February 2007
News and Events List
Contents
- Creative Media Exhibition Tours in Germany 8-28 February
- E-Learning Practitioner Program 2007 15 February
- Urban Fabric 2 March – 21 April
- The Ghost Writer
- Call for Papers
- Daniel Kruger Jewellery – RMIT Gold and Silversmithing>
- Students Nominated for Awards Galore
Creative Media exhibition tours in Germany
Australian Gothic: video art now (curated by Shaun Wilson)
- 8-28 Febuary
Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne - 8-18 Febraury
Directors Lounge, Berlin
Future international tour dates will be announced soon.
School of Creative Media's Shaun Wilson will be curating a selection of emerging and established Australian video artists presenting work that explores the idea of a 'gothic mode' and presented at both Project Space/Spare Room in Melbourne and the Directors Lounge in Berlin. This exhibition is presented by the Digital Cinema Research Group in the School of Creative Media.
E-Learning Practitioner Program 2007
Please note the Expression of interest forms are due for submission by Thursday 15 February 2007.
The E-Learning Practitioner program encourages TAFE staff to focus on different and innovative ways of engaging and motivating learners by using online environments, electronic media and technologies. Staff will develop their own skills in e-learning for teaching, training, facilitation and assessing students and integrate e-learning skills into their teaching practice.
The E-learning Practitioner program is designed for TAFE teachers with some experience in the use of IT in their teaching practice. Nominally one participant from each school will be selected and will be given time release in order to participate in the program. The emphasis of the program is on the practitioner’s ability to be innovative in their teaching through the use of technology.
Participants will design an e-learning pilot project in the second half of the year, which significantly incorporates the transformation and trial of selected e-learning technology, with existing students to enhance course delivery and maximise learning opportunities.
For more information and the expression of interest form visit http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/tafepd/index.html
or contact Filiz Ergec (E-learning Coordinator) on extension 54983, email filiz.ergec@rmit.edu.au
Urban Fabric:
Greige is being exhibited as part of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Opening Night: 01 March
Time: 6.00-8.00 pm
Exhibition Dates: 1–24 March
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm
Venue: West Space, 1st Floor, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne
Website: www.westspace.org.au
Urban Fabric: Greige is a conceptual photographic installation of Melbourne’s mid-twentieth century corporate architectural façades by Peta Carlin that explores the relationship between architecture & textile design in the construction & representation ofthe city.
In the 1950’s, with the advent of prefabrication of building profiles, the curtain wall was rendered ubiquitous & the multi-storey office tower, the skyscraper, became the icon of new-found corporate wealth & prosperity. The neutral aesthetic of the International Style was established as the urban attire in cities across the world. According to Gottfried Semper, tapestries & rugs were hung by early nomadic peoples to generate spatial divisions prior to any permanent structure being erected. As such, it was the ornamental surface, the portable screen rather than the fixed wall that defined space.
Through Urban Fabric, the photographic medium recontextualises the architectural façade & generates a critical dialogue between textile design, architecture & photography, resulting in an installation of contemporary cultural artefacts that document the changing nature of our city’s streetscape, & the craft implicit within its production. The representation of the buildings as swatches indicates that future & further applications are immanent, regardless of surface or form. This is alluded to in the subtitling of the exhibition via the term ‘greige’, a textile production term, which refers to the unfinished nature of cloth, despite the fact that it may be brightly coloured.
The physical siting, the very installation of the images that constitute Urban Fabric, is reminiscent of a Guild Hall, a Mechanic’s Institute or Masonic Lodge. Operating as a microcosm of the city, through the invitation of practising architects, designers, artists & craftspeople to use the space during the course of the exhibition, the role of the city not only as the place of transaction, but more importantly of interaction is heightened, as the collaborative nature of creative enterprise is bought to the fore. The practitioners’ use of the space highlights their role in the design, construction & representation of the city, & demystifies their activities to a certain extent, as they are rendered public, & open to view.
Through Urban Fabric: Greige, the city, our city Melbourne is celebrated, the role of the arts in its design & construction is heightened, & the city’s status as the centre for creative investigation is reaffirmed. With graphics by AM Editions and embroidery by Robbyn McDonald.
For further information, please contact:
Peta Carlin on 0422 528 117 or email her at peta.carlin@rmit.edu.au
The Ghost Writer
Melbourne Theatre Company
Date: 2 March – 21 April
Venue: Fairfax Theatre
More information: www.mtc.com.au/whatson.aspx?eventID
Written by Ross Muller
Directed By Julian Meyrick
Composition & Sound Design by Darrin Verhagen
Lighting by Paul Jackson
Starring Margaret Harvey, Belinda McClory, Raj Sidhu, John Wood
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are called for the third Women and Work monograph to be published by RMIT Publishing. A paper published in this monograph attracts DEST research points. Papers may be submitted by RMIT academics and research students.
Papers may deal with any aspect of the general topic of women and work and consider women and work issues in Australia or any other country. Papers published in previous Women and Work volumes included studies of microfinancing of women's entrepreneurial activities in Bolivia, of the impact of the tsunami on women's work in Sri Lanka, and of Filipina entertainers working in Korea as well as a consideration of Australian women's decisions regarding paid work and family life after childbirth, an exploration of feminist concerns about mediation practices, an analysis of the representation of businesswomen in an Australian business publication, and a study of employer and employee understandings of sex discrimination in the workplace.
Papers must be submitted by Friday, March 16 as a Word document attachment to an email sent to: kathy.douglas@rmit.edu.au
Once papers have been submitted, they will be sent out to at least two referees for blind refereeing, and authors will be advised of a decision regarding acceptance. Papers must conform to the specified presentation and formatting requirements. The presentation and formatting document may also be accessed from the RMIT Women and Work website.
Prof. Daniel Kruger, Jewellery
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Designe,Halle and der Saale. Germany
Title: Daniel Kruger Jewellery
Exhibition: 13Feb - 3 March, 2007
Venue: Gallery Funaki
Title: From the Known to the Unknown
Masterclass: 20- 23 February, 2007
RMIT Gold and Silversmithing
Title: An Artist’s Journey
Public Lecture: 21 February, 2007
Time: 6pm
Venue: RMIT Storey Hall
Born in South Africa and living in Germany principally in Munich Daniel Kruger has a longstanding personal view of jewellery. His transformative eye as a goldsmith converts jewellery traditions into new revelations and awakens our thinking to alternative jewellery stories. Shards of glass become the new diamond set jewellery. Chunks of shattered green glass become the new emerald necklace.
Daniel Kruger builds his own jewellery subversion of history. Banal jewellery types become exalted by a personal freedom to simplify, decorate and conjure the unpredictable. The historic jewel is pasture to say something about now. The formal language of an earlier era is given new meanings in gold, ‘found and collected objects’ to convey courtly and personal themes. There is an intimacy in the making and love abounds in the subjects and the aura. That is the jewellery and objecthood of Daniel Kruger.
International artist Daniel Kruger has exhibited extensively since 1980. He has taught throughout the world, in London at the Royal College of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, University of Indiana, and the Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery, Tokyo Japan and also in Pforzheim and Oslo. His works are held in many collections including the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Schmuckmuseum in Reuchlinhaus in Pforzheim and the Montreal Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
Prof. Daniel Kruger is a visiting researcher in the RMIT Gold and Silversmithing research program ‘Urban Settings’ for the Design Institute at RMIT. This event is an RMIT Gold and Silversmithing collaboration with Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.
Contact: robert.baines@rmit.edu.au for more information.
Students Nominated for Awards Galore
Each year a panel from the Design and Social Context Portfolio selects students to be put forward to the RMIT University panel for an array of prizes and awards. Nominations are called for in December of the year prior to the awards which include the Patricia Guthrie Memorial Award, the Institute Award Higher Education, the J. N. McNichol Award, the Beazley Award and the Institute Award VET.
Patricia Guthrie Memorial Award:
Awarded annually to an outstanding female student who has successfully completed an undergraduate degree program from the Higher Education sector of RMIT and who has demonstrated academic excellence and social and community contribution both within and outside RMIT.
Candidates:
- Jana Runge
- Loretta Davis, and
- Victoria Smith.
Jana Runge was nominated as best candidate; Loretta Davis was commended for her achievements in the arena of breast cancer patient garments
Institute Award Higher Education:
Awarded annually to a student who has successfully completed an undergraduate degree program from the Higher Education Sector of RMIT and who has demonstrated outstanding leadership potential and initiative, and who has an excellent academic record.
Candidates:
- Jeanne Madeline Bardin, and
- Stephanie Guyett.
Stephanie Guyett was nominated for this award.
J.N McNichol Award:
Awarded annually to a student who has successfully completed an undergraduate degree program from the Higher Education sector of RMIT and who has exhibited outstanding academic achievement and leadership potential and initiative.
Candidates:
- Nyssa Marrow
- Kate Church
- Stephanie Guyett, and
- Jillian Charlwood.
Jillian Charlwood was nominated as the DSC candidate or this award because of her initiative and leadership in volunteer work, dealing with personal challenges and excellent academic record. Kate Church was also commended.
Beazley Award:
Awarded annually, to an apprentice who demonstrates scholastic achievement and academic excellence in the RMIT TAFE sector. Selection for the Beazley Award is based on performance in the program, personal presentation, attitude to study, attitude to trade, future ambitions, recommendation of employer and recommendation of Head of Department/School.
Candidates:
- Rye Young, and
- Danielle Mueller.
Rye Young was chosen as it was felt that his achievements were more complete in terms of his apprenticeship and the way he maintained his academic achievement. Danielle was commended for her entrepreneurship.
Institute Award (TAFE):
Awarded annually to an outstanding student who has completed a Diploma or Advanced Diploma program from the TAFE sector of RMIT and who has demonstrated outstanding leadership potential and initiative, and who has an excellent academic record.
Candidates:
- Angela Clarke, and
- Lauren Hargreaves.
The panel nominated Angela Clarke.
This year’s selection panel was made up of Linda Daley, Fiona Peterson, Vicki Molloy, Liam Fennessy and Lisa Thompson-Gordon, and in her absence, Barbara Russell.
Watch this space to see if any of our DSC Portfolio nominations win an award in May
For further information contact Barbara Russell ext. 53226.
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