CIPHER CITIES challenges you to design the best Mobile Game for Newcastle’s CBD! Write a narrative, create an adventure, design challenges or share your experiences of Newcastle.
There will be great PRIZES up for grabs including:
- Custom Cipher Cities Crumpler bag
- $200 JB HI-FI Gift Voucher
- 1 year subscription to EDGE Magazine
Use the Cipher Cities game builder to make your game quickly and easily. You don’t have to be a gamer and no programming skills are required.
Visit ciphercities.com to start building your game!
CIPHER CITIES: Mobilise Your Imagination
What: Special Event
Where: Process Space
When: Thursday 2nd October , 11:00am – 14:00pm :: For that extra advantage, come along to the Cipher Cities game building workshop to learn how easy it is to build your own game. Review the game building process and get some hot design tips from the developers of Cipher Cities.
Thursday 2nd October – Saturday 4th October :: You get three days to design and publish your games. If you missed the game building workshop; no worries just visit www.ciphercities.com to learn about building Cipher Cities games.
Sunday 5th October – Monday 6th October :: PLAY TIME : ALL WELCOME! Get in on the fun, Play and Rate the games that have been submitted to the competition.
Monday 6th October :: Competition winners announced – Official Judges will nominate a winner at 4:00pm
Who: Colleen Morgan (Brisbane), Sherwin Huang (Brisbane), Yang Wong (Brisbane) and you.
This Is Not Art kicks off into another year, with the official festival opening and speeches. Grab a drink and a seat and join us to help celebrate the start of a fantastic gathering of creative minds.
What: Festival Launch
Where: Festival Club – Wheelshop, Honeysuckle Railway Sheds (behind Civic Station)
When: Thursday 2nd October, 18:00pm – 18:30pm
Who: Festival directors, patrons, participants and you.
In the afterglow of the 2020 Summit we look at what a new government can mean for the “creatives”. Is the answer really in creativity summer schools? We look beyond collective goodwill and talk through ideas for a more creatively conscious Australia.
What: Opening Festival Panel
Where: Festival Club
When: Thursday 2nd October, 18:30pm – 20:00pm
Who: Lawrence Leung, Fiona Maxwell, Julian Knowles, Luke Dearnley, Marcus Westbury, Rjurik Davidson, Patrick Jones
Electrofringe artist-in-residence Chris Poole will create and install wind powered micro-projectors around Newcastle over the course of the festival. Keep an eye out for kinetic light emitting sculptures anywhere a little breeze might be blowing…
What: Special Event
Where: Festival Surrounds
When:Friday 3rd October – Sunday 5th October, 24 hours
Who: Chris Poole and you.
How much are people willing to sacrifice in terms of public space for their own living dreams? Electrofringe artists-in-residence Martyn Coutts and Willoh S. Weiland explore this question in an interactive performance work.
What: Special Event
Where: Festival Surrounds
When:Friday 3rd October – Sunday 5th October, 24 hours
Who: Martyn Coutts (Melbourne), Willoh S. Weiland (Melbourne) and you.
*Neoconfessional* is an outdoor and online installation taking a peek at our risk-averse culture. It will explore notions of conservatism & the widespread cultural practice of resisting change. *Neoconfessional* will encourage you to out your inner conservative, while offering penance to help you on your journey of self-discovery.
Confess at: www.neoconfessional.com
What: Special Event
Where: Festival Surrounds
When: Friday 3rd October – Sunday 5th October, 24 hours
Who: Pip Shea and you.
Anyone can play! Bring your patches, drum-machines, synths, video generators and mysterious boxes because Melbourne’s Outpost crew are hosting free-for-all laptop shenanigans for the ultimate audio-visual tech love-in.
What: Special Event
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Friday 3rd October, 18:00pm – 22:00pm
Who: Dan West, Lucy Benson, Eugenia Lim and you!
Anyone can play! Bring your patches, drum-machines, synths, video generators and mysterious boxes because Melbourne’s Outpost crew are hosting free-for-all laptop shenanigans for the ultimate audio-visual tech love-in.
What: Special Event
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Saturday 4th October, 18:00pm – 22:00pm
Who: Dan West, Lucy Benson, Eugenia Lim and you!
Special presentation of the League of Imaginary Scientists’ Finding Aurora; Sofie Loizou, Mat McCosker and Scott Eggert’s research into Brain Controlled Instruments; Alison Currie’s new solo dance work With the Greatest of Ease.
What: Performance
Where: The CRACK House
When: Saturday 4th October, 19:30pm – 21:00pm
Who: Lucy Hg, Emma Nordanfors, Carolina Bäckman, Sophie Loizou (Sydney), Scott Eggert (Sydney), Mat McCosker (Sydney), Alison Currie (Adelaide)
DJ battle contestants square off at the final showdown, playing one minute pieces of video in an attempt to psyche-out their opponent and whip the crowd into an hysterical frenzy. Everyone has a good time.
What: Special Event
Where: Festival Club
When: Sunday 5th October, 17:30pm – 19:00pm
Who: Kate Byrne (Sydney), Daniel Green (Sydney)
Anyone can play! Outpost/Share present the final co-operative audio visual gig at Electrofringe 2008. Last chance to show up, throw down and kiss EF goodbye for another year!
What: Special Event
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Sunday 5th October, 22:00pm – 24:00pm
Who: Outpost Melbourne and you!
Cipher City game design competition. Participants will design and submit their own games from Thursday 2nd – Saturday 4th October. On Sunday 5th – Monday 6th October people will play each others’ games and Official Judges will nominate a winner at 4:00pm on Monday 6th October.
What: Special Event
Where: Process Space
When: Monday 6th October, 15:00pm – 17:00pm
Who: Colleen Morgan, Yang Wong, Sherwin Huang and Cipher City participants
