Keynotes

 CW09_Conference_Guide.pdf

This is not your father’s iPod.

Andrew Scott, Queensland University of Technology

Andrew Scott has been practicing and teaching industrial design for two decades. His experience as a design consultant has included work in industrial design, ergonomics, corporate identity and entertainment concepts for clients such as World Expo 88, the Civil Aviation Authority, Spectra Lighting and numerous businesses in the Brisbane area. He is the subject area coordinator for the industrial design programme at the School of Design, Queensland University of Technology and teaches predominantly in the first year of the programme. He completed his masters (research) in touch screen interface design and his PhD research focuses on product attachment and personal identity. Other interests include product aesthetics, graphical literacy and information design.

Sonic Babylon.

Prof William Duckworth , Bucknell University (New York) and Nora Farrell

William Duckworth is a composer, performer, author and teacher whose work is known worldwide. He is the founder of Postminimalism and his Time Curve Preludes for piano define the style. Since their 1979 premiere, these preludes have been heard on five continents, from Armenia and The People's Republic of China to Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Spoleto USA, the Brisbane Powerhouse, the Auditorium of Rome, and the Festival of Havana, where they were broadcast in the streets. Today, remixes of the preludes can be found on YouTube.

In 1997, Duckworth and media artist and programmer Nora Farrell began Cathedral, the first interactive work of music and art on the web. The Cathedral Project features a rich-media website; new virtual instruments, including the PitchWeb; and the Cathedral Band, a worldwide collective that bridges the virtual and live worlds.

Internet impressario NORA FARRELL has been an early adapter since before there were Walkmen. As co-creator of the Cathedral Project, she and Duckworth have been exploring the artistic potential of the Internet since the mid '90s. In performances and web works exploring the theme of public art for private spaces, Farrell draws from net sources such as webcasts and internet radio, rss and data feeds, virtual instruments, public posts, and the open source community to assemble her sound palette. Uniting these parallel spaces, she mixes the multiple streams live in connected performance. She also builds custom applications and virtual instruments, including the multiuser PitchWeb that allows people to play together online in real-time, and the mobile PitchWeb, premiered in Tokyo in March 2007.

Duckworth and Farrell returned to Australia in June 2009 to inaugurate a multi-year project titled Sonic Babylon, an art project planting gardens of sound around the world; invisible gardens hanging in the air and heard on mobile devices when visitors pass through. These gardens include the first permanent sound garden in Australia at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, opening in August during Sound Day 2009.

Creative People Wanted to Build Creative Teams to Deliver Creative Tools for Creative Professionals

Dr Daniel Woo, University of New South Wales

For the past decade, Daniel Woo has led human computer interaction teaching and research in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He created the first Mac OS X student laboratory in Australia and established a formal usability testing facility at UNSW. In 2003, he was part of a successful ARC Linkage grant, AudioNomad, under the inaugural Synapse Initiative; a collaboration between the Australian Research Council and the Australia Council for the Arts to bring artists and scientists together to form novel collaborations. In this project he collaborated with audio artist Nigel Helyer and Spatial Information Systems (SNAP lab) Professor Chris Rizos to develop a series of public artworks involving locative media and the design of tools for creative authoring of soundscapes.

In 2004 he introduced a new course, User Interface Design and Construction which combined human computer interaction, usability and interface design with object oriented design and implementation. This course was based on Cocoa and Objective-C and a subset of this course became one of the first AUCDF course offerings: the AUC Cocoa course and a smaller introductory subset was incorporated into The University of Queensland Designing Mobile Applications course. Students from both the UNSW course and the AUC courses have continued the theme of design, usability and software development starting companies and working for design and research organisations locally and around the world.

He has worked in a variety of research, development and teaching projects with the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Schools of Chemistry and Industrial Design at UNSW and has consulted on usability and design for Kahootz 3.0, SBS First Australians, UNSW Library and New South Global and the Independent Living Centre.

AudioNomad has continued to deliver public artworks deploying two recent sound exhibits in Singapore (2008) and Belfast (2009). Collaboration with SNAP lab continues with a new linkage project in conjunction with Vision Australia.

“There’s an mLearning app for that!” - An educators guide to developing applications for the iPhone & iPod Touch.  

John Burns, Director iKonstrukt

John Burns is the founder of iKonstrukt, eLearning consultants and creators of mLearning iPhone apps including Educate.  He has taught in Australia, the UK and Asia and has led numerous eLearning initiatives for both government and business.  An avid learner, gamer and technologist, John believes the success of the iPhone as an mLearning platform hinges heavily on the inclusion of effective pedagogical practice by educators.

Media and Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. Bringing down the walls.

Jean-pierre Chabrol, Head of Multimedia. National Gallery of Victoria
 

 
Manager of the Multimedia Department at the National Gallery of Victoria, Jean-Pierre Chabrol graduated from Ecole Louis Lumiere – Paris in 1990. He produced a number of awarded educational and cultural multimedia products in Europe. At the NGV since 2002, he is responsible for the development and integration of multimedia content in the Gallery.

In the Absence of Criticism (a presentation and panel)

Justin Macdonnell, Director ANZarts Institute
 

 
Justin has been employed in arts management, producing and consultancy for forty years. In that time he has been Projects Manager for The Australian Opera, General Manager of the State Opera of SA and Director of the National Opera of New Zealand. He has also been Program Director of the Festival of Sydney and Executive Director of CAPPA (Confederation of Australian Professional Performing Arts). As principal of Macdonnell Promotions (1986-2003) he was one of Australia's leading arts management consultants to both the public and private sectors and to literally scores of arts organisations here and abroad.

From 1992, through the Australia-Latin America Foundation, he ran an extensive cultural exchange network between Australia and countries in that region managing over 100 tours and exhibitions and curated programs from the Asia-Pacific area at major festivals in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela as well as Latin American programs for the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals. He has also produced and/or directed Australian festivals in Indonesia, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico.

Macdonnell is a poet and librettist and the author of two major works on arts policy. From 2003 to 2007 he was Artistic Director of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, USA. He became Executive Director of the Anzarts Institute in January 2008.