Apologies if you are having trouble sourcing this reading – we’re not sure what has happened to the rest of the copy but we are endeavoring to get it up as soon as possible. In the meantime, you could read Darren’s review of Clover’s book at
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev_18/DTbr18a.html
Thanks to Katie Williams for alerting us to the following event
One of the co-creators of social networking service, Twitter, Dom Sagolla will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Australian Radio Conference, to be held in Melbourne on October 15.
The American was one of the team, led by Jack Dorsey, that originally created Twitter in 2006, and has written the definitive style guide for Twitter and short form communications – “140 Characters, A Style Guide for the Short Form” on how best to tweet. His three top tweeting tips: first is brevity; second is describe (you are telling a story) and thirdly, make it simple. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has more than 100 million users worldwide.
http://www.commercialradio.com.au/index.cfm?page_id=1001&display_news_id_5465=1858
The correct link for the following reading, Vaidhyanathan, S., The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System is http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/847410.pdf
8:30pm Wednesday, September 15 2010
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you’ve never heard of – an American RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts circulated underground on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown internet phenomenon seen by more than 20 million people worldwide.
Following a gruelling two-week shoot in August 1988 for a Winnebago sales ad, some of the crew edited together outtakes of RV salesman Jack Rebney into a four-minute clip, which eventually became known as ‘Winnebago Man’.
While the finished sales ad went to Winnebago dealers to promote the 1989 Itasca Sunflyer RV, copies of the ‘Winnebago Man’ outtakes were being passed amongst the crew and their friends, eventually falling into the hands of VHS tape collectors sparking an underground phenomenon that turned Rebney into a cult hero.
When the online video revolution took off in 2005, Rebney became one of the first internet superstars, and the outtakes clip is regarded as one of the original classics that helped launch the age of online video.
Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes in search of Rebney – and finds him living alone on a mountain top, unaware of his fame. Winnebago Man is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly touching tale of one man’s response to unintended celebrity.
Below are the assignment sheets for the major assignments. Remember, you can choose to do an essay OR a social networking assignment. Assignments will be discussed in class. There is also a link to the Assignment coversheet
Essay Questions
Social Networking Assignment
Assignment Cover Sheet
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/currentstudents/forms/documents/Assigment_CoverSheetV2.pdf
Guildford Lane and surrounds
Combining the elements of a city treasure hunt and online gaming, Urban Codemakers explores the ways in which urban space is contested.
Three warring guilds from the Micronation of Ludea compete for
territory in the heart of the city. Striking signs with curious symbols,
tags, tokens, mark-ups and stickers are appearing in the laneways,
inviting audiences into a game that straddles real and virtual worlds.
Using on-line gaming and interventions into public spaces, join the
Ludean Guilds to rezone the city!
GuildMasters include Helen Stuckey, Paul Callaghan and Darren Tofts
For information on how to play the game, visit www.urbancodemakers.net
Animatronics, Movement and Sound!! The Birdmachine has flown into town……
The installation is a combination of materials, movement, robotics and sonic arts computing that creates a generative, physical and visual environment at the cutting edge of performance technology.
Melbourne: Sat 4th Sept, 2pm start, artist talks 5pm, opening drinks 6pm til late
Rear- 55 High St, Westgarth, Melbourne
All of the material that appears below this post was generated in previous years – some of it may be useful to you but make sure that check the date on the post you are reading so you don’t get instructions from us in previous years mixed up with new ones!
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We hope you have fun and learn a lot! We hope we do as well. Here’s something fun to begin with.
The speakers for the Digital Aesthetics forum have been confirmed. They are Chantal Faust and Ian Haig.
Chantal Faust’s work has been seen most recently in her solo exhibition titled head land at Jenny Port Gallery in September this year. She has exhibited her photo-based, installation and video work at prominent venues throughout Australia and overseas including the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Monash Gallery of Art, West Space, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Faust completed a PhD at the VCA School of Art in 2008. Her PhD thesis (Pleasure Machines: Towards a Philosophy of Scanning) sought to define the flatbed scanner as a tactile stage for fantasy projection.
For more information see:
http://www.jennyportgallery.com.au/artists/cfaust.html
http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/Staff.aspx?topicID=14&environmentID=1&staffID=174
Ian Haig works at the intersection of visual arts and media arts. His work explores the strangeness of everyday reality negotiated through subject matter that is at times perverse and provocative. His practice focuses on the themes of the human body, devolution, mutation, transformation and psychopathology, through the lens of low cultural forms. Previous works have explored the toxicity of celebrity culture, the science fiction of sexuality, the degenerative and malign aspects of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms of fanaticism and cults. Over the years the trajectory of Haig’s iconoclastic vision has encompassed everything from site-specific installation projects, super 8 movies, interactive sculpture, comics, noise music, to animations, videos, drawings, web projects, to large-scale gallery installations.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media festivals around the world. Including exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, The Australian centre for the moving image, Melbourne, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artec Biennale – Nagoya, Japan, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Art Museum of China, Beijing and The European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. In addition his animation and video work have screened in over 120 Festivals internationally. In 2003 he received a fellowship from the New media arts board of the Australia Council.