[Reader-list] [annoucement] New stories at SIGNATURE - May 13, 2005

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May 13 2005
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*// SIGNATURE - New stories from Australia ... 
http://spinach7.com/signature/*

*No Black Faces on the Block? *
The Carr Government's plans for the rundown suburb of Redfern are yet to 
be revealed, but anyone taking a white brush to the black heart of 
Sydney is surely in for a fight. MARNI CORDELL reports on the battle for 
Redfern-Waterloo.
http://spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=408

*Viet Nam Lost and Found*
Thirty years have passed since the Viet Nam War ended on 30 April, 1975. 
In the final days of the conflict approximately 250 Vietnamese children 
were flown to Australia as part of 'Operation Babylift'. As the adoptees 
reach maturity, many are struggling to make sense of their past writes 
INDIGO WILLING.
http://spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=387

*Interrogation Techniques: Making Art about Fear*
Throughout April and May, Perth-based new media collective pvi toured 
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with their eagerly anticipated new work, 
tts. Three years in development tts - formerly terror(ist) training 
school - attracted plenty of controversy in the making of. The finished 
work deals with the complex and sensitive issue of terrorism. JANE 
LITCHFIELD submits to a 'routine' security scan, takes her recruitment 
oath, and climbs aboard.
http://spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=399

*Photo Feature: Trolleys*
by Thuy Vy
http://spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=392


*// Announcements*

*MO:LIFE - Join the Mobile Culture eNewsletter *
mo:life maps and explores how we, as a distinct culture, will produce, 
adapt, consume, buy, sell, accept, and reject new forms and uses of 
floating communication. As such, mo:life sets mobile media in an 
Australian context. Our geography, enterprises, and culture lend well to 
a mobile way of life - a mo:life.
For more: http://s7digital.com/molife/

***Vital Signs Conference - Call for Submissions (RMIT, Melbourne)*
Vital Signs is the next event in a series of annual conferences 
presented by RMIT University, School of Creative Media.  This year's 
conference will focus on the urgent issues for New Media artists 
relating to both our future and our past. We are interested in bringing 
together the key players of new media art to discover - collectively - 
new ways forward. We are interested in reading the Vital Signs. 
For more: http://www.rmit.edu.au/creativemedia/conference

*Free Play - Independent Game Developers Conference*
Free Play will cater for independent and DIY game developers, game 
modders and mappers, creatively frustrated professionals, game 
development students and digital artists from every state in Australia. 
Its aim is to bring together these communities in a forum that is 
financially reasonable, with a programme developed by the communities 
themselves.
For more: http://www.free-play.org/



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