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The White House is a new artist-run space in Brisbane's CBD, promoting audio / visual artwork, discussion and general mischief. We are currently accepting expressions of interest and proposals for our program from artists, curators and raggamuffins who do strange things in their bedrooms at late hours of the evening. Proposal forms are available from www.whitehousespace.net

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/

Water, the source of life, today, has been deviously packaged into a commodity, creating a paucity of water and causing severe trauma to various peoples all over the world. The shortage of drinking water both in urban and rural areas has escalated to an acute level in the last five years, specially heightened by drought and war. This will have serious repercussions for the peoples of the world and the environment. One of the objectives of Water Journeys is to screen films on water issues, water struggles, water conservation and related issues in schools, colleges and communities to start a dialogue on the issue of control and use of water. It aims at networking with agencies involved in the protection and preservation of lakes, rivers and other water bodies. Further Water Journeys will soon start an international journal on water issues. It will address the socio-political and cultural implications of water, making it an interesting and enlightening knowledge source for action. In its 27 years of active involvement, Bangalore Film Society has been instrumental in screening films of internationally acclaimed film directors from all over the world, initiating a process of intercultural dialogue and creating avenues for divergent aesthetic experiences. read more for details or contact deepfocus@bgl.vsnl.net (Anupama Jayaraman, Co ordinator, Water Journeys).

Tsunami - A Virtual Memorial. www.a-virtual-memorial.org and [R][R][F]2005---XP www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 initiate on occasion of this disaster in South East Asia and in solidarity with all affected people in this human tragedy a net based art project environment, entitled: Tsunami. Artists around the globe are invited to reflect these traumatic conditions of human life and submit art works, documents, texts or any other material connected the thematical context which can be submitted as digital file .

The inaugural Two Fires aims to discuss, promote, explore issues around environment, conservation, reconciliation and the arts. Held at the town of Braidwood, NSW 45 mins from Canberra, ACT. visit http://www.twofiresfestival.com for details

This workshop provides a 3 hour introduction to the latest the latest audio software available on Gnu/Linux. It's a hands-on course for women as part of Sheilafest. 2:00pm Thursday 24 March at SoundHouse @ the Powerhouse Museum. act] visit http://www.deprogram.net/blogger/blogger.html or http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/m/listinfo/sydney-calendar for more details on this event + more

GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - WAR WITHOUT TEARS.
COMPUTER GAMES AS A SOCIALCULTURAL PHENOMENON

As a rule Computer games remain to be the focus of media attention when Specific acts of violence which deeply horrify the audience (war and rampage Iraq and Erfurt) draw the public's perception to them. The first ever occuring impetus
then is aimed at a more or less serious examination of their dangerous and problematic aspects (blunting people's senses, playing down and provoking violence, player's loss of touch with reality, escapism, unsrupulousness, etc.). Beyond the dominating reflex of such an often monocausal, naive formulation of the topic, a thoroughly controversial yet most of the time superficial discussion about the critical sociocultural implications of computer games has been established. Even in the academic analysis the surely relevant, though by no means sufficient concentration on the link between computer games and violence is dominant. Up to now only few studies have offered a contextualizing view of the political, aesthetic, narratologic, economic, historic aspects with regard to their mutual connection. Accordingly this volume is meant to become an extensive account of the phenomenon 'computer games' with all its different genres. The various perspectives of analyses (aesthetics, economy, narratology, etc.) will thus provide the reader with a sound insight into the subject. Read more for details on how to submit your paper

Visual artists, sound artists, installation artists, new media artists, web designers, photographers, engineers, architects, painters, djs, vjs, activists, hackers, writers, poets, performers, musicians, philosophers, theorists, film makers, bloggers, designers and any one else interested in art and its role in public space are invited to participate in SECRETS OF THE CITY - GUMBRAMORRA SWAMP THING! Secrets of the City - Gumbramorra Swamp Thing! is a series of free community workshops where participants will create innovative site specific public artworks and ephemeral installations that will map and interpret unique sites of social, cultural, and ecological resonance within the footprint of the former Gumbramorra Swamp that extended across the suburbs of Marrickville, Sydenham, Tempe, St. Peters, and Newtown. The project will celebrate and respond to this convergence between land and water, ecology and settlement. read more for details

Park Jam is Australia's largest all-ages music festival devoted solely to hip hop. Headlining at Park Jam will be the United States' legendary Digital Underground featuring Shock G's nasally prolific alter-ego Humpty Hump, Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt. Park Jam features the biggest line-up of Australian & New Zealand hip hop & rap talents ever to be assembled in one place - starting with one of Australia's hip hop forerunners Resin Dogs. Coming across from South Auckland, & fresh from the Big Day Out tour, is the four-man team Deceptikonz, appearing in full force with emcee Mareko. Then there's The Herd, ex-Herd MC turned soloist Urthboy, Good Buddha, Def Wish Cast, Hermitude, Figgkidd, Lazy Grey (Qld), Terrafirma (SA), Suburban Intellect (Vic), Morganics, Baggsmen (previously known as The Hive), Blue Juice, Fast Crew (NZ), Art of War (Vic), Hyjack n' Torcha (Vic), up-and-coming new crew Blindhoarse lead by MC Losty, & all the way from the UK, Motley with his fresh Manchestrian vibe. visit http://www.parkjam.com.au for more details

Radical Software was an important voice of the American video community in the early 70s; the only periodical devoted exclusively to independent video and video art at the time when those subjects were still being invented. Issues included contributions by Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Paul Ryan, Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot, Charles Bensinger, Ira Schneider, Ann Tyng, R. Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson, Gene Youngblood, Parry Teasdale, Ant Farm, and many others. read more or visit their website @ http://www.radicalsoftware.org

Coalition self-titled album scheduled for March 2005 release on Nice Mics Records. Featuring DJ Affiks, Lenwun, Raman, Lazy Grey, Robby Balboa, The Fader F*ckers and Kel. visit their website @ http://www.coalition.co.nr/ to preview one of the tracks Sleepless

Dane Certificate, Barrage, Meatwave, Victor Lancaster, Solar Sail show @ VIC HOTEL, Brunswick, Friday the 18th of Feb. $4, 9pm, very special.

The 2005 Australasian Computer Music Conference will explore the current boundaries of computer music practices and ideas. Where is the edge? Where are the new ideas? What activities point toward the future for computer music? Submissions are now open for Generate + Test, the Australasian Computer Music Conference being held on 12 - 14 July 2005 at the Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Visit the conference website: http://acmc05.org/ for more details

Electroacoustic Music Studies Sound in Multimedia Contexts. From the advent of the first electric instruments, the phonograph, radio, telephone, and subsequent electronic and digital inventions, the approaches to technologies relevant to the art of sound have been limited only by the imagination of the musician. In recent years, there seems to have been a proliferation of studies relating to music incorporating these technologies However, the investigation of such a varied musical repertoire raises a number of issues that the EMS conferences wish to examine. The themes of the conference therefore emphasize questions of resources, discourse, and analytical tools relevant to electroacoustic musics. visit the EMS-05 website @ http://ems05.musique.umontreal.ca/index.html for more information