Seed bomb

Farmer, artist, writer Kirsten Bradley who works from Milkwood Permaculture Farm near Mudgee in the high country of NSW spills the beans on how to make a seedball or seedbomb to revegetate or vegetate urban spaces around you. Like guerilla gardening, it's quick, it's quiet and it creeps up on you.

Published June 2010

Steampunk: gunpowder and cups of tea

Between 13 October 2009 and 21 February 2010, the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford held the world's first museum exhibition of Steampunk art. Writer, artist, emerging, networked and distributed culture geek Melinda Rackham was there.

Published June 2010

The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography: FotoFreo 2010

The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography: FotoFreo 2010

Silence – The West Australian Wheatbelt : Brad Rimmer
Fremantle Prison
20 March – 16 May 2010

The Clubs: David Dare Parker
The Fremantle Club
20 March – 18 April 2010

FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival

Paradise Lost: Rebecca Dagnall
Studio Red Dust, Mount Hawthorn
20 March – 10 April 2010

Published June 2010

Exhibitions to watch

Published June 2010

Renew Adelaide pilot: 2 wheels good

Zine publisher and educator Dr Ianto Ware is the Project Manager of Renew Adelaide, an urban renewal clone of Marcus Westbury's Renew Newcastle, in which the 'definition of creativity has to be broad enough to encompass the wide fields of socially innovative activity that simply doesn't fit elsewhere.'

Published June 2010

The arse-end of public art

Poet, writer and lecturer in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne Tony Birch lives near the grand enigmatic Melbourne Gateway usually seen form the airport road. He writes about its underbelly where odour and mess show it to be both fucked and beautiful.

Published June 2010

Scene, Not Herd: The evanescent underground

Chris Fleming, Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney and author of a book on Rene Girard, explores the evanescence of the underground. "Once the cultural products generated by the underground enter broader circulation (once scene becomes herd) the underground empties itself and is forced to regenerate."

Published June 2010

My own private underground: Discovery and adventure in the zine world

Published June 2010

Remembering Judith Hoffberg 1934-2009

Expert on Len Lye, editor of Umbrella Magazine Judith Hoffberg died on January 16, 2009. Tributes to her life and work continue with a memorial exhibition planned for late 2010.
Judith Hoffberg wrote of her last visit to Adelaide in 2002 as one of ‘’Paradise regained’...

Published June 2010

Before and After Science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

Curators: Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton
Art Gallery of South Australia
27 February – 2 May 2010

Published June 2010

Thirteen paragraphs on the underground

Artist/ writer, curator/designer at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation Teri Hoskin's thirteen paragraphs sum up facts, apprehensions and suspicions about the underground.

Published June 2010

Tim Burton, Filmmaker and artist

'Tim Burton: The Exhibition' is showing at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from 24 June to 10 October, 2010. The accompanying free Polaroid exhibit runs until 26 September. The program also includes live events featuring talks, gallery tours, film screenings and kids’ workshops.

Special guest Glenn D Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, will give a Keynote Address for the first time in Australia on the future of museums followed by a panel discussion on 24 June from 2pm. The Keynote Address is free but bookings are essential. See: www.acmi.net.au

Published June 2010