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Feel iCi
iCi – Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation now has a website.
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TV’s Great Moments
Josh and I spent the last week on a research trip in Canberra at the ScreenSound archives, trawling through the history of Australian television’s representations of its own history (you know, “birthday” specials and the like). Which basically meant a week of sitting like little headphoned mushrooms in solitary audition booths, getting square eyes and…
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Damn it!!!!!!!!
It looks very much like someone else just published my honours thesis! I was getting around to it, honest. Bugger, bugger, bugger. No pun intended. On the upside, I like that the Magnetic Fields have a song called The Death of Ferdinand Saussure. Past victims of “Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies” at UQ must…
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Welcome back, brain
Now that my latest stint as degree-factory slave is over (for 2005 at least), I’m slowly finding my passion again…and most definitely feeling the full effects of the new media fatigue that has been haunting me all year – is this a problem for someone doing a PhD called Vernacular Creativity and New Media? I…
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Transforming Aesthetics
The Art Association of Australia & New Zealand [NSW Chapter] in association with the Art Gallery of NSW and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW present the 2005 Conference Transforming Aesthetics 7-9 July 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. Transforming Aesthetics explores the response of aesthetic theory to new forms…
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Post-punk seminar: git along!
THE CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PRESENTS Dr Graham St John Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland Making a Noise˜Making a Difference: From Techno-Punk to “Punk-Hop” Date: Thursday 16th June 2005 Place: Seminar Room 402, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, 4th Floor Forgan Smith Tower, St Lucia Campus, The…
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CFP: M/C “Scan”
‘scan’: an upcoming issue of M/C Journal of Media and Culture The scan is both the quick glance and the measured study, it is a survey of the exterior and an interrogation of hidden interiors. Practices of scanning are a response to the increased number of things to consider and the reduced amount of time…
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distractions
I’ve been quiet because we have all been derailed by this for the last two days. Thankfully, I get to leave that headspace this afternoon when I get to help a handful of Creative Writing students begin the process of constructing their digital stories out of an assemblage of voices, images, and lived experiences.
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Leavin’ on a jetplane (again)
I’m off to the States for MIT4 tomorrow, but I’ll be back next Tuesday – I think I’m spending more time in airports and planes than on the ground, but it will be worth it. I’m gonna try a bit of live blogging from the conference, since there is apparently good wireless coverage.
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A New Pluralism: Photography’s Future (Conference announcement)
This looks pretty interesting: Society for Photographic Education 43nd National Conference A New Pluralism: Photography’s Future March 23-26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois For fifty years we have been living in a world inundated and defined by photographic imagery while photography has been taught in relative isolation in academia. SPE members recognize the necessity to address…