Zine publishing and the long tail

Adelaide-based Zinemeister Dr Ianto Ware discusses how prophecies of digital dominance are colosally wrong with regard to zine publishing a genre which remains exclusively hardcopy. He finds zines to be quintessential examples of Editor of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson's Long Tail in which tiny niches multiply and thrive.

Published December 2009

From here to everywhere: the evolution of blogging

'The Art Life' blogmeister Andrew Frost spills the beans on the genesis of that infamous and lively blog in 2004 and its ongoing evolution in the context of new technologies and their uptake by publishing and by readers.

Published December 2009

Lean, mean and living dangerously

Associate Professor of Fine Art at the College of Fine Arts, Uni of NSW, Joanna Mendelssohn analyses a slice of the current state of art publishing in Australia from reviews in newspapers to the DAAO (Dictionary of Australian Artists Online - now rechristened Design and Art of Australasia Online).

Published December 2009

Mix and mash, take it, change it

Writer and curator Danni Zuvela celebrates remix or mashup culture and traces its history back through the Dadaists, Futurists, Max Ernst, Esther Shub, Arthur Lipsett, Joseph Cornell, Bruce Conner and Stan VanDerBeek. In a remix culture people valorise appropriation and talk about being copyfighters who believe the idea of text as property is a joke.

Published December 2009

Artrave

Published December 2009

The Ramingining Megaphone

Distinguished pioneer Indigenous Curator, activist and writer, Curator of Contemporary Art at Campbelltown Arts Centre Djon Mundine tells a very funny and intriguing story about how modern communication technology came to Ramingining and how it intersected with 'community consultation' by government departments.

Published December 2009

Milestones: Ken Orchard 1980-2009

Milestones: Ken Orchard 1980-2009
Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale, South Australia
29 August – 27 September 2009

Published December 2009

Possession

Theme Park: Brook Andrew
AAMU, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008.
124pp, RRP $39.95

Between Indigenous Australia and Europe: John Mawurndjul
Claus Volkenandt and Christian Kaufmann (eds)
Dieter Reimer Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 2009.
350pp, RRP 45

Judy Watson: blood language
by Judy Watson & Louise Martin-Chew, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2009.
240pp, RRP $39.95

New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Art
McCulloch and McCulloch, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2008.
159pp, RRP $79.95

Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal paintings from Papunya
Edited by Roger Benjamin with Andrew C. Weislogel, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2009.
192pp, RRP $49.95

Published December 2009

4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan

4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (FT4), Japan
5 September – 23 November 2009

Published December 2009

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards
Art Gallery Of Western Australia
25 July - 15 November 2009

Published December 2009

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Lora Patterson , Fiona Lee, Cath Robinson, Callan Morgan, Grant Stevens
Curator: Sarah Jones
CAST Gallery, Hobart
18 July – 9 August 2009

Published December 2009

Measuring the footprint: dead trees vs live text

Freelance writer, author of True Green @ Work and editor Tim Wallace discusses the conflict between new technologies making everything available for free and writers and content creators needing to be paid. He quotes from on a book by Kevin Kelly called New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World: 'The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.'

Published December 2009