At the forum for Lattice::Sydney Matt and Tina of Popperbox drew the feedback session, Orlagh filmed it and we recently edited together this playful video in the Proboscis studio back in London.
Lattice: Drawing Conclusions from Proboscis on Vimeo.
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About : an introduction to drumming.
Published March 2008
Todd Williams (AKA Brass) is a renowned hip-hop MC and is also a youth worker. He created this e-Book to introduce drumming, after experimenting with the Generator during the workshop. As ‘Brass’, he has performed alongside Sydney veterans SERECK of DEF WISH CAST and SINUS of band 1, 2 SEPPUKU, in the highly flammable hardcore act CELSIUS. He has released three albums.
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About : This eBook is by Tina Tran, a ‘creative explorer’ and member of the Popperbox artist collective.
As part of the Lattice::Sydney project a simple Sketchbook was produced to explore the projects and ideas being generated in the workshop. It was created on the Generator and printed out so that it would be filled in by hand - with space to write, draw, glue and attach. The resulting books are scanned in and remade into eBooks to be shared and distributed.
Lattice::Sydney aims to explore new approaches to creatively transforming our cities and included a workshop with a diverse group of artists and cultural leaders to produce new ideas, perspectives and plans of action. Lattice is part of Proboscis’ larger Lattice East Asia exploring the ways diverse communities engage with their environment and issues of cities and sustainability; viewing the city through the eyes of those who live in it. Lattice is part of the British Council’s “Creative Cities” - a three year cultural and artistic partnership between East Asia and the UK.
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About : This eBook is by Tak Tran, a member of the Popperbox artist collective, working mainly on the technical side of things. He builds gadgets for art projects, websites and anything else that needs engineering.
As part of the Lattice::Sydney project a simple Sketchbook was produced to explore the projects and ideas being generated in the workshop. It was created on the Generator and printed out so that it would be filled in by hand - with space to write, draw, glue and attach. The resulting books are scanned in and remade into eBooks to be shared and distributed.
Lattice::Sydney aims to explore new approaches to creatively transforming our cities and included a workshop with a diverse group of artists and cultural leaders to produce new ideas, perspectives and plans of action. Lattice is part of Proboscis’ larger Lattice East Asia exploring the ways diverse communities engage with their environment and issues of cities and sustainability; viewing the city through the eyes of those who live in it. Lattice is part of the British Council’s “Creative Cities” - a three year cultural and artistic partnership between East Asia and the UK.
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As part of Lattice::Sydney a simple Sketchbook was produced to explore the projects and ideas being generated in the workshop. It was created on the Generator and printed out so that it would be filled in by hand - with space to write, draw, glue and attach. The resulting books are scanned in and remade into eBooks to be shared and distributed.
About : This eBook is by Matt Huynh, Sydney based comic creator and illustrator. Huynh’s graphic novels span a diverse variety of genres from surrealist fantasy to polemical essays, dramas and autobiography. His comics work has received recognition from Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comic Arts and Publishing, the Australian Cartoonist’s Association, ABC and Sydney Morning Herald. His inky, energetic brushwork has appeared on magazines and prints to clothing, accessories, health resources, tattoos, film, performance projections, vinyl toys and dolls. When he’s not at the drawing table, he can be found conducting instructional workshops, public presentations, exhibitions and live art demonstrations. He’s been known to operate under the pseudonym ‘STiKMAN’, having taken a bad high-school nickname to heart.
MC TREY Bio
Dubbed ‘a national treasure’ by Inthemix.com.au
ARIA, Urban Music, 3D and Jack Awards nominee.
Over the past 12 years, Trey has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms ‘bout life, love & her experiences.
She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio, and was introduced to hip-hop through movies like ‘Krush Groove’ and music videos by ‘Rock Steady Crew’, but wasn’t propelled to rap her own words over beats until the early 90’s. Her Fijian heritage and father’s gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey’s musical abilities.
Her current project is an exciting collaboration with fellow MC, Maya Jupiter (Triple J/ Channel V) and DJ Nick Toth as hip-hop trio, Foreign Heights. They have just released an album of the same name, through Grindin’/ Central Station Records. This album features Mystro (UK), Eternia (Canada), with production by Pmoney (NZ), Mr. Zux, Kut Master Kurt (USA), and more.
Trey has entertained crowds around Australia, NZ, the US, UK & Japan and is currently working on her solo album, due for release in 2008.
HIGHLIGHT SHOWs INCLUDE:
SPIRIT FESTIVAL (Syd ‘08), PLATFORM 1 HIP-HOP FESTIVAL (Syd ’08), SLUM VILLAGE (Syd ‘07), BIG DAY OUT (Syd, Melb, G.Coast) ‘07, ‘02 ‘01 ‘00 LUPE FIASCO (Syd,Melb) ‘07, COMMON (Syd, Melb) ‘06, FIJI YOUTH DAY (Syd) ) ‘05 & ’06, PYRAMID ROCK festival (Vic) ‘05 & ‘06, PASIFIKA festival (Syd) ‘05 & ‘06, MULTICULTURAL festival(Canberra) ‘05, PACIFIC UNITY festival (Syd) ‘05, SYDNEY WRITERS festival (Syd) ‘05, BIG DAY OUT NZ/OZ tour ‘04, PASIFIKA festival (NZ) ‘04, The BASEMENT (Syd) ‘03, XZIBIT (Syd) ‘03, HOMEBAKE (Syd) ‘01, NEWTOWN festival (Syd)’01, LIKS show (Melb), VIBES (Perth, Syd)’01, ‘00, WAITANGI festival (Syd) ‘00, ST.KILDA festival (Melb) ‘00.
Trey is also a passionate youth arts worker, who has been facilitating hip-hop music workshops for young people around Australia for about 10 years. She was also awarded a Vodafone Australia Foundation, World of Difference grant which allows her to co-ordinate music programs for young people at Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) in Western Sydney. These programs aim to further-develop participant’s writing, communication and performance skills and encourage young people to tell their stories through hip-hop music.
TREY has previously released two albums, ‘Tapastry Tunes’ (Shock Records/ Tapastry Toons, 2003) with production by Australian producers, Danielsan (Koolism), DJ Bonez and UK producer, Spider Johnson, receiving rave reviews from media & listeners all over the country.
… ‘potentially the biggest leap forward for Australian hip-hop, Tapastry Toons covers a lot of ground & does so with style’…Metro/ SMH
‘Daily Affirmations’ (Mother Tongues/ Tapastry Toons, 2000) featured production by Danielsan, Polarity and MCs Aceyalone and Pumpkinhead.
Following the release of ‘Tapastry Toons’, Trey completed a successful Triple J presented East Coast tour, climaxing with a sold out headline show at The Basement (Syd) & ‘Live at the Wireless’ recording on Triple J and graced the 2004 Big Day Out Tour performing in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth & Adelaide.
Trey n Fatt Dexx’s single, Creepin’ received wide spread acclaim for a track that broke the mould of traditional dance/rap tracks delivering a fresh sound and unique rhyme style on high rotation on Triple J. The video hit the top 5 most requested videos on MTV.
Trey has supported and performed onstage alongside Hip-Hop heavy-weights such as: LUPE FIASCO, COMMON, RZA, XZIBIT, JURASSIC5, THE FUGEES, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, RUN DMC, MICHAEL FRANTI,THE ROOTS, BLACKSTAR, BLACKALICIOUS, COMPANY FLOW, CHE-FU, KING KAPISI, SCRIBE AS WELL AS DJS ROC RAIDIA, CASH MONEY, SHADOW & Q-BERT.
…nominated for best female performer at the 2004 Jack Awards…
PREVIOUS RELEASES:
· Foreign Heights CD (Grindin’/ Central Station Records) : ‘07
· Tapastry Toons CD (Tapastry Tunes/Shock records): ‘03
· Creepin’ CD/vinyl single (tv1/sony music) w/Fatt Dexx: ‘01
· Daily Affirmations CD (Tapastry tunes/ Mother tongues): ‘00
· Universal Soldier 12″ (Tapastry tunes/mother tongues): ‘99
· Projectiles US tour tape (Tapastry toons): ‘98
· Projectiles demo CD & Tape (Tapastry toons) w/DJ Bonez:’96/‘97
Trey is currently working on a solo album, due for release late 2008.
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Booking & Info contact: Slingshot@tpg.com.au
www.myspace.com/treythemc
www.myspace.com/foreignheights
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Orlagh and Alice created an eSketchbook for participants to draw/write in and use during in the project to gather and distribute some of the ideas that were brought to and developed during the project.
About : This eBook is by Artist David Capra. David Capra is a visual artist and sculptor, who recently returned from a year-long excursion around Europe where he received the Piemontese del Mondo Arts Award sponsored by the region of Piedmont, Italy. He has also been a finalist in the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award both in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 he was named one of Australia’s top 25 young artists by Art and Australia.
www.davidcapra.com
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About : An eBook for the Lattice Forum (07/03/2008), a day event exploring issues of cities and sustainability arising from Lattice: Collaborative Anarchaeologies of the City. It looked at the workshop’s achievements, discussed the ways culturally diverse communities engage with their environment and considered issues of creative cities and sustainability. Proboscis spent three weeks in Western Sydney working with ICE (Information and Cultural Exchange) hosting a collaborative workshop and exchange labs with Western Sydney artists/ cultural producers and Thai community architect Kasama Yamtree.
Published March 2008
Lattice::Sydney participants include: David Capra, Ali Kadhim, Sanez Fatouhi and Amin Palagni, Ben Hoh, Tiffany Lee-Shoy, Fatima Mawas, Ben Nitiva, Matt Huynh, Tak Tran and Tina Tran of Popperbox, Denis Asif Sado, Trey Thomas, Maria Tran, Todd Williams and Kasama Yamtree.
Lattice::Sydney from Proboscis on Vimeo.
Our Creative City
We made this video toward the end of the Lattice workshop after everyone had built the ‘City” in order to play with all the ideas generated over the three weeks including the ongoing discussion of the meaning of the phrase “Creative City” as well as the many projects and ideas that have been invented and the issues that people thought were most important.
The film was put together in three sessions by all of the participants in the workshop.
Tak is 23 years of age and is part of the Popperbox artist collective, working mainly on the technical side of things. He builds gadgets for art projects, websites and anything else that needs engineering.
He has completed a Bachelor of Software Engineering/Arts in which he received First Class Honours. He has also been a Research Assistant at National ICT Australia for 2 years, where he co-authored several research papers, one of which was accepted in the 2007 International Conference on Software Process.
Currently he is working as an IT programmer in a Sydney based software company, and developing a couple of yet-to-be launched web projects in his spare time.
Some softare applications he has built or is in the process of building include an online e-commerce system, Internet mashups using online APIs from Google and Yahoo, a Facebook application, a virtual self-navigating vehicle and a 3D driving simulator.
His university degree and work captures the spectrum of things he is most passionate about - ranging from human computer interaction and usability design, web development, sociology, culture, history and software development process.