Oz Showbiz Cares – Hats Off: This year’s Hats Off Concert will take place on Sunday 2nd September at the National Theatre, St Kilda, Melbourne, VIC. Along with Anthony Warlow and The Cast of The Phantom of the Opera with a line up that covers Australia’s entertainment industry from Kane Alexander to Karlis Zajd. Proceeds from HATS OFF 2007 will aid the Pantry Project, an initiative of the VAC, by providing fresh fruit and vegetable produce to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and who are currently experiencing financial hardship.
http://www.oscefa.org.au/
The Great Internet Sleepover is aimed at highlighting and supporting a developing web art movement and aesthetic. It is a chance for artists and groups creating things on the internet to meet in person, while still “keeping it on the net”. Pro net surfers and net surfing clubs will camp out at Eyebeam in New York, to talk shop, play games, pitch tents, and make a hypertext mess big enough for mom to clean up in the morning. Party favours include homepages, net battles, GIF animation, dirt-style HTML and other web ephemera. The public is welcome to attend from 8-10PM to watch the pros cruise the net, share web finds of their own on public terminals, and collaborate on web-based art projects and scavenger hunts. Once the doors are locked for the night, all the action can be followed online (to be announced), where the artists will be collaborating and posting into the wee hours of the morning.
Friday 24 August, Eyebeam New York & Online.
http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id=136
GEEK CHIC MONTHLY DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL AT LOOP
Loop Bar in Melbourne is presenting ‘Geek Chic’ an outdoor Digital Arts Festival to be held on the last Sunday of each month during spring this year. The laneway outside loop will be closed off around 5pm on each of the Sundays and filled with a variety of art forms including performance, screen-based and interactive works. As part of the festival and in conjunction with Tape Projects, submissions are sought by emerging video/new media artists to be a part of an outdoor screening that will take place each night during the festival. Artists are invited to respond to the era of the silent film. In particular its technically immature yet exploratory and adventurous attributes that enabled artists to capture a freshness and newness that challenges today’s artists. All video works will be projected in the laneway outside loop and must be silent. The audience will not be seated but free to move around and interact with the projection. Interactive works are encouraged. Be as playful as your imagination will allow and create with wide-eyed wonderment.
To contribute, fill out a Tape Projects submission form (available off the website) and add Loop? to the list ‘this work is to be used for’.
Submission deadline: 10th September, 2007
http://www.tapeprojects.org/
COURSE DEVELOPER FOR BACHELOR OF DIGITAL INNOVATION
The Bachelor of Digital Innovation at Central Queensland University is looking to contract someone to develop online course materials for a course on gaming for mobile devices. The contractor would need to have knowledge of the mobile content industry, be proficient in Actionscript and Flashlite, and would also need to be experienced in developing materials for distance education. If you are interested in applying contact Grayson Cooke, Lecturer in Multimedia, CQU Bundaberg Campus at the email below.
Email: g.cooke@cqu.edu.au
EXPERIMENTA FORUM ON 21ST CENTURY ART COLLECTION
Experimenta and ABaF are presenting a free forum on 21st Century Art Collection: collecting and investing in Contemporary Media Arts. A panel of experts including artists, gallery directors, advisors and collectors will talk about the benefits, pleasures and pitfalls of collecting video and interactive media art and offer practical advice regarding the exhibition and storage of works. The forum is for artists and those interested in knowing about: contemporary media arts – what it is and who is making it; investment opportunities – the value of media art now and in the future; caring for artworks and collections – archiving, storage, formats and obsolescence; displaying media art at home and at the office; interactive work – hardware, software and maintenance. Participants will gain an insight into why people collect, how they select works and artists and how they manage their collections.
At the Arts Centre, Theatres Building, ANZ Pavilion (Level 8), St Kilda Road, Melbourne, 1.30pm Saturday 25 August.
RSVP to maria@experimenta.org
http://www.experimenta.org/
