The Edge | Digital Culture Centre

Staples World Tour

Friend of The Edge and independent publishing extraordinaire/zinester from way back Jeremy Staples has been traipsing around Japan for the last few weeks meeting with as many cool people as he can.

Beh Wattenburg—Electrickster

I’m interested in playing with energy. I want to use art to explore some of the ideas and information that we are being blasted with by the media.
I want to find a way for art to address the current state of play with energy resources – we are running out, it’s getting expensive, we are [...]

Multi-everything journalism

4–6pm Tuesday 3 August 2010
Who: Stephen Stockwell, Edge Catalyst
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
Bookings: book.it@edgeqld.org.au
The internet changed journalism. When profits fell staff cuts ensued and for a while it all seemed rather bleak.
But with the capabilities of the internet being realised we’re beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. The platform [...]

Cine Sparks Gala Opening Night

7:30–9:30pm Wednesday 28 July 2010
Where: Auditorium and River Lounge, The Edge
Book: cinesparks@screenqld.com.au
First there’s a screening at GOMA and then there’s a party over here at The Edge.

Image from Dear Lemon Lima

Rating 3.00 out of 5

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Cine Sparks workshop: digital video and sound

10am–12pm Saturday 31 July 2010
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Who: Andrew Gibbs
Book: cinesparks@screenqld.com.au
Come along and explore the possibilities of working with digital video and sound. In this workshop we will produce and re-mix an audiovisual collage from scratch.
Learn skills in filming, editing, sound production, VJing and animation and become a super-star-audiovisual-ninja-attack-robot. No experience necessary.

Rating 3.00 out [...]

Net Art Spreading and WTFing of WTFers.

Being a net artist can be a painfully alone experience. The screen is your only light source, and your half-dressed and food stained appearance is at odds with the glorious digital creatures you birth. And yet sometimes, when you released an artwork into the net, its electric propeller spinning fast, rudders chaotically shifting, the artwork [...]

Virion Mash-up Exhibition

When: 19 July – 1 August 2010
Where: The Edge, Bay 5

Virion is a screen-based digital art exhibition with works being played at variety of sites around Brisbane—including The Edge—until 1 August 2010.
Each screen around town will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represent a wide and integrated range of local and international [...]

We live in a world with a 24-hour news culture

We live in a world with a 24-hour news culture. If something happens, anywhere, we’re often not further than a couple of hours off hearing about it. But is this a good or a bad thing? Does the constant barrage of information mean we’re more informed, or just more confused?
Examples of this ‘breaking news’ culture [...]

music: Saturday 24th July

tunnel, sodium-vapour, plants, concrete, artists…