To everyone involved, thanks for a great workshop. While I may not have walked away neither hacker nor proto-environmental terrorist, I am happy with the creative contacts I made and hopefully will keep.
Following Alex’s lead, I am going to introduce the projects I am involved in and I encourage people to contact me if interested.
Firstly, have recently joined Federation Square as the Curator for Multimedia Programs. In addition to developing the screen program for the square, I am also interested in projects that fall into the category of urban media. I encourage artists to keep me informed about the projects they’re involved in and will help to facilitate these where possible. Please email Kerrie-Dee.Johns at Fedsquare.com
Secondly, I have just released a call out (below) for the Next Wave project I am curating, called Stranger of the Month. Hope its to your interest
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Stranger of the Month
Part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival - www.nextwave.org.au
Combining the collaborative impulse in contemporary art with user-centric trends in new media, Stranger of the Month draws upon the wisdom of the crowd.
Taking the stranger as its subject, artists conduct a viral marketing campaign throughout media platforms to engage and produce a community of participants. Through this process, it becomes apparent that publics emerge by virtue of being addressed; they are relational, not static.
Interaction with its publics will be entirely mediated; artists may either inhabit social networking sites to contact their participants, such as Facebook, or 43Things, or alternately, they may use traditional spaces for public broadcast, such as the classified sections of the local newspaper or community bulletin boards.
Written instructions may stand-alone for their critical merit, or alternatively invite a variety of responses from participants. Both written instructions and generated responses will be presented throughout public spaces such as Federation Square, during the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and be reproduced in an online instructional manual.
Expressions of interest should include:
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A 200 word paragraph describing what you’d like to do
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Two JPEG images of the artist’s most recent work
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A 200wd bio and one-page CV
Interested? Send your questions or applications to curator@strangerofthemonth.com, or mail a letter to our postal address.
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Write to us:
curator@strangerofthemonth.comOur mailing address is:
Stranger of the Month
PO Box 171
East Melbourne
Victoria 3002
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