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Australasian Computer Music Association

Australian International Documentary Conference
showcases the work of Australian documentary filmmakers in an international forum

film and screen culture

Australian Film Institute
promoting Australian film and television and producing Australia's premier film and television awards, the annual AFI Awards.

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA)
radio network, film and television production company and Imparja Television station, Alice Springs

Moving Image Coalition
coalition of independent/alternative super 8 film, 16mm, VHS (PAL format only), mDV, & DVD image/soundmakers, Melbourne. See also Sydney Moving Image Coalition

OFF - Otherfilm
avant-garde, experimental, abstract and expanded film collective, Brisbane

Popcorn Taxi
Regular screening and interview sessions in Melbourne and Sydney, promoting Australian and independent screen culture

Warlpiri Media Association
video works, web-based projects and radio station, Yuendumu, Central Australia

general

Arts Access Australia
national peak body working to increase access and participation in the arts for Australians with disabilities.

ArtsHub
online home for Australian Arts Workers including news and job listings

Australian Business Arts Foundation
promoting private sector support for the arts

CAOS - Contemporary Arts Organisations of Australia
national network of contemporary arts organisations

Carclew Youth Arts
Adelaide-based organisation developing programs in all art forms for children and young people

fuel4arts
arts marketing tools and ideas

media arts

Airstrip
Airstrip is a new media company.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Australia's premier engine for screen and digital culture industries, Melbourne

Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
national network and advocacy body for media artists brokering the synthesis between art and culture, science and technology, based in Adelaide

dLUX media arts
Sydney-based organisation supporting the development, engagement and experience of Australian screen and digital media culture

experimenta media arts
Melbourne-based organisation commissioning, exhibiting and promoting media art

Metro Screen
Sydney-based organisation offering training, equipment hire and production support to filmmakers and digital media practitioners.

music/sound

Australian Computer Music Association
forum for new compositions, information sharing, and research about music technology and computer music

Clatterbox
Nationwide database and web site of Australian sound designs

New Music Machine
profiling Australian experimental instruments

New Music Network
promotion and performance of Australian new music produced by Aphids; Melbourne-based

soundbyte.org
online portal with electronic access to music resources for young people

The Australian Music Centre
forum for new compositions, information sharing, and research about music technology and computer music

The Australian Sound Design Project
national organisation fostering Australian composition and advance the dissemination of work

TURA new music
organisation for the presentation of new musics; Perth-based

performance & dance

Ausdance
Australian Dance Council

Critical Path
choreographic research and development centre for dance artists in NSW

Performance Space
national centre for the research, development and promotion of contemporary performative arts, based at Carriage Works, Sydney

Performing Lines
developing, producing and touring new Australian performance nationally and internationally. Managers of the Mobile States touring initiative

visual arts

National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)

film festivals

Brisbane International Film Festival
annually August

Flickerfest
annual short film festival touring nationally Jan/Feb

Melbourne International Film Festival
annually July

OFF - Otherfilm festival
annual avant-garde, experimental, abstract and expanded film festival in Brisbane

Revelation Perth International Film Festival
annually July

Sydney Film Festival
annually June

major arts festivals

Adelaide Festival of Arts
binenially Feb/March. Next festival 2008

Brisbane Festival
annually July

Melbourne International Arts Festival
annually October

Perth International Arts Festival
annually Feb/March

Sydney Festival
annually January

Ten Days on the Island
Tasmania, bienially March/April. Next festival 2007

media arts festivals

Bienniale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP)
next event Sept-Nov 2007

Electrofringe
annual new media art festival for ermerging artists and forms, Newcastle, NSW, October

Experimenta - Biennial Festival of Media Arts
Experimentopia is the 2009 edition of Experimenta's biennial festival of media arts, touring nationally in 2010-2011

Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP)
media art festival in Brisbane and various host countries across Asia

music/sound festivals

Liquid Architecture
annual Melbourne-based festival of audio arts, touring nationally, July

The NOWnow Festival
annual Sydney-based festival of improvised music, January

Totally Huge Musci Festival (TURA)
annual Perth-based festival of experimental music. Next event April/May 2007

Unsound
annual experimental sound and arts festival based in Wagga, Wagga, NSW, November

visual arts

Asia Pacific Triennial
Brisbane, 2006/7

Biennale of Sydney
next event 2008

young and emerging artist festivals

Artrage
annual festival in Perth, October/November

Come Out
annual festival of youth arts in Adelaide, May

Next Wave
biennal festival in Melbourne, May 2008

Straight Out of Brisbane
annual festival in Brisbane, August

This Is Not Art Festival
annual festival for emerging artists in Newcastle, NSW, October including Electrofringe, Sound Summit, National Young Writers Festival


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national

Asialink
offering a range of residencies within Asia

Australia Council for the Arts
supporting artists and organisations in all artforms

Festivals Australia
assistance to Australian regional and community festivals

Film Australia
Government film body that commissions, distributes and manages documentaries and education programs creating e an audio-visual record of Australian life.

Playing Australia
national performing arts touring program

Screen Australia
supporting the development of film, television and interactive media projects

Visions of Australia
national visual arts touring program

state

Arts ACT (Australian Capital Territory)

Arts NSW

Arts NT (Northern Territory)

Arts Queensland

Arts SA (South Australia)

Arts Tasmania

Arts Victoria

Arts WA (Western Australian)

FTO - NSW Film and Television Office