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Mimic Mass is performing 'Stationary' as part of the 2006 Next Wave Festival.

Please pass the word on to anyone who may be interested in 45 minutes of live voice, multi-channel video and electronic processing in a disused CBD basement.

Happening at the tail end of the festival, opening night on the 30th March. Tickets also available at the door but capacity is limited so bookings are recommended.

Hope to see you there,

Nigel, Sarah, Maddy, Que and Benny

www.mimicmass.com
info@mimicmass.com
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RMIT Gateway House, Basement,
459 Swanston Street,Melbourne
30 March - 8 April (Thursdays - Sundays only)
8.30pm
$15/$12
Bookings: 1300 727 432 or www.nextwave.org.au
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Machinima is making film in the 3D space of a computer game. By treating the game's point of view as a camera, the gamespace becomes the set, the game characters turn into film actors, and the gamer gets to be a director. During this 4-day workshop participants create their own Machinima movie under the guidance of inspired game developers and award-winning machinimamakers. They will take you through all the main technical, creative and cultural aspects of making Machinima. More info about this workshop can be found on http://www.mediamatic.net/machinima

http://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/about.php

What is Vitamin-S?

Vitamin-S was devised as a place where those interested in 'improvised music' could meet, perform, listen to and discuss, and generally interact with, all aspects of this complex and largely misunderstood art form. As improvisation is the most widely practised of genres, it may be necessary to define two main forms:

Outspoken hip-hop punks Combat Wombat join forces with the costume clad Curse Ov Dialect to bring you another night of fat beats and socially conscious rhymes at the Evelyn Hotel on Friday 24th February. Support comes from good friends MC Syphon and DJ Wasabi bringing the dark raps with the tight scratch, also known as Fortknight Productions. Raceles and Monkey Marc DJ in the breaks and entry is $12. Come early to watch the premiere screening of the Critical Mass 10th anniversary doco at 8:30pm. Combat Wombat's new release "Unsound System" is now available - visit www.combatwombat.org for more details

Film Australia Library

Film Australia is celebrating 60 years of documentary with preview clips online.

See our News page for the latest annnouncement.

In 1945, the Australian National Film Board was established to produce documentary films and in 1946, Stanley Hawes began work as the first "producer in chief" of what was to become Film Australia.

ABC TV and the Australian Film Commission (AFC) are calling for proposals from emerging filmmakers who are 35 years and under for their jtv docs initiative. Seeking fresh approaches to half-hour and one-hour documentaries that explore music, ideas, culture and contemporary issues through the eyes of generations X, Y and Z. jtv is an extraordinary new on-air adventure that ABC TV will roll out later this year. A multiplatform, multilayered brand which will exist on the ABC main channel, ABC 2, online and other emerging technologies, jtv will comprise:

# a weekly jtv series on the main ABC channel on Saturday night, taking viewers inside the belly of the beast that is triple j.
# a weekly jtv omnibus on ABC 2 and extensive jtv material available with online components.
# the recently launched jtv live, a performance strand featuring the latest and hottest Australian musical talent doing one-hour sets for television, recorded with a live audience.

read more or visit http://www.afc.gov.au/Funding/fd/docos/fund_75.aspx for more details and to download the application form

CONCOTION2 is a night of darkwave dance, industrial electronics, spoken word cacophony and bio fractal backing. VJTidal on dark projections all nite.
11pm Mystral Tide + TikTokTek (darkwave dance and ambient electronics feat. Zamir of Electro kore)
11.45pm Gordon Taylor & Fractl (mental spoken word with cacaphonic neo-glitch bio fractal backing)
12.30pm Bastich (noise and industrial experimental).

The event is being held at DREAM NIGHTCLUB - 229 Queensbery Street, Carlton Victoria from 11pm - 4am. Free entry (downstairs bandroom / bar only). Supported by the dark electronic music underground (DEMUS). visit http://www.tidalportal.com/DEMUS for more details or read more to view the flyer

DIGITAL CORRUPTION! A night of underground dark electro, industrial and noise performance - Melbourne Thursday 2nd March 2006 @ Dan O'Connell Hotel, Band Room, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC. Tickets are $10 at the door. Event runs from 8:30pm - 1pm with live performances by:

Mystral Tide + TikTokTek: feat. Zamir of Electro Kore
Cassandra's Myth: Industrial Digital Rock
RoboNERD: The Human League meets Black Sabbath... And then gets their face punched in!!!
Bastich: Noise and local gritty industrial electronics
Data projection and Visuals by VJTidal.

Digital Corruption is presented by... dark electro music underground - visit http://www.tidalportal.com/DEMUS or read more to view the flyer

nullarbor is a combined demoparty and game development competition. It is an event designed to bring together a community of local programmers, designers, artists and musicians that have an interest in real-time computer graphics. This is a great opportunity to get an introduction to game and demo development, meet people from the Australian industry and form new collaborative relationships with local talent. Perth is the world's most remote large city. Australia's role in the demoscene is considered just as remote, and similarly Western Australia's role in game development is also very isolated. The source of Perth's physical remoteness, and an Australian icon of isolation is the nullarbor desert. Hence, this event was set up, to celebrate the talent base available within an isolated Australia and to demostrate to the world that Australian digital content creators are the best! nullarbor takes place on Thursday the 23rd of February 2006. It starts at 9:00 am and finishes at 9:00 pm. read more or visit http://www.notrees.org/newsletter.html for details

Vectors maps the multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era, crystallizing around themes that highlight the social, political, and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence. As such, the journal will speak both implicitly and explicitly to key debates across varied disciplines, including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access. Operating at the intersection of culture, creativity, and technology, the journal focuses on the myriad ways technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations, both in the past and in the present. This investigation at the intersection of technology and culture is not simply thematic. Rather, Vectors is realized in multimedia, melding form and content to enact a second-order examination of the mediation of everyday life. Utilizing a peer-reviewed format and under the guidance of an international board, Vectors will feature submissions and specially-commissioned works comprised of moving- and still-images; voice, music, and sound; computational and interactive structures; social software; and much more. Vectors doesn't seek to replace text; instead, we encourage a fusion of old and new media in order to foster ways of knowing and seeing that expand the rigid text-based paradigms of traditional scholarship. In so doing, we aim to explore the immersive and experiential dimensions of emerging scholarly vernaculars. Visit the Vectors Journal website @ http://www.vectorsjournal.org

Numskull is a one man street art band. Dabbling in the arts of graffiti & stencils, this kid has a barrage of images that'll stun you in even the darkest of alleys. Child's Play bears witness to these images coming to life. Clothing, badges, art and sculpture will be on display at blank_space gallery, Thursday 9th February - Wednesday 15th February 06.
read more or visit http://www.blankspace.com.au for details

blank_ space is an independent gallery that showcases contemporary art, industrial design and nurtures progress and innovation in the arts. situated in surry hills, the gallery is conveniently located on crown street in the heart of sydney's design district. blank_ space offers high exposure as a street level space, the gallery is fully equipped and can handle all types of exhibitions and events from one night performance to multi-week, group shows and prototype launches. with a high tek fit out blank_ space is ready for artists / designers & firms to use as the quintessential space in the delivery of their ideas. blank_space is interested in supporting national and international established and emerging artists, curators, designers, performers, firms and organisations.

DAMO SUZUKI (yep, the iconic vocalist of CAN!) rolls into (Brisbane) town this Thursday to deliver a blistering set of his now legendary vision of rock at The Zoo from 8pm. If you needed any convincing as to Suzuki's importance...take Thurston Moore's word on it....

"Can were our clarion call, our initiation to our future"
- Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

Joining together with Damo Suzuki are a range of Brisbane's post-rock players Ben Thompson (The Rational Academy), Jason Elliot (Ubique), Kahl Monticone, Tam Patton (Nightstick, Full Fathom Five) and Lawrence English. Support comes from Bjork remix producer and current Icelandic resident Frost and Bristol based DJ Punksi. Oh and there's a free cd for the first 50 folks through the door! So be early. Visit http://www.room40.org/events.shtml for more details

The Living Room Series III is a weekly 30-minute magazine style TV programme. It's about artists, musicians, filmmakers and other inspirational characters that operate away from established art institutions, record companies and production houses. Each show is made up of three or four different clips –one of the clips features a New Zealander living overseas and the remainder focuses on Kiwi's living in New Zealand. A different personality or artist hosts The Living Room each week from their own living space, giving the viewer a look at New Zealand's creative evolution through the eyes of its artists. There is no 'fame' prerequisite for people featured on The Living Room, just the ability to entertain and inspire. The Living Room lets the artists tell their own story. The Living Room series 1-3 were created by Sticky Pictures. read more or visit http://www.stickypictures.co.nz/work1_livingroom.htm# for more details

INTRODUCTION

In recognition of the pioneering experimental works continually being produced by artists for the internet Soundtoys.net has been established to provide a space for the exhibition of exciting new works by a growing community of audio visual artists, while also providing a forum for discourse around new technologies and the nature of soundtoys. The site is intended to provide a meeting point for this growing community of artists and users, and in addition to the exhibition of audio visual projects, the site contains areas for artists interviews, links to resources, and texts by contributing writers where serious issues around interactive arts, audio visual syhthesis, generative art, and a history of interactivity are discussed. Hopefully it is a fun and entertaining site to visit , while also providing valuable information for all parties.

The genre-bending annual fest from CEAIT, CalArts' Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns to REDCAT with an international lineup of unabashedly experimental works in music, multimedia, and sound art. read more or visit http://redcat.org/season/0506/mus/ceait.php for details