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Off to Perth again

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• By:Maxine
• November 12, 2007
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Isn’t it funny how you will have never been to a par­tic­u­lar city in your life, and then you find your­self going there twice in just a few months?

I had a great time check­ing out Perth and Margaret River back in August when the good peo­ple from Western Australian Web Awards were kind enough to ask me to be a judge, and then fly me over for the awards night.

I def­i­nitely wanted to get back and check out the city a bit more, but hadn’t thought the oppor­tu­nity would present itself so soon. Then via Nick Cowie’s blog, I read about Byte Me! — a very cool look­ing fes­ti­val of dig­i­tal con­tent hap­pen­ing in Perth from December 2 – 9. I’m always inter­ested in art on the dig­i­tal fron­tiers, and have been think­ing a bit about the inter­sec­tion of what we still call “new media” (though that term always gives me a wry grin) and what we in the web world call Web 2.0. And I’m an impul­sive per­son, so I booked a flight.

I’m espe­cially excited about see­ing Solu — who’s going to be doing a free Live Cinema per­for­mance at a yet to be dis­closed CBD loca­tion at dusk on Saturday December 1. Keep an eye on the blog for details. If you’ve never seen any live cin­ema (I haven’t), I think it sounds like some­thing to check out. From Solu’s site:

Live Cinema today stands for the simul­ta­ne­ous cre­ation of sound and image in real time by sonic and visual artists who col­lab­o­rate on equal terms and with elab­o­rate con­cepts. The tra­di­tional para­me­ters of nar­ra­tive cin­ema are expanded by a much broader con­cep­tion of cin­e­mato­graphic space, the focus of which is no longer the pho­to­graphic con­struc­tion of real­ity as seen by the camera’s eye, or lin­ear forms of nar­ra­tion. The term “Cinema” is now to be under­stood as embrac­ing all forms of con­fig­ur­ing mov­ing images, begin­ning with the ani­ma­tion of painted or syn­thetic images.

There’s a whole heap of great free and paid for events on the pro­gram — good old Perth, punch­ing above it’s weight yet again :)

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