Flying Arts Event Calendar Workshops
march
02mar10:00 am4:00 pmAbundant Art - Creativity in an Era of AIEducator Workshop
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
LANTANA Space
15 Allen St, Moffat Beach QLD 4551
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 2nd March Join Jessie Hughes and John Swinson for a big day of AI! In this full-day workshop, we delve into the shifting realm of generative AI
Event Details
10am – 4pm Saturday 2nd March
Join Jessie Hughes and John Swinson for a big day of AI! In this full-day workshop, we delve into the shifting realm of generative AI and how to bring these new tools into your art practice. Discover how fresh evolutions with AI are intersecting storytelling, production, prototyping and artistic processes, as well as how to leverage this technology within your own workflow.
Participants will also have the opportunity to explore a range of legal issues and questions related to AI, NFTs and digital art, such as:
- Is it infringement to use GenAI to create art?
- Who owns what is created?
- What moral rights issues arise because of GenAI?
- What is happening outside Australia in the legal space regarding GenAI?
- What new laws are proposed?
This session provides a balanced exploration of AI’s impact on the creative industries, while including live demonstrations of generative AI processes. By the end of the day, we will have all created a creative project, built completely with generative AI (scripted, edited, visualised, with generated music and all!)
What to bring
Flying Arts Alliance recommends having note taking materials on hand. Any resources will be shared online prior to the workshop. Please bring questions that you may have for Jessie and John.
Venue
LANTANA Space. 15 Allen St, Moffat Beach QLD 4551.
This intensive will be held at LANTANA Space; a socially conscious experimental contemporary art space designed to foster arts on the Sunshine Coast. LANTANA is an Artist Run Initiative (ARI) in Caloundra on Gubbi Gubbi Country. Founded and run by artists Ebony Busk, Coen Keyte, Jordyn Burnett and Warwick Gow each working across various visual and performative mediums. Their aim is to connect the community and engage people with current and experimental art on the Sunshine Coast. This space is run by artists to support artists in works that are experimental, experiential and innovative through its offerings of exhibition and studio spaces, workshops, events, publications and creative output. Not only do they aim to facilitate other practitioners, they also hope to educate and share current arts practises with the broader community.
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitators: Jessie Hughes is an internationally-recognised Australian new media artist, technologist and screenwriter, her works having exhibited most notably at Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Cannes and the Tate Modern. Hughes has been named one of Australia’s Future Changers for her commitment to using digital innovation for positive social impact, and was awarded Australia’s prestigious 2020 Sir John Monash Scholarship. Hughes has designed and implemented solutions for tech-giants such as Oculus, Facebook, and Adobe, and has been featured in over 120+ media articles across radio, newspaper and TV. She is an American Australian Association Arts Scholar, Winston Churchill Fellow, Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellow and a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador. Professionally, Jessie works as a Creative Technologist, toying at the intersection of design, technology, art, research and strategy for social innovation.
John Swinson is a professor at The University of Queensland in the Law School and he is course coordinator for Privacy Law, Internet and AI Law, and Business in a Borderless World. John also teaches cybersecurity law and copyright law. He is a former partner of a major international law firm and has 30 years of law firm experience in NY and Australia, with principle focus on technology law and intellectual property law. Currently, he is principal of boutique law firm Pie Legal.
After graduating from UQ with computer science and law degrees, John continued to Harvard Law School as a Fulbright and Frank Knox Scholar where he received a Masters of Law. Barak Obama was a member of his graduating class. John passed the NY bar examination and practiced technology law as an attorney in NY State. John is a past President of the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association and was Chair of the auDA Policy Review Panel to introduce the new .au domain name space in Australia.
Since 2000, John has been an arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO, which is a United Nations organisation based in Geneva) under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and au Dispute Resolution Policy (auDRP). John has decided over 690 domain name disputes.
John has represented artists and filmmakers in copyright litigations and dealings including:
Richard Bell v Steele [2012] FCA 246
TS Production LLC v Drew Pictures Pty Ltd [2008] FCA 1329
Dais Studio Pty Ltd v Bullet Creative Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 2054
23mar10:00 am1:30 pmClever Coptic Bookbinding - CairnsArtist and Artsworkers Workshop
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 1:30 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Cairns Court House Gallery
38 Abbott St
Event Details
10am – 1:30pm Saturday 23rd March Join Cairns-based contemporary artist and arts educator Rose Rigley and learn the fundamentals of bookbinding. Participants (14yrs+) will be guided to create an A5 hand-made,
Event Details
10am – 1:30pm Saturday 23rd March
Join Cairns-based contemporary artist and arts educator Rose Rigley and learn the fundamentals of bookbinding. Participants (14yrs+) will be guided to create an A5 hand-made, open-bound book using the Coptic stitch binding method. Each participant will craft one unique book, learning how to create pages, make covers, layout signatures, and techniques for binding.
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to
- Use traditional binding equipment
- Create sections and hand sew the book block using single-needle Coptic stitch
- Create an open-bound hard cover book
- Work with adhesives and decorative papers to create individual outcomes
This is a fast-paced workshop, with some pre-preparation provided. Rudimentary skills in measuring, cutting, and stitching are beneficial, but not essential.
What to bring
Flying Arts Alliance recommends having note taking materials on hand. Any specific paper, natural fabrics, ribbons, or recycled artwork to create a unique finished product is optional.
Venue
Cairns Court House Gallery 38 Abbott St, Cairns City QLD 4870.
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitator:
Rose Rigley is part of artist collective Sixold Project. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows at a regional, national and international level. Her artist books have won both minor and major art awards. After studying bookbinding at the Centre of Book Arts, New York, and undertaking a mentorship with specialist book artist Adele Outteridge, Rose can now create a book structure in more than 40 different ways.
april
Time
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Cairns Court House Gallery
38 Abbott St
Event Details
9am – 4pm Saturday 20th of April UQ Art Museum is proud to partner with Flying Arts Alliance to deliver this one-day intensive Cultural Mediation workshop at the Cairns
Event Details
9am – 4pm Saturday 20th of April
UQ Art Museum is proud to partner with Flying Arts Alliance to deliver this one-day intensive Cultural Mediation workshop at the Cairns Court House Gallery on the 20th of April 2024.
This workshop is a professional development opportunity for artists and artsworkers that will advance their knowledge and approach to visitor engagement through exposure to cultural mediation practice and principles defined by UQ Art Museum cultural mediators.
About this workshop
Cultural mediation is a visitor engagement practice that sees museum staff and volunteers’ journey alongside the visitor in an act of mutual exchange. In this interactive workshop you will explore the history and foundations of cultural mediation from its conceptual European origins, and building on this, experiment with UQ Art Museum’s guiding principles, which underpin the practice. Participants will have the opportunity to put cultural mediation into practice, extend their engagement skill sets and will leave with a renewed perspective of the visitor experience and practical tips and tools to develop cultural mediation into a bespoke engagement model.
Workshop outline:
Session 1: Welcome and Workshop Overview l Introduction to cultural mediation l History of cultural mediation l Guiding principles
Session 2: Active listening activity | Role of the mediator | What makes cultural mediation different to other visitor engagement models
Session 3: Honouring different perspectives | Thinking about audiences
Session 4: Navigating Difficult conversations | Final Reflection
About UQ Art Museum
UQ Art Museum is a site for progressive and contemporary creative inquiry. Our work speaks to the distinct context of the Art Museum’s place within the University. We aim to connect each visitor with new ideas in creative practice, and with learning in its many forms.
We collect and exhibit progressive works of art, which stimulate dialogue and debate. We’re committed to opening up dialogue with the faculties, research institutes and centres of the University, and to place education at the core of our activities.
UQ Art Museum:
- provides creative, active learning through specialised, curriculum-based experiences to diverse disciplines. These include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Education, Drama, Linguistics, Art History, Museum Studies, and Economics (see UQ Student Strategy > Authentic assessment);
- produces cross-disciplinary, research-based exhibitions that partner with a variety of academics and disciplines on campus; in doing so, contributing productively to Excellence in Research for Australia outcomes, and the Australian Research Council’s Engagement and Impact assessment; and
- provides industry-based training to UQ students to equip them for careers in the arts and humanities. The Art Museum aims to be a national leader in industry-based education.
What to bring
Flying Arts Alliance recommends having note taking materials on hand. Please bring any questions that you may have.
Venue
Cairns Court House Gallery, 38 Abbott St, Cairns City QLD 4870.
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitators: Dr. Carol Masel and Nikia Tester
Dr. Carol Masel has worked as a Cultural Mediator at the University of Queensland Art Museum for 3 years and as a volunteer Guide at the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art for nine years. Over this time, and across both institutions, Carol has supported visitor engagement with passion and commitment. At the UQ Art Museum, she has recent involvement with the development and delivery of Cultural Mediation training at the Somerset Regional Gallery. Carol also draws on her past professional background working in health-related disciplines in large public hospitals and in universities to facilitate meaningful, inclusive and accessible shared conversations with gallery visitors.
Nikia Tester is a GLAM sector professional with interests in Audience Engagement, Queer & Gender Studies. She holds a BA in Art History and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies. Nikia is a facilitator of Cultural Mediation at UQ Art Museum and continues to practice in this space, in addition to her role as a Museum Officer with Moreton Bay City Council.
june
Time
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Event Details
9am – 4pm Saturday 29th of June UQ Art Museum is proud to partner with Flying Arts Alliance to deliver this one-day intensive Cultural Mediation workshop at the Queensland
Event Details
9am – 4pm Saturday 29th of June
UQ Art Museum is proud to partner with Flying Arts Alliance to deliver this one-day intensive Cultural Mediation workshop at the Queensland Museum Cobb+Co on the 29th of June 2024.
This workshop is a professional development opportunity for artists and artsworkers that will advance their knowledge and approach to visitor engagement through exposure to cultural mediation practice and principles defined by UQ Art Museum cultural mediators.
About this workshop
Cultural mediation is a visitor engagement practice that sees museum staff and volunteers’ journey alongside the visitor in an act of mutual exchange. In this interactive workshop you will explore the history and foundations of cultural mediation from its conceptual European origins, and building on this, experiment with UQ Art Museum’s guiding principles, which underpin the practice. Participants will have the opportunity to put cultural mediation into practice, extend their engagement skill sets and will leave with a renewed perspective of the visitor experience and practical tips and tools to develop cultural mediation into a bespoke engagement model.
Workshop outline:
Session 1: Welcome and Workshop Overview l Introduction to cultural mediation l History of cultural mediation l Guiding principles
Session 2: Active listening activity | Role of the mediator | What makes cultural mediation different to other visitor engagement models
Session 3: Honouring different perspectives | Thinking about audiences
Session 4: Navigating Difficult conversations | Final Reflection
About UQ Art Museum
UQ Art Museum is a site for progressive and contemporary creative inquiry. Our work speaks to the distinct context of the Art Museum’s place within the University. We aim to connect each visitor with new ideas in creative practice, and with learning in its many forms.
We collect and exhibit progressive works of art, which stimulate dialogue and debate. We’re committed to opening up dialogue with the faculties, research institutes and centres of the University, and to place education at the core of our activities.
UQ Art Museum:
- provides creative, active learning through specialised, curriculum-based experiences to diverse disciplines. These include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Education, Drama, Linguistics, Art History, Museum Studies, and Economics (see UQ Student Strategy > Authentic assessment);
- produces cross-disciplinary, research-based exhibitions that partner with a variety of academics and disciplines on campus; in doing so, contributing productively to Excellence in Research for Australia outcomes, and the Australian Research Council’s Engagement and Impact assessment; and
- provides industry-based training to UQ students to equip them for careers in the arts and humanities. The Art Museum aims to be a national leader in industry-based education.
What to bring
Flying Arts Alliance recommends having note taking materials on hand. Please bring any questions that you may have.
Venue
Queensland Museum Cobb+Co, 27 Lindsay St, Toowoomba City QLD 4350
Flying Arts encourage the use of sustainable transport, including cycling, walking and public transport. Plan your journey through Translink.
Additional Information
Your facilitators: Dr. Carol Masel and Nikia Tester
Dr. Carol Masel has worked as a Cultural Mediator at the University of Queensland Art Museum for 3 years and as a volunteer Guide at the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art for nine years. Over this time, and across both institutions, Carol has supported visitor engagement with passion and commitment. At the UQ Art Museum, she has recent involvement with the development and delivery of Cultural Mediation training at the Somerset Regional Gallery. Carol also draws on her past professional background working in health-related disciplines in large public hospitals and in universities to facilitate meaningful, inclusive and accessible shared conversations with gallery visitors.
Nikia Tester is a GLAM sector professional with interests in Audience Engagement, Queer & Gender Studies. She holds a BA in Art History and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies. Nikia is a facilitator of Cultural Mediation at UQ Art Museum and continues to practice in this space, in addition to her role as a Museum Officer with Moreton Bay City Council.