ANDREW DENTON TAKES ON THE ISSUE OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Don’t miss Andrew Denton’s special documentary on the experience of mental illness Angels and Demons, on next Monday 7 April at 9.35pm ABC1.
The Enough Rope team filmed part of the documentary at the TheMHS conference in Melbourne last year where the Collection presented the exhibition Speaking Out.
CREATIVE CONTEXTS – FINAL WEEK
This is your last chance to see the current exhibition CREATIVE CONTEXTS, the last day is Wednesday 9 April at the Collection.
CREATIVE CONTEXTS investigates ideas around the context in which artworks are created and how this impacts upon them. The exhibition features works drawn from the Cunningham Dax Collection created in a variety of settings including institutional settings, therapy sessions and private settings.
For more information regarding the Collection’s exhibitions and activities, or to make a donation, please go to our website
www.daxcollection.org.au
THE CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION
Open: Wed, Thurs, Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat, 1 to 5pm
35 Poplar Road Parkville Victoria 3052
t 61 3 9342 2394 fax 61 3 9381 2008
www.daxcollection.org.au
“No amount of PR and no number of company blogs can make a bad company look good – or smart. Wal-Mart is the poster pig for that lipstick.” writes new media blogger Jeff Jarvis. Read full post here http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/02/what-pr-wont-fix/
By John Conomos
Mutant Media gathers together a selection of John Conomos’ essays across the years, tracking the trajectory of his cinephilia since the 1960s, his ongoing interests in film criticism and theory, as well as his deep involvement in video art and new media since the 1980s. On one hand a major contribution to the realm of moving image and new media theory, Mutant Media is also a kind of autobiography of someone whose eclectic life as an artist, writer and educator centres around cinema’s grand, unpredictable adventure spanning three centuries.
John Conomos is a media artist, critic and writer, and Senior Lecturer in film and new media studies at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. A frequent contributor to local and overseas film, cultural and media journals for the past two decades, he was a founding editor of the time-based media arts journal Scan+ and editor, with Brad Buckley, of Republic of Ideas (Artspace/Pluto Press 2001). Conomos’ videotapes and installations have been widely exhibited throughout Australia, Europe, the United States and Latin America. His work received an honourable merit award at Berlin’s Transmediale Videofest ’98, and in 2000 he became a recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts New Media Fellowship.
Web: www.gleebooks.com.au/events
The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is proudly supporting Daniel Flood to deliver accessible technology workshops at the pioneering Container Project in Jamaica in May 2008. A talented new media, theatre and community cultural development artist and founding member of the FRESH media group, Daniel will be presenting Digital
Graffiti; Plugged In. Digital Graffiti will examine the role of arts and technology in engaging, animating and enlivening neighbourhood spaces and the role that arts and culture can play in neighbourhood revitalisation.
The Container Project is an innovative, arts-driven engine for community empowerment through creativity. Based in a bright yellow converted shipping container in the heart of Palmers Cross, a rural township noted for its poverty and associated social problems; it is the initiative of one of its own, digital artist mervin Jarman (sic).
To celebrate the Container’s fifth anniversary in 2008, a series of extended workshops have been organised under the banner “As We Move”. The aim is to introduce New Media Arts to the Jamaican population by “taking participating practitioners from around the world into the field and some unusual situations.” The iStLab will be a vital component of the anniversary program as visiting practitioners can take their workshops into the field with all the tools they need.
The workshops will be a “launching pad for exciting research and development of community resources in ICT and multimedia productions,” mervin announces, “concluding with the Digitizing Culture International Symposium in March 2009.”
For more details go to http://www.mongrelstreet.org/5thAnniEvents/5thAnni.html or contact
mervin Jarman at containerproject@gmail.com
Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to … defend emo kids?
A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.
The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana’s emo kids to stay away from the town’s fair next month.
But the so-called emos are organizing, too. Last week, they demonstrated against the violence, pictured above, and Wednesday some met with police in Mexico City.
“They’re organizing to defend their right to be emo,” wrote Daniel Hernandez of LA Weekly on his personal blog, which has provided stellar coverage of the whole affair.
Music-based subcultures have permeated Mexico’s major cities for decades, fueled by constant migration from rural cities. But only in the past year have emos begun to make their presence felt in the streets. In response, many of the established so-called tribus urbanas like punks and metalheads are responding with violence. The emo-punk battles are reminiscent of earlier subculture fights among various factions, like the Hell’s Angels fighting hippies at the Altamont Music Festival or the Mods taking on the Rockers.
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