Posts tagged “apra

Talking at This Is Not Art

Posted on October 1st, 2008

Image this: it’s 10 in the morning and you have a alcoholic ginger beer in one hand, a program that is so jam-packed it reads like a phonebook and a head so full of ideas and information you couldn’t possibly remember it all. Welcome to that wondrous, debauturous multi-festival event This Is Not Art! Consisting of four arts festivals/events, it’s arguably australia’s biggest and best independent arts festival. If you’re into experimental electronic arts Electrofringe is for you. Musos please head to Sound Summit. And get your text on with the National Young Writers’ Festival or Critical Animals postgraduate conference. But don’t take my word for it, they say “It’s the five days of the year where you get to share your ideas, passions and saliva with…

Talking CC :: This Is Not Art it’s work!

Posted on October 1st, 2008

Image this: it’s 10 in the morning and you have a alcoholic ginger beer in one hand, a program that is so jam-packed it reads like a phonebook and a head so full of ideas and information you couldn’t possibly remember it all. Welcome to that wondrous, debauturous multi-festival event This Is Not Art! Consisting of four arts festivals/events, it’s arguably australia’s biggest and best independent arts festival. If you’re into experimental electronic arts Electrofringe is for you. Musos please head to Sound Summit. And get your text on with the National Young Writers’ Festival or Critical Animals postgraduate conference. But don’t take my word for it, they say “It’s the five days of the year where you get to share your ideas, passions and saliva with…

MiTunes: might as well tune out!

Posted on June 3rd, 2008

Insight, the SBS‘s current affairs program, ran a special tonight called MiTunes on music downloading which almost made me tune out. From the outset the likelihood of an engaging and challenging program that explored the true possibilities for music in a digital age were slim since the central question the program posed was possibly the most tiresome and unproductive question to ask: “Should music be free?” The unoriginality of the angle was set to destroy the value of the program. There it was, droning away in Jenny Brockie’s uninspiring introduction, and tainting every possible response that the youth in the audience were going to make with that bitter piracy after-taste that the record label is always complaining about. It didn’t matter that these young…