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04/ 14/ 16/ DAY OF CONTEMPORARY ART DIGITAL MEDIA STEPS OUT VISITING ART/DESIGN PROGRAM Art & Design COPYRIGHT © 2009 FACULTY OF ART & DESIGN, MONASH UNIVERSITY, THE WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED, STORED IN A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS, ELECTRONIC, MECHANICAL, PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHER. THIS MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED BY THE FACULTY OF ART & DESIGN, TO INFORM READERS OF NEWS AND EVENTS FROM THE FACULTY, AS WELL AS THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ITS STAFF, STUDENTS AND ALUMNI. EDITOR: YOUNA ANGEVIN-CASTRO, CASTRO COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN: SWEET DESIGN PRINTING: ERWINS PRINTING COVER IMAGE: TRINH VU SACRED SEASON, 2009 PAPER, 80CM X 80CM X 80CM Issue/08 2009 04/ DAY OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN PRATO 05/ ARCHIVE/COUNTER ARCHIVE 06/ ON THE MOVE 08/ NEWS AND EVENTS 12/ DESIGN/BUILD 14/ DIGITAL MEDIA STEPS OUT 16/ VISITING ART/DESIGN PROGRAM 18/ PROFILE: DARREN SYLVESTER Welcome/ It has been a prolific year for the Faculty of Art & Students have also been very successful. Industrial Silvia Acosta from the Rhode Island School of Design Design, with a number of Faculty members recognised Design graduate Robert Dumaresq won the top prize and James Angus, an Australian-born artist with a for their research excellence and creative practice at the Australian International Student Design Awards: significant international profile, now based in New through the award of many of the country’s top prizes The James Dyson Award for his ‘Switch’ Commuter York. The Faculty has also signed an artists’ residency and research grants. Bike, a bike designed for easy handling on public exchange agreement with Tokyo Wonder Site, a transport. The James Dyson Award represents the leading centre for contemporary art, in conjunction Two Australia Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects highest achievement for industrial design students in with Monash University Museum of Art and Asia Link, were funded for commencement in 2009: Head of Australia, and his win signals a bright future for the which from 2010 will see some of Japan’s leading the Department of Design, Associate Professor Arthur young graduate. Robert will now compete in the global visual artists undertake a three month residency and de Bono, was successful in gaining funding for the James Dyson awards, and the Faculty wishes him exhibition with the Faculty. research into design of underground coal mining every success in the competition. vehicles; and Professor Anne Marsh, Dr Daniel Palmer Finally I would like to welcome the Monash Museum of and Dr Melissa Miles, from the Department of Theory Now in its second year of operation, the Architecture Modern Art (MUMA) to the Caulfield Campus. Galleries of Art & Design, will investigate the changing nature of program is going from strength to strength. are being developed between the Fine Arts and Art & public photography. Professor Anne Marsh also won The undergraduate program has again attracted Design buildings in conjunction with the Sir Ian Potter an ARC Discovery Grant to document performance art outstanding applicants, while the PhD program has Sculpture Court, to create a true ‘art precinct’ for the and video performance. been equally successful, bringing five new candidates Campus. Designed by Kerstin Thomson Architects, to the Faculty. The program also received funding from the new galleries will enable MUMA to expand its In 2008, two of only four national Australia Council the Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and exhibitions and public programs and increase its Fellowships were awarded to Marian Hosking, Innovation (VESKI) for a visiting Research Fellow and interaction with Faculty programs. Set to open in mid- Co-ordinator of the Metals & Jewellery Studio and public lecture series, which funded lectures by visiting- 2010, it will be a major asset for the University, the Kathy Temin, Department of Fine Arts. Fellow fine architect Nader Tehrani from MIT and Office dA in Caulfield Campus and art inA ustralia. arts academics Lilly Hibberd and Dr Tom Nicholson Boston. The program has also attracted an endowment were also awarded Australia Council grants for the for a PhD scholarship in perpetuity, a major research development of new works, while Kathy Temin, Susan grant from the Victorian Government for research into Purdy and Dr Brad Haylock received four Arts Victoria sustainable housing, as well as research projects for grants between them. the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority and other organisations. Gene Bawden and Vince Dziekan were each awarded British Council Design Researcher Awards to The Visiting Artist and Designer Program continues Professor John Redmond undertake research projects in the UK, where they Foundation Dean to bring international art and design practice to the Faculty of Art & Design will be able to develop new links between research Faculty, and this year we will welcome Professor centres in the UK and Australia. The Giornata del Contemporaneo (translated as Day of Contemporary Art) is an annual event coordinated by AMACI, the Italian Contemporary Art Museum Association. In its fifth year, the event attracts the involvement of approximately 1000 cultural institutions, with the ambition of introducing the general public to the vibrant world of contemporary art through a program of free exhibitions, workshops, events and conferences. Since 2007, Monash Art & Design students have been involved as part of the Day of Contemporary Art program through The Monash Centre in Prato. Members of the public are invited to see an exhibition of works created by students as part of the Fine Arts semester program Day of offered by the Faculty. Contemporary Art in Prato ATION IN ART IN ATION 01/ C RATO PROGRAM PROGRAM RATO P W E EXPLORES LO N Art & Design students will have the opportunity to be involved in a new study abroad program offered for the first time in 2009. Culturescape is a 5-week intensive residency program offered at The Monash Centre in Prato, developed in collaboration with the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art at University College, London. Led by Vince Dziekan, Head of the Department of Multimedia and Digital Arts, the program, which is scheduled for October, will focus on emerging location-based practices involving creative technology, locative media and site-specific art. “The program will give students the opportunity to move out of the computer lab, to an unfamiliar location, and explore the growing role of location and site-specificity through digital media,” Vince said. During their stay, students will have the opportunity to develop individual and collaborative projects that 02/ 03/ respond creatively to experiences of place, space and community. Through the integration of fieldwork in and around Prato, complemented by seminar critiques 01/ and studios, participants will be encouraged to explore ARTWORK BY SUZIE FLUCHER-MEREDITH emerging location-based practices. 02/ ARTWORK BY LOUISE CORONEL 03/ ARTWORK BY LOUIS PatteRSON 05/ Archive/ Counter Archive ART & DESIGN HOSTS CONFERENCE IN PRATO The practice of drawing continues to hold a position of significance at Monash Art & Design, and was the special focus of an international conference co-hosted by the Faculty at The Monash Centre in Prato, Italy. The two-day conference, titled Archive/Counter Archive, was held on the 10th and 11th of July, and featured two days of vibrant discussion about the relationship between contemporary art and the archive. Presented in partnership with The Centre for Drawing, a research centre of the University of Arts, London, the conference explored the particular relationship of drawing and the archive through both the capacity and focus of contemporary artists using drawing to originate, locate, develop and interpret archival collections, and the reflection on the role of the archive in narrative, collective memory and identity. The conference featured a program of 12 speakers and discussion sessions. Keynote addresses included presentations by Professor Okwui Enwezor of the San Francisco Art Institute, and art historian, writer and curator Dr Charles Merewether. Presentations by Kit Wise and Tom Nicholson of the Department of Fine Arts were also included in the conference program. In addition to the main program, the conference included a number of satellite events held within the surrounds of The Prato Centre. The principal satellite project was a collaboration with Dryphoto, a widely-renowned contemporary art space directly opposite Palazzo Vaj. Funded by the Commune of Prato, the project comprised two workshops on the relationship between contemporary art and the archive, the first for a select group of young Italian curators, the second bringing together these young curators and a group of emerging Italian artists. The project culminated in an exhibition installed at Dryphoto, public spaces around Prato, and Palazzo Vaj itself, which opened on the evening prior to the conference. The conference was the initiative of CARGO, an independent association of artists, writers and curators based at Monash Art & Design. It was the second in a series of conferences co-organised by the faculty and The Centre for Drawing, the first being Drawn Encounters, Complex Identities, a conference discussing drawing and inter-cultural encounters, held at the British School in Rome in September 2008. On the move: designing for the commuter experience 01/ As demand for public transport services continue to grow throughout Australia, “There have been occasions where I have witnessed behaviours that made me researchers in the Department of Design at Monash Art & Design are looking at uncomfortable, and I would like to be able to change that by making travellers feel safer.” new ways to improve the commuter experience. Jessica is currently investigating the causes of low-risk antisocial activities, “Members of the design department are currently working on a number of research such as graffiti, damage to property and littering, which are less threatening, projects which address some of the issues associated with public transport design,” but are also more common.