Speaker Profiles and Presentations


Lee Adendorff

Lee is currently responsible for the content management and development of the Australian Museums and Galleries OnLine (AMOL) website. She has worked with websites for several years in editorial and design roles both in the public and private sectors. Together with Brian Hardy Lee, talked about the AMOL accessibility audit and accessibility from a content producer's point of view, and how these concerns can be integrated into a content management schema that includes multimedia.

http://www.amol.org.au/

View Lee and Brian's presentation in PDF format

Kellie Austin

Kellie Austin is IT & Marketing Manager at Maningrida Arts & Culture, an Aboriginal Art Centre located at Maningrida, Arnhem Land. Kellie has extensive experience in the fields of graphic design, digital imaging and website management along with an in depth knowledge of the issues and needs of arts organisations relying heavily on an online audience, such as Maningrida Arts & Culture. At the Art Centre, Kellie manages an extensive photographic database of the collections and works for sale. Kellie outlined the Maningrida Art & Culture's Remote Access project, and how it will address the unique challenges of operating an arts organisation that relies heavily on engaging with an online client base. Kellie also explored the benefit of the project to other Aboriginal Art Centres remotely located throughout Arnhem Land, the Northern Territory and across Australia.

View Kelly's presentation in Word format

http://maningrida.com/

Mark Bishop

Mark Bishop is an ICT Industry Development Manager for the Victorian Government's specialist IT division, Multimedia Victoria. In this role, Mark has championed the development of Victoria's computer game industry and spearheaded the design and implementation of Game Plan - the Victorian Government's blueprint for growing the State's computer game industry. Game Plan has been recognised by industry in Australia and overseas for its innovative initiatives. Mark has a background in live theatre production and music management. Mark is a former Director of the Victorian Rock Foundation and until recently served as the Deputy Chairman of Interact Events, the body responsible for staging the annual Interact Asia Pacific Multimedia Festival.

Mark spoke on Game Plan - the Victorian Government's blueprint for growing the State's computer game industry.

View Mark's presentation in Power Point

http://www.mmv.vic.gov.au/gameplan/

Tony Boston

Tony Boston is Director of the Digital Services Project at the National Library of Australia. The Library is developing the computing infrastructure to support collection management in a digital environment and provide systems for resource discovery and delivery of digital collection materials over the Internet. At the Library, Tony has managed projects to provide access to pictures, maps, manuscripts and sheet music from the Library's collection including multi-agency gateways such as PictureAustralia. Before joining the Library, Tony worked for the Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Bureau of Mineral Resources on geo-spatial database projects.

Tony spoke about digital library developments at the National Library including the infrastructure for storage, management and access to text, image and audio content.

View Tony's presentation in Power Point

http://www.nla.gov.au

Clare Cahill & Gail Harradine

Clare Cahill is a director of composmentis.com. Gail Harradine is the Indigenous Project Manager at the Melbourne Development Board and is currently coordinating the Koori Employment Strategy for the Performing Arts which is a Commonwealth funded initiative. Gail has a background in art, curating and education.

Clare and Gail discussed how the Koori Employment Strategy for the Performing Arts uses multimedia, information technology and the Internet to build bridges between Koori cultures and mainstream arts cultures while still retaining the unique identity of Koori performing artists and Koori students who aspire to careers in performance arts.

John Colette

John Colette is media designer whose work encompasses digital film and video, interactive media and development of large projects for public spaces using digital technologies. With a background in traditional film and video production, John has focussed exclusively on emerging digital production technologies for the last thirteen years. With a wide exhibition history internationally in digital Fine Arts, and a professional history in both academia and industry, John has spanned the breadth of traditional and new technology applications.

John discussed interactions and blurring between commercial and non commercial arts due to the proliferation of digitally mediated work.

Alan Corbet

Alan was appointed to the position of WA Jazz Co-ordinator in May 2001, a part time position which involves responsibility for the marketing and development of jazz music and musicians in Western Australia. He combines 12 years of international marketing experience with a musical background, having completed both piano jazz and classical studies, and performed at the Montreux International Jazz Festival in 2000. He also works as a freelance translator via the Internet for European companies and has recently been appointed by WAAPA as coordinator for the Essentially Ellington High School Band Competition & Festival 2002. This Festival is being piloted in Australia for first time in conjunction with Jazz at Lincoln Center who initiated the project in the US under the Artistic Direction of Wynton Marsalis.

He discussed the importance of website development to small cultural organisations and the JAZZWA website project currently in development.

http://www.jazzwa.com/

Dr Terry Cutler

Dr Terry Cutler is an industry consultant and strategy advisor in the information and communications technology sector.

Terry Cutler has served on numerous Government Boards and advisory bodies, taking a special interest in Government's role in the new global Information Economy. From 1996 to 1997, he was Chairman of Australia's Information Policy Advisory Council and was Deputy Chairman of the Australian Information Economy Advisory Council from 1998 to 2001. As Chairman of the Industry Research and Development Board from 1996 to 1998, Terry Cutler spearheaded key initiatives in promoting venture capital and industry innovation and oversaw the licensing of the initial Innovation Investment Funds. In 1999, Terry chaired Australia's National Bandwidth Inquiry. Terry Cutler is currently a member of the International Advisory Panel of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, reflecting his strong interest in the role of, and opportunities for, Asian countries in the new information era.

Terry Cutler served as Chairman of the Australia Council from 2001 to 2002, having previously chaired its New Media Arts Board. He also has previously served as a director of Cinemedia, Opera Australia and the Council of the Victorian College of the Arts. Terry Cutler is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Member of the Institute of Company Directors and of the Market Research Society of Australia.

Kim Dalton

Kim Dalton's early career was in freelance film production. He moved to London for post graduate studies and to manage a cinema and a UK production and distribution company. Kim returned to Australia in 1980 to work as an independent producer and then as General Manager of Open Channel. In 1987 Kim formed his own production company and later became the Australian Film Finance Corporation's Melbourne Investment Manager. Following a brief period as General Manager of the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Kim joined Beyond International Limited in 1995 as Manager of Acquisitions and Development. Kim joined the Australian Film Commission as Chief Executive in August 1999.

Kim reported on the objectives and longer term strategies underpinning the AFC's new $2.1 million Broadband Content Fund, commencing in July 2002, which will seed the development of innovative broadband content.

View Kim's presentation in PDF format

http://www.afc.gov.au/

Tess Dryza

Tess is the Director of Ripe One - a Sydney based online strategy and design company. She is the founding member of the fuel4arts team, and has produced the site from its inception. Prior to starting up Ripe One, she held Creative Director positions with ZIVO and OTEN working on large scale professional development and corporate web projects. Life before new media saw Tess working in the arts and cultural industry for nine years as a theatre director, dramaturg, radio broadcaster and community cultural development worker. She has a BA in Communications and a MA in Digital Media Design.

Tess explored some successful ways to build a relationship with your online users and how this can convert to offline audience development.

View Tess' presentation in PDF format

http://www.fuel4arts.com/

David Eedle

David Eedle is the CEO of online arts publisher dramaticonline.com. He started life as a stagehand and lighting designer (after being kicked out of Monash Uni for spending too much time working backstage and not enough time working on his degree). David went on to the safety of various performing arts venues across the country, ending up as Manager of Bendigo Regional Arts Centre, before founding his own arts and media consultancy in 1996. David has had a long association with the Internet, and remembers what it looked like before there were pictures on it.

David presentation stripped back some of the ebusiness mysteries - what works, what doesn't and how to combine the ingredients and turn a profit.

View David's presentation in Power Point

Sonya Finnigan

Sonya Finnigan BSc BA MSc is a Senior Consultant for ADLIB Information Systems of Australia. Sonya has five years experience in database design and software development for the cultural sector, eg libraries, museum, galleries and archives. She has six years teaching, research and development experience in the areas of business analysis, database design, information retrieval and network communication protocols and over 20 years experience in lecturing and tutoring in mathematics.

Sonya also has over eight years commercial experience in financial, business and staff management. Her particular areas of expertise are: enterprise information access architectures; database design; collection management (libraries, museums, galleries and archives); web access to databases; database interoperability; Dublin Core metadata, XML and OAI; Z39.50 Information Retrieval protocol and CIMI profile; project management and marketing; and teaching and training.

Sonya presented three cultural projects which ADLIB is currently involved in - Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT), Museums & Collections @ Macquarie University, and the Tasmanian eHeritage Project. She outlined the motivation, design and key software features of each project.

http://www.adlibsoft.com/

Myles Foreman

Myles has been responsible for websites since he launched his first company website in 1995 for Rydges Hotels Resorts. In 1996 he made the move from filling rooms to filling seats where he is currently the Operations Manager - Australasia for Ticketmaster7 as well as General Manager of ticketmaster7.com. As General Manager of ticketmaster7.com, Myles was responsible for launching ticketmaster7.com as a distribution channel for ticketing in 1996. Since then he has managed the website ensuring that it constantly evolves to maximise changing technology and exceed the exceptions of Clients and Consumers. Today the significant investment in infrastructure is being maximised by the introduction of specialist web services for small venues as well as visitor attractions as an addition to the large scale services ticketmaster7.com is traditionally associated with providing. A member of the Internet Industry Association and frequent speaker at conferences Myles has also written a number of articles on Internet related topics.

Selling your tickets Online! Myles explored the next phase of the Internet as a sales channel for your ticketing inventory.

Jenny Fraser

Jenny Fraser works at the nexus of art, filmmaking and technology. Her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally - recently at Interactiva01 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico. She was part of the curatorial working group for 'conVerge - where art and science meet' - the 2002 Adelaide Biennial. As an Artist in Residence she works collaboratively in producing works with communities. Jenny founded and curates cyberTribe, an Indigenous Online Gallery. Jenny begins 2002 studying a Research Masters in the area of New Technologies. She is currently a Board Member for the Australian Council New Media Fund and the Australian Network for Art and Technology.

Jenny discussed cyberTribe - an Online Gallery that features the work of Indigenous artists internationally and other projects completed as an Artist in Residence in collaboration with the Hermannsburg Potters of the Northern Territory and Kaurna Plains School in South Australia.

http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe_index.html

Mia Garlick

Mia is a lawyer in both the Intellectual Property and Communications & Technology Group at Gilbert & Tobin Lawyers. She specialises in communications, technology and intellectual property law and has a keen interest in the development of digital copyright laws both in Australia and globally. Mia advises clients from a diverse range of industries, including publishing, music, software, Internet and related technology industries. She has acted in numerous IP and technology related transactions. Her work has included drafting and negotiating licensing and general commercial agreements, advising on commercialisation and IP protection strategies and conducting IP and IT audits. Increasingly, Mia acts in relation to the implementation of effective digital rights management strategies.

Mia gave an overview of recent legal developments relating to Digital Rights Management Systems and practical tips for participants in Digital Rights Management to minimise legal risk.

View Mia's presentation in Power Point

http://www.gtlaw.com.au/

Gus Gollings

Gus Gollings is a project manager for the C-2-C System at Common Ground Publishing.

His work covers a broad range of disciplines, from software interface design to research and writing to pedagogy. Recently his focus has been directed toward establishing the metadata regimes and standards required for efficient resource discovery and for the effective auditing of digital texts, as well as broader strategies for information management and digital rights management.

In the past Gus has been a director of successful media and communications companies, specialising in corporate branding, iconic image creation and multimedia. He is a member of the Technology and Information Committee of Museum Victoria. Gus has energetically organised reform in the Australian photographic industry around the standardisation of digital production and pre-press practices, was a founding member of the Advertising & Commercial Magazine Photographers Digital Group (ACMP DiG).

The title of Gus' presentation was Creator-to-Consumer in a Digital Age: Book Production in Transition.

View Gus' presentation in Power Point

http://www.c-2-cproject.com/

http://commongroundgroup.com/

Richard Grayson

Richard Grayson has been a practising artist since 1979 when he was a founder member of the Basement Group (UK), an artist initiative focussed on time based installation and performance work. Since starting to make work in the early 80's he has shown widely in Australia and overseas. His work has been shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Perspecta 1989), the Melbourne Art Fair (1994 & 1996), Artpool, Budapest (1995), and Cleveland Lotta Hammer Gallery, London (1996) and the Museum of contemporary Art (2000).

His association with Australia began when the Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide) invited him in 1984 to be an artist in residence. In 1991 until 1998 he, in addition to his art practice, was director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, where he curated the exhibition program and generated projects.

http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/

Brian Hardy

Brian Hardy is responsible for developing services that enhance access to information for people with disabilities. Brian and his team work with partners around the world to assist organisations to provide accessible websites, accessible multimedia and accessible software and hardware. His clients include government agencies, major corporations and community groups. In the cultural field he has worked with performance venues, museums, educational institutions and media organisations. Brian has a background in disability program management and development, information technology and consulting.

Together with Lee Adendorff, Brian demonstrated some of the key principles of accessible design using examples form cultural sites around the world.

View Brian and Lee's presentation in PDF format

http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/

Matthew Harris

Matthew Harris is the founder of Morpheum, an Internet consultancy with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. For the past four years, Morpheum has provided in-kind support and content management technology for Melbourne's Midsumma Festival, Food and Wine Festival, Moomba and Lighthouse Foundation. Matthew firmly believes that cultural organisations can use and implement the same technology as large government and corporate agencies, whilst improving internal business processes, speed to market and most importantly, provide equity of access. In 2000, Matthew was voted by leading industry analysts as one of the top 30 achievers under the age of 30. He has worked on such initiatives for the Australian Web Accessibility Task Force and has lectured at Monash University.

Matthew will speak on how the Melbourne Midsumma Festival has used the Internet to improve business processes and how this these will evolve in the coming years to change their operational business model to reduce costs and improve their interaction with their target audience. This is achieved through tools enabling Midsumma to continually use their website as an interactive tool leading up to and during the event.

Christopher Hudson

Chris has worked for over fifteen years creating and producing cultural activities including programming, festivals, visual and performing arts as well as cultural policy. Working managerially with both large corporations and small arts companies gives him a unique broad perspective. Past positions include Cultural Program Manager for Government House, NSW and Co-ordinator of Community Arts Marrickville. Chris currently works as Administer for ERTH Visual & Physical Inc. as well as being Project Manager, Arts & Cultural Development with South Sydney Council. A qualified Qi-Gong instructor, Chris works a four day week allowing time with his partner and two young daughters.

http://www.performanceNET.org/

http://www.erth.com.au/

Jane Hunter

Dr Jane Hunter is a Senior Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) at the University of Queensland. Her research interests are multimedia metadata modelling and interoperability between metadata standards across domains and media types. She is project manager of DSTC's MAENAD (Multimedia Access for Enterprises across Networks and Domains) project and one of the key collaborators in the Harmony International Digital Library project. She is one of the editors of MPEG-7, the liaison between MPEG and the W3C and on the Dublin Core Advisory Board. She is currently undertaking a Smithsonian Fellowship working with the National Museum of the American Indian on metadata models for multimedia in museums and rights management for indigenous collections.

Jane discussed and demonstrated how emerging technologies and standards for automated rights management such as XrML and MPEG-21 need to be extended if they are to support the requirements for the protection of indigenous knowledge.

View Jane's presentation in PDF format

Renato Iannella

Renato Iannella is the Chief Scientist at IPR Systems, responsible for research, development, and international standards strategies. Renato is an active member of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and member of the W3C Advisory Board.

Renato has recently co-chaired the W3C Workshop on Digital Rights Management, and is a member of the OpenEbook Forum, IMS Educational standards group, IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee, MPEG working group, the PRISM working group, and was previously on the Executive Committee of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

Renato presented an overview of Digital Rights Management technologies and standards, and discussed the implications for the content industries.

View Renato's presentation in Power Point

Judith James

Judith James has worked in four countries and for numerous arts organisations, both large and small, since 1978. She headed the marketing departments for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1981-1987), the Royal National Theatre (1987-1990), Melbourne Theatre Company (1991-1994) and prior to setting up her own business in 1996, managed an advertising agency in Sydney. She specialises in business, marketing and event planning. Recent clients include: Arts Victoria, Sydney Opera House, The Australia Council, ArtsACT and LIVE, a consortium of performing arts companies in Tasmania. She wrote Sauce: hot tips for an effective arts promotion, an initiative of the Australia Council which is available online at www.fuel4arts.com.

Judith spoke about how to create a effective strategy for e-mail promotions. Her session was entitled Email: a dangerously easy medium.

http://www.fuel4arts.com/sauce/

David Jonas

David Jonas founded Electronic Trading Concepts in 1992 and built it into a leading provider of electronic business advisory services. In July 2000, ETC was acquired by SecureNet, an ASX listed Asian and Australian technology group. David has played a key role in over 400 major e-business projects over the past twelve years. He has also served on a range of national and international advisory bodies. Today, David is an independent adviser and speaker in the areas of information technology and business. He is a also a freelance writer for mainstream publications. David has a passionate interest in the arts and confesses to being a budding author.

Belying their friendly and often alternative ambience, an increasing number of cultural websites are taking a hard-edged commercial approach to the world. David's presentation examined interesting and outstanding examples of these.

Michael Keighery

Michael is a visual artist and academic who has been closely involved in visual arts and craft organisations for many years and is the current Chair of NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts). As an artist and craftsperson, Michael's work spans the areas of ceramics, glass, printmaking, pyrotechnic performance, public art and collaborative practice. His work has been exhibited, performed and collected widely in Australia and internationally.

Michael discussed how a range of Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering processes can increase the studio production of artists as well as increasing the range of aesthetic devices at their disposal.

http://www.cvtech.com.au/

http://www.nd3d.com/

Sarah Kenderdine

Sarah Kenderdine is a maritime archaeologist and museum curator. She has excavated throughout the Indian Ocean and has published a number of books on shipwrecks. She completed a Master of Arts on virtual museums in 1995 when building the Western Australian Maritime Museum website. She was subsequently producer and information architect for Australian Museums On Line (AMOL). Other major projects which she has produced since include: the redesign of New Zealand Museums Online; the digital reconstruction of the Olympia Project website, exhibition installation and CD ROM; Behind the Scenes at the Powerhouse Museum; the Heritage Network ASEAN portal gateway to the cultural heritage of ten Asian nations. She is pursuing a PhD on the 3D visualisation of Angkor, Cambodia.

Sarah presented on the development of online exhibitions and portal gateways for cultural heritage organisations including the virtual Olympia project; virtual Powerhouse; and the Heritage Network ASEAN.

View Sarah's presentation in Power Point

David Kennedy

David Kennedy is General Manager for strategic development in the Commonwealth National Office for the Information Economy. His responsibilities have included the 1999 Convergence Review, which analysed the policy implications of media and communications convergence. He is currently on the Steering Committee for the Creative Industries Cluster Study. Mr Kennedy was previously a Senior Consultant with Cutler & Company, a consultancy specialising in communications and multimedia industries. Mr Kennedy advised Australian and Asian governments and corporations on strategies to address new technologies and convergence. Mr Kennedy was also a Director of OPENChannel, an organisation providing film, television and multimedia training and production support in Fitzroy, Melbourne.

View David's presentation in Power Point

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy became a director of Beyond Online Limited (ASX- BYO) in July 1999 and Managing Director in December 1999. He is also Managing Director of Brainwaave Interactive Pty Limited, which he founded under John Fairfax Holdings in 1995 before concluding a management buyout in 1998. Born in the UK and raised in Canada, Tom has over 15 years experience in technology markets, covering manufacturing, software publishing and distribution and interactive content creation and management.

Kennedy headed the Asia Pacific operations of Media Vision Inc, and held senior marketing roles with Merisel Pty Ltd and Panasonic Australia Pty Ltd. Tom is the past president of the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) 1997-98 and has been a board member for six years. He has been an advisor to the Australian Cultural Network, a member of the Digital Television Advisory Group, and is a member of the Joint Singapore Australia IT Council, and member of the Australian Information Economy Advisory Council (AIEAC). In 2001 he became a Director of the Biennale of Sydney and the Deputy Chairman of the Internet Industry Association (IIA).

Tom spoke about online business models.

Linda Leung

Dr Linda Leung is the producer for BLOWIN' AT THE ROCCO: Saturday Night. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney's Institute for Interactive Media and Learning. She lived in London for seven years where she taught multimedia studies at the University of East London. She has also previously taught and/or conducted research at the Universities of London, North London, Miami and Western Sydney. As a lecturer in multimedia, she found a lack of access to examples of cutting edge multimedia design which could be used as teaching and learning resources. As a result, she established Digimatter to assist digital media artists in marketing and distributing their work.

Digimatter has sold fine art cd-roms to educational institutions, art organisations, specialist retailers, as well as individual collectors all over the world. Last year, she was a member of the selection panel of dArt01, an international festival of new media art. Since returning to Australia in 1999, she has been employed in digital media production across a range of industry sectors with clients such as Orange Hutchison Telecom, the ACCC and the Australian Consumers Association.

View Linda's presentation in Word format

http://www.digimatter.com/

http://www.iml.uts.edu.au/

Ted Ling

Ted Ling is Director, Legislative and Accessibility Projects at the National Archives of Australia. Ted has written a number of publications on the subject of archival buildings, and is a member of the International Council on Archives Committee on Archival Buildings and Equipment. He is currently responsible for reviewing the Commonwealth Archives Act and preparing ministerial proposals for amended archival legislation and for managing a number of the Archives' outreach activities including the digitisation on demand service, Frederick Watson Fellowship and Community Heritage Grants.

Ted spoke about the National Archives digitisation on demand service and described how researchers can request digital copies of record items in the Archives collection at no charge.

View Ted's presentation in Power Point

http://www.naa.gov.au/

Peter Maggs

A former teacher and Internet curriculum consultant, Peter has been responsible for developing the strategy behind KAHooTZ, an online educational community that allows students and teachers to share and exchange multimedia content with classrooms around the world. Peter has also helped facilitate online communities for the last six years and brought together students, classrooms and teachers in over forty countries.

Peter discussed how the Australian Children's Television Fund has encouraged participation in a diverse, creative online community of young storytellers, designers, inventors, poets and artists.

View Peter's presentation in Word format

http://www.kahootz.com.au/

Susan Mann

Susan is the Chief Operating Officer for the Le@rning Federation Joint Venture of Curriculum Corporation and education.au limited. Previously she was Director of the Curriculum Program at Curriculum Corporation and has held Executive level management positions with the Victorian Department of Education. She has been a policy analyst at the Victorian Board of Education, a General Curriculum consultant for Victorian primary and secondary schools and a member of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board. She has taught in both secondary and tertiary education institutions and has broad experience in curriculum development, project planning, implementation and dissemination of curriculum initiatives and project management.

Susan spoke on The Le@rning Federation - Schools Online Curriculum Content Initiative.

View Susan's presentation in PDF format

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/

Anna Munster

Anna Munster is an artist, writer and teacher working within new media art. She explores relations between the body and information in her art practice, which includes digital imaging, sound, installation, video and online work. Recent work includes the online art piece, http://wundernet.cofa.unsw.edu.au and an interactive installation in the Austrian Museum for Ethnology,Vienna, April 10-October 6, 2002. Her areas of current research include biotechnical art, histories of cybernetic art and the body/computer interface. Publications include articles for (dis)LOCATIONS DVDROM and book Karlsruhe: ZKM Digital Arts Editions, 2001, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, issue on Affect and Sensation, 2002, www.ctheory.net, M/C, and Artlink. She teaches in digital media theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.

Anna discussed the re-emergence of physical space, solid objects and biology as current trends in new media art.

Julianne Pierce

Julianne Pierce is an artist, curator and interactive media producer. She is currently Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (based in Adelaide, South Australia). She is a founding member of the influential computer artist group VNS Matrix, who exhibited widely in Australia and internationally from 1991 to 1997.

She has curated several new media exhibitions and events including Spectrascope (Sydney Biennale Satellite, 2000), Biomachines (Adelaide Festival, 2000) and Code Red (ANAT and Performance Space, 1997). Julianne has produced several interactive titles including the prototype Bad Code (1997) computer game by VNS Matrix and Uncle Bill (2000) directed by Debra Petrovitch (First prize, New Media Section, Video Brasil, 2001.

In Blurring the Edges - art, science and technology Julianne will present ANAT's 'Scientific Serendipity' artist in residence program and other science/art initiatives. In Nitty Gritty - current online projects Julianne and Caroline Farmer (Manager, ANAT) will discuss further ANAT's current programs and future directions.

http://www.anat.org.au/

http:// www.anat.org.au/serendipity/

Murray Pope

Murray Pope is Executive Producer at Animal Logic Film. In the two years he has been with Animal Logic, he has worked on a host of international films such as Moulin Rouge, The Lord of the Rings, Hero, The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Man Who Sued God, Mullet and now Matrix Reloaded. In addition to overseeing digital production, Murray has taken on the role of VFX Supervisor on The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Man Who Sued God. Prior to joining Animal Logic he worked across production design, theatre, commercials and VFX production for the IMAX films Sydney Story of A City and Solarmax.

David Reiter

David Reiter is an award-winning author, and Director of IP, a print and digital publisher in Brisbane. His book Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival Literature Awards. The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin) won the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award. Triangles was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. His most recent works include The Gallery, a work of literary multimedia he has been touring; Kiss and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002; and Sharpened Knife, a multimedia murder mystery now in final beta testing. The Planets, a multimedia fictive memoir, is now under development.

David showed how IP, as a "New Economy Publisher", adds value to its titles and its website with multimedia elements authored with Adobe and Macromedia software.

View David's presentation in Word format

Sue Rowley

Professor Sue Rowley is the Australian Research Council's Executive Director for the Humanities and Creative Arts. She is the Foundation Professor of Contemporary Australian Art History at the University of New South Wales, and prior to her appointment as Executive Director was the Head of the School of Art History and Theory at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Professor Rowley has served as President of Object, the Australian Centre of Craft and Design.

Bruce Royan

Professor Bruce Royan, Chief Executive of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) was the Keynote Speaker for the conference. Visit the Keynote Speaker page to view Bruce's presentations.

http://www.scran.ac.uk/

Steven Smith

Steven Smith is the Principal Consultant of United Focus Pty Ltd which is an independent company providing Internet consultancy advice to private organisations and government. It assists organisations identify and implement e-business strategies. Steven has been engaged by all levels of governments to undertake a wide range of consultancies involving online strategic advice and public policy advice. He has been working with DCITA for the past two years developing and delivering the OZeCulture: eBusiness for the Cultural Sector workshops to the cultural sector around Australia. He co-wrote the Digitisation of Collections report on public policy issues emerging from the digitisation of collections held by libraries, art galleries and museums in Australia.

http://www.unitedfocus.com.au/

Michael Snelling

Michael Snelling is Director of the IMA. He has been working in and around the arts since the age of ten, when he was employed to water the gardens of the art gallery opposite his home. He has been an artist, lecturer, photographer, publisher, barman and curator. He has been Director of the Australian Centre for Photography Workshop, and the Experimental Art Foundation, and spent five years running the VACB's National Infrastructure and Projects Portfolios in the Australia Council. He has been President of CAOs (Contemporary Art Organisations of Australia), Chair of the Asialink Visual Arts Committee, is currently Deputy Chair of ELISION Contemporary Music Ensemble and he is Chair of the Australia Councils New Media Arts Board. He was Australian Commissioner for the 10th Indian Triennale in 2001 and the exhibition Tracey Moffatt that he curated has just finished touring Korea and Taiwan.

Julia Topliss

Julia Topliss is Creative Director of Web Prophets, a web development company that specialises in art websites. Julia is an art school graduate with ten years experience working in a variety of arts based organisations, and with over six years experience in web development. She has been the principal designer on websites such as the Canberra School of Art, ANU (1996 - 1997); Institute of the Arts, ANU (1997 - 1998); Adelaide Fringe Festival (for 2000); Darwin Entertainment Centre (1998); Deutscher Menzies Fine Art Auction House (2000 - 2002); and Arts West (2001 - 2002). Currently Julia is working on a web project with Heide, Museum of Modern Art.

Julia presented a new webcasting product that synchronises video with Powerpoint presentations to deliver exhibition content. Julia will use a demonstration from the Heide website on Albert Tucker as a showcase.

http://www.webprophets.net.au/

http://www.globalvision.com.au/

Julia Tymukas

Julia Tymukas has been working in the arts industry for almost 20 years as an Arts Manager, Editor, Community Arts Officer, Publicist, Administrator, Consultant, Youth Theatre Tutor and Education Officer with companies such as Port Community Arts Centre, Port Youth Theatre Workshop, Red Shed Theatre Company, Junction Theatre Company, Patch Theatre Company and Urban Myth (formerly Unley Youth Theatre). Julia is currently Director of Community Arts Network SA Inc (CAN SA) the peak organisation for community cultural development in South Australia and has a Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration and a Bachelor of Education. CAN SA's most recent project launched in March 2002 is the National Website for Community Cultural Development.

Julia highlighted the potential of the recently developed National Community Cultural Development Website - CCD.net for connecting artsworkers, communities and people interested in how the arts can be used for a tool for community building.

http://www.ccd.net

http://www.cansa.on.net

Drew Whitehouse

Drew Whitehouse is founder and group leader of the Australian National University Supercomputer Facility Vizlab. He has filled the role of lead designer on the NMA kSpace exhibit, the Powerhouse "Wedge" and CSIRO Discovery Centre's Virtual Reality Theatre. Drew has fifteen years experience in computer graphics programming in both academic and commercial environments.

Drew described the design and implementation of the National Museum of Australia's "kSpace" exhibit, a high throughput interactive virtual reality experience for children.

View Drew's presentation in Power Point

http://anusf.anu.edu.au/Vizlab/VE/

Tamara Winikoff

Tamara Winikoff has held senior arts management positions over twenty years and is well known as a cultural commentator. Currently Tamara is the Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) the peak body representing and advocating for the interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector. She also has been an academic at universities in Australia and England, and has spoken and written extensively about cultural issues. Recently Tamara has been a Chief Investigator in three Australian Research Council and Australia Council funded projects researching various aspects of the visual arts and craft in Australia. Originally trained as an architect, Tamara also has worked as a graphic and theatre designer, photographer and film-maker and on archaeological digs around the Middle East.

Tamara spoke about the way in which technological change is influencing ideas about creativity and community with reference to NAVA's recent experience in relation to research, advocacy, communication, service delivery and infrastructure.

http://www.visualarts.net.au/

Komninos Zervos

Komninos Zervos convenes the CyberStudies Major at the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus. He has a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) from The University of Queensland, and is completing his PhD at Griffith University on The Contemporary Australian Poetic Discourse. His own work in the area of CyberPoetry, Performance poetry and in print publication makes him well qualified in this area of research. His CD-ROM CyberPoetry Underground was short-listed in the Electronic Literature Organisation's Awards in 2001. His CyberPoetry Website was highly commended in the Prix Ars Electronica 1997. Komninos by the Kupful, a collection of poetry published by UQP, 1994, is on the NSW HSC English Curriculum for 2002/3/4 and Komninos, also published by University of Queensland Press, was awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award in 1991. Komninos Zervos has been experimenting with words in three-dimensional environments since 1994, particularly the poetic potential of motion, morphing and random generation of text, and interactivity with text for CD-ROM and the Web.

View Komninos' presentation in Word format

http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos/

Jan Zwar

Jan Zwar works as a freelancer, currently designing a major museum exhibition, "Black Chicks Talking", with performer Leah Purcell in consultation with the National Museum of Australia. Patrons include Sir William Deane, Geoffrey Rush and Lowitja O'Donahue. For several years she developed CD-ROMs at the ABC, working on Bananas in Pyjamas, The Bush Tucker Man and Play School. Real Wild Child, a history of Australian rock music, won the annual AIMIA (Australian Multimedia Industry Association) Gold Award for Best Australian Project. Later, Jan headed up a corporate online learning division at Access OnLine. Her division's work won four national awards, including a Telstra/Financial Review Internet Award, an Australian Information Association Award and an AIMIA award. Jan also oversaw the expansion of the highly-regarded Australian Schools Web Challenge, a website competition for primary and secondary schools.

Jan spoke about developing websites, CD-ROMs & multimedia museum exhibits from cultural material such as books, TV programs, museum exhibitions and school projects.