May 18, 2012 to July 8, 2012

The 2012 ARTECYCLE exhibition will take place 18 May 2012 to 8 July 2012.

ARTECYCLE is an annual non-acquisitive sculpture and installation competition with a prize pool of $14,000 including:

• $10,000 East Keilor & Strathmore Community Bank® Award
• $3,000 The Incinerator Gallery Award
• $1,000 Incinerator People’s Choice Award

Inspired by the Incinerator Gallery’s history, entrants are asked to explore the themes of environmentalism and sustainability using either recycled materials or materials that would otherwise be considered disposable.

Entries for the ARTECYCLE 2012 are now open.  Entry forms are available to download.

January 21, 2012 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Jacob Appelbaum, independent computer security researcher and hacker, will be visiting Australia soon, with one item on his schedule being a ‘War on the Internet’ event, scheduled for 21 January, 2012 at Trades Hall, Melbourne between 3pm and 5pm. Supported by the Australian Greens Party and Electronic Frontiers Australia, the event will have speakers “challenging gatekeepers and proposing alternatives to the weaponisation of cyberspace.”

Other speakers at the event include author and researcher Bernard Keane, author and researcher on whistleblowing Suelette Dreyfuss, and Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam.

More information here, Facebook event here

December 14, 2011 11:00 am

In March 2012 Melbourne New Folk will be hosting the MNF 31 day challenge.
The MNF 31 day challenge works on two levels and aims to promote and encourage participation in Melbourne based Grassroots communities and social, animal and environmental justice campaigns. Independent artists and arts industry.

Each day will see two new challenges, one focused on the arts and one on the campaigns, some simple and some that require a little more effort. The challenges will mainly encourage participation in and promotion of your events, products, venues, art, campaigns etc.

For more details and/or register your interest click the  “Like” on The Melbourne New Folk facebook page and comment on the wall stating that you wish to be a part of the MNF 31 day challenge.

Melbourne New Folk will then get in contact with you…

For more than 4 decades Arena has through its publications been engaged in a process of political and cultural interpretation. The shift towards a globalised high-tech society dominated by markets and finance has meant that Arena’s interpretative project has become increasingly complex and multi faceted. Much of what was once took for granted in terms of cultures, societies, identities and values is open to challenge. To be critically engaged necessarily today means to be concerned with not only politics but with science, the environment, indigenous communities, militarization, the circulation of money and peoples, the centrality of images and information and so on.

It is in this spirit that the Arena Project Space has been developed to allow for artists to engage with this emerging situation, one where both ‘art’ and what it engages with has acquired new forms and meanings, as well as new political dimensions.

2012 PROGRAM: we welcome enquiries and proposals for 2012.

More information http://www.arena.org.au/project-space/call-for-proposals/