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Introducing Reflective Strategies Informed By Problem-Based Learning To Enhance Cognitive Participation And Knowledge Transference In Graphic Design Education, Grant Ellmers, M. Foley

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This paper will outline and review a curriculum approach under development in the Graphic Design undergraduate program at the University of Wollongong. The curriculum approach in the past has drawn on a blending of studio-based and project-based learning, common approaches in many graphic design tertiary programs (Davies & Reid 2000). Our concern with these approaches is the emphasis on project outcomes, marginalising the design process and the important learning opportunities it presents. A potential solution the authors have explored is a greater formalised engagement with reflection (Boud, Keogh & Walker 1985; Schön 1987) informed by problem-based learning (Koschmann, Myers, Feltovich …

Oculog: Playing With Eye Movements, Juno Kim, Greg Schiemer, Terumi Narushima

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In this paper, we describe the musical development of a new system for performing electronic music where a video-based eye movement recording system, known as Oculog, is used to control sound. Its development is discussed against a background that includes a brief history of biologically based interfaces for performing music, together with a survey of various recording systems currently in use for monitoring eye movement in clinical applications. Oculog is discussed with specific reference to its implementation as a performance interface for electronic music. A new work features algorithms driven by eye movement response and allows the user to interact …

Pocket Gamelan: Swinging Phones And Ad Hoc Standards, Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au

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In this paper, we discuss how mobile phones have been used as devices for active music making, how mobility affects sound and how communication between phones has been integrated into the fabric of a new genre of interactive performance by groups of musicians. We identify some of the issues that stood in the way of developing two new musical applications for mobile phones, discuss aspects of performance works developed so far using this technology and point the way to future development.

Pocket Gamelan: Interactive Mobile Music Performance, Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au

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In this paper, we discuss how mmobile phones have been used as devices for actively making music, how mobility can enhance the quality of sound, and how communication between moving sound sources can be integrated into the framework of a new genre of interactive performance involving groups of musicians. We identify some of the design limitations that stand in the way of developing new musical applications for mobile phones discussed against a background of performance works developed so far using this technology and point the way to future developments.

Pocket Gamelan: Playing Mandala 6: A Demonstration, Greg Schiemer

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In this demonstration, I will present the Pocket Gamelan, a new genre of interactive performance by groups of musicians playing microtonal music using mobile phones. The demonstration will show how phones are swung to create chorusing and how operations on handheld phones affect the tuning of flying phones.

Synthesising Touch: Haptic-Rendered Practice Carillon, Mark Havryliv, Fazel Naghdy, Greg Schiemer

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This paper describes the design and construction of a prototype haptic carillon baton, and mathematical modelling of the carillon mechanism. Other research which haptically renders the grand piano mechanism inspires analysis of the kinematic constraints of the carillon mechanism. Analysis is used to construct a physical model using Simulink. This is then implemented numerically in a Java application. A microcontroller is programmed to interface the prototype’s motor and force sensor with a desktop Java application, allowing realtime simulation of the computational model in conjunction with the prototype. A strategy for containing all physical model computations on an AVR Microcontroller is …

Pocket Gamelan: Tuning Microtonal Applications In Pd Using Scala, Greg Schiemer, M. O. De Coul

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Microtonal tuning has been a characteristic common to many musical traditions yet despite a growing awareness of these traditions among many musicians today, a single system of tuning based on the twelve-note equal division of the octave continues to dominate development of multimedia applications. This paper describes a new software tool developed to export and document microtonal scales for use in computer music and multimedia composition. The tool was developed as a command script written by the first author using an editor, librarian, and analysis tool for musical tunings known as Scala, written by the second author. The tool called …

Effects Of Icts On Media Transformation, Education And Training In Vietnam, Laos And Cambodia, Eric Loo, D. T. T. Hang

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Journalists in the affluent industrialised world have since the mid-80s adopted information and communication technology (hereafter referred to as the internet) as part of their daily work. The internet has also enabled geographically isolated journalists to build an extensive network of contacts and access diverse information sources. Journalists, and citizens alike, are increasingly publishing their work for access by a global audience. This has effectively forced a redefinition of what constitutes professional practice in journalism. We hear varied claims of how the internet have transformed mainstream journalism practices and empowered citizens to tell their own stories via alternative online news …

La Musica: Sixteenth And Seventeenth Music And A Surprise [Cd Review], Wendy Suiter

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La Musica, a compilation of early Baroque Italian songs, is especially significant for its inclusion of music by women: Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Settimia Caccini, and Francasca Campana. Together with the "Surprise" (six works by contemporary composer Julie Kabat), more than sixty percent of the music on this Cd was composed by women.

Literary Ethics And The Novel; Or, Can The Novel Save The World?, Shady E. Cosgrove

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Gayatri Spivak links literary reading and ethics when she writes: ‘If he (Paul Wolfowitz) had had serious training in literary reading and/or the imagining of the enemy as human, his position on Iraq would not be so inflexible’ (Spivak 2002: 23). The inference here (as Dorothy J Hale notes) is that if Wolfowitz had majored in English over political science, he would have made ethically superior decisions. Recent literary ethicists have argued that it is not only the particulars of the text, but the reading process itself that makes literary novels worthy of ethical investigation. Paying particular attention to work …

Studio Report - Abstract, Gregory M. Schiemer, Fazel Naghdy, Mark Havryliv, Timothy Hurd

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The Haptic Carillon project is an ARC Linkage (APAI) with Industry partners, the National Capital Authority and Olympic Carillon International. Our objective is to create an electronic practice clavier with the sound and feel of a real carillon. This will solve a problem that has plagued carillonists for centuries, namely, the inability to practice their instrument in private. Progress has been made synthesising haptic characteristics of the traditional clavier. We propose to present a comparative demonstration of the haptic and original carillon clavier. This will happen in the clavier chamber of the National Carillon, Aspen Island on Lake Burley Griffin. …

Words And Worlds: Form And The Novel, Anthony Macris

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One of the paradoxes of any artistic process is the transformation of the intensities of thought and sensation into the empirical fixities of form. For novelists, the sentence, paragraph and chapter are the standard textual forms that represent the richness of character, setting and event, and the insights into human nature they embody. In this paper I draw on approaches from literature, painting and poststructuralist philosophy to investigate the process by which words become worlds.

'Stories From The Cross Disciplinary Trenches' Invited Keynote Address, Warren A. Burt

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Far from being a recent invention, cross-disciplinary thinking in the arts goes back at least to ancient Greece. The more recent history of cross-disciplinary thinking in music is referred to, and the author’s own history of cross-disciplinary work is considered. The point is made that music and sound works should be co-equal partners in any collaborative relationship, and the necessity for new venues for this work is discussed.

Making News Today: Literacy For Citizenship, David R. Blackall, Philip Reece

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This paper is a report on an evaluation of the Making News Today project. This project is a partnership involving the University of Wollongong, Apple Computers, WIN Television and participating schools, supported with a grant from the Australian Research Council.

Schools participating in the project are involved in the analysis and creation of news items for television. This evaluation focuses specifically on the potential of the Making News Today project as a vehicle for teaching literacy for citizenship.

Cellular Automata As Spectra: Beyond Sonification Into Composition, Warren A. Burt

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Far from being a recent invention, cross-disciplinary thinking in the arts goes back at least to ancient Greece. The more recent history of cross-disciplinary thinking in music is referred to, and the author’s own history of cross-disciplinary work is considered. The point is made that music and sound works should be co-equal partners in any collaborative relationship, and the necessity for new venues for this work is discussed

Instrumental Relations: Software As Art, Art As Software, Brogan S. Bunt

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Software art is characterised by a close concern with the culture of software and the medium of programming. This inevitably demands an engagement with the terrain of the instrumental; software is a sphere of tool-making and programming is governed by conceptions of functional (and generic) utility. Yet where does this leave art? If, in Kantian terms, art is defined by its uselessness (by its lack of any externally grounded necessity) and if, in classical critical theoretical terms, this alienation from function opens up a space of critique, then how can art explore and participate within the instrumental without abandoning its …

Tactics Against Fear - Creativity As Catharsis Exhibition, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis

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Over the past six years, following the events of 9/11 in 2001, western society has undergone significant political, legal and social changes. The notion of terror - in action, word and image, has institutionalized fear on several levels: the emotional, the social and the political. Fear, it seems, justifies varying degrees of administrative arbitrariness, which as long as there is a commonly acknowledged denominator like terrorism, public opinion (when informed by fear rather than knowledge) can be swayed to overlook politicised abuse of the law. The protection of law from arbitrariness and from fear that makes arbitrariness possible, then, is …

Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard

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At their most simplistic, there are two means for shifting information around - analogue and digital. Analogue movement depends on analogy to perform computations; it is continuous and the relationships between numbers are keyed as a continuous ordinal set. The digital set is discrete; moving one finger at a time results in a one-to-one correspondence. Nevertheless, analogue and digital are like the two companions in Serres' tale. Each suffers the relationship of noise to information as internal rupture and external interference. In their examination of historical constructions of information, Hobart and Schiffman locate the noise of the analogue within its …

Emergence: The Generation Of Material Spaces In Anthony Mccall's "Line Describing A Cone", Su Ballard

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Anthony McCall's solid light film Line Describing a Cone (1973)is about the emergence of dimensionality in space. This paper uses Line Describing a Cone to discuss emergence as a material algorithmic process occurring across the media of informatic systems and installation art. Evolutionary models of emergence trace patterns, whether behavioural, spatial or genetic. Line Describing a Cone suggests the emergence of a new kind of mobilized viewer within gallery spaces who does not necessarily 'evolve' but who (through interruption and noise)becomes an interactive emergent part of the material processes of the work. Noise travels and generates the excess dimensionality within …

The Internet: Simulacrum Of Democracy?, Eric Loo

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This chapter argues that depending on what criteria is used to evaluate the Internet’s democratizing potential, one can easily arrive at disparate assessments of the medium’s impact on society. If the Internet is assumed to be a tool that inherently enhances freedom of communication and social mobilization, then the medium will likely be evaluated positively. Essentially, technology per se does not foster nor hamper participatory democratic culture. Instead, users of the technology determine if the civic and democratizing potential of interactive communication technology can be realized. Therefore, the Internet is only a tool that enables users to disseminate their ideas …

Moirai (String Orchestra) [Musical Score], Wendy Suiter

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[First page of published score available here.]

Artists And Designers As Collectors: The Aesthetics Of Digital Journaling, Aldegonda Bruekers, Joanne C. Law

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The visual journal has been a constant companion to artists and designers. It fulfills the multiple functions of a scrapbook, a sketchpad, an observation notebook, a filing cabinet and an archive. Collecting ideas and artifacts using digital devices is an important process for artists and designers today. However, the accessibility provided by these tools also leads to problems in traditional visual journaling. The increasingly diverse formats (such as, audio, video, or digital codes) can pose difficulties when working in conjunction with tangible materials. The storage, access, and usage of materials also need to be reconsidered. The key question is not …

I La Galigo By Robert Wilson, Margaret M. Hamilton

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No doubt a reference to Einstein’s Twin Paradox constitutes a seemingly incongruous opening to an appraisal of Robert Wilson’s latest production I La Galigo, inspired by an epic poem from South Sulawesi. However, Einstein is not only the subject of one of Wilson’s most acclaimed productions, but this brief allusion to his theory encapsulates the hypnotic dilation of time intrinsic to Wilson’s theatre. Wilson is known for his ability to transform the stage into a temporal sculpture that renders the presence of time aesthetically tangible through duration and repetition. His unique spatial construction imposes a kinetic logic on objects and …

Bilateral Petersham, Lucas M. Ihlein

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After I finished my blog project Bilateral Kellerberrin in WA (April-May 2005) I had an epiphany.

In Kellerberrin, I had an amazing time “getting to know the townsfolk” 2000km from home, but when I got back to my own suburb, I was struck by how little I knew my own neighbours.

So I decided to do the exact same project at home: and that’s what became Bilateral Petersham: April-May 2006.

Embedded Ecologies: Teaching Digital Theory In Art And Design, Su Ballard, C Mccaw

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We are both researchers in a traditional sense and also design and art practitioners. We work in an environment where our students make things as well as study theory. Our hypotheses surround our experiences, both as academic 'makers' and through our observations in the classroom. Our position is, that if practice and theory are integrated and embedded within art and design educational experience, meaning is brought to theory and thoughtful positioning to practice. There is a wide range of literature on the theory/practice relationship within art school environments. We draw on this material but in many ways diverge from it …

Susan Norrie - Exhibition Catalogue Essay: Taking Time, Su Ballard

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In ENOLA this shifted perception is multiplied many times over. We see the camera as it sees, we see the visitors to the themepark looking at the world below them as they step carefully between its buildings, we watch the tour guides watching that scene, we see the spaces of the installation, we see the stools which stand mutely before the screen, we see ourselves amidst others watching the screen. At no point do any of these levels of vision refer back to reality, but instead keep us aware of the multiple and material structures of the architectures of the …

Bilateral Blogging, Lucas Ihlein

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In this discussion I consider the social and aesthetic functions of participatory visual art practice, with specific reference to my recent project "Bilateral Kellerberrin". Nicholas Bourriaud, in his book Relational Aesthetics, argues that the current era is characterised by the “reification” of social interactions. For Bourriaud, everyday interactions have become commodified and transformed into products which can be sold back to us. Bourriaud sees a role for contemporary visual art in resisting this commodification of everyday experience. He asserts that art is able to bloom in the gaps which are not controlled or mediated by commerce. Some art practices, then, …

Life Of The System 1980 - 2005, Jacky Redgate

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“In 1980 I worked with sculptural objects that I exhibited as tableaux. They were based on a diary my mother wrote when I was hospitalized as a three-year old child. The sculptures were lost and I recently discovered photographic documentation of them shot in sunlight. I have enlarged them and restaged them as artistic documentation”.

Saltwaterfreshwater, Ian A. Mclean

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Aboriginal and settler Australians share the same place, and issues such as water, which this exhibition addresses, are important to each. So it should be no surprise that exhibitions combining Aboriginal and settler art are now commonplace. Yet each remains distinct from the other, despite the increasing tendency of Aboriginal art towards the aestheticised compositions of modernism, and settler art picking up on Aboriginal patterns, rhythms and colours. In this exhibition Richard Woldendorp's aerial photographs are a good example of the latter. While they have that Aboriginal 'look', they lack the intimate tactility of Aboriginal art: they are ethereal, not …