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Espresso Publishing - Printing Books in a Digital World

The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on the unveiling of a POD (print on demand) machine in a Melbourne Angus and Robertson bookshop, with other stores to get the machines soon. The machine is called an Espresso Book Machine, and was dubbed by Time Magazine “an ATM for books”. Now many out-of-print books and out-of-stock books can be printed and bound on the spot in store.

Posted by Jo Lennan on 10/06/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Arts, General, Technology read on

Overflow’s opening night goes swimmingly

Last night CuriousWorks premiered a projection work at Federation Square called Overflow. Put on by Melbourne Fringe Festival and Federation Square, Overflow is an animated work that imagines Melbourne’s city centre underwater and the different kind of life its citizens would have in that world.

Posted by Shakthi on 09/26/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Arts, Events read on

Website Workshop Postscript

Last Saturday saw CuriousWorks hosting its first workshop at Randle st, a workshop clearly focused on really defining and explaining the basic building blocks of web design by writing html code. Slammed into an intense four hours, participants with no prior experience of HTML found themselves creating web pages from scratch, hand-coding everything.

Posted by Hugo on 09/26/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Events, Workshops read on

Help CuriousWorks Make a Ballgame Video

Tired of kids having all the fun? Got a video recording device? Got a tennis ball? Then lets make a video!! This month, CuriousWorks wants you to participate in our Ballgame Video exercise. Simply film yourself/friends/pets/garden gnomes catching a ball and then throwing it off-screen. Upload the video to your favourite video hosting platform (Vimeo, Youtube etc) and then paste the URL of your submission in the Comments section below.

Posted by Elias on 09/18/08 | no comments | Filed Under: General read on

10 Websites for High-School Teachers

CuriousWorks spends a lot of time in high-schools doing workshops that are an eclectic mix of art, theatre and multimedia exercises. These workshops are constantly evolving and changing and many are influenced by websites and artists who inspire us. We thought we’d share some of the websites that are the shoulders we stand on and inspire our work.

Posted by Peter on 09/18/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Education, General read on

CuriousWorks, Melbourne Style

Greetings from Melbourne, Curious folk. Shakthi and Aimee reporting here. We’re in Melbourne developing an animated projection of Federation Square as if it is underwater, to be projected onto the city icon itself during the Melbourne Fringe and Urban Screens Festivals. It’s called ‘Overflow’.

Posted by Shakthi on 09/17/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Events, Projects, Technology read on

Guest Post by CuriousWorks Chair: Rebecca Sng

The Road To Hell…

Whitney once famously sang, (before rehab presumably), “I believe the children are our future”. Well, I believe the children are the present. I’m certainly not alone in believing that how we look after our children is one of the central indicators of the health of our society.

Posted by Rebecca Sng on 09/11/08 | 6 comments | Filed Under: Education, General read on

Guest Post: Andrew Dowding

Andrew DowdingI live in Roebourne, a small town in the North West of Western Australia. Our town is about 90% Aboriginal so it’s easy to imagine the reputation we have, in fact our reputation is known all over this state.

Posted by Andrew Dowding on 08/29/08 | no comments | Filed Under: General, Projects read on

In 2 mins… Roebourne Edition

In 2 minsKick back and take in the month we spent in Roebourne… in 2 mins!

Posted by Shakthi on 08/29/08 | 5 comments | Filed Under: General read on

Build Your Own Multimedia Website Workshop

NerdsCuriousWorks is hosting a workshop at our Randle St Warehouse for people to learn how to put together their own website. The workshop takes place on Saturday, 20 September 2008 and will go from 12pm - 4pm. Get the details after the jump…

Posted by Peter on 08/28/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Events, Workshops read on
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Supporters

CuriousWorks sincerely appreciates the support of the following funding bodies and foundations for our programs in 2008.

  • Australia Council for the Arts
  • Vodafone Australia Foundation
  • MYER Foundation
  • Arts NSW
  • Casula Powerhouse

Partners

CuriousWorks is in partnership with some fantastic organisations. We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to work with them and their programs in 2008

  • Casula Powerhouse & CDN Inc.
  • Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation
  • Shire of Roebourne
  • Links to Learning
  • Ashfield Youth Theatre
  • Burwood Council

Donations

CuriousWorks is a registered charity. We operate a fund for our community work that you can make tax-deductible donations to - every dollar goes to help us grow our community platform, All Around You.

If you'd like more details please contact donations[at]curiousworks.com.au