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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.
(Photo: Mika Meskanen and Temp Sauna. Photo courtesy of the artist.)
It’s on!!! Come join us in Newcastle from today and experience the fantastic artworks, performances and presentations plus much much more.
(Photos – top to bottom, left to right: ILIOS, Mika Meskanen, Gilles Aubry, Tom Hall, Rosy Parlane, Bum Creek, DJ Ripley, Christian Haines, Elke Reinhuber and John Kilduff. Photos courtesy of the artists.)
Screening this Friday and Saturday nights at the Playhouse Theatre at 6pm, the 2009 Electro-Projections program promises a cavalcade of audio-visual delights from artists across the globe. This year’s program, curated by Matthew O’Shannessy and Michael Prior was selected from an international open call for single-channel video works created within the last two years. Always a festival highlight, and always a treat, this year’s program is divided into two distinct programs. Click the handy link below to read more about it.
Curated by Samuel Bruce, the 2009 Electro_Online program showcases exciting online artworks made in the last two years.
This year we’re pleased to bring you eleven great works from all corners of the web, ranging from crowdsourced re-enactments of a scene from Full House to a series of films available only on peer-to-peer networks. There’s a videogame that will delete the files on your hard drive – or itself, and a program that fills them with redundant code. You’ll hear music recomposed by lagging YouTube servers, sonifications of eBay account data, and Daisy Bell as sung by the collective voice of the internet.
In the lead-up to the festival, new works will be posted each day on the Electro_Online site, and announced over our Facebook and Twitter accounts (quite the up-to-date festival, we are). Samuel Bruce will also be talking about this year’s program at 10:30am on Thursday morning. No better way to kick off the festival we think. For more details, click the handy link below:
ILIOS – from Athens, Greece – has spent the past 15 years exploring extremes of sound and image derived phenomena. We are very lucky to have ILIOS perform and present his work at Electrofringe this year and you will be able to hear him discuss his work and witness it at:
(Photo: ILIOS live at the first Athens Biennial. Photo courtesy of the artist.)
Randolf Reimann aka Tra La La Blip uses Ableton Live, running workshops for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities. He has an in-depth knowledge of this platform, having adopted the software into his musical practice back in 2001.
Facilitated by Accessible Arts, Randolf will run a two-hour workshop using Ableton Live, kicking off the Electrofringe festival on the morning of Thursday 1st October. Spread the word…
Come and participate:
(Photo courtesy of Accessible Arts.)
the festival is only ten days away and we’re looking for a few more volunteers.
while we’re looking for people with any types of skills we’re also looking for some specific skills:
if you think you’d like to be involved – please send us an email to: electrofringedirectors(at)gmail.com
With the exception of two gigs, this festival is free!! (How often do you hear that these days…)
Tickets (for the two non-free gigs) are on sale now. Get in quick to purchase them.
These gigs are collaboratively run with Sound Summit and include the likes of Qua, Vivian Girls, Stalker, Rosy Parlane, ILIOS, DJ Ripley, Bum Creek and many more.
Book your tix now: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=30159&ref=moshtix
For more info on the gigs see:
Hailing from Melbourne, Sam, Tarquin and Trev (aka Bum Creek) grew out of the Canberra art scene and have been attending Electrofringe since back when they were Uni students.
Performing at the main gig of the festival, the Saturday Night Showcase (at the Cambridge), they’ll be joined by the likes of Ivan Lisyak and 10k Freemen.
Come see Bum Creek:
(Photo: Bum Creek in Japan. Photo courtesy of the artists.)
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