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Creative nation: writers and writing in the new media arts. This project will map an important moment of cultural transition in Australian writing as it begins to engage fully with new electronic forms. It will provide an important resource for understanding the work of writers as producers of novelty and innovation at the cutting edge of cultural and technological change.
Digital archives, datadiversity and discoverability: the Strehlow Collection as knowledge resource for remote indigenous communities. How will the digitisation of archives of the Strehlow Collection enable principles of best practice in resourcing Aboriginal cultural and community interests? The outcomes of this project will ensure that those following in their footsteps of traditional cultural owners can become the future custodians of their digital cultural heritage.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100514
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$320,906.00
Summary
The cultural economy of Australian artist-run initiatives. This project will explore the cultural economy of artist-run initiatives in the Australian context. It will develop an understanding of a diverse range of artists' practices, including in relation to the National Broadband Network which will contribute to policy development for a more vibrant Australian arts landscape.
Still in my mind: Gurindji experience, location and visuality. This project will develop an innovative historical account of the effects of pictorial representation of Aboriginal identity, using visual, ethnographic and archival sources. It will investigate and critique the impact of ethno-centric codification through which Aboriginal peoples have been framed and refracted throughout the 19th century and into the 21st century, from a specific Gurindji standpoint.
Towards an integrated evaluation framework for intrinsic and instrumental benefits of community-based arts. Australia is recognised as a world leader in community-based arts, in which artists and communities collaborate to identify and effect key local issues. Increasingly, these community-based arts projects involve funding from non-arts agencies; for example from the health, justice or urban development sectors. However, existing methods of describing and evaluating their success are generally ....Towards an integrated evaluation framework for intrinsic and instrumental benefits of community-based arts. Australia is recognised as a world leader in community-based arts, in which artists and communities collaborate to identify and effect key local issues. Increasingly, these community-based arts projects involve funding from non-arts agencies; for example from the health, justice or urban development sectors. However, existing methods of describing and evaluating their success are generally ineffective. This research will develop more holistic modes of evaluation, offering benefits to the participants, artists and funders of community-based arts and provide support towards further cross-sector collaborations across all public policy areas, further strengthening Australia's reputation as a leader in fostering active and culturally rich communities.Read moreRead less
Virtual Galleries: new media technologies to influence livelihood and arts participation in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Virtual Galleries project addresses the issue of limited economic development in remote communities by introducing a user-controlled webcam and interactive 3-D (three-dimensional) Art Galleries into remote art centres to help people in remote communities to secure an income and create wealth and social wellbeing for themselves, their families an ....Virtual Galleries: new media technologies to influence livelihood and arts participation in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Virtual Galleries project addresses the issue of limited economic development in remote communities by introducing a user-controlled webcam and interactive 3-D (three-dimensional) Art Galleries into remote art centres to help people in remote communities to secure an income and create wealth and social wellbeing for themselves, their families and their communities.Read moreRead less
Taste and community: the cultural origins of personal experience. This project explores how artistic value and meaning are attributed to artworks and how cultural artefacts and imaginative constructs may be seen to motivate ethical or socially oriented behaviour. It investigates this theme through an innovative new medium, involving a website and imagery, through which the expertise of philosophers and artists can be brought to bear on a social problem. Its outcomes will include new understandi ....Taste and community: the cultural origins of personal experience. This project explores how artistic value and meaning are attributed to artworks and how cultural artefacts and imaginative constructs may be seen to motivate ethical or socially oriented behaviour. It investigates this theme through an innovative new medium, involving a website and imagery, through which the expertise of philosophers and artists can be brought to bear on a social problem. Its outcomes will include new understanding of the process of perceiving meaning and value as a response to cultural artefacts.Read moreRead less
Mnemoscape: a study of digital lifelog images as memory cues. This project aims to identify the qualities that make digital ‘lifelog’ photographs effective memory cues, and to establish how this new form of automatic photography may transform understandings of the relationship between images and memory. Applying insights from visual arts and interactive media to the study of episodic or ‘autobiographical memory’, the project aims to deliver comprehensive analysis of lifelog images and the condit ....Mnemoscape: a study of digital lifelog images as memory cues. This project aims to identify the qualities that make digital ‘lifelog’ photographs effective memory cues, and to establish how this new form of automatic photography may transform understandings of the relationship between images and memory. Applying insights from visual arts and interactive media to the study of episodic or ‘autobiographical memory’, the project aims to deliver comprehensive analysis of lifelog images and the conditions under which these photographs trigger vivid remembering. The project plans to derive a data-driven visualisation from its experimental study, advancing both the representation of visual autobiographical memory and practical understanding of image-based retrieval cues.Read moreRead less
Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. Saving Lives aims to map the unique contribution, influence and impact of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists, to understand how modelling complex diversities enhances well-being in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Communities. Using queer and critical race theories and a positively-charged mapping of complex identities found in art and art-making, the project expects to challenge simplistic ideas of wha ....Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. Saving Lives aims to map the unique contribution, influence and impact of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists, to understand how modelling complex diversities enhances well-being in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Communities. Using queer and critical race theories and a positively-charged mapping of complex identities found in art and art-making, the project expects to challenge simplistic ideas of what constitutes ‘Indigenous Australia’, their unique contribution, voices, and resistance. Expected outcomes will advance understandings of positive, diverse role modelling to the creative sector and national and international First Nations' communities, and provide significant benefits to well-being and identity-affirmation.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100065
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$410,856.00
Summary
Engaging youth in regional Australia. This project aims to generate detailed information about the processes and impacts of regional youth engagement. This project addresses the need for key regional areas in the country whose youth populations are in decline to have more effective policy strategies in place to engage with their existing young people, stay engaged with young people who leave, and re-engage young people who return. Expected outcomes include theory development, policy recommendati ....Engaging youth in regional Australia. This project aims to generate detailed information about the processes and impacts of regional youth engagement. This project addresses the need for key regional areas in the country whose youth populations are in decline to have more effective policy strategies in place to engage with their existing young people, stay engaged with young people who leave, and re-engage young people who return. Expected outcomes include theory development, policy recommendations, and new artistic methods of knowledge transfer with the intention of providing stakeholders with much-needed evidence to inform policy initiatives.Read moreRead less