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FEATURE: Rock out on Canvas

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While an ‘Ectoplasm’ exhibit haunts the walls of a Hollywood gallery, MICHELLE WILDING notices something mysteriously strange about Brandon Boyd’s art. It looks exactly the way it sounds.

Melbourne Fringe Festival

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Melbourne in September sees many passionate folk crowing together to watch something they love. Yes, September 27 is the AFL final, but it’s also the opening weekend of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Anne-Marie Peard likes the Crows, so she had time to research the festival program for us.

Art that makes the mind spin.

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With only a few days left of the Biennale of Sydney, Gabriella Agnese discovers that the exhibition has revolutions everywhere. In the theme, in the artworks, in the the presentation and for the most of us, in our minds.

Sydney: Popperbox

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Cheekily referring to themselves as popstars, a handful of talented Sydney-based artists have joined forces to form Popperbox. Located somewhere between a super tight friendship group and an art collective, they're all about self-initiated projects, experimentation, entertainment and creation. Chiara Grassia talks to member Matt Huynh about juice boxes, swimming centers and their latest book 'Midnight Morning'.

Getting Aural - Liquid Architecture, Sydney

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At Liquid Architecture, a national touring sound-art festival, laptop musicians, experimental instruments, inventors and vocalists shared the stage with sound installations, people trying to flog homemade sound equipment and the odd heckler. It’s chaotic, confusing and occasionally overwhelming, writes Tony Curran.

All I Want is Peace in the Middle East, a Blow Job and a Free T-shirt

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Sydney-based artist David Griggs talks to Rose Vickers about Philippine prison tattoos, severed limbs and the inspiration for his current exhibition.

Sydney: World Press Photo 2008

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A traveling showcase of the world’s largest and most prestigious press photography, the annual World Press Photo competition always draws a crowd. Budding photographer Anna Potaczala takes a look and leaves feeling that there is something decidedly missing in this year's exhibition.

Melbourne: Next Wave 2008 Indigenous Program

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Is it time for our indigenous artists to forget their aboriginality, asks Jana Perkovic.

Genius or geek? Matt Costello

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The video-gaming icon and writer of the classic Doom 3, discusses the future of gaming and why all gamers aren’t always geeks. By Nicolette Lorraway.

CURVY 5: Get girly

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Without a single piece of fairybread or a cupcake in sight, CURVY, the annual all-girl art book put out by YEN magazine turned 5 last month, releasing a new book and a national touring exhibition to go with it. By Sonya Gee.

Come out and play: Experimenta Playground National Tour

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Experimenta’s latest exhibition that is now touring nationally proves that you’re never too old to play. But this is not your average playground up-sized for adults. Forget the monkey bars, swing set and slippery dip and get ready for shadow play, ATMs that talk back, stop-motion films and all manner of new media art designed to take you outside of the everyday and back into the realm of fun. Sonya Gee asks Experimenta’s Artistic Director Liz Hughes about Experimenta Playground and about recovering the lost art of play.

Talk is not cheap: Performance Poetry

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Prior to last Saturday, I was a performance poetry virgin. When I worriedly told my friend I was attending a poetry performance, she described it as the interpretative dance of the poetic world. Oh dear, just what had I got myself in to? I had yet to be seduced by the sweet heady sounds of alliterated, assonated, wordy bliss. Now, following an afternoon at the Day of Words festival, I can safely say am on my way to becoming a fully-fledged spoken word slut.

Tom Tom Club

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After their debut success at last years Adelaide Fringe and a sell out season at the Edinburgh Fringe, the acrobatic wordsmiths Tom Tom Club are back in Adelaide for another run in the Umbrella Revolution in the heart of the Garden of Unearthly Delights. This year the buzz is bigger than ever with rave reviews across the media and tickets selling out in record time.

Haven't got a stitch to wear?

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Forget Vogue and celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, couture shows and who’s-wearing-what on the red carpet. A new wave of bloggers posting their daily outfits online are proving that civilian fashion is far more exciting, eclectic and inspiring than the new black will ever be. By Sonya Gee.

Picture this

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If the last picture book you read was featured under the rocket clock, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Sonya Gee looks at picture books for adults, books that integrate images and text, experimenting with typography, illustration and photography. Sometimes amusing, other times provocative, you’ll be poring over pictures, squinting and reading books upside down to take it all in.

Love is in the Air?

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Valentine’s Day. It ain’t any easier for couples. Trust me. By Nicolette Lorraway.

The very mean rules of house hunting

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In the real world,I am a lovely, easy-going uni student. But when the time comes to go house hunting, what can I say? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm the girl with the pre-printed housing application, who races you through the threshold to introduce herself loudly to the real estate agent, wielding her biggest smile and thus ensuring that any other potential tenants shrink back into the wet paint of yesterday’s once-over as soon as possible.

Face to Face? Facebook squares up with online dating services

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Being single in this technological ridden world is confusing enough. Now that Facebook has come along and jumped into the mix, things are getting a little stranger. For singles Facebook is becoming the ultimate hook up. Whilst most dating sites only offer you a glimpse of what a person projects themselves to be like. On Facebook, open profiles allow you to see how they look like drunk before you send them a kiss or poke.

5 Best Companies we will never work for

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Graduation is a stressful time for all of us. While most of us are leafing through the newspaper sorrowfully, wondering what is to become of our student life, there is hope. Let Nicolette Lorraway make your life just that little bit easier by dredging through the grungy depths of the job market on your behalf and presenting the five best companies that you will never have the pleasure of working for.

Melbourne: Replay Marclay

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Nursing a New Year’s hangover while being singed by the nasty Melbourne heat, I can assure you my greatest aspiration for the second day of ‘08 was to sleep in a comfortable hotel room. One broken air-conditioner, a jammed window and two altercations with hotel reception later, I found myself venturing back into the sun searching for some reprieve. Luckily for me, I stumbled across a welcoming and somewhat challenging distraction for my lazy holiday mind: just off Federation Square, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, is the free exhibition REPLAY: CHRISTIAN MARCLAY.

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FEATURE: Rock out on Canvas

Melbourne Fringe Festival

Art that makes the mind spin.

Sydney: Popperbox

Getting Aural - Liquid Architecture, Sydney

All I Want is Peace in the Middle East, a Blow Job and a Free T-shirt

Sydney: World Press Photo 2008

Melbourne: Next Wave 2008 Indigenous Program

Genius or geek? Matt Costello

CURVY 5: Get girly

Come out and play: Experimenta Playground National Tour

Talk is not cheap: Performance Poetry

Tom Tom Club

Haven't got a stitch to wear?

Picture this

Love is in the Air?

The very mean rules of house hunting

Face to Face? Facebook squares up with online dating services

5 Best Companies we will never work for

Melbourne: Replay Marclay