Dates and Times
10 November 2020
13:00 - 14:30
Event for
Location
Address: Online Event
Organiser
Faculty of Arts and Design Research Office
Enquiry
Peta Sinclair
Event about:
FAD Research Festival: CCCR ARC Project Showcase
Speakers
Professor Tracy Ireland, Director, CCCR, University of Canberra; Dr Ross Gibson, Centenary Professor in Creative & Cultural Research, CCCR, University of Canberra; Dr Alison Wain, Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Futures, CCCR, University of Canberra ;Ms Julia Brand, PhD Candidate, CCCR, University of Canberra; Ms Ashley Harrison, PhD Candidate, CCCR, University of Canberra; Ms Fiona Shanahan, PhD Candidate, CCCR, University of Canberra; Ms Jess Western, PhD Candidate, CCCR, University of Canberra
Heritage of the Air
This is a three year Australian Research Council Linkage project that investigates how aviation as transformed Australian society over the last 100 years. In the lead up to Australia’s centenary of civil aviation, our focus is on people rather than on planes and we seek to tell the broader story of diverse Australian communities and aviation. The project aims to engage with the public’s enduring fascination with aviation through innovative analyses and interpretation of little-known aviation heritage collections, to produce exciting exhibitions, accessible digital collections and heritage resources, as well as scholarly publications. See heritageoftheair.org.au for more information.
Heritage of the Air Team
Tracy Ireland is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. She researches in the fields of heritage and conservation, historical and contemporary archaeology and their entanglement with nationalism, colonialism and the politics of memory and identity.
Ashley Harrison completed a Master of Liberal Arts (Visual Culture Research) (Research), after majoring in Undergraduate Anthropology and Psychology at the Australian National University. She is currently studying a PhD under the Heritage of the Air ARC linkage project. This background informs her approach to her PhD. The working title of her project is ‘Flight across Country: Visualising connections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities to aviation in Australia’. This work is exploring how material culture in museum and archival collections can visualise encounters between First Nations people and aviation in Australia. This is a topical project as the centenary of civil aviation will occur in 2021!
Fiona Shanahan is a recreational pilot in training, who specialises in aviation archaeology. She is currently undertaking a PhD as part of the Heritage of the Air team and is involved with several Northern Territory aviation clubs and societies. Her research revolves around the lesser known stories of civil aviation heritage in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Jess Western is a PhD candidate with the Heritage of the Air project investigating new ways for people and communities to form connections with aviation heritage material. Her work focuses on digital methods and the value of brief, unstructured and non-cumulative engagement with heritage collections. Prior to joining Heritage of the Air, Jess completed a Masters of Heritage Conservation at the University of York, UK.
Laser Cleaning and the Harbour Bridge
This project aims to develop innovative laser cleaning processes to conserve the structural integrity and iconic status of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. New laser technologies offer the opportunity to remove lead-based paint and clean the bridge’s metal structures and granite pylons with advantages unavailable with current techniques. The expected outcomes will be new best-practice laser conservation techniques usable for both hand-held and automated systems to preserve one of the most iconic bridges in the world. This will reduce maintenance frequency and cost, restore the beauty of the bridge, retain its engineering significance and provide a baseline process for cleaning of other historical large scale metal and stone heritage objects.
Laser Cleaning and the Harbour Bridge Team
Alison Wain worked in the heritage industry for 25 years before completing a PhD on the conservation and management of large technology heritage objects from the Australian National University. She is now Discipline Lead in Cultural Heritage at UC and her research focuses on the challenges of preserving and interpreting engineering, industrial and science heritage. She is particularly interested in the importance of recognising the intangible heritage of culture, skills and changeability connected with and embodied in machinery heritage.
Julia Brand is a first-year PhD student at the Faculty of Art and Design at UC. She did a Masters in Physics in Strasbourg, France, and is now working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge Project. Her research interests include lasers applied to conservation, analytical science, preservation of cultural heritage.
Utilitarian Filmmaking in Australia 1945 – 1980
The project set out to discover, document, and analyse an overview of client-sponsored, instructional and government-departmental filmmaking in Australia in the post-WWII years prior to the rise of widespread video production in the late-1970s. We examined the rich array of pragmatic, purposeful films that were made and distributed outside the well-studied systems of entertainment, ‘theatrical’ exhibition and visual arts installation; films that were produced, distributed and exhibited to large audiences in ‘non-theatrical’ contexts and spaces. We asked what these films can teach us about Australian filmmaking in particular and about Australian social history in general.
Utilitarian Filmmaking in Australia 1945 – 1980Team
Ross Gibson is Centenary Professor in Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. The outcomes of his creative-practice-led research include a dozen books, several films, radio feature programs, exhibition installations, and live performances.
Additional Information
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.