The LOUD
Online Gallery
Artist Profile Series
A digital window on the youth arts world. Profiles of Australia's next generation of artists compiled by LOUD, the ABC and our media partners. Hear their stories and experience their works on the Web. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/artists or http://www.abc.net.au/loud/artists
Baby J Radio Online
Be a producer in your own living room and compile a Triple J radio program online. Select from the audio elements that make up a radio program and create your own show, featuring Triple J's young unearthed bands. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/baby
Byte-sized Theatre
Is this the future of drama? Byte-sized Theatre is a revolutionary attempt to bring quality Australian drama to the Internet. These eight online projects are by young multimedia dramatists. WHEN New works premiere weekly from January 1 WHERE http://www.aftrs.edu.au/venew Presented by The Australian Film Television & Radio School and The National Institute of Dramatic Art
Evolver
Evolver represents a year in the life of Newcastle's youth: a wildly eclectic mix of art, writing, reviews, photographs and Web experiments. There's also an extensive directory of Newcastle bands, cultural pages on local Aboriginal issues, op shop guides, billboard art, toilet door philosophies and a list of Web pages for community groups. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://evolver.loud.org.au Compiled by The Pod
E-works
e-works drags Australia's best young Web designers, artists and experimenting computer geeks out of their bedrooms and garages and into the public eye. What would you do with $500 and boundless enthusiasm? The e-workers have created interactive sound sites, online comic books, video interactives and sites for unsigned young bands. e-works utilises real audio, video, Shockwave, Quicktime and anything else viewable through a computer screen. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/eworks
Gannon's Forest Gothic
A vibrant mixture of popular youth culture and new technology, Gannon's Forest Gothic is a high-tech adventure, chasing a ghost through the corridors of Shopfront Theatre and down the virtual pathways of the Internet. Shopfront's resident ghost, Norm, has been rattling doors, banging walls and interfering with the electrics for the past 25 years. Norm is like a Web page on the Internet: he exists without existing in the physical world. Follow Norm through the shadows and phantoms of past mysteries and events. WHEN January 16 and 17 WHERE http://www.artoz.com/shopfront Presented by Shopfront Theatre for Young People
Inflate
A digital compilation of a LOUD year of community media. See and hear grabs of the best community TV and radio programs made by young people throughout 1997. In a country with one of the highest media ownership concentrations in the world, Australian community broadcasting encourages real diversity and provides democratic access to electronic media. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/inflate Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
LOUD Bits Online
LOUD Bits are short videos (30 seconds to 3 minutes) that use or thematically represent the word LOUD in some way. You'll find the best of them splattered across the nation's TV networks, but the only place to see them all is on the Net in Real Video. There will also be additional information about the filmmakers whose LOUD Bits were chosen for screening on ABC TV. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/bits
The LOUD
Online Gallery
Disturbing? Meaningful? Provocative? Computer enhanced photographs, video clips, animations and applications are all exhibited in the Gallery, accessible 24 hours a day across the World Wide Web. View works by artists from Blackburn to Wollongong, Wollombi to Fitzroy. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/gallery
National Web Site Design Competition
In 1997 LOUD called on Australia's most talented Web weavers to nominate their works in a massive national Web competition. Throughout January we are showcasing the best work through the LOUD site, providing a window onto the best of Australia's Web works and a look at some of the finest independent Australian sites. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/webcomp Sponsors: Microsoft, Ted's Camera Stores and Connect.com
Network LOUD
There's always something to watch or listen to on Network LOUD, a mini TV and radio network, sending its signals across the Internet using the latest Real Video technologies. It's an explosive voice of free, unfiltered program making the weird and wonderful, that you'll never see on TV. You'll find films, festivals, freaks, and fiction. Turn off the telly and turn on to the Net. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/network
The New
Pollution
A comprehensive zine anthology and zine-making guide, The New Pollution is a massive online archive of all things zine. You can browse through the biggest directory of Australian electronic zines and check out samples from the best print zines from Hobart to North Queensland. We've interviewed the makers of most zines mentioned in the New Pollution book, and you can read online what we couldn't squeeze into its pages. If you want to make your own electronic or print zine, check out our comprehensive DIY guide. You'll find perspectives and tips from zinesters all over the country. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://evolver.loud.org.au/nupoo Thanks to The Pod noise!
noise!
is the unfiltered voice of Australia's youth turned up LOUD. An e-zine with a nation of contributors, noise! celebrates the views, ideas, expressions and opinions of the young Australians who built, designed and edited it. noise! has everything from controversial interviews to personal reflections and digital art to poetry. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/noise
Postcard Gallery
The brief for LOUD's national postcard design competition was to interpret the phrase the shape of things to come or show us an image as "LOUD" as possible. Check out the results at our online gallery. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/cards Supported by Avant Card & Pophouse The Recovery Gallery
LOUD will be spotlighting the best Australian digital artworks on Recovery on ABC TV. This is your chance to exhibit your cyber art to a huge national audience! If you're interested in participating, email your computer generated stills or animated images to loud@your.abc.net.au. If you just want to see what the cyber kids of Australia are up to, tune in and check it out. WHEN AND WHERE Saturdays in January at 9 am on ABC TV's Recovery
Ripe
Ripe is an audio-visual window on the lives, views and perspectives of young Australians. In collaboration with the New Media Fund of the Australia Council, eight groups from Darwin to the South Australian Riverland have produced original works using the latest multimedia technology. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/ripe Supported by The Australia Council New Media Fund, Progressive Networks
Static
the LOUDest Site Directory
A virtual smorgasbord of the breadth and depth of Web sites created by youth in Australia. The Internet is a medium where the youth are setting the agenda. Find out where they're leading us! The great. The bad. The ugly. Static is a comprehensive insight into who's doing what on the Web and why they're doing it. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/static
Survival
The Web-site for the 10th anniversary Survival concert showcases the best indigenous artists from around Australia. WHEN The concert is on Invasion Day in Sydney (January 26), but highlights are available on the Web throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/survival
The Triple J / LOUD Palace Live Chat Forum
Chat with celebrities and young people across the country in the ABC Palace an interactive 3D chat room. You never know who you'll meet in there choose a character and hang out. WHEN January 26 to 30 WHERE http://www.abc.net.au/palace
Triple J Webcam and Virtual Tour
Radio with pictures. Take a virtual tour of the Triple J studios online to find out where LOUD's guest presenters are hanging out in January. The Triple J Webcam will be in the Sydney studios to capture them at work. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.abc.net.au/triplej
The Village Online Short Film Festival
Australia's first national online short film festival is a postcard sized window on the works of some of Australia's best young up-and-coming filmmakers. Village Roadshow has given young filmmakers from around Australia the chance to show their weird, wild and wonderful shorts to the world. Using Real Media technology, these fragments of film culture can be viewed via your Web browser. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.filmfest.village.com.au Presented by Roadshow Entertainment in association with Leva x-media
Virtual
Powerhouse
Step into the Casula Powerhouse without leaving home. The gallery, the arts groups it houses and the young people they work with are represented by Web pages and 3D virtual reality spaces, with images from Powerhouse exhibitions on the walls. WHEN Throughout January WHERE http://www.loud.net.au/ projects/powerhouse
Xstream
Experience the hottest new young musical talent in Brisbane through the Xstream Internet broadcast event. A diverse range of artists will perform the freshest mix of original music live online. WHEN January 29 at 1 pm WHERE http://www.youthworks.qantm.com.au/xstream Sponsors: Qantm Youthworks and Lone Productions
€ € € LOUD would like to thank all the organisations and individuals who contributed to the online arena of LOUD. In particular, special thanks to the following individuals: Design: Aaron Rogers, Jesse Reynolds and Wade Marynowsky Online Gallery: Sam De Silva (Curator) and Dalia Progli (Assistant curator) General LOUD Thanks: Jesse Reynolds, Jacinta Walpole, Dave Sag, John Stuckey, Laura Jordan, Jeffrey Cook, Ian Hoyle, John Loshky, Cam Merton, Mark King, Sean Healy, Alex Markham, Matthew Flannagan, Jason Wheatley, Amanda Morris Gratuitous personal thanks: Carolyn, Jenny, Anna, Penny, Aaron, Ruben, Ian, Murray, Mugga, Linda, Patus, Andrew McD, Daniel, Dirty Gav, Pucko, Uncle Barry Booey, Chris Tola, Leah, Liz, Mantis, John N2, Michelle, Sharon, Lisa, Geekgirl Rosie and Geekboy Rob, Gemma, Mark N, Helen D, Natasha S-D, Tammy F, Mark Davis, Foof, Gillian, Caroline, Violet and everyone who contributed to this crazy little thing called LOUD. Sections of LOUD Online utilise the Virtual Community Engine (c) Virtual Artists Pty Ltd.
