Index
Art, Knowledge and Globalization
A School of Art Research Cluster
Irene Barberis,Gertrude Street Metaspace, 2006.
John Billan, Number 1 from an Installation 'Consistence Existence Resistance'
Giclee pigmented print, 2007
Andrew Tetzlaff , Murder Ballads I, 2009
Nicholas Gresson,Vectors of Light, 2006, Photograph.
Matthew Watts, Quantum 8, Digital Print, 2006
This Research Cluster draws together artists, designers, critics, art historians and cultural theorists with a common interest in addressing the diverse relations of art, knowledge and globalization. Attention is given to the understandings, roles and values of art as a site of knowledge in the global knowledge economies. Projects interrogate urban and global conditions as they work through material, aesthetic, cultural and philosophical lenses. They engage practice and theory to address questions of art as a mediating process in social and cultural knowledge formations, indigeneity, creativity, identity, belief, heritage, aesthetics and technologies as forms of knowledge mediation and transformation. Projects are concerned with interventions through art and the re-imagining of personal, public and educational spaces in relation to forces of globalization. Art, Knowledge and Globalization is affiliated with projects in two RMIT Research Institutes: Art and Urbanism in RMIT Global Cities Research Institute; and Intervention through Art in RMIT Design Research Institute.
Key people
Professor Elizabeth Grierson, Research Cluster leader
Dr Irene Barberis
Dr Emma Barrow
Associate Professor Terry Batt
Professor Lesley Duxbury
Dr Phil Edwards
Associate Professor Peter Ellis
Associate Professor David Forrest
Shane Hulbert
Dr Kristen Sharp
Dr Les Walkling
Peter Westwood
Associate Professor Laura Brearley
Professor Michael A. Peters, Adjunct Professor, RMIT School of Art
Dr Natalie McDonagh
Postgraduate
Shane Hulbert PhD Candidate (RMIT). Photographing the Altered Landscape (Completion 2010). Senior Supervisor, Dr Keely Macarow; Supervisor, Dr Les Walkling.
Prapon (Joe) Kumjim DFA Candidate (RMIT). My Time is Not Your Time: cultural hybridity through the lens of an itinerant (Completion 2009). Senior Supervisor: Dr Keely Macarow; Supervisor, Dominic Redfern.
Kate Robertson, MA Candidate. The Artist as Anthropologist (Completion due 2012), Senior Supervisor: Shane Hulbert, Supervisor: Sally Cleary
Tammy Wong PhD Candidate (RMIT, APA Scholarship). The City as a CuratedSpace: Towards the creative city (Completion 2011). Senior Supervisor, Professor Elizabeth Grierson; Supervisor, Associate Professor David Forrest.
Maria (Tin Tin) Wulia PhD Candidate (RMIT). Precarious Spaces: Thin wobbly lines between dichotomies in geopolitical boundary negotiations (Completion 2011). Senior Supervisor, Associate Professor Linda Williams.
Projects
To find out more about the projects undertaken by the Art and Globalization cluster, visit the projects page.
Affiliated refereed publications
ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communications, Cultural & Policy Studies
Links
ACUADS Australia Council of University Art and Design Schools
AEA Art Education Australia
AEV Art Education Victoria
AUT University, New Zealand
The Global Studies Association, UK
InSEA International Society of Education through Art
RSA Royal Society of Arts
UNESCO Arts and Creativity
World Creativity Summit
Associate Professor Mark Jackson, AUT, New Zealand
Professor Xiaoping (Isadora) Jiang, Guangzhou University, PR China
Professor Karen Forbes, University of Edinburgh
Maria O’Connor, Senior Lecturer, AUT, New Zealand
Professor Michael Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Adjunct Professor, RMIT
Contact
Professor Elizabeth Grierson Ph.D., FRSA
Professor of Art and Philosophy
RMIT University, School of Art
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne,VIC, 3000 Australia
Executive of RMIT Design Research Institute; Program Leader of Intervention through Art research programs in Design Research Institute
Project Leader of Art and Urbanism projects in RMIT Global Cities Research Institute
Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, UK
World Councillor S.E. Asia–Pacific Region of InSEA International Society for Education Through Art
Executive Member of ACUADS, Australia Council of University Art and Design Schools
Executive Member of AEA Australia Art Education
Member International Committee of Global Studies Association UK
External Monitor Bachelor of Creative Industries, Wanganui School of Art, UCOL Universal College of Learning, NZ
Executive Editor of ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies (AUT Auckland, and RMIT Informit)
Consulting Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT), (Blackwell)
Editorial Board member of Australian Art Education (AEA)
Editorial Board member of International Journal of Education through Art (Intellect, Bristol)
Past Editor of ANZAAE Journal NZ
Founding Editor of Art News (Auckland NZ)