Oh, and this site is now at http://shannon-oneill.net. That may change as there’s another domain I’d like, but I’m waiting to hear [...]]]> I’ve changed web hosts and upgraded all the Alias Frequencies sites to the latest version of WordPress, so performance should be better from now on. Turns out the old host was being repeatedly hacked.

Oh, and this site is now at http://shannon-oneill.net. That may change as there’s another domain I’d like, but I’m waiting to hear back from the lovely owners. In any case, old links should redirect to the current address. If you subscribe to the feed, be sure to do so via FeedBurner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShannonONeill that way you shouldn’t be affected by any future changes. Unfortunately lots of comments got lost in the move. I have no idea why, but rest assured that I didn’t delete them!

Things are OK over here. Running the first year course at Uni has been a fun challenge, but we’re in the groove now. I’ve been going a bit crazy with the PhD and some writing projects (why do I do it to myself?) but I can see a bit of time opening up soon which I’ll use for making some new creative work and getting another batch of releases up on Alias Frequencies.

With this new site I feel inspired to blog a bit more. We’ll see! =)

February 13 – February 15

Investigating Cross – Disciplinary Practice in the Areas of Music, Sound and Design.

Featuring : Kees Tazeelar (Netherlands) / Ernest Edmonds (UK) / Yasunao Tone (Japan)

+ Many More

Three Days of Keynotes, Panels and Workshops from 10am to 6pm at UTS.

Two nights of performances from 8pm at the ABC Studios, [...]]]> UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008

February 13 – February 15

Investigating Cross – Disciplinary Practice in the Areas of Music, Sound and Design.

Featuring : Kees Tazeelar (Netherlands) / Ernest Edmonds (UK) / Yasunao Tone (Japan)

+ Many More

Three Days of Keynotes, Panels and Workshops from 10am to 6pm at UTS.

Two nights of performances from 8pm at the ABC Studios, Harris St featuring Donna Hewitt, Julian Knowles, Philip Samartzis, Kees Tazelaar, Peter Blamey, Robin Fox, Darrin Verhagen and Yasunao Tone, all in glorious eight channel surround sound.

And… Robin Fox in Residence in the new UTS Interaction Studio

All free and open to the public!

For more information, the full program and contact details to book your place at the performances check out:

www.hss.uts.edu.au/utsmsd2008/

SEMINAR

Digital Democracy Unpacked: A Critical Mapping of Five Ideal Typical Discourses

Dr Lincoln Dahlberg, School of Journalism and Communications The University of Queensland

When: 1 June, 5-6.30pm Where: UTS Broadway, Building 3, Level 2 (Room 210)

Digital democracy has become an increasingly popular topic among academics, political commentators, and policy makers: there is much talk about the [...]]]> Late notice, but this looks interesting:

SEMINAR

Digital Democracy Unpacked: A Critical Mapping of Five Ideal Typical Discourses

Dr Lincoln Dahlberg, School of Journalism and Communications
The University of Queensland

When: 1 June, 5-6.30pm
Where: UTS Broadway, Building 3, Level 2 (Room 210)

Digital democracy has become an increasingly popular topic among
academics, political commentators, and policy makers: there is much
talk about the potential of the Internet and other digital media
enhancing democracy. There has also been plenty of action, with
governments, civic organizations, universities and activists,
investigating this potential and supporting digital democracy
initiatives. All this commentary, research, policy making, and project
work draws on a diversity of understandings of digital democracy.
However, there is a lack of resources that clearly outline and examine
this diversity. This paper undertakes an ideal-typical reading and
critical evaluation of five digital democracy discourses and their
variations, with the aim of bringing attention to the range of
possibilities for democracy supported by digital media, and the
advantages and disadvantages of these different possibilities.

Lincoln is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Journalism
and Communication at The University of Queensland. He is co-editor of
the journal New Zealand Sociology and of the collection Radical
Democracy and the Internet (Palgrave, June 2007). Lincoln’s current
research involves a critical investigation of the practices and
meanings surrounding Internet use, with particular focus on the
extension of democratic cultures. He can be contacted at:
l.dahlberg@uq.edu.au

Hosted by: Research Initiative on International Activism:
www.international.activism.hss.uts.edu.au
James Goodman, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007.
Phone: (612) 9514 2714 Fax: (612) 9514 2332
Email: james.goodman@uts.edu.au
Web: www.international.activism.uts.edu.au

Actor Network Theory – special workshop The Institute for Sustainable Futures will hold a special roundtable/workshop on Actor Network Theory (ANT) on Wednesday 19th July from 11am till 1pm at Level 11, Building 10, Jones Street [University of Technology, Sydney - City Campus]

The aim of the workshop is to share the accumulated [...]]]> Short notice, but I just found out about this:

Actor Network Theory – special workshop
The Institute for Sustainable Futures will hold a special roundtable/workshop on Actor Network Theory (ANT)
on Wednesday 19th July
from 11am till 1pm
at Level 11, Building 10, Jones Street
[University of Technology, Sydney - City Campus]

The aim of the workshop is to share the accumulated wisdom of various ISF PhD students, a guest from Electrical Engineering, Robert Jarman and adjunct Prof. Paul Bryce, who have used ANT, and to enable others to take the first steps in seeing what ANT might offer their research approach.

ANT offers a way of observing and analysing a process of change and, in combination with action research, ANT can identify and guide interventions to effect change. (Bryce & Yasukawa 2004).

Come along if you wish to learn more.
If you would like more information or to RSVP, please email Juliet Willetts (Juliet.Willetts@uts.edu.au) by COB Tuesday 18th.

Although I’m crazy busy at the moment, preparing to travel etc., I’m going to attend this. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how ANT, as well as D&G’s ‘assemblage’ can be used for theorizing appropriation. Reading Slack & Wise’s Culture & Technology a while ago confirmed that these should be fruitful areas to explore.

Also I’ve been commissioned by the ABC to make a five minute piece on the theme of ‘figure in a soundscape’ as part of a new radiophonic initiative. My piece is provisionally called ‘Figure/Network’ – it will engage with some of these theoretical concerns through sound, using granular synthesis, and generative, patch-based processes. It’s due in a couple of weeks (the day before I leave!) so this workshop is timely.

Tom Smith – Faggot Shit: Homophobia and Male Fantasy in Orthodox Hip Hop (192kbps, 0:0:58, 1.33MB)

It’s a good example of how collage can be used to highlight certain patterns.

who have made compositions or work with techniques, instruments etc which are aimed at the hearing impaired.

I can’t think of anyone off the top of my head. Can you?

1) Key Concepts lecture series at Sydney Uni. A follow-up to last year’s Key Thinkers series which I couldn’t make due to work commitments. I’m looking forward to attending some of these.

Wednesday 3 May ‘Terra Nullius’ Andrew Fitzmaurice Wednesday 10 May ‘Nationalism’ Glenda Sluga Wednesday 17 May ‘Freedom’ Duncan Ivison Wednesday [...]]]> Some interesting free talks coming up in Sydney:

1) Key Concepts lecture series at Sydney Uni. A follow-up to last year’s Key Thinkers series which I couldn’t make due to work commitments. I’m looking forward to attending some of these.

Wednesday 3 May ‘Terra Nullius’ Andrew Fitzmaurice
Wednesday 10 May ‘Nationalism’ Glenda Sluga
Wednesday 17 May ‘Freedom’ Duncan Ivison
Wednesday 24 May ‘Truth’ Huw Price
Wednesday 31 May ‘Racism’ Ghassan Hage
Wednesday 7 June ‘Death’ Jennann Ismael
Wednesday 14 June ‘Globalisation’ Raewyn Connell

Venue: NEW VENUE FOR 2006 Footbridge Theatre The University of Sydney

Outspoken novelist, commentator and new-tech guru CORY DOCTOROW debates the future for filmmakers and media artists in this special event presented by Popcorn Taxi and the Australian Film Commission. Doctorow asks where does Hollywood get off, “with its antiquated business model, in treating the media user as a criminal with their draconian copyright laws?…Such laws limit the creative possibilities for artists and users.”An innovativeand brilliant thinker Doctorow proposes a revolutionary new model for media artists that defies the Digital Rights Management: “Technologies that seek to restrict the copying and use of digital works are wrong and wrong-headed”, Cory says. “Wrong because they don’t work, because they suppress creativity, and because they treat honest users like crooks. Wrong-headed because they seek to make digital works act as much as possibly like analog works. No DVD owner wants a way to do less with her movies, and companies that try to sell her technologies to do this deserve to go broke.”This debate is essential for any filmmaker and media artist who wants to give serious consideration to the future of their Work. The evening will include an interview and audience Q&A conducted by MARCUS GILLEZEAU, filmmaker (Firelight) and a specialist in digital production technologies.

popcorn taxi
Rated: R18+ EXEMPT from CLASSIFICATION
Time: 7.00pmDate: Wednesday, April, 19th, 2006
Where: Greater Union Bondi Junction
Address: Level 6, 500 Oxford Street, Westfield Bondi Junction Entry: Free

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Famous Cannabis Users

Google Idol

THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY FOR CHILDS

The Mercury Theatre on the Air

Nyet

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! (awesome software!)

SONY admits that CD/44.1PCM is inferior

Stagg Chili Recipes

Video Downloader

xTal – free mp3 DJ VSTi plugin

Zaatar Mix

The first stage is to find out what other sites are already out there and how my proposed [...]]]> So, I’m creating a wiki-type of site for Australian contemporary music. A dynamic, community-oriented site that will be a useful reference and educational resource as well as being a way for me to gather data for my PhD.

The first stage is to find out what other sites are already out there and how my proposed site might relate to them.

Here are some that I’m aware of. If you know of others, please leave a comment.

Australia Ad Lib

Australian Music Centre

Australian Music Online

Australian Sound Design Project

Clatterbox

Jazz Australia

MusicAustralia

SPRACI

Wikipedia – Music of Australia

AudioMulch 1.0rc1

Behringer B-Control Presets & Templates

Dungeons & Dragons

Increasingly Clear

Stuckism

Traveller (role-playing game)

The University and the Undercommons

X-Men

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts

The international conference Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts will take place at the University of Technology, Sydney between July 28-29, 2006.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Laura U. Marks Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies, Simon Fraser University, [...]]]> this looks v.relevant to some of my research.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts

The international conference Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts will take place at the University of Technology, Sydney between July 28-29, 2006.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Laura U. Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Andrew Benjamin
Professor of Critical Theory in Architecture and Design, University of Technology Sydney

Ross Gibson
Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology, Sydney

Klaus Neumann
Senior Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology

Conference Theme:

Drawing together scholars from a broad range of fields, the aim of the conference is to rethink the task of historiography via an exploration of experimental representations of ­ and or engagements with ­ the past in fields as diverse as film, literature, art, architecture, photography, theatre, music, fictocritical writing, dance, video and new media. Questions addressed by the conference will include:

* How have writers, filmmakers, artists etc. sought to explore and redeem aspects of the past which have fallen outside of what has been monumentalised as historically significant?

* What role have the arts played in destabilising historicist accounts of history as a form of evolutionary progress?

* What possibilities have been attributed to artists, writers, new media practitioners etc. in theoretical accounts of the task of an experimental historiography?

* How have people working in the arts sought to cleave open a space within official accounts of the relationship between the past and the present within which the possibilities of the past (and the future) can be re-imagined and re-explored?

Call for Papers:

Proposals are invited for 30 minute papers on, or related to, the conference theme. Please send a 200-300 word abstract and your contact details, via email, to the conference convenor Tara Forrest before February 20, 2006. Should you have any questions about the conference prior to this date, please feel free to email the convenor.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in March. Should you, however, require confirmation at an earlier date, please inform the convenor of this in your proposal. More information about the conference is available at http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/rethinking/

Dr. Tara Forrest
Writing and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007
Australia

Email: Tara.Forrest@uts.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 9514 2182

really it’s a big relief. lack of [...]]]> just got a scholarship offer to do my phd at uow (i was hoping for but not expecting it). and i’ve just finished the paperwork to get tenure for my fractional (permanent part time) lecturing job at uts. so that’s the next few years sorted (haha, famous last words).

really it’s a big relief. lack of $ has been getting me down, fucking up various aspects of my life. not that i’m now on track to become wealthy or anything, but at least i should be able to climb out of this crippling credit card debt. and my planned research trip overseas is starting to look feasible at last…

things are looking up!