Important Conference Updates

We're almost there! Just 10 days to go until the conference begins. The program booklet is now complete and can be viewed and downloaded as a PDF from Google Docs. Check it out here.

Some minor changes to the schedule have been made, however, unless you were contacted directly then your presentation time should remain the same as noted in the earlier email.

All of the main conference events will be held in the Communications Building (20), Lecture Hall 5. On Thursday evening we will move to the UniBar for Mashup! An evening of remix sound and video performance. Check out the event details on Facebook or see the poster for more details.



Premix will be held in the Creative Arts Building (25), Room 128 on Wednesday, 1 December from 1.30pm, and will feature a special performance by British multimedia artist Scanner. The workshop events are free, but there is a cost of $10 for the Scanner performance. Again, see the Facebook page or check out the event poster for details:




As noted in the conference booklet, presentations should be 20 minutes in length. There will be time for discussion and questions held at the end of each session (rather than after each presentation). Powerpoint presentations are welcome: please have your file ready on a USB to be loaded onto the computer before your session starts. There is a Mac, a PC, a DVD player, a whiteboard, and a data projector available in the conference venue of 20.5. If you have any questions about your presentation, please contact the conference team at revise2010@gmail.com.

Announcing a Special Event: Premix!

Revise is pleased to announce the special workshop, Premix: Experiments in Open Source Cultural Practice, which will take place on Wednesday, 1 December in the afternoon here at the University of Wollongong as a lead-in to the main conference, from Thursday 2 to Friday 3 December.

Organised by Creative Arts faculty member Brogan Bunt, this event brings together educators and artists to discuss the pedagogical potentials of remix, and will feature a very special guest speaker: electronic multimedia artist Scanner. Scanner will present a talk entitled: "Telephone Terrorism to Soundtracking the Dead: The Adventures and Tales of a Flaneur and Bricoleur". In addition to this session, Scanner will be giving a live performance in Wollongong Wednesday event.

From his website:
British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

Additional speakers will include:

• Chris Moore and Graham Barwell on their collaborative project on creating machinima using World of Warcraft to tell the story of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
• Brogan Bunt and Peter Goodall on open source frameworks for introducing computational media art practice
• Lucas Ihlein on the Art School Garden.
  

The workshop is free for any and all attendees, and Revise participants are encouraged to take advantage of this great opportunity.

For more information about this event, please contact Brogan at brogan@uow.edu.au or the Revise team at revise2010@gmail.com. Further details will be forthcoming as they become available.