The following staff projects have received financial support from the Faculty Research Project Fund.
Name: Dr Lisa Anderson
Telephone: 02 4221 3581
Email: lisaa@uow.edu.au
Project: Shiny Shiny World
Building on my extensive experience in across a range of disciplines, my current project has a working title of Shiny Shiny World. This project involves developing and researching a multi-layered series of interlinked artworks, and creating these works for installation, exhibition and the World Wide Web. I have previously created large-scale works such as Writing the City (as part of the City of Sydney Olympics Strategic Partnerships) and Archaeology of Memory and Palace of Memories both exhibition and performances that toured through Asia and Australia. These works incorporated national and international cities with diverse creative forms, including projections of images and sound, (I was the first person to project onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House), lit street and Railway platform billboards, performances, paintings, an interactive internet site (now held by the National Library as a Pandora - project of national significance) photographs and neon sculptures. (Many of these pieces are now in international public and corporate collections).
This small funding grant will assist me in learning and developing digital profiles to create images suitable for exhibition or installation to help create aspects of the Shiny Shiny World. The Shiny Shiny World will investigate our relationship to our environment and explore our responsibilities to each other and to notions of peace on a personal level.
Working here at the University with other staff who are also experimenting with digital media will assist to develop not only my own research and exhibition program, but help us to develop tools for students in their educational endeavors.
Name: Dr Shady Cosgrove
Telephone: 02 4221 4827
Email: shady@uow.edu.au
Project: Research and Training Foundations: Creative Writing and the RQF
Established in 1996, the Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) is the Australian body dedicated to examining Writing within the tertiary context; its annual conference is an important Australian forum for discussing the writing/research nexus. I will attend sessions on 'Creative and Professional Writing and the RQF' at the 11th annual AAWP conference in November and present a paper in the area of Creative Writing and research methodology. That is, how is Creative Writing positioned as research? How can theme and topic support external research enterprises? How can academics combine Creative Writing with theoretical interests?
Name: Grant Ellmers, Shady Cosgrove, Marcus O'Donnell, Marius Foley
Telephone: 02 4221 4270
Email: grante@uow.edu.au
Project: Assessing creativity in the creative arts: Researching and developing an assessment framework for creative work
Assessment of creativity has been a longstanding problem in the educational environment (Crowdroy and de Graaff, 2005). How can assessment in the ‘practice/studio’ classroom be employed to effectively measure creativity and creative ability? Do the requirements of global quality assurance standards adequately measure the creative process?
Building on current research into teaching and learning, this project seeks to identify common threads that link assessment practices across disciplines of Graphic Design, Creative Writing and Journalism in the Faculty of Creative Arts.
Using our own practice as a case study, and informed by the current research literature, we are seeking to articulate an assessment framework. This framework will seek to provide a transparency and consistency demanded by current quality assurance standards, while maintaining an efficiency and effectiveness of assessment practice.
Name: Dr Penelope Harris
Telephone: 02 4221 5553
Email: pennyh@uow.edu.au
Project: Art from a Southern Colony
Art from a Southern Colony is an exhibition of Faculty of Creative Arts staff current creative research, which will be exhibited at the Capilano College Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada in early 2007. The Capilano College staff exhibited in the FCA gallery at the University of Wollongong in early march 2006. The Capilano College exhibition was titled Art from a Northern Colony. The Project funding will fund a catalogue to support and promote the exhibition.
Name: Janys Hayes
Telephone: 02 4221 4429
Email: jhayes@uow.edu.au
Project: Devising performance for Mobile Instruments: Flying sound sources as spectacle
Devising performance for Mobile Instruments aims to turn Associate Professor Greg Schiemer's electronic compositional works of Mandala 3 and Mandala 4 into a new media arts performance for presentation at a leading international forum for new instrument design. Through appropriate lighting, choreography, and staging devised for the Paris venue where the works will be staged for NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), it is intended that the audience reception of the two compositions will be augmented through their presentation as a performative spectacle.
Name: Liz Jeneid
Telephone: 02 4271 2460
Email: ejeneid@ozemail.com.au or ejeneid@uow.edu.au
Project: Wanderlust - A travelling exhibition of books about travel
This exhibition will include about 40 artist books by Liz Jeneid and Adelaide artist Alexander Arcus, that respond to place and travel or journeys that the two artists have made in Australia and overseas. 'Wanderlust' will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Library in September/October 2006 and will then travel to three venues in South Australia before returning to NSW where it will be shown in three regional Galleries in 2007 and Mackay in Queensland in early 2008. It is hoped that it will finish at the FCA Gallery in 2008. The artists will give workshops and artist talks in each venue. The design of the catalogue has been done by final year Bachelor of Creative Arts students and will demonstrate the quality of teaching in the Faculty of Creative Arts and enable the designers to have national exposure.
Name: Garry Jones
Telephone: 02 4221 3395
Email: garryj@uow.edu.au
Project: Exploring representations of contemporary Aboriginal art in Indonesia
Relations between Aboriginal Australia and the fishing communities of the archipelago of Indonesia go back a long way before British colonisation in 1788. The Yolngu maintained relationships of cultural and economic exchange with Macassan fishermen up until early in the twentieth century when they were abruptly made illegal by the newly federated Australian state. Today, these influences in Aboriginal art and culture are recognised and celebrated, particularly in the Top End, and more recently in Central Australia, with the introduction of batik in the 1970s. But how is Aboriginal art represented and perceived in Indonesian society today? The initial phase of this research project is to attend the opening of a new contemporary art gallery in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in September 2006 at which a selection of art from the Wollongong City Gallery’s Indigenous art collection will be on display, and will included work of my own, produced in 2002 as part of the Wollongong City Gallery’s Pallingjang III exhibition. The visit will involve participation in lectures/talks at the gallery as well as informal engagements with postgraduate students at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI). Participation in the exhibition and associated activities will form the basis of a more detailed analysis of representations of Aboriginal art and identity in Indonesia, in the context of the current and past exhibitions and particularly those in which Wollongong University and the Wollongong City Gallery have had direct involvement, such as Tracking Cloth. The program will explore the potential for an artistic exchange between an Indonesian artists and Indigenous artists in the Illawarra.
Name: Jacky Redgate
Telephone: 02 4221 4623
Email: jacky_redgate@uow.edu.au
Project: Edgeways, 2006
This project aims to produce a three-dimensional work entitled Edgeways, 2006 to be exhibited in tandem with photographic work STRAIGHTCUT 111, 2005–2006 for the fifth 2006 CLEMENGER ART AWARD, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (24 August – 22 October, 2006).
Name: Associate Professor David Vance
Telephone: 02 4221 3591
Email: dvance@uow.edu.au
Project: The First Year Experience - International Conference Presentation
Dive In 2006 is an interactive CD ROM designed to assist first year tertiary students make the transition to university. A discussion of the development of the CD, its foundation in Vgotskian theory of assisted learning, and illustrations of sample content, will be presented at an international conference in Toronto, Canada, The Conference agenda covers a wide range of initiatives designed to assist students entering university for the first time, and will provide information that might be introduced within the Faculty of Creative Arts, and inform the University of Wollongong’s enculturation of new students.
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