Electrofringe

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)
• Electro-Projections & Electro-Etre 2010 - Proposal Submission Form (.pdf)
• Electro-Projections & 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

If you attended Electrofringe this year, we’d really appreciate it if you can fill out the TINA festival survey. This assists us in collecting vital statistics,  helping us to provide you with an even better festival next year.

Head to: Online Festival Survey

Thursday 15th & Friday 16th October 2009

5pm – 8pm

Outside the Dendy Cinema at Circular Quay, Sydney

Today and tomorrow, artist Mika Meskanen will be hosting his Temp Sauna, which was brought to Australia for the Electrofringe festival. If you didn’t get your sauna at Electrofringe, then come along for a sunset sauna near the ocean at Sydney’s Circular Quay. The sauna appears as a feature of the Nordic Film Festival.

It’s on!!! Come join us in Newcastle from today and experience the fantastic artworks, performances and presentations plus much much more.