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Flickerfest, Australia’s premier international short film festival opens in Melbourne with a world-class program of multi-award winning shorts, made by Melbourne filmmakers.
When: Thursday 27 – Friday 28 March Where: Kino Dendy, Collins Place Tickets available at the Box Office – on sale now!
Go to http://www.flickerfest.com.au to view listings of the films screening in each program.
Want to make a film in the holidays? Over three days you’ll learn all about lighting, camera, sound and editing. Make a short drama film and get with industry standards.
Professional filmmaker Elise West will teach you how to operate a camera, sound, lights and edit a short drama. Work in small groups, rotate through crew roles, act, direct, shoot with professional gear, edit on Final Cut Pro and learn the skills you’ll need to make your own films look professional.
All students get a DVD of the completed film. Who should do this course? Designed for 13 – 17 year olds only. Pre-requisites: No experience necessary.
When: April 1, 2, 3 Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm Tues to Thurs Where: OPEN CHANNEL, Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne Cost: $250 Duration: 3 days Bookings: 03 8610 9300 shortcourses@openchannel.org.au
The fifth biennial for computer based and technological art, Malmö Konsthall
Electrohype 2008 will be the fifth biennial for computer-based art in Sweden. Electrohype is pleased to announce this call for entries for the exhibition that will be a follow up to the previous large Electrohype exhibitions in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.
The exhibition will for the second time take place at Malmö Konsthall (also 2004). The duration of the biennial will be from mid November 2008 to beginning of January 2009. Malmö Konsthall was opened in 1975 and is one Europe’s largest and most flexible exhibition halls for contemporary art. The annual number of visitors are approximately 200,000. The exhibition will present works by 5 – 8 artists or artist groups. To give the exhibition a broad perspective we are looking for Nordic as well as international artists.
Important dates * Deadline for this call for entries April 18th 2008 * Exhibition opening mid November 2008 * Exhibition closing beginning of January 2009 * Exact date will soon be announced.
What kind of art are we looking for? Electrohype has since the start in 1999 focused on what we choose to call computer based art. Art that runs of computers and utilizes the capacity of the computer to mix various media, allow interaction with the audience, or machines interacting with each others etc. in other words art that can not be transferred to “traditional” linear media. This might seem as a narrow approach but we have discovered that it gives us a better focus on a genre that in no way is narrow. We are not looking for “straight” video art (even if it is edited on a computer) or still images rendered on computers and other material that refers to more “traditional” media forms. Forms were the traditional tools have been replaced with computers and software.
Curators for the biennial are Anna Kindvall and Lars Gustav Midbøe.
The minimum subsistence level housing of today.
Entries for the Bauhaus Award 2008 may be submitted from 1st January to 31st March 2008. With the Bauhaus Award 2008, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation continues its research into “Updating Modernism”. In doing so, a central topic of the historic Bauhaus is taken up and introduced into a contemporary discourse: solutions are sought for the minimum subsistence level housing of today. The homeless, subtenants, residents and asylum seekers in emergency housing; long-term unemployed, young people without qualifications; emigrants, migrants, students, low-earners, retirees; single parents and families with many children all have difficulties finding housing in cities. The Bauhaus Award 2008 will look at the social standards of the modern age in the field of housing and examine these in the light of the current housing crisis. The issue at the heart of the Award will be: poverty and housing shortages. Design-based plans or concepts and models or scenarios for housing policy are sought for minimum subsistence level housing. The focus will be on the development or design of affordable housing options in urban space. Candidates are expected to explore the existential standards and social requirements of the societies on which they base their Award entry.
Yesh, Webware are ~ I ain’t! Check out 5 impressive new business Web apps from Under the Radar conference.
Comes with a nifty video to demonstrate what Josh and Rafe uncovered.