Partnership will grow ICT confidence in the creative sector
The Big Idea Trust today met with senior creative sector leaders working within or closely with local authorities to discuss forming a partnership for the redevelopment and expansion of…
Five Kiwi bands battle for a kickstart with MTV
MTV NZ has announced the shortlist of five up-and-coming local bands who will fight it out for a chance to 'kick start' their rock-star careers: Dukes, Happy Palace, Nytmare & Band, The Hot Grits and…
Is there a fatal flaw in the New Zealand arts ecology?
A guest editorial by cultural manager Eric Holowacz
TBI Surf Report: Art Zealand vs Artstralia
Sell your music and art online to mobile users at voeveo.com
New Zealand-based site www.voeveo.com was established by a group of internet users seeking a better way for producers and buyers of mobile content to transact with each other on-line.
Top ten tools for artists and designers
Last year Google introduced its new patent search feature, which allows users to browse through millions of US patents from 1790 to 1996. Designboom spent a few hours trawling through the database to…
TBI Q&A: Christina Read
In 2006, Auckland artist Christina Read won the National Drawing Award with her intriguing work I should have been a detective. The piece was described by the judges as "full of mystery, absurdity…
Whalerider descendants enjoy success at Kapa Haka Festival
East Coast Kapa Haka group Whangara-mai-Tawhiti has been named the supreme winner of Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival 2007 for the first time.
Two new short plays by Diane Spodarek
Two new short plays by Diane Spodarek will premiere in the Newtown Community Festival in March.
Art and culture journal launched by Auckland Art Gallery
Reading Room, a new journal of art and culture, has been launched by Auckland Art Gallery. Gallery director Chris Saines says the ambitious new publication is a major contribution to…
Everything is Connected - Sweet Punch: Nordic Video Art
by Mark Amery Courtesy of The Dominion Post 23/2/07 Nordic Video Art? Outside of international festival time in Wellington, the prospect of this has the earnest idiosyncratic ring to it of an…
A taste of New Caledonia in your own back yard -
From February to November 2007, a line-up of the best artists and athletes from New Caledonia tour New Zealand to appear in the country's leading arts and cultural festivals and sports…