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Popular Cultures and Social Change: Case Studies from Rural Queensland. Two APAI students will study patterns of popular cultural participation and performance in rural/regional Queensland based on selected case studies. The research will be conducted in collaboration with the Queensland Museum and the State Library of Queensland. Two independent but complementary PhD topics will analyse contrasting forms of popular culture and contrasting rural/regional places across periods of major social cha ....Popular Cultures and Social Change: Case Studies from Rural Queensland. Two APAI students will study patterns of popular cultural participation and performance in rural/regional Queensland based on selected case studies. The research will be conducted in collaboration with the Queensland Museum and the State Library of Queensland. Two independent but complementary PhD topics will analyse contrasting forms of popular culture and contrasting rural/regional places across periods of major social change in the 1960s-70s and 1990s-present. The research will examine the major dynamics affecting old and new forms of popular culture in rural/regional Queensland and the role of popular cultures in identity and community building.Read moreRead less
The Asian Modern. Australia needs to understand Asia, and in particular the cultures of modern Asian states. Art is a vital part of the expression of those cultures, and we will know these better in our region for seeing how their modern art is an intrinsically self-generated set of cultural forms. The project will reveal what is modern in Asian art by making comparisons across national boundaries and with representative examples of Australian modern art. Through this process, we will gain a dee ....The Asian Modern. Australia needs to understand Asia, and in particular the cultures of modern Asian states. Art is a vital part of the expression of those cultures, and we will know these better in our region for seeing how their modern art is an intrinsically self-generated set of cultural forms. The project will reveal what is modern in Asian art by making comparisons across national boundaries and with representative examples of Australian modern art. Through this process, we will gain a deeper understanding of where Australia fits in the region. The project will produce a comparative theoretical framework that will be capable of application beyond Asia and Australia.Read moreRead less
Increasing Visitor Frequency: approach to understanding and forecasting how cultural attraction visitors respond to various incentives to increase visitation rates. Museums have been steadily losing visitors over the past decade. While current research indicates that this may be attributed to greater leisure competition, little is understood about how people make choices to visit or not to visit cultural attractions. The aim of this project is to develop, demonstrate and test a Random Utility Th ....Increasing Visitor Frequency: approach to understanding and forecasting how cultural attraction visitors respond to various incentives to increase visitation rates. Museums have been steadily losing visitors over the past decade. While current research indicates that this may be attributed to greater leisure competition, little is understood about how people make choices to visit or not to visit cultural attractions. The aim of this project is to develop, demonstrate and test a Random Utility Theory (RUT)-based modelling approach allowing managers of cultural attractions to understand and predict the likely visitation consequences of potential initiatives. We wish to model visitor choices of museums versus other competing attractions to allow museums to identify specific strategic actions (or combinations) to achieve organisational goals.Read moreRead less
Developing a model of animation knowledge transfer relating traditional character animation skills and advanced proprietary animation software knowledge. The project will develop a model for the transfer, to the learning of animation software programmes, of the traditional character animation skills necessary for a sustainable, creative, commercial animation practice. This is significant because the features of advanced animation software programs are regularly modified or transformed. Expected ....Developing a model of animation knowledge transfer relating traditional character animation skills and advanced proprietary animation software knowledge. The project will develop a model for the transfer, to the learning of animation software programmes, of the traditional character animation skills necessary for a sustainable, creative, commercial animation practice. This is significant because the features of advanced animation software programs are regularly modified or transformed. Expected outcomes are a model for transfer and a detailed, critical examination of how traditional character animation skills can be combined effectively with animation software in production studios.Read moreRead less
Popular music and cultural memory: Localised popular music histories and their significance for national music industries. This project provides a public space for audience members in local communities in Australia, Israel, the Netherlands, UK and USA to share their memories of local popular music heritage. By privileging these voices, the project has the potential to develop and strengthen community cohesion and also raise questions of how these voices might be incorporated into the production ....Popular music and cultural memory: Localised popular music histories and their significance for national music industries. This project provides a public space for audience members in local communities in Australia, Israel, the Netherlands, UK and USA to share their memories of local popular music heritage. By privileging these voices, the project has the potential to develop and strengthen community cohesion and also raise questions of how these voices might be incorporated into the production and distribution practices of Australia's music industry. Our findings will feed into current debates about the importance of local histories in a national context and point to possible economic benefits through cultural tourism and leisure outlets, for example, community-based exhibitions and guided tours focusing on local popular music history and heritage.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354753
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$10,000.00
Summary
MESH: amalgamating innovative teams of cross-disciplinary collaborators for creativity in Media-arts, E-culture, Science and Humanities. MESH is a cross-disciplinary network that amalgamates a national array of sub-networks of research in digital arts, ICT and cross-cultural and policy negotiation. It boosts Australia's existing cross-disiciplinary strengths in Media-arts, E-culture, Science and Humanities by encouraging existing digital sub-networks to grow together via well-brokered communic ....MESH: amalgamating innovative teams of cross-disciplinary collaborators for creativity in Media-arts, E-culture, Science and Humanities. MESH is a cross-disciplinary network that amalgamates a national array of sub-networks of research in digital arts, ICT and cross-cultural and policy negotiation. It boosts Australia's existing cross-disiciplinary strengths in Media-arts, E-culture, Science and Humanities by encouraging existing digital sub-networks to grow together via well-brokered communications and demonstrations online and on-location. Progressively, MESH participants will discover existing harmonies whilst also inventing new languages and protocols leading to breakthroughs in cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovation. MESH encourages a 'paradigm shift' in digital research, realising the extraordinary potential that is ready but latent across Australia's arts and sciences.Read moreRead less
Nineteenth Century Precursors Of New Media Art. On Time and Performance in Early Experiments in Art and Science. The research outcomes will enhance the profile of new media arts and performance studies in Australia by providing a model for other research in emergent and cross-disciplinary artforms. This project addresses the relative absence of scholarship on the meaning and significance of time and performance in the history of media art. It will attempt to clarify and provide a model of analys ....Nineteenth Century Precursors Of New Media Art. On Time and Performance in Early Experiments in Art and Science. The research outcomes will enhance the profile of new media arts and performance studies in Australia by providing a model for other research in emergent and cross-disciplinary artforms. This project addresses the relative absence of scholarship on the meaning and significance of time and performance in the history of media art. It will attempt to clarify and provide a model of analysis for debates surrounding the nature of time based art. It will provide a basis for understanding both the temporal and performative nature of new media art and the place of media in live performance. Read moreRead less
Culture and Economy: Economic and Cultural Value Creation in the Arts, Heritage and Cultural Industries. This project considers how the arts and cultural sectors in the contemporary market economy contribute to the creation of economic and cultural value. The principal aims of the project are to advance both theoretical and empirical understanding of the valuation of cultural goods and services, consolidating and extending methods for determining the economic value of such commodities, and dev ....Culture and Economy: Economic and Cultural Value Creation in the Arts, Heritage and Cultural Industries. This project considers how the arts and cultural sectors in the contemporary market economy contribute to the creation of economic and cultural value. The principal aims of the project are to advance both theoretical and empirical understanding of the valuation of cultural goods and services, consolidating and extending methods for determining the economic value of such commodities, and developing new approaches to the integrated assessment of their cultural value, using original data for the arts, heritage and cultural industries in Australia. The results will have significant implications for cultural policy formation in Australia and internationally.Read moreRead less
Sustainable Public Art: Testing experimental technologies and ecological models for new interdisciplinary installations aimed at regenerating degraded sites. The project develops new models of public art that combine natural and manufactured energy in ways that promote a culture of awareness about pressing environmental issues. The research highlights the need for an environmentally sustainable Australia and effective management of the nation's biodiversity by embodying these concerns in novel a ....Sustainable Public Art: Testing experimental technologies and ecological models for new interdisciplinary installations aimed at regenerating degraded sites. The project develops new models of public art that combine natural and manufactured energy in ways that promote a culture of awareness about pressing environmental issues. The research highlights the need for an environmentally sustainable Australia and effective management of the nation's biodiversity by embodying these concerns in novel aesthetic systems that test clean energy production and its efficient storage. The latter have implications beyond the project for light industry, telecomunications and public utilities. Utilizing a range of adaptive technologies and natural elements in experimental ways, the project offers creative responses to critical questions of sustainability capable of being profiled internationally.Read moreRead less
The War Rug: the history, iconography and theory of the war art tradition of the Baluch of Afghanistan 1979-2004. The 'war rugs' of Afghanistan, a new topic of art-historical, sociopolitical, and cross-cultural communications, reflects an Indigenous perspective of twenty five years of conflict in the region. This project will: *Produce new knowledge on a regional topic of considerable sociopolitical relevance *Enable Australia to take a leading role in the articulation of new fields of knowledg ....The War Rug: the history, iconography and theory of the war art tradition of the Baluch of Afghanistan 1979-2004. The 'war rugs' of Afghanistan, a new topic of art-historical, sociopolitical, and cross-cultural communications, reflects an Indigenous perspective of twenty five years of conflict in the region. This project will: *Produce new knowledge on a regional topic of considerable sociopolitical relevance *Enable Australia to take a leading role in the articulation of new fields of knowledge and academic discourse, enhancing both our international reputation and knowledge of the region *Provide an exemplary model for the role of museums in the conceptualisation of artistic categories cross-culturally *Develop new applications of online database technologies *Develop new modes of integrating new digital technologies in an exhibition setting. Read moreRead less