ADAPTATION
29-30 September 2016
QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane
Conference Theme: Adaptation
Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment, along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints, create one set of pressures. External industry structures and commercial aims create provide another. As art and design schools adapt to, and define themselves against, these environmental conditions, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and value as a pedagogical space may be produced. In the context of these complex forces, what is the morphology of the contemporary art and design school?
The 2016 ACUADS Conference considered adaptation of various qualities and extents, as entities, processes and approaches that are conditional, grafted, contoured, nested or composite. Papers were invited from academics, art teachers and postgraduate students on topics relating to adaptation, interconnection, hybridity, survival, symbiosis and habitat as they affect the practice and pedagogy of contemporary art and design. Papers and roundtable proposals addressed topics including, but not limited to:
- Survival practices: considering art, design and the anthropocene
- Arranged marriages: amalgamations and mergers
- Praxical models: connecting theory, practice and exegesis
- Critical studio models: the contemporary art market and the academy
- Methodologies: hybrid processes in the studio, lab and workshop
- Disciplined and undisciplined approaches: connecting practices, fields, methodologies and audiences
- Common spaces: teaching and practice
Postgraduate Scholarships
Congratulations to Bettina Bruder, UNSW; Bryan Harris, ANU and Ash Tower, UNISA who were named the 2016 ACUADS Postgraduate Scholars. They received $500 towards registration, travel and accommodation costs.
CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Charles Robb (Convenor)
Dr Courtney Pedersen
Dr Rachael Haynes
Contact:
acuads2016@qut.edu.au
Tel +61 (0)7 3138 3761
Visual Art Discipline, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts
QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane
Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 AUSTRALIA
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PAPERS
All the papers published here were subject to a process of double-blind peer review at both abstract (acceptance) and final paper stage (publication). Abstracts were revised and resubmitted following an initial stage of peer review. Final papers were reviewed by their authors subsequent to a further final stage of peer review. The papers were then subject to minor editing to ensure they are as free of errors as possible and that they consistently comply with the conference style guide.