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Audio Mulch
Check out the latest information on the powerful 'Audio Mulch' interactive studio software, featured at Electrofringe '99.
Res Rocket Software
Powerful collaborative Internet recording studio software and musician network featured prominently throughout Electrofringe '99. Get creative and get recording NOW!
Robot Rape: The Story Of YPAHMTS
Details the media prankster exploits of Matthew Thompson's 'Young People Against Heavy Metal T-Shirts', one of Australia's most notorious culture jamming incidents. Contact Thompson directly for his excellent CD/zine chronicling the resulting explosive media campaign.
Electrofringe Festival '99
The official homepage for Electrofringe '99, including the full festival programme: workshops, seminars, forums, exhibitions, performances and much more!
McSpotlight: Franny Armstrong
Legendary documentary film-maker and culture-jammer activist Franny Armstrong is a special guest at Electrofringe '99. Her Australian tour has garnered the 'McLibel' documentary its first proper cinema release, and critics are raving about its audacious expose of burger culture and trans-national corporate politics. Get the scoop from this amazing site!
Nettime: Geert Lovink
Nettime.org's Geert Lovink is a special guest at Electrofringe '99, and has been at the forefront of European DIY and streaming media. Nettime offers a sobering and frequently illuminating anti-dote to the 'California Ideology' which has pervaded cyberculture dialogue.
Immersence
Canadian artist Char Char Davies' remarkable virtual immersive environments are featured throughout Electrofringe '99. Get a preview and 'virtual fly-through' stunning landscapes and vistas.
International Paleo-psychology Project
International Paleo-psychology Project founder Howard Bloom features prominently throughout Electrofringe '99, including screenings of two Disinformation 'Infinity Factory' specials and a key-note address on Secular Salvation. Get the facts on mass behaviour from one of the world's foremost scientific experts.
Ninja Tunes: Cold Cut
Groundbreaking audiovisual legends Cold Cut (UK), will be doing a live netcast from the UK to Aus for the biggest dance party in Newcastle's history!!! They will be performing with their radical video sampling software (vjamm) which creates music through video sources the same way a DJ usually uses records. Cold Cut will also jam live via the internet with local musicians using Resrocket software at the end of their set!!
Elefant Traks
eLefant Traks is a diverse collaboration of young artists covering many genres of musical tastes. Its goal is to provide an outlet for local talent to aurally display their work to a greater audience.
Zonar Recordings
Representing artists whose musical output defies genre laws and kow-towing to record company politics, Zonar Recordings has established a unique niche for diverse Australian electronic sound, visual and media artists. Get an insight into a young and still evolving culture now!
Triple J
Landmark Australian youth radio station: check out the weekly Net 50, listen to seminal programs like 'Live At The Wireless' 'J-Files' and 'Mix-Up' via RealAudio and Windows Media Player net-casts and much more!
National Young Writer's Festival
If Electrofringe wasn't enough, the incredible crew at Octapod have something more to give us: "The National Young Writers Festival brings together hundreds of Australia's best up and coming young writers - both the known and the unknown. The festival provides aspiring writers, student editors, zine makers, troublemakers, media provacateurs, and others with an opportunity to meet with and learn from publishers, editors, agents, and (most importantly) each other."
2600 Australia
Australian chapter of the legendary New York group. Tour a Telstra exchange, get information on fighting Internet censorship and learn how to hijack the system!
n o i s e
New Objectives In Sound Exploration (NOISE) is a non-profit collective of global musicians who explore making music with computers and how these explorations alter their lives. Dedicated to releasing free music that spans unique styles, this is a site worth bookmarking and visiting often!
Trashed.org
Jan Honner edits 'trouble' zine, likes Drew Barrymore, and has created an awesone Web site. Honner writes intelligently and provocatively on many subjects: feminism, sexuality, long-distance relationships, yearning, death, mini porn-sites and sassy fonts. Check this site out!
Keith Russell
The home-page for Electrofringe '99 presenter Keith Russell, an academic at University of Newcastle and lecturer in concepts of design. Check out cool visual works like 'Morphology' and 'War Sequence'.
Weed Witches
Weed Witches ezine that takes a serious holistic look at homoeopathy, herbs and society. But this site also has much more: information on drug intervention and health support services, best free videos on the Internet, political satires . . .get involved!
Simon Rumble
The Reverend is in! Simon Rumble is a self-proclaimed 'geek-activist' pioneering community-based projects based on free software. A regular computer columnist for major Australian publications, Rumble offers his unique insights into the evolution of Australian cyberculture, mutant media and funky, jazzy beats.
Shaft's Big Score: National Young Writer's Festival/Electrofringe '99 Report
Phil Reakes, computer programmer, and editor of Shaft's Big Score zine, delivers an in-depth first-hand account of Electrofringe '99 and the Second National Young Writer's Festival. Reakes purposefully avoided the 'youth media' sessions to give us a glimpse of tech meetings and informal gatherings (where the real festival happened!). Check out the FULL text of his Electrofringe session 'Building Websites for Speed and Usability' too!
W a sa b i Sneaker
Faransie delivers an eye-opening review of Electrofringe '99 that manages to be both deeply personal and right on the mark in capturing the festival's zeitgeist: "it was denounce-the-false-gods-of-media-globalisation-and-their-fascist-iconography as usual."
Gusset
Kylie Gusset co-ordinated much of the discussion on the EF-99 e-list, so it's no surprise that her site is a witty and personal journey that eschews cliches to include archives, diary entries, rants and interviews. Check out Gusset's photo intensive review of Electrofringe '99, the highlight Click My Lit columns, an excellent Internet Toolkit, and much more.
M/C Reviews: National Young Writer's Festival
The Australian based M/C Reviews has collected together a diversity of reviews of Electrofringe '99/National Young Writer's Festival, including Sunanda Creagh, Adam Ford, Simon Mee, Felicity Meakins, Axel Bruns, Paul Elliot, Alex Burns and Kirsty Leishman. The commentary gives an insight into the many different responses - both positive and negative - to festival sessions and controversies. A must read.
The CLOKWORK Corporation PRteam
The CLOKWORK corporation PRteam, is the result of years of research into the nature of popular culture. The team members were genetically engineered in order to embody the Corporate Ideology and inspire immitation amongst teenagers the world over.Their compositions are simultaneously, charged with a passion for financial accumulation, while maintaining the casual air of indifference that has proven to be an essential component in the construction of the modern pop icon. The outfit of Newcastle icon John e. Normal (who chaired a session on memetics at Electrofringe '99 with Disinformation's Alex Burns) creates elevator music with a biting satirical edge. Highly recommended!
Clokwork
In an early guise, John e. Normal (known here as 'Jon Bon Normal') created music that sounded like Captain Beefheart fused with Consolidated. Listen to the legacy one of Newcastle's most enigmatic pop-political bands!
WORMs
WORMs are a form of Parasitic Audio, They rely upon the waste products of others in order to feed their Negentropy. WORMs re-cycle waste culture and create audio unease . . .[they] have emerged from within media culture in order to exploit its waste. As the resource gradient alters so will their morphology and as such they cannot be given a distinct taxonomy.
SilicaGEL
Aural terrorist John e. Normal continues his full-frontal assault on your senses with SilicaGEL, a dystopian project that draws on ATMs, sewing machines and petrol bowsers for inspiration. Essential listening for J.G. Ballard and 'Survival Research Laboratories' fans!
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