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Folksonomy With Practical Taxonomy, A Design For Social Metadata Of The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Peter W. Eklund, Peter Goodall, Timothy Wray, Vinod Daniels, Melanie Van Olffen

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a Digital Ecosystem that engages members of several communities, each with their own ontological relationships with the Pacific Collection of the Australian Museum. The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is intended to support on-line community interaction using social-media technologies to extend the annotation of objects to suit the stakeholder’s own needs. The success of the system depends on leveraging the diffusion of language and encouraging a conversation between on-line communities. In this paper we explore the relationships between stakeholders, folksonomy and taxonomy, to reveal the design forces on our digital ecosystem. Our analysis …

Push And Pull Redfern, Nick Keys, Astrid Lorange, Lucas Ihlein

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

“Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann ” (1963) is a participatory installation in which visitors arrange and re-arrange domestic objects and junk. The work was originally conceived as a parody of Allan Kaprow’s painting teacher, Hans Hoffman, who often used the phrase “push and pull” to describe the dynamics involved in two dimensional composition. Kaprow expanded Hoffman’s concept of compositional strategy, moving it beyond the canvas and into social space.

Participants in “Push and Pull” plan and implement alterations to the gallery space, co-operating or competing with each other in an ever-evolving furniture dance. “Push and Pull” …

"The Magicians Hat", Ian A. Mclean

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

With 30% of its population Aboriginal, the Northern Territory (NT) is a significantly different place to the southern coastal regions where most Australians live. So it should be no surprise that large numbers of Aboriginal artists are in the NT's newest contemporary art prize, the 'Togart Contemporary Art Award'. Last year they made up about 60% of the artists, this year 50% - which is the generally accepted estimate of the proportion of Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal artists in Australia.

City Of Wax, Su Ballard

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

City of Wax' is an art history of the present created from a found world of endless images. Over a period of 147 days I travelled across continents, surfaces, and islands capturing small moments of curiosity and anxiety within the noise. Monumental sounds were reduced to a murmur as surfaces blurred across vast distances. I became addicted to the journey spending more and more and more time in unfamiliar spaces. One day when I was no longer at home, the man who had always been outside my window simply packed up his blanket and left. Another day I saw fire, …

Swarm And Flicker - Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Su Ballard

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Locusts have no need for network technologies. For a locust to connect iphones, facebook and twitter are irrelevant. A day can start off pretty normal but in overcrowded conditions suddenly something totally new can be imagined and a swarm can amass momentum. Scientists now think that it is the overproduction of serotonin that causes this transformation and inspires the locusts to become mutually attracted, to gather, breed and eat.

Marrying Out Part 2- Between Two Worlds, Siobhan Mchugh

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

MARRYING OUT: a documentary radio series about mixed marriage and religious bigotry: 2 x 55mins

A woman is denied a deathbed visit to her father. A couple’s honeymoon vehicle is sabotaged. A man is cut out of three wills. Children practise their faith in secret. A quarter of the population is barred from applying for jobs.

The cause: religion. The place: Australia. The time: until the 1960s.

Just two generations ago, before multiculturalism was the norm, Australian society was polarised between two groups: Protestants and Catholics. Religion was code for identity, with tensions fuelled by historical grievances that dated back …