Posts tagged citizen
Our World Today Interviews Gavin Artz on 3D Printing
Dec 8th
Gavin Artz is inetrviewed by Emma Manser of Our World Today following his TEDx Adelaide talk on 3D printing and its impact on art, culture, community and the economy. http://www.ourworldtoday.com.au/news/article/now-for-something-completely-different
“Business and industry need to learn how to work with creativity better… art and design, science and technology, need to learn some more business industry skills so they can meet in the middle.” - Gavin Artz
Digital Cultural Policy – Public Sphere Consultation
Oct 6th
publicsphere on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
It was a long, rewarding and interesting day. On the 6th of October Gavin Artz was asked to give his views on the future of the arts and its relationship to digital culture. Entitled “Leadership and Responsibility” Gavin covered art, technology, research, industrial processes and education. Senator Kate Lundy and Pia Waugh put in an enormous effort to be inclusive and democratic in the best possible sense. It is worth hearing all the contributions, but Gavin Artz presentation starts at 30 minutes with an impromptu feedback spot as a bonus for those seeing the whole video.
The Office of Senator Kate Lundy in collaboration with the Office of Minister Simon Crean is running a Digital Culture Public Sphere consultation to look specifically at the digital arts and industries as well as opportunities for cultural institutions around digitisation, public engagement and collaboration. http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere
Vibewire fastBreak
Sep 28th
Gavin Artz presented some musings on democracy, art, science and the trans-disciplinary at Vibewires fastBreak session at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum in September 2011.
fastBREAK is a breakfast innovation series produced by Vibewire and the Powerhouse Museum. On the last Friday of every month, bright eyed Sydney siders gather to meet, greet and listen to 5 young industry leaders give rapid fire talks. It’s food for thought! - http://vibewire.org
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 >
Gavin Artz at User Generated Cities
Feb 23rd
While the rain poured down on the opening night of the Adelaide Fringe, a collection of Australia’s forward creative thinkers converged on Adelaide for Format Festival’s User Generated Cities Forum.
By Katie Spain “Adelaide Now” 23rd Feburary 2011
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 >
