Pathways Project

Convergence Lab will provide participants with the opportunity to engage with (art) works in progress. These will be displayed throughout the Centre for the Arts during Stage 1 of the Lab.

Local artists, who will also be participating in the lab and are working with electronic media, are showcasing their works. The research environment also aims to generate dialogue and collegial insight, providing an opportunity to engage with these artists.

We invite you to share your experience of the work and any collaborative ideas with the artists.

Works displayed:
Foyer – 1^st floor
ARC/HIVE by Scot Cotterell
STITCH AND UNRAVEL by Linda Erceg

Cafeteria – 1^st floor
A PHILOSOPHY OF TOYS (REVISITED) by Nancy Mauro-Flude

Dechaineux Lecture Theatre – 1^st floor
UNTITLED by Raef Sawford

Seminar Room 108 – 1^st floor
THE RIVER PROJECT by David Stephenson and Martin Walch

Painting Studio – 3^rd floor
UNTITLED by Bill Hart
SAILING TO SAMOA (notes from a residency 2011) by Leigh Hobba

More information on these projects and artists can be found on our Convergence Lab website.

We have launched our ‘Convergence Lab’ website this week. An exciting program with a renowned group of catalysts is coming to Hobart in early December. Convergence Lab will explore emergent practice and the creative application of digital technologies.

The first three days of the symposium will be running under the theme ‘Provocation & Play’ and will provide a facilitated environment for collaborative investigation into digital culture and making.

Convergence Lab will also offer a professional development opportunity for educators. The units will span over the two 3-day symposia and college teachers will take actual projects back to their classroom environments.

Some 40 VET students have now joined the general student cohort at the Centre for the Arts. The Ceramics and Design in Wood studio areas were installed over January 2011 and Polytechnic students participated in the School of Art Orientation Day and received a briefing about key aspects of their program, including the logistics of accessing the Hunter St building and relevant services and support programs.

A review of Stage 1 of co-location will be undertaken by an independent consultant throughout Semester 1, 2011. This is to establish the relative success of Stage 1 implementation and to inform the delivery of the remaining two stages.

The Patchingzone is a transdisciplinary laboratory for innovation where Master, doctor, post-doc students and professionals from different backgrounds create meaningful content. In our laboratories the students and researchers work together, supervised by experts, on commissions with creative use of high-tech materials, digital media and / or information technology.

The Patchingzone brings together people who are interested in building a shared practice. The participants come from a range of educational programs such as art schools, design schools, social and computer sciences, technical programs, and industry.

*Congratulations to Allison Dower for winning the $200 Entrepot voucher for completing the Pathways on-line student survey !*

Thanks to all of the TSA students who participated in the Pathways on-line student survey. We’ve had lots of responses and really appreciate the time and thought that everyone has put into their answers, especially for the written feedback. Pathways has already surveyed a number of students from 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of the Bachelor of Fine Art through Focus Group sessions. This feedback will be combined with the survey responses to create a Student Feedback report for the School of Art.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s story is an example of an organisation in turnaround. Over the past few years it has embarked on an ambitious transformation of its famous Stratford-upon-Avon home. At the same time it has transformed its entire way of working by recovering its foundational principle of ‘ensemble’- using this as a creative and ethical principle, and as a management tool- and extending it from the rehearsal room to the organisation as a whole.

See the full publication at the Demos website.

The Australia Centre for Visual Technologies aims to promote innovation and education in the use of computer-based technologies for the production and analysis of digital media. The goal is to link creative activity in the digital arts with cutting-edge enabling technologies in computer science.  Potential fields of application include Film and Television Production, Computer Games Development, Urban Visualisation, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Video Security and Surveillance, Robotics, Data Visualisation and Human-Computer Interfaces.

For further information, visit the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies website.

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“Creativity is not only important within the creative sector: problem solving and design-led innovation have become sought after skills in the wider economy. Creativity also holds the key to tackling many century issues, from dealing with climate change to the growth of ‘mega-cities…’”

See the full story at: Making of Me (PDF 703KB)

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