Podcast Program of Create World 2008

Watch the Episode, or right click links 1-3 below to download:
The Three Professors

1. Small version for iPods 320×240 pixels (45.5 mb)
2. Large version for iPods 640×480 pixels (81.5 mb)
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4. YouTube high quality version (embedded below). Hint: click on full screen button on the bottom right of the video – it looks good enough to show people

This episode is a little different from the others in the Create World 2008 Podcast Program. This 8 minute vodcast (video podcast) episode explains the character of Create World and provides a rich visual record of what happened at Griffith University in Brisbane Qld on the 7-10 December 2008.

We asked Professors Roly Sussex (UQ), Paul Draper (Griffith) and Phil Long (UQ) to reflect on the special character of Create World, and have brought you their subsequent discussion against the background of some 124 shots of this great conference, provided to us from hundreds taken by Stephen Johnston (ECU), editor, and Paul Godfrey (ECU), photographer, of the AUC magazine "Wheels for the Mind".

You can access this episode in different file formats and sizes. You can watch it on Youtube by clicking below, download it from the Podcast Program site by right clicking the links above, or have an iPod friendly version delivered to your computer as part of the program subscription.

Now we know a lot of you who attended Create World 2008 will enjoy the memories but we would like to encourage you to do much more with this episode.

Share the Wisdom and Promote Create World: Help your colleagues at your institution learn more about the knowledge and wisdom emanating from the conference. Set up a "brown-bag lunch" meeting or informal think-tank, where you can talk about ideas from Create World that may be of benefit to your institution. Use this episode as an introduction to the conference and then choose clips and ideas from any of the other 23 episodes in the Create World Podcast Program to explore those things that, as Roly Sussex says in this episode, "might take you to new places, and bounce you from where you are now to where you want to go next"

To help those who would like to run these meetings we have available a stand-alone player, for Mac OS only, which runs this presentation in an uncompressed stunning full screen mode. …. it’ll get their attention. It is a chunky 435 mb so please email Allan Carrington and we can work out how to get a CD to you.

Share your creative ideas: Help others who attended Create World 2008 by sharing with us how you use this presentation, and the other content in the Podcast Program, to disseminate your Create World learnings to your colleagues. Please contribute your ideas and experiences by commenting on this blog or better still, record your thinking on the comment board. Be part of the wisdom – and make Create World 2009 an even better experience.

Watch this Episode, which is a vodcast in three parts; files are mp4 format, playable on an iPod. To download please right-click links:

1. Conjectures in Digital Aesthetics part 1 34.9 mb
2. Conjectures in Digital Aesthetics part 2 38.7 mb
3. Conjectures in Digital Aesthetics part 3 36.8 mb

Panel members (L to R above): Prof Roly Sussex, facilitator (University of Queensland); Prof Paul Draper (Griffith University); Dr. Kate Foy (late of University of Southern Queensland); Prof Phil Long (University of Queensland).

Analogue and digital have re-defined their relationship in artistic production over the past two decades. This panel raises as many questions as it attempts to answer. What a perfect opportunity to use the feedback facility offered by this site!

Digital reigns for recording, the placing of output on permanent record in the performing arts. And it has won the day for dissemination for all the arts. True, one attends an exhibition. But what exhibition of note does not have a website, the better to project its work to an international audience?

In the visual arts, oils, paper, pastel, lithography, stone are surely still fundamental, not only to the artistic object, but also to its means of conception and production. And yet there are digital resources for graphic production, from CADCAM to drawing programs to digital printing, which meansthat the artist’s output is not just disseminated digitally, but is directly
experienceable in the digital form.

Nonetheless, there are many practices which will remain ‘analogue’. In fact it is the extended relationship between the new and the old that makes both traditional and now niche  practices more effective and sustainable. And then there are hybrids – a cross-mixing of analogue and digital.

The panel asks many questions:

• What is the relationship between digital and pre-digital artistic media?
• How does the new affect the old?
• How does the old affect the new?
• Does ubiquitous dissemination affect the status of the aesthetic experience?
• And what of creation?

Help formulate the responses to these questions. Watch these episodes and then go to the comment board to contribute your ideas.

Listen to the Episode: Digital Roadmap for e-Research

Paul Turnbull (Griffith University) is a key member of the expert working group that advises the Australian government on the e-research needs of the Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS). Over the period 2005-2011 there is some $542 million being invested in research infrastructure generally, via the NCRIS initiative of the former government, so Paul’s group is keen to ensure that an appropriate slice of that pie is allocated to the needs of the HASS sector. But how does the Creative Arts fit in here? What are its research infrastructure needs, and are these needs yet on the radar of government? And if indeed there is a digital roadmap for research infrastructure, can the Creative Arts fraternity find its car keys?

Find out more about NCRIS and the 2008 roadmap at: http://ncris.innovation.gov.au
And you might also be interested in downloading Our Cultural Commonwealth, the key US report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, from:
www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/OurCulturalCommonwealth.pdf

Listen to the Episode: Research on Trial

Universities, it seems, want to have their cake and eat it. They like the kudos of having great creative artists on staff. But, some claim, they also want the work of these artists to be measured by the same criteria applied to assess the productivity and impact of researchers more broadly across the university. Does this make sense?

In what ways is creative practice equivalent to research, and how can it be evaluated? And what initiatives are around that may bring creative arts practice and creative arts scholarship together with different fields of university enquiry to create new research paradigms?

Mark McMahon (ECU) led a provocative panel discussion on these sorts of questions at Create World 2008, and gave us his thoughts afterwards in this podcast episode.

Participants comments
Listen to the commentary:
Comments on Creative Arts Research

Steve Dillon (QUT) himself conducts some interesting creative arts research projects, and provided us with his own reflection on the issues canvassed at the panel session.

Stuart Medley (Edith Cowan University) seeks to understand the importance of the human visual system and its implications for represenation and graphic design. And he says that there is a paradox involved, in that we are able to communicate more accurately through less accurately rendered images.

In this podcast Stuart follows on from his Create World presentation and discusses ways to measure creative content in design that will fit in with University research metrics. How do we measure creativity in something that is functional as well as aesthetic?

You can find more about Stuart’s projects at Figures Magazine

Participants’ Comments

Listen to the commentary: On Graphic Design

Sian Carlyon and Tony Skinner were in the audience for Stuart Medley’s presentation and got quite a buzz out of it. Both Sian and Tony are from USQ, and both have a strong background in graphic design (unlike your out-of-his-depth interviewer!). We chatted to them afterwards, as the rain filtered in through the bougainvillea, about directions in graphic design and the impact of digital technologies.