fAf January - February 2003 BLACKOUT: INDIGENOUS NEW MEDIA ARTS COLLECTIVE fineArt forum = art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org http://www.cdes.qut.edu.au/fineart_online 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 . . . . . SUBSCRIBE To subscribe to fineArt forum: Send an email message to: mailserv@qut.edu.au with the following text in the message: subscribe fineartforum To unsubscribe - the first line of your email should read: unsubscribe fineartforum GOT NEWS?? Send it to editor@fineartforum.org MORE INFO Nisar Keshvani: editor@fineartforum.org Linda Carroli: l2.carroli@qut.edu.au MISSION fineArt forum is a free, not-for-profit news and information service exploring the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology. fAf aims to inform new media arts and technology communities worldwide of the latest events, developments and opportunities. fineArt forum is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body http://www.ozco.gov.au. Additional support is provided by QUT Communication Design Department, School of Film and Media Studies - Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore and Mississippi State University. fAf is produced on behalf of the Art, Science and Technology Network (ASTN) http://www.astn.net. fAf and Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) are strategic partners. LEA is an online peer-reviewed journal published at MIT Press for the Leonardo Network http://www.leonardo.info.