Research Centre - Index

•      June 2008
  NeoCraft: modernity and the crafts international conference was held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada in November, 2007, as part of the Canadian Crafts Federation's Craft Year 2007/Annee des metiers d'art. The aim of the conference was to acknowledge the vital role the crafts play in culture and economy and to furthur develop critical thinking, theory and history in relation to the crafts.
  The Ecological is Polictal   Peter Hughes
•      April 2007
  Smart Works symposium and exhibition was initiated by the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney in association with Grace Cochrane and with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts. The symposium was held at the Powerhouse Museum in March, 2007 and explored the effects of shifts in the West away from large manufacturing industries and towards 'creative industries', high-cost commodities and tourist economies.
  Craft·design and the creative industries: An Australian perspective   Catrina Vignando
•      February 2007
  WearNow Symposium was initiated by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)in collaboration with the Craft Australia, Centre for New Media Arts and the Australian National University School of Art. The WearNow symposium was held in association with reSkin Wearables Lab - a three week intensive research and development program focusing on wearable technology, embracing the skill-based practices of object and fashion design.
  Cyber-Jewels and Techno-Gadgets: Smart Ornament   Susan Cohn
  Distribution - craft and speckled computing   Sarah Kettley
• Danielle Wilde was a participant in the reSkin Wearable Lab. The first prototype of hipDisk was conceived during the program and this paper is presented in response to the project.
  hipDisk - an interactive sonic system inspired by core-body gesture   Danielle Wilde
•      August 2006
  Selling Yarns: Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century , was initiated by The Australian National University (ANU), National Institute of the Humanities and Creative Arts in association with the ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Centre for Cross Cultural Research and School of Art, in partnership with Craft Australia and Territory Craft. The conference was held in Darwin, Australia in August, 2006 and investigated best practice and sustainability in the Indigenous textile industry.
  Native Weaving: Enduring Traditions of Life and Commerce   W. Richard West, Jr.
  It's all Art, but still we have a "Fibre Problem"   Tim Acker and Jon Altman
  Buying with Insight: the value of research   Louise Hamby
  How Maningrida artists market their work   Apolline Kohen
  A story is like a River: Intercultural collaboration in Weaving the Murray
  Kay Lawrence and Nici Cumpston
  Patterns of practice - Indigenous fibre art and museums   Lindy Allen
  Raising the profile of Indigenous artists   Lola Greeno
•      July 2006
  Verge: 11th National Ceramics Conference, hosted by Fusions, was held in July, 2006 in Brisbane. The focus of the conference was sustainability for the individual and the collective. Keynote speakers, presenters and pannelists debated issues around contemporary ceramics practice and looked at what could be done to ensure a sustainable future.
  The Distributed Studio Janet DeBoos
  Generation NEXT Mel Robson
  The value of the collective and the community Carole Hanson Epp
  Valuing online communications and documentation Avi Amesbury
•      February 2006
  Cultural Strands/Woven Visions, hosted by FORM: Contemporary Craft and Design in Western Australia, was held in February, 2006 in association with the exhibition opening of Woven forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia. The conference explored current paradigms of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous fibre art sectors, and discussed past, present and future directions.
  Cultural Strands/Woven Visions Virginia Kaiser
  
•      January 2006
  on Location: Making stories: siting, citing, sighting, the Jewellers & Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) 2006 biennial conference was hosted by JMGA-NSW Inc. in Sydney in January, 2006. The conference aimed to take makers, collectors, critics and thinkers out of the comfort zone of their normal environments and places them ‘on location’; a hypothetical site where speculation, inspiration and the accidental can emerge and diverge, questioning the place of the production of meaning and examining the results of that production.
  Mercury re P: on Location  Keynote address   Margaret West
  
•      November 2005
  Interpreting Contemporary Craft was presented in association with the Transformation: the language of craft program held at the National Gallery of Australia in November, 2005.
  Reading ceramics after Modernism Tanya Harrod
  How to change the world without making too much noise Kevin Murray
  Australian contemporary craft, an innovation player in the creative industries Christine Ballinger
•      3 June 2005
  Challenging Craft
  Papers published on the Challenging Craft website from the international conference held at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen in September 2004. The topics discussed covered Approaching technology; Hybridity; The Academy; Craft articulating culture; and Cultures of display.
• Craft Australia's President Kay Lawrence and Director Gilbert Riedelbauch presented the following papers at the conference.
  Weaving the Murray: mapping connection and loss Kay Lawrence
  Craft and new technologies, implications for practice Gilbert Riedelbauch
•      25 January 2005
  The Flower in the Wound: Situations & Reflections by Margaret West, contemporary Australian jeweller was presented as part of the IASPIS Craft in Dialogue program in 2004.
•      June 2004
  Craft Australia published eight discussion papers in 2004 as part of Interact: Contemporary craft in a digital future, the Craft Australia online forum.
  A match made in heaven   Susan Ostling
  Ceci n'est pas un 'basket'   Margie West
  Handmade at the heart of things   Grace Cochrane
  The argument against design   Peter Hughes
  Translating concepts into Applied Ideas   Jane Andrew
  Untitled   Suzie Attiwill
  What's in a name?   Gilbert Riedelbauch
  Zero to one thousand to nothing   Robert Cook