metagraffiti - film

Trailer

Metagraffiti is a book/dvd that collects more than 20 short films from all over the world. With two long essays about graffitifilm and a running time of over 120 minutes Meta Graffiti is a vibrant testimony of the development of todays graffiti art. These short films are about and featuring graffiti. Humour and playfulness are in focus. These are films by people close to graffiti culture. Many of the film ease up the difference between graffiti and street art. Where street art has successfully used graffitis main communication space — the public place — the directors borrow from the constant ability to change that street art enjoys. The films of Metagraffiti certainly test the framework of graffiti, but maintain the important elements of style and mischief. As a medium, film is closer to other art forms rather than the wild, unkempt lettering jazz that the institutional art world discards.

Playlist
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D6BA8117D2DD2B10&search_query=metagraffiti

Play all 15 videos
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D6BA8117D2DD2B10&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL

May's - Jumbo & Zap

MAY’S is excited to present ‘Panic Attack – Monster City’ – the collaborative work of Jumbo and Zap; two artists who endeavor to transform Sydney’s monotonous, drab billboards and hoardings into bright screens of menacing comic-style characters.

'The journey that Zap has undertaken is one of time and space, seeing way into the future to the megatropolis here monsters are flying in spaceships. Jumbo, in contrast, has taken the path of the people who inhabit the mega city, with paranoia and panic overtaking the airwaves. The alias JUMBO was created in 2003 as a result of a head collision-on with the art establishment. After the shock of seeing what was possible in the public domain I quickly made a beeline for some big scale poster paper and paint. The characters were comic and pop art, but the subject was and always will be freestyle and experimental. I have put up posters in the UK, Europe and Sydney.'
- Jumbo

ZAP is one of Sydney's more prolific and unique street artists. His work contains influences from 1970's graffiti, sci-fi imagery, abstraction and a distinctive colour palette. ZAP has shown at various galleries and institutions around Australia.

‘I was in various street gangs from the age of 10. I had to steal sometimes to eat - it was tough. That's where my passion for graffiti and skateboarding grew - I never fitted the sporty stereotype. Always into creative pursuits, I have developed a style which is unique. Psychedelic abstract forms, shapes and spaceships are symbols of my journeys through time and space.’
- Zap

Panic Attack - Monster City
An Exhibition of Poster Art, by JUMBO and ZAP

OPENING: 6-8PM FRIDAY 6th NOVEMBER, 2009

Please keep the date free to join us for this special event!!

http://www.mays.org.au/

May's artists
http://www.mays.org.au/artists.htm

Dr D - Zoo Tv

That's one cool byrd.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKBayevUcS4
Dr D is the Hip Hop penguin from Life's a Zoo.tv

Subject Index - October 2009

The Aviary
Editorial- half a million hits
Featured on Artist Career
Subject Index - September 2009

Artists/Exhibitions
Blakkbyrd - Interview
Kaldor and Christo
JR in Paris - Interview
John De Burgh Perceval
Frederick McCubbin - NGA
Cai Guo-Qiang - Guggenheim
Art Forum Berlin 2009
Biennale of Sydney 2010
Pop Life - Tate Modern
Drewfunk - Melbourne
Ladies First - Rotterdam

Printmaking
Romantic Prints - AGNSW
John Ryrie - Melbourne
Pøbel and Dolk - Norway
Deborah Williams - Sydney

Theory
OHS - Studio safety

Resources
De Appel - Amsterdam

New Media
Picnic 09 - Amsterdam

Copyright/Appropriation
Web 2.0 Copyright
Intellectual Property Colloquium Podcasts
Shepard Fairey - Obama discussion

Books
Artists’ Book website

Graffiti/ Urban Art
KMDG Amsterdam - video
GS38 - Melbourne Old School
Alley Oop

Sport
Bathurst 1000 - early 1980's
Bathurst 1000 - 1970s
Bathurst 500 - Early years

Film/animation
Blu and David Ellis

Shepard Fairey - Obama discussion

Interesting discussion from the Intellectual Property Colloquium on the Shepard Fairey v Associated Press Obama Poster case.

Of special interest to any street artist re-mixing media images.

full details/listen online/or download podcast here

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/8.html

GS38 - Melbourne Old School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fO2YP7xDys

The Grand Sorcerer Thirty-Eight (GS38) was the original Hip Hop graffitist in Melbourne, Australia. Painting from 1984 to 1986, with a brief comeback in 1988, he was the author of The Future Four and Wild Boyz crews. WildStyle inspired 'GS38' was the first piece in inner Melbourne.

Drewfunk - Melbourne

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewfunk/

http://drewfunk.com/

http://www.myspace.com/drewfunkyou

"Melbourne is considered the capital of Australian graffiti art ...  Several alleyways are now declared public art spaces. Melbourne is particularly rich in laneways and the ones off Bourke Street Mall and Collins Street are now popular tourist attractions. These were the subject of a French documentary, Melbourne Ink, which featured the work of several local artists who are now starting to be collected.  One of the most prominent is Drewfunk.

Born in Malaysia, he studied multimedia and design at RMIT University, working as a professional designer before he decided to become a full-time artist. His style reflects his Asian heritage as well as his background as a graffiti artist, although he is now recognised enough to hold exhibitions in serious galleries."

full article at the Age 

more 

Coming up

Web 2.0 Copyright

User-generated content & Web 2.0

websites:  March 2009

From The Australian Copyright Council

http://www.copyright.org.au/

In this information sheet we give an overview of copyright issues that apply when website proprietors invite

people visiting their site to create or post user-generated content (UGC). Popular examples include:

• social networking sites (such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter);

• image/photo/film-sharing sites (for example, YouTube, Shutterfly and Flickr);

• blog sites that invite comments and responses;

• information sources (such as Wikipedia);

• game and virtual reality sites (such as Second Life); and

• entrepreneurial ventures with UGC elements (such as book, CD and travel sites which invite customers to

post reviews).

We particularly focus on the issues a website proprietor needs to be aware of when setting up such a site.

Information sheet:

User-generated content & Web 2.0 websites

Bathurst 1000 - early 1980's

V8 supercar drivers telling us about the bathurst track


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uja5ZTMFHgA
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1980

1980 Hardie Ferodo 1000 Mt Panorama Bathurst


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWEWiluUs3k
Part 1 only

TRU BLU XD Falcon & the Rock @ Bathurst 1980



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQMxW80ZETQ

the rock - what really happened


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQ5k2V_rsU

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1981 Bathurst 1000 Hardies Heroes Top Ten Shootout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Z40mMDAyk


Bathurst 1000 1981 Opening laps: great duel between Dick Johnson Peter Brock Kevin Bartlett and Bob Morris



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zcP66UNfr0

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1983 Bathurst 1000 Hardies Heroes Top Ten Shootout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNxGjLI2QA

1983
go here to see the complete 1983 race


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1984

Bathurst 1984 Hardies Heroes Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvSEjHEX9xk

Bathurst 1000 - 1970s

1972 Peter Brock and the XU1 Torana



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOa9NSUSUL0


1974



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xanv9baKtSM

1977 opening laps



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzcRJ4E4NTo

1979 Peter Brock Hardies heroes lap



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5JkiaXGCbo

1979 Peter Brock wins



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBL06He4AKI

Bathurst 500 - Early years

October long weekend = Bathurst. But not this year, apparently its next weekend. So I thought we could look at some previous years.
500 miles, 7 hours of endurance racing in Australian conditions.

1960's

1967 highlights part 1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtVDvORrddU

1967 part 2



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxDK45esfI

1968 part 1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5ZVAMRmZ0

1968 part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhP1aSD6uS4

1969 part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWAfqd2kxk

1969 part 2 isnt there

Subject Index - September 2009

The Aviary
400,000 hits
Editorial
Subject Index - August 2009
Print Australia on Facebook
Urban Art/Graffiti Subject Index 2009

Artists / Exhibitions
Judy Chicago
Fiona Tan
Martin Sastre - London
10th Biennale de Lyon
Beuys - Turkey
CCP - Melbourne
Primavera - MCA - Sydney
Melbourne Fringe 2009
Renew Newcastle
Sketch the Rhyme - Sketch City
What's On 1 - Melbourne
Obey - Canberra
Rita Angus - NZ
CCP - Melbourne
Biennale de Lyon - Photos
Damon Kowarsky - Melbourne

Theory
Melbourne's Laneways
Cartrain & Hirst - part 2, pencils

Urban/Graffiti
Urban Art Agenda #3 - Melbourne
The London Police - Interview
Space Invader Interview
Dont Ban the Can
Greek Graffiti
Tiquestar
DOLK
Nuart 09
FAME Festival - Italy
Word to Mother Interviews
Dont Ban the Can - Photos
Until Never

Books
Frieze magazine
Mirror of the World - SLV
ANAT - Filter magazine online
Kings Way - Melbourne

New Media
Artefact - New Media Festival
Julius Popp
Urban Hacking - Vienna
CHart - UK

Printmaking
Impact 6 - 2009
PCA - Commissioned Prints 2009

Resources
Art Almanac - Melbourne

Alley Oop

Alley Oop party is going down this Friday!
Come and dance to some of our favorite DJ’s. Watch live graff painting in the smoking palour and check out Melbourne’s best street artists go nuts with fresh paste ups in the stairwell.

Who:
DJ’s: Kodiac Kid, D-stract, Louis can cut, Mz Butt, Wasabi, DJ Sim, Debiest.
MC’s: MC Squared & Mc Whisper.
Live Street Graffiti Painters: Deams & Adnate.
Feature: Street Art Paste ups by: Ha Ha, Ghostpatrol, ACORN, Braddock, Deams, Adnate, Nielio, Meggs and Tooth.

What: A freaking good time, dancing, jiving, watching live art ,drinking and who know what else.

When: This Friday 2nd October

Where: Roxanne Parlour, 3 Coverlid Pl Melbourne 3000
map

Blu and David Ellis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uad17d5hR5s

a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
year 2009
http://www.blublu.org
http://www.davidellis.org
produced by studio cromie
http://www.studiocromie.org
music by Roberto Lange
http://www.robertolange.com
made at Fame festival 2009
http://www.famefestival.it

Urban Hacking - Vienna

paraflows 09 – Festival for Digital Art and Cultures
10. - 20. September 2009

Festival Opening / 10.09.2009, 7 pm
Container Installation, Karlsplatz/Resselpark,
Close-by Otto Wagner Pavillon, Straßenbahnhaltestelle Karlsplatz

The city of Vienna has a long tradition of interventions and actions in the public space. With this year’s topic URBAN HACKING, the fourth paraflows festival continues this artistic investigation of the public and urban space of living. What is more, paraflows 09 will shed light on the role played by digital media when it comes to exploring, questioning, and shaping the urban infrastructure.

Exhibition URBAN HACKING

A container village designed especially for paraflows at Karlsplatz will provide the space for the exhibition URBAN HACKING, which will connect the Künstlerhaus, the Karlskirche, and the project space, and thereby unite the historic with the contemporary. More than 30 national and international positions of digital art and cultures as well as the artistic strategies connected therewith shed light on current and older tendencies of interacting with the public space.What will be put on display are projects on use and intervention, on hacking and setting up the urban public. A focus will thereby be laid on the possibilities “urban hacking” offers for the redesign of public space.

The net, as public infrastructure with its individual elements, possibilities, and mechanisms, has become integral to social communication and extended the public space via hyperspace. How these two parallel layers of reality are organized and impact the individual’s freedom of movement is one of the questions to be answered by paraflows 09 URBAN HACKING.

Symposium URBAN HACKING
Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity.

The three-day program of the symposium corresponds to the thematic priorities Urban, Hacking, and Risk. The panel Urban discusses the city as cultural venue, whereas the second the panel, Hacking, investigates the origin, structures, and evolutionary elements of the multi-faceted notion “hacking.” The third and final day will be dedicated to questions of risk, for instance when one – for artistic or philosophical reasons – transgresses boundaries, as well as question pertaining to gender in the given context. The symposium also will serve as a copula between the exhibition and the workshops and will be accompanied by movie screenings and theatre plays.

more
http://www.paraflows.at/index.php?id=113&L=1

symposium livestream (german)
Livestream: http://www.ustream.com/channel/raumd

Artists/Exhibition
http://www.paraflows.at/index.php?id=121&L=1

Dont Ban the Can - Photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XfPnPjsViU







The Croft Alley Project - on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128615072524

The Photos on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dontbanthecan/

see earlier post
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2009/09/dont-ban-can.html

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Yes guys, in Australia the chicks paint topless...

I can see you all scrabbling for plane tickets.. grin

Until Never

OPENING NIGHT
On September 30 Until Never will host a special live performance by Ikko Taniuchi, from 6 to 9pm.
Featuring live accompanying performance by PIG & MACHINE (Osaka/Melbourne).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSPXRKPq218



UNTIL NEVER
2ND FLR 3-5 HOSIER LANE
(Enter from Rutledge Lane)
MELBOURNE VICTORIA 3000
AUSTRALIA
+61 3 9663 0442

more info
http://www.untilnever.net/projects/enogu-buto

on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/citylightsprojects?ref=ss#/untilnever

Urban Art Agenda #3 - Melbourne

Urban Art Agenda #3
This unique showcase brings together artists from around the globe including:

A1one (Tehran), David Soukup (Chicago), ELK (Canberra), El Moocho (Melbourne), HaHa (Melbourne), Izolag (Salvador), Jana and JS (Salzburg), Jef Aerosol (Lille), Kenji Nakayama (Boston), Mandarina Brausewetter (Vienna), M-City (Gdynia), Orticanoodles (Milan), Ozi (São Paulo), Penny (London), Skran (Lisboa), XOOOOX (Berlin)
http://www.urbanartagenda.com.au/artists

http://www.urbanartagenda.com.au/



FamousWhenDead Gallery
24 September - 11 October, 2009
207 Victoria St, West Melbourne, VIC

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=137649993415&ref=nf

Opening
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 6:00pm

Sketch the Rhyme - Sketch City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii-3YhnuHsk

Sketch the Rhyme : Freestyle rap meets Speed Drawing. This video is from a performance at Underbelly Festival, Carriage Works, Sydney, 2008. All freestyles and drawing is improvised.

MC's - Rapaport, P Smurf, Peach, Jeswon, Gabi, Bravo. Artists - Creon, Edgarr, Tony G, Clare N, Pauly G, Jason H, Band - The phonies.

www.myspace.com/sketchtherhyme

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Who: Rumpunch presesent Sketch the Rhyme, The Phonies, MonkFly & Super Info

What: Sketchy, Hip Hop live show

When: Saturday 26 September 2009

Where: Dazzeland (Home of Sketch City) 25 Eastment St, Northcote 3070

more info
http://www.sketchcity.com.au/category/events/

ANAT - Filter magazine online

First published as the ANAT Bulletin in July 1988, Filter has been informing and inspiring a global network of artists, designers, curators, researchers, writers, educators and creative and research organisations for over two decades.

Now in its 11th year, Filter is becoming even more interactive, with the launch of the online Filter site. Produced as a partner to our print version, it is designed to allow for more open communication from and with you, our audience.

We hope this space will become an active and sharing online community where the dialogue initiated by the articles will live on….

Each issue is guest edited and thematically investigates an area of emerging practice or an art form of the future, exploring the new creativities which are occurring across community, culture and industry. Filter also keeps you up to date with the latest news from each of ANAT’s Core program areas.

http://filter.anat.org.au/