"Hi Everyone! We are pleased to announce that the new Creative Commons website has gone live and you can now download the latest cc-au animations, learn more about the licenses and the project, and receive progressive updates on what we're doing, as well as get the latest news on prominent and upcoming Australian Creative Commons users. Please, let us know what you think of the new site, and any suggestions you have for improvement. In January this year the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, hosted the Open Content Licensing Symposium: Cultivating the Creative Commons conference on Gardens Point campus in the city's CBD. It was a symposium on the latest developments for the future of distributing, developing and negotiating rights in digital content. Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head, School of Law and co-project leader of the Australian Creative Commons movement was instrumental in arranging Lawrence Lessig's visit to Brisbane. Lawrence remarked that he was "thrilled to be working with Queensland University of Technology", and that, "Australia will be a vital participant in bringing the international Cultural Commons to fruition". Lawrence felt that the conference was the "best we've seen". We are very happy to announce that the video logs of the conference are now available. The video streams are licensed under the Creative Commons Australian Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.1 license. You can find these video logs on the new site." Nic Suzor. Find a link to the Creative Commons site under Resources at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm

"Call for papers, Fibreculture Journal, New media, networks and new pedagogies (2006) :: fibreculture :: has established itself as Australasia's leading forum for discussion of internet theory, culture, and research. The Fibreculture Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. Papers are invited for the New media, networks and new pedagogies issue of the Fibreculture Journal, to be published in early 2006. This issue will be guest edited by Adrian Miles. It is easy to argue that much of the rhetoric attached to new media and the internet in relation to pedagogy has mistaken quantity for quality. It has been a conversation that has confused the qualitative changes that our new conceptions of media, knowledge, and networks afford with the quantitative changes beloved of those who confuse teaching and learning with instruction and consumption. These new qualities are the differences between the vector and commodity, blogs and books. However, imagine if our universities had been invented now. What would pedagogy be? What form would teaching and learning take? What would count as knowledge? Expertise? What forms would this knowledge take? Taking this as a departure this issue of the Fibreculture Journal invites those working in new media, internet studies, education, and cognate disciplines to discuss the strengths and celebrate the possibilities that new media and its networks affords teaching and learning. The emphasis in this issue is not on the criticism or description of existing models and paradigms but to invite the exploration and celebration of new possibilities, real or imagined. What new knowledge formations should there be? How would they be taught? How could they assessed (if at all)? What critical academic work, and in what forms, would our students be producing? Submissions are welcomed in any relevant format, including essay, hypertext, interactive time based media, projects, or imaginary annotated curricula. Please send abstracts or enquiries to Guest Editor Adrian Miles adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au  with "fibreEducation" as the subject header. Alternative material (eg interviews, curricula, interactive work, podcasts) are all able to be considered for publication and are welcomed. Abstracts and proposals should no be no longer than 500 words and must outline the relevance of the key ideas, methodology and format. Abstracts due: October 14, 2005. Responses to authors: November 14th 2005. Final work due: February 6, 2005. There are guidelines for the format and submission of contributions on the Fibreculture site." Dr Andrew Murphie - Senior Lecturer School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Executive Editor; the Fibreculture Journal. Find a link to Fibreculture under On-Line Journals at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm 

"Future TV Workshop headed by Raimo Lang, October 4 - 10 2005. 2005 venue: Academy for TV and Film, Munich, Germany. Workshop language: English. In this creative workshop participants will develop fiction concepts for ITV in teams. The workshop will in the first place focus on the exploration of the potential for interactive, participatory TV programme enabled by combining traditional broadcast with mobile and/or internet applications. The training is aiming in the first place at professionals (developers, writers, producers, designers, programmers, artists, researchers...) coming from MEDIA member countries. Applicants coming from other countries please contact the sagas office for details. There is a limited budget available for travel and/or hotel funding. In case you need to apply for this please make sure to contact the sagas office before September 20. Sagas writing interactive fiction is a non-profit training initiative in the frame of the Media Plus Programme of the EU and is aiming at furthering innovative story-based content creation for interactive media. Sagas writing interactive fiction workshops are intense, hands-on, inspiring: effective think tanks and cross-disciplinary networking platforms. More details and application forms available on the web site." Best Regards, Brunhild Bushoff. Find a link to the Future TV Workshop under Workshops at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm

"WA Spring Poetry Festival 2005 is now on with a jam-packed spring poetry month here in WA, including celebrations for National Poetry Week. So far, there are over 50 events planned during the Festival. If you're into poetry performance, world poetry, a poetry challenge, sub verse, poetry readings, poetry on the page, on the walls, in the park, poet trees or guerrilla poetry, this Festival is for you. The Festival celebrates poetry's relationship with the public and public spaces. There's an event to suit most tastes. And next year will be even bigger! We are building relationships with interstate poetry festival networks. We want to make WA Spring Poetry Festival a part of the broader national poetry festival circuit. To get details of all the events, and to register your interest in reading/performing poetry and having your poems displayed, check out the website." Maureen Sexton. Find a link to the WA Spring Poetry Festival under Festivals at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm

"October Under The Southern Cross, Friday 29th September to Sunday 2nd - Australia's National Storytelling Festival, Perth, WA. Includes the Poets and Yarnspinners Breakfast, on Sunday 2nd October, 8 am to 9.30 am. Theme: Storytelling on the Edge. At Point Walter Recreation and Conference Centre, 1 Stock Rd, Bicton. For more information  check out the website." Mabel Kaplan. Find a link to the National Storytelling Festival under Festivals at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm  

"Hello Alan, This week at the Brisbane Writers Festival things are really starting to hot up as we enter the final straight. The finishing touches are being put on the special events but we're excited to tell you that the masterclasses that were such a success in 2004 are back! You also still have ample time to enter the Writesmall micro-fiction competition and register for Speed BookMatch, our 'speed-dating' event for hopeful book club members. In this week's e-bulletin you can also read about esteemed guests Anne Giardini, Ian Townsend & John Misto plus, don't miss the chance to win a free copy of N A Bourke's new book 'The True Green of Hope'. Early birds will find the Books on Toast literary breakfasts a great way to spend time with the writers. And the Brisbane Writers festival continues it strong ongoing commitment to promoting and supporting Indigenous writing with its gutsy, bold and contemporary Indigenous program that includes Premier Beattie giving the welcome. " Find a link to the Brisbane Writers Festival under Festivals at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm

"Between Worlds - Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia, 6-11 October 2005. The lush Balinese mountain village of Ubud, the artistic heartland of one of the world's richest and most hospitable cultures, will host the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival from 6 to 11 October 2005. This year's festival theme "Between Worlds" emerged from discussions at the inaugural 2004 event, where issues of cross-cultural identity, inter-faith experience, and global-local interface in matters of language and literature were repeatedly raised by authors juggling modern versus traditional ways, caught between religious or geographical borders or simply straddling two or more cultures. This years diverse and exciting program brings together writers, actors, dancers, filmmakers and photographers from the Southeast Asian region as well as other parts of the globe. Poetry and prose readings by some of the world's most renowned authors will be complemented by public discussions, debates on literary and political topics, long literary lunches, challenging workshops, informative panels, world-class theatre, astonishing traditional dance, and cool jazz. There's something for lovers of every style and genre of writing: novels, poetry, zines, plays, film, hip hop, song lyrics, journalism and teen lit. Sessions cover publishing, translation, erotica, food, travel, activism, spirituality, indigenous cultures and languages and much more. Enjoy dances by world-renowned Indonesia performers, an exhibition by some of the region's most courageous photojournalists and, above all, the warmth and generosity of the people of Ubud. You can see the full program, guest list, articles, press releases and photo gallery on our web site  . 'This Festival is a creative and practical way to bring healing to Bali, build cultural links and promote local development and literacy,' says Janet De Neefe, the Festival Director. The Festival has been organized under the auspices of the non-profit Saraswati Foundation for the Arts, an organization devoted to literacy, education, and the cultivation of art and literary cultural collaboration between east and west." Hal Judge, PR Director. Find a link to the Ubud Writers Festival under Festivals at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm  

"E-Poetry 2005: an International Digital Poetry Festival in London, UK. Wednesday, 28 September - Saturday, 1 October 2005. Hosted by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC), Birkbeck College, London & supported by the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), Department of Media Study & Poetics Program, State University of New York. E-Poetry 2005 is both a conference and festival, dedicated to showcasing the best talent in digital poetry and poetics from around the world. E-Poetry combines both a high-level academic conference and workshop, examining growing trends in this young and emergent art form, with a festival of the latest and most exciting work from both established and new practitioners. The festival is scheduled to take place at Birkbeck College, University of London, with performances at the ICA, Tate Modern and other important London venues. There will be performances by numerous leading digital poets with guest appearances from major literary figures, as well as installations and exhibits throughout the week. Please check out the web site for further information." Festival Organizers: Loss Pequeqo Glazier & Piers Hugill, with the assistance of John Cayley. Find a link to the E-Poetry Festival site under Festivals at www.artmedia.com.au/links1.htm

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