Shannon O’Neill

One of my students is looking for people

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?

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

Bettered by the borrower - copyrights and music composition

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

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

100 things we didn’t know this time last year

AudioMulch 1.0rc1

Behringer B-Control Presets & Templates

Dungeons & Dragons

Increasingly Clear

Stuckism

Traveller (role-playing game)

The University and the Undercommons

X-Men

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

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!

and drank too much coffee

discussed at Larvatus Prodeo.

An interesting critique of Cultural Studies at Posthegemonic Musings. (via archive : s0metim3s)