Flying Arts Event Calendar: Artists and Artsworkers

5 – 7 November 2024

10am – 4pm

Inviting four prominent Torres Strait Artists to experiment with emerging AI technologies, expanding their creative practice for digital projection.

This year, Flying Arts is overseeing the Judith Wright Arts Centre Projection Program, which transforms the building’s façade into a dynamic nightscape showcasing the works of regional Queensland artists. Supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, this initiative highlights innovative digital art. Past projection works can be viewed here: HERE

Awarded creative technologist and new media artist, Jessie Hughes who grew up on Moa and Thursday Island, will be returning to the Strait, to lead a 3-day AI workshop from the 5th to the 7th of November for four selected artists.

This free workshop will focus on the creative applications of AI for digital projections. Jessie will guide the artists through the AI platform Leonardo.Ai, culminating in the creation of projection artworks to be displayed on the Judith Wright Arts Centre façade in Brisbane from February to April in 2024. Each artist will receive a projection fee for their participation.

This is a unique collaborative opportunity between Flying Arts, Leonardo.Ai and the Gab Titui Cultural Centre this November. You can learn more about Jessie’s incredible work here: https://jessiehughes.com.au  and about Leonardo here: https://leonardo.ai/

Please note: this is a private program.

Spend 45 minutes online with Jonathan McBurnie, the Director of leading Queensland art gallery: Rockhampton Museum of Art. This online consultation is an opportunity to discuss and receive professional feedback on your artworks and arts practice.

Jonathan McBurnie is the Director of Rockhampton Museum of Art. McBurnie completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 2014, charting the shifting role of drawing in the digital age, emphasizing the discipline’s ongoing tenacity through tactility and, adaptability.

McBurnie is regularly involved in a variety of artistic, academic and curatorial projects. Currently he is working on his 23^rd solo exhibition, a graphic novel, and a follow up to 2023’s Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel (co-written with Adam Geczy).

Please bring questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of your session.

23 November 2024

10am – 4pm

Begging with a discussion around Lincoln Austin’s experiences of making art for public spaces, the group will then be presented with a Public Artwork Brief, outlining the parameters for the possible production of a public artwork in a specific location around Chinchilla. A group discussion to identify possible creative approaches, public safety issues, concepts, histories and any questions around the brief will guide us into a day of research, discussion, drawing and model making, either in small groups or individually. The workshop will conclude with each creative proposal being presented to the group for further discussion. Lincoln’s approach to teaching is as advisor and facilitator, the group is encouraged to negotiate the progression of the workshop. Lincoln will be present to offer candid advice, technical knowledge, and assist participants in expressing and refining their creative ambitions.

What to bring

• Writing material
• Hat
• Sunscreen
• Enclosed footwear
• Water bottle
• Lunch/snacks

Venue

Lapunyah Art Gallery Chinchilla

 86 Heeney St, Chinchilla QLD 4413

Cover image: Lincoln Austin

Spend 45 minutes online with Peta Rake, the Director and Senior Curator at University of Queensland Art Gallery. This online consultation is an opportunity to discuss and receive professional feedback on your artworks and arts practice.

Peta is the Director and Senior Curator at University of Queensland Art Museum. Her creative practice is currently attentive to transdisciplinary conversations focussed on blue research, working closely with artists and scientists to understand the psycho-social, political and gendered dimensions of coastal wetlands, sea country, intertidal zones, and the regeneration and articulation of these sites. Her work has always involved a large network of long-term collaborators and thinkers, with a keen interest in distributed curatorial work towards activism.

Rake’s previous roles at UQ Art Museum include Acting Director and Senior Curator. Before this she was located on Minhrpa (Banff), Treaty 7 Territory of the Îyârhe Nakoda, Tsuut’ina First Nation, and Blackfoot Confederacy where she was Co-Director of Creative Residencies, Visual + Digital Art Department and Curator of Walter Phillips Gallery/Banff International Curatorial Institute (BICI) (both at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada). She has also held roles at CCA (Ohlone/San Francisco) and Institute of Modern Art. She has developed projects at ISCP (Lenape/New York), Oakland Museum of California (Huichin/Oakland), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (Ohlone/San Francisco), Art Gallery of Alberta (Amiskwaciy Waskahikan/Edmonton), Luggage Store Gallery (Ohlone/San Francisco), and Esker Foundation (Mohkinstsis/Calgary).

Please bring questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of your session.