“KEEP GOING, the third exhibition in the Heaven on Earth series, looks at how contemporary artists provide ways of dealing with and understanding our lived environments. Real and imagined geographies, maps and guide books sharpen our perspectives of local and neighbouring spaces, and this exhibition focusses on how actual and fictional activities help us come to terms with the world at large.”
‘KEEP GOING’ is about ‘utopian optimism’: the work has been curated by Sally Brand, and her swat team at Hazelhurst. !Squat Space will also be organising as part of the exhibition, a conducted TOUR of BEAUTY in November to take the folks out there in ‘The Shire’ to the equally maligned people of Redfern and Waterloo.
Ep.3 THE BUSINESS OF CULTURE
Tuesday October 30 10pm, ABC TV Australia
Where does art stop and business begin? Is the difference between art and commerce whether you make money out of it or whether you are making it to make money? Why does Melbourne have laneway bars and NSW have poker machines and what the hell does that have to do with art?
Marcus Westbury ventures into a video art bar, meets an artist who sells ideas, reveals the angst of being a sneaker designer and comes across a magazine that you can only read on a wall. Along the way he asks if are artists are just the underpaid R&D guys for big fashion, design, music and business?
With sneakers on show at the National Gallery of Victoria and every new art movement the basis of an advertising campaign, as a society, are we just better consumers than art critics?
This episode features Marcus in a suit and is the last in the series.
5th HISPANOAMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ENCOUNTER:
CONTRA EL SILENCIO TODAS LAS VOCES
(Against the Silence All the voices)
WOMEN AND WORK INTERNATIONAL AWARD
PREMIO INTERNACIONAL MUJER Y TRABAJO
The 5th International Congress on Women, Work and Health, the 5th Hispanoamerican Independent Film and Video Documentary Encounter: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces and La Jornada newspaper from Mexico, invite all the film and video makers from any country to take part in the Women and Work International Award.
The 5th Hispanoamerican Independent Film and Video Documentary Encounter: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces that will take place in Mexico City and other locations of Mexico from April 9-12, 2008 and the 5th International Congress on Women, Work and Health, that will take place on October, 2008 at Zacatecas City, Mexico
For more information:
Voces contra el Silencio. Video Independiente, A.C.
Carrasco #74, Col. Toriello Guerra, Delegación Tlalpan, C.P. 14050.
México, D.F.
i) Works sent by postal service or special courier should be paid by the sender and include a sign saying “Cultural material with no commercial ends” and the shipment information should be sent by e-mail (festival@contraelsilencio.org).
Documentaries that don’t include this sign or that need some kind of payment to be delivered won’t be accepted.
Telephone:
(52-55) 56 06 73 76
Fax:
(52-55) 55 28 07 97
E-mail:
videomujerytrabajo@gmail.com and festival@contraelsilencio.org
Official web site:
www.contraelsilencio.org
Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program..
If the program proves successful as a way to hasten registration, simplify data entry for the school’s behavioral reporting system, and ensure attendance, Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested, according to the Doncaster Free Press.
The chipped children are enrolled at Hungerhill School in Edenthorpe, England, a secondary school for ages 11 to 16.
David Clouter, a parent and founder of Leave Them Kids Alone, a children’s advocacy group, condemned the plan. “With pupils being fingerprinted and now this it seems we are treating children in a way that we have traditionally treated criminals,” he told the Doncaster Free Press.
It is probably a bit far to come from Fitzroy, but I thought some of your blog readers might be interested in CyPEC, the cyberfeminist mini-conference we are holding in Perth on Saturday the 10th of November. CyPEC will run as a dedicated stream within Night’s Edge – a cyberpunk conference taking place at the Emerald Hotel, Perth, on
the 10th and 11th of November.
more info here: http://cypec.blogspot.com
and here: http://nightsedge.blogspot.com
thanks,
love your blog!
Sarah Xu
(http://diaryofaresearchartist.wordpress.com)
