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fAf January - February 2003
BLACKOUT: INDIGENOUS NEW MEDIA ARTS COLLECTIVE

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BLACKOUT
This month, Blackout, a site created by Jenny Fraser, is launched.
Blackout features information about and work by Australian Indigenous
new media arts practitioners. Blackout was initiated at NISNMA
(ANAT's National Indigenous School for New Media Artists) in 2002
when the participants formed the Indigneous New Media Arts
Collective.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe/blackout/index.html

THE A4 REFUGEE PROJECT
Also in the Gallery, Jane Gallagher, curator of the recent
Brisbane-based exhibition, The A4 Refugee Project negotiated with
several of the participating artists for permission for their works
to be reproduced as downloadable PDFs. In conjunction with AUSTCARE,
the exhibition presented over 100 A4 sized artworks at Metro Arts
during Refugee Week - we present 6 of those online.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/current_index.html

READER SURVEY
This month fAf invites your feedback about the magazine through a
reader survey which will be online until 6 March. In order to attend
to your needs appropriately, we hope you will take the time to
complete the survey. Your feedback will be used to chart future
changes and refinements to fAf online and the edigest as well as our
other components such as Art Resources, Gallery, Screening Program
and projects.
http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/survey.html

THIS MONTH'S TEXT
Features
:: Opening doors: Using new media techniques to aid students with
developmental disabilities - a study by Deena Larsen
:: Molly Hankwitz takes a look at Borders and Edges: BitParts: New
Media Art in the UK's Midlands
Reviews and Reports
:: From Singapore, Andrea Lau, Eunice Tan & Wai XiaoWen report on the
proceedings of the Forum on Creativity in the Arts, Science and
Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic
:: JM John Armstrong reviews Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in
Science, Religion and Art
:: Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez reports on Querying Ourselves: Locus:
Interventions in Art Practice, two part project held in Manila
:: Jane Gallagher reviews The A4 Refugee Project which deals with
artistic engagement in the debate about asylum seekers and mandatory
detention.
:: NTT/Verio to Terminate Thing.net as reported by Judy Malloy
:: Michelle Gordon-Coles looks at Retooling: A Historian Confronts
Technological Change, an historical perspective of MIT culture
:: Linda Carroli reviews reload: rethinking women and cyberculture

DEENA LARSEN GUEST LECTURE
Please join QUT's Communication Design Department and fineArt forum
for a lecture by Deena Larsen, a visiting new media writer from the
United States.

Topic: New Media: We just couldn't go there before
What is the potential for writing and art with new technologies?
Images, sound, text, programming, interface design, and more are
merging to spawn countless numbers of new genres. Join us on a guided
tour of some of the amazing works produced by artists working across
disciplines. Deena Larsen, noted new media author, will introduce
some of the exciting potentials in this field. Explore things that
could not have been conceived of only a decade ago. Discuss the
issues that arise as universities and practitioners meet the
challenges that these new art /sound/text forms present.

1.30pm, Thursday 13 February 2003
A105 (Conference Room)
Kelvin Grove - QUT (Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove)

For more information or reservations please contact:
Linda Carroli
l2.carroli@qut.edu.au

fAf_15: 15th ANNIVERSARY CDROM
Don't forget that fAf_15, our commemorative 15th anniversary cdrom is
still available and free. On fAf_15, we present the magazine's entire
archive as well as specially commissioned and collated new material.
fAf_15 is an invaluable resource for researchers, artists, writers
and activists in the new media, science and technology fields. It
will be particularly useful to those living and working in areas
where internet access is difficult and unreliable. To obtain a copy,
email fAf at l2.carroli@qut.edu..au with your name and postal address.
http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/highlights_index.html

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