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Call for Artists - The Sustainable Living Festival

Monday, September 24th, 2007

The Sustainable Living Festival is a celebration and showcase of social and ecological sustainability. Held annually (Federation Square February 15, 16, 17- 2008 it features a strong creative program).

Applications are now open for submissions by visual artists, performers, writers, musicians and film-makers.
Art projects that comment on this year’s festival, theme: ‘Sustainability – make it your sport’ will be given preference in the selection process.

Deadline for Submissions: 31 October 2007

Submit your applications online:
www.slf.org.au/festival/participate/artists

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Stranger of the Month

Monday, September 10th, 2007

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

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:

  • A 200 word paragraph describing what you‚Äôd like to do
  • Two JPEG images of the artist‚Äôs most recent work
  • 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.
Write to us:
curator@strangerofthemonth.comOur mailing address is:
Stranger of the Month
PO Box 171
East Melbourne
Victoria 3002
Australia

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An event for Brisbane visitors

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Melinda said it would be ok to post some info about an event in Brisbane. For those attending the lab and arriving a bit early, this event might be of interest. The event is being organised by Keith Armstrong who is also attending the Lab.

MEDIA ART, TECHNOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL
Challenging positions on new directions for Arts practice, technology and the political
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Noon - 2:00pm
The Hall Z2-226 - QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove

This seminar brings together two seminal thinkers and practitioners to each present challenging positions on new directions for Arts practice, technology and the political. Following their 30 minute presentations the speakers will engage in conversation, which will subsequently be opened up to the floor.

PRESENTATION 1: SIMON PENNY
University of California Irvine, Arts Computation and Engineering Group Director, Media Artist - Experience and Abstraction: The Arts and the Logic of Machines

PRESENTATION 2: TONY FRY
Designer, Writer and Editor of Design Philosophy Papers Journal - From ‘That Which Is Not One’ to Another Practice

Presented by QUT Creative Industries Faculty & the QUT Computational Arts Research Group. Introduced by Dr Keith Armstrong (QUT Research Fellow/Media Artist).

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