philthosophy

- plug n play electxperimuzak 8pm-> kent st cafe, smith st

- a place tells a story book launch 6-9pm @ metropolis bookshop-lvl 3 curtin house: 252 swanston… Place is layer, is fabric. Community is detail, is flux. Definition and identity are never so clear-cut. A Place Tells a Story is a book and CD project that engages with subjective notions of place and community. Via visual art, text, music and artefact, the project sees some of Melbourne’s most exciting young artists map, question, celebrate and reflect upon a scattering of our unofficial community sites.Milk bars, street corners, neighbourhoods, roads; within the context of an increasingly globalised consciousness, A Place Tells a Story reconnects with locality and specificity. It explores these sites’ histories and narratives; it poses questions about their future. Produced by Marc Martin, Justine Ellis and Dan Rule of local independent publishers the And Collective, A Place Tells a Story features the work of: Warwick Baker, Tom Civil, Oslo Davis, Kubota Fumikazu, Rachael Wenona Guy, Andy Jackson, Kyle de Kuijer, Brigid McCarthy, Meg Mundell, Mandy Ord, Liza Power, Memuzin River, Lou Smith, Salote Tawale and Eve Vincent. With music and sound by: Perfect Black Swan, Nadia Combe, Saddleback, Bird Traps, Chris Smith, Lee Memorial and Jon Tjhia. www.andcollective.com

- New Interactive Urban Art Seminar 6pm-8pm Digital Harbour Theatrette 1010 LaTrobe Street, Docklands 6.00-7.30pm: Seminar (new start time) 7.30-8.00pm: Viewing of Colony Speakers include: Troy Innocent, Artist of Colony; Liz Hughes, Artistic Director, Experimenta and David Napier, Executive Director, Digital Harbour To celebrate the launch of Colony, a new urban art environment for Life.Lab, this seminar will explore the work in relation to public interaction in urban art environments. Bring your iPhone to play the work! Colony is part artificial lifeform, part icon of a digital media landscape. The weathered totems use light and sound to communicate with one another in response to human presence. Players may affect the colour and sound patterns of the artwork by walking through the environment or log onto www.iconica.org/colony The work draws upon Innocents digital media arts practice that explores the connections between artificial systems such as language and natural processes abundant in life

- botchulism – play at guild theatre, melbum uni thurs18-sat 20 8pm (& 5pm sat) $15/ $12conc. A black comedy set in a plastic surgery clinic, Botchulism is a satirical dissection of plastic surgery, mateship and monkeys. Botchulism, written by Fregmonto Stokes, was first performed as a short play at the Carlton Courthouse during Mudfest 2007, and won the Mudfest 2007 Best Play Award, and a spot in the Fringe Festival. Following its selection for a UHT reading at the start of this year, Botchulism is now in a full-length form, to be performed in the Guild Theatre over two weeks in September under the direction of Reuben Brown