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

Crack is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with current festival Co-Directors David Finnigan and Gillian Schwab.

If you think you have the chops, you can head to http://cracktheatrefestival.com to find out more and download an application form.

The deadline for applications is next Friday, May the 7th, 2010.

Watch this space!

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

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)

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

Somaya Langley (2008 – 2009)

Somaya Langley is a sound and media artist who has presented work at various conferences and festivals in Australia, Canada, Asia and Europe. Over the past seven years, her arts practice has focused on immersive, embodied and wearable experiences, mainly expressed through the sonic domain through projects such as the Suspect Backpack. Somaya performs live sensor-based electroacoustics under the pseudonym ID-i/o, and was previously a member of the sensor-trio HyperSense Complex and the duo MetaSense.

She was recently a participant in the Australia Council for the Arts ArtLab research project Thinking Through The Body and in 2008 was Co-Curator for Transit Lounge, a Berlin-Australia online artist exchange – a partner project of transmediale.

She also has a background in libraries, digital archiving and online delivery. She was an employee of the National Library of Australia, developing (amongst other things) the MusicAustralia project and more recently worked for the Australian Music Centre assisting development of their new online service.

Daniel Green (2009 – 2010)

Daniel Green is an artist, performer and curator who dabbles in music for the sake of diversity. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Western Sydney in 2005, Daniel has served on the board of directors at Firstdraft, an artist-run initiative in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Over the past two years, he also undertaken the role of Electrofringe’s Volunteers Coordinator, and in 2008 he co-curated (with Michael Prior) Electro-Projections, Electrofringe’s annual open-call screening program.

In addition to presenting his own work in varying forms at Electrofringe between 2003 – 2008, he has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally in spaces such as Bus (Melbourne), Platform (Melbourne), Serial Space (Sydney), MOP (Sydney), Mori Gallery (Sydney) and festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin) and Next Wave (Melbourne). In 2008 he also curated an exhibition of new work by emerging artists, It’s all been done before, and an accompanying series of performances, The day the music died, both at Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

Daniel’s work investigates contemporary entertainment culture and in particular the role of the individual within that culture. Predominately working within video and performance, to date his of achievements include singing Pulp’s Common People in a cardboard box, making a Playstation 2 play itself, becoming Townsville’s second-best air guitarist and annoying a lot of Linkin Park fans.
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Media and Design

Media Sponsor

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Graphic Design

• Isis & Pluto

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Administration

Book Keeper

Cat Jones

Cat Jones is an artist whose practice straddles performance, writing and media. She’s fascinated by exchanges and interactions between audiences and art. She was Co-Director of Electrofringe in 2006 and 2007.

Grants Writer

Nina Stromqvist

Nina Stromqvist is a freelance artist and writer, and formerly a staff member in the Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts. She is currently completing a Master of Art Curatorship at Sydney University.

Web Hosting

Sarah Bock

Sarah Bock is a geekgirl stuck in the 90s who hosts websites and provides web support for numerous organisations, musicians and artists in the community.

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Volunteers

Our incredible team includes…

Electro-Projections Curators

Michael Prior

Michael Prior is an artist, musician and organiser living and working in Melbourne. He produces publications, events and site specific works with Tape Projects and Thoth Press, among others.

Matthew O’Shannessy

Matthew O’Shannessy is a Melbourne-based writer and curator who occasionally relapses into an obnoxious noise musician.

Electro-Online Curator

Samuel Bruce

Samuel Bruce is an artist living in Western Sydney whose practice encompasses generative audiovisual abstraction, electronics, a catalogue of garage sale signs, and endurance karaoke. Now it seems he’s curating Electro-Online, so all that time spent on the web is finally paying off.

Accommodation and Artist Liaison Officer

Kate Byrne

Kate is a sometimes curator, ideas girl and self-confessed art enabler.

Production Manager and Technical Director

James McPherson

James studied at SAE in Byron Bay and is now based in Canberra, working for Eclipse Lighting and Sound.

Audiovisual Technicians

Arran Harding

boomstix = a dubby dance music creator and sound engineer – detonating
chest rattling subbass and fluffing your pillows with gentle melody. boomstix will nice up your sound.

Emily Morandini

Emily fixes mixing desks and is based in Sydney.

Christian Malejka

Christian is a technical director and sound engineer, primarily working in the theatre and festival arenas. Over the past twelve years he has worked in Germany, Ireland and Scotland for events including Tuned City, Garage Festival, Club Transmediale, the Edinburgh Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival and Unidram Festival.

Sam Slattery

Sam Slattery is an emerging rapturously voisturous chorus of ingenuity and freedom of thought, a pulsing spirit who can enrichen souls with a magnitude never before felt within the human psyche. He is pretty bloody good at making equipment function properly; all whilst maintaining an influence on the moods of an entire globe.

Samuel is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts (Television Production) at Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga, and is proudly humbled for the experiences and wisdom offered throughout the degree.

Exhibitions Co-ordinator

Melinda Rackham

Melinda Rackham has been engaging audiences with emergent practices and hybrid artforms for 15 years as a networked artist, writer, curator and cultural producer.

Gigs Co-ordinator

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison is an audiovisual artist based in Sydney who sometimes puts his hand up to put on gigs.

Volunteers Co-ordinator

Raymond Wholohan

Ray Wholohan is an emerging curator who is based in the Eastern Riverina. Ray has worked for regional art galleries and art festivals such as Next Wave and Electorfringe. In 2008 he was awarded the Museums and Galleries New South Wales Curatorial Mentorship, and is currently a Master of Arts candidate and tutor at Charles Sturt University.

Photographer

Torunn Higgins

Torunn Higgins is a photomedia artist based in Sydney. She is also a big felt geek and loves all things hand-crafted.

Web Developer

Toby Vervaart

Toby is a Sydney based web designer and developer. When he’s not building web apps he enjoys blogging about design and technology at Hip.Young.Thing.

Grants Writer

Melody Ellis

Melody Ellis is a practicing artist, curator and writer. She has worked for the Biennale of Sydney, The Athens Biennial and the Australian National University.

Festival Volunteers

• Tania Fox
• Deborah Kelly
• Estee Wah
• Zoe Steers
• Sarah Mackie
• Robert Moss
• Cameron Lam
• Tamika Carter
• Sam Bruce
• Kristina Green
• Maria-Eleni Alesandre
• Niki Molina
• Jacci Marr
• Chris Williams

Location: Serial Space, Sydney

Time: 7pm – 8:30pm

For more information see: www.serialspace.org