Abundant Art - Creativity in an Era of AI

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