‘… pursuing academic and intellectual activities, testing hypothesis and correlating findings in order to create new knowledge.’
As a polymath, I seek as ‘lab rat’ deeper immersion and self reflection at the human | machine | tech meta-cybernetic coalface. My research focus is as skeptic embroiled in debate, not statistical outcome restricted, nor esoteric phenomena investigations bound by institutional ethics clearance.
Challenges For The Art Curriculum Educator
The challenges for educators and teachers across all domains of creative practice now includes considerations of the burgeoning onset technological divide experienced by learners who are economically disadvantaged or experiencing trauma in their lives.
Conversations
The Humanities Research Seminar Series held at the Curtin University of Technology provides students who are undertaking higher degree by research, faculty staff and guests with an opportunity to engage with world leaders in differing research domains, disciplines and projects.
Research Associate
On the 1st of February 2003, I was appointed as a University Research Associate at the Curtin University of Technology School of Art for the period of one (1) year ending 31st December 2003 under the Supervision of Arts Coordinator, Harry Hummerston in conjunction with Zoy Crizzle, Justice & Equity through Art (JETA) program. In this role, I was provided with extended access to research databases, internal research projects, interdisciplinary events, and collaborations with local, national international professional creative services and related organizations.
Liveable Communities Conference
The significance of broadening understandings of Australian culture by examining the creative and vernacular improvisations of the 44 gallon drum will demonstrate to what extent these adaptions are gender specific
Public Art: Cultural Memory & Emotional Space
Public art, especially those works in sculptural form in Western Australia has been bereft of cultural respect, subject to laziness and neglect according to artist Ratimir (Ron) Gomboc. This interview conducted in 2002 by Alexander Hayes as a component of completion of a Bachelor of Arts (Art) Honours, details some of Gomboc's key contributions to public art in Western Australia and more broadly across the greater Australian arts community.
Autocratic Yawn: The Manipulation of Public Perception
Public art in Western Australia has been boosted by the Australian Federal Government’s Percent for Art Scheme, which requires one percent of all new construction budgets for new development over $2 million to be spent on artwork. The scheme is a State Government initiative that started in 1989.
The Internet
So it is with that refrain that I acknowledge that my research contribution began as humanity switched from an analogue and loosely joined state to that of the networked electrophorus.