Dear Indoor Laneway makers and creators,

This blog is ever-growing, changing and alive. It will shift and change to suit the creations you upload and the input you give, so make sure you look around it pretty regularly.

Please refer to the following guidelines and tips before you commence the project and keep these points in mind while participating.

What is the Indoor Laneway Project?

- The Indoor Laneway project in an online collaborative art project involving students from one regional and one metropolitan school (eg. You).

What are Information and Communication Technologies and why are we using them?

- Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a huge and increasing part in the lives of young people. ICTs are technologies that transfer and communicate information such as television, radios, microphones, loudspeakers, telephones, mobile phones, mobile multimedia devices and the internet. This project will look at the positive aspect of ICTs by seeking to bring together students who are geographically separated through an online artistic collaboration.

For more info about ICTs visit the “links” page.

What about the idea of remix?

The Indoor Laneway project will involve you creating, remixing, and sampling artworks that you and other students contribute to a shared library of audio-visual content housed on this website.

In an ongoing process, you will create individual artworks in any medium in response to the Make + Create tasks posted. Teachers will assist you to “digitise” artworks (eg. scanning images, recording audio) and upload your works into the Indoor Laneway Library of Inspiration on this website.

In response, the project artist will ask you to remix and sample from the Library of Inspiration through Remix tasks that are then also uploaded to the website. In sharing ideas and artworks, you will all work collaboratively towards the grand finale of the project – an exhibition at the Black Box at the Arts Centre in Melbourne in September 2009.

“Remix” is a term that was first associated with music and audio – one artist “remixing” another artist’s track or “sampling” (borrowing from another artist’s track).  Since this time, “remix”and “sample” are now widely practiced in live video (VJ) culture as well as in films, tv shows, video clips, YouTube, Creative Commons and many other forms of audio-visual entertainment. Remixing and sampling are interesting ways to build on and expand upon original themes – just always remember never to claim a remixed or sampled work as your own. Always give credit where credit is due – it’s good karma!

For more information check the “links” tab of this website

The exhibition

We’re all working towards creating an exhibition of artwork to be shown at the BlackBox at the Arts Centre, Melbourne in September 2009. How this exhibition looks, sounds and feels depends on your input and ideas. You will get the chance to finally meet the other students, as well as install your artworks into the space. Lots of people will see the work you’ve all created together, it will be grouse.