Upcoming film & TV forum takes you behind the scenes.
WIFT (Vic) continues its tradition of showcasing the work of local women in a variety of roles within the screen based industries with this upcoming event:
What? WIFT (Vic) Producers’ Forum
When? Wednesday September 12, 6.30pm
Where? The Apartment 401 – 405 Lt Bourke Street Melbourne
Who? Guest Speakers:
Film: Sue Maslin (Hunt Angels, Japanese Story, Road to Nhill)
TV: Pam Barnes (Executive Producer, Channel Nine)
Advertising: Sandi Gracin (Head of Television Production, Greys Advertising)
Media: Karla Burt
Cost for members $5
Non-members: $15 or join on the night for FREE entry!
Bookings Ph: 03 9421 4407
Lovegeek is a new bi-monthly site dedicated to all things arty and nerdy. They confess ‘having a thing for robots, memes and/or lasers’. The first instalment launches in October with the theme “I Love Technology” and any net-friendly medium – be that an illustration, photos, an animation, or anything else you can successfully put on a computer screen – is encouraged.
Submission deadline for the first issue: 31 August
http://www.lovegeek.net/
Are you interested in helping to prototype an exciting new online learning project? The National Museums Online Learning Project, located in the UK, is a collaboration between 10 national museums to provide online tools and resources for learners that link all of their collections online. Part of this project is called ‘creative journeys’ and they are looking for people who would like to use the partner museum collections as inspiration for their own creative process. You would be invited to join an online community where you could document your creative process using blogging technology to record text, images, audio or video. You would share your ideas with other participants and help inform the project on what online tools and resources would assist you in your creative journey.
http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/learnonline/creativejourneys/
The proliferation of screens is a signature feature of modern and contemporary life. Screens located on computer, cinema, television or mobile platforms offer possibilities for entertainment, communication, art, manipulation and surveillance, creating new forms of identity, community, expression and social control. These developments in turn have created a rich and rapidly changing set of research initiatives within and across academic fields. Screenscapes: Past Present Future offers a space for the examination of these and other issues, including the creation of screen communities and identities, the remediation of screen technology into other cultural forms, the history and future of screen technology, aesthetics, audiences, developments in mobile screens, and the use of screens in visual and data surveillance. Screenscapes is calling for abstracts for papers and panels addressing themes related broadly to the past, present and future of screens.
The deadline for submission of 250-word abstracts is 15 September.
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/conference/screenscapes/
The Material Poem is an e-anthology of text-based art & inter-media writing. The Material Poem is a new e-anthology, edited by James Stuart and published by non-generic productions. It features the work of some 28 Australian poets, artists and critics, all of whom are engaged with poetry, and more broadly language, as a material form. This body of work is inter-disciplinary, inter-media and often collaborative, spanning a wide variety of formal contexts ^ page, screen, canvas, space, book, performance and more. The Material Poem showcases the vibrancy of experimental writing in Australia, demonstrating how writing functions as a practice that is never purely literary.
http://www.nongeneric.net/
