Sites of Communication
Symposium 3
Program Day 2
Morning Session: Saturday 8 September
| 9am | Registration |
| 9.30am | Welcome Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, NGV |
| 9.40am | The Cultural Interface This keynote address will highlight complexities of the intersection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous positions in relation to the Higher Education sector, before introducing the Cultural Interface as an alternate framework for understanding and engaging such complexities in the everyday situation of Indigenous learners. |
| Professor Martin Nakata, Chair of Australian Indigenous Education, Director of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney | |
| 10.25am | Knowledge Transfer: Creating, brokering and harnessing knowledge for societal value This presentation examines the role that knowledge organisations can play in breaking down the 'walls' between sectors and opening up creative paths to social innovation. Using case studies from The University of Melbourne, it is the often unexpected connections that reap the richest rewards. |
| Professor Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation & Development), The University of Melbourne | |
| 11.05am | Morning tea |
| 11.35am | Dichotomy: Risk & Tradition This paper explores some of the strategies used by the Queensland Art Gallery in the past few years to build audiences for contemporary art. |
| Lynne Seear, Assistant Director of Curatorial & Collections Development, Queensland Art Gallery | |
| 12.05pm | Case Studies: Partnerships and Collaborations– Value to Community |
| Facilitator: Brian Ladd, Head of Public Programs, Art Gallery of New South Wales A discussion of practical case studies of art museums collaborating and engaging with communities. |
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| 1pm | Lunch break |
Afternoon Session: Saturday 8 September
| 2.15pm | Welcome Ben Divall, Senior Program Coordinator, NGV |
| 2.20pm | An Architecture of Light, Energy and the Museum Discover how the experience of fire left our consciousness with the fossil fuel driven machine age, and explore current attempts to revive energy and natural light as an expression in architecture through investigation of case studies. |
| Michael Pearce, Senior Architect, Design Inc | |
| 3.05pm | Afternoon tea |
| 3.35pm | Tyranny of the White Cube or ‘Yes its wonderful, but all I really wanted was a big room with white walls and some decent lighting’ In the design of the contemporary museum the agendas of the architect have often been at odds with the desires of the curators who have to occupy the spaces they create. Architect and academic Martyn Hook will discuss a collection of recent museums around the globe including Kanazawa Museum of Contemporary Art by SANAA, Daniel Libeskind's Denver Art Museum and San Francisco's de Young Museum by Herzog de Meuron. He will explore how the contemporary museum might fulfill many requirements beyond the simple provision of a good exhibition space and why architects might not even get that right. |
| Martyn Hook, Associate Editor, Monument Magazine & Course Leader, RMIT Architecture, RMIT University | |
| 4pm | Case Studies: Exhibition Design Facilitator: Craig Judd, Senior Curator of Art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Three short talks discussing the challenges of working with architectural spaces to deliver exhibitions |
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| 4.50pm | Symposium Wrap-Up Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director |
| 5pm | Post Symposium Drinks and Exhibition Viewing Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now NGV International, exhibition entrance (near Ticketing Desk) |
| 6.45pm | Close |
