GIRRL, 2012

GIRRL logo, 2012

GIRRL [girrlsound : digitalgirrl]

 

Electrovocal Performance: Compositional experiments in voice and electronics

The Glasshouse

Wednesday 21 March

Donna Hewitt has been creating works for voice and technology for the past 15 years, starting out with fixed media works for processed voice and developing her practice into cross media and real time performance contexts.

In this seminar Donna will talk about her compositional approaches for new performance interfaces and the challenges in creating work for the electronically extended voice.

 

GIRRL presents... Di Ball

Wednesday 18 April

The Beauty and the Geeks: art and technology collide in Istanbul

Di Ball is a multidisciplinary artist with past lives including architect, country and western singer and human statue. She spends her time juggling her Balls as she navigates the BallPark: her life as a theme park. This park includes iBall, Krystal Ball, Meet Ball and Disco Ball with various subpersona existing in both IRL (in real life) and URL (unreal life).

The BallPark straddles fact and fiction, medium and media and challenges notions of the cult of celebrity whilst remaining an examination of "self".

 

GIRRL Symposium: Excess of Sound

19 May

The Excess of Sound, hosted by GIRRL [girrlsound:digitalgirrl] in connection with QUT, will cover the contemporary expression of sound.

Artists across various disciplines will discuss how sound is placed within the discourses of agency, communication technologies, feminist and feminism studies, as well as sound technologies for the 21st century.

 

GIRRL [girrlsound : digitalgirrl] | Presentation by Susan Hawkins

22 August

GIRRL presents Susan Hawkins, a composer and sound artist currently based in Australia, who specialises in music for film and contemporary dance. In 2011 Susan released her second EP, LIGHT FROM BELOW, receiving extensive radio play on the ABC network (Radio National, Triple J, and ABC Classic FM), and community radio (through the AIRIT program). Susan is currently working with Brisbane choreographer Gareth Belling and Collusion Musical Arts on a number of cross-disciplinary projects.

 

GIRRL presents: 15 minutes...Women & Sound

17 October

GIRRL [girrlsound : digitalgirrl] supports the development and promotion of new work by women in the sonic and digital arts. GIRRL works to provide discussion, networking, and exhibition spaces to initiate collaborations and offer support to women making, curating, reviewing, theorising, and working in the digital and sonic arts.

Our final public program of the year includes four dynamic sound and digital artists - Heidi Millington, Antonia Zappia, Amber Hansen and Michelle Xen. They will present some of their work and discuss their creative practice.

 

Supported by

Griffith University Queensland ConservatoriumQUT Creative Industries Faculty (Visual ArtsMusic)Room 60Upgrade! International

 

GIRRL is part of an international network of gatherings concerning art, technology and culture. Its aim is to provide networking opportunities, project generation, exhibition space, testing and showcasing of work in progress, collaboration, support and discussion for women curating, making, theorizing and working in the digital and sonic arts.

Majena Mafe is founder of GIRRL Girrlsound : digitalgirrl (Australia)