Electrofringe

Electrofringe Ltd runs an international year-round program of electronic arts and culture events including the annual Electrofringe festival, as part of This Is Not Art held in Newcastle, NSW. The organisation is dedicated towards fostering emerging artists and artforms through skills development and artistic exchange. The This Is Not Art (TINA) festival is Australia’s largest gathering of artists, activities and commentators and is made of five independent festivals, of which Electrofringe is the largest. The other partner festivals include the National Young Writers Festival, Sound Summit, Critical Animals and the Crack Theatre festival.

Each year the Electrofringe festival represents the work of over 250 artists and presents over 100 events across a five-day period. Electrofringe relies on the input and support of the electronic arts community and embodies DIY culture.

More information about Electrofringe can be found on this website.

This year marks the thirteenth anniversary for Electrofringe. The group incorporated as a not-for-profit Australian public company limited by guarantee in 2008 and is continuing to develop a robust infrastructure for the organisation. Electrofringe is managed by a small volunteer directorate and is a community based, artist-run organisation. Board members play a “hands-on” role in the development and operation of the organisation.

We are looking for new members to join the Board of Electrofringe who have professional experience in the financial, business or fundraising sectors plus an interest in electronic arts or DIY culture.

Please send an expression of interest outlining your relevant experience, interests, and attributes you can bring to the Electrofringe Board and a CV (up to 3 pages) to:

Miranda Lee
Electrofringe Ltd
Email: electrofringeboard@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone who sent us a proposal – or in some cases, multiple proposals! We look forward to going through them all and we’ll keep you updated on our programming as we build towards the festival.

Watch this space!

Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2010 festival from visual artists, sound artists, performers, media makers, researchers, writers, culture jammers, hackers, tinkerers and enthusiasts of all coats and colours.

Occurring as part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) group of festivals in Newcastle, Australia Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture featuring national and international artists and will be held from the 30^th September – 4^th October,  2010.

Proposals are accepted from a broad range of investigations including cross-disciplinary practice, media-based practice, networked and online collaborations, locative technologies, mobile artworks, live art, software art, electronics, experimental interfaces, sound, music, video, film, installation, performance and much, much more.

Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative uses of technology and electronic art forms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange. We are looking to unearth emergent forms, present innovative work and encourage interesting uses of technology. Electrofringe is interested in works that reflect all modes of creative practice.

ALL PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE BY WEDNESDAY 31ST OF MARCH, 2010.

Proposal forms can be downloaded here:

• Electrofringe 2010 – Proposal Submission Form (.pdf)
• Electrofringe 2010 – Proposal Submission Form (.doc)
• Electroprojections & Electro-Etre 2010 – Proposal Submission Form (.pdf)
• Electroprojections & Electro-Etre 2010 – Proposal Submission Form (.doc)

If you have any questions about proposal submissions, please contact festival Co-Directors Daniel Green and Estee Wah at electrofringedirectors[at]gmail[dot]com

Electrofringe is very pleased to announce the appointment of Estee Wah as Creative Co-Producer of the 2010 and 2011 Electrofringe festivals.

With an extensive history with Sydney’s performing arts scene as an administrator (including being the last person to the position of House Manager at Performance Space in Redfern before its relocation to Carriageworks), Estee also brings to Electrofringe a world of technical prowess honed during the completion of a Masters of Professional Studies at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2009.

We are thrilled that Estee has joined the Electrofringe family; and we’re looking forward to hitting the ground running preparing for the 2010 festival. It’s going to be huge year; we recommend you stay proverbially tuned.

We’re hoping that you all danced your way into 2010 and are looking forward to the year ahead. More news will be coming soon about all aspects of this year’s festival, so stay tuned…

Best wishes for a great 2010 from everyone at Electrofringe.

(Photo: Call Me Your Experiment workshop with Alison Currie at Electrofringe 2009. Photographer: Torunn Higgins)

| | | | SPECIAL PRESENTATION | | | | DORKBOT SYDNEY | | | |

What: “People doing strange things with electricity”
Where: Black & Blue Gallery, www.blackandbluegallery.com.au, 302/267-271 Cleveland Street Redfern
When: Friday 4th December, 5:30 – 6:30
Cost: FREE!

Dorkbot will be having a special presentation by Japanese electronic artist Daito Manabe in conjunction with the opening of Spooky Action at a Distance, a show curated by Amelia Groom at Black & Blue Gallery. The show hosts a selection of ten experimental video works by Japanese artists including the work of Daito Manabe.

Video demonstration of his work using electronic stimulus to face can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxdlYFCp5Ic&feature=player_embedded
For more info: www.daito.ws/en
Daito Manabe is in Sydney for Kirin Big In Japan festival: www.biginjapan.com.au

On Sunday 22nd November, Samuel Bruce, curator of the 2009 Electro_Online exhibition, will present a talk about selected works in the online exhibition of net.art

Location: Serial Space, Sydney

Time: 7pm – 8:30pm

For more information see: www.serialspace.org

Electrofringe is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with the current Co-Producer, Daniel Green, on the 2010 festival and on to 2011.

Electrofringe showcases digital, electronic and media arts with a particular emphasis on emergent forms and techniques, focusing on encouraging interaction between emerging and professional practitioners, Electrofringe aims to create an open environment of exchange and peer-to-peer mentoring.

Staged across 5 days over the October long weekend and part of This Is Not Art, the Electrofringe festival presents workshops, panel discussions, installations, exhibitions, screenings and performances. The festival brings together artists, musicians, media makers, technicians, scientists, academics, cultural commentators, critics and enthusiasts working with a broad range of media. In 2010 Electrofringe is looking to move towards a year-round program featuring a wide range of events to expand its program and to further develop the Electrofringe community.

If you are interested in applying, please download the application guidelines below this post and submit your application before the deadline of COB Monday 30th November 2009.

• Electrofringe 2010 Creative Co-Producer Application Guidelines (.doc)

We’d like to thank the artists, volunteers and audiences for braving the rainy weather and making the 2009 Electrofringe festival such a success. Experiencing such high quality work reaffirms that the ideas, creativity and skills existing out there and only get better each year.

If you have any feedback about the festival, we’d love to hear it. Please send us an email to electrofringedirectors(at)gmail.com

(Photos: Bum Creek and John Kilduff’s Let’s Paint TV extravaganza at Electrofringe 2009. Photographers: Torunn Higgins and Maria-Eleni Alesandre.)