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a quick note to all customers who have their web site hosted through pvi:
from 1st august 2003, to maintain our current discounted price structure, the hosting charges will change from quarterly to yearly. for further details contact:
kelli@pvicollective.com

for all the latest details on art, web and video projects on the go by the collective - click here

if you're after an innovative looking web site or need an online spruce up with your existing site, contact:
steve@pvicollective.com

tts: stage 2 will be up and running full throttle in early july. the collective are currently hard at work researching 4 of australia's east coast cities with a view to mounting city specific versions of the perth based tts: route 65 in late 2004. kelli, steve and pretty boy crossover [aka jason sweeney] will be heading to sydney, melbourne, adelaide and brisbane to collect footage, sound, stories and on-site performers [click here]. chris, james and kate will be back in the lab work-shopping with jackson castiglione who is joining us for the next leg of the tts project.

we have received funding from the australia council for the arts and arts wa for the research and development of these 4 shows which we think is fantastic!

>> background on the tts project..
>> register to be involved in your city

>> asio may now have the power to interrogate your 16 year old child for up to 8 hours at a time as long as they have a lawyer present. more..

>> airline companies will now investigate the political persuasions and religious beliefs of potential staff before employing them.

>> the oldest public toilets in sydney are in hyde park.

>> pvi web tip:

the latest ugly trend in information technology is junk email [spamming]. quick tip - delete unsolicited email and do not hit the 'unsubscribe' feature, this only confirms to the spammer, your email address.
if you're finding you're inbox is littered with spam, it could be that your online email address is un-encoded. if your web site contains your email address, there are some new anti-web robot features that pvi can implement on your behalf to avoid unwanted junk. contact us today.

>> pvi privacy tip:

if you want to keep your telecommunication lines secure - use sms, the content of the message is untraceable at present, unlike all mobile and landline phone calls.

as well as providing digital video services to the corporate sector, pvi are now able to offer reasonable rates to artists, theatre companies & uni productions. if you have a show or a piece of work coming up soon, make sure you get it documented. this can be vital in assisting with funding & sponsorship applications. straight forward single-camera shoots with titles & credits or all the bells and whistles - contact the media team

truster™ is ex-military lie-detection software that searches for cognitive messages in the human voice. a truly sci-fi gismo that claims to monitor events going on inside the subjects head - outputting realtime data on what are true, false or inaccurate statements.
pvi have been commissioned by sydney based performance group, version 1.0, as creative software consultants collaborating on the ethical, artistic and technical parameters of the program.

pvi worked with truster™ on a networked performance piece [trusterbuster] in 2002.
>> find out about trusterbuster
>> find out about version 1.0.

if your on the look out to have your event immortalised on-screen, check out our new media team. the video production service is set up to assist each project from script-to-screen. working creatively to budget and to deadline. we can deal with various output formats from mass vhs video duplication to avi movies for web, cd-rom or dvd conversion. contact steve today.

"venues and places are an essential part of arts development. At each stage in the lifecycle of artistic endeavor there are specific spatial requirements. For some, studio or rehearsal space is crucial." artswa's arts dev policy 2003 - 2005

we are currently all warm and cosy at the lab in the rechabites hall in northbridge and now devising 4 new shows [see tts] and plan on doing some serious physical work-shopping in the coming months. pvi are putting feelers out for a new home for the physical aspects of our process with a possible view to running open workshops. space, shelter from the elements and a decent floor are our main requirements so if you know of anywhere or feel the need to house some artists in your building, please drop us a line at kelli@pvicollective.com.

pvi collective are an award winning new media arts group based in perth, western australia - as a x-platform production house we specialise in web design, digital video production and new media artwork. as practicing artists, pvi bring creativity and innovation to all areas. it's all about the ideas and the ability to communicate and collaborate..