Blogs

Soundtoys.net has secured a series of exhibitions for interactive audio visual art and net art for later in the year. These venues include The Watershed Media Centre in Bristol and Dana Centre London. A cd is planned to be produced (subject to funding) representing audio visual art and media 1998-2004 so please send in your work. read more or visit http://www.soundtoys.net for details

Developed by Coldcut and NomIg. (webmasters behind the Mutek festival website), Revolution:USA is an online, multimedia political art project created as a way to gather together artists around the world who have something to say about the state of American politics. It is intended to act as a catalyst for both audiovisual art and the development of public awareness surrounding politics and their effect on our lives. There is a large amount of art devoted to this topic and we are creating a project which will serve as a portal, resource and means of dissemination for such art. visit http://www.nomig.net/revusa for more details or read on

1/4_Inch is proud to present another wild night of entertainment on Thursday 29th July from 8pm. This event will showcase 3 Interstate artists and promises to be more lively than a feral monkey with fleas. Artists performing on the night are Ross Bencina (Melbourne), Scott Sinclair (Brisbane), and Hydatid (Brisbane)

July features Techno Beats, Vegan Eats, ..and Other Treats. BYO vinyl, cd's, instruments and warm vibes. gold coin entry

the last time lopez played at impermanent (august 2001) he left the audience stunned and the performance is still considered by many to be the best impermanent to date. this is not to be missed. Over the last twenty years Francisco Lopez has been creating a unique powerful sonic world, 'trying to reach an ideal of absolute concrete music'. Through what he once called 'the exploration of the universe of broad-band noise from the real world', his music arises from the processing of environmental recordings. visit http://impermanent.info for more info on the event or http://franciscolopez.net for info on the guest artist

Heading up the HARD PLANET mainroom action comes three of the nations finest DJs: Nik Fish, beXta and Amber Savage.
Voted No. 3, 4 & 11 respectively on the inthemix national top 50 list by the punters of Australia they are sure to bring some damn fine dancefloor action. Joining them from the local scene are absolutely smashing DJs: Danny Boy, Karma, Tristan Cameron & J Frantik. read more for info or check the www.adventjah.com.au website when it relaunches in August

ZEN ZEN ZO is once again offering BUTOH Workshops on Monday nights (7.30-9.30pm) at the Avalon Theatre in St Lucia, Brisbane, from July until November. Participants can join at any time, space permitting. "The passion of the Butoh dancer is an inner one. What you see on the outside is always infinitely subtle. you see a trace of the emotion, never the emotion itself. In the west we have a tendency to throw ourselves against walls as a way to indicate passion. The Japanese just show traces, not unlike their prints, their art of leaving traces on paper. They disclose only just enough to allow you to imagine an inner poetic landscape. This is much more interesting" email info@zenzenzo.com for more information

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A night of dirty rocking electro! Thursday 22 July from 9pm, featuring Old Des Peres (Melbourne) launching their album, 'Preserved'. Old Des Peres are brothers Kynan (Old Des) and Kiron Robinson (Mr Ection) plus Kynan

Clan Analogue, Australia's premier electronic arts collective, is completely freaked out to issue forth their new compilation Doppler Shift: electro selections (catalogue no. CA034). The new CD is rammed full of the latest electro selections from the cream of Australia's electro and synth-pop artists. Available through Australian distributors Creative Vibes, look for Doppler Shift at all record stores across the electro-magnetic spectrum from july 5th 2004. read more for more information or visit www.clananalogue.org

Warchalking is the practice of marking a series of symbols on sidewalks and walls to indicate nearby wireless access. That way, other computer users can pop open their laptops and connect to the Internet wirelessly. It was inspired by the practice of hobos during the Great Depression to use chalk marks to indicate which homes were friendly. visit http://www.warchalking.org for more details and to find out what the warchalking symbols mean.

BananaRAM is an International Art Network committed to supporting the creation, presentation, discussion, preservation, promotion and distribution of art engaging new technologies in significant ways. The 2004 premise is exploring Mind Control and the need of sublimating the anxiety of the viewer through art. Reality in the visual world of today can be melt with images on screens and in our vision, art is the only way for the viewer to achieve self determination. Artists create beauty and irony for freedom

Disorientation is a monthly night of electronic audio-visual performance at Lanfranchis Memorial Discotheque in Chippendale. The event aims to present innovative work by both established and emerging electronic artists while simultaneously expanding the audience for such work. June's artists include Terre Thaemlitz (USA), Pimmon, Donna Hewitt & Julian Knowles Team Australia. Read more or visit http://aliasfrequencies.org/disorientation for more details.

Painting you can hear, dance you listen to and eye popping sounds from a psychedelic virtual orchestra. Chrissie Parrott and Jonathan Mustard have created a sense-bending experience. Movement vocabulary allows dancers to manipulate sound and images in symbiosis with Mustard's video colour-tracking system. read more of visit http://www.soca.ecu.edu.au/students/masters/Jonathan_Mustard/ for details

Terre Thaemlitz (USA/Japan) is an award winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. For the better part of a decade, Terre Thaemlitz has been at the beating heart of electro-acoustic and computer based musics, completing a role as one of the central figures of the ambient scene of the mid-nineties. His work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production. This
diversity of themes is matched by Thaemlitz' wide range of production styles, which include electroacoustic computer music, club oriented deep house, digital jazz, ambient, and computer composed neo-expressionist piano solos. Terre Thaemlitz is in Australia to present his Lovebomb performance - read more for details on Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne lectures/performances.