Outside Eye artist's professional development program.

What a huge week... we have been selected to participate in the Melbourne Fringe Festival's Outside Eye program (presented by Full Tilt at the Arts Centre)...

"In 2009 eighteen artists from a diverse range of art forms were selected to receive a mentor, free research and development time in professional studio spaces, and the opportunity to attend master classes led by Lucy Guerin, Kate Sulan, and Brett Sheehy."

The mentor we have been teamed up with is Melbourne-based visual artist Tim Webster. Tim uses video as his medium in a range of contexts, namely performance and installation. We have had one meet up so far with Tim and it looks to be an exciting time...

You can have a look at his website at: http://timwebster.tv

Thank you so much to Simone Collins for all her hard work in teaming us up!

Mudfest map, 2009.

Mudfest, 2009.

Exciting news! We have another map as part of Melbourne University's Mudfest program! The map is in the Festival Club, Open Stage, Arts Centre on the corner of Grattan and Swanston streets. The festival finishes on the 29th of August- be quick so that you don't miss it.

3500 students. One map of the city. What's been happening?

Watch the map evolve as students mark down the experiences they've had in the city. Events of intrigue, politics, sex and revelation... don't be shy! Tell us what the City means to you!

Have a look at the festival website: http://mudfest.org.au/program/our-melbourne-2050

Shed 4 launch in the Docklands, 2009.

To celebrate Future Canvas's new home at Shed 4 in the Docklands, we had a presence at their launch party held in May, 2009. We displayed the map created at the Sustainable Living Festival and spoke to people about what we are doing.

Future Canvas is a design collective of volunteers creating artful everyday action toward sustainability. Starting with a visionary garden in the Docklands, the fledgling social enterprise is working with Melbourne's green thumbs to make urban agriculture dirty and sexy. This is just the beginning... Future Canvas is developing an inner-city space for artists and social entrepreneurs, not to mention a range of quirky and inspiring media projects.

Elements like our community, our well-being, our home, our food and our clothes are brushstrokes on a canvas. Express yourself. Re-design your everyday.

You can read more about Future Canvas at: http://www.futurecanvas.org/news-events/future-canvas-launch-party

I don't know if it's art, but I like it, 2009.

Following the great success we had at the Sustainable Living Festival we entered the final map, created by hundreds of hands over an entire weekend, into an art competition at the University of Melbourne called, I don't know if it's art, but I like it. As runners-up, we won much needed art supplies vouchers.

Looking at the finished map hung on the wall of the Architecture atrium, it really is an amazing collaborative work of art, and everyone who made a contribution should make sure they see it!

Our Melbourne 2050 at the Sustainable Living Festival, 2009.

For the 2009 Sustainable Living Festival we installed a map of Melbourne CBD covered with a thin layer of trace paper for people to directly draw, write and paint onto...

In 2009 we are surrounded by the words and concepts of sustainability. We know we should be green. We know our city should be green. But what would it look like? How could it be imagined? Should we just wait for the experts to give us the blueprint? The OurMelbourne2050 map project provides a blank cartographic slate for people’s imagination. It recognises that everyone can dream, and hence everyone can be involved in building the future. Participants take pen, pencil, brush or glue to a map of present day Melbourne, inscribing their individual visions for a truly sustainable city. The ideas gather and cross-pollinate, creating a rich collective tapestry that will help us re-imagine and re-invent our city. We will all help to transform the map from describing where we are presently going to where we want to be. Come by and add yours!

Situated at the side of the busy walkway outside Art Play we were visited by hundreds of people over the weekend, each person contributing their own ideas around sustainability.

You can read more about this project at: http://www.slf.org.au/festival/program/art/2250