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Media Lab Melbourne

May 29, ’12 12:18 PM

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Media Lab Melbourne offers intensive workshops, lectures, exhibition opportunities, local and international networking, plus skill sharing between artists, designers, scientists, couturiers, performers, players, crafters and creatives.

New technologies and electronic media are likely to provide both the causes and solutions to our problems of the future. Understanding their relation to people and culture will be vital for a successful, modern society. As technologies are increasingly absorbed into the fabric of everyday life, the imperative for creative thinkers to address the technological influx from a critical perspective will become paramount.

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Unconstrained Sprint 

The Sprints: the events where the the ideas come to life: 8 days of production + 1 day exhibition.

The sprint will begin with a presentation of the theme and of each selected project. Sprints will run over two weekends and the week in between. On the final Sunday each project will be presented and the outcomes discussed. All projects will be documented on the Media Lab Melbourne site. We are open to all manner of collaborations.
Having an enormous lab in the heart of Collingwood with an ever growing number of facilities including laser cutter, 3D printer, 3D scanner, industrial sewing facility, sound booths, electronics and all manner of tools to work with metals and wood.

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Unconstrained Sprint 

Media Lab Melbourne was founded by Pierre Proske, Tim Devine and
Jesse Stevens.
More information here

SPRINT #4 ANTISCREEN
21-29 July

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Media Lab Melbourne will be leading an intensive 9 day workshop on unconventional, novel and subverted light imagery techniques. We are looking to break out of the constraints that conventional screens and classic aspect ratio framing bind us. Projection is light transformed into meaning – this is the baseline we will be working from. Unusual projection masks, pinhole cameras, shadow plays, projection mappings, alternative light displays – we are open to any projects within the scope of our proposal. The final day of the Sprint will involve a showcase of projects developed during the period.

Applicants from diverse creative and technical backgrounds are welcome
as usual.

The Antiscreen sprint will be held between the 21st-29th July, and will launch on Saturday the 21st July at 10:30am.

The venue for the event will be Seventh Gallery – 155 Gertrude Street,  Fitzroy.

Click here to apply

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Made In The Now

May 2, ’12 12:29 PM

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Made in the Now (MITN) are an online t-shirt design studio/retail store, which was launched in mid-2011. The designs are created every 24 hours by Australian and international designers and illustrators; the designs are based around current news stories of the day. DG had a quick chat with them about how it all comes together.

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DG -  How did MITN start?
MITN – We’re the brainchild of Josephmark, a leading Australian design studio. We launched as a peaceful protest against some unfortunate hallmarks of the fashion industry – derivative design, mass consumption and irresponsible production. What started as a ‘can we make a tee each day?’ challenge has turned into a passion project run by people who love design.

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DG – Could you describe the process as to how the shirts are created?
MITN – It’s thrilling! In an enjoyable heart-racing sort of way. Every morning, fans of MITN can vote via Facebook for the story they most want to see on that day’s tee. The designer then has under five hours to create a covetable design fit for a t-shirt. The end result goes live every day at 2.00pm (Brisbane, Australia time) and is only available to buy for 24 hours, before we do it all over again! A new day, a different story, a fresh designer and design to boot.
We practice responsible fast fashion, whereby we print our t-shirts locally and only after they’ve been ordered (thus avoiding wastage). We then post out our tees worldwide for free, using reusable packaging.

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DG – Where can we find the shirts?
MITN – You can buy them through the website or via our free iPhone app. Sometimes we’ll hold a special flash sale, opening our back catalogue of shirts and Facebook competitions pop up now and again, so keep your eyes peeled.

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The Lindström Effect

May 2, ’12 11:47 AM

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The Lindström Effect (Iain & Vala) create astute designs working out of a small apartment in London. Designing pieces like: the ‘Hadron- the flat pack particle accelerator’ the Hadron Collider – if made by IKEA, the ‘Periodic Table – Wooden Blocks – U, Ni, V, Er, Se’ set, plus the ‘Entomological’ and ‘Ornithological’ illustration series, with clear and undeviating visual effect.

In their beginning Iain and Vala studied photography before moving onto the more interdisciplinary approach they utilise today. The change came after visiting a bookshop called ‘Analogue Books’ in Edinburgh where the owners noticed knitted wrist cuffs made by Vala. Iain explains, “they suggested to us they could stock them, they needed packaging for them so we just began drawing pictures for the boxes they came in”.

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ENTOMOLOGY STUDIES
“These came about when we came up with an idea to make a black beetle that would be displayed in the same way a museum would. They were originally going to be made from black paper and in 3D. While we were looking for references for the beetle we realised their amazing colours, and so that led us to adding in the coloured stripes. We did a series of them so you can buy a set and display them like a bug collection. I think the 3D paper ones will be something we’ll still do in the future”.
See all the Entomology Studieshere

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“We’re huge fans of the IKEA instructions, and we both love making up flat packs. We had read about IKEA making flat pack houses and wondered if they came with the same instructions. It would be hilarious to see a 2000 page IKEA instruction manual, checking to see if you have all the nuts and bolts. The Hadron Collider was on the news and it seemed the most extreme thing to make, so would suit the IKEA instructions. The cover of the zine is actually an IKEA lamp-shade that looked ever so vaguely like the Hadron.”
Hadron – the flat pack particle accelerator zine can be found here

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PERIODIC TABLE – WOODEN BLOCKS – U, Ni, V, Er, Se
A set of 5 handmade wooden blocks decorated with the periodic elements.
Closer look at their store here

See their site here
The Lindström Effect blog here

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