Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100142
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$356,822.00
Summary
Sentient Testimony: digital media and memories of Parramatta Girls Home. The project aims to critically assess experimental artistic collaboration as a method for the production of marginalised stories and appropriate forms of national trauma commemoration. Innovative practices of art and digital media are emerging, for example to document life inside Australian child welfare institutions in the context of serious marginalisation and socio-economic disadvantages. The significance of these forms ....Sentient Testimony: digital media and memories of Parramatta Girls Home. The project aims to critically assess experimental artistic collaboration as a method for the production of marginalised stories and appropriate forms of national trauma commemoration. Innovative practices of art and digital media are emerging, for example to document life inside Australian child welfare institutions in the context of serious marginalisation and socio-economic disadvantages. The significance of these forms of testimony has not yet been studied.Read moreRead less
Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL200100004
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,571,946.00
Summary
Burning landscapes: reimagining unpredictable scenarios. The Project aims to transform the traditional artistic paradigm of visualisation as the human-centred depiction of predictable events by harnessing revolutionary advances in art and technology. Through application of an advanced artistic framework, this Laureate project expects to demonstrate how globally distributed users and digital systems can collaboratively depict unpredictable scenarios such as wildfire landscapes in real time and at ....Burning landscapes: reimagining unpredictable scenarios. The Project aims to transform the traditional artistic paradigm of visualisation as the human-centred depiction of predictable events by harnessing revolutionary advances in art and technology. Through application of an advanced artistic framework, this Laureate project expects to demonstrate how globally distributed users and digital systems can collaboratively depict unpredictable scenarios such as wildfire landscapes in real time and at real scale. Anticipated outcomes include a cutting-edge platform that provides life-like experiences to understand their spatial dynamics and the increasing uncertainties they pose, for dissemination through creative industry applications to optimise engagement and impact.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220100904
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$386,545.00
Summary
ART, PLAY, RISK: An interdisciplinary approach to child-friendly cities. ART, PLAY, RISK will provide new creative and scholarly research into how artworks contribute amenity to public spaces, with a specific focus on questions of risk-in-play in both legal and cultural paradigms. A key methodology is to develop a public child-led playable sculpture project, designed to test creative assumptions about the sorts of art children actually want in their dense urban landscapes, enabling analysis of t ....ART, PLAY, RISK: An interdisciplinary approach to child-friendly cities. ART, PLAY, RISK will provide new creative and scholarly research into how artworks contribute amenity to public spaces, with a specific focus on questions of risk-in-play in both legal and cultural paradigms. A key methodology is to develop a public child-led playable sculpture project, designed to test creative assumptions about the sorts of art children actually want in their dense urban landscapes, enabling analysis of their play-behaviours, including: self-imposed boundaries of risk, creativity, challenge and comfort. Understanding the playability of public art from a child’s perspective will generate solutions addressing the future of child-friendly cities in Australia, as defined by UNICEF’s Child-Friendly-Cities policy.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101136
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$340,000.00
Summary
Sugar vs The Reef: Socially-engaged art and urgent environmental problems. Using the intersection between the sugar cane industry and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as a case study, this project aims to investigate the effectiveness of socially engaged art in intervening in the social dimensions of a complex environmental management problem. What are the barriers to behavioural change in agricultural land use within reef catchment areas? How can socially engaged art catalyse new dialogue bet ....Sugar vs The Reef: Socially-engaged art and urgent environmental problems. Using the intersection between the sugar cane industry and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as a case study, this project aims to investigate the effectiveness of socially engaged art in intervening in the social dimensions of a complex environmental management problem. What are the barriers to behavioural change in agricultural land use within reef catchment areas? How can socially engaged art catalyse new dialogue between farmers, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers? And how might these discoveries be more widely applicable? Results of the project may inform transformations in farming practices, the establishment of a geographical provenance system for sugar, and a deeper public awareness of the human impact of agriculture on the reef.Read moreRead less