VIDEO SLAM #02:
Appropriate Original - Call for registrations. VIDEO SLAM will again kick off with a two-day workshop, from Tuesday 6pm 20th May to Thursday 6pm 22th May, wherein participants will learn how to incorporate Creative Commonslicensed content into a short film produced on site at Horse Bazaar...more

URBAN SCREENS - Call for Submissions
Calls for Urban Screens Melbourne 08 ­ film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations. Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events...more

Experimental Melbourne
A new site for experimental music in Melbourne. The blog is designed to be a place where news accumulates about experimental music happenings located in and around Melbourne, Australia. Upcoming performances, releases and other news will be featured here...more

I Wish I could Show you
Anonymous video messages sent via mobile phone. I Wish I
These videos are snippets of life: confessions, catharsis, love and hate letters, documentaries - anything you want them to be. iwishicouldshowyou.com is an internet site that is seeking videos made using mobile telephones to create a database of user-generated creativity. Send in your secrets, beautiful moments and snapshots of your world and see that of other people’s on the site...more

Melbourne Fringe - Application for Fringe Festival Hub now open! Applications to be a part of the Festival Hub in the North Melbourne Town Hall and surrounding venues are now open. Simply go here to download the form and technical specifications of the available spaces. Expressions of interest for the Hub close on the 9th of May. And this year we’re also looking for people with rather large, rather ambitious ideas for The Supper Room. It’s kinda big and kinda empty, what would you like to do with it?...more

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Melbourne Fringe - Application for Fringe Festival Hub now open!

Applications to be a part of the Festival Hub in the North Melbourne Town Hall and surrounding venues are now open. Simply go here to download the form and technical specifications of the available spaces. Expressions of interest for the Hub close on the 9th of May. And this year we’re also looking for people with rather large, rather ambitious ideas for The Supper Room. It’s kinda big and kinda empty, what would you like to do with it? The space will work perfectly for cross-artform, installative projects. We’re keen to hear your ideas on how to make this space work for your show – it would be great if projects could share the space, but we don’t want to limit imaginations either. Submit an application and we’ll go from there!

There is, of course, also a plethora of other spaces throughout Melbourne if the Hub doesn’t suit your needs or taste. And to help you tap into these we have decided to hold a Venues Forum next Wednesday 30th April 6:00pm at Trades Hall in the Old Council Chambers. We have some speakers from venues such as the Northcote Town Hall and Trades Hall, as well as Creative Spaces, a City of Melbourne initiative to assist artists to secure non-traditional performance spaces. This will be a great opportunity to meet and mingle with other artists and venue managers, and we’ve also been promised some Go-Go Dancers at the Trades Hall Bar.

We have had a lot of change and upheaval at Fringe HQ since last year and we are very keen to capitalise on the fresh injection of energy that this has brought with it. So please join us in making this year even better than the last, and don’t forget to mark in your diaries that Artist Registrations for the wider Festival open on 26th May and close 13th June.

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VIDEO SLAM #02: Appropriate Original, Call for registrations

Following the success of VIDEO SLAM 2007, OPEN CHANNEL is at it again, inviting filmmakers to
take part in the two-day digital media madness that is VIDEO SLAM 2008!
VIDEO SLAM will again kick off with a two-day workshop, from Tuesday 6pm 20th May to Thursday 6pm 22th May, wherein participants will learn how to incorporate Creative Commonslicensed content into a short film produced on site at Horse Bazaar, Melbourne’s Digital Arts bar, in under 48 hours. The finished work will be screened at the VIDEO SLAM forum and reappropriated into the live re-mix event.

In a variation of last year’s event, filmmakers, audio-visual artists, two lawyers, two curators and one producer will also slam out two and one half hours of sound and video that explores appropriation, remix, and the use of public space in the electronic arts – the VIDEO SLAM Live Remix!

The Live Remix will be followed by the VIDEO SLAM Forum featuring a distinguished panel who’ll discuss appropriated hybrid artworks, and the laws that may govern what can and can't be digitally consumed on and offline. Screening at Federation Square and workshops at Horse Bazaar, this and the two-day workshop are hands-on events for hybrid arts practitioners.
According to VIDEO SLAM Curator Andrew Garton "VIDEO SLAM is a unique event in that it not only provides a forum for the open content philosophy, it's host to a hybrid form of production where people from across many arts disciplines can meet, network and make something...together! It's certainly one of the earliest production initiatives solely devoted to Creative Commons licenses in Australia that I'm aware of..."

OPEN CHANNEL is seeking expressions of interest from Directors, Camera and Sound operators, Editors, Musicians and/or Composers, Sound and Lighting Designers, Writers, Actors, Audio/Visual artists, Graphic Designers, Animators, 3D artists and Production Assistants to participate in the two-day VIDEO SLAM Workshop. Registration Forms along with further details are available at http://openchannel.org.au Registration is free and closes Monday 5 May.

The VIDEO SLAM Live Remix, Screening and Forum will take place at Horse Bazaar, Thursday 22 May from 6.30pm, and will be open to the public. The VIDEO SLAM Screening will be simulcast on the Federation Square Big Screen, and online. VIDEO SLAM is presented by OPEN CHANNEL as part of Arts Law Week 2008 in association with Film Victoria, 3RRR, apc.au, Arts Access, Horse Bazaar, Creative Commons Clinic and Federation Square.

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08

Calls for Urban Screens Melbourne 08 ­ film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations

Conference mobile publics 3 ­ 5 October 2008
Multimedia exhibition 3 ­ 8 October 2008
www.urbanscreens08.net

Deadline for submission (poster presentations): 24. May 2008
Deadline for submission (fim&video/projects): 31. May 2008

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen.

CALL FOR FILM&VIDEO and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS

Criteria:
We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects that interrogate screen media as a medium| content and tackle the festival¹s key themes of issues of building community and sustainability in relation to water. These two complex themes aim to provoke discussion and spark questions such as: What is community in times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? How can we explore the diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on earth?

For a detailed description of the event and curatorial framework see:
www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events

For a detailed description of Fed Squares infrastructure see
www.urbanscreens08.net/technical

The projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed existing infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should consider and adapt to the special circumstances of outdoor public spaces, transforming urban spaces to foster dialogue and community engagement. We are looking for:

A) Film and video such as:

• Video art, text art, animation, animated slideshows, or fictional advertisements and community information (under 3 min.)
• Silent works especially for the joint broadcasting or daily screenings in-between (under 3 min.)
• Short experimental films, documentary and journalistic content (under 15 min.)
• Small curated programs of the mentioned type of works

B) Interactive, performance based or participatory projects such as:

• Interactive software applications for urban screens
• Participatory community projects using creative digital practices
• Live media art merging performance and new media
• Community displays for education and exchange
• Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content
• Real-time generated content
• Screen related sound experiments
• Digital storytelling projects
• Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground
• Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens
  

CALL FOR POSTERS

To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition, we are looking for posters about the latest development of Urban Screens. They will be displayed in a public exhibition in the Atrium next to the conference venue. Conference will be encouraged to get in exchange with the authors during the breaks. Eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These are equiped with an integrated screen, which offer the possibility to present remotely via scheduled skype sessions, while the audience gathers in groups around them.

Criteria:

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects, drawing important conclusions from practical experiments, for giving an introduction to innovative art works or new practical design applications, reports on cutting edge technologies and content management systems under development.

Posters will be reviewed by the Poster Committee, soon to be announced. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication in the conference proceedings. Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association website.

APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL

Please have a look at the detailed calls and the official online forms for application, available at:
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

CONTACT

exhibition@urbanscreens.net
(please use the subject USM08 - question concerning the CALL)

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Experimental Melbourne

A new site for experimental music in Melbourne. http://exp-melb.blogspot.com/

The blog is designed to be a place where news accumulates about experimental music happenings located in and around Melbourne, Australia. Upcoming performances, releases and other news will be featured here.

Punters in Melbourne have long wanted a central location where they can find news about upcoming shows and other news. This blog aims to be such an animal.

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I Wish I could Show You

Something to confess? A precious moment to share? Do you have a video you want the world to see but have no one to send it to? iwishicouldshowyou.com is all of your private moments made public.

I Wish I Could Show You is a database of anonymous video messages sent via mobile phone.
These videos are snippets of life: confessions, catharsis, love and hate letters, documentaries -
anything you want them to be.
wishicouldshowyou.com is an internet site that is seeking videos made using mobile telephones to create a database of user-generated creativity. Send in your secrets, beautiful moments and snapshots of your world and see that of other people’s on the site.

During the 2008 Next Wave Festival I Wish I Could Show You will be live and interactive at Horse Bazaar – come see your already posted videos, maybe see someone you know, or participate at the venue. Using groundbreaking MMS technology you can participate in the project by sending your videos while having an after work drink, view other people’s private moments and see if you recognise your friend’s confessions, stories and artful creations.

This show is a part of the 2008 NEXT WAVE Festival
15 May to 30 May

www.nextwave.org.au

www.iwishicouldshowyou.com/