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We'd like to thank Alex Burns, Sarah Jansen, Tim Parish, Dan Mackinlay, Dane Lovett, all the SOOB volunteers, Kylie Murphy, James Arvanitakis, Tom Dawkins & vibewire.net, Graham Young & On Line Opinion, Coki Nasution, Lucas, Naomi Blackburn & the Interface crew, Jen Tsen Kwok, Amin Javanmard, and Lauretta Rogers for all their help. The SOOB Ideas program will run over the Straight Out of Brisbane (SOOB) is a first four days of SOOB, from the 2nd -5th festival of independent and emerging arts December. Venue information will be and culture, happening in Fortitude Valley available on our website. Everything in nd th from the 2 -12 December. The SOOB this program is free. Ideas program is one of the eight exciting programs that will make up 2004’s festival. For more information on Straight out of Brisbane, please visit This program explores issues emerging from Brisbane's intellectual undergrowth, drawing www.straightoutofbrisbane.com on the energies of independent thinkers who don't mind getting their hands (and minds) If you have any questions about the ideas dirty putting good ideas into action. program, please call Miriam Lyons on 0432360234 or write to If the ideas program doesn’t seem to have a theme, that’s because it doesn’t have a [email protected] theme. The committee had way too much fun nattering about the state of the world to pick which issue was most important, & by the time we got around to it, we already had a program. So we’d like to offer up a tasty buffet of ideas – take what you like, leave what you don’t, & don’t forget to pass the mustard. Go forth, be fruitful, multiply. Infiltrate, bypass, undermine. Dive into the depths. Dabble at the fringes. Get your hands & minds dirty. Ideas are dangerous – smuggle them onto aeroplanes, deposit them in bins at train stations, throw them at politicians, juggle them in public places, but whatever you do, don’t leave them in the closet! The Ideas committee is: Fiona Hogg, Mark Fallu, Moira, Molly Hankwitz, Miriam Lyons, Rachel O'Reilly, Simon Ross, Susan Kukucka and Taya Hunt. ! With high costs and small markets, Day One - Thursday 2nd independent print media has always been short-lived in Australia. These projects have 11am-1pm :: The New TO bypassed the buyers market by putting ideas online. Some of them are even making a It's December 2014 & the WTO has buck. Meet the makers, & find out how you spontaneously combusted. You have been too can be an online journo/commentator - given the power to create the body that will the cheap-ass way! take its place to regulate global trade. What does the new world trade organisation look With Jim Nyland (Griffith Review), Sarah like? Jansen (Vibewire.net), Wayne Sanderson (The Daily Briefing), Kitty Carra & Andrea Fox This hands-on 'hypothetical' session will give (Brisbane Feminism Online), Joanne Jacobs participants a chance to learn about the latest (On Line Opinion) and Tim Parish ideas on how to redesign the global economy, (Undergrowth). & to throw in a few ideas of their own. No background in economics is needed. 3pm-5pm :: Super hands-on media skills (pre-booked) With James Arvanitakis (UTS Research Initiative on International Activism, & The Submit a summary beforehand of an idea or Commons Institute). cause you would like to promote through the media, & then take part in a 2-hour workshop 1pm-3pm :: The future of ideas online with 'experts' helping you develop a media strategy. The workshop leaders will then be Part 1: “You can't govern a nation by Google” available for follow-up email feedback on – or can you? press releases, op-ed pieces, etc. Please contact [email protected] to How will new ways of using the net affect the express interest in attending this workshop. way we produce and distribute ideas? In the 90s the rise of email & indymedia paved the With Wayne Sanderson (former journalist with way for campaigns without consensus (like the 7:30 Report & the Courier Mail, and the anti-globalisation movement), and producer/editor of The Daily Briefing), Neil conferences without conclusions (like the Haslem & Keith Deverell (RMIT world social forum). What will new web Communications Design and applications, P2P programs, & the rise of www.dearjohn.org), Mark Fallu (former media peer-edited websites bring? How might advisor to the QLD state treasurer), and Marni universities, NGOs, activists and think-tanks ordell (co-editor of Spinach7). react? With Tim Parish (Undergrowth digizine), Mark Pesce (Internet guru, runs the graduate program at AFTRS, currently writing a book called ‘The Death of Television and the Rise of Personal Media Culture’ ), Sohail Inayatullah (futurist and author), Alex Burns (Senior Researcher with the Smart Internet Technology CRC), and Damien Lewis (webmaster of Generate, currently building ‘communities of interest’ online). Part 2: A showcase of independent online media. best way of getting ideas across to a nation of Day Two - Friday 3rd cynics? 11am-1pm :: Oz Organicz: slim pickings at With Merlin Luck (refugee protester from Big nature’s table? Brother), Marni Cordell (co-editor, Spinach7 Magazine), Charles Firth (The Chaser & Is sustainable food a low-hanging fruit or a CNNNN), Christian Kerr (Crikey) & Carmen bitter (and expensive) pill to swallow? How Seaby (Spinstermag) many spoonfuls of sugar will it take to make ‘going organic’ go down the gullets of 6-8pm :: The great ideas rant-off Average Australia? Will food politics ever mean anything if it’s stays only on the plates Speakers OUT, Ranters IN. of activists? Or could mainstream production and marketing kill organic principles at the roots? Calling out to silver-tongued cynics, talk-back radio stalkers, political back seat drivers, and anyone who has ever yelled at their With Dr Kristen Lyons (Griffith University television. The SOOB Ideas Program hosts a lecturer on food politics), Robert Kenken showdown of 2 minute rants - judged on style, (farmer and farm advisor on Community substance and quality of vitriol. Our 'harsh but Supported Agriculture), and Andrew Monk fair' Judges will give combatants scores out of (CEO of the Biological Farmers Federation). ten, as they make their way through a series of planned and impromptu heats, till a ranting 1pm-3pm :: The art & politics of terror champion is picked and crowned Prime Minister-in-waiting. Losers will be bought beer Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, seminal avant- and sent to the backbenches. Brown-nosers garde composer Karl Stockhausen infamously welcome. Arse-lickers need not apply. declared “Now you must adjust your brain – what happened there is the biggest artwork of With Christian Kerr (Crikey), Charles Firth & all times”. With three years of hindsight can Julian Morrow (CNNNN), as the masters of politics and destruction be art? Is culture unceremonial ceremonies. Panel of demi- jamming cultural terrorism? Did the events of celebrity judges TBA. There will be cool prizes 9/11 fundamentally shift the barriers of art and (sheep costumes, false eyebrows, and expression? What is the relationship between inflatable babies for all your photo-opportunity art and politics in the post-9/11 environment? needs). With Roland Bleiker (reader in Peace Studies at UQ), Mickie Quick (culture-jammer, founding member of Squatspace and the Network of Uncollectable Artists), Arlene Texta Queen (artist and zinester), and Sarah Nicholson (author and PhD candidate in Women’s Studies and Mythology at UWS). 3-5pm :: The importance of not being earnest When is it ok to be serious? How do writers, campaigners, and the terminally enraged cope with Australia's suspicion of sincerity? We flee news programs to take refuge in reality TV, and use comedy as a news source - how much of this comes from not wanting to face serious issues head-on? Is comedy the Sinta Widarsito, Sammaneh Poursh, Indigo Day Three - Saturday 4th Williams Willing, Myron Kelvansky, Selvin Kwong, Amin Javanmard and Jen Tsen Kwok. MC’d by Sam Watson (Murri writer, film-maker, academic and activist). 1pm-3pm :: Howard's cultural legacy: "One day the times will suit me" This panel will explore the changed face of the Australian cultural landscape under the Howard government. Is the Liberal Party responding to this change, or has it remade Australia in its own image? Speakers will discuss the past but focus on the future - what should be different in 10 years time and why? With Judith Ireland (Electiontracker.net), Tim Blair (timblair.blogspot.com), Seleneah More 11am-1pm :: Did truth matter in 2004? (Co-produced and hosted radioACTIVE, a national program on politics & black Whose pants caught fire in the 'trust' election Australia), and Mary Zournazi (author of & who stood behind them dousing the ‘Hope – New Philosophies for Change’ and flames? Who is winning Australia's ‘Foreign Dialogues’) (dis)information wars? Are all the media- watch shows, counterspinners, & independent 1pm-3pm :: POP! Goes politics media makers leading to a better-informed (in partnership with the Film Program) society, or will the pants keep burning til the world stops turning? Can reality TV be used for good not evil? Why do so many people reject the combination of With Antony Loewenstein (SMH Webdiarist politics and pop culture? Does refugee and editor with Znet), Reged Ahmad activism sell mobile phones and could (Producer of ‘The Fourth Estate' on 2SER) Howard's `relaxed and comfortable' David Margan (A Current Affair), Judith Australians handle a dose of the radical in Ireland (Electiontracker.net) & Christian Kerr their favourite idol? If activists had the (Crikey) opportunity to make `Reclaim the Streets' a top forty hit and national past-time would they 11am-1pm :: How to be A Strayan: a guide embrace it, or would they prefer to stay in the for the rest of us fringes? If activist culture and meaning is appropriated by advertainment corporations is Struth! Never since Steve Erwin’s Crocodile it still revolutionary? With Arnie poised to Hunter has there been a more useful guide to become the leader of the free world, comprehending what it means to be politainment looks here to stay.