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Future projections – Preview of Electrofringe

In a sneak peek of October experimental arts festival ‘This Is Not Art’ we take a look at the most inspiring and innovative new media works from around the world.

Special guests:

+ Daniel Green, curator Electro Projections (international video-based works)
+ Cat Jones, curator ElectroEtre (international, interactive & performance works)

So what is this electrofringe ??
Electrofringe is Australia’s largest festival of experimental electronic arts and culture and is taking place, for its eleventh year, as part of the ‘This Is Not Art’ convergence – October 2– 6.

Held across 14 spaces in Newcastle – and at various unexpected locations in between – Electrofringe is dedicated to ’skills development and artistic exchange’ between up and coming and professionally practicing new media artists including:

+ a three-week interactive media exhibition
+ hybrid media/dance performance
+ an all-girls soldering workshop
+ a chorus composed for Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones
+ noise artists Pig & Machine and experimental multi-instrumentalist KK NULL.

Electrofringe 2008 also features an impressive screening program including award-winning highlights from the Japan Media Arts Festival and SIGGRAPH 2008, surround-sound selections from New York’s harvestworks Digital Media Arts Centre and eclectic works from France’s Arcadi festival.

Positioned right on the intersection of art, digital media and gaming, Electrofringe will explore crossovers between computer gaming and art through workshops and artist presentations, all the way through to a Game Design Competition –right  on the mark for some of the new course adventures about to be launched here at AFTRS in 2009.

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Electrofringe 2007, photo by Marden Dean of Tim Hecker at the Cambridge Hotel