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From: Millie Niss <">men2@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:46:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [webartery] flash narratives?

For Flash narratives, I am very fond of Barry Smylie and Ian Campbell's Toon
http://www.barrysmylie.com/flash/toon/toon.htm which is a quite un
comics-like experimental cartoon, but one which is actually fun. I also

SECRETS OF THE CITY - GUMBRAMORRA SWAMP THING!

Visual artists, sound artists, installation artists, new media artists, web designers, photographers, engineers, architects, painters, djs, vjs, activists, hackers, writers, poets, performers, musicians, philosophers, theorists, film makers, bloggers, designers and any one else interested in art and its role in public space are invited to participate in SECRETS OF THE CITY - GUMBRAMORRA SWAMP THING! Secrets of the City - Gumbramorra Swamp Thing! is a series of free community workshops where participants will create innovative site specific public artworks and ephemeral installations that will map and interpret unique sites of social, cultural, and ecological resonance within the footprint of the former Gumbramorra Swamp that extended across the suburbs of Marrickville, Sydenham, Tempe, St. Peters, and Newtown. The project will celebrate and respond to this convergence between land and water, ecology and settlement. read more for details

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Park Jam Hip Hop Festival

Park Jam is Australia's largest all-ages music festival devoted solely to hip hop. Headlining at Park Jam will be the United States' legendary Digital Underground featuring Shock G's nasally prolific alter-ego Humpty Hump, Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt. Park Jam features the biggest line-up of Australian & New Zealand hip hop & rap talents ever to be assembled in one place - starting with one of Australia's hip hop forerunners Resin Dogs. Coming across from South Auckland, & fresh from the Big Day Out tour, is the four-man team Deceptikonz, appearing in full force with emcee Mareko. Then there's The Herd, ex-Herd MC turned soloist Urthboy, Good Buddha, Def Wish Cast, Hermitude, Figgkidd, Lazy Grey (Qld), Terrafirma (SA), Suburban Intellect (Vic), Morganics, Baggsmen (previously known as The Hive), Blue Juice, Fast Crew (NZ), Art of War (Vic), Hyjack n' Torcha (Vic), up-and-coming new crew Blindhoarse lead by MC Losty, & all the way from the UK, Motley with his fresh Manchestrian vibe. visit http://www.parkjam.com.au for more details

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Radical Software archive project

Radical Software was an important voice of the American video community in the early 70s; the only periodical devoted exclusively to independent video and video art at the time when those subjects were still being invented. Issues included contributions by Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Paul Ryan, Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot, Charles Bensinger, Ira Schneider, Ann Tyng, R. Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson, Gene Youngblood, Parry Teasdale, Ant Farm, and many others. read more or visit their website @ http://www.radicalsoftware.org

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The Coalition - new hip hop release due March 2005

Coalition self-titled album scheduled for March 2005 release on Nice Mics Records. Featuring DJ Affiks, Lenwun, Raman, Lazy Grey, Robby Balboa, The Fader F*ckers and Kel. visit their website @ http://www.coalition.co.nr/ to preview one of the tracks Sleepless

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Dane Certificate, Barrage, Meatwave, VictorLancaster, Solar Sail

Dane Certificate, Barrage, Meatwave, Victor Lancaster, Solar Sail show @ VIC HOTEL, Brunswick, Friday the 18th of Feb. $4, 9pm, very special.

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Generate + Test : Australasian Computer Music Conference

The 2005 Australasian Computer Music Conference will explore the current boundaries of computer music practices and ideas. Where is the edge? Where are the new ideas? What activities point toward the future for computer music? Submissions are now open for Generate + Test, the Australasian Computer Music Conference being held on 12 - 14 July 2005 at the Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Visit the conference website: http://acmc05.org/ for more details

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Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference call for papers

Electroacoustic Music Studies Sound in Multimedia Contexts. From the advent of the first electric instruments, the phonograph, radio, telephone, and subsequent electronic and digital inventions, the approaches to technologies relevant to the art of sound have been limited only by the imagination of the musician. In recent years, there seems to have been a proliferation of studies relating to music incorporating these technologies However, the investigation of such a varied musical repertoire raises a number of issues that the EMS conferences wish to examine. The themes of the conference therefore emphasize questions of resources, discourse, and analytical tools relevant to electroacoustic musics. visit the EMS-05 website @ http://ems05.musique.umontreal.ca/index.html for more information

urbz.org - database of urban images

www.urbz.org is an online database of urban images and city scapes for and by worldwide students of the city, part of the Trading Places (http://www.tradingplaces.org) network

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artist promo ideas / stream of conciousness

getting articles / promo written

- hopefully useful for music / arts artists
- not in any order; just a list of things to think about / try perhaps

- list of facts that would make interesting articles
- list of quotes from artists on different topics so their names are mentioned more often
- street press / website / publication editors are busy people. they'll either reprint your promo info, do an interview or article on something based on promo / fact sheet (depending on the size of the media - assuming media for niche topics)

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micropayments - cybercash

do an article on cybercash & micropayments

- a low cost usb smartcard reader for micropayments for extra security
- pre-paid / top up scheme
- plugin to the computer and sites which support it can adjust balances upon purchase
- also a paypal / software type system for the same thing; with digital signatures
- you put $ into the account which can be spent; similar to paypal but less transaction fees

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add a promotional resource section to the site

- setup a db table for contacts and notes
- upload notes from notebook
- music & arts resources

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internet radio - podcast - briz:b:e:a:t:s new format ideas

new format for briz:b:e:a:t:s
- 1 hour show max
- some music, some talking, perhaps videoblogging, text

- interviews : recorded over the internet?? skype, msn etc, not phone preferably as too expensive
- music & arts artists & co-ordinators, curators from aus & overseas
- what are they up to this year
- new projects
- what other developments are they tracking; arts, media, worldwide issues

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Ivan Pope presents a Locative Day Out

The satellite based Global Positioning System (GPS) allows us to record basic information about their location, direction, altitude and speed. Using small hand held devices, artists can record and interpret this data to create mapping, locative, durational and other works. GPS allows us to take back knowledge of our whereabouts, and to annotate this knowledge, or to reuse it as we wish.

Artists can use access to this locative data that forms the background to all our lives, to add another layer of information to work. Whether we want accurate information or chaotic disinformation, the gps satellites transmit unceasingly 24 hours a day, not caring whether we make use of their datastreams or not. We can anonymously take up their offering and convert it to human data. This one day live workshop will introduce the basic functioning of the GPS and demonstrate GPS devices and software along with digital cameras. Participants will be able to use GPS devices and digital cameras in the field to create their own personal mappings of the locality. These mappings will form the basis for a workshop in creating combined and annotated maps and images. We will spend the day looking at software and hardware and discussing psychogeographic and locative issues while making our own maps, playing gps games and adding to the global store of waypoints. visit http://locative.x-i.net for details

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Interlace & Sonic Interactions

A two-day conference exploring live electronics, interactivity and sonic art. 19th-20th February 2005. Key note talk by Alejandro Vinao. Paper sessions: Saturday 9.30-5pm, Sunday 10-12.30pm. Interlace music performances are being held in conjunction with the Sonic Interactions conference. visit http://incalcando.com/interlace/ for details on Interlace and http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/sonic-interactions.html
for details on Sonic Interactions conference

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