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Kate Mitchell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFTPKgi1lm0

Artwork listings on Artabase

Hey everyone,

We’re looking for some test users for the new Artwork listing feature we’re currently building.

The first ten users to respond on this thread can have free Artwork listings on Artabase!

New Website Features

Hi everyone.

You can now click on the name of a person who has made a comment on the discussion board, to get through to their user profile.

This should make it easier to respond to people who have left comments on your page.

James Makin Gallery

Hi James Makin Gallery.

You can now add exhibitions to your Gallery profile for only $10 a month.

More info here:
http://www.artabase.net/about/event_basic

Website Status

Hi Everyone

We’ve recently moved to a new web server as the old one was getting a bit slow.

There will be a few configuration errors on the new server, so please post any that you note here in case we haven’t found them yet.

The first we’ve noticed is a URL redirect error if you try to post a new exhibition, it will be fixed as soon as possible.

Artist Studios for rent in Melbourne

Don’t know! Have sent a message to Mark at BSG asking…

Artists of the week

Featured in our weekly email newsletter:

Ken Smith

Bernhard Hopfengärtner

You can check out the email archives here

Art Wiki

Hi All

We’re launching a new art wiki at http://artwiki.artabase.net

Anyone can apply to contribute, but it’s a bit different to WikiPedia in that we won’t be letting just anyone edit any page.

We’d love to archive any artistic material on there, so if you’ve got old catalogue texts or articles that you want preserved online, please send them through.

We’re looking for people to become special editors, for example if you want to manage a page listing artist run galleries, or pottery artists in the UK, or basically whatever you can think of, then please drop us a line using the support link at the bottom of the page and let us know.

Love to hear your feedback!

Michaela Gleave

Watch a video of Michaela’s performance on the blog.

http://blog.artabase.net/?p=3135

Artist profile on this site - location details?

Hello Adam

Actually you can’t at the moment! We’re currently rebuilding the location stuff, it may be a little while before it’s working for artists again.

Apologies in the mean time, and I’ll update you here when it’s ready.

Dead Artists

Congratulations. You managed to spam our site. Well done.

Also you may like to familiarise yourself with our terms of use.

Website Updates

Artists and galleries by name, returns 100 items in the list.

Use the dropdown on the artists or galleries pages to change to the name-only list.

Dead Artists

We can now support updating the artist profiles to show that they aren’t currently working, because they are dead.

Here’s an example: http://www.artabase.net/artist/1671-wolfgang-sievers

However we won’t automatically know if all artists are dead or not, so please use this thread to tell us of any artists who you know are dead. We’ll update their profile to reflect the year of death.

The Solo Show, open call for artists

Artabase users can avoid the late entry fee.

Art Gallery of South Australia

Southeast Asian Art Gallery Collection renamed to the Michael Abbott Gallery

Yakumo Honjin - Melbourne, Cairns and Sydney tour

Review of the West Space performance

Lyon Housemuseum

Lyon Housemuseum wins Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture at the 2010 Victorian Architecture Awards

I’m Fine

The mugs are now available to buy!

Adaptation

There’s a review up here http://blog.artabase.net/?p=1825

Semiconductor

The video is available on the blog.

Dachshund U.N.

On the blog

Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy: Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why.

Blogged here: http://blog.artabase.net/?p=1636

Website Updates

Mobile version starting to take shape here:

http://www.artabase.net/mobile

Art Melbourne

Review by Emma Kirsopp is up now

http://blog.artabase.net/?p=1592

Website Updates

To help protect you from spam we’ve changed the email address on Artist profiles so that they are only visible if you are logged in.

Website Updates

Artabase: Now with rounded edges!

Art Reviewers Wanted

Hi all

We’re looking for people to review art exhibitions for the blog on Artabase. Please get in touch if you’re interested!

Contact Us

Lorne Sculpture Exhibition

Winners here: http://blog.artabase.net/

Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur

Review here http://blog.artabase.net/?p=1181

Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire

Review by Kathryn Hatch here http://blog.artabase.net/?p=1086

Locative Iphone Applications

Thanks nony.

We’re not sure how to decide what is ‘nearby’ or not… how many nearby tram stops does tram tracker show you? Within a kilometre or so, or just a few hundred metres? Just the closest one?

I like the idea of planning in advance…

We are planning to work with Google apps – however we might need to do more research into the costs – Google maps are only free for non-commercial use (well, that was the deal last time I checked, which was a few months ago). I’m curious to know why the two you’ve just mentioned don’t use Google maps… it may be a cost issue.

Locative Iphone Applications

Hi everyone

We’re starting work on an iphone gallery guide..

We’re really keen to hear about any location-based apps you are currently using on your phone, what you do or don’t like about them.

Are you currently using your iphone to access listings? Which ones? Any good art apps out there?

Website Updates

We’re now featuring a few artists around the place!

Image Galleries

Hey all

We’ve got image galleries available on exhibitions now.

Here’s our first couple:

Tim Burton images! http://artabase.net/exhibition/1771-tim-burton

http://artabase.net/exhibition/1770-roman-ondk

RSS Feeds

Hey all

We’ve updated the RSS feeds so they are going through feedburner.

The old RSS addresses are being put through a redirect, so they should still work, however unfortunately some don’t update in your feedreader. For instance, if you are using Sage, it will look like we don’t have any updates when we do.

The best way around this is to replace your old RSS address with the new one.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArtabaseNewArtists

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArtabaseBlog

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArtabaseNewExhibitions

Art History Wiki

Artabase is launching an art history wiki, which you can preview here

http://artwiki.artabase.net

We’re looking for art historians to contribute to the wiki.

The wiki aims to be very detailed, a more comprehensive survey of art history than is found on wikipedia.

If you are interested in contributing, please send your cv to info@artabase.net

Website Updates

We’re now offering a managed website hosting service.

You can get a http://your-name.artabase.net web address, with a pre-installed copy of Indexhibit content management system on there, which lets you create your own online portfolio with unlimited pages, images, video files etc without any web programming knowledge.

http://artabase.net/public/managed_hosting

Curators and Taxidermists to preserve human flesh as art

It would appear our article on this has caused some offense.

A facebook group member responded:

‘This is beyond sick. Please remove me from your group. It is what the Nazis did with human flesh. Sick.’

We’re interested to hear other responses to this…

CCP Podcasts

LECTURE
LIMITED ACCESS: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL RECORDS OF WAR
Shaune Lakin
Thursday 20 November 2008 6.15pm

http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/ShauneLakin.mp3

CCP Podcasts

LECTURE
THE DAZZLING HISTORY OF LIGHT IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Melissa Miles
Thursday 4 December 2008 6.15pm

http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/MelissaMiles.mp3

CCP Podcasts

The following lectures from CCP’s Free Lecture Series are available for free download in MP3 format from our website.

PANEL DISCUSSION
EDITIONING: PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
Chair:
Naomi Cass, CCP Director
Speakers:
Elena Galimberti
Paul McNamara (NZ)
Susan van Wyk
Wednesday 18 March 2009 6.15pm

http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/Editioning.mp3

Learn about Copyright in Australia

AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT COUNCIL’S 2009 TRAINING PROGRAM – MELBOURNE

Everyone uses copyright-protected material, but not everyone understands
their rights and obligations under copyright law in Australia.

Australian Copyright Council training will help you work out when you’re
faced with a copyright issue and what to do about it. Some sessions deal
with certain activities, and others are targeted at certain organisations,
such as educational institutions and libraries.

The Australian Copyright Council’s 2009 Melbourne training sessions will be
held on 12-15 May 2009. The Council is a non-profit, non-government
organisation.

Program overview at http://www.copyright.org.au/training2009

Tuesday 12 May 2009
=====

• Copyright primer
• Permissions & clearances

Wednesday 13 May 2009
========

• Websites & online publishing
• User-generated content; Web 2.0
• Recent legislative & policy developments
• Recent cases

Thursday 14 May 2009
=====

• Educators: Copyright overview
• Educators: Using text & images (incl. internet)
• Educators: Using AV material (incl. internet)

Friday 15 May 2009
=====

• Educators: New education technologies: copyright issues
• Compliance procedures & policies
• Libraries: Conquering copyright

Special offers
====

• Educators: book into all 3 of Thursday’s educators sessions at a
  discounted rate
  € Get $5 off a book for every training session you attend
  € See also offers at http://shop.copyright.org.au

CPD & attendance certificates
==========
€ Continuing professional development (CPD) points where applicable
€ Attendance certificates available

Training program in other cities
=========
We also run training sessions in other capital cities.

Visit http://www.copyright.org.au/training2009

How to book
=====

• book online at http://shop.copyright.org.au/home.php?cat=255
• download an order form from http://www.copyright.org.au/training2009
• email us your details and order

CCP magazine 'Flash' is now available online.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
FLASH ISSUE 1 2009 NOW ONLINE

FLASH is a new quarterly online journal published by Centre for Contemporary Photography. FLASH features reviews, interviews and commentary on photography and video in Australia by a diverse group of established and emerging writers. FLASH visitors can directly engage by posting their own comments on site. Edited by Kyla McFarlane, FLASH is a free journal.

Read FLASH online

Image: Rennie Ellis Boys with surfboard, Burleigh Heads, Queensland 1978
type C photograph, 34 × 50.8 cm, © Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive

IN ISSUE 1 2009

EDITORIAL

Issue 1 2009
Welcome to the first issue of FLASH online, a quarterly journal of reviews, interviews and comment on photography and video, published by the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
by Kyla McFarlane

INTERVIEWS

The Distance that Cannot be Photographed
At the female convict sites I used to wonder where the history has gone. The answer I ended up with was twofold – it’s either disappeared into the ground or vanished into the air.
Geoffrey Batchen interviews Anne Ferran

Past, Present and Illusion in Hamish Tocher’s Photography
There’s a visceral narcissism in the early Renaissance, a kind of youthful full-of-the-joys-of vigour, a really sexy peachy sense of bodies, that is what clicks so nicely with the fashion images that I’ve been comparing it with.
Naomi Cass interviews Hamish Tocher

REVIEWS

Nici Cumpston Attesting
These are highly political works, confronting issues of sustainability and the impact on a culture that occupied the place for thousands of years.
reviewed by Odette Kelada

¡no one wants t’be trapped inside a fantasy!
Ellis and Gursky are akin to two different types of popularist art fantasies: the former as charming, nostalgic; the latter as challenging, spectacular.
reviewed by Peter Shand

ONE IMAGE

Show and tell
Every photograph is not so much a picture of the world as a piece of it. Some people don’t believe this. Others do.
by Patrick Pound

ON SHOW

(not) out of the woods (yet)
Each issue we invite a different writer to comment upon a range of photography exhibitions in Victoria.
by Alison Inglis

http://www.ccp.org.au/flash/

Photography courses at the CPP

Beyond Basic Photoshop™ Semester 1: 28–29 March; Semester 2: 29–30 August
This intermediate weekend course is designed for photographers and artists already proficient with basic applications of Photoshop™ who now want to significantly extend their skills and knowledge. It provides a detailed investigation of Photoshop’s unique tools and techniques. Key concepts are explored with the aim of making them as accessible as possible through an emphasis on visual outcomes.

The Digital Fine Print Semester 1: 18–19 April; Semester 2: 19–20 September
This intermediate weekend course concentrates on printing digital files to the highest level of perfection. Specialised printing processes, materials and techniques combine to significantly expand the range of the fine print and its creative tradition. The aim is to promote, demystify, and facilitate the production of prints of exquisite quality. It also provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the latest printers, media and inksets.

Advanced Camera Craft Semester 1: 09–10 May; Semester 2: 10–11 October
This advanced weekend course presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary digital camera craft in the field and studio. It is intended for those who are already familiar with DSLR cameras and digital capture and want to significantly extend their understanding and practice. A ‘hands on’ approach emphasises learning through experimentation where the aim is to promote an engagement with photography and its craft as creative expression.

Colour Management Semester 1: 30–31 May; Semester 2: 31 October–01 November
Colour management is at the heart of every contemporary digital photographic process and practice. This advanced weekend workshop presents essential knowledge through a logical and comprehensive approach to accurately colour managing all aspects of digital imaging, from capture, to display, editing, printing and publishing. The aim is to increase productivity and reduce costs while significantly improving image quality and colour accuracy.

For full course information please see the Photography Courses webpage

Free artist floor talks at the CCP

FREE ARTIST FLOOR TALKS

SATURDAY 4 APRIL 2009, 12PM
Join artists MAC NICHOLS, JONATHAN NICHOLS, HAMISH TOCHER and SANTINA AMATO.

Fairtrade coffee will be available during the talks by gold coin donation.
Supported by Jasper Coffee.

Experimental AV performances at the IMA, Brisbane

http://www.ima.org.au

Experimental AV performances at the IMA, Brisbane

Mono6
Atsuhiro Ito and Robbie Avenaim plus Guests

As Optrum, Tokyo-based artist and curator Atsuhiro Ito explores an intense almost coma-inducing haze of flickering light and noise using his self-designed amplified fluorescent-light instrument. He teams up with Australia’s most unusual rhythmic force Robbie Avenaim, for an all-out sensual assault. Presented in conjunction with Audiopollen, Mono6 plays host to the launch of Audiopollen’s Ready, Fire, Aim festival, a culmination of all things underground. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). Thursday 26 March at 7pm.

microMONO5
Marco Fusinato, James Rushford, and Joe Talia

Fresh from his inclusion in Sonic Youth’s Sensational Fix exhibition, Melbourne-based artist and musician Marco Fusinato heads to Brisbane to debut material from his forthcoming Ripping Skies album, on American label No Fun Productions. An exploratory guitarist, he creates massive washes of caustic vibration. Joining him are electro-acoustic scouts Joe Talia and James Rushford who seek out the exotic and erratic terrain of their instruments. They are purveyors of stasis: part instrumental concrete, part alien drone. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). Thursday 9 April at 7pm.

microMONO6
Mike Cooper

Italian-based post-everything musician Mike Cooper creates a live soundtrack to Paradjanov’s lauded film The Colour Of Pomegranates. Cooper writes, ‘This ravishingly beautiful film was originally refused an export license, and banned by Soviet authorities for religious sympathies and lack of conformity to the strict socialist realism of the former Soviet Union. Paradjanov was arrested in December of 1973 and sentenced to five years hard-labor camps, charged with rape and homosexuality. His extraordinary film traces the life of eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova (’The King of Song’), but with a series of painterly images strung together to form tableaux corresponding to moments of his life rather than any conventional biographic techniques. Pomegranates bleed their juice into the shape of a map of the old region of Armenia, the poet changes sex at least once in the course of his career, angels descend: the result is a stream of religious, poetic and local iconography which has an arcane and astonishing beauty.’ MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). Thursday 23 April at 7pm. [image: The Colour of Pomegranates]

Paul J. Kalemba

Paul in the Australasian Commons case studies book

http://blog.artabase.net/?p=317

Website Updates

Hi all,

It’s been a while since we were able to update the website, but we’re back on track now.

You’ll notice some new Australian precincts (we’ve added generic ‘Regional’ and ‘Metro’ precincts. Plus Katherine in NT gets a mention, as does Townsville and the South-West of WA).

You may also have noticed that your exhibition long description was being chopped off when you first entered it. That’s been fixed too.

If you’ve got any complaints put them in this thread, we’ll pay attention to those that people complain about the most.

Cheerio

Events at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

FREE ARTIST FLOOR TALKS

SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 2009, 12PM
Join artists PETER FITZPATRICK, SANJA PAHOKI, BORIS ELDAGSEN, SARAH LEWIS, CATHERINE BELL, DOMENICO DE CLARIO, KATE SWINSON and ANNE WILSON as well as SIM LUTTIN and KATIE JACOBS from Arts Project Australia

Fairtrade coffee will be available during the talks by gold coin donation.
Supported by Jasper Coffee.

Events at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

009 PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES WITH LES WALKLING

Introduction to Digital Photography Semester 1: 14–15 February; Semester 2: 18–19 July
This weekend course presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of digital photography. It is specifically designed for photographers and artists relatively new to the world of digital imaging, who want a comprehensive introduction to working with digital SLR cameras. The course details each stage of digital production, and provides a sophisticated guide to what is involved, what is possible and what is required.

The Digital Negative Semester 1: 07–08 March; Semester 2: 08–09 August
This intermediate weekend course covers the exposure, development and post processing of digital camera RAW files. Workflow-centric applications such as Adobe Lightroom™ and Aperture are featured, compared and evaluated against applications such as Adobe Photoshop™ and Capture One. Browsing, cataloguing and archiving applications are also critically examined and integrated to guarantee the efficient production of high quality images. The overall aim is to establish a comprehensive image processing workflow.

Beyond Basic Photoshop™ Semester 1: 28–29 March; Semester 2: 29–30 August
This intermediate weekend course is designed for photographers and artists already proficient with basic applications of Photoshop™ who now want to significantly extend their skills and knowledge. It provides a detailed investigation of Photoshop’s unique tools and techniques. Key concepts are explored with the aim of making them as accessible as possible through an emphasis on visual outcomes.

The Digital Fine Print Semester 1: 18–19 April; Semester 2: 19–20 September
This intermediate weekend course concentrates on printing digital files to the highest level of perfection. Specialised printing processes, materials and techniques combine to significantly expand the range of the fine print and its creative tradition. The aim is to promote, demystify, and facilitate the production of prints of exquisite quality. It also provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the latest printers, media and inksets.

Advanced Camera Craft Semester 1: 09–10 May; Semester 2: 10–11 October
This advanced weekend course presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary digital camera craft in the field and studio. It is intended for those who are already familiar with DSLR cameras and digital capture and want to significantly extend their understanding and practice. A ‘hands on’ approach emphasises learning through experimentation where the aim is to promote an engagement with photography and its craft as creative expression.

Colour Management Semester 1: 30–31 May; Semester 2: 31 October–01 November
Colour management is at the heart of every contemporary digital photographic process and practice. This advanced weekend workshop presents essential knowledge through a logical and comprehensive approach to accurately colour managing all aspects of digital imaging, from capture, to display, editing, printing and publishing. The aim is to increase productivity and reduce costs while significantly improving image quality and colour accuracy.

Advancing Photoshop™ Semester 1: 20–21 June; Semester 2: 21–22 November
This advanced course showcases sophisticated Photoshop™ editing techniques, production strategies and visual problem solving. It is designed for professional photographers, artists and advanced non-professionals who want to extend their appreciation, understanding, and imaginative application of Photoshop™ to profoundly enhance their imaging outcomes. The aim is to inspire innovative, inventive and creative image editing solutions.

For full course information please see the CCP 2009 Photography Courses webpage

Artabase widget on widgetbox

Looks like Gallery Nine By Five, or one of their fans have made a little widget to show recent exhibitions added to Artabase.

It looks quite cool! I’ve just installed it into Facebook…

You can add it to a number of websites…

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/artabase

Fragmented Affections

Tim’s let us know this exhibition is now back on, at BSG.

Videoz

The Art Newspaper has got a new online TV channel…

http://www.theartnewspaper.tv/

Forum formatting practice thread

Ok, found it. The official textile reference page is wrong, however wikipedia is right!

Wrap the code in two at symbols, then you can show code snippets

@ code @

Good front pages

http://hobix.com/

Forum formatting practice thread

hmph

Forum formatting practice thread

<code><pre>
Code Snippet
</pre></code>

Forum formatting practice thread

hmm. ok. notextile doesn’t work here, altho it does on shopify.com

Forum formatting practice thread

<notextile>
bold
</notextile>

Twitter

ok, we’ve joined Twitter… who else is using this?

http://twitter.com/artabase

Open Web Awards, please help us by nominating Artabase

Please nominate Artabase in the Mashable Open Web Awards before November 16… we think we make a nice niche website.

http://mashable.com/openwebawards/home/

Artabase Accessibility

In the last survey we did, we received feedback that someone would like the mobile version of Artabase to use text (like S.M.S.) because that way the deaf respondent could still use the service.

This was great feedback, which we really appreciate, as Artabase aims to become a very accessible service.

So, please use this thread to make any accessibility suggestions.

We’re aware that we don’t follow best practice everywhere on the website, at the moment, but we do aim to adopt the good guidelines over at webstandards.org in due course.

Some of the other Artabase-specific things we’d like to do include making good descriptions of the images on the website for people with vision impairment.

When you upload an image at the moment you’ll probably notice a description field. The field isn’t very long, but we will be increasing the size of it. The aim is to allow that field to contain a rich, visual description of the image, so that someone who is visually impaired can use a screen reader to get a description of the image in circumstances where they can’t see the actual picture itself.

We look forward to hearing your ideas along these lines.

How can I upload some of my work photos?

actually ignore that image link. the escape escaped the command.

basically just type your image link and stick an exclamation mark at each end of it, no spaces.

How can I upload some of my work photos?

Hi Anon

At the moment we only have uploads for one image on each artist profile, and one image on each Exhibition. You can add Exhibition listings for your prior Exhibitions, they don’t have to be coming up.

If you have images hosted on another website tho, you can actually embed them into your description field.

To do this, you go to the image on your other website, and right click on it, and copy the image location.

Then, you can come back to this website, edit your description, and insert the image using markdown…

if this is your image location http://yourwebsite.com/image.gif

then the markdown code to insert your image needs to look like this

!http://yourwebsite.com/image.gif!

After you save the edit, and reload your page, the image should display.

This website is still very much a beta version – we will be allowing people to upload more images and list each artwork later… but at the moment we’re busy quietly tiptoeing around an economic crisis.

Hope that helps.

Artabase Blog - Call for Submissions

Artabase is seeking submissions and proposals for our new blog.

We are looking for artist profiles, informative articles, essays, interviews and anything else that embraces our byline: ‘Because people love art’

At this stage we are unable to pay our contributors, something we hope will change as we grow. In the meantime we aim to expand the opportunities for online publication of writing for and about the art world. In doing this we hope to provide a space that is receptive to emerging writers, academics and writing of a style or content that falls outside the scope of other art publications.

If you would like any further information or would like to send in an idea or completed submission, please email: kate.harris@artabase.net

RSS fans can subscribe to the feed now at http://blog.artabase.net

1 Minute Artabase Surveys

Hello all!

We’d like to do a little survey on whoever is interested, it will only take a minute, and will provide you with the opportunity to give us feedback on future Artabase activities.

We’re using the awesome website Survey Monkey to do the surveys, coz it’s easy to use and has a great name.

Our first survey seeks to find out whether you want Artabase’s gallery guide on your mobile phone…

This month’s 1 Minute Survey

Calling all creatives . . . win funding for your art .. .

ha, and not curly quotation marks..

link

Calling all creatives . . . win funding for your art .. .

Hi hobnox

You’ve nearly got the link formatting right, just chuck a semi colon in after the second quotation mark so
" link " : http://etc

(without the spaces)

“link”:http://www.hobnox.com

ONLINE GALLERY

Hiya

You need to use markdown to display images, not html.

so… there are reminders below the comment box.

for an image you stick an exclamation mark at each end of the url.

Asia Arts

Since they were kind enough to link to us, we’d just like to let you know about the website ‘Art Realisation’ which has a good list of Galleries in China.

Post your links to other Asian art resources!

http://www.artrealization.com/

Complimentary Invitation to MutualArt.com

Just so you all know, Christina, despite welcoming you to Artabase – is not affiliated with this website, and we’ll be making it possible to block her private messages and delete the advertising she’s pasting on your profiles very soon.

Nice regards,

Artabase

Artabase in the Media

and as a link that actually works:

the interview

Artabase in the Media

July 10 2008, The lovely Richard Watts kindly interviewed Rebecca Cannon on his 3TripleR Melbourne (102.7FM) radio show to discuss Artabase and it’s upcoming plans.

You can "have a listen…:http://beepkeeper.com/rebecca/?download=artabase_smartarts_2008.mp3 20MB MP3

Or learn more about the station at http://www.rrr.org.au/

Art on the cheap - Melbourne

The Age has a ‘Bargain Hunters’ feature which includes info about getting Art On The Cheap in Melbourne, including through Artabase

“To tap into Melbourne’s arts scene, log into Artabase ( http://artabase.net) for comprehensive listings of all local exhibitions, plus invites to openings. Free art and alcohol. Yay. — John Bailey”

read more

Aphids Reel Music Festival

Aphids is offering Artabase subscribers the chance to receive a double pass in exchange for a review of one of the Aphids events. Three double passes are up for grabs. The reviews will be published on Artabase.net. For a chance at one of the double passes, email info@artabase.net with the name of the screening you’d like to review. Include a short summary explaining why you’d make a good reviewer.

Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage orgs

Also check out the Case Study on 60sox, Justin Brow who runs it is rad.

Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage orgs

Creative Commons launched it’s new Case Studies Database today.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Category:Casestudy

Check out the Artabase entry here:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Artabase

Forum formatting practice thread

who said do or do not there is no try

you’ve almost got the link, just put the exclamation mark after word “link” instead of at the end

this is the formatting bible, it probably explains it better http://hobix.com/textile/

Forum formatting practice thread

well you got a bold word, that’s a start : )

that’s done by putting an asterisk at each end of the word you want to make bold

looks like you might have used an asterisk for the link text above instead of a quotation mark

Website Updates

New threads now working.

RSS Feeds

ok, the lovely folk down at railsplayground just installed a nifty perl script for Mailman that was sitting in sourceforge

here are the links to the rss feeds for the Elists

feed://rss.artabase.net/earth.rss
feed://rss.artabase.net/au.rss
feed://rss.artabase.net/uk.rss
feed://rss.artabase.net/us.rss

the uk and us aren’t working at the moment, but I believe that’s because there hasn’t been any content for this month yet.

RSS Feeds

Thanks for the great suggestion Mike, we’re looking in to this.

We chose email for the opps because some people like to treat their inbox like a to-do list, so if one is going to apply for an opp, keeping the opp in the inbox can be a good reminder to get it done.

But I understand info-overload, and wanting to keep a zen inbox is a big part of that!

Website Updates

Ok, we’re aware that you can’t create a new thread at the moment. Please excuse us as we adjust our VPS.

List any other problems you encounter here…

If you FAIL on the add new exhibition page 2 form, it might be because you’re trying to put a real post code in the post code field.

Please note that we are removing that form in the next release… in the mean time you can just write 1234 in the post code field on that customer details form. We apologise, but the form was designed for Australia and doesn’t fit international post codes.

xx

Website Updates

Just checking the forum still works after our recent server upgrade…

RSS Feeds

soo…..

It’s been mentioned that a local rss feed would be good. What do you want in it?

My first thoughts are a feed for openings tonight in your town, and a separate feed for exhibitions which are open today in your town?

Victorian Premier's Design Awards

Premier’s Design Awards/

Introduction

The Premier’s Design Awards are a biennial awards program developed by the Victorian State Government to recognise excellence in the realm of design practice in Victoria, and to communicate the value of good design to a broad public and business audience both locally and internationally.

The 2008 Premier’s Design Awards offers a number of categories under which entries can be made. This comprehensive category list clearly communicates the breadth of design skills on offer in Victoria, and allows the Premier’s Design Awards exhibition and publication to be a comprehensive representation of the best work being generated by Victorian design practices in the 2007 / 2008 period.

Intention

The 2008 Premier’s Design Awards will identify and celebrate Victorian design practices and professionals who demonstrate an ability to deliver exceptional design outcomes that present a comprehensive design solution of the highest quality. In today’s context, design quality is assessed by an increasingly discerning community that expects the innovative manipulation of function, materiality, space and aesthetics that delivers value, provokes delight and anticipates emerging social and environmental conditions.

Through the Awards program a series of Premier’s Design Marks are presented to design practitioners across an array of professional disciplines. Those who receive a Premier’s Design Mark will be designers and practices that have developed their skills and their creative processes to respond to the new more demanding market conditions, producing exemplary approaches and outcomes that are perceived by the profession, clients and the community as a contribution to a sustainable future.

As the highest acknowledgement of excellence in the realm of design practice in Victoria, receiving a Victorian Premier’s Design Mark and being included in the Premier’s Design Awards exhibition and publication is an opportunity offered to professional designers at the very top of their game – in terms of skill, service and social awareness.

The Premier’s Award for Design Leadership

An important award, designed to recognise design leadership in Victoria. The recipient will be an individual, not necessarily a professional designer, who has led Victoria by design, profoundly influenced the design industry and is exemplary in his/her contribution to the development of design in Victoria. Nominations for this award are drawn from across the industry and assessed by an independent panel of industry figures.

http://www.stateofdesign.com.au/premiersdesignawards

Website Updates

Hullo

New stuff includes new design and logo.

You can now add a URL to an Exhibition listing.

The list of Openings includes stuff for tomorrow night and further in the future

http://artabase.net/listings/exhibitions/openings

More soon…

love from artabassery.

Artabase is a Webby Honoree

The 2008 12th Annual Webby Awards received so much outstanding content they decided to create an extra category to acknowledge websites that didn’t make it in to the Award’s list of nominees.

The new category of ‘Honorees’ recognizes the quality of the top 15% of websites submitted to the Webby Awards.

I’m very excited to announce that Artabase has been selected as one of the Honorees in the category of Art websites.

Check out the other Honorees here

http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=11&season=12

and the Webby Award for Art Website Nominees here

http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12#webby_entry_art

Art Opportunities Email List for Australia

This thread is just a general area for discussing the Australian art opportunities email list.

At the moment the list is subscribed to other lists. Some people don’t like this; but for the sake of disseminating as many opportunities as we can we have decided to let through any emails with an opportunity in them, including those from other email lists. However, we won’t let an email from one of these other lists go through if it does not contain an opportunity.

We’re subscribed to:

Australian Network for Art and Technology
Accessible Arts
eGroundwork from Regional Arts Victoria
Arts NT Ebulletin

Please note that messages originating on these lists might say something like:

“You have received this information because you are subscribed to the eGroundwork mailing list.”

This is not the case if you are receiving the email because you are on the Artabase email list. You should use the Artabase footer link to unsubscribe if you don’t want to receive this information any more.

Please feel free to discuss this list. If you don’t like the way it’s structured feel free to mention that.

Artabase on Facebook

Facebook groups seem a bit useless when you’ve got millions of members (which we do of course… ahem).

So I’ve created one of those new page things they’ve got, you can become a fan of Artabase (should you wish), here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artabase/11483305465

Website Updates

You can now find the latest Artists and Exhibitions that have been added to the site; have a look under the ‘New’ tab.

Also you can find the Galleries on a Google map, check the ‘Map’ tab.

Australian Art Precincts

Queensland Fraser Coast and NSW Northern Rivers are now available.

Formatting / Markup Help and practise...

Markup is the funny types of formatting you use on some websites – it’s a website security thing in case you’re wondering why.

There are some hints with form fields, but feel free to post questions here and try things out.

For instance to make something bold, add an asterisk to each end of the bold bit.

To embed an image, first put an exclamation mark, then right after it put the URL of the image, then another exclamation mark. The alternate text bit is optional.

Here’s our logo:

Website Feedback and Suggestions

Just to let you all know, the ‘remove a comment’ feature which has been requested many times is now top of the list, ahead of some other stuff we’ve been working on (i.e. artist’s having their exhibitions listed on their page).

Australian Art Precincts

Hey everyone

We are aware the list of Art Precincts for Australia is not complete.

We are reviewing this at the moment, so if you could add your requests for new precincts to this thread that would be great.

So far we’ve got a request for NSW Northern Rivers and QLD Fraser Coast.

We also added VIC High st, Northcote last update.

Website Feedback and Suggestions

yep…. illustrated by example

Website Feedback and Suggestions

I’m pretty sure you can presume it’s our problem, we’re in beta mode!
: )

Were you making an artist or gallery page, or an exhibition listing?

Website Feedback and Suggestions

I’m pretty sure you can presume it’s our problem, we’re in beta mode!
: )

Were you making an artist or gallery page, or an exhibition listing?

Website Feedback and Suggestions

Thanks Edward

When does this occur? I think some of the forms do keep the text, but we must have missed some.

RSS Feeds

Few more feeds up.

Details here http://artabase.net/public/feed_me

Promotional Materials

Hi everyone,

We have some small business-card sized flyers with a little bit of information about the website on them. If you’d like some sent to your gallery, please email info@artabase.net with your postal address and the quantity of visitors your gallery receives each month.

Alternatively you can leave your details here.

I can send these to anyone who wants to leave them in their local shops too, as one kind artist has already offered to do.

xx

RSS Feeds

If you like to use Feedburner, you can find the discussion feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArtabaseDiscussions

RSS Feeds

Hey all,

Our test RSS feed (on the discussion board) appears to be working, which is nice to see, so please feel free to start using it, and add suggestions below for parts of the website you want a feed on.

The first I’ll be working on is new artists, galleries and exhibitions being added to the website.

For those of you who don’t know what an RSS feed is or is used for, in short, people use it so that they can find out what updates have happened to a website without actually going to that website. (syndicatists will bite my ear off over the simplification of the usage, but that’s enough of an explanation for the context of this website).

If you’d like to learn more, see the wikipedia entry on RSS here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

I use the Firefox plugin called ‘sage’ to read my RSS feeds, it works well on osx and winxp. If you use firefox you can install Sage here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77

An excellent arts RSS feed is We Make Money Not Art at http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/

Art Openings that are happening tonight

We’ve added a new section where you can see art openings that are on tonight.

Have a look at http://artabase.net/listings/exhibitions/openings

To make your exhibition opening show up in the list, you need to go to http://artabase.net/my_account/listings/exhibitions/my_exhibitions and add information about the opening celebration.

It’ll take a while before we build up a lot of content there, but handy a feature I think!