Media and Communications

This might be of interest to some of you.

From:   biancarayner@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Rooming house community garden
Date: 23 May 2008 1:02:17 PM

Following up on our recent conversation regarding the Rooming house community garden project documentation, I have just spoken to Wendy from the EcoCentre. Funding for the project will not be approved until the beginning of 2009 and until that time we will be consulting with stakeholders and having meetings. If any students are interested in documenting this process it would be great, however the real project will be going ahead next year once we have complete approval and funding.

The project will run over most of the year and we would want to capture the consultations with rooming house residents and local community for approx 2 months from Feb – April.
Building the garden and construction of outside communal area will probably take 1 -2 months from April – June.
After construction we would have a celebration – approx July
3 month follow up around October.

Students may wish to document the process in a variety of ways using a variety of media. If any of your students are interested in becoming involved in these early stages of the project, they would be most welcome to attend a working group meeting. The next meeting is on Wednesday the 28th May, 3pm at the EcoCentre in St kilda botanical gardens. I am contactable via email.

Bianca Rayner

Expressions of Interest are being sought for admission to HAM418 Work Placement subject. Please send an up to date CV and application letter outlining the type of placement you would prefer to Lisa or Diana by COB Monday 16 June. Ensure that you include all relevant experience in your CV – if you are unsure how to write a good CV check out

http://content.mycareer.com.au/advice-research/resume/write-a-killer-cv.aspx

 From Kathy Diakovsky:

kdiakovsky@groupwise.swin.edu.au

Expressions of Interest are being sought for a new unit in PG media and Communications

Re: HAM432 Digital Media Production

We are seeking expressions of interest from students for HAM432 which will hopefully be offered over Winter term only (once a week from Monday 23/6 to Monday 28/7 inclusive). At this stage, it is intended for the unit to be scheduled from 9.30am to 1.00pm for each of the six weekly sessions. Please find attached a subject outline. If you have any further queries about the content, please telephone Lisa Gye on (03) 9214 8345.

If you are interested in enrolling for this unit, either in addition to your current studies or in lieu of a unit in which you are enrolled for Semester 2 2008, please email me by COB this Friday 23 May 2008.

An email advising the outcome of the Expression of Interest process for HAM432 will be sent to you in the following week. In the event that the unit will be taught over Winter, you will be advised of the enrolment procedures at the same time.

Sorry for the delay! Here are some names of people you may be interested in interviewing. Please contact either of us for contact details if you are interested in a particular person. Those marked with SWIN are alumni. We’ll add more as we think of them!

Rene Hostettler Infoxchange (SWIN)

Josephine Cafagna ABC  (SWIN)

Cameron Burgess ABC Mildura (SWIN)

Kaz Horsley ABC Bendigo Fim Reviewer (SWIN)

Tim McCarthy Sports 927 (SWIN)

Rod Law Fox Sports (SWIN)

Jennifer Witham Media Giants journalist (SWIN)

Natalie Collins Infoxchange General Manager (SWIN)

Sarah L’Estrange Radio National (SWIN)

Kathy Bowlen ABC TV (SWIN)

Helen Stuckey Curator ACMI (SWIN) (Taken)

Hugh Davies ABC Kids Gateway

Richard Lowenstein Filmmaker (SWIN)

Paolo Righetti Journalist Sporting Pulse

Nick Place Media Giants

Pepi Ronalds Reactive Media (SWIN)

Simon Johanson Editor The Age Online

Anna Chalko PR TAC

Damian Anderson Acceleration Group

Paul Green Mobile content design and web developer (SWIN)

Call for Submissions – Deadline 31 May 2008

The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for artists, urban poets,
filmmakers and multimedia and interaction designers to submit film and
videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen-based
projects.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 <http://www.urbanscreens08.net>
is the third, ground-breaking international conference and
multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide Urban Screens events.
It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens
Association and will take place 3-8 October 2008 at Federation Square,
Melbourne.

Conference: Mobile Publics 3-5 October 2008

Outdoor Multimedia Program: 3-8 October 2008

The event will promote a lateral trans-disciplinary approach to
exploring the global transformation of public culture in the context
of large new multi media precincts such as Federation Square and
various networked forms of urban screens. It will build on the
successful events held in Amsterdam in 2005 and Manchester in 2007 and
will be the first Urban Screens held in the Asia-Pacific region.

Through an integrated program of keynote lectures, panel sessions,
workshops, curated screenings and multimedia projects, it will bring
together leading Australian and international artists and curators,
architects and urban planners, screen operators and content providers,
technology manufacturers, software designers and public intellectuals.

The types of works they are seeking include interactive, performance
based and participatory projects such as:

Interactive software applications for urban screens
Participatory community projects using creative digital practices
Live media art merging performance and new media
Community displays for education and exchange
Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content
Real-time generated content
Screen related sound experiments
Digital storytelling projects
Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground
Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens

For further details on submissions please see urbanscreens08.net.
<http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects>

In the hope that your assignments may be able to be published, you need to ask your interview subject to complete an Interview Consent Form

http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/postgrad/interview_consent_form.doc

This should be submitted with your assignment.

A list of potential Swinburne alumni media workers will be posted here very soon.

Hi, received the following from the Vice Chancellor – please do not come to class Cheers, Lisa

>>> “Ian Young” <IYoung@groupwise.swin.edu.au> 2/04/2008 12:33 pm >>>
Colleagues,
As you will be aware, strong winds are causing significant issues across all campuses. Due to safety concerns, all lectures and class are to be cancelled immediately. Emergency Services have recommended that people remain indoors wherever possible.

Ian Young

Ian Young
Vice-Chancellor and President
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218 Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Australia

Tel: +61 3 9214 8131
Fax: +61 3 9818 3649
Email: iyoung@swin.edu.au

New opportunities for paid and unpaid employment have been posted to the Opportunities page

History Project – Positive Women

Please let Lisa know if you are interested

This year Positive Women Victoria celebrates 20 years of supporting and advocating for Victorian women living with HIV.
We are seeking assistance with producing a history project for our organisation.

Positive Women is the only independent support and advocacy organisation for women living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. The organisation began twenty years ago with the meeting of two HIV positive women who realised that their health and support needs differed from the predominantly gay male HIV positive community.

The outcomes for people diagnosed with HIV have changed quite dramatically over the last 20 years with the development of anti retroviral treatments, however many of the issues around stigma and discrimination remain. The organisation continues to provide support to HIV positive women and their families but has shifted some of its focus to provide health education and public awareness campaigns in a bid to decrease the incidence of HIV diagnoses in Victoria.

Over the past few years we have developed a strategy to empower our members and raise general community awareness about women and HIV/AIDS by use of the creative arts. We have a strong reputation for developing innovative, thought provoking arts based community projects.

We will provide pictorial as well as written material and copies of media articles that could be used as part of the history project. We have a really interesting story to tell and great material; we just need somebody to put it all together for us.<
Please contact Monique Wiessner at Positive Women Victoria to discuss this project.
03 9076 6918 or info@positivewomen.org.au

For more information visit www.positivewomen.org.au

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Feature: Sydney Festival: Movers & Shakers Australian dance program;
National Theatre of Scotland; Urban Theatre Projects, Chunky Move,
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Plus: Performa 2007, New York; Istanbul Biennale; Finland’s ANTI
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Festival of Electronic Art & Video, Mexico City

And: Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke in London; Gomez-Pena at Bristol’s
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Christian Marclay at ACMI; Glass Percussion Project; Fotofreo; and more

OnScreen: Lawrence Johnston’s feature documentary, The Night; The
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