Occasionally, when we don’t have anything else to post, we will do that thing where we put together a bunch of plugs and links to get you through the last day of the working week.
This is that thing.
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Watch This Space: Channels
In 2013, Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival will be launched.
Nearly 2 years in the making, and led by a team including Jessie Scott, Eugenia Lim (current and former TAPR artists) and artist/curator, Rachel Feery, Channels will be dedicated to celebrating, critiquing and examining Video Art in all it’s myriad, mutant forms.
Watch this space for more news of the festival as it approaches, including an international call for works, and some special lead-up events.
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Video and Performance artist, diviner, shaman and chanteuse. Zoe Scoglio mixes a little of each into her inter-disciplinary works, the latest of which, “Shifting Ground” is explored in an interview with Camryn Rothenbury here.
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“The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow).”
OMG So much stuff: http://archive.org/details/movies
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The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and ACMI present THE IAN POTTER MOVING IMAGE COMMISSION
http://www.movingimagecommission.org.au/
This is a massively big deal for video and “moving image” artists. That high pitched hum is the sound of a thousand starving video artists bent over their desks furiously scribbling their applications and trying to figure out how to spend $100,000: the mind boggles! Will be exciting to see the new work this commission will generate….
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And finally…..
http://wheninmelb.tumblr.com/post/27816936036/when-im-ordering-anything-at-brunch-hungover
What? Animated GIFs are moving image art!
Picture Skew 