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This Is Not Art
This Is Not Art (TiNA) is a national festival of new media and arts organized in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia each year over the October long weekend since 1998. TiNA is dedicated to the work and ideas of artistic communities not generally included in other major Australian arts festivals or institutions. The program includes the festivals Electrofringe, the National Young Writers' Festival, Critical Animals, and Crack Theatre Festival. Naming The name This Is Not Art was adopted in 2000 to reflect the very different but interconnected events of the festival. It takes its name from a piece of graffiti on what was Newcastle's tallest building, Latec House (now completely refurbished and converted to apartments), which had been derelict for several years. The name also refers to the content of the event, which is outside the ambit of traditional Australian arts festivals. History This Is Not Art evolved from the National Young Writers Festival and National Student Media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TINA
Tina may refer to: People *Tina (given name), people and fictional characters with the given name ''Tina'' Places * Tina, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran * Tina, Tunisia, a town in Sfax Governorate, Tunisia * Tina, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands *Al-Tina, a Palestinian Arab village depopulated in 1948 * el-Tina railway station, see List of railway stations in Egypt * El Tina Castle, see List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls *Tina, a village in Livezi Commune, Vâlcea County, Romania United States * Tina, Missouri, a village in Carroll County * Tina, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Tina, West Virginia, a former settlement Acronyms * There is no alternative, a political slogan of Margaret Thatcher * This Is Not Art, Newcastle event * Truth in Advertising (organization), also called TINA.org or truthinadvertising.org *Truth in Negotiations Act, a 1962 US law requiring contractors to submit a certificate of current cost or pricing data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Nobody
Andrez Simon Bergen is an Australian musician and writer. , Bergen lived in Tokyo, Japan with his wife, Yoko Umehara, and their daughter Cocoa. He has performed and released electronic music as Little Nobody. Biography Andrez Simon Bergen, was born in Melbourne. With his friends Brian Huber and Mateusz Sikora established a record label, IF? Records in 1995 in Melbourne. As Little Nobody, he worked as a DJ and issued an album, '' Pop Tart'' in September 1998 on his label. One of its tracks is "Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat". In April 2011 Bergen published his first novel, ''Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat'', via Another Sky Press. Nalini Haynes of ''Dark Matter Zine'' observed it is written in a "pseudo-stream-of-consciousness style" and warns that it "requires the reader to be familiar with numerous films from the mid-twentieth century." His second novel, ''One Hundred Years of Vicissitude'', appeared in the following year. It "is by turns educational, inspiring, traumatic an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recurring Events Established In 1998
Recurring means occurring repeatedly and can refer to several different things: Mathematics and finance *Recurring expense, an ongoing (continual) expenditure *Repeating decimal, or recurring decimal, a real number in the decimal numeral system in which a sequence of digits repeats infinitely *Curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP), a software design pattern Processes *Recursion, the process of repeating items in a self-similar way *Recurring dream, a dream that someone repeatedly experiences over an extended period Television *Recurring character, a character, usually on a television series, that appears from time to time and may grow into a larger role *Recurring status Recurring status is a class of actors that perform on U.S. soap operas. Recurring status performers consistently act in less than three episodes out of a five-day work week, and receive a certain sum for each episode in which they appear. This i ..., condition whereby a soap opera actor may be us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Australian Music Festivals
This is a list of music festivals in Australia, including festivals that have stopped running. A–E *Adelaide Guitar Festival *Adelaide Jazz Festival * Alternative Nation Festival * Australian Festival of Chamber Music * Australian Gospel Music Festival * Bassinthedust * Bassinthegrass * Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival * Beyond The Valley Festival, Beyond The Valley * Big Day Out (in capital cities 1992-2014) * Big Red Bash * Byron Bay Bluesfest * Break The Ice (music festival), Break the Ice * Camp Doogs * Canberra Country Music Festival * Castlemaine State Festival * CoastFest * Come Together Music Festival * Creamfields Australia * Darwin International Guitar Festival * Defqon.1 Festival * Dingo Creek Jazz and Blues Festival, Dingo Creek Jazz & Blues Festival * Distorted Music Festival * Earthcore * Easterfest * EPIK F-L * Fairbridge Festival * Falls Festival * Festival Of The Sun * Greener Pastures * Global Gathering * Golden Plains * Gone South * Good Things ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Festivals
This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A festival is an event of the ordinarily staged by a community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, usually with a religious focus. Aside from religion, and sometimes folklore, another significant origin is agricultural. Food (and consequently agriculture) is so vital that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Sublists by locale States * List of festivals in Florida (United States) * List of festivals in Georgia (U.S. state) (United States) * List of festivals in Louisiana (United States) * List of festivals in Michigan (United States) * List of festivals i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marieke Hardy
Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian writer, radio and television presenter, television producer and screenwriter, and former television actress. Early life and family Hardy is the granddaughter of Frank Hardy, author of ''Power Without Glory'',Tuohy, WendyStanding her ground ''The Age'', 6 June 2005. and the grandniece of comedian and radio and television presenter Mary Hardy. Her parents Alan and Galia Hardy were writers, producers and editors on several Australian television series including ''The Sullivans'' and ''All the Rivers Run''.Sullivan, JayneWhy Marieke's the natural choice for our first m-book ''The Age'', 7 October 2009. Hardy was raised in the Melbourne suburbs of Hawthorn East and Richmond. Hardy was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School and Swinburne Senior Secondary College in Melbourne. She was a passionate supporter of the Fitzroy Football Club until their disbandment from the AFL competition in 1996. Career Radio Hardy co-hosted Melbourne's 3RRR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasenbluten
Nasenbluten were an Australian electronic music group, formed in Newcastle in 1992. The group was made up of Aaron Lubinski, David Melo, and Mark Newlands, and released six studio albums before disbanding in 2001. They have been described as a significant influence on the breakcore genre. History The group was formed in Newcastle in 1992 by Aaron Lubinski (a.k.a. Xylocaine), David Melo (a.k.a. Disassembler), and Mark Newlands (a.k.a. Mark N, Overcast). They took their name from the German word ''Nasenbluten'', meaning nosebleed, in reference to the phrase "nosebleed techno", used to describe the harder and faster variants of the techno genre. Early in 1993, Lubinski founded the Dead Girl Records label (initially typeset as dEAdGirL) in Swansea. The group began playing house parties in Newcastle and creating music on Amiga personal computers using tracker software in the MOD format. They self-released a number of cassettes on the Dead Girl label starting with their debut albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Kingston
Margo Kingston (born 1959) is an Australian journalist, author, and commentator. She is best known for her work at ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and her weblog, Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and her own Web site. Early life and education Kingston was born in Maryborough, Queensland and was raised in Mackay. She attended the University of Queensland, graduating with a degree in arts and law. Her sister Gay Alcorn is a journalist and newspaper editor. Career Kingston qualified as a solicitor and practised in Brisbane and later lectured in commercial law in Rockhampton, before becoming a journalist for ''The Courier-Mail''. Within a year she moved to '' The Times on Sunday''. She also worked for ''The Age'', ''The Canberra Times'' and ''A Current Affair'' before moving to ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', where she worked until August 2005. Kingston gained prominence in 1998 when she led a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Mayne
Stephen Mayne (born 23 July 1969) is an Australian journalist, local government councillor, and self-described shareholder activist. He won the Walkley Award. Career Journalism Mayne worked for a number of media outlets and was a media adviser to the Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett between 1992 and 1994. In 1997 Mayne appeared on ABC TV's ''Four Corners'' as a whistleblower about Kennett's share dealings. In 1999 Mayne started the website ''jeffed.com'' devoted to complaints about Kennett in support of Mayne's abortive candidacy in the 1999 election. He is best known for founding ''Crikey'' in 2000, an online independent news service. The combination of gossip and anti-establishment reporting got Mayne into legal (and consequent financial) trouble several times. Despite considerable financial pressures, Mayne persisted and ''Crikey'' gradually attracted subscribers and a fair degree of notoriety. It was announced on 1 February 2005 that ''Crikey'' had been sold for A$1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Safran
John Michael Safran (; born 13 August 1972) is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues. First gaining fame appearing in '' Race Around the World'' in 1997, Safran went on to produce a series of documentaries, television shows and host radio programs. Safran is known for his television stunts, which include placing a fatwa on Australian television host Rove McManus, sneaking nine young men into an exclusive Melbourne nightclub by disguising them as members of American nu metal band Slipknot, running through Jerusalem wearing nothing but the beanie and scarf of St Kilda Football Club, driving a remote-controlled seagull with a cigarette onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and his confrontation with '' A Current Affair'' host Ray Martin. He currently works as a journalist and author. He released his latest book, ''Squat'', in October 2024. Early life Safran was born in Melbou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frank
Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited '' The Baffler'' magazine. Frank is the author of the books '' What's the Matter with Kansas?'' (2004) and '' Listen, Liberal'' (2016), among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in ''The Wall Street Journal.'' A historian of culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics, economics, and culture in the United States. Early life Frank was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Mission Hills, Kansas. He graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School, and in 1988 from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history after transferring from the University of Kansas in his fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvatski (DJ)
Keith Fullerton Whitman (born May 29, 1973) is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the best-known is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for ''Croatian''). His works under the Hrvatski moniker mainly fell under the 'drill and bass' subgenre of IDM, and were his main musical outlet in the mid-to-late 1990s. Other solo aliases include ''ASCIII'' and ''Anonymous''. Keith was in many bands in the 1990s, including ''El-Ron'', ''The Liver Sadness'', ''Sheket/Trabant'', ''The Finger Lakes'' and ''Gai/Jin''. Fullerton Whitman started recording using his own name in 2001, and most of his work recorded today is under that name. His brother, former MIT scientist Brian Alexander Whitman and co-founder of The Echo Nest, is also an electronic musician and sound artist performing under name ''Blitter''. Electronic music career Whitman studied co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
