XMediaLab: Global Media Cultures
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:49 Written by dLux Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:49
IS the must attend digital media and creative industries event of 2009, at the Sydney Opera House, 27 to 29 November.
If you are developing digital media ideas across platforms, attend the Professional Conference Day to hear from the world’s best experts, and you can also apply to attend the Lab itself, where you can work with the International Mentors one-on-one to bring your own digital project ideas to market.
All the info is here.
NED KELLY meets SCI-FI at Loop Space
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:13 Written by tara Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:09
K-Country, a video work combining comic book narrative with sound and music in a post Brechtian fusion. As a 32nd Century punk Sci-Fi reimagining of one of Australia’s enduring legends, K- Country offers up an answer to one of life’s eternal questions: What keeps a MECH alive?
Written: Mark Hobby
Illustrated: Stephen Colloff
Sound/Music: Solange Kershaw
Mark Hobby is a Sydney based writer of comic books and Science Fiction as well as a founding member of the Academy of Imaginative Arts. Stephen Colloff is based in Adelaide and his work has appeared in Pulp Fiction Comic’s Instantaneous Art Exhibition in South Australia and has had work published in the comic anthology, Tango. Together their work has appeared in the bi- monthly Fistful of Comics anthology.
Mark and Stephen have also been working on a variety of different projects including the soon to be released Graphic Novels K-Country and Tommy Templar, Kid Occultist as well as the creation of a web-comic anthology. For details contact mechmail@internode.on.net
They join together with composer, sound artist and Loop Space co-director Solange Kershaw, drawing on her vast audio experience to recontextualise and establish another dimension to the K-Country story.
An EXCERPT from K-Country sound track and EXAMPLE of what it sounds like when MECH’S rage!!
I feel a metal poker against me head and I know this is the end.
The crowd goes mad with cries for righteousness and the end to tyranny. As if they’re fleshin’ entitled to feel wronged. Everywhere they go, everything they touch they just gotta control it.
Dominate it. Crush it.
They made us slaves. And they see our freedom as an injustice. That’s just fleshin’ mental. Power is what they crave and its bitter taste is sweetened by audacity. Not my problem they can’t fleshin’ see that.
What? Ya reckon I’m afraid to die? Now ya just thinkin’ like a human.
The metal poker cracks the plating of me metal head, I feel it penetrate deep inside me processor as it sears through.
I feel no pain. Not when you know the rage I know. I look at the fleshin’ bone walkin’ mob with their soft clay like faces and black pitted eyes, their desire for power playin’ like its justice, I see the truth as clear as the K that pumps through me metal body:
Such is Life…
dlux Gets Wired @ Electrofringe
Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 10:00 Written by tara Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:03
GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS opens at Loop Space as part of Electrofringe. October 2 @ 6pm
1 – 5 October 2009, Newcastle, NSW.
Electrofringe is Australia‟s largest and most successful festival of electronic arts and culture. Now in its twelfth year, the 2009 festival has attracted standout local and international artists to its line-up. Over a huge five days, visitors will experience a convergence of art and technology, ideas and inspirations. Reaching back to their roots while embarking in new directions, the program of Australian and international artists presents an extravaganza of creativity, encompassing over fifty different events.
Learn MoreSYDNEY UNDERGREOUND FILM FESTIVAL
Last Updated on Monday, 7 September 2009 06:15 Written by tara Monday, 7 September 2009 06:05
Thanks to the Sydney Underground Film Festival,
d/Lux/MediaArts has 5 double passes to the short film session
‘CINEXPERIMENT 1’ (Friday 11 September 10:15pm) and 5 double passes to
the ‘RECYCLED CINEMA’ session (Sunday 13 September at 4:30pm) to
giveaway.
To win send an email with either the word ‘Cinexperiment 1′ or ‘Recycled Cinema’ in the subject field with your full name, address, and phone number to kath@suff.com.au
The Sydney Underground Film Festival is back for it’s 3rd year, with over twenty sessions and 120+ films. Highlights include ‘The Yes Men Fix the World’, ‘It Came From Kuchar’, ‘White Lightnin’, ‘Penelope’ and ‘Life with Ashley’, and short film sessions such as ‘Re:animation’, ‘Recycled Cinema’, and ‘Love/Sick’. The festival takes place from 10 – 13 September 2009 at the Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville. To find out more visit http://www.suff.com.au/
Digital Fringe is now accepting entries
Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 01:59 Written by tara Monday, 31 August 2009 01:55
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 retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys.
Visit digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works and for more festival info, or contact them: people@digitalfringe.com.au
Digital Fringe is produced by Horse Bazaar as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival