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04/ DESIGNS ON TRAVEL

08/ SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS SET TO GAIN THE ‘MELBOURNE EXPERIENCE’

ARCHITECTURE TAKES OFF IN 2008

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DESIGNS ON TRAVEL

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SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS SET TO GAIN THE ‘MELBOURNE EXPERIENCE’

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AWARDS & ACTIVITIES

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ARCHITECTURE TAKES OFF IN 2008

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RESEARCH NEWS

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HONORARY DOCTORATE AWARDED TO NICK CAVE

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FACULTY GALLERY

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EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

Welcome/ 2008 has been an important year for the Faculty of Art & Design. The introduction of the discipline of Architecture is a very significant development for the Faculty, which not only adds to its capabilities but which will interact with, and enhance, all its studios and disciplines. Particularly, because the new program – the first in Australia for 30 years – offers a radical vision focused on creating and making architecture within an art school setting. The five-year Bachelor of Architectural Design/Master of Architecture is one of the first of the new generation of architectural degrees. The addition of Architecture is an important step in the evolution of the Faculty. We are especially pleased to welcome Professor Shane Murray, renowned architect and academic, as the Foundation Professor and Head of Architecture, who will develop the educational and research activities of the discipline to make Monash a national and international centre for Architecture. The energy of the Faculty comes from the passionate commitment of everyone in it to excellence in their disciplines. It is pleasing to see the extensive public acknowledgement of this passion with the success of

Faculty members, research candidates and students in design awards, art prizes, publications and research collaborations. I am pleased to congratulate the Spatial Design Group on their recent achievement at the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards. This recognition – one of many for their ‘Dark Matter’ project – illustrates the relevance of design research within the broader community, and reinforces the link between research and design practice. Artists Yhonnie Scarce and Katherine Huang have both been awarded Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Awards, valued at $30,000 each. Industrial Design graduate Alan Tam is currently undertaking an internship at Mercedes-Benz in Japan after winning the 2007 VDA Design Award for his car design ‘Beyond the limousine.’ Multimedia lecturer Jeff Janet can also be proud of the ‘Best In Class’ award – the top honour at the international Interactive Media Awards – for his work on ARTEMIS, an interactive art education website.

Later this year, the Faculty will welcome the arrival of four visiting artists from South Africa. This initiative forms part of the Faculty’s greater commitment to international engagement, and we hope that faculty members, students, and visitors alike will derive great benefits from this opportunity for cultural exchange. As one of Australia’s Group of Eight leading universities, Monash seeks to make a difference to humanity – our Faculty undertakes exciting work at the forefront of its fields and we produce graduates who challenge conventional wisdom to shape the societies in which they live.

Professor John Redmond Foundation Dean Faculty of Art & Design

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RISING PETROL PRICES, URBAN SPREAD, CLIMATE CHANGE…THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME FOR AUSTRALIANS TO LEAVE THEIR CARS AT HOME AND SWITCH TO THE CONVENIENCES OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT. YET, ACCORDING TO A SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS IN 2006, ONLY 14 PER CENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN POPULATION INDICATED THAT THEY REGULARLY USED PUBLIC TRANSPORT AS THEIR PRIMARY MEANS OF TRAVELLING TO WORK. Industrial designer Robbie Napper is hoping to change these statistics by using his design skills to research ways to improve the design of buses and enhance the bus user experience. In 2006, Volgren – Australia’s largest bus building company – teamed up with the Faculty of Art & Design and Monash University’s Institute of Transport Studies to offer a 3-year PhD scholarship to a research candidate interested in investigating public transport systems and their design. Though having never considered a career in transport design, Robbie was attracted by the challenges offered by postgraduate research, and submitted his proposal and folio with the hopes of returning to Australia to advance his design education. “A lot of industrial designers tend to head down the path of car design, but I’m not particularly interested in cars, so I never really thought that I could, or would, become involved in transport design. However, I have a keen interest in sustainability issues, and the idea of designing public transport systems resonated with my own interests,” Robbie said. Through his research, Robbie is attempting to tackle inefficiencies in the manufacturing process created by the demands of different transport providers. With each bus company having a range of different needs, he has discovered that Volgren spends much of its time and resources customising buses to cater for each client’s individual needs. “From a manufacturing perspective, you aim for mass production because it allows for the production of a cheaper, better quality product. At the moment Volgren is very responsive to their customer. One of the main aims of my project is to discover the reasons underlying these variations, and to develop techniques for overcoming them.” As well as developing the theory, Robbie’s research also has a practical side, which involves developing designs to be applied to the manufacturing process. Splitting his time between Monash’s Caulfield campus and Volgren’s headquarters, Robbie is working to understand the different, and at times conflicting, operational functions of buses. This includes understanding the mechanics associated with a smooth and comfortable journey, as well as looking at some of the behavioural and cognitive factors that influence bus users.

“As a designer, this is really important. I need to understand how people use buses. At times, this can mean having to reconcile different and conflicting constraints, but that’s the nature of industrial design. On the one hand you have to look after the engineers and manufacturing side of things, while on the other hand you have to consider what happens once the bus is actually out on the road, and consider the needs of the driver and passengers.” At present, Robbie is working on redesigning the driver’s area of the bus, which requires him to consider the interaction between the driver and passengers as they enter and exit the bus. “I’ve conducted focus groups with bus drivers, and they have said that the interaction with passengers is one the positive aspects of their job – it makes the day go by more quickly, they enjoy chatting to people, and they get a lot of job satisfaction in helping passengers. But one of the conflicts is that one passenger in a million poses a security risk to drivers, so we have to consider ways to resolve this.” Associate Professor Arthur de Bono, Head of Design with the Faculty of Art & Design, says that it is this combination of theory and hands-on practice, combined with strong industry links with companies like Volgren, that makes Art & Design’s higher degrees by research so enticing to designers. “Designers, by their very nature, like to solve problems. They are also very results-driven, so there is a need to extend the research beyond the theory, and find a way to apply the research,” said Associate Professor de Bono. “Art & Design has developed a research program which allows that to happen. The research structure supports the evolution of real and applicable outcomes, which makes it valuable to the real world. Robbie’s research is a very good example of this.”

01/ ROBBIE NAPPER, VOLGREN SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT

02/03/04/ DARK MATTER, SPATIAL RESEARCH GROUP, MONASH UNIVERSITY

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SPATIAL RESEARCH GROUP RECOGNISED AT VICTORIAN PREMIER DESIGN AWARDS Monash’s Spatial Research Group has been recognised at the 2008 Premier’s Design Award in the Interior Design category for their Dark Matter project. Monash Art & Design’s interior architecture research program, including postgraduate research, is run through The Spatial Research Group. The group’s research interests include Phenomenology, Spatial Psychology, and the design of Digital, Public, Cultural and Education Spaces. All of the group’s research is practice-based. The program gives experienced graduates an opportunity to specialise through detailed studio practice, while the work is examined through thesis and exhibition.

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The Spatial Research Group has received numerous awards for its experimental project work, including three national DIA Interior Design Awards in 2006 and an IDEA07 award in 2007. “Engaging the next generation of designers is critical to the advancement of our discipline,” said Darragh O’Brien, Coordinator of the Spatial Research Group. “The key to the success of the interior architecture postgraduate program is to provide research candidates with opportunities to develop and extend their personal design practice, within the context of a university environment,” The Spatial Research Group is currently developing a program to support young design practitioners as they simultaneously complete the Master of Design program, and establish their own design business.

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South African artists set to gain the ‘Melbourne experience’ IN SEPTEMBER 2008, MONASH ART & DESIGN WILL WELCOME THE ARRIVAL OF FOUR SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, THROUGH A NEW CROSSCULTURAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM OFFERED BY THE UNIVERSITY. The program, which will sponsor residencies for two established and two emerging artists from South Africa, is intended to provide artists with an opportunity to engage with Australian artists, students and the broader community, while also exploring their own work within an alternative cultural setting. South Africa has a rich cultural history: textured by the turbulence of the Apartheid years. Since the end of Apartheid in 1994, South African art has diversified as the removal of social, racial and political restrictions and laws has opened up both the physical and metaphorical space for artists to make and exhibit their work. “During the 1980s and early ‘90s, South Africa’s international image was dominated by an art of resistance,” said Professor Bernard Hoffert, Associate Dean External Affairs from the Faculty of Art & Design. “But, in the last decade this has given way to an increasingly diverse visual format as greater social and political freedoms generate a more liberal approach to contemporary art. Opportunities to express views on social and political issues are no longer regarded as subversive and content which comments on gender, health, sexuality and identity are emerging from a broad group of artists, where both individual creativity and community involvement contribute to the aesthetic output.”

One of the key objectives of the program is to create an exchange that fosters and promotes visual dialogue and exposure between contemporary Australian and South African artists and the wider community. Throughout their residency, artists will have the opportunity to work with schools, as well as other community groups, to promote this communication between Australia and South Africa. “We’re very interested in supporting community developments in South Africa, so we are going to try to create opportunities, while they are in Australia, to work in schools, and with community groups. We also hope to link them to the South Project, which is a major international arts project that brings together the distinct voices of the southern hemisphere,” Professor Hoffert said. Students of Art & Design’s undergraduate and postgraduate programs will also have ample opportunity to engage with the four artists during their three month stay, as they will be working within the Faculty’s many studio facilities and contributing to the Faculty’s research. “The Faculty is very fortunate to be able to benefit from the presence of these international artists, who will bring the artistic developments of South Africa to our students. And it also links the developments of the Faculty of Art & Design with Monash’s campus in South Africa.” The end of the residencies will be marked by an exhibition of works by the four artists to be held in December at the Caulfield Campus.

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ART & DESIGN’S VISITING ARTISTS/DESIGNER PROGRAM Established in 1999, Monash Art & Design’s Visiting Artist & Designer program has become an integral feature of the Faculty’s culture and community. Each year, Art & Design hosts between 12 and 14 international artists and designers, who reside and work on campus within the Faculty’s facilities. This provides an opportunity for artists to share their creative developments within a vibrant community of staff and students – through studio practice, lectures and forums. The program has included artists from a variety of media, cultural backgrounds, and with specific research and project interests. Despite this, participants have found benefit from the cross-cultural exchange with local artists and designers, and engagement with the wider University. In 2008, participants in the program include: Mervyn Kurlansky, South African graphic designer Born in South Africa, Mervyn Kurlansky was one of the founding partners of the very succesful international graphic design company Pentagram. From 2003 to 2005, he was elected president of ICOGRADA. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, the International Society of Typographic Designers, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and Danish Designers Association. Mervyn’s work has been widely published, has won many international awards and is in numerous permanent collections around the world. Nader Tehrani, architect Nader Tehrani, principal of Office dA and Associate Professor at MIT, has completed a number of research based design projects focusing on materials, methods of aggregations, geometry and the advancement of digital fabrication. Office dA has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions, including the Immaterial/Ultra-material exhibition at MoMA, investigating new means and methods of fabrication. Bjarke Ingels, architect Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is internationally renowned for his new generational approach to architecture, and his architectural firm, BIG, has transformed conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping into new forms of symbiotic culture. Shantanu Jena, ceramics and glass artist from India As one of India’s most respected ceramic artists, Shantanu Jena’s work is inspired by Chinese, Japanese and Korean techniques. His work has been seen in several solo and group shows organised in India and abroad. Currently he teaches at the National Institute of Design. Sheena Macrae, artist from the UK As graduate of Goldsmiths College MFA program, Macrae has exhibited her film and video works internationally. In 2004, her work was nominated for Best Film by Bowiearts (2004), and in 2005 she was awarded the International Videoart Prize. She has recently had solo shows in Helsinki, London and Paris, and is currently preparing for solo shows at the City Museum of Ljubljana and Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.

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Professor Yan Yang, architecture and industrial design Professor Yan Yang, a Professor of Industrial Design at Tsinghua University, China has extensive experience in transport design. He has published several books on the topic of car design, and between 2003 and 2006 was a consultant on the research and redesign of Beijing Public Transportation’s visual communication system. David Bate, UK photographic artist Dr David Bate is a writer and photographic artist, and teaches at the University of Westminster, London. Exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions across Europe since 1983, David Bate’s most recent solo exhibition Bungled Memories was exhibited at Hoopers Gallery, London and more recently at the Zacheta, National Gallery, Poland. David Bate’s photography has been published widely and he regularly contributes to books and journals on photography. Peter Bauhuis, sculptor Based in Munich, Peter Bauhuis is renowned for his innovative use of casting techniques, making vessels and jewellery. The surface and colour of the works are created through this casting process. Bauhuis has exhibited widely in Europe and received many prestigious awards. Emily Pilloton, designer and architect Based in San Francisco, Emily Pilloton is the Founder of Project H Design, a charitable organisation that supports, inspires, and delivers humanitarian and life-improving product design solutions. She is also the Managing Editor of the online green design publication Inhabitat, and is a lecturer in Industrial Design. Halim Suh, architect Hailim Suh is a principal of Architecture Studio Himma, and is the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at the GSD, Harvard University. Studio Himma is a multi-award winning practice with projects in the United States and South Korea. Awards include the Korean Institute of Architects Award, KIA Awards (House of Open Book), Architectural Record Magazine Design Vanguard Award and The 18th Seoul Architectural Works Award. Janine Antoni, sculptor and painter Janine Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body. currently residing in New York, Antoni has had major exhibitions of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Paul Ramirez Jonas, installation artist The work of New York based installation artist Paul Ramirez Jonas often deals with themes of time and memory. Since the early nineties, his work has been exhibited widely in the US, as well as Sweden, England and the Netherlands. Carlos Fadon Vicente, Brazilian photographer and digital artist Born in São Paulo in 1945, Carlos Fadon Vicente trained as a civil engineer before studying in Fine Arts at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes in Brazil. Since 1985 he has explored the relationship between photography and electronics, carrying out aesthetic and conceptual research in art and technology using computer graphics and telecommunications.

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01/ AWARD WINNER YHONNIE SCARCE

INDIGENOUS STUDENT WINS MAJOR ART PRIZE

02/ ALAN TAM, WINNER OF THE 2007 VDA DESIGN AWARD

Monash postgraduate students Yhonnie Scarce and Katherine Huang have both received prizes in the Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Awards.

03/ DAN WOLLMERING’S AWARD WINNING WATERFRONT SCULPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY: MICHAEL MANSHEIM

Indigenous glass artist Yhonnie Scarce has received a $10,000 travel allowance and $20,000 towards expenses to pursue her research and develop her career overseas. “I was surprised that I won the award, but it really is a dream come true. It is wonderful recognition for the many years I have spent developing my work and trying to make it as an artist,” Ms Scarce said. “I will travel overseas later in the year and on the itinerary will include all the finest galleries including the Louvre in Paris, the Tate galleries and the Guggenheim in New York.” Ms Scarce has just started her two year masters degree in Fine Arts (by research) with the Faculty of Art & Design. Ms Scarce was nominated for the South Australian category of the award and was required to submit 10 photographs of her work, which included pieces from her art glass collection featuring aboriginal bush foods. “I try to recreate objects from the traditional environments of indigineous people and present them in a way that is creative and pushes the boundaries of what we consider to be art representative of aboriginal people,” Ms Scarce said. 03/

Ms Scarce is the first indigenous glassblower in Australia and says she is comfortable in the role. “My cultural background is a mix of European and Aboriginal influences. Being able to recreate my heritage through art is a perfect way to explore my history. In my work, I try to achieve the perfect balance between the European artistic medium (blown glass) with traditional aboriginal concepts and objects,” she said. Sculpture/installation artist Katherine Huang was also announced as the Victorian recipient of the Award. In recognition of her talent, the Master of Fine Arts student will also receive a $30,000 prize. The Chief Executive Officer of Qantas, Geoff Dixon said the award establishes a new tradition and is an important recognition of the work of some of this country’s finest contemporary artists. “The award recognises an outstanding body of work that was presented to a judging panel by leading Australian art spaces on behalf of each artist,” Mr Dixon said.

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDENT HEADS TO JAPAN In 2007, final year industrial design student, Alan Tam, won the 2007 VDA Design Award for a sustainable and emotional car design, “Beyond the limousine”. He was encouraged to enter the competition by his course coordinator and decided to enter to expand his final year folio. Alan was flown to Germany where he accepted the award at the IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt. The award, which included a six-month internship at Mercedes-Benz, was presented by Mercedes-Benz Chief Designer, Professor Peter Pfeiffer. Alan chose to undertake his internship in early 2008, and has been in Japan for the last three months. “I chose Japan because it [the studio] is new and small, and I felt I would learn more in a smaller environment,” he said. “I learn every day, honing my skills in a challenging setting. In applying my studies in a real work environment, I feel I am continuing my journey of design exploration, and building up my personal design philosophy.”

FINE ARTS GETS “INSINK” DR DAN WOLLMERING Caulfield campus is home to another work of art – this WINS CONTEMPORA time a wall sculpture created by Honorary Research SCULPTURE AWARD Fellow, Sherrie Knipe. The unveilling of the sculpture, ‘In Sink’ located on Level 2, Building B, was welcomed by more than 100 staff and students. The wall sculpture is cast in aluminium and to achieve the result, the artist enlisted the expertise of an established metal casting and engineering firm on the outskirts of Melbourne. Dan Wollmering, Course Coordinator MVA/BVA Double Degree Studio Coordinator Sculpture, said the work should prove to be very popular. ”It highlights a common object, that we all encounter daily basis; the humble sink drain. But the simple drain has been trasnformed into a massive stretched and distorted floating object,” Mr Wollmering said. “Referencing Pop Art and Surrealism, Sherrie Knipe adds a contemporary twist - by installing them in a fabricated false wall, thus enabling the three works to form part of the built environment - questioning our understanding of object, site and function.” Dr Wollmering said Sherrie Knipe was a real asset to the studio, for undergrads and post grads alike. “Her advice, sculpture experiences and applied work and research habits - all contribute to a bustling creative environment”. Ms Knipe is an Honorary Research Fellow, Sculpture Studio, Department of Fine Arts.

Art & Design lecturer Dr Dan Wollmering won the prestigious 2008 Contempora Sculpture Award for his sculpture Waterfront 2008. The Contempora 2008 Sculpture Awards is a prestigious Australian arts event staged each year along the waterfront areas of the rapidly expanding Melbourne Docklands precinct. Dr. Dan Wollmering is a senior lecturer in Sculpture and course coordinator for the Department of Fine Arts. Represented by Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne and BMG Art in Adelaide, has exhibited in 24 solo exhibitions, 45 group exhibitions and has been selected in each Comtempora Sculpture Award since inception in 2005. “It is a wonderful honour to win such a prestigious award. ‘Waterfront’ has been an exciting project to work on from its conception to the final site installation. Notionally, it may be considered as a piece of ‘sculpi-tecture’, where the viewer experience the work from the inside as well as its exterior. At a height approaching 4 metres, the sculpture has a positive presence that suggests action, empowerment and triumph.” Dr Wollmering said. Waterfront seeks to engage and remind us of the turbulent and empowering events - in the midst of the current residential and retail development across this expanding precinct - now known as ‘Docklands’. Waterfront references this history and struggle of waterside workers and their actions improving working conditions on the wharfs around Australia. The waterfront dispute on the Melbourne docks during April and May of 1998 - between union and corporation - immediately harnessed the forces of government, police, the courts, trade unions and community. It was one of the country’s largest and most fervent industrial disputes in years.

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01/02/ WORK BY FIRST YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS, CAULDFIELD CAMPUS.

03/ FROM LEFT: PROF. JOHN REDMOND, DEAN, FACULTY OF ART & DESIGN, JULIA PAGE, CEO, VESKI, FOUNDATION PROF. SHANE MURRAY, HEAD OF ARCHITECTURE, HAILIM SUH, PRINCIPLE, ARCHITECTURE STUDIO HIMMA, NADER TEHRANI, PRINCIPLE OFFICE DA, BOSTON, PROF. RICHARD LARKINS AO, VICE CHANCELLOR, MONASH UNIVERSITY, HON. JUSTIN MADDEN, MINISTER FOR PLANNING, BJARKE INGELS, PRINCIPLE ARCHITECT, BIG

04/ ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS, CAULFIELD CAMPUS

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS IN THE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN HAVE BEEN BUSY LEARNING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THEIR DISCIPLINE. As the first group to study Art & Design’s newest discipline, Architecture students complete drawing and theory units, as well as building technology, design, architectural theory and history. Students can also take electives in complementary art and design disciplines including industrial design, furniture, sculpture, glass and digital media. The Faculty also welcomed the appointment of Professor Shane Murray as Foundation Professor and Head of Discipline, Architecture. Professor Murray is a practising architect and academic who studied at the University of Melbourne and RMIT. His buildings and theoretical projects have been published in over 30 international and national architectural journals including: Casabella, Ottagono, Quaderns and Arkitekturnasskrifft B.

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PLANNING MINISTER LAUNCHES NEW ARCHITECTURE FACILITY On July 8, the Hon. Justin Madden, Victorian Minister for Planning, officially launched the new Architecture program and facilities at Monash’s Caulfield Campus. The facilities, designed by Melbourne firm W S H Architects, features innovative spaces comprising flexible design studios, academic and research offices, administration and meeting rooms, a CAD/CAM laboratory and a series of informal areas for students and staff. The facility is home to the University’s new Architecture program, offered by Art & Design. Developed in conjunction with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the 5-year program is the first new architecture course in Australia in 30 years, and is unique in its position within an art and design school. Art & Design Faculty Dean Professor John Redmond said the program would emphasise creativity and innovation. He said architecture was normally offered within a framework of planning and building technology, but few courses were offered within an art school. “Art and architecture are inseparable in history; we even classify them in the same terms. At its core, architecture is a design discipline,” Professor Redmond said. This vision, being implemented by Professor Shane Murray, the Foundation Professor and Head of Architecture, is already coming to fruition with an outstanding group of first year students, an exceptional staff of architectural practitioners and an innovative research program focusing on contemporary housing and issues to do with affordability, sustainability and the nature and quality of different materials.

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ART EDUCATION WEBSITE DECLARED ‘BEST IN CLASS’ A collaborative project between Monash Art & Design and Millipede Creative Development has been awarded “Best in Class’ at the Interactive Media Awards. ARTEMIS (Art Educational Multimedia Interactive Space) is a multiplayer educational digital resource created for undergraduate students of Art Theory. Users interact with personalities, objects, artefacts and structures related to different epochs in the history of Art and Design. Progress is quest oriented and includes live-chat, which promotes playerto-player collaboration.

01/ TOM NICHOLSON, ‘2PM SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY 1862’(DETAIL). 2007. STACK OF OFF-SET PRINTED POSTERS, CHARCOAL DRAWING, BOOK, COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTIAN CAPURRO.

02/ AWARD WINNING ARTEMIS WEBSITE

The Interactive Media Awards are international awards which recognise excellence in multimedia design and education. The Best in Class award is the highest honour bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It represents the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism. In order to win this award level, the site must pass through a comprehensive judging process, achieving very high marks in each of our judging criteria - an achievement only a fraction of sites in the IMA competition earn each year.

MONASH ART & DESIGN TAKES ANOTHER INNOVATIVE STEP The Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, has developed an ongoing relationship with the Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation (VESKI) for the Faculty’s architecture and design research. The newly established Architecture program at Monash Art & Design is developing a program of design-based research that will lead to innovative architecture. Victoria is recognised as a centre for architecture and architecture research, and Monash is ideally positioned to further contribute to this position. The aim is to establish an advanced research centre in Innovations in Material and Making. It will collaborate with the Monash University Clayton precinct of scientific, industrial and engineering specialist research areas, as well as domestic industry and key international research centres. Encompassing design, science and technology, this research program will lead to innovations in design and manufacture, based on materials that improve production methods, cater to changing households and lifestyles and are environmentally responsible. 03/

The research will have strong commercialisation possibilities, not just for architecture, and related built environment disciplines such as planning and construction, but also for other fields such as product and transport design and manufacture. There is potential for increased employment in major Victorian industries as well as a development of capabilities in higherend design, with clear export opportunities. VESKI will contribute to the financial costs of this collaborative project and will include the test of a model introducing the VESKI Innovation Fellowship into Design. It will also involve academic staff exchange and building closer ties with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

DRAWING LECTURER AWARDED STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA FELLOWSHIP One of Melbourne’s historic sites, Royal Park, has proved fertile ground for artist and drawing lecturer Tom Nicholson, the recipient of a Creative Fellowship with the State Library of Victoria in 2007. Tom’s research deals chiefly with the narrative of specific sites. Of particular interest was Camp L, a site occupied as a military camp during World War 2, before becoming emergency public housing during the post-war period. “The State Library has a very extensive picture collection about Camp L, as well as other aspects of Royal Park, including the Melbourne Zoo and the departure point of Burke and Wills, which I was able to access as part of my Fellowship,” Tom said. “The State Library is incredibly generous in its facilitation of my research – not only did I have access to the digital collection, but I was also able to access the analogue archives, which was immensely useful and stimulating.” Part of his research, a video work using archival photography from the State Library collection, called “Monument for the Flooding of Royal Park’, has been selected as one of 10 finalists in the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture. Tom is planning an exhibition of large charcoal drawings in 2009, and he is also collaborating with poet and historian Tony Birch, which will culminate in six video works based on six lectures.

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Musician, novelist, actor, film score composer and screenwriter Nick Cave has been presented with an honorary degree from Monash University.

his musical contributions, Nick Cave has shown an outstanding ability to contribute to writing and acting -- he is truly an extraordinary creative talent,” Professor Larkins said.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred by University Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins and Chancellor Dr Alan Finkel at a ceremony in Melbourne earlier this year.

“His reputation and popularity crosses age and culture barriers. As an Australian largely based out of London, and previously in Sao Paulo, Los Angeles and Berlin, Nick Cave has been successful in increasing the profile of Australia internationally, particularly in terms of our nation’s creative and artistic capabilities.”

Nick Cave studied for a Diploma of Art and Design (Fine Art) at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1977 and ‘78, in what is now the Faculty of Art & Design on the Caulfield campus of Monash University. He left his studies, which were primarily in painting, to successfully pursue a music career. Dr Cave said he was pleased and honoured to be conferred with the honorary degree. “Today I look back at my time at the arts school as one of the most important parts of my life,” Dr Cave said. “My time there was hugely influential; it’s where many of my ideas were formed that I still hold today. “It was of great benefit going to an arts school. To come from a very sports-oriented school to an environment full of likeminded people was incredibly exciting. “What I learnt during that time was enormous; I’ve never been in the same kind of environment since. There was a generous and diverse exchange of views between students.” Professor Larkins said Nick Cave was one of Australia’s most successful and prominent artists with a near 30 year career spanning music, novel-writing, acting and screenwriting which has had a major impact on contemporary “alternative” culture. “Nick Cave’s substantial achievements in the creative arts and in raising Australia’s profile internationally make him a worthy candidate for recognition by Monash University. In addition to

NICK CAVE RECEIVES HIS HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM MONASH UNIVERSITY

Dr Finkel congratulated Nick Cave on his honorary degree, the first presented this year. “Nick is a now a proud part of the Monash community. The University is Australia’s largest research-intensive university, with more than 55,000 students, 200,000 alumni, a presence on three continents and a proud history of going boldly onto the world arena in both creative and scientific endeavours,” Dr Finkel said. In the 1980s, Nick Cave was one of the first Australian musicians to achieve considerable international prominence. As the front man for bands including The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, he has released more than 20 albums. His unique musical style has been attributed with influencing countless other bands. Dean of the Faculty of Art & Design John Redmond congratulated Nick Cave on his honorary degree and said he was one of the most high profile students to have studied within the faculty. “The Faculty of Art & Design is a community that fosters student creativity and inquiry and, as Nick Cave shows, encourages experimentation and excellence in many artistic spheres. I am delighted that we can call Nick Cave a Monash graduate.”

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Faculty gallery 01/ 01/ 01/ IMAGE (DETAIL): LAURENCE ABERHART, CASTLECLIFF WANGANUI, 17 AUGUST 1986 1986/2002, SILVER GELATIN PRINT, GOLD AND SELENIUM TONED. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND DARREN KNIGHT GALLERY SYDNEY

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT THE FACULTY GALLERY:

PAST EXBIHITIONS IN 2008 INCLUDED:

SALON INTERNATIONAL 21 JULY – 20 AUGUST

The quality of blandness: no sooner do you identify it than it begins to appear at every turn. Blandness, by definition, pays little heed to the borders our various disciplines construct. As the embodiment of neutrality, the bland lies at the point of origin of ‘all things possible’ and so links them - Francois Julien.

Highlighting the longstanding connection between contemporary jewelers in Australia, Germany and The Netherlands, this exhibition captures the complex network of friendship, collaboration and stimulating exchange between a group of International makers working in the field of gold and silversmithing.

IN PRAISE OF BLANDNESS

Exhibiting artists: Ann Brennan, Ardi Gunawan, Carl Scrase , Catherine Bell, Domenico Declario, Glenys Hodgeman, Kathy Temin, Nick Mourtzakis, Penelope Trotter, Rosslynd Piggott, Stephen Garrett, Tanya Mccracken & Terri Bird.

Having first exhibited together at Rathausgalerie Munich in March 2004, Salon International 2008 brings these artists together in Australia - Peter Bauhuis and Doris Betz are from Munich, Andi Gut from Zürich, Sally Marsland and Mascha Moje from Melbourne, and Manon v. Kouswijk from Amsterdam. Curator: Marian Hosking

THE VERNACULAR TERRAIN

40 YEARS OF VIDEO ART (THE GERMAN) DIGITAL HERITAGE 27 AUGUST – 26 SEPTEMBER

With a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, the exhibition embraces the talents of leading artists from Australia, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Curated by Stephen Danzig, Lubi Thomas, Matthew Perkins and Pauline Doutreluingne.

Presented by the Faculty of Art & Design and Professor Claudia Terstappen in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Australia.

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The works offer an overview on historical as well as current tendencies in video art, including the early beginnings in film and television. The project features 59 individual art works produced in Germany between 1963 and 2004, revealing the development of the genre from monitor presentations to complex installations. Video works include artists such as Rebecca Horn, Valie Export, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Katharina Sieverding, Klaus vom Bruch, Jeanne Faust, Dieter Kiessling, Ulrike Rosenbach and Ingo Guenther. Supported by Photography & Video Research Network

An exhibition exploring environment, political and cultural place. Encompassing a broad visual arts practice of video, interactive media, installation and photomedia. The Vernacular Terrain reflects a commitment to exploring cultural identities and new technologies.

Designed, fabricated and installed by foundation year architecture students, this inhabitable display space explores fundamental architectural issues of site, scale and spatial experience. Central to the project is a rigorous and exploratory approach to testing design ideas with an intense focus on materiality.

LAURENCE ABERHART The photographs of Laurence Aberhart reflect the rush and flow of time. This exhibition brings together works by this eminent New Zealand photographer dating from the 1970s to the present including a selection of works from The Maori churches of Northland and his ongoing series Last Light, among others. Curator: Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

FOLDED 6 OCTOBER – 31 OCTOBER

JAMES NEWITT: I NOTICE THESE LITTLE THINGS, HOW THEY CHANGE

Taking as its starting point Linda Marrinon’s playfully draped and posed sculpture Woman in High-waisted pants 2007, Folded selects works from the Monash University Collection that delve into the realms of gesture, drape and fold. Moving between the figurative to the non-figurative, the solid and the fragile, Folded will include work by Stephen Bush, Simone Slee and Caroline Williams, among others. Curator: Dr Kyla McFarlane, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

James Newitt is interested in the experience of place and memory, taking us hitch-hiking through frosty hinterlands in Arberg Bay and looking for echoes of the Saturday night dances once held at Koonya Hall, on the Tasman Peninsula. Based in Hobart, Newitt recently completed his doctorate at the Tasmanian School of Art, his work also features in this year’s Adelaide Biennial. Curator: Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) Faculty Gallery, Monash Art & Design 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East 3145 Victoria Australia [email protected] www.artdes.monash.edu.au/gallery Tel +61 3 9903 2882

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm Sat 1-5pm

Exhibitions & publications STUDENTS & STAFF

JOURNALS/ MAGAZINES

Staff and students of Monash Art & Design are recognised for their prolific practice and academic achievements. Over the last 12 months, the staff and students of the Faculty of Art & design have exhibited extensively, both in Australia and overseas, have published a variety of books and journal articles, and have presented academic papers at a number of conferences.

Agora Art & Australia Art iT Art Monthly Australia Art Link Australian Art Education Australian Book Review Broadsheet Color Research & Application Eyeline Fine Arts & Design: Journal of Nanjing Art Institute Flash Frieze The International Journal of the Humanities Imprint Invisible Culture M/C Journal Object Magazine Papers of Surrealism Parergon Photofile Studies in the History of Gardens & Transformations Designed Landscape Word & Image: a Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry World Sculpture News

BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS The Spirit of Secular Art: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contemporary Artistic Values, Monash University ePress Rhythm as Schema: In Search of a Mature Theory of Rhythm in Visual Art, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Social cohesion and cultural fragility: a paradox of indigenous rapports with Eurasian Australia, Cambridge University Press Australians with disabilities: Transport disadvantage and disability, Monash University ePress Howard Arkley and ‘Popism’, Queensland Art Gallery Peter Booth and subtleties in the epi, Queensland Art Gallery Souvenirs of Place and Meaning, Thames & Hudson In Dialogue with Nature, Thames & Hudson Juan Davila, The Miegunyah Press The Art of Self Display: On Anne Zahalka’s Portraiture, Centre for Contemporary Photography New Knowledge as Cultural Production, Mijinsa Digital Phantoms: A Reality Check, South Australian School of Art (SASA) Gallery Exhibiting Practices and Organizational Relations, Victorian Initiatives of Artists Network

CONFERENCES Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (NSW Chapter) Conference Art Education Australia Research Conference ConnectEd: International Conference on Design Education Sydney EuropIA.11 11th International Conference on Design Sciences & Technology InSEA Asian Regional Congress Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400-1850 Shaping the Future? 9th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education The Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities The 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum: Managing Transport in a Climate of Change and Uncertainty

SELECTED EXHIBITION SPACES International Galerie Erhard Witzel, Germany Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan Artists’ Space, NY, USA Broadbent, UK Centre of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea Galerie Ra, Netherlands Kingsgate Gallery, UK Novas Contemporary Urban Centre London Bridge, UK Interstate ABN Amro, NSW Australian Art Collector, NSW Byron McMahon Gallery, NSW Delmar Gallery, NSW Goethe Institut, NSW Gold Coast AA Gallery, Qld Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize, Tas Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design, SA Kaliman Gallery, NSW Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, NSW Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, NSW Powerhouse Museum, NSW QUT Museum, Qld Ranamok Glass Art Prize, Touring Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, NSW Redcliffe City Gallery and Logan Art Gallery, Qld

State Anna Schwarz Gallery Arthur Guy Memorial Prize Christine Abrahams Gallery Experimenta Media Arts Federation Square Flinders Lane Gallery Gallery 101 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Goethe Institute Australia Heide Museum of Modern Art Mahoney’s Galleries Melbourne Art Fair Australian Galleries Centre for Contemporary Photography Flinders Lane Gallery Karen Woodbury Gallery Latrobe Regional Gallery Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Bankart Gallery Contempora2 Geelong Gallery Glen Eira City Council Gallery Herring Island Gallery Kirra Galleries Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove Old Castlemaine Goal Platform Artists Group Inc The Glendale College Art Gallery Toorak Village Sculpture Festival Toyota Community Spirit Gallery West Space Yarra Sculpture Gallery

UNIVERSITY EXHIBITION SPACES Faculty Gallery Monash University Museum of Art Academic Centre, Newman College, University of Melbourne RMIT Project Space Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Queensland Creative Industries Precinct, Qld Switchback Gallery Data source: Faculty of Art & Design 2008 Publication Collection (K Barwick)

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