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MONA Horse Bazaar Prize
--MONA Horse Bazaar Panoramic Digital Art Prize2007-- The winer is Jean Poole for Animals really are funny people. Horse Bazaar and The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) www.mona.net.au wish to congratulate the winner of this years prize for the production of panoramic video art. The independent judging panel voted unanimously to grant first prize to Jean Poole (aka Sean Healey)
The MONA Horse Bazaar Prize for panoramic content is an open digital art prize for the production of screen-based content that best uses Horse Bazaar's unique panoramic projection system. Top entries are currently screening on rotation at Horse Bazaar. --City of Melbourne Small Business Development Grant--
Horse Bazaar is in the process of upgrading its projection environment! The originally intended full 8 projector 270 degrees system is almost in operation. There are already more pixels on the walls with 6 new projectors installed, and the system alignment is closer to perfect than its ever been, giving a fully immersive panoramic experience. We would like to thank the City of Melbourne for their support in providing a Small Business Development Grant to help Horse Bazaar continue it's development of screen culture and content production. --Digital Fringe (September 26 to October 14)-- Horse Bazaar is suiting up for another year of digital shenanigans around Melbourne Town. Check out the website that will be going live to stage 1.1 in the coming week - (more magic to come) - www.digitalfringe.com.au Digital Fringe 2007, produced by Horse Bazaar, will load up, stream out and shine across Melbourne and the world from Wednesday 26 September as the The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival swings open its artistic carrel for the 25th year. Digital Fringe (DF) is a new arm of the successful Melbourne Fringe Festival that recognizes the use of digital screen based technology in the arts. In keeping with the Fringe festival charter DF is accessible to emerging and established artists, particularly those working in new media, and will provide access to public screens and non-traditional audiences across Melbourne (and the world). These screens will be seen by thousands of Melbournians over the course of the festival. DF is a web based digital art festival that links to Melbourne through site specific streaming of digital content and fosters avant-garde tech-cultural interactions. MPU (Mobile Projection Unit) Currently we're after crews to take out the Mobile Projection Unit (MPU) for a night of projections and digital fun. Specifically we're after ideas where participants culture jack and interact with other happenings around town. The vehicle will be fitted out with a powerful projector and video streaming back to the web. contact info@digitalfringe.com.au to express your interest Interact --Wild Animus, Horse Bazaar, & Digital Fringe present Wild Animus, Horse Bazaar, & Digital Fringe present a $2000 panoramic student arts prize.
Creative Commons is an internationally active non-profit organisation that aims to promote new copyright management options for creators. At the core of the Creative Commons project is a suite of standardised licences that are made freely available to copyright holders and which provide a range of protections and freedoms for their material. Content creators can use these licences to increase the ways that the general public can legally access and use their creative material, without giving up their copyright. This voluntary “some rights reserved” concept is designed to build a layer of reasonable and flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules. It is a model based on prior permission utilising private rights for public goods. Creative commons explained in a clear succinct cartoon --ANAT presents Still/Open Forums --
As part of it's 07 emerging technology labs ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) is presenting still/open, a series of free public forums for discussion of open source approaches. The forums feature international guests Alessandro Ludovico, Beatriz da Costa as well as Andy Nicholson and are being held in September in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane. Come along and hear about current international and Australian projects and be part of discussion about open source modes of thinking and models for collaborative and distributed development. After the forums and stay for a free drink and copy of Filter at the launch of our latest edition, This is not Open Source, an essential guide to current trends in media arts and emerging fields.
The blog is your resource and discussion space so jump on and make a post about what your interests in Open Source! The forum precedes the workshop, programmed for the night before. I strongly encourage you to attend as it is your chance to hear about what the facilitators have been up to (there is little workshop time for this as 2 days isn't much for the ground we hope to cover!). All forums are free and open to the public, there is no registration required so I urge you to spread the word to anyone you think would be interested. The forum will be followed by the launch of our open source themed edition of Filter which is looking fantastic - so stay for a free drink and copy. I have attached some promotional materials - please share them through your networks. http://www.anat.org.au/stillopen/blog/forums/ Please note pre-registration is not required for the forums
--TONIGHT - Wednesday August 15 - Looney Tunes @ North Bazaar --
It's a regular event - running on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at North Bazaar. Music is an equally important component to Loony Tunes.... Its a mix up. Wed Aug 15th Program Hashers Delirium Emile Cohl 1908 no door charge, 8pm-11pm --TONIGHT - Clan Analogue presents ‘Hump’--
Clan Analogue’s early members were motivated by their enthusiasm for electronic music and the difficulties of performing and producing this music within Sydney’s music scene at the time. Since then, Clan Analogue has maintained a democratic collective structure and an active membership, establishing itself as one of Australia’s pre-eminent record labels for new and diverse forms of electronic music. Over its fifteen year history, the Clan Analogue collective has been continually active in various cities throughout Australia, organising electronic music and arts events such as warehouse parties, forest raves, club nights, pub gigs and installations. These have effectively developed a culture of live electronic music performance within the Australian music scene over the last fifteen years and helped to develop a new generation of innovative artists, in both musical and visual mediums. Beginning with a series of vinyl EPs in 1993, Clan Analogue gained a wider profile in the mainstream music media as a record label, run by the collective, enabling its music to be heard by a wider audience. Since then Clan Analogue has released over thirty records, in vinyl, cassette, CD or digital formats, many of which have been critically acclaimed as classic Australian electronic music releases, exploring diverse electronic music genres such as techno, chill-out, dub, electro, glitch and low-fi. Many of Australia’s leading artists in the field of electronic music began their careers through involvement in the collective. These include dance and techno performers Infusion and B(if)tek through to installation sound artists like Kazumichi Grime, other notable acts including Atone, Deepchild, Telemetry Orchestra and Pretty Boy Crossover. Clan Analogue’s activities in the field of multimedia include early use of such content on music releases, beginning with floppy discs included with vinyl EPs through to filmclips and screensavers included on CD releases before this was standard music industry practice. Its VJ performers have been an integral part of the collective from the beginning, leading the way in the development of this artform within Australia. It was also a pioneer in the early use of websites as a promotional and communicative vehicle and the use of email as a means towards fostering a collaborative culture within a geographically dispersed membership. With its collective nature, Clan Analogue has been an entry point for many people who have sought a greater understanding of electronic artforms. Hence it has also been active in organising workshops to educate and communicate electronic production skills to a wider population. These workshops have taken place in clubs and at outdoor raves, helping to develop a wider enthusiasm and understanding of electronic art. -- Playin the Field - with the HB Laydeejays -- Thursday 23rd August @ Horse Bazaar Well if its the 4th Thursday of the month it means that its time for "Playing The Field" that time when the Horse Bazaar sisters come together for a night of soul funk rare groove as well as Balkan Afrobeat and reggae. Thursday 16th August sees Blackbird and Systa bb take to the decks for some fahn movin action. --200 Characters-- Publication launch date August 30th 2007 Nearly two years in the making, 200 Characters – A day in the life of the Short Message Service brings together favourite and undeletable text messages from inboxes the world over. The book is a celebration of the text message, a revealing look at the messages that made us cry and the messages that made us think “why?” The only stipulation was that the message must have some personal significance to receiver. To discuss SMS is to discuss communication itself. Savvy marketers send advertising over it. We use it to tell our friends we’re running late with it. Malaysians are even able to divorce with it. A true communication phenomenon, the ubiquity of the text message is undeniable - each year over 500 billion SMS messages are sent worldwide. When it comes to communication it has been our generation’s medium of choice for almost a decade. A new publication by Ambiguous Horse, 200 Characters celebrates the refined art of text message communications, reflecting the vast array of uses the humble SMS has to come hold over its brief history. Love, lust, despair and longing, the whole gamut of human emotions (and emoticons!) are expressed across the 200 messages. 200 Characters – A day in the life of the Short Message Service launches Thursday 30th August at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne. It will be available to buy from bookstores and selected retailers nationally. --Rhizome integrates Creative Commons licenses into ArtBase-- Rhizome, “an online platform for the global new media art community”, announced recently that it will integrate Creative Commons licenses into its online art archive, the Artbase. From here onwards, artists who contribute to ArtBase will have the option to license their work under a Creative Commons License of their choosing, greatly adding to ArtBase’s flexibility. From Rhizome: It is fantastic that a leading institution in new media art such as Rhizome has added the ability for CC-licensing in its online publishing interface. As more online repositories, be they artistic or otherwise, add CC-licensing options, the stronger the commons grows. As such, licence-adoption from online communities is an essential part of CC’s overall goal, enabling content-creators and content-consumers easy tools to licence and remix larger and larger bodies of work. You can read more about Rhizome here --Strange Industries Presents-- --Melbourne Underground Comic and Animations Art Exhibition:--
Cartoon (and Art Animation) Festival at North Bazaar 222 High Street Northcote The festival runs for the duration of Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 26 to October 14) There is a revolution going on in the world of comic art. The vitality and eclectic creative energy of the Melbourne alternative comic scene is bursting into the mainstream. Aggressively Strange Fables is at the crest of this wave: capturing the aggressive vigor and strange dark energy of Melbourne alt.comix. The show explores the Melbourne alternative comics scene through displays of original comic art, animation & music. Our opening night features live music, DJ, animation screenings, & super-sized projections of comic art. Other events include: "Animart" - work that bridges the gap between comic art and animation; a look at the work of comic artists getting a guernsey with mainstream publishers, a glimpse of the vibrant output of Melbourne independent comic publishers; & a peek at the history of alternative comics. The people behind Aggressively Strange Fables are: Bernard Caleo (comic artist, owner of Cardigan Comics and publisher of the Tango compilation series); Aaron Doty (artist for Pigeon Coup and sometime freelance graphic designer); Nicole Skeltys (author of Pigeon Coup and musician – formerly of B(if)tek); and Jo Waite (comic artist, illustrator, and consultant comic artist for Streetwize). Artists and comics include: Pigeon Coup (billed by US comic artist Jim Woodring as “aggressively strange”), Bernard Caleo, Jo Waite, David Blumenstein, Kirrilly Schell, Lachlan Conn, Nicki Greenberg & Bruce Mutard (both soon to be published by Allen & Unwin). --Madman movie ticket give away-- This month we have tickets to 2 different movies to give away. Email people@horsebazaar.com.au with either Free "This is England" Tix or Free "White Planet" Tix in the subject line. It's a case of first in best dressed. Free tickets will be available from Horse Bazaar for collection. About the films: #1
THIS IS ENGLAND tells the story of Shaun, a 12 year old kid growing up without a father in the north of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1983, the film charts his rites of passage from a scruffy misfit grieving the loss of his father into a shaven-headed thug whose anger and pain are embraced by the local skinhead fraternity. With a shell of a mother and no father to guide him, Shaun seems set for self-destruction but it is not long before things turn sour with his new-found 'friends' and Shaun discovers that violence is the coward's answer. Opening on 16th August
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The arctic is the thermometer for the rest of the world – it operates as an early warning system and the changes that are happening there will in turn affect all of us. To this end we are focusing on the environmental message of the film and I am putting together what I consider to be an exciting campaign. Easy Being Green www.easybeinggreen.com.au is sponsoring Madman's release by calculating and offsetting the carbon footprint created by Madman’s distribution activities. By running government-accredited energy efficiency programs in Australian communities, Easy Being Green engages local schools, businesses and community groups in a combined education and action campaign on climate change. Easy Being Green is accredited under both the Australian Federal Government’s Greenhouse Friendly program and the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement scheme.
The Horse Bazaar Newsletter is sent out around once a month, although occasionally we might send a brief newsflash during the month.
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