collective collective / group / community http://www.aliak.com/taxonomy/term/127/atom/feed 2006-10-29T14:20:52+00:00 Cross Street Studios - Auckland http://www.aliak.com/content/cross-street-studios-auckland 2008-05-10T17:49:39+01:00 2008-05-10T17:49:48+01:00 AliaK Cross St Studios is an artist-run space, organized by young artists. It acts as a hub for networking as to nurture an emerging artist community. Cross St Studios will function as a platform for encouraging professional practices. It is an incubator for ideas that can be easily generated, executed and exhibited. Our emphasis is on creating the freedom to experiment with unconventional ideas and presenting them to a public audience.
http://www.crossstreetstudios.com

]]> Cross St Studios is an artist-run space, organized by young artists. It acts as a hub for networking as to nurture an emerging artist community. Cross St Studios will function as a platform for encouraging professional practices. It is an incubator for ideas that can be easily generated, executed and exhibited. Our emphasis is on creating the freedom to experiment with unconventional ideas and presenting them to a public audience.

http://www.crossstreetstudios.com

]]> Audio Foundation and funding link http://www.aliak.com/content/audio-foundation-and-funding-link 2008-02-19T08:58:41+00:00 2008-02-19T08:59:38+00:00 AliaK I was checking out the NZ Audio Foundation website again today and came across a link from an email on the AF-l about funding from Damian from Frey. it's an interesting argument. I think Australia is similar to New Zealand in this way, but also at a glance I think New Zealanders have the creative support advantage over the Australians, or so it seemed to me at least, as they have MANY! support organisations helping the artists. will have to do some more research to see if my assumptions are founded.

]]> I was checking out the NZ Audio Foundation website again today and came across a link from an email on the AF-l about funding from Damian from Frey. it's an interesting argument. I think Australia is similar to New Zealand in this way, but also at a glance I think New Zealanders have the creative support advantage over the Australians, or so it seemed to me at least, as they have MANY! support organisations helping the artists. will have to do some more research to see if my assumptions are founded.

]]> The SALA-MANCA GROUP http://www.aliak.com/node/14284 2008-01-26T22:37:51+00:00 2008-01-26T22:37:51+00:00 AliaK The SALA-MANCA GROUP is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000. Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues.

]]> The SALA-MANCA GROUP is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000. Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues.

]]> Salon Mazal http://www.aliak.com/node/14279 2008-01-26T21:25:17+00:00 2008-01-26T21:29:22+00:00 AliaK Salon Mazal was established in 2001, in Tel Aviv, Israel, by a group of social-environmental activists. Salon Mazal is a non-for-profit registered charity that serves as an information distribution center for social, environmental and political change The place functions as a store (including books, magazines and fair-trade products), a lending library, an artist gallery, a vegetarian bar and a community center where movie screenings, lectures, workshops and meetings take place.

The place is run in line with anarchist ideology and values, which encourage an egalitarian, non-hierarchical community. Salon Mazal is run by a group of volunteers. Consensus decision-making is used to promote the expression of individual voices within the group in daily meetings.

]]> Salon Mazal was established in 2001, in Tel Aviv, Israel, by a group of social-environmental activists. Salon Mazal is a non-for-profit registered charity that serves as an information distribution center for social, environmental and political change The place functions as a store (including books, magazines and fair-trade products), a lending library, an artist gallery, a vegetarian bar and a community center where movie screenings, lectures, workshops and meetings take place.

The place is run in line with anarchist ideology and values, which encourage an egalitarian, non-hierarchical community. Salon Mazal is run by a group of volunteers. Consensus decision-making is used to promote the expression of individual voices within the group in daily meetings.

]]> Gi'iwa Productions http://www.aliak.com/node/2868 2007-08-07T21:21:56+01:00 2007-08-10T21:57:58+01:00 AliaK home of psytrance artists and parties collective Gi'iwa Productions. artists include SATTEL BATTLE (Israel), SIENIS (Sweden), NEUR0N COMPOST (Brisbane - Australia), HiREd Go0Nz (Brisbane - Australia), GHETTAFUNKT (Nth NSW - Australia), AZz / CONTRA COUP (Brisbane - Australia), DISCO TRASH / HIRED GOONS (Brisbane - Australia), REALITY PIXIE (Brisbane - Australia)

]]> home of psytrance artists and parties collective Gi'iwa Productions. artists include SATTEL BATTLE (Israel), SIENIS (Sweden), NEUR0N COMPOST (Brisbane - Australia), HiREd Go0Nz (Brisbane - Australia), GHETTAFUNKT (Nth NSW - Australia), AZz / CONTRA COUP (Brisbane - Australia), DISCO TRASH / HIRED GOONS (Brisbane - Australia), REALITY PIXIE (Brisbane - Australia)

]]> Alice Hui-Sheng Chang http://www.aliak.com/node/2687 2007-04-01T09:16:15+01:00 2007-04-01T09:16:15+01:00 AliaK
artist / project name:
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
bio:
founder & curator of dotmov experimental screen collective
website:
http://www.dotmov.org
city:
melbourne
genre:
video art
are you a currently active artist / DJ / project?:
yes
]]>
artist / project name:
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
bio:
founder & curator of dotmov experimental screen collective
website:
http://www.dotmov.org
city:
melbourne
genre:
video art
Australian artist / DJ / project?:
Yes
can AliaK contact you for more info?:
yes
are you a currently active artist / DJ / project?:
yes
]]> crowdfunding http://www.aliak.com/content/crowdfunding 2006-11-04T11:17:12+00:00 2006-11-05T09:52:24+00:00 AliaK sull posted on the videoblogging maillist about crowdfunding, which is a concept becoming more popular with the rise of social sites etc on the interweb. it's an interesting concept and I'd like to try it with some Australian arts/music projects to try raise money for them to complete their projects. the havemoneywillvlog project has been successful in raising money for people to work on various videoblogging projects ranging from a documentary / series, an artistic experiment with travel organised by the contributors, a research project on sustainability, a documentation of issues on immigration and it's social impacts from a selection of people's pov, and most recently raising funds to help convert 8mm films to video to give them a new lease of life.
since upgrading to drupal 4.7, I'll be testing the chipin and ecommerce modules to see if they are of use.
it would be great to be able to help people realise their projects. I think it could also help them to practice making grant funding applications to larger organisations and government bodies. anyway, it couldn't hurt to try. if the people make pledges to support the project, then only pay for them once the full amount of money is raised then it's less risk for them. I've pledged and donated money in this way. $10 a month (or less if I decide to skip a project) is not much for me to pay - it's less than the cost of a cd and is another way to help support a project when you can't attend in person. I figure I've spent more than that on less important things, so it's one way to help give back to the community! also, as these days I don't make it to events I'd like to in person, this could be another way of supporting them without being there.
I wonder if others think this way also. it's hard to convince people to spend their hard earned cash. just as it's hard to get people to come along to gigs. an interesting experiment nonetheless. hopefully some of the projects would be able to offer something extra, an incentive if you will, to the financial contributors. drupal groups modules might be useful for this..
I was thinking of using these systems to help raise money for people to work on projects - small budget amounts. maybe to do a promo cd or put on a gig or get a small book published or attend a conference & report on it etc. the donators would be given credit in the project and maybe get special previews on how the project is going. I could put the documentation on my site.
the project would get to practice applying for grants, so would need to be professional about it, have a definite timeline to work towards, and there would have to be a final outcome they could report on and document so people who donated knew their money went towards something real and was not just lost.
the system could also be used to raise money for charities, or if you can't decide on a charity, then think of the artist as your target for giving.
anyway, here's some sites useful for research about this or showing examples of currently working systems :
http://havemoneywillvlog.com/ = funding site for videoblog projects
http://crowdfunding.com/ = research blog on crowdfunding
http://www.sellaband.com/ = raise $50000 towards funding your band / your fav band's promo/album costs
http://fundavlog.com/ = pay per view / raise money for vlogs
http://fundable.org/ = raise money for any projects, payment site
http://chipin.com/ = raise money for any projects, payment site
http://www.netribution.co.uk/2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id... = article on crowdfunding for independent films
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/09/19/a_swarm_of_ange.html = a UK film being made via donations

]]> sull posted on the videoblogging maillist about crowdfunding, which is a concept becoming more popular with the rise of social sites etc on the interweb. it's an interesting concept and I'd like to try it with some Australian arts/music projects to try raise money for them to complete their projects. the havemoneywillvlog project has been successful in raising money for people to work on various videoblogging projects ranging from a documentary / series, an artistic experiment with travel organised by the contributors, a research project on sustainability, a documentation of issues on immigration and it's social impacts from a selection of people's pov, and most recently raising funds to help convert 8mm films to video to give them a new lease of life.

since upgrading to drupal 4.7, I'll be testing the chipin and ecommerce modules to see if they are of use.

it would be great to be able to help people realise their projects. I think it could also help them to practice making grant funding applications to larger organisations and government bodies. anyway, it couldn't hurt to try. if the people make pledges to support the project, then only pay for them once the full amount of money is raised then it's less risk for them. I've pledged and donated money in this way. $10 a month (or less if I decide to skip a project) is not much for me to pay - it's less than the cost of a cd and is another way to help support a project when you can't attend in person. I figure I've spent more than that on less important things, so it's one way to help give back to the community! also, as these days I don't make it to events I'd like to in person, this could be another way of supporting them without being there.

I wonder if others think this way also. it's hard to convince people to spend their hard earned cash. just as it's hard to get people to come along to gigs. an interesting experiment nonetheless. hopefully some of the projects would be able to offer something extra, an incentive if you will, to the financial contributors. drupal groups modules might be useful for this..

I was thinking of using these systems to help raise money for people to work on projects - small budget amounts. maybe to do a promo cd or put on a gig or get a small book published or attend a conference & report on it etc. the donators would be given credit in the project and maybe get special previews on how the project is going. I could put the documentation on my site.

the project would get to practice applying for grants, so would need to be professional about it, have a definite timeline to work towards, and there would have to be a final outcome they could report on and document so people who donated knew their money went towards something real and was not just lost.

the system could also be used to raise money for charities, or if you can't decide on a charity, then think of the artist as your target for giving.

anyway, here's some sites useful for research about this or showing examples of currently working systems :

http://havemoneywillvlog.com/ = funding site for videoblog projects

http://crowdfunding.com/ = research blog on crowdfunding

http://www.sellaband.com/ = raise $50000 towards funding your band / your fav band's promo/album costs

http://fundavlog.com/ = pay per view / raise money for vlogs

http://fundable.org/ = raise money for any projects, payment site

http://chipin.com/ = raise money for any projects, payment site

http://www.netribution.co.uk/2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id... = article on crowdfunding for independent films

http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/09/19/a_swarm_of_ange.html = a UK film being made via donations

]]> Lost in Light project - transferring 8mm / super 8 film to video http://www.aliak.com/content/lost-light-project-transferring-8mm-super-8-film-video 2006-10-28T08:12:52+01:00 2006-10-30T17:34:22+00:00 AliaK

Lost in Light project team are raising money to buy an 8mm/super 8 film to video transfer system. They accept 8mm/super 8 films submissions and transfer them to video for you for free as long as they can post them to their site & Internet Archive ( archive.org) also. This creates an archive of 8mm/super 8 films before they become lost & also helps give the films a new life and audience.

There's also videos about the project by the project team which a worth a look for more info. The project is based in the US but they are accepting submissions from overseas also.

The Have Money Will Vlog site is a site used to raise money for interesting projects such as this one (they've done some cool ones in the past). If you're interested in making a donation or submitting some film, visit the links below.

http://havemoneywillvlog.com/ = pledge site

http://lostinlight.org/ = project site

video about the project:
quicktime version = http://blip.tv/file/get/Lostinlight-Proposal448.mov
flash version = http://blip.tv/file/get/Lostinlight-Proposal865.flv
windows media version = http://blip.tv/file/get/Lostinlight-Proposal713.wmv

info from the hmwv site :

"This is a project about the 8mm film format. But 8mm is dead, you say? On the contrary! Not only is the format alive with innovation by filmmakers around the world, but hours and hours of Super 8 and regular 8mm film exist in attics and basements the world over—as home movies, educational films, works of art—that is slowly fading from the historical record.

We're here to preserve that record before these films are lost, and to make those films available for viewing by the public and for use by artists seeking new, compelling footage. Lost in Light is a project devoted to preserving, showcasing, and celebrating films created on the small-gauge 8mm film format.

To that end, we will provide free Super 8 and 8mm to video transfers to anyone who asks, in exchange for posting their video to the Lost in Light site and on the Internet Archive with their choice of Creative
Commons licenses. In addition, Lost in Light will include articles and features by members of the filmmaking and film preservation communities, video tutorials for making 8mm films, as well as creative work, all with the goal of preserving and championing this important film format.

The site will have a soft launch with some content as soon as funding is available, with a full, hard launch set for January 2007."

(I'm on the hmwv team maillist so can vouch for the project - I said I'd send out the info to some Aus/NZ/film/video lists to help out.)

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Lost in Light project team are raising money to buy an 8mm/super 8 film to video transfer system. They accept 8mm/super 8 films submissions and transfer them to video for you for free as long as they can post them to their site & Internet Archive ( archive.org) also. This creates an archive of 8mm/super 8 films before they become lost & also helps give the films a new life and audience.

There's also videos about the project by the project team which a worth a look for more info. The project is based in the US but they are accepting submissions from overseas also.

The Have Money Will Vlog site is a site used to raise money for interesting projects such as this one (they've done some cool ones in the past). If you're interested in making a donation or submitting some film, visit the links below.

http://havemoneywillvlog.com/ = pledge site

http://lostinlight.org/ = project site

video about the project:
quicktime version = http://blip.tv/file/get/Lostinlight-Proposal448.mov
flash version = http://blip.tv/file/get/Lostinlight-Proposal865.flv
windows media version = http://blip.tv/file/get/Lostinlight-Proposal713.wmv

info from the hmwv site :

"This is a project about the 8mm film format. But 8mm is dead, you say? On the contrary! Not only is the format alive with innovation by filmmakers around the world, but hours and hours of Super 8 and regular 8mm film exist in attics and basements the world over—as home movies, educational films, works of art—that is slowly fading from the historical record.

We're here to preserve that record before these films are lost, and to make those films available for viewing by the public and for use by artists seeking new, compelling footage. Lost in Light is a project devoted to preserving, showcasing, and celebrating films created on the small-gauge 8mm film format.

To that end, we will provide free Super 8 and 8mm to video transfers to anyone who asks, in exchange for posting their video to the Lost in Light site and on the Internet Archive with their choice of Creative
Commons licenses. In addition, Lost in Light will include articles and features by members of the filmmaking and film preservation communities, video tutorials for making 8mm films, as well as creative work, all with the goal of preserving and championing this important film format.

The site will have a soft launch with some content as soon as funding is available, with a full, hard launch set for January 2007."

(I'm on the hmwv team maillist so can vouch for the project - I said I'd send out the info to some Aus/NZ/film/video lists to help out.)

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Email:


]]> Art underground India http://www.aliak.com/node/2374 2006-08-21T19:47:06+01:00 2006-10-29T11:45:04+00:00 AliaK ARTunderground: Digital Art Gallery, Archive & Interaction &
Training Facility.
ARTunderground's mandate is to experiment with the integration
of computers into the creative process of expression, and

]]> ARTunderground: Digital Art Gallery, Archive & Interaction &
Training Facility.

ARTunderground's mandate is to experiment with the integration
of computers into the creative process of expression, and
explore the idiomatic potential of computers to seek out a
distinctly digital aesthetic.

ARTunderground facilitates fine artists, students of design
and art, art educators and amateurs to experiment with digital
skills.

The Gallery also exhibits & markets their creations to
business corporations and individual art collectors.

Digital Painting is emerging as an art form so unique and vibrant that it leaves a lasting impression on a viewer's mind.

Today the computer is not merely assisting us to manage or manipulate data but it is demonstrating its power as a tool to unleash creative energies and awaken the artist in each of us.

The medium is fast becoming the message...

With computers reaching out to every home, art can find its way to where it really belonged - The Family.

Now once again modern man can dabble in the 'Everyday-Art' to revive his conscience of 'Everyday-Sins' and revive the forgotten 'Folk Art' in the 21st century.

Today ironically even technologies are judged by the prefix: state-of-the-art. It is no less important to understand the role of technological innovations in the shaping of Art.
ARTunderground has organised a series of workshops, exhibitions and auctions that reach out to varied groups... fine artists, architects, design students, executives, women, senior citizens and children of all ages.

Digital Painting is emerging as an art form so unique and vibrant that it leaves a lasting impression on a viewer's mind.

Today the computer is not merely assisting us to manage or manipulate data but it is demonstrating its power as a tool to unleash creative energies and awaken the artist in each of us.

ARTunderground has an archive of nearly 2500 digital folk prints.

Shop here. Online collections include:

* The Planet of Laughter

* Shree Ganeshji with Mouse and Modak.

visit http://www.artundergroundindia.com for more information

]]> Raqs Media Collective "There has been a Change of Plan" exhibition, Delhi http://www.aliak.com/content/raqs-media-collective-there-has-been-a-change-plan-exhibition-delhi 2006-08-20T14:45:01+01:00 2006-09-03T20:14:10+01:00 kathy on saturday I went along to the Raqs Media Collective exhibition called "There has Been a Change of Plan" at Gallery Nature Morte in Delhi, India. I'm currently working here on a project. I've been following Raqs' work and Sarai for quite a few years but this is the first time I've seen their work in person. it was a retrospective of work from 2002-2006. Raqs MC have exhibited/collaborated with many international exhibitions and festivals/biennales (including recently the sydney biennale I believe?) but this was the first solo exhibition in Delhi, even though they were formed in 1992 & have been exhibiting since then also.

the collective also work on various research projects and release an annual reader (Sarai Reader) - this can be viewed on their website as well as in book form (though I've only seen them here in print form so was lucky to pick them up locally!) the readers have a different topic each year which academics and researchers write submissions for to discuss and document various issues. they also run a research fellows project where students write on topics such as urban development, village life in India, media, technology, social and health issues etc.

anway, I took some photos and made a slideshow video if you would like to take a look. (some of the pics are a little blurry I'm afraid, but they give you an idea)

photos can be found @
http://flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/raqsmediacollective/

video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLI9kBjdZtk or http://blip.tv/file/62855

or embedded here :


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

another video of the India Habitat Centre here in Delhi which is a convention centre / collection of buildings where there are many galleries & conference rooms/workshops on Indian art and habitats / urban & rural development & life projects/info is at http://blip.tv/file/62578

photos @ http://flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/indiahabitatcentre/

or video also embedded here :


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

this week/weekend is the CSDS Independent Fellows 2006 end of year presentations so I'm hoping to head along to that also (or part of it)

related sites in case you're interested:

http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/

http://www.sarai.net/

http://www.naturemorte.com

http://www.indiahabitat.org

]]> on saturday I went along to the Raqs Media Collective exhibition called "There has Been a Change of Plan" at Gallery Nature Morte in Delhi, India. I'm currently working here on a project. I've been following Raqs' work and Sarai for quite a few years but this is the first time I've seen their work in person. it was a retrospective of work from 2002-2006. Raqs MC have exhibited/collaborated with many international exhibitions and festivals/biennales (including recently the sydney biennale I believe?) but this was the first solo exhibition in Delhi, even though they were formed in 1992 & have been exhibiting since then also.

the collective also work on various research projects and release an annual reader (Sarai Reader) - this can be viewed on their website as well as in book form (though I've only seen them here in print form so was lucky to pick them up locally!) the readers have a different topic each year which academics and researchers write submissions for to discuss and document various issues. they also run a research fellows project where students write on topics such as urban development, village life in India, media, technology, social and health issues etc.

anway, I took some photos and made a slideshow video if you would like to take a look. (some of the pics are a little blurry I'm afraid, but they give you an idea)

photos can be found @
http://flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/raqsmediacollective/

video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLI9kBjdZtk or http://blip.tv/file/62855

or embedded here :


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

another video of the India Habitat Centre here in Delhi which is a convention centre / collection of buildings where there are many galleries & conference rooms/workshops on Indian art and habitats / urban & rural development & life projects/info is at http://blip.tv/file/62578

photos @ http://flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/indiahabitatcentre/

or video also embedded here :


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

this week/weekend is the CSDS Independent Fellows 2006 end of year presentations so I'm hoping to head along to that also (or part of it)

related sites in case you're interested:

http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/

http://www.sarai.net/

http://www.naturemorte.com

http://www.indiahabitat.org

]]> Pixelpress http://www.aliak.com/node/2362 2006-08-15T05:28:10+01:00 2006-10-29T11:58:44+00:00 AliaK PixelPress' intent is to encourage documentary photographers, writers, filmmakers, artists, human rights workers and students to explore the world in ways that take advantage of the new possibilities provided by digital media. They seek a new paradigm of journalism, one that encourages an active dialogue between the author and reader and, also, the subject.

]]> PixelPress' intent is to encourage documentary photographers, writers, filmmakers, artists, human rights workers and students to explore the world in ways that take advantage of the new possibilities provided by digital media. They seek a new paradigm of journalism, one that encourages an active dialogue between the author and reader and, also, the subject.

The PixelPress online magazine features projects that use a variety of linear and non-linear strategies, attempting to articulate visions of human possibility even while confirming human frailty. For them, the digital revolution is a revolution in consciousness, not in commerce.

PixelPress works with organizations such as Crimes of War, Human Rights Watch, World Health Organization and UNICEF to create Web sites that deal directly with contemporary issues in complex and innovative ways that circumvent media sensationalism and simplification. They also try to factor in ways that the viewer can help remedy social problems, rather than remain a spectator. Recently we completed a site focusing on how to end polio worldwide; another trying to aid an orphanage in Rwanda; one trying to reclaim the Brazilian forest; and a site featuring the images of photographers from the Vietnam War. And they also create books with photographers such as Machiel Botman, Kent Klich and Sebastião Salgado on social themes, as well as traveling exhibitions using both digital and conventional processes.

from http://www.pixelpress.org/whoarewe.html

]]> CRIT - Collective Research Initiatives Trust (India) http://www.aliak.com/node/2358 2006-08-13T06:33:44+01:00 2006-10-29T12:00:44+00:00 AliaK CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) is a group of architects, scholars, technicians and artists who have worked together over the past seven years in Mumbai. Their collective was established in early 2003 with the aim of undertaking research, pedagogy and intervention on urban spaces and contemporary cultural practices in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. CRIT regards this vast urban realm as its laboratory and terrain for articulating a critical urbanism. Our understanding of urbanism is based on the recognition that everyday exchange between disciplines and across sectors is the basic condition of metropolitan environments, and that collective research is essential to transforming urban spaces and civic life.

]]> CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) is a group of architects, scholars, technicians and artists who have worked together over the past seven years in Mumbai. Their collective was established in early 2003 with the aim of undertaking research, pedagogy and intervention on urban spaces and contemporary cultural practices in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. CRIT regards this vast urban realm as its laboratory and terrain for articulating a critical urbanism. Our understanding of urbanism is based on the recognition that everyday exchange between disciplines and across sectors is the basic condition of metropolitan environments, and that collective research is essential to transforming urban spaces and civic life.

visit http://www.crit.org.in/ for more details

]]> Comet Media Foundation & COSMOS http://www.aliak.com/node/2357 2006-08-13T06:29:05+01:00 2006-10-29T12:02:14+00:00 AliaK Comet Media Foundation researches and produces communication materials on themes related to development. The subjects of this work include education, environment, health, gender issues and the history of science. Our materials bring out alternative perspectives on these themes and tell of innovations by practitioners. The group was started in 1985.

]]> Comet Media Foundation researches and produces communication materials on themes related to development. The subjects of this work include education, environment, health, gender issues and the history of science. Our materials bring out alternative perspectives on these themes and tell of innovations by practitioners. The group was started in 1985.

Comet's objectives include:

* creating awareness on development-related issues, especially choices available to society in science, engineering and technology
* developing communication material on such issues, using appropriate media
* facilitating issue-specific workshops, film screenings, knowledge festivals and other meetings
* running a publicly accessible resource centre with material on these subjects

Activities

All our activities involve creating and distributing knowledge artifacts. We produce communication materials, conduct workshops and organise knowledge festivals.

visit http://www.cometmedia.org for more details

]]> Snarl Heavy Industries - Sub Bass Snarl online http://www.aliak.com/node/2350 2006-08-12T19:17:02+01:00 2006-10-29T12:07:19+00:00 AliaK
Snarl Heavy Industries is the home of music artists sub bass snarl, club night frigid, & cyclic defrost magazine.
Sadly frigid has closed it's doors forever, after being one of Sydney's most eclectic and long-running electronic music & hip hop clubs.

]]>

Snarl Heavy Industries is the home of music artists sub bass snarl, club night frigid, & cyclic defrost magazine.

Sadly frigid has closed it's doors forever, after being one of Sydney's most eclectic and long-running electronic music & hip hop clubs. visit http://www.snarl.org/ for more details

]]> STEIM - the studio for electro-instrumental music http://www.aliak.com/node/2929 2006-03-20T18:31:33+00:00 2008-01-26T20:02:26+00:00 AliaK STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. The foundation's artistic and technical departments supports an international community of performers and musicians, and a growing group of visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work. STEIM invites these people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment in which concepts can be given concrete form. It catalyzes their ideas by providing critical feedback grounded in professional experience. These new creations are then exposed to a receptive responsive niche public at STEIM before being groomed for a larger audience.

]]> STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts.

The foundation's artistic and technical departments supports an international community of performers and musicians, and a growing group of visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work.

STEIM invites these people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment in which concepts can be given concrete form. It catalyzes their ideas by providing critical feedback grounded in professional experience.

These new creations are then exposed to a receptive responsive niche public at STEIM before being groomed for a larger audience.

]]> eLefant Traks music label http://www.aliak.com/node/2216 2006-02-17T12:03:25+00:00 2006-10-29T12:32:50+00:00 AliaK Elefant Traks is an independent record label based in Sydney Australia that covers various genres of musical tastes revolving around hip hop and electronic production. Our goal is to showcase Australian talent to a greater audience. The label has had over 16 releases over the last five or so years and growing bigger each year.

]]> Elefant Traks is an independent record label based in Sydney Australia that covers various genres of musical tastes revolving around hip hop and electronic production. Our goal is to showcase Australian talent to a greater audience. The label has had over 16 releases over the last five or so years and growing bigger each year.

Our newest releases include the debut album from Herd vocalist/MC Urthboy called Distant Sense of Random Menace. A blistering monster with collaborations with TZU's Count Bounce and Hermitude's Elgusto amongst others. The first release for 2005 was from Pasobionic, beat maker and DJ from TZU and Curse Ov Dialect called Empty Beats for Lonely Rappers. It's a sleepily beautiful stream of instrumental hip hop. The second is Combat Wombat and their punk-hop dubby album Unsound System. In April the first album from gypsy-dub maestro Unkle Ho will be unleashed.

read their full bio @ http://www.elefanttraks.com/

]]> Subterran http://www.aliak.com/node/2213 2006-02-17T11:47:18+00:00 2006-10-29T12:34:02+00:00 AliaK About Subterran
Subterran is a work in progress. We are an events and music organisation based in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, S.E.Qld, primarily involved in outdoor music events with an environmental focus. Subterran aims to push the outdoor party format deeper. Our belief is that to stay true to the original intention of outdoor dance parties: earth reconnection and exploration of fringe electronic music, the culture needs to start connecting and giving back to the earth in action, not just intention, and to be able to reinvent itself to match the high pace of evolution of electronic music. Subterran is committed to pushing environmental and community intentions to the forefront, and also to showcasing exciting new music.

]]> About Subterran

Subterran is a work in progress. We are an events and music organisation based in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, S.E.Qld, primarily involved in outdoor music events with an environmental focus. Subterran aims to push the outdoor party format deeper. Our belief is that to stay true to the original intention of outdoor dance parties: earth reconnection and exploration of fringe electronic music, the culture needs to start connecting and giving back to the earth in action, not just intention, and to be able to reinvent itself to match the high pace of evolution of electronic music. Subterran is committed to pushing environmental and community intentions to the forefront, and also to showcasing exciting new music.

Subterran events are not-for-profit, community orientated outdoor gatherings. We put our events together with diversity in mind rather than catering fully to any one particular scene. The intention is to create an accessible outdoor party space where many different cultural niches can come together in shared space. Our events cover psytrance, dub, electronica, progressive, breakbeats, bush techno, glitch, ambient/chill and other interesting musical forms, but within this variety, the emphasis is still on working with organic/outdoor sensibilities and creating a smooth flow between styles. Individual events may be planned on a specific concept and the lineup and flow will be diverse but focussed on exploring that particular tangent in depth. Subterran has no genre loyalties, we're much more interested in seeing different tribes play together.

visit http://www.subterran.org for more information

]]> The Physics Room http://www.aliak.com/node/2177 2006-01-30T03:34:03+00:00 2006-10-29T14:19:46+00:00 AliaK The Physics Room exists to act as a catalyst for the development and promotion of ideas and debate through art. It evolved out of South Island Art Projects organization in June 1996, and has been at its current site in Tuam Street since 1999.

]]> The Physics Room exists to act as a catalyst for the development and promotion of ideas and debate through art. It evolved out of South Island Art Projects organization in June 1996, and has been at its current site in Tuam Street since 1999.

A central Physics Room aim is that parallel, integrated activities be launched in the gallery, our publications, our website, and other local public art projects, giving the issues and ideas raised by the programme the widest possible dissemination and discussion. Our goal is to actively seek links between the arts and other critical areas of cultural production; to involve art as a contributing voice in wider intellectual, social, and political debate.

visit http://www.physicsroom.org.nz for more details

]]> Window http://www.aliak.com/node/2176 2006-01-30T03:32:06+00:00 2006-10-29T14:20:16+00:00 AliaK The initiative of three students from the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, Window arose from the sense that Elam and its attendant arts community was isolated and inaccessible to larger audiences. The project aimed to address this lack of dialogue by creating a situation where artists, writers, academics, engineers – anyone with a good idea – could display works and interact with audiences.

]]> The initiative of three students from the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, Window arose from the sense that Elam and its attendant arts community was isolated and inaccessible to larger audiences. The project aimed to address this lack of dialogue by creating a situation where artists, writers, academics, engineers – anyone with a good idea – could display works and interact with audiences.

Window exists in two states; its primary location is the physical exhibition window located near the Main Library of the University of Auckland, and its shadow is the virtual exhibition spaces of the Window website. Window wishes to extend both 'on-site' and 'on-line' sites as spaces for the display of ideas and the catalyst for experiment and discussion.

Window sees an ability to move easily between ideas, places and wallpapers as its significant strength; it is interested in context and relevance, and in the ability & inability of contemporary art to hold resonance for people in diverse and non-art situations. Physically occupying a transient foyer space, Window's context is shorn of the preconceptions and assumptions that form the ideological baggage of the dedicated art gallery. The project's role is potentially multi-faceted and fluid, offering a dynamic context for the presentation of information to a large and varied audience. On the web and on campus, Window functions within an emergent context, and is a breeding ground for experimentation and new ideas at developmental levels.

Window welcomes involvement with anyone, any kind of interesting idea, anywhere ...anytime, anyplace, baby.

visit http://www.window.auckland.ac.nz for more details

]]> Audio Foundation http://www.aliak.com/node/2175 2006-01-30T03:25:52+00:00 2006-10-29T14:20:52+00:00 AliaK The Audio Foundation, founded in April 2004, is a Charitable Trust for the support of innovative and experimental audio culture in NZ.
The presentation of this includes performances, CD releases, radio transmissions, field recordings, installations, site-specific public work and work in conjunction with new media.

]]> The Audio Foundation, founded in April 2004, is a Charitable Trust for the support of innovative and experimental audio culture in NZ.

The presentation of this includes performances, CD releases, radio transmissions, field recordings, installations, site-specific public work and work in conjunction with new media.

Working as audio engineers, technicians, artists/composers, musicians, tutors and lecturers, sound designers, researchers and librarians, practitioners are often at the margins of their fields, producing work in studios and bedrooms in their spare time. While sound artists are united by a passion for all things audio, they differ widely in their interpretations and modes of expression.

Work can range from free noise, electronica, electro-accoustic, field recordings, tonal generation and improvisation.

The Audio Foundation defines this work as innovative art practice primarily concerned with the use of sound, but predominately sitting outside of the infrastructure of the music industry and academic institutions.

visit http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/ for more details

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