Jen & Carolyn are house minding at the moment for the lovely Natalie & Sean. Thanks guys!! We’re enjoying the kitchen and to celebrate Francois birthday Caz baked an amazing French flour-less chocolate cake. Another Operator11 show has gone to air live from the lounge, wigs and all…view it here!!
Sizzlas contemplating d’fur, originally uploaded by Plum Industries.
29 September, 2007
New Media as Accessible Art panel
Electrofringe (This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle)
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Image: (left to right) Tess O’Brien; Alex White; Daniel Kojta; Jen Teo
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Panel summary:
“Interactive and immersive digital artforms offer an enormous potential as inclusive and accessible practices. This panel of artists and facilitators will explore these ideas and look at accessibility issues in the field of electronic arts” (Electrofringe 2007).
Jennifer Teo (Accessible Arts, Strategic Initiatives Coordinator)
Jen talked about Accessible Arts and set the context for the panel by providing a definition of disability as stated in the Disability Discrimination Act 1972. Jen described the change in societies perception of disability in history as represented in the Medical and Social models of disability. New Media Arts and new technologies create new pathways for access and offer exciting new potential for people with disabilities to participate and engage in the arts. New media and electronic arts is recognised by Accessible Arts as a field with great potential.
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Love, Harmony, Light. I needed a release this week and these first 3 tracks helped me do just that - 99 Red Love Balloons by Nena, then The Ramones with I Wanna Be Sedated, followed by some noise from Cornelius with I Hate Hate. September has been a wonderful month of festivals and good times in Australia. A few events I managed to get along to include Sounds Unusual Festival (Alice Springs), This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle) and Sau_Rang in residence at the Australian Institute of Music (Sydney). This fortnights play list features some of the artists that performed at these great festivals.
8 Sept Surrealestate (as part of the Sounds Unusual Festival), Alice Springs. New and experimental music in the desert. Undoolya Creek was the venue for this fantastic event with performances by Robin Fox, Rob Curgenven, Sumugan Sivanesan, Anthony Magen and J9 Stanton. When I heard of this event taking place I booked myself a ticket to Alice Springs, I just had to be a part of the experience. It was certainly worth the trip.
27 Sept - 1 Oct 2007 This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle. I now feel quite inspired from a most stimulating weekend at TINA. I met a lot of amazing people at the festival that made the whole experience a lot of fun and extremely memorable. Dr Fox - you’re wicked and thanks for ‘getting it’. Good vibes!! As part of Electrofringe I heard William Lane & Sebastien Roux perform in quadraphonic sound…superb! The viola made my heart sing, just what I needed for a Sunday morning. Roux’s soundscapes reminded me of some Luc Ferrari pieces, beautiful.
5 Oct - Sau_Rang in residence at the Australian Institute of Music, Sydney. I had to get along to another performance by William Lane & Sebastien Roux. Again, a lovely show, although I did miss the surround sound experience. Another good vibes human is Leafcutter John. I just can’t wait for the performance of Bohemian Rhapsody by Leafcutter John with Sebastien Roux on vocals…wt!?
21 / 22 Oct Laurie Anderson Homelands at Sydney Opera House. I’ll be there!! Thank you to all the people who have sent music and CDs over the last month, you know who you are!! ~Jen
1. Nena - 99 Red Love Balloons - Epic
2. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated [ Road To Ruin / Rhino Records ]
3. Cornelius - I Hate Hate [ Point / Matador ]
4. Robin Fox - V-Event [ Sounds Unusual 2007 ]*
5. Lucas Darklord - Track 03 [ Bleaching All Life You Knew ]*
6. Machine Aux Rock - An Ending For The Beginning Part 1 [Single]*
7. Sebastien Roux - Etude Pour Songs [Tsuku Boshi / Tsuku Boshi]
8. Rob Curgenven (with Derek Holzer) - Untitled 2 [Sounds Unusual 2007]*
9. Laurie Anderson - The Stranger [ United States Live / Warner]
10. Robin Fox - Voltaic Pile [ Sounds Unusual 2007 ]*
11. Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked [ You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With / Giorno Poetry Systems ]
12. Leafcutter John - In The Morning [ The Forest and The Sea / Staubgold ]
13. The Books - Be Good To Them Always [ Lost And Safe / Tomlab ]
14. Sugarcubes - Birthday [ Coldsweat / Elektra ]
15. Leafcutter John - Dream III [ The Forest and The Sea / Staubgold ]
16. Rob Curgenven - Silent Landscapes No. 2 [ Sounds Unusual 2007 ]*
17. Laurie Anderson - O Superman [ Big Science / Warner ]
* Denotes Australian Made
Let me first say thank you to all the lovely people we met over the TINA (This Is Not Art Festival) long weekend. 2007 is truly a year to remember. Thanks again to all the good sports who participated in the making of D’ Versafur roaming commercials. Good times, good vibes!!
