The Sound Culture Audio Laboratory is a professional residential symposium for practitioners and theorists in the Sonic Arts and Sound Design fields. The Laboratory will feature peer to peer workshops, seminars and performances and will foster an informal but informative atmosphere, maximising dialogue and exchange.

The Laboratory will focus on the theme of Sound and the Environment and examine issues of location and locatedness; sonic immersion; spatial and geo-spatially located audio; approaches to acoustic ecology; the relationship of the body to sound and spatial memory; the relationship of natural and cultural soundscapes with acoustic patrimony; and relationship of physical sites to oral histories.

Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale

For information & bookings contact Dr Nigel Helyer sonic@sonicobjects.com

Nine artists have been short-listed for the inaugural $75 000 Premier of Queensland’s National Art Award in New Media. Peter Alwast (QLD), Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine (QLD/NL), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Natalie Jeremijenko (QLD/USA), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith (NSW), John Tonkin (NSW) and Mari Velonaki (NSW) are the artists short-listed for the inaugural award.
On 31 October 2008 the Award will be presented to one of these exhibiting artists. The exhibition and Award will be presented every two years and the award-winning works will become part of the Queensland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

Accompanying the Award is the $25 000 Premier of Queensland’s New Media Scholarship, to be presented to an emerging Queensland-based new media artist to support travel and study.

Expressions of interest for the travel and study scholarship are available
at www.qag.qld.gov.au/new_media

Submissions due: 5 September.

The Award exhibition will be on display in GoMA’s new media gallery.
1 November - 8 February.
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/coming_soon/premier_of_queenslands_national_art_award_in_new_media

Artists are invited to submit proposals to exhibit at Level 17 Artspace at Victoria University in 2009. The space is situated at Level 17/300 Flinders St, Melbourne. This is situated within the School of Creative Industries which incorporates Multimedia. The Artspace’s modern, open-plan space is equipped with fully adjustable track lighting with dimmers, fixed three digital film projectors and three video screens, plus facilities for
audio, DVD and computer input. We encourage new media artists to exhibit. We are accepting artist and curatorial proposals in Painting, New Media, Sculpture, Photography, Installation and Performance.

Proposals due: 1 September

http://creativeindustries.vu.edu.au/level17.html