Overview

While imagination feeds breakthroughs in every field of human endeavour, creativity is a defining characteristic of working the arts, media, and design professions. The capabilities of creative people are therefore sought in the burgeoning global service industries; a wellspring of the innovation that provides long-term sustainability for communities.

Challenges exist within the tertiary sector therefore, to make the most of these emerging opportunities, calling for a re-purposing of education and research in the arts, media, design, and related fields, and a radical re-definition of the new humanities towards a focus on the application of knowledge and an appreciation of market forces.

This book presents the findings of an extended national debate on policy and practice developments in the fields of arts, media, and design. It brings together contributors from leading thinkers and practitioners that provide glimpses of the readiness of the field and its people, and of the robustness of its underlying epistemologies to succeed in the changing environments of Higher Education, Research and Development, and Cultural Policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Contributors' Details
Preface - John Harley
Introduction - Rod Wissler, Brad Haseman, Sue-Anne Wallace

Part I: Disciplines in Transition

1. The visual Arts - an Aesthetic of Labyrinthine Form
   Charles Green
2. Dance - The Dance Ensemble as a Creative System
   Shirley McKechnie, with Editorial introduction by Shaaron Boughen
3. Drama - The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID 'Journey to Con-fusion'
   Peter Eckersall
4. Creative writing - The House of Words in the New Millennium
   Jeri Kroll
5. Music
   Barry Bignell
6. The Moving Image - Quickness
   Ross Gibson
7. Interactive Media - On Modes of Interaction in Arts Systems
   Ernest Edmonds
8. On shifting Grounds - Architecture, landscape and Planning
   Bharat Dave
9. Industrial Design
   John Redmond
10. Media and Communication
    Terry Flew

Part II: Institutions in Transition

1. Network Building in the Digital Age
   Paul Thomas
2. Network or Perish?
   Michael Keane
3. Copyright Liability of Universities in the Networked Environment
   Brian Fitzgerald
4. Creative Practice and Critical Thinking
   Nikos Papastergiadis
5. Building a Research Profile within the Creative Arts
   Elizabeth Presa
6. Research Training for Arts, Media, and Design
   Brad Haseman
7. Prometheus Bound: Art, Science, Creativity, and the Imagination
   Nigel Helyer

Part III: Policy in Transition

1. Creative Arts and the National Research Priorities
   Malcolm Gillies
2. The Humanities, Creative Arts, and the Innovation Agenda
   Stuart Cunningham
3. Research Outputs - Up for Auction
   Rod Wissler
4. Challengers for the Tertiary Sector - Emerging Partnerships
   Margaret Seares
5. Conclusion
   Rod Wissler, Brad Haseman, Michael Keane