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WHAT'S STICKY? Sticky.net.au is a place to stick your stuff or get stuck into the works of other creative types. At Sticky you will be able to enjoy music, short films, animation, radio shows, digital stories, photography, writing, and heaps of other creative stuff from young Queenslanders. Better yet, you can put your own creative work online - and collaborate with other people to make or remix new stuff. Look out for the launch in late May 2005. To find out more, just log onto www.youthweek.sticky.net.au

Can a sista rock a film? which is part of a week long music festival called can a sista rock a mic? has extended it's submission for shorts & films... Mini dv preferred, but will convert dvds to dvcam for broadcast. Your project will air on Comcast Channels 5 & 6 and Starpower Channels 10 & 11 in Washington, DC. during the month of June (every Thursday) while the week long festivals is happening and after. So get your works in! This is a great chance to have your project broadcast on cable television. No submission fees at all. It's free. More details on the whole "Can A Sista Rock A Mic? week long festival next week at http://www.bgirlmanifesto.com

On Wednesday 27th the Hi God People are playing on the Astral Plane. This new approach to live performance side-steps, for band and audience, organizational and logistical problems associated with the material plane. To attend the performance, go to sleep on the 26th thinking about the Hi God People, and astrally travel to the show at about 5am. See also http://spill-label.org/hgp . The astral plane is a smoke-free venue.

From the Frigid website: Frigid returns to the @Newtown! This Sunday we kick things off with a bang. From Melbourne we have DJ Monkeymarc from renegade crew Combat Wombat along with the DJ/producer behind Curse Ov Dialect and Tzu - Pasobionic. Plus all the regular Frigid crew and live video from Superlight! And its free entry. But now with a Sunday roast dinner for $10 and a range of other cheaper food and drink choices as well! Carl Mower who returns to head up the team @Newtown says "In the initial 18 months of operation, a number of management strategies has been applied to @Newtown. The Club is now returning to its original vision which is to source and promote the best of what Newtown is about in music and entertainment. That vision includes embracing the best creative forces and talents of this precinct which is renowned for its creative independence and vitality. We are very pleased to welcome Frigid back to the Club and are excited to be working closely with the Frigid team to create the best yet Frigid Sunday residency". visit the website @ http://www.snarl.org/frigid/ for full details

Smell the odour of sonic psychedelics and exotic electronics on Friday, April the 29th, at Bar 303 in High Street, Northcote, when Clan Analogue host Stylophones & Odd Socks, an evening where all synthesized eccentricities will be tolerated and possibly even encouraged. This rare gathering of sound alchemists offer their sounds for personal use or otherwise. read more for details

We are seeking contributions for this proposed edited collection. Rather than producing more speculative work, we wish to focus on empirical data collected online about the intricate, intimate virtual ways that people forge connections. The three sections will be: Love & Sex; Work & Education; and Methods & Ethics. Chapters should be empirically based, 8000 words in length, and written in an accessible style suitable for an interested, intelligent general audience as well as for an academic readership in gender / cultural / media studies, sociology / anthropology, and new media. read more for details on how to submit your papers.

Call for Chapters (edited book). Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities. Edited by Kate O'Riordan and David J Philips. This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an
overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber / queer practices and theories. Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to): Sexual identities, practices and communities; Art and activism; Consumption; Political economy; Representation; Performativity; Queer theory. read more for details or visit the editor's site @ http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/staff/oriordan.htm

This year's Cut and Splice festival presents Dots and Lines, a cluster of events that explore the idea of notation and the relationship between score, image, text and sound in electronic music and sound art. Focusing on the gap between ideas and experience, between abstract concepts and their relation to the tangible, Dots and Lines considers the analytical, performative and documentary nature of music as written document and code. It throws into relief our very concept of what constitutes the musical experience and considers the complex dialogue between time based and static
art forms. read more for details or visit http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org

The AUC has opened its Call For Papers for its upcoming Academic & Developers Conference scheduled for late September 2005 in Hobart. The conference theme is 'Evolution of the Species - Universities, Students & Technology'. Papers are being sought from academics, developers and students and successful authors will be financial supported to attend the conference at conference at the Wrest Point Hotel and University of Tasmania. Closing Date for Papers is 29 April. Download the call for papers outline at http://www.auc.edu.au/conf/conf05/AUC_CFP_2005.pdf or read more for details

this year at Burning Flipside (http://www.burningflipside.com) there will be a 40'+ tall rocket (http://www.burningflipside.com/daft). the rocket will exist onsite for about 3 days, at which time it will either take off or burn to the ground. my guess is the rocket will take off, but i am an optimist. it would be nice for the rocket to make some subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) sounds. 3-5 independent sound sources: cd players and simple computer speakers. each set up will be placed somewhere in the rocket. somewhere pretty. or not. we shall see. simple is nice. from each little sound source will come noises and sounds that various people contribute. read more for details on how to contribute. [details from the idm maillist]

RE:activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment is a conference which is to take place in Budapest, October 14-15, 2005. Re:activism will focus on two closely connected subjects. On the first day, we gather to discuss the new dynamics of culture production. Digital networks allow the large scale cooperation of individuals with diverse motivational backgrounds. This cooperation often results in globally competitive ideas, (software) products, (social) services. Ad-hoc activist, expert networks can only consolidate themselves if the necessary legal, economic and technological frameworks are created or emerge from local interactions. We research into the political economy of peer production networks and examine how regulation in a post-Westphalian order can integrate these networks. We also discuss the potential conflicts between peer networks and contemporary social, economic, and legal institutions and examine how tradition emerges through open archives documenting these conflicts. read more or visit http://www.re-activism.net/ for more information and instructions on how to submit papers.

The Australia Institute is an independent public policy research centre funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research. Those involved in the Institute have each, from different viewpoints, been concerned about the impact on Australian society of the priority given to a narrow definition of economic efficiency over community, environmental and ethical considerations in public and private decision making. A better balance is urgently needed. Visit their site @ http://www.tai.org.au/ for more information

An "ALL-NEW" OFFICIAL CHART has been compiled by The Official UK Charts Company for broadcasters such as BBC (Top of the Pops, Radio One, Radio Six). Digital downloads are to be integrated in to the Official Singles Chart alongside physical CD singles for the first time. This 'all-new' chart will be revealed to 4.6m chart lovers via Radio 1 and Hit40UK on Sunday 17th April. Visit http://www.theofficialcharts.com/html/index.

The Vibewire.net e-Festival is now in progress at http://www.vibewire.net/efestival and already is full of a range of fascinating and informative discussions. The e-Festival runs till Monday April 18 and features more than 50 guests across 9 panels, giving you unprecedented opportunities to engage in discussion with some of Australia's and the world's most interesting people including Nancy Soderberg, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Greenwald, Director of the documentary Outfoxed, Peter Wintonick, the current Adelaide Thinker in Residence and international editor for Canadian film magazine POV and Craig Silvey, author of the acclaimed novel Rhubarb, chosen as the "One Book" of the recent Perth International Arts Festival. The festival is focused around three themes which each contain three panels: Global Issues - with Nancy Soderberg, Adam Ma'anit, Tim Colebatch, World Vision, Alan Wu + more. Panels :: we're rich, they're poor, so what? // global democracy vs global dominance // green becomes grey