The Sunday Fair incorporates Zine Fair, Independent Music Labels Fair, Small Press and Independent Publishing Fair and the Makers Market. The Fair is part of This Is Not Art, an annual festival of independent, emerging & experimental arts & media.

The Fair will be held on Sunday 30th September between 12 and 6 under the trees of Newcastle's Civic Park. If you trade in zines, independent publications, records, CDs, art wearables, clothes, jewellery, badges, patches, posters, or anything funky cool and DIY and you want to share your work with thousands of other artists, creators, makers and interesting folk from across the country then the Makers Market
is for you.

Read more for more information, then download the information sheet and registration form from www.thisisnotart.org or send an email to markets@thisisnotart.org to register

Electrofringe 2007 programme is now online. This is one of my favourite festivals, and it takes place annually in Newcastle, north of Sydney, Australia. During the festival Newcastle comes alive with creatives from all parts of Australia and overseas. The umbrella festival is called This is Not Art. Last year's festival was really hands on, which made it extra fun. This year looks set to keep your creative juices flowing also, with sessions such as Physical Computing : 1, Radio Locus Workshops such as Build your own Radio, Mulchwerk, a Dorkshop Sense & Control, a Homemade Instruments workshop Gestural Control & Feedback plus heaps more. The electrofringe website has the full program and a day by day listing of each workshop / panel session / project presentation / gig and happening. The other bonus to the festival is stopping to chat with friends and strangers about the festival and projects everyone has been working on over the year. Some documentation from previous years festivals is on this site, or check out the previous years festivals links on the electrofringe site.

Watch the video

parts of Ian Andrew's performance and presentation of his video works at Electrofringe 2006, Newcastle, Australia, sunday 01/10/2006

http://www.thisisnotart.org

http://www.thisisnotart.org/Members/ben/ian-andrews/

Ian Andrews, born 1961 (Australia) is a Sydney based independent film, video and sound artist who has been practicing since 1981. Much of Andrews' work consists of video/sound collage, "cut-up", and agit-prop culture jamming utilising a diverse range of visual styles from animation to "found" footage. The work is often characterised by themes such as technology and subjectivity. He will present a live performance, followed by discussion around his work and writing.

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part of a performance by Jasch - generative audio and video soundscapes to immerse yourself in

sunday 01/10/2006, Electrofringe 2006, Newcastle, Australia

http://www.jasch.ch/

http://www.thisisnotart.org/

http://www.thisisnotart.org/Members/ben/jasch-codespace/

Codespace integrates realtime drawing and motion-images with electronic sounds that evoke an abstract place where organical and crystalline shapes pulsate and flow. Generative (rule-based) processes or algorithms and realtime action by the artist are applied to basic shapes which in conjuction with finely graded colours comprise a rich palette of textures and shapes. empty dark space is inhabited by fast moving abstract shapes, structures with an architectural quality develop over extended periods of time. The piece evolves from dark and minimalist atmospheres to abstract densities, like a digital painting performed before the viewer's eyes. Memory of the images accumulates, obtaining qualities like a painting or etching. Reduction and concentration of elements helps to maintain the crucial focus, build the tension and give insights into the enigmatic and invisible world built of code.

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part of the video, audio performance by Somaya Langley who uses gestural movements combined with accelerometer sensors attached to her outfit, and David Wolf who provided the visual feast to accompany the soundscapes. part of Electrofringe 2006 festival in Newcastle, Australia, on sunday 01/10/2006.

http://www.thisisnotart.org/

http://www.thisisnotart.org/Members/ben/david-wolf-and-somaya-langley-tba/

TBA explores sonic city spaces through a gestural interface. In the current sociological climate, the city can be an alienating yet sonically rich space. Individuals potentially relate more closely to the city, the buildings and architecture than they do to the other inhabitants. However, the city is an ever-changing environment demolishing buildings, resurrecting monuments simultaneous moments of destruction and resurrection. Using footage of Newcastle as well as abstract and generative 3D systems, elements are combined and manipulated in real time using custom built applications developed with Quartz Composer and Max/MSP.

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part of Lloyd Barrett's panel session at Electrofringe 2006 in Newcastle, sunday 01/10/2006.

http://www.thisisnotart.org

http://www.thisisnotart.org/Members/ben/lloyd-barrett-mis-en-scene/

Combining schizophonic computer rendered soundscapes with graphical abstractions Mise En Scene is an exploration of film sound - in particular the importance of incidental sound in the creation of effective and diverse virtual environments. Using abstract methods of translating appropriated video and sound Mise En Scene demonstrates the very human ability to make sense out of nonsense when within a set of guidelines and expectations. Mise En Scene ultimately focuses on the creation of scenes from a variety of visual and sonic signifiers, the end result being akin to a strange dream open to interpretation.

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part of the Robin Fox session at Electrofringe 2006. he demonstrates his laser & music performance and speaks about his process.

I kept seeing extra white ghost tendrils above and below the laser image when the really low frequency sounds were playing / displayed so some of the footage is zoomed in on this.

sunday 01/10/2006

http://www.thisisnotart.org

http://www.thisisnotart.org/Members/ben/robin-fox-av-x-y/

Watch the video

part of the Robin Fox session at Electrofringe 2006. he demonstrates his laser & music performance and speaks about his process.

I kept seeing extra white ghost tendrils above and below the laser image when the really low frequency sounds were playing / displayed so some of the footage is zoomed in on this.

sunday 01/10/2006

http://www.thisisnotart.org

http://www.thisisnotart.org/Members/ben/robin-fox-av-x-y/

Some documentation of 2006 This is Not Art festival held in Newcastle, Australia, 28/09/2006 - 02/10/2006

This Is Not Art festival http://www.thisisnotart.org/

Sound Summit http://soundsummit.com.au/

Electrofringe http://www.electrofringe.net/

National Young Writers Festival http://www.youngwritersfestival.org/

National Student and Emerging Media Festival http://studentmedia.org.au/

Earthling http://earthling.thisisnotart.org/

Tin Radio http://www.tin.org.au/

Critical Animals http://www.criticalanimals.org/

PHOTOS have been uploaded to http://flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/tina2006/

I tried converting an existing video to 3gp format - here's a shorter 3pg version of the People watching at Saket PVR video :

click here or on the image to play the quicktime movie

and also made a new one after taking a few 2 second video clips and some rough edits.

this is the original version :

click here or on the image to play the quicktime movie

and this is the .3gp version

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general notes

http://www.graffitiresearchlab.com/

grafitti research lab - led projections onto screens/walls - throw the led devices up and they project onto a wall. they stick to the wall via a magnet

http://www.instructables.com/id/E9D2ZJ3FG0EP286JEJ/

introLED Throwies
Developed by the Graffiti Research Lab a division of the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials.

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slideshow video of photos taken during the 2003 This is Not Art and Electrofringe festivals in Newcastle, Australia 01-06 October 2003

http://www.thisisnotart.org has info about this year's festival

http://www.massarcade.com/electrofringe has the 2003 electrofringe website - you can find the program on this site

http://flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/tina2003/ has photos of the event

Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for this year's festival from artists, media makers, curators, researchers, writers, producers, enthusiasts, etc. Part of the 'This Is Not Art' umbrella of Festivals in Newcastle, NSW, this year Electrofringe will occur from 28th September to 2nd October and will feature artists from all over Australia as well as visiting international artists. A heads up, hands-on, all-in festival of experimental, electronic, digital and new media arts and culture. It is dedicated to unearthing emergent forms, highlighting nascent trends and encouraging participants to explore technology and its creative possibilities. The directors for Electrofringe 2006 are Ben Byrne, Cat Jones and Sumugan Sivanesan. Areas for investigation may include (but are not limited to) hybrid performances, media based practices, web, networked & online collaborations, wireless, wearable and locative technologies, sensor based interactions, software art, custom electronics, experimental interfaces, alternative energies, sound, video, installation and more. Read more or visit http://electrofringe.net/ for more information.

I've finally gone through the bag I brought back from electrofringe / this is not art 2005. haven't had time to write it up, so I'm trying a mind map from sourceforge's freemind instead.

attached is the freemind pdf file or electrofringe2005.mm freemind file

photos from the event can be viewed @ my flickr tina2005 tag

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• electrofringe / this is not art / 2005
  
  • music artists
    
    • jodi rose
      
      • singing bridges - vibrations : variations
    • soca uws
      
      • the_final_broadcast
    • untitled
    • eternia
      
      • www.eternia.ca
      • "canada's dopest female emcee" - exclaim magazine
      • where I been - the collection
    • dual plover label
      
      • www.dualplover.com
  • visual artists
    
    • dvds
      
      • process space
      • botborg
        
        • principles of photosonicneurokinaesthography
      • dysfunctional feed
        
        • micro works
        • minute
      • kier smith
        
        • oh so criminal
    • film
      
      • dlux media arts
    • multimedia
      
      • emergence
        
        • www.synarcade.com.au
        • have you ever wanted to build your own being? free it from pain, regret, niggling doubt? well now you can... in a new multimedia experiment conducted over four large screens, synarcade audio-visuals will allow a select group of people to construct their own version of a responsible moral citizen
  • fashion
    
    • textile design
      
      • maggie pereyra
  • zines
    
    • street art zine #3
      
      • meggs
        
        • street art #3
        • 310 danceskool
    • antithesis
      
      • issue # 2 : phase shift
      • issue # 1 : untitled
      • issue # 3 : solar transit
  • resources
    
    • taste-e electronic art links
      
      • www.taste-e.org
    • the program
      
      • theprogram.net.au
    • arts law centre of australia
      
      • www.artslaw.com.au
    • music managers' forum (aust)
      
      • www.immf.net/au
    • southern outpost distribution / submerge detroit
      
      • www.50612.com
    • sound summit 2005
      
      • www.soundsummit05.com
    • apra - Australasian Performing Right Association Australia
      
      • www.apra.com.au
    • aftrs - australian film, television and radio school
      
      • www.aftrs.edu.au
    • air - association of independent record lables
      
      • www.air.org.au
    • agsc - australian guild of screen composers
    • amc - australian music centre
      
      • www.amcoz.com.au
    • ausmusic sa
      
      • www.ausmusic.org.au
    • carclew youth arts centre
      
      • www.carclew.com.au
    • caama - central australia aboriginal media association
      
      • www.caama.com.au
    • ccmc - contemporary country music coalition
    • cmaa - country music association of australia
      
      • www.countrymusic.asn.au
    • fellowship of australian composers
      
      • www.fellowshipofaustraliancomposers.com
    • gadigal information service
      
      • www.gadigal.org.au
    • goolarri media enterprises
      
      • www.gme.com.au
    • mbas - melbourne blues appreciation society
      
      • www.mbas.org.au
    • music nsw
      
      • www.musicnsw.com
    • musicnt - music northern territory
    • q music - queensland music network inc
      
      • www.qmusic.com.au
    • sima - sydney improvised music association
      
      • www.sima.org.au
    • songlines music aboriginal corporation
      
      • www.songlines.com.au
    • tas music
      
      • www.tasmusic.com.au
    • the push inc
      
      • www.thepush.asn.au
    • wam - western australia music industry association
      
      • www.asn.au
    • amrap - australian music radio airplay project
      
      • www.amrap.org
  • radio
    
    • tin radio
      
      • tin.org.au
      • 100.5 fm (newcastle)
  • toys
    
    • stuffed
      
      • www.thestuffedcollective.com
      • artists
        
        • beck wheeler
        • tristan jalleh
        • estelle lhasz
        • claire robertson
        • leeroy lunastitch
        • heidi kenney
        • jenny harada
        • mai le
        • wendy crabb
        • goldtop
        • corrine dean
        • wendy june
        • rene kininmonth
        • maggie pereyra
        • cathy parry
        • robert thompson
        • gillian bencke
        • erin l shafkind
        • maria samuelson
        • bernard romerona
        • darren mate
        • samantha jones
        • emmelene victoria
        • hola sombrera
        • gemma noble
        • lyndal peake
        • susan e kelly / luminant studio
          
          • www.cavatica.net
          • plush creatures, collage, photography, paper goods
        • aequanimus
          
          • www.livejournal.com/users/aequanimus
      • a group exhibition incorporating soft sculpture and design by emerging australian and international artists. the works are inspired by the aesthetics of plush toys and their relationship to human behaviour, investigating social norms and a darker side of 'cuteness'
  • art projects
    
    • one sixty characters
      
      • onesixty.net
      • OneSixty Characters – An exhibition exploring children’s nursery rhymes/songs, games and storytelling from around the globe OneSixty Characters began by sending out a call worldwide requesting people to text message, via their mobile phones, a line or a fragment from a nursery rhyme or childhood song that was associated with a game
  • galleries
    
    • museum of contemporary art (sydney)
      
      • www.mca.com.au
    • field contemporary art space
      
      • www.fieldgallery.org
    • back to back galleries (newcastle)
    • sherman galleries (newcastle)
    • newcastle region art gallery
    • art gallery of new south wales
    • the studio (sydney opera house)
      
      • www.sydneyoperahouse.com/thestudio
  • artists
    
    • grant lawson
      
      • design, animation, web
      • bigatomiccat.com

or here's a screenshot of the freemind file :

I went to 2005 electrofringe a few weeks ago in Newcastle, Australia. I haven't finished going over my notes or posting some of the links to the artist's projects, but one of the workshops I went to was on Quartz Composer hosted by dpwolf. The software runs on a MAC, which unfortunately I don't have. :( perhaps if we get a project bonus this year I might be able to save up for one so I can try the software (and also max / msp }. anyway, I also came across the name dpwolf on the videoblogging mail list and low and behold it's the same person. he seems to do some work with Adrian Miles, who does some great projects with video and interactive quicktime and media in general. small world. I'd love to do the course Adrian teaches but can't afford to give up work to do it fulltime. due to excessive work commitments, I had to drop the Internet Communication course I was doing at CQU. now that I've finally upgraded my (this) site and moving most of my projects online (so as not to be so dependant on my laptop in case of travelling without it), I'd like to experiment more with blogging, videoblogging, podcasting and digital art and music projects (in addition to listing other people's projects on the site), hence, why the blog posts here have now become more personal. I've been reading about and been across these media for a while but haven't had much time to play myself, so that's the goal for the next year (& hopefully continuing onwards).

Electrofringe is a hands-on, all-in new media arts festival dedicated to unearthing emergent forms, highlighting nascent trends and encouraging young and emerginging artists to explore technology and its creative possibilities. Electrofringe will take place in Newcastle as part of the This Is Not Art Festival from the 29th September - 3rd. We are now seeking EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST from new media artists, curators, artsworkers, writers and producers. Possible areas for investigation include (but are not limited to) wireless, wearable, sensor based, sound, video, audio/visual, web, networked & online collaborations, software, art & science, robotics, custom electronics, experimental interfaces, media based installations, performance and hybrid practices. Submit via http://www.electrofringe.org/

photos from the 2003 Electrofringe music arts festival are online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/tina2003/

Electrofringe is an annual digital arts / video media festival held in Newcastle. It is part of the This Is Not Art festival.

Combining Electrofringe, Sound Summit, National Young Writers, Radio Active, Student Media and Critical Animals, the event will bring together Australia's key arts, music and new media figures and international guests for 5 days of panels, workshops and live gigs. This year, there will be an official TINA shop, where product from artists and associated speakers will be available to purchase. If you are interested in having your product sold at the TINA Shop - please email Tim Colman at shop@thisisnotart.org for more details.