…are coming. we’re hoping to launch them by the end of the week – so stay tuned.

Electrofringe 2009 has some really amazing treats in store – you’ll hardly be able to wait till festival time.

John Kilduff is one of the world’s special creatures. Through his online television program Let’s Paint TV, he teaches you, the viewer, how to paint, blend drinks, and keep yourself healthy all whilst jogging on a treadmill. Kilduff believes in breaking down the barriers between art and pretty much everything else, in the ultimate aim of embracing failure.A grand exercise in multitasking, John Kilduff’s Let’s Paint TV is coming to Electrofringe for a series of special live performances. Combining performance art, exercise equipment, music and of course paint, this is one spectacle not to be missed.

We’re rolling towards the festival which starts in just over a month. The first batch of artists for the 2009 festival have been announced, and it’s all very exciting. Coming to the festival this year are ILIOS (Greece), Rosy Parlane (NZ), Emsemble Offspring, Pimmon, John Kilduff (US), S.W.A.M.P. (US), Jim Cuomo (US), Tom Hall, and Christian Haines.

There are still many more acts to be announced in the coming weeks, plus an all-new website. In the meantime, here is our lovely new ad designed by Isis and Pluto, which you will find in the current issue of Realtime:

Electrofringe partner Japan Media Arts Festival is currently seeking entries for its 2009 competition. The call for entries runs from the 16th of July, to the 25th of September, 2009 with the winning entries being exhibited in The National Art Center, Tokyo in February 2010.

For more information please click on the jump or visit http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/.

Selected works from the Art, Animation and Entertainment Divisions of the 2008 festival will also be shown at Electrofringe this year.

More on 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival – Call For Entries

This Saturday 18th July 2009 at AEST 10.30pm – 12:30am,  New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM will be broadcasting a feature of the selected sound artists that will be appearing at the 2009 Electrofringe festival.

To tune in and listen, check the frequency in your area:  www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic/

Otherwise, you’ll be able to listen to the broadcast online for the following month (only). See: www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic/

Find out who will be appearing at the festival this year…

We are currently looking for a media and publicity officer. you’ll be helping to promote the festival, liasing with print and broadcast media organisations. if you think you’re up to the task – take a look at our Jobs page, download the info and email us your details.

Electro-Projections will be screening at the artist run space crate59 and will coincide with their Yarning Circle event in June.

Details:

6pm, Tuesday 23rd June 2009

59 Sheridan Street, Cairns, Australia

For those who are up to date with such things, you can now follow Electrofringe on Twitter. Simply type http://www.twitter.com/electrofringe into your web browser, and you’ll read all the excitement that can be crammed in 140 characters or less.

 Join us, it’s what all the kids are into.

Press release announcements for the 2009 Ars Electronica awards have just filtered into inboxes throughout the world.

The list of names for 2009 awardees includes Joyce Hinterding and David Haines who receive an Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Art category for their work EarthStar, and Chunky Move (with Damien Cooper, Robin Fox , Paula Levis, Gideon Obarzanek, Ben Frost and Frieder Weiss) receiving an Honorary Mention also in the Hybrid Art category for Mortal Engine.

Congrats and all that…

This coming Monday 13th April 2009, a special selection of works from the 2008 Electro-Projections program will be screened before an unsuspecting audience at Serial Space in Chippendale, as part of the return of Camera Obscura – Sydney’s premiere evening of moving image curiosities and other wonderful things…

It all goes down this Monday, the 13th of April, starting from 19:00 at Serial Space – 33 Wellington Street, Chippendale, Sydney (map) . It’ll finish around 22:00, which is plenty of time to be in bed on a school night! For more information on Camera Obscura, drop a line to cameraobscura.syd@gmail.com

Electrofringe proposals are now closed for the artist and project presentations, workshops, exhibitions, mobile artworks, gigs and the residency program.

However, you can still be a part of Electrofringe 2009. Our Electro-Projections (video screening program), Electro-Être (documentation of live art) plus Electro-Online (net.art) categories are still open until SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009.

Please download an application form now and submit your work:

• Electro-Projections & Electro-Être only (DOC)
• Electro-Projections & Electro-Être only (RTF)
• Electro-Online (DOC)
• Electro-Online (RTF)

Any questions about application submissions should be directed to Somaya Langley or Daniel Green (Co-Directors)  : electrofringedirectors[at]gmail[dot]com

Daniel Green has been appointed the new Electrofringe Co-Director replacing Matthew Gingold who has taken up a major project with the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Daniel has had a long history of involvement with Electrofringe dating back to 2003, since which he has consistently presented work at the festival. Last year he was one of the Electrofringe Electro-Projections curators, and for the past two years he has also been the Electrofringe volunteers co-ordinator.

He has presented work in various galleries including Bus, Platform and Mori and has had work exhibited as part of Melbourne’s Nextwave and Berlin’s Transmediale.

Electrofringe is over the moon that Daniel will be joining us, and we hope you will too!

Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists, performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers, cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers, experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn’t fit these boxes.

Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture held from the 1st – 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia. Electrofringe is part of a group of festivals collected together under the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative use and re-use of technology and electronic artforms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange.

Electrofringe seeks proposals in the following program areas:
Artist and project presentations, workshops and demonstrations, panels, interventions, live art, performance (Electro-Performance), residencies (Electro-Residencies), mobile works (Electro-Manoeuvre), online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works (Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) plus special events (something you want to propose).

All presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations, panels, performance, residency, intervention, live and mobile works submission proposals are due by TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009.

Only online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works (Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) submission proposals are due by SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009.

Please select, download, fill out and submit the appropriate application form:

• Electrofringe – all program streams (DOC)
• Electrofringe – all program streams (RTF)
• Electro-Projections & Electro-Être only (DOC)
• Electro-Projections & Electro-Être only (RTF)
• Electro-Online (DOC)
• Electro-Online (RTF)

Any questions about application submissions should be directed to Somaya Langley or Daniel Green (Co-Directors)  : electrofringedirectors[at]gmail[dot]com

Electrofringe is proud to announce the new co-director Matthew Gingold for 2009-2010.

Matt comes from a background in media arts, having worked with organisations including Experimenta media arts, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI).

He is based in Melbourne, was a founding member of the Share/Outpost collective, and from 2005 – 2008 was the Director of Seventh Gallery.

Electrofringe is extremely happy to have Matt on the team.

Electrofringe is looking to fill several vacancies on its Board of Directors. The skills and experience we are seeking on the Board are qualified professionals in the financial, legal, not-for-profit business and fundraising sectors or you have some experience on boards or committees and an interest in electronic arts or DIY culture.

If you are interested to nominate to join the Board of Directors for Electrofringe Ltd, please download the:

• Call for Board Members PDF

and email: electrofringeboard[at]gmail[dot]com

Electrofringe is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with the current Co-Director, Somaya Langley, on the 2009 festival and on to 2010.

The Electrofringe festival showcases digital, electronic and media arts with a particular emphasis on emergent forms and techniques, focusing on encouraging interaction between emerging and professional practitioners, Electrofringe aims to create an open environment of exchange and peer-to-peer mentoring. Presenting workshops, panel discussions, installations, exhibitions, screenings and performances, the festival brings together artists, musicians, media makers, technicians, scientists, academics, cultural commentators, critics and enthusiasts working with a broad range of media. Electrofringe is part of This Is Not Art and happens annually for 5 days over the October long-weekend in Newcastle, NSW.

If you are interested in applying, please download the application guidelines from the Electrofringe website (www.electrofringe.net) and submit your application before the deadline of COB Monday 5th January 2009.

Application guidelines:

• Call for Co-Director – Application Guidelines (RTF)
• Call for Co-Director – Application Guidelines (PDF)

…to everyone who participated in Electrofringe 2008 – the artists, audiences, presenters, performers, punters, volunteers, venues, workshoppers and all those helpers who just don’t fit into any category…. without all of you, the festival wouldn’t have happened at all.

 photo :: Narinda Reeders

we have heard many great things about the festival, and saw many amazing things take place – and we hope this was your experience too.

 photo :: Narinda Reeders 

the directors and staff are in post-festival recovery mode – but we would like to hear your feedback (positive or constructively critical). this will help us plan for an even better 2009.  if you have words you’d like to say – please email us at: electrofringedirectors08@gmail.com

once again, we really hope you enjoyed your time at Electrofringe 2008 and that you have many valuable experiences to take away with you

xx

the 2008 Electrofringe directors

Electrofringe launched with the first two workshops running in full steam as we speak   

CipherCities  

a Location Based Gaming workshop

Learn more and Participate here:  http://ciphercities.com

and Solder Girls

Solder Girls is a soldering circle with a whiteboard, for those who got a doll instead of a physics kit for Christmas.

Learn more here 

for all systems go….

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Featuring;
CAPTAIN AHAB LI[v]E

TOECUTTER
PIG+MACHINE
PRESS EJECT
TETRANOMICON
ULTRA VIOLET MC
FANNY FIGHTERS
B12shot
SVEN SIMULACRUM
B.A.A.D.D.D.
ANKLE PANTS
TRANNY COPS RAVE SAFE TEAM

*please drop yr boring personality and crusted over mouse click RSI,
buy some fake E’s and a glowstick at the door, and come “chase the
laser” with us on SUNDAY (everyone knows sunday is the best day of
tina..) from 19:00pm – 22:00pm. for FREE!!!!!!

ElectroÊtre showcases documented hybrid artforms that integrate live human interaction and electronic media. Beginning in 2006 as a programming strand highlighting live works that integrate and interact with electronic media, the ongoing screening program is a way of sharing these unique creations.

This year’s ElectroÊtre will feature:

Rider Spoke – Blast Theory (UK)

Living Room Fort – Campbell Farquar (New Zealand)

Move Me Touch Me – Jordana Maisie (Australia)

Personal Space – Margie Medlin (Australia)

Holiday – Spat + Loogie (Australia)

Miss and Miss Elder in the Garden of Disorientation – Julie-Anne Long & Samuel James (Australia)

Mario’s Furniture – S E Barnet & Hilary Mushkin (USA)

Emergence – Synarcade (Australia)

Electro-Online is our exhibition of net.art and other beautiful things you can find in the virtual space that is the web

Translations/Traductions – Deanne Achong

The Lord’s Prayer – Alan Bigelow

Stop Motion Studies – David Crawford

Gardenus – Mark Cypher

Kinder – Daniel Hanai

Make Your World – Yong Hun Kim

Spamology – Irad Lee

Careful Messenger Online – Tim Plaisted

Art Conquest – Carlo Sansolo

Your life our movie – Fernando Velázquez

Remembering Bogle Chandler – Rebecca Young

Brien Colwell

Electro-Online will launch on Thursday 2nd October :: www.electrofringe.net/electroonline/

to Triple J’s Sound Lab tonight at 11PM to hear Fenella Kernebone talk with Electrofringe directors Alex White & Somaya Langley about Anklepants & his great midi-controlled mask, doom metal by the likes of Birchville Cat Motel & KK Null, plus the Rats Tales of Willy Sengewald.

A whole bunch of amazing gigs are less than a week away!

Tickets are selling fast to the two main gigs at the Cambridge on Friday and Saturday Nights tickets are super cheap ie $12 each night presale, $15 on the door or two night pass presale for $20. Please keep in mind that Newcastle now has lock out laws stopping you from entering pubs after 12am- so don’t come too late!

Friday 20.00 – 2.45 Cambridge Hotel

MT EERIE/MICROPHONES (K RECORDS, USA),
DJ BAKU (JAPAN), DOMENICO SCIAJNO (ITALY),
FABULOUS DIAMONDS (MELB), PIKELET (MELB),
NAKED ON THE VAGUE (SYD), KIM MYHR (NORWAY)
AND JIM DENLEY (SYD), UNKLE HO (THE HERD),
ROSALIND HALL AND MARCO CHER-GIBARD (MELB),
BOXED VOICES, ZEAL (SA)

Saturday 20.00 – 2.45 Cambridge Hotel

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL (NZ)
KK NULL (JAPAN), LUCKY DRAGONS (USA)
MARUOSA (RENDA RECORDS, JAPAN)
COTTI (MINUS 30, BASSFACE, SOUL JAZZ, UK)
CURSE OV DIALEC T (MELB), BEN BYRNE (MELB)
ROSE TURTLE ERTLER (MELB), WESTERN SYNTHETICS
HOSEBEAST (SYD), MATT HOARE

Announcing the TAPE Projects Eye & Ear Control Screening at Electrofringe

Dance Before You Die (2006)
Steven Whatmough

Boite Blurr (Excerpt) (2008)
Marco Cher-Gibard

8 (2007)
Benjamin Ducroz

Re: The Meaning of Life (2007)
Layla Vardo

Are My Seams Straight? (2007)
Dyana Gray

Life Life Life (2007)
Unchalee Anantawat

Schlampampen
Tara Pattenden-Fail

Overran
Dominic Redfern

Kings of Power
Paul Robertson

Triangles – Chapter 1
Zoe Scoglio

Liberation Poem for Voice
Christina Tester

Cremorne Gardens
Simon O’Carrigan

Music Killers
Steven Whatmough

Stochastic
Nick Potter

Screening at the Playhouse on Friday 3rd October, 21:00pm – 22:30pm

Stelarc, the artist renowned for suspending his body on hooks and implanting a prosthetic ear in his arm is coming to Newcastle.
He and fellow artist John Tonkin will be at Newcastle Region Art Gallery to present talks about their works in the exhibition Face to Face: portraiture in a digital age currently on display at the Gallery.

This event is presented in conjunction with This Is Not Art, Electrofringe and the Newcastle Regional Gallery.

What: Artist talk

Where: Newcastle Regional Art Gallery

When: Saturday 4th October, 11:00am

this time next week, you’ll be standing at the TINA festival club with a beer in hand, listening to our leading voices in the Australian sub-cultural artworld discuss their views on 2020.

but before this, you could have spent all day attending a workshop on interactive gaming, soldering for chicks or introduction to electronic music making (amongst others).

take a look at the vast array of Electrofringe workshops

no more pre-registering – just turn up on time to guarantee a place

Please be aware of the new screening times for Advanced Beauty.

Which are now :

Playhouse, Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm – 18:00pm

Read More

then you can see what you missed last Friday and Saturday nights on the Electrofringe flickr page

…take a look and start packing your bags for Newcastle!!

At the Daniel Green Tribute show of course…

Despite what the printed program may tell you (that Sunday would be a good time to go see Daniel show off his work) we’re really suggesting that you get along on Saturday 4th October to University House Round Theatrette for the Daniel Green Tribute Show

In an attempt to better understand that which entertains us, Daniel Green will re-interpret numbers from musicals and then serve tea and talk about it for a while. Utilising examples from his own artistic practice, including video and performance work, attendees will discover whether or not deliberately boring people, or at least making them very uncomfortable, is the best way to put forward a commentary on contemporary moving image culture.

Tea will be served afterwards.

This Is Not Art program launch happened on Saturday night in Sydney – loads of friendly people, performance, wearable tools, the Herding Kites anthology, beers and the TINA full program in print!! The 80 pages of program revealing so many festival goodies in store….

illudere has opened at the John Paynter Gallery in Newcastle with a surge of interactive light. Be sure to check out the exhibition – when you arrive in Newcastle, or at least before you leave.

Electrofringe 2008 introduces the new Electro-Residences program. Three artists in residencies projects developed especially for Electrofringe 2008.

Pip Shea’s NEOCONFESSIONAL – out the inner conservative you love to hate - takes the form of both physical and online presences – on festival walls and also at: www.neoconfessional.com

Done something recently that has left your inner progressive feeling compromised? NEOCONFESSIONAL is a space where you can post your confessions. Shoot a video, record some audio, take a photo, write a blog post … respond in any way you like. Travel on a journey of self-discovery that will be like going to the dentist – unpleasant but necessary. Better out than in.

CONSERVATIVE (adjective): traditional, conventional, orthodox, old-fashioned, dyed-in the-wool, hidebound, unadventurous, set in one’s ways; moderate, middle-of-the-road, modest, plain, unobtrusive, restrained, subtle, low-key, demure, square.

This Is Not Art has set up a temporary Campground to provide festival goers with
the cheapest accommodation option for the festival – $10 per person per night,
open on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. The Campground is for
those in tents, swags, vans and trucks, or those who want to sleep under the
stars.

So, if you were unsure whether you could afford to stay for the whole five days
of the festival – we’ve just answered your question! Other budget accommodation
options in Newcastle usually booked out over the festival period – but you can
guarantee yourself a place to sleep by booking into Tent City – there is room
for up to 500 people.

Its lo-fi and BYO everything, but Aunty Jenny and her team of lovely volunteers
will do their best to make it feel like your home away from home – hot showers,
cups of tea, and happy campers all around!

This year the Campground is located just a short distance outside of the
Newcastle city centre at a new location – Adamstown Oval. It was chosen for its
excellent amenities, its secure and safe grounds, and its proximity to shops and
public transport. It is approx 25 minutes bicycle ride, 15-20 minutes on a
public bus and 10 minutes by car/cab to the Festival Club.

Aunty Jenny is so excited to be hosting the Campground again this year, and
looks forward to meeting you to make it another awesome Tent City.

Please visit the festival website for the nitty gritty details about staying at
Tent City – www.thisisnotart.org/accommodation/

If you need more info on the Campground, please contact:
Jenny Sheffer
This Is Not Art Tent City Co-ordinator

phone: 0438 459 182
email: thisisnotartcampground[at]gmail.com

We are more then happy to announce that Advanced Beauty will be shown this year at Electrofringe.

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’.
Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.

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Janice Caswell

Call out for the Interactive Narrative Co-lab at this years Electrofringe, see details here

Overview

Interaction designers and media artists often have great ideas for non-linear interactive story-telling frameworks, but they lack the writing skills to produce truly compelling work.

On the other hand, writers have no shortage of skills when it comes to storytelling, but are left a little confused when it comes to the technological expertise required to implement an online or interactive project.

This Co-lab is aimed at bridging that gap by connecting writers and interactive specialists. It will create a platform for discussing and implementing innovative interactive story telling frameworks, and act as a catalyst for the creation of exciting new work. We would like to explore everything from traditional game-play scenarios and multi-faceted video works through to avant-garde non-linear writing techniques with state of the art interaction methodologies.

Workshop

Electrofringe and the National Young Writers’ Festival are presenting an interactive narrative workshop at the 2008 TiNA festival. The session will be held in the Process Space on Friday 3rd October from 4-6pm, and is free and open to all. It will be the first meet up session to kick-start the process. Writers will be teamed up with interactive specialists and form groups for future collaboration. Following the initial workshop, the project will further organise frequent meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne where collaborators can show their work and exchange ideas.

The project’s online home will be the ABC’s new POOL platform (www.pool.org.au), which will permanently form the goto and exchange place for people to post ideas and work in progress, and discuss projects as they unfold.

Participate

To participate in this Co-lab, simply send the following details to electrofringedirectos08@gmail.com

Name:

Contact details:

Artform(s) (fiction / playwriting / video / web development / flash development / interactive media / artist / etc):

Any projects or ideas you’re working on, concepts, scripts, proposals, areas of interest or obsession. We will then put you in contact with people that have a complementary skill set. Alternatively you can simply come down to the EF / NYWF session at the festival. Ideally you should be able to attend this session in Newcastle, but if you can’t come please feel free to still submit and participate through the POOL platform.

Contact

Elmar Trefz: electrofringedirectos08@gmail.com

Nicolas Low: nic@dislocated.org

www.electrofringe.net

www.youngwritersfestival.org 

Sourced from an international open call, Electro-Projections is our annual showcase of new video works from emerging artists. Screening at the Playhouse on Friday 3rd October and Saturday 4th October from 20:00 – 21:00, this year’s series features two distinctly different programs from the world of the wired, weird and wonderful.

Electro-Projections 1
Friday 3rd October, 20:00pm – 21:00pm

A recipe piracy syndicate, a revisionist-futurist gymnast and one woman’s battle against an endless barrage of wine bottles feature in a program of works about a world going [ever more rapidly] mad.

Featuring work by the following artists:

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
T.R. Carter

Advanced Realities 2
Conservas Collective (Spain)

The Room
Ira Eduardovna (USA)

The Weight of The World
Lars Lundehave Hansen (Denmark)

Guidance
Sarah Jane Parton (New Zealand)

Version Tours
Deborah White

Electro-Projections 2
Saturday 4th October, 20:00pm – 21:00pm

A perfect lead-in to Saturday night’s gig at the Cambridge, Program 2 is an aural / visual assault on the fragments of your being. These works are epic in scope and big on the noise.

Featuring work by the following artists:

Ascension
Tara Cook (Australia)

Energie!
Thorsten Fleisch (Germany)

Temporal Painting 1
Peter Newman (Australia)

Ferndale, Western Canyon, Los Angeles
Richard O’Sullivan (UK)

Sunlog
Abram Powell (Australia)

Our Voices Are Mute
S.J. Ramir (New Zealand)

The 2008 Electro-Projections program is curated by Daniel Green and Michael Prior.

A selection of works from the 2008 SIGGRAPH Slow Art exhibition will be screened at Electrofringe on Friday 3rd October at the Playhouse from 18:00pm – 20:00pm.

The works are taken from two subsets of the Slow Art themed exhibition: Rhythms and Traversal. Works from Rhythms deal with documenting time’s patterns while adding elements of play. Under the umbrella of Traversal, these works address notions very familiar to us: daily commutes, leisure activities, floor plans of our homes, the circuits that are formed bringing us through a series of successive moments to our destinations, while transforming our perception of our bodies and their surroundings.

The list of works / artists to be screened are:

Moving Still
Santiago Caicedo Paris, France

FF-
David Gladstein (California, USA)

Kakashikokimono – Ver.J
Takahiro Hayakawa (Fukuoka, Japan)

2006.7 (Elemental Series)
Kenneth Huff (Georgia, USA)

Forbidden City
Lily & Honglei (Massachusetts, USA)
Music by David Williams

Wonderland
Hye Yeon Nam (New York, USA)

Smoke Water Fire
Mark Stock (Massachusetts, USA)

Works for SIGGRAPH are selected by an international panel of peer reviewers, with the Slow Art exhibition curated and realised by Lina Yamaguchi.

Electrofringe is very excited to have established a relationship with SIGGRAPH and that we are able to bring you these works.

Just in case you hadn’t realised – the Electrofringe festival program is now  available for you to browse your way through….

Locate the places, spaces, artists and events you want to see/hear/experience, and start counting down the days to when it all begins.

POOL (www.pool.org.au) is a new online initiative of the ABC and this year is a feature of the Electrofringe festival.  It’s a free online space for artists to showcase their work and network with others.

Together with This Is Not Art, POOL is partnering with us in order to develop the online community and host the artwork of festival participants both during and in the run up to the festival. Head directly to the This is Not Art category now: www.pool.org.au/content/this_is_not_art, or alternatively head to the Festival Club where the POOL man can give you an in-person tour.

POOL allows you to upload, download, share, remix, find, network, contact, browse, search or merely amble through the wide array of creative works that the festival artists are contributing to the site. Works are licensed with Creative Commons, and when adding content, you can tag it with festival-specific tags (e.g.: electrofringe), helping others to find the things they’re looking for.

Join up, add to the buzz, and be a part of the festival before we even arrive in Newcastle.

Our friends at Horse Bazaar in Melbs are looking for works for their digital fringe festival…

*Digital Fringe* is now accepting entries (video, stills or audio).

Ferret around your hard drives, dig out those gems and have your work
seen on hundreds of public screens.

Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the
world: from the web to retail television display walls to huge urban
screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public
nooks and crannys.

Visit www.digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works, and for more
festival info.

Artist retain copyright of their works and have the option of utilising
the Creative Commons licensing scheme.

News travels swiftly in the networked world – yet sometimes there is a break in all communication, and then we hear nothing…

Chinese Authorities have detained co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), James Powderly, who recently participated in the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of the Arts and ran master classes for the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), in China earlier this week. During preparation for an intervention to support the Students for a Free Tibet, they were to use a version of the L.A.S.E.R. Tag system to “project the message ‘Free Tibet’ and additional messages”.

Early on, a number of text messages were received stating, “detained since 3am” and “there’s 8 of us here, we’re all OK” however nothing further has been heard.

Illudere, the 2008 Electrofringe festival exhibition – opening on the 19th September in the John Paynter Gallery in Newcastle – features a L.A.S.E.R. Tag work by the Graffiti Research Lab.

Electrofringe supports the release of the James and other detainees, and urges you to spread the word through your networks.

Source: Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) press release

We would like to extend our condolences to the friends and family of Jonathan Powell who passed away recently. Jon had participated in previous festivals and Electrofringe was fortunate to be able to show his screen work ‘King of the Lounge’ in 2007. Jon was an amazing artist with a very warm heart, he will be greatly missed by the Electrofringe community.

ELECTROFRINGE 2008 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Electrofringe 2008 is now calling for proposals for this year’s festival from artists, media makers, curators, researchers, playful experimenters, enthusiasts, writers and producers.

Electrofringe is a five day festival of electronic arts and culture occurring as part of This Is Not Art in Newcastle Australia. Electrofringe is dedicated to furthering the creative use of technology and electronic art forms with focus upon skills exchange and development. In 2008 Electrofringe is also including a residency program in Newcastle during the lead up the the festival to allow for the creation of site specific work.

Electrofringe is seeking proposals in the following program areas:

Artist and Project Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Site Specific Residencies, Special Events, Electro-Online (web based art) and Electro-Screen (single channel video based works).

WORKSHOP, PRESENTATION, PANEL AND RESIDENCY PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY THE 31ST OF MARCH 2008

ELECTRO-ONLINE AND ELECTRO-PROJECTIONS SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE BY THE 31ST OF MAY 2008

Please click on the ‘Proposals’ tab for more information.