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Symposium 3

Program Day 1

Morning Session: Friday 7 September

Casting the Net Wider: Audiences, Communication and Technology
9am	Registration
9.30am	Welcome Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV
9.50am	Art and Audience Telling stories are the raison d’etre of a gallery. As galleries seek new ways of engaging with audiences in order to create a recognisable brand, how do they ensure a quality experience? This paper canvasses a history of galleries’ attitudes to art and audience, and the tensions which arise between the desire for quiet reflection and wider audience needs.
	Associate Professor Ruth Rentschler, Executive Director, Centre for Leisure Management Research, Deakin University
10.30am	New Technologies, New Audiences and New Opportunities for Galleries and Museums This lecture will explore some of the ways the cultural sector is using social web technologies to engage audiences in new ways. The presentation will give an overview and interrogate a few specific examples.
	Sebastian Chan, Manager, Web Services Unit, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
11.10am	Morning tea
11.40am	Case Studies: New Technologies Facilitator: Stuart Tait, Director, Market Relations, The Learning Federation
	Arts 2.0 – Using Technology to Engage 21st Century Audiences Rodney Bloom, Consultant, Eclipse Group Victorian Cultural Network (VCN) Eleanor Whitworth, Acting Senior Arts Officer, Arts Victoria The Artist's Voice: Multimedia at the NGV Jean–Pierre Chabrol, Manager, Multimedia, NGV Mediating Liquid Architectures: Comments on the Tate's Digital Programme for Expanding Audience Participation through New Technology Vince Dziekan, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head Multimedia & Digital Art, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University
1pm	Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Friday 7 September

Close Encounters: Learning & Experience in the Art Museum
2.15pm	Welcome Paula Lindley, Senior Education Officer, NGV
2.20pm	Learning Through Art and Beyond How can learning through art impact a student's literacy, critical thinking and problem solving skills? The Guggenheim Museum's current research sheds light on knowledge that art museum educators have long intuited but not definitively proven.
	Kim Kanatani, Gail Engelberg Director of Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
3.05pm	Aesthetics – The Art of Seeing and Feeling What enables us to form deep and personally meaningful relationships to works of art? This isn't only about knowledge or understanding; it's about the capacity to feel close to – intimately alive to – a work in a public collection.
	Dr John Armstrong, Associate Professor and Inaugural Knowledge Transfer Fellow, Department of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne
3.35pm	Afternoon tea
4.05pm	Case Studies: Learning and Experience Pamela Clelland Gray, Manager, Education and Public Programs, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Reaching Out: Youth Access Programs at the NGV Evaluation outcomes of the NGV Youth Access Programs and art as a platform for self esteem Melbourne University Research Centre. Bradley Shrimpton, Lecturer & Research Fellow, Centre For Program Evaluation, Department of Education Policy and Management, The University of Melbourne and Ruth Komesaroff, Program Coordinator, Youth Access, NGV Making Connections: Art and Alzheimer's Museum Access Pilot Program, National Gallery of Australia and Alzheimer's Australia Adriane Boag, Youth and Community Programs, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Artist’s Perspective Brook Andrew in conversation with Judith Ryan, Senior Curator, Indigenous Art, NGV
6pm	Symposium Drinks and Exhibition Viewing Gordon Bennett
6.30pm	Welcome and Exhibition Introduction Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, NGV Kelly Gellatly, Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV
8pm	Conclude


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