, we randomly received a fax from her—amazingly,” Martinez said. The center had arranged, in the meantime, to feature Kriegspiel (German for “war game”), a computerized version of the old Debord invention, which was created by a local programming collective called the Radical Software Group. At the exhibit’s opening, a few weeks ago, a six-minute documentary about the making of Kriegspiel was shown on a video screen beneath the Jeu de la Guerre board itself.
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“Cash for Content” – Monetising mobile content
Many producers & publishers are looking to mobile as the new frontier for content, and with the rise of 3G mobile content is not just ring-tones and wallpapers. These days mobile content consists of almost anything you can find online, from
Audio Visual content such as movies and TV series right through to mobile games, images and premium text based content. In this MoMo we will explore the various way of generating revenues for your hard earned work and look at the associated business models.
For discussion:
* Does mobile content pay, and if so how much?
* Monetisation tools such as Premium SMS, WAP billing and Off-Deck payment portals
(PayPal, Bango)
* Content licensing models, working with carriers and content aggregators
* The Global mobile content opportunity, the world is beating a path to our door
* Ad funded content
Panel:
Martin Ince: Portfolio Manager, Interactive Data Services, Wireless & Mobility Products, Telstra
Martin oversees Telstra’s premium rate SMS products, InfoCall 190 and the SMS & MMS Access manager.
Hear from Martin about where content monetisation is headed from the top end of town.
Jim Shomos: Producer ‘Forget the Rules!’
Forget the rules was the first comedy/drama series in the world to broadcast all episodes on TV, broadband and mobiles, and was nominated for two MIPCOM Internet and Mobile TV Awards in 2006: best original content, and best interactive format (winner)
Jim has extensive experience in mobile content licensing especially when dealing with carriers having had exclusive relationships with 3 Mobile and Optus.
Mark and John Lycette: Owners of Lycette Bros
Formed in 1997, Lycette Bros. creates interactive and animated digital media. For the last three years they have been creating mobile content for the global market. Lycette Bros work continues to be commissioned, exhibited and awarded internationally.
May 5th
6.00pm to 8.00pm
Horse Bazaar
Digital Art Gallery Bar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
MONASH GALLERY OF ART presents Nathan MILLER:
Book launch and exhibition opening
Opening: 3.00pm Sunday 04 May 2008
Exhibition Dates:
until 08 June 2008
Notes from the Mississippi Delta reveals Miller as an astute observer of a culture that has brought us legendary musicians such as RL Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, T-Model Ford and drummer Sam Carr. In this exhibition musicians, juke joints, barbershops and the expansive landscape of the Delta are recorded in Miller’s extensive travels through “the Land
where the Blues began”
As Shelley Ritter, Director of the Delta Blues Museum, Mississippi states: ” Perhaps what is so striking about these images is their freshness. This is what he came to see and it is almost as though he is surprised to have found it. So surprised – and delighted even that he documented his experience as a validation of sorts. Almost a “aha” moment of “Yes, the blues is real”
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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
