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Pixel Pirate II: The Director’s Cut
2.30-3.30pm, Sun 2nd Oct
A sci-fi / biblical epic / action movie composed exclusively of pirated audiovisual samples. This remix epic follows a team of lunar video pirates who are trying to liberate recorded culture from the control of the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. This is the definitive edition for the future of video piracy.
Artists
Soda_Jerk
Venue
Festival Club (The Great Northern Hotel)
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TiYC (Travel if You Can)
6-7pm, Fri 30th Sep
7-8pm, Sat 1st Oct
TiYC (Travel if You Can) is a performance featuring projected Flash animation, recorded interviews and musical performance. It is driven by a series of stories told by people who have recently tried to migrate to Australia and looks at their conditions and experiences relative to the theme of “home, exchange and solitude”. We live in a world of changing environments, varying conditions of global travel and social complexities that are today intensified by an ever increasing “political gap” between continents. The people who have contributed their stories to this project were able to openly discuss their situation and encouraged to speak freely expressing their views on issues relating to freedom and their international rights of passage.
Artists
Damian Castaldi
Venue
Black Box Theatre
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Listening to place
11am-1pm, Sat 1st Oct
3-5pm, Sun 2nd Oct
This work seeks to explore acoustic space with electro acoustic aids. Through audio feedback the sound engineer and performer will play and explore the acoustic properties of the space they are in. The process of composition and performance is an exercise in conscious listening and collaboration between performer, space and engineer.
Four speakers will be set up in the space all facing inwards (placed to measure to ensure cancellation and wave harmonization). The performer will be placed in the centre of the speakers with an open mic and contact mics on his body. Through voice and mic feedback the audio engineer and performer will collaborate to explore the aural properties and sound of the space. The work will play out like a performer/audio engineer/space jam but the only aural properties being voice and feedback. In order for this to take place the performer and engineer will need to engage in processes of conscious listening. It is hoped that this process will allow the audience to open out their listening and experience the space and listening in a way that they have not before.
Artists
Clare Andreallo
John Andreallo
Venue
The Dark Room, Crackhouse
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Songbirds [Performance]
4.30-5.30pm, Fri 30th Sep
Songbirds are a type of sound-activated electro-acoustic sculpture, capable of both listening to their environment and producing sound. Woven into a physical network of sound and space, masses of these songbirds will perform complex, emergent patterns.
Artists
Joe Mariglio
Venue
Pacific Park
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Songbirds [Workshop/Demo]
10am-2pm, Sat 1st Oct
Songbirds are a type of wind-activated electro-acoustic sculpture, made from readily available materials such as metal conduit, PVC tubing or glass bottles and capable of both listening to their environment and producing sound. Artist Joe Mariglio will work with you to build, install, record and perform with these sculptures.
NOTE: You are more than welcome to come and observe the workshop, but if you would like to participate in making a songbird, booking is essential as materials are limited.
Artists
Joe Mariglio
Venue
Dining Room, Crackhouse
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Media Lab Melbourne Presents
5-6pm, Sat 1st Oct
Media Lab Melbourne is a new initiative starting up in Melbourne that seeks to bring together practitioners excited about the possibilities at the intersection of art, design and technology.
The aim of Media Lab Melbourne is to cultivate the creation, discus- sion and distribution of media art and artists locally + globally + virtually.
Media Lab Melbourne is in an open collaboration with local + global media art communities.
Functioning as a lab for creation and education, a gallery/boutique for sale and distribution of work, a consultancy for the application of hybrid and new media in industry and a locally and globally connected network of artists and designers founded in Melbourne, Australia.
The Lab will be holding several workshops in 2011 on diverse themes such as fashionable technologies for the everyday, sport and technology and pervasive, public uses of the XBOX360 Kinect 3D camera.
Artists
Pierre Proske
Tim Devine
Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre
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The Hackerspace Movement
1-2pm, Sat 1st Oct
In the past few years, Hackerspaces have sprung up in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Perth & Adelaide. Born from a world-wide movement, Hack- erspaces are communities of makers, hackers, artists and enthusiasts. Members come together to work on art & technology projects, share ideas & knowledge, and host workshops & tutorials.
In Canberra, Make Hack Void has rapidly evolved from talking on the internet, to talking in a pub, to talking in a food court, to talking in a different pub, talking in a school, and finally to having their own real life Hackerspace workshop (amazingly, they’re even still talking to each other!)
Two MHV members will relate their experience kickstarting a community, ex- plain what Hackerspaces are and what happens there, persuade you to get in- volved or start your own, and show how you might do that.
Artists
Angus Gratton & Adam Thomas
Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre
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GLI.TC/H: hacking codecs in the pursuit of communication
10am-1pm, Sat 1st Oct
In this panel-led workshop, we will explore and discuss the architecture of digital media files through an intentional corruption of codecs, compression algorithms, digital files and conversion software. We will examine how seemingly similar files contain wildly varying code structures and determine a lineage of distribution codecs as they pertain to the expansion of digital media.
Participants are required to bring their own laptops, Mac OSX is preferred but not essential.
RSVP essential! Email: electrofringedirectors@gmail.com
Artists
Evan Meaney
Venue
Newcastle City Hall
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Digital Freestyle
11:30am-12:30pm, Sat 1st Oct
Digital Freestyle will be a series of ensemble performances using newly developed experimental digital instruments developed specifically for this event. The concert will feature new instruments built with laptops and electronics and music that ranges from electronic, to ambient, to beats and noise. Performers will have built their instruments for this concert at the course, Experimental Digital Instruments and their Performance, held just prior to Electrofringe.
Artists
Andrew Brown, Toby Gifford, Jim Chapman and Nathan Scott
Venue
Festival Club (The Great Northern Hotel)
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The Human Drum Machine
2-5pm, Sat 1st Oct
An exploration of image recognition and it’s power to sequence notes and musical phrases in realtime. Featuring a 3D “stage” participants can interact with, this event is equal parts of explanation, demonstration and light-hearted audience experimentation. Based on the same underlying technology of the legendary reACTable, this project throws away all “the expensive bits” making it a simple, cheap and fun way of interfacing creatively with a computer. Everyone attending will receive a pre-configured starter pack so they too can try the technology when they get home. Please note that any interpretive dance experienced at this session is purely accidental and in the name of getting something to trigger correctly.
Venue
TAFE Worksheds
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