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OPENChannel, in partnership with the Arts Law Centre of Australia, is pleased to present a FREE seminar on legal issues relevant to film and new media makers, as part of Victorian Arts Law Week on Tuesday May 17th, 2005. The seminar, presented by Katherine Giles (Arts Law) and entertainment law specialists, will include current information on copyright, contracts, film festival requirements and will inform participants about legal issues they should consider before they start shooting. visit http://www.openchannel.org.au for more details

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3568505.stm today mentions the new Sony Librie, an electronic book reader. Apparrently the screen resolution is very good, but it's only available in Japan at the moment and the books self destruct in 60 days! It's all a buzz in the blogging world..

TV is Good For You, and Interactive Art is Irritating - ...according to the the New York Times. Specifically, two articles you'll probably either love or hate: from last weekend's magazine, a preview / excerpt of Steven Johnson's upcoming book Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter, on how the complex narratives ... [via ::: grand text auto]

A hybrid of film festival and music festival, Optronica is a brand new five day event focusing on the convergence of visuals and music. Starting on Wednesday July 20th 2005, Optronica opens with 3 nights of live audiovisual performances at the bfi London IMAX; the World premiere of Plaid & Bob Jaroc's Greedy Baby AV spectacular, the UK premiere of DJ Spooky's solo film remix Rebirth of a Nation and a stunning AV show from ex-Kraftwerk star Karl Bartos. Packed Friday and Saturday schedules follow, with cinema screenings, talks, panel discussions and live performances at the National Film Theatre, where audiovisual acts including Skoltz_Kolgen and People Like Us play at Optronica Lab. On the Friday night, there will be a special live audiovisual performance by Addictive TV on the fly-tower of the National Theatre, with projections visible across the Thames, and a club night Optronica @ The Spitz on the Saturday night with a line-up of DJs and VJs from France, Holland, Poland, the UK and Japan. visit http://www.optronica.org/ for more info

d:Art.O5 is the eighth edition of dLux media arts acclaimed annual showcase of recent Australian and International single channel, short experimental digital film and video, web and sound art. d:Art.O5 will consist of an exhibition of sound, web, and mobile phone art and a screening program of experimental film and video art. The exhibition will take place at the Sydney Opera House Exhibition Hall in August/September 2005. The screening program will be presented during this same period. For more information and to make a submission to d:Art.O5, please visit http://www.dlux.org.au/dart05

The Ethics of E-Games, Call for Papers - IRIE, Vol. 2/2005 International Review of Information Ethics. Computer-based or e-games, in both standalone and networked incarnations (including 'Massive Multiplayer Online Games' or MMOGs), represent one of the most popular and an economically profitable uses of ICTs and CMC in the contemporary world. Such games not only simulate a range of human social interactions, from building (perhaps utopian) societies to historical and fantasy warfare of every age: the games further occasion and catalyze a range of human interactions that rightly inspire research from a variety of disciplines and specialties. Especially violent games (e.g., Quake, Doom, Grand Theft Auto III, and others) have generated some critical discussion, ranging from 'moral panics' in popular media to social science investigations into possible effects and consequences of participating in such games. But e-games represent a relatively neglected subject in Information Ethics. At the same time, however, if broader discussion of e-games is to include responsible and informed ethical reflection, much more critical reflection from the various perspectives of Information Ethics upon the multiple dimensions of e-games and game-playing is needed. Hence this special issue of IRIE calls for such critical ethical reflection. For more information about the journal see: http://www.ijie.org

The Phonos Foundation, the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, and the Higher School of Music of Catalonia in conjunction with the International Computer Music Association, is proud to announce ICMC 2005. The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from the 5th to 9th of September 2005, with pre-conference workshops on September the 4th. ICMC is the pre-eminent annual gathering of computer music practitioners from around the world. Its unique interleaving of professional paper presentations and concerts of new computer music compositions creates a vital synthesis of science, technology, and the art of music. Visit http://www.icmc2005.org or http://www.computermusic.org/ for more information

DROP in close association with Logic, Ampt Productions, ITM, BluePrint Recordings and Third Storey Artist Management bring to you our first INTERNATIONAL artist event! On Sat 21 May we are all proud to present three of ours and yours favourite producers of the finest twisted dance music around... HABERSHAM (USA), NUMINOUS (USA), JONO FERNANDEZ - LIVE (MELB) plus 4 of the dirtiest locals who will be right in their element warming up for the lads and closing the night out in true DROP style.... DAMIAN WHEELER aka MAGOO, SCOTT WALKER, MIKE REDFERN, & B.P.M. read more for details

WHAT'S STICKY? Sticky.net.au is a place to stick your stuff or get stuck into the works of other creative types. At Sticky you will be able to enjoy music, short films, animation, radio shows, digital stories, photography, writing, and heaps of other creative stuff from young Queenslanders. Better yet, you can put your own creative work online - and collaborate with other people to make or remix new stuff. Look out for the launch in late May 2005. To find out more, just log onto www.youthweek.sticky.net.au

Can a sista rock a film? which is part of a week long music festival called can a sista rock a mic? has extended it's submission for shorts & films... Mini dv preferred, but will convert dvds to dvcam for broadcast. Your project will air on Comcast Channels 5 & 6 and Starpower Channels 10 & 11 in Washington, DC. during the month of June (every Thursday) while the week long festivals is happening and after. So get your works in! This is a great chance to have your project broadcast on cable television. No submission fees at all. It's free. More details on the whole "Can A Sista Rock A Mic? week long festival next week at http://www.bgirlmanifesto.com

On Wednesday 27th the Hi God People are playing on the Astral Plane. This new approach to live performance side-steps, for band and audience, organizational and logistical problems associated with the material plane. To attend the performance, go to sleep on the 26th thinking about the Hi God People, and astrally travel to the show at about 5am. See also http://spill-label.org/hgp . The astral plane is a smoke-free venue.

From the Frigid website: Frigid returns to the @Newtown! This Sunday we kick things off with a bang. From Melbourne we have DJ Monkeymarc from renegade crew Combat Wombat along with the DJ/producer behind Curse Ov Dialect and Tzu - Pasobionic. Plus all the regular Frigid crew and live video from Superlight! And its free entry. But now with a Sunday roast dinner for $10 and a range of other cheaper food and drink choices as well! Carl Mower who returns to head up the team @Newtown says "In the initial 18 months of operation, a number of management strategies has been applied to @Newtown. The Club is now returning to its original vision which is to source and promote the best of what Newtown is about in music and entertainment. That vision includes embracing the best creative forces and talents of this precinct which is renowned for its creative independence and vitality. We are very pleased to welcome Frigid back to the Club and are excited to be working closely with the Frigid team to create the best yet Frigid Sunday residency". visit the website @ http://www.snarl.org/frigid/ for full details

Smell the odour of sonic psychedelics and exotic electronics on Friday, April the 29th, at Bar 303 in High Street, Northcote, when Clan Analogue host Stylophones & Odd Socks, an evening where all synthesized eccentricities will be tolerated and possibly even encouraged. This rare gathering of sound alchemists offer their sounds for personal use or otherwise. read more for details

We are seeking contributions for this proposed edited collection. Rather than producing more speculative work, we wish to focus on empirical data collected online about the intricate, intimate virtual ways that people forge connections. The three sections will be: Love & Sex; Work & Education; and Methods & Ethics. Chapters should be empirically based, 8000 words in length, and written in an accessible style suitable for an interested, intelligent general audience as well as for an academic readership in gender / cultural / media studies, sociology / anthropology, and new media. read more for details on how to submit your papers.

Call for Chapters (edited book). Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities. Edited by Kate O'Riordan and David J Philips. This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an
overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber / queer practices and theories. Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to): Sexual identities, practices and communities; Art and activism; Consumption; Political economy; Representation; Performativity; Queer theory. read more for details or visit the editor's site @ http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/staff/oriordan.htm