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By Mark Bahnisch on June 30, 2009
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Music, Sociology | Tagged age, Andrew Leigh, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, creativity, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, David Galenson, Degas, Economics, economists, Edward Said, generations, innovation, literature, Munch, Music, On Late Style, Picasso, Sociology, Wassily Kandinsky |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 1, 2009
While the ‘economic management debate’ rumbles along its predictable partisan grooves, something interesting has been taking place elsewhere – something of a concatenation of the better legacies of the communitarianism of the 90s and a shift in values which has [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Economics, Ethics, Notices, Sociology | Tagged BrisCulture, cheryl kernot, communitarianism, community, connectivity, creativity, event, global financial crisis, Griffith REVIEW, Participation Society, social enterprise, Sociology, State Library of Queensland, talk |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/creative-brisbane-2.JPG" Folks might remember I talked a while back about the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event we’re presenting tonight as part of the Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival. The response to both this conversation and to the BrisCulture concept has been really [...]
Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Notices, Sociology | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Bruce Muirhead, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Danielle Bentley, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Jaz Choi, Linda Carroli, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 28, 2009
A lot of my academic and consultancy work at the moment is focused on online urbanism, distributed knowledge and urban creativity. I’m loath to use the term ‘action research’ loosely, but this form of public sociology is really impossible to [...]
Posted in Activism, Art, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Media, Music, Notices, Policy, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, The Valley, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/540_whats-on_ideas-festival-feature_ban-300×61.jpg" align=left Just a quick heads up to some sessions at the Brisbane Ideas Festival later this week which might be of interest. I’m speaking on a panel called “The Future of the Magazine”. It’s part of the “Think [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Life, Media, Notices, Policy, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Barry Saunders, Brisbane, Brisbane Ideas Festival, creativity, Culture, democracy, Ideas Festival, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Media, Miriam Lyons, panel, QAG, Queensland Art Gallery, session, SLQ, Sociology, State Library of Queensland, Think Do Tank, think tanks, Urbanism |
By Guest Poster on February 2, 2009
Cross-posted from Marcus’ blog. From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Melbourne, Sociology | Tagged arts, Australian culture, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, DIY, economic cycle, innovation, laneways, Marcus Westbury, Melbourne, Newcastle, recession, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
I wrote in an earlier post about the “summer of culture” feature at New Matilda. Ben Eltham has now wrapped up “the state of the cultural nation” with a thoughtful essay integrating the various pieces with some broader thoughts on [...]
Posted in Culture, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, arts funding, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, Creative Australia, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, innovation, New Matilda, Peter Garrett, Rudd govermnent |
By Guest Poster on December 9, 2008
[Cross-posted at GreensBlog] So what just happened with the National Academy of Music? Tim Hollo – Advisor to Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne Yesterday, after a whirlwind six week campaign, Melbourne Uni and the National Academy of Music put out [...]
Posted in Music, Policy | Tagged AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Greens, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, Brett Dean, Christine Milne, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, Terry Moran, The Greens, training |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 27, 2008
There’s been a bit of discussion about Arts Minister Peter Garrett’s defunding of the Australian National Academy of Music on another thread, so I think it probably warrants a post of its own. Long time observers of arts and cultural [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Government, Music, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, training |
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