Len Lye’s 1935 film A Colour Box, was the first “direct film” screened to a general audience. The term “direct film” refers to the process of working directly with the surface of the film through painting and scratching. “A Colour Box” was actually an advertisement for a parcel post service. For a brief biography of the artist check here.
*February Event*
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6:30pm Tonight
eCentral TAFE (in Theatrette)
140 Royal St, East Perth
Abstract
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Paul Bourke : Novel projection environments
Paul’s Website : http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/
Image Gallery of Dome Installations :
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/exhibition/domeinstall
Paul Bourke will present and discuss a number of the more unusual
projection environments he has either developed or been involved with.
This will include VROOM (the Virtual ROOM) at the Melbourne Museum, a
360 degree stereoscopic cylinder at iCinema in Sydney, planetarium
domes including a buckyball dome at GinGin, and some smaller more
personal immersive environments. Applications of such environments
include visualisation, engaging spaces for education, entertainment,
and gaming. Some discussion will also be given to what application or
game developers need to do in order to create content for such
environments.
Biography
Paul Bourke is employed as a visualisation researcher at the
University of Western Australia providing scientific visualisation
services to researchers within university and externally. During his
career he has worked in organisations where he concentrated on
architectural, brain/medical, and recently astronomy visualisation.
One of his many interests are innovative and immersive display
technologies and how they may be used to enhance scientific
visualisation as well as support engaging exhibits in public spaces
and for education. An ongoing interest has been how to create
immersive environments at a lower price point in an attempt to remove
one barrier to their wider deployment.
Directions to the Venue
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Enter through the main doors on the corner of Royal St and Fielder St.
Follow the signs from the reception desk up the stairs to your right
and into the next building to the Theatrette. Parking is available on
the street and at the rear of the building. Claisebrook train station
is a short walk away. Bicycle parking is available at the rear of the
building.
Directions have been kindly written by Nick Lowe
(SIGGRAPH Perth Committee Member at Large and Head of One Twenty)
http://events.onetwenty.org/index.php/2006/11/24/whats-a-siggraph-perth-event-like-anyway
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Call for Artist in Residence at Murdoch University School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences. Due: 31 March, 2007.
Murdoch University Veterinary Trust welcomes the opportunity to host an artist in residence for six weeks at the Murdoch University School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences. Working alongside scientists, educators, and students, the successful applicant will experience the continuum of veterinary practice from biomolecular research to the dynamics of the animal/human relationship. The artist will receive a stipend of $3,000, access to the school staff, students and resources, and an exhibition. The application is open to artists with significant professional experience working in any art form. Residency must take place between 1 May – 20 December, 2007. Visit the Murdoch University Veterinary Trust website, www.veterinarytrust.murdoch.edu.au for the application package or further information about the 2007 Artist in Residence program. Please email m.culliver@murdoch.edu.au or phone +61 (08) 9360 2104 and your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.
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p.s. The Murdoch Vet Trust website will have the text from the PDF documents by end of day.
Kristin Mannix
Development Officer
Murdoch University Veterinary Trust
“International Excellence in Veterinary Science”
South Street
Murdoch, WA 6150
Tel: (08) 9360 2699
k.mannix@murdoch.edu.au
www.veterinarytrust.murdoch.edu.au
The new Hybrid Art category, a new prize for Media.Art.Research, and the integration of Net Vision into Digital Communities are the most visible signs of the intensive work that is being done on the definition of the competition’s categories. As always, the aim is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.
And with [The Next Idea] Art and Technology Grant, the aim goes even further.
This category`s target group includes students at universities, art schools, technical schools, and other educational institutions as well as creatives from all over the world, aged 19-27 and is focusing on as-yet-unproduced concepts in the fields of art, design or technology. The winner receives a stipend in the amount of 7,500 Euro and will be invited to spend a term as Researcher and Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Judging will be done by a panel of experts. The Ars Electronica Futurelab makes its resources and its staff’s expertise available to support the realization of the project during the term of residency. The awarded concept or the completed work will be presented in the Prix Ars Electronica’s “CyberArts 2007” catalog and as part of the Ars Electronica Exhibition at the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival. Strongly committed to an interdisciplinary approach, and as part of an international network of collaborating institutional associates, the Ars Electronica Futurelab carries out its R&D projects together with artists and scientists from all over the world. The awarding of this grant is made possible by voestalpine.
Prix Ars Electronica 2007
Online Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007
Computeranimation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art,
Digital Communities, u19 - freestyle competition, [the next idea] grant,
Media.Art.Research Award
All details about the categories and the online submission
are available online only at:
Total prize money: 122.500 Euro
Call for entries
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Deadline 31 March 2007
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Theme:
Slowtime 2007 -
Quicktime as an artistic medium
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Cinematheque -
http://cinema.nmartproject.net
http://mac.le-musee-divisioniste.org,
the centre for streaming media in the framework of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net,
will open in 2007 - Cinema_C by launching the new show, entitled:
“Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium”.
Already in 2003, Cinematheque was exploring the artistic potential of the popular streaming videoformat
Quicktime as it can be visited in Cinema_B (access via the Cinematheque site).
As Quicktime was undergoing a rapid technological development during the past years,
it is time again for exploring the current state of Quicktime and its use
as a medium for artistic expressions.
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Cinematheque is inviting artists, video and film makers
to submit up to three videos in Quicktime format -
originating from 2004 or later, preferably sized 480×360 px,
but not smaller than 320×240 px, a duration of max. 6 minutes,
and make them available online on a separate webpage for review and download.
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Please find the call, the regulations and entry form on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8
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Cinematheque at MediaCentre
http://cinema.nmartproject.net
http://mac.le-musee-divisioniste.org
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FILE FESTIVAL 2007
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival is opening registrations for its eighth edition, that will be held at Sesi’s Art Gallery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the period from August 26th to September 16th, 2007. Subscriptions are open from February 5th to March 31st, 2007. Submissions are free and open to professionals, researchers and students of the electronic language.
In the last seven years, FILE has shown what’s been happening in the global networks related to digital and electronic arts, becoming a reference for studies and research on new media. It has exhibited web art, net art, artificial life, hypertext, computer animation, real time teleconference, virtual reality, soft art, games, interactive movies, e-videos, digital panoramas and electronic art installations and robotics, through interactive and immersive rooms.
FILE SYMPOSIUM has bec ome a meeting point in the city of São Paulo, proposing discussions and tackling the electronic-digital culture in its relations to art, science and technologies.
edited by Oliver Grau - available from MIT Press 2007
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging
the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach collaboration in new media art studies and practice.
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today’s media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines - film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images.
Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp’s inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms–machine, media, exhibition–and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the “trained eye” of art history.
http://www.mediaarthistories.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html