SCA Graduate School Conference

CRITICAL THINKING
Research + Art + Culture

Thursday 19 to Friday 20 May, 2011
Auditorium, Sydney College of the Arts

The SCA Graduate School Conference will stimulate a critical dialogue that encourages and promotes the research culture at SCA. Registration to attend this free two day conference is essential.

Thursday 19 May

Session 1, 10:30am to 1pm
Contemporary Art Histories, Chair: Prof. Colin Rhodes

Tim Schultz, Style and stile: contradiction and the Rococo unconscious
Vilma Bader, Fernando Pessoa and the Self
Bridget O’Brien, Creative Research, the Museum and Arnhem Land
Rowan Conroy, Archaeologies of the present: Rephotographing the William John Woodhouse Photographic Archive

Session 2, 2 to 4:30pm
Moving Image/Digital Culture, Chair: Assoc. Prof. John Conomos

Harley Ives, The Moving Image as Object
Kylee Hartman-Warren, Saving Scorched Worlds: Aesthetic Changes in Contemporary Coming of Age Fantasy Cinema
Clarissa Regan, Autoscopic Spectres of Electronic Dazzlement
Helen Goritsas, Finding our Voice in Collaboration

Friday 20 May

Session 3, 10:30am to 1pm
Body and Contexts, Chair: Dr Jacqueline Millner

Barbara Doran, Mini Living Machine
Gretchen Riordan, Exploding bodies: staging chromatic explosion
Kate Scardifield, The Cutting Edge: Dissective practices in contemporary art
Carolyn McKay, The Principle of Orality and the Posthuman Courtroom

Session 4, 2 to 4:30pm
Spatial Practices, Chair: Assoc. Prof. Ann Elias

Marian Macken, The line within architecture: drawing in the book
Biljana Jancic, Stage as Prop – Choreographing Unease
David Watson, Wild Ryde / Swimming Home
Jenny Brown, Virtuous Allodoxia

Registration