Saturday - 8 July

UNDERGROWTH

Experimental media arts and politics

SPACETIMEMACHINES >  DVD launch and screening of motion pixels by media artist Tim Parish, founder of Undergrowth Magazine www.undergrowth.org

A 90+ minute  collection of video art, music videos and short activist documentaries made by Parish over the last four years whilst studying and working with SKA TV, Indymedia, as a VJ and freelance video artist
Entry $5  - $15 with DVD.

VCA Documentary Screenings - Sunday July 9

Sunday the 9th July 7pm, come down and see the latest in VCA doco-land.

 

Crack Sabbath- Sunday July 16 from 6pm.

Timothy Leary once told people to ‘Turn on, tune in and drop out.’ But he was on drugs. Crack Sabbath kids are clean-loving children of Christ, and we’re imploring you to do something different, for us, for you and the LORD. So this time it’s ‘Turn up, drop in, tune in, chill out.’ It’s a transistor party! Let’s get wireless and eat static.
It works like this:
Turn up: Like, come, ‘n stuff.
Drop in: Bring a standard FM radio set. Each person who does will receive TWO free glasses of coopers. We’re not talking about free beer, we’re talking about free beers, people. If you drink ‘em quickly through a straw, you could make yourself drunk, or even sick!
Tune in: Switch on your radio and tweak the dial until you hit the frequency of our micropower radio transmitter.
Chill out: Enjoy the beats and pieces provided for your aural edification. This time, residents Nativespeaker, Ez-Al and DJ LaLa will be taking you on a very special journey through hi-fi, played lo-fi. Unexpect the usual mishmash of anything and everything in between film music, fagjazz, metro/retro, hetero dub-electronica, kitsch, glitch and things that go pop in the night.
Needless to say, we are completely at the audience’s mercy. We will not be using the house PA, so our transmitter party will be as loud and crackly as you help to make it!
Broadcasting begins at 6pm, entry is FREE FREE FREE! Good food! Cold drinks! Fresh crack! And, as usual, BYO horse.

Looney Tunes - monthly at HB

Looney Tunes is looking for people to throw stuff up on the screens, Brian May (ex High Pass Filter, beam up, into the groovy) programs music from oleg kostrow, messer chups, bisk, tipsy, hifana, carl stalling, moog music, raymond scott, people like us, stockhausen and walkman, djme & djyou...etc Music and animation re-mixed and re-contextualised on the spot by your music and animation selectors: DJ Delay + DJ2
Come enjoy a programme of animation screenings, showing all kinds of animation including stop motion, Machinima, claymation, animé, manga and cartoons.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - YOU SHOW ME YOURS… 27 July 2006
YOU SHOW ME YOURS, a video art project jointly initiated by the RMIT University School of Art and Abina Manning from Chicago-based Video Data Bank, is currently seeking submissions for a juried screening to take place on 27 July 2006 at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000.
YOU SHOW ME YOURS is a survey of contemporary single channel video being made by Australian based artists. The final program will be selected on the basis of the originality and vision of the works. Submissions are welcome from established and emerging artists and students alike. Works should be under fifteen minutes in length and have been completed in the last two years.
What to do:
Submit your work in a .mov file on DVD. Please note, submissions cannot be returned. Please include the title of the work, the duration, a short description and a biography of the artist. DVDs should have your name, email address, and phone number, title of the piece and year it was made.
Send DVDs and details to:
Keely Macarow
RMIT University
School of Art
Building 9, Level 2, Room 46
124 Latrobe Street
Melbourne 3000

For more information on the Video Data Bank, go to http://www.vdb.org
For more information on this project or to assist Abina Manning, email amanning@artic.edu or keely.macarow@rmit.edu.au

Slackers Inc @ Horse Bazaar (Third Thursday of every month)
It seems in these crazy times, society has become so goal oriented that the true thinkers have been forced into the shadows. Why toil? Why strive? Surely there’s a place where people are inspired by the idle? Well there is…Slackers Inc. Slack is back, it’s the new black for all you loose characters, you lovers of remiss rhythms and generally inattentive behaviour. Get uninspired and join slacker Semi-Retirees, DJ Max Grill and The Golden Camel (Heath Myers) for some serious back-slack’n’crack-wax-on wax-off no-toff goofy beats for the laneway lingerer and couchside contenders.
Underachievers only! FREE entry

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Call for Entries - UNAUSTRALIA Conference - Exhibition of creative on-line works on the conference theme of UNAUSTRALIA
http://www.unaustralia.com/visual_works.php

If things are 'un-Australian' it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA.
Where is it?
Who lives there?
How does it come to be?
What is its past and what is its future?

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Call for Entries - club transmediale.07 - international festival for electronic music and related visual arts - 26 January - 3 February 2007

:: Deadline: 8 September 2006
:: Award Ceremony: 3 February 2007

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://www.transmediale.de/07/pdf/tm07_call.pdf

transmediale - festival for art and digital culture berlin, invites submissions for its Award Competition 2007. The competition highlights outstanding contemporary artistic positions in digital media art. The international jury will award one main prize of EUR 4.000, and two second prizes of EUR 2.000 each.