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.

Innovation in Australian Arts, Media and Design 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.

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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

• The Visual Arts - an Aesthetic of Labyrinthine Form
  Charles Green
• Dance - The Dance Ensemble as a Creative System
  Shirley McKechnie, with Editorial introduction by Shaaron Boughen
• Drama - The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID 'Journey to Con-fusion'
  Peter Eckersall
• Creative Writing - The House of Words in the New Millennium
  Jeri Kroll
• Music
  Barry Bignell
• The Moving Image - Quickness
  Ross Gibson
• Interactive Media - On Modes of Interaction in Arts Systems
  Ernest Edmonds
• On Shifting Grounds - Architecture, Landscape and Planning
  Bharat Dave
• Industrial Design
  John Redmond
• Media and Communication
  Terry Flew

Part II: Institutions in Transition

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

Part III: Policy in Transition

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