Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
Those planning to attend the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference this year will be relieved to know that, due to COVID challenges, the conference will be delayed for 12 months. The event planned for 2020 will now take place in Sydney in December 2021. The annual
Professor Elizabeth Findlay has been appointed as Director of Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Professor Findlay was previously Director, International at Griffith’s Arts, Education and Law group. She is QCA’s first female director since the college was established in 1881.
The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) has complied resources and guidance to assist with art and design studio teaching, practice and lab based assessment while off campus learning protocols are in place. Anyone wanting to learn more or share their own resources across the art and
Congratulations to colleagues at UNSW Art and Design who have secured three ARC Linkage grants recently: Professor Dennis Del Favero, will investigate an interactive spatial aesthetic for modelling operatic rehearsal design to optimise and streamline design processes in the performing arts industry; Dr Guy Keulemans, will generate new knowledge in
MLIVE at Monash University Clayton has launched the Sound Gallery Sessions, music live-streamed from the David Li Sound Gallery from 7pm each Wednesday. The line up includes Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier, Lior and Paul Grabowsky, and Hoang Pham. More information: https://www.monash.edu/mlive/whats-on/events/sound-gallery-sessions
The University of Melbourne Nourish your mind website provides access to a range of student dance performances, creative talent skills and art and artifacts in the Ian Potter Museum. More information: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/community/home/nourish-my-mind
Welcome to the 27th edition of NiTRO. It is difficult to know where to start to write an introduction that will not seem out of date by the time it is published. The COVID-19 virus has changed our world forever, and let us hope that some of what we
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team, led by musician and engineer Markus Buehler, have employed AI to convert the shape of protein structures found on SARS-CoV-2 into a musical equivalent resulting in a score with a “pleasant, even relaxing, tone”. By capturing the arrangement of amino acids and protein chains into audible
The Australia Council has announced that it will provide approximately $5 million to the 2020 Resilience Fund to provide support for Australian artists experiencing negative effects of COVID 19. Funding, by application, is available in three streams: Survive: Small grants for individuals, groups and organisations to offset or recoup money lost
The Australian Research Council has announced a delay to the planned the ERA Engagement and Impact Review. The public consultation phase will now take place towards the end of 2020 and the ARC will report back on outcomes of the consultation in 2021. The next rounds for ERA and EI