Articles supporting AncillaryIPs
Broken
Dec 21st
By Gavin Artz – December 2011
Originally Published: NAVA Quarterly 11.4 Arts Policy
Artists are amongst the lowest paid workers in this country. Despite broad community goodwill for what arts practitioners do and relatively solid government support provided over a number of decades, the majority of artists are still some of the lowest paid workers in the country. What we have been doing isn’t working. More >
Do We Really Value Arts and Culture?
Aug 15th
By Gavin Artz – August 12th 2011
Originally Published: ANAT Filter Magazine
http://filter.org.au/issue-77/do-we-really-value-arts-and-culture
The continuing economic uncertainty we are experiencing sets the stage for an interesting international experiment; one you wouldn’t deliberately engineer, but informative because of its far-reaching impact. In retrospect, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was not so global – in Australia there was an initial, short-lived impact which was devastating for some, but ultimately not economically significant for the country. In contrast, Europe and North America are still experiencing ongoing collapse and austerity. This contrast makes it possible to test where arts and culture fit in the hierarchy of need in modern capitalist-based democracies. More >
You better make it count, because you’re voting every day
Jun 12th
by Gavin Artz – June 12th 2011
Originally Published: The City of Norwood, Payneham and St. Peters site “Thinking Through the City”.
Think back to a time before computers took over the work place. It is like an alien world, for some of us it is a fading memory, for those entering the work force it is a world that never existed. It is getting hard to wrap our minds around now, but back before computers skyscraper were the computers and employees were the transistors. Imagine the rows of employees crunching numbers for banks or accounting firms. They were acting as computers do now; fixated on a small piece of detail, making sure it was correct. This type of world led to a rather perverse concept of what the best use of human intellect was. More >
Flaky?
May 16th
by Gavin Artz – May 16th 2011
Originally Published: The City of Norwood, Payneham and St. Peters site “Thinking Through the City”.
http://thinkingthroughthecity.com/2011/05/16/flaky/#more-755
You wouldn’t do business with artists because they are too flaky, they do what they want to do, turn up when they want to and are not interested in making money, or worse they are hostile to making money. But it is not just artists; I get to hear the same thing about scientists. That’s interesting to me because I work with both on a daily basis and the thing that makes artists and scientists similar is their open ended, creative curiosity. A science paper is just a sign post of a much more complex exploration, the paper may give great insight, but the scientist continues to explore. The same is true of the artist’s exhibition. An exhibition is not a full stop, but a consolidation of thought and experience, readying them for much deeper exploration. So you wouldn’t do business with an artist or scientist because they exhibit unbound creative curiosity and business is up against it working on innovation, or application of ideas, let along spending time and money on mere speculation. Or it could be the best thing you ever did. More >
Would I travel for that?
May 11th
by Gavin Artz – May 11th 2011
Originally Published: The City of Norwood, Payneham and St. Peters site “Thinking Through the City”.
http://thinkingthroughthecity.com/2011/05/11/would-i-travel-for-that/#more-742
Last week, with some guilt, I went to Borders in the CBD to by a book. Guilty for picking over the bones of a dying business, guilty as the staff talked about their unknown futures. I was after a book that had been a business best seller for the last 6 years. Unexpectedly Borders had what I wanted on their shelves. I am so used to retail stores not having something in stock that my initial bad feeling left me and I got excited by the large 40% off tickets, I found my book and looked to the back for the price, calculated the discount and then it struck me, the deep problem that retail is facing. More >
Not for Profit Governance in a Post Facebook World
Mar 11th
by Gavin Artz – March 11th 2011
Originally Published: Chartered Secretaries Australia,” Keeping Good Companies: Journal of Chartered Secretaries Australia Ltd.” March 2011 Vol. 63, No.2
We “like” Facebook, growing numbers of us are communicating across this platform and other social media platforms. We are aligning ourselves with many causes, as well as devoting more of our spare time contributing to and working for these causes, but we don’t expect an AGM, or a board. Citizens are voting with their feet in acts of self-organised co-creation, they are looking for platforms, not programs. More >
Daily Democracy: Can Art and Technology Drive Social Change?
Nov 11th
By Gavin Artz – November 11th 2010
Originally published in Filter Magazine
http://filter.anat.org.au/issue-75/daily-democracy-can-art-and-technology-drive-social-change
This article is adapted from a talk given by Gavin Artz as a part of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) Blue Sky Sessions program. http://www.tacsi.org.au/blue-sky-session
Although the concept of the uncanny valley has been around since 1970, it has only become a widely encountered problem in the past five years. The term uncanny valley was coined by robotocist Masahiro Mori, and his was the first industry where questions of culture, psychology and humans interaction with technology became an issue. In the past five years other practitioners, including creators of digital images in gaming and simulations, have needed to grapple with this concept. More >
Creative Vision
Jul 1st
By Gavin Artz – July 5th 2010
Originally published in Filter Magazine
http://filter.anat.org.au/anat-reports/creative-vision/
“The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” William Gibson
This quote reflects what it is like to view the world through the work of ANAT, where we assist creative practitioners to develop the new ground where art, science, technology, culture, community and commerce meet in harmony. Looking back over six years of Filter Magazine you can see how creative practitioners working with science and technology not only foretell what will be the significant themes of research, but how we will be engaging with it culturally. More >
are we entering a new digital renaissance?
Mar 17th
An interview with Gavin Artz by the CIIC – March 17th 2010
Originally published by the CIIC
http://www.creativeinnovation.net.au/Features/Are-we-really-entering-a-new-digital-Renaissance-.html
Collaboration is at the heart of innovation – an area very close to Gavin’s heart, in his role at ANAT, an Adelaide-based organisation that represents those people with a creative passion for emerging technologies.
“There are scientists and artists who are currently innovating and developing intellectual property in order to create and do what they do. However, this needs to be recognised in order to enable future innovation,” Gavin says.
“There is an opportunity now – at this time in history – which could be considered the ‘new renaissance’ where science, art, engineering, creativity and innovation come together. More >
Our Trans-diciplinary Future
Feb 26th
By Gavin Artz- February 26th 2010
Origonally published in Filter Magazine
http://filter.anat.org.au/issue-73/our-trans-disciplinary-future
The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) has been working on interdisciplinary activity since the organisation’s inception in 1988.
Our Emerging Technologies [ET] Labs (originally Summer Schools), and ANAT’s Art Science [AS] residencies have shown what is possible when you happily break down the walls of specialisation and bring seemingly varied fields together. ANAT has nurtured this way of working over the past 21 years and we see the concept of interdisciplinary reaching its limit to describe the creative practice of the future. If creative practitioners are to develop enduring revenue streams, or find a place in society for the work they produce, it will not be in a traditional Artworld approach to culture and society. We are moving to a world where trans-disciplinary relationships will become more significant and ANAT is committed to making this future possible. More >
Creative Leadership Through Pure Research and Commercial Application
Feb 5th
By Gavin Artz- February 5th 2010
Origonally published on Mission Models Money
What is the future for the economies of developed counties? Corporations continually exhibit a lack of leadership and strategic thinking when it comes to the type of society and economy we desire (or even they desire). Strategy for them seems to be limited to short-term gains for a company within an industry, disallowing an expansive future not only for those companies, but also for society. Creative practitioners and the cultural sector have a more encompassing view of what it means to be citizen and have a greater propensity for this larger vision for our future. We often take this greater vision from creative practitioners for granted and we also tend marginalise the enormous impact that creativity has had economically. There is an untapped breadth of leadership for the future of society and the economy that is bound up in creative practitioners and the cultural sector. More >
Creative Cultural Practice and the Commercial in Harmony
Jan 14th
By Gavin Artz- January 14th 2010
Originally published on Mission Models Money
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
As CEO of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) I have experienced artists going through the patent process, rapid prototyping, engaging in scientific research and producing new applications in digital media. There is a myth about those involved in creative practice, that they are not interested in business. There is a difference though between not wanting to be a businessperson and not wanting to be involved in business. Many creative practitioners are interested in engaging with business, being commercial, but they want to pursue their creative vision and not spend a majority of there time focused on business outcomes. We have a creative core in our societies that are some of our lowest income earners (Throsby & Hollister 2003); that seems absurd when we are told the economy relies on people creatively resolving problems. More >
Who’s afraid of the creative industries?
Nov 25th
By Gavin Artz -November 25th 2009
Originally published in Filter Magazine.
http://filter.anat.org.au/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-of-the-creative-industries/#more-2870
We have a problem. Artists consistently average annual salaries that place them in the low income bracket (Throsby & Hollister 2003). Despite decades of development through funding and the gradual professionalisation of artist support organisations, like the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), we have seen little improvement in financial outcomes for artist. This is a huge failing of our current way of conceiving of the arts. We see the arts as creative endeavours isolated from the world, both commercial and social, where strong individual voices within a critical art-world dialogue are more important than cultural or economic outcomes (Brooks 2008). More >
Digital Folk Art – A whole new world of art that is not art
Nov 10th
By Gavin Artz- November 10th 2009
Origonally published on the Collections Australia Network
http://keystone.collectionsaustralia.net/publisher/Outreach/?p=3437
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” – Bertrand Russell
Digital folk art comes from open source technologies and associated open distribution channels and raises many questions for the arts.
The price of technology has fallen, often to nothing, as access to technology and technological know how has exploded. Whole open source industries offer easy to use, powerful, creative tools that build digital communities of shared creative meaning. There is a digital culture that creates and distributes online, that reflects on the world and represents it to a community ready to digest. More >
