The growth of the Australian blogging community has mirrored the expansion of the blogosphere elsewhere in the developed world. However, there have been only a few opportunities afforded to Australian bloggers to get together and discuss their common interest. This unconference, modelled on the successful BloggerCons in the United States, aims to redress this by providing a forum that will allow Australian bloggers to gather together and talk about blogging and the Australian blogosphere. It aims to be a user-focused conference for the Australian blogging community.This will not be a conference in the traditional sense. It will be relatively informal. Instead of lengthy presentations, people will be invited lead discussions on various topics throughout the day – some practical, such as how to build a better blog, and some theoretical on the role, influence and future of blogs.
It is hoped that this Australian Blogging Conference will be a memorable event where all participants will learn more about the social, cultural, creative and technological aspects of blogging from one another.
The Australian Blogging Conference will be hosted by the Legal and Regulatory Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and the Queensland University of Technology on Friday 28 September in Brisbane, Australia.
More info > http://www.freedomtodiffer.com/blogoz/
Deadline: 7 October 2007
The International Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina 15, 16, 17 November 2007 will be organised in 2007 for the 3rd time. Rosario, the 2nd largest city of Argentina is said to be the secret capital in concern of digital art and e-music.
The festival invites artists for submitting digital works in different categories
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netart, video, photography, modified games, interactive CDs, installation & performance, e-music.
The detailed call, the entry rules and submission form can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/?p=137
Howard Bloom wanted to share with you his interview on the future of
energy now online at EvolutionShift.com which I made into a smaller
URL here – http://tinyurl.com/2qtf68
An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favourite biscuits wafting up the stairs. He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.
Leaning on the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he crawled downstairs. With laboured breath, he leaned against the door-frame, gazing into the kitchen. Were it not for death’s agony, he would have thought himself already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen table were literally hundreds of his favourite biscuits, freshly baked. Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of love from his devoted Aussie wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in crumpled posture. His aged and withered hand trembled towards a biscuit at the edge of the table, when it was suddenly smacked by his wife with a spatula………….
“F#ck off” she said, “they’re for the funeral.”
NEW BRUNSWICK ARTSPACE IS EVERYONE’S CUP OF TEA
Brunswick has a new bookstore, and an artspace with a difference, Brunswick Bound. Many young and emerging artists can’t afford to exhibit because of high gallery overheads but, unlike many artist-run spaces, Brunswick Bound is free to exhibit.
Local artist Arlene TextaQueen has been engaged by proprietors Susie and Rob Arambasi to curate exhibitions featuring artists from Brunswick and beyond. This large, sunlit gallery above the new Sydney Road bookstore focuses on art for and by the local community to be launched by afternoon tea parties. Proposals are currently being sought for exhibitions.
Brunswick Bound’s first exhibition is Strategic Bombing by Tom Civil. The show features detailed drawings, woodcuts and paintings inspired by the bombing of civilians throughout the last century of air power and war.
This is Civil’s first solo exhibition to add to his diverse and dense resume. His political yet poetic street art has long beautified our city walls and has been featured in a number of local and international publications and group shows. As a designer for many local activist and community projects, as well as partner in poster and publication proliferators Breakdown Press, his creativity has distinctively marked the city of Melbourne.
In Strategic Bombing, Civil translates his skills at visual communication into the more traditional mediums of printmaking and painting. Civil’s grandfather flew rescue planes in PNG and Indonesia through World War II, and these carefully crafted works are in part inspired by his Pop’s experiences and love for planes. Ominous black jets zoom across print and canvas to be eyed by gathered masses of painted civilians.
Strategic Bombing closes with a Brunswick Bound inaugural afternoon tea party on Saturday September 1st from 2-4pm. Please join the artist and friends for a cuppa and a scone. If you miss the party, the exhibition is on now until September 11th everyday til 6pm.
Sketchbooks, a group show opens September 15th with more tea at 2pm.
For more information on Brunswick Bound contact Arlene TextaQueen at
brunswickbound@gmail.com
For more on Tom Civil:
www.flickr.com/photos/tomcivil
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………………felt-tips forever……….
www.flickr.com/photos/textaqueen
