SECURECon 2007 – http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au
November 7-9 – The University of Melbourne
Registration has opened for SECURECon 2007.
REGISTER HERE –> http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au/register
Visit http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au for more details
Email enquiries@securecon.unimelb.edu.au if you have questions
This year’s SECURECon theme is SECURING OPEN ENVIRONMENTS
Open environments can include open access networks, public web applications and other network services not confined within a corporate LAN.
We also have other technical and non-technical IT Security talks as well as two 3-hour workshops this year: Security auditing using open source security tools and a tutorial on NSA Security Enhanced Linux.
At these workshops delegates will be able to gain hands-on experience and feedback within a comfortable computer lab environments.
For information about some of the current presentations in our programme
visit http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au/programme
ABOUT SECURECON
SECURECon aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations and workshops on emerging issues and technologies in IT Security. Aimed at IT professionals across all industries SECURECon provides an opportunity for IT Professionals to network and exchange ideas and information.
SECURECon is run by Melbourne University staff and students.
Visit http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au for more details
Email enquiries@securecon.unimelb.edu.au if you have questions
SECURECon is a free public offering kindly sponsored by:
Verisign, Dimension Data and The University of Melbourne
SECURECon is endorsed by the Information Systems Security
Association (ISSA) http://www.issa.org.au
GLUTEN FREE FOOD AND ALLERGY SHOW
There are over 8 million Australians affected by allergies or food intolerances – approximately 40% of the Australian population. Finding the right source of information to improve their quality of life is not easy. The Gluten Free Food and Allergy Show is a lifestyle event designed to inform and educate people and parents with children who are affected with coeliac disease, allergies and food intolerances.
AT THE SHOW
Attend informative seminars
Sample gluten-free products
Discover diary alternatives
View allergy friendly cleaning products
Try and buy nut-free foods
Speak with dietitians and nutritionists
Many prizes to be given away
WHEN:
Saturday 17th November 10am – 5pm
Sunday 18th November 10am – 5pm
WHERE:
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Adults $15
Children under 12 FREE
For more information, purchase tickets online, or to go in the running to win one of 50 double passes please visit:
www.AllergyGlutenShow.com.au
He’s partied with everyone from Andy Warhol to Joey Ramone. James St. James—infamous club kid, fashion maven, ex-sidekick to club promoter (and convicted murderer) Michael Alig, and, finally, author—has at last published a follow-up to Disco Bloodbath, the aptly titled, Freak Show (Dutton Juvenille). Yes, you read that correctly—Dutton Juvenille is releasing a book by a reformed junkie, drag queen, rave-boy. And you’re going to love it.
More Judy Blume than murder manifesto, Freak Show gives us a snapshot of protagonist Billy Bloom, an over-the-top, teenage drag queen (or self-described “Gender Obscurist”), living in Florida with his disapproving dad. Quickly catching on that his kind isn’t kosher, Billy goes on a mission to make his Red State high school tormentors accept him in all his glittery glory, by launching a hilarious and touching campaign for prom queen. Along the way, he suffers multiple spitballs, insults, beatings and random indignities at the hands of ultra-conservative jocks and Jesus freaks that make up the majority of the student body.
The other unpopular kids, long used to being invisible, are happy to back his campaign. Oddly enough, so is Flip Kelly, the handsome football hero and undisputed Most Popular Boy. Though you may guess where this is going, you’ll be happy to wait for it to play out.
James’ prose is remarkably innocent and engaging yet gut-splittingly funny. Though this book was intended for teens, it’s a great read for anyone who can relate to the comedy of being different in a homogenized world. Freak Show touches on important youth, social and gender issues, and while it never takes itself too seriously, it does take every opportunity to pump up the camp.
– Spyridon P. Panousopoulos from Gen Art
Don’t Look Gallery presents Short, Sharp and Funny!
Create a short film making fun of John Howard, put it up on YouTube and be in the running for $500!
Don’t Look Gallery wants to see the back of Little Johnny and thinks that Australia’s arts community is in a great position to put the boot in. To be eligible for the prize money, make a short movie (between 30 seconds and 5 minutes) poking fun at Australia’s worst Prime Minister, pop it up on YouTube, and then get the website address listed on five other websites (to show that you’re getting the message out).
Send an email to dontlookgallery@gmail.com with the above info by November 17 and you could win $500 and take an active role in showing Mr. Mean&Tricky the door!
WHAT: Friction
WHEN: CLOSING EVENT: Saturday November 3, 6pm
Public Access: Thursday Oct 25 to Saturday Nov 3 (Thur-Sat 11-5)
WHERE: DON’T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd), Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW
WHO: Eleanor Brickhill and Anne Walton
CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery
Friction
Eleanor Brickhill is a dancer and performance artist interested in the exploration of the body. Anne Walton is a video artist who works with site-specific human-scale projections and live presence. Together they will be presenting ‘Friction’ in October/November at Don’t Look Gallery.
Over four weeks Eleanor and Anne will create a dialogue between the very recent past and present by mapping imagery of their live performance in the gallery back on itself, affected and ‘acted’ upon in slight ways that seem mysterious and intriguing, and at times uncanny. The process of collaboration is a ‘site’ for them, a place to explore personal, material and even social boundaries. Through interrogation of the past by the present, present by the past, their experiences become hyper-sensory, almost raw to the touch.
Unlike traditional work whose end is marked by the beginning of its showing, ‘Friction’ is cumulative – it will begin with nothing and be created through events that occur in the space over time, and include visitations, overlaps, collisions and rubbings. In place of an opening, a ‘closing’ will celebrate some ideas explored throughout this time.
Public access will be from Thursday October 25 to Saturday November 3.
CLOSING DRINKS: Saturday November 3, 2007
