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Speaker ProfilesMarie-Louise Ayres
Marie-Louise (with Robyn Holmes) spoke about the development of MusicAustralia and AustraliaDancing as new national collaborative digital services driving the creation and delivery of Australian music and dance digital resources. View Marie-Loiuse and Robyn's presentation in Word format http://www.musicaustralia.org/ http://www.australiadancing.org/ Linda Barwick
Linda discussed planning issues in setting up the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, a collaborative project begun in 2003 to establish a facility for digital preservation and access to audio recordings of endangered languages and musics from the Asia-Pacific region. View Linda's presentation in PDF format Mark Billinghurst
Mark talked about augmented and mixed reality computer interfaces, especially focussing on how this technology can be used to enhance face to face and remote collaboration. Mark's presentation is not available. Margot Brereton Margot discussed problems at the interface between the human and the information infrastructure, focussing on possibilities for gestural interaction. View Margot's presentation in Power Point http://www.infenv.itee.uq.edu.au/ Andrew Brown
Andrew spoke about the topic of the future of interactive digital media. Andrew's presentation is not available.
Mark Burry
Professor Burry is director of RMIT’s state-of-the-art Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, which has been established as a holistic interdisciplinary research environment dedicated to almost all aspects of contemporary design activity. The laboratory focuses on collocated design research and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching with associated advanced computer applications and the rapid prototyping of ideas. The laboratory has a design-practice emphasis and acts as a creative think-tank accessible to both local and international practices, including dECOi in Paris and Gehry Partners in Los Angeles. Mark discussed Interaction Design and Design Interaction. Malcolm Burt
Malcolm discussed online file sharing as it applies to films - the legal and illegal services, the security techniques being attempted and the opinion of the public, who have had a taste of accessing every piece of film and music they ever wanted for free - and like it. View Malcom's presentation in Power Point Lisa Colley
Lisa's 23-year arts career has ranged across local, State and Federal Governments, non-government organisations, community broadcasting, and major festivals and events. From 1996 - 2001 Lisa managed the establishment of Council's New Media Arts Board, one of the major outcomes of her work with the Board being Synapse a major art/ science initiative. Lisa delivered the closing plenary address. View the notes from the closing plenary address in Word format http://www.ozco.gov.au/ Lenore demonstrated the Australia’s Prime Ministers website as
an online reference tool and as a portal to prime ministers’ papers
in archives large and small.
Peter provided an introduction to eLearning - using technology tools to train in the arts. Stuart Cunningham
Stuart presented a paper on the content and creative industries as an R&D sector. View Stuart's presentation in Power Point http://creativeindustries.qut.com/
Kim DaltonDue to unforeseen circumstances Kim was replaced at a late stage by Catherine Griff. Joseph Di Gregorio
Prior to working in NOIE, Joseph worked in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for 8 years. In the ABS, Joseph was one of the founding members of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) statistical Project, working for 6 years on developing ICT metrics. View Joes' presentation in Power Point Vince Dziekan
Over the years, Vince has used photography as a basis for his interdisciplinary practice and towards negotiating the impact of digital technologies on art practice. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and is represented in a number of public collections in Australia. Complementing his artistic practice, Vince has also curated exhibitions such as "Archival Permanence: Time and Timelessness in 100 years of Australian Photography" and "The Synthetic Image: Digital Technologies and The Image". He is currently working on a new curatorial project, "Small Worlds: A Romance", to be realised later this year. Vince's presentation offered an opportunity to summarise his ongoing interdisciplinary research project into the implications of virtuality on the art of exhibition. View Vince's presentation in Power Point http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/ Dean Economou
He is co-inventor of the technology used in the IEEE 802.6 (DQDB) Metropolitan Area Network standard and his work has contributed to ATM, Ethernet switching and MAN technologies. Before working for the CSIRO, he held senior technical positions at Jtec, Alcatel (Germany) and at QPSX, where he was one of the founders. Dean holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia and has studied high-speed network design and high technology product marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. He speaks frequently at national and international events and is a member the NSW ATUG Committee. David Eedle
David Eedle co-presented with Peter Matthews web projects which highlighted opportunities for arts organisations to use online technologies to substantially improve the efficacy and effectiveness of existing business practices. View David and Peter's presentation in Power Point http://www.festnet.com.au/festnet1/default.asp Frances Bunji Elcoate
Bunji spoke about the targeted community inclusion art project Nuff Stuff, giving rural marginalised people maximum positive exposure. View Frances's presentation in Power Point Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy talked about a practical, working digital rights management model and discuss how Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) will improve and enhance remuneration for creators. View Jeremy's presentation in Power Point http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/newsite/view/324.html/ Trevor Graham
Trevor discussed the making of the online documentary Homeless. http://www.abc.net.au/homeless/ Robyn Holmes
Robyn (with Marie-Louise Ayres) spoke about the development of MusicAustralia and AustraliaDancing as new national collaborative digital services driving the creation and delivery of Australian music and dance digital resources. View Robyn and Marie-Louise's presentation in Word format http://www.musicaustralia.org/ http://www.australiadancing.org/ Jane Hunter Professor Jeff Jones
View Jeff's presentation in Power Point
Richard Jones
Richard talked about his production of innovative interactive online counselling tools for Kids Help Line, Australia's largest youth counselling service. http://www.creativeindustries.qut.com/ Apolline Kohen
Apolline Kohen talked about Maningrida Arts & Culture's new website, focusing on its exhibition online program and its shopping online features. View Apolline's presentation in Power Point Brett LeavyBrett Leavy is the Managing Director of CyberDreaming with a vision for assisting every Indigenous home throughout the country utilising the Internet. He began to fulfil this vision in 1998 by establishing CyberDreaming, a uniquely Australian multimedia company that develops interactive web sites, multimedia projects along with media and communication campaigns targeted towards an Indigenous marketplace.Brett, a Kooma man from south west Queensland, not only manages CyberDreaming but also Bilby an Internet Service Provider and is a shareholder in the National Indigenous Times a national based Indigenous issue focused newspaper as well. All companies utilise innovative approaches to content deliver with a focus on communication design that reflects the cultures and protocols of Australia’s Indigenous people. CyberDreaming see its products and services as an important tool and engaging mechanism to assist with the restoration, education, retention, distribution and continuing maintenance of Indigenous languages and cultural knowledge. They seek to promote understanding and acceptance of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Indigenous people within the broader community using the tools of new media technology.” CyberDreaming has been very successful as a uniquely placed Indigenous multimedia company with a key client base including the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, the Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University, Radio 4KIG Townsville, 4AAA Brisbane, Musgrave Park Cultural Centre, the Kullilla Art Gallery, the Sydney and Marrickville City Councils.. CyberDreaming’s Barani web site was awarded the NSW Premier’s 2002 Audio/visual History Award. It is an informative, easily navigable and aesthetic web site that provides an accurate description of the history of the Aboriginal people since the arrival of the first settlers in 1788. CyberDreaming is presently working with a consortia of universities and
new media businesses to see the creation of the CRC for Interaction Design.
A collective set of companies that will hopefully witness the integration
of new media techniques to digitise the sites, art paintings, artefacts,
imagery, stories and cultural relevance of Carnarvon Gorge in South West
Queensland. Rus Littleson has been working in digital rights management for five years. His company, me™, currently manages the digital rights for 50,000 transactions per year and has recently partnered with VISCOPY Limited to host an online rights management and image distribution service. As a visual artist and graphic designer, Rus saw the need for developing a user-friendly rights management system to satisfy both rights owners and rights users. His company has invested heavily in research and development of online rights systems, delivering a comprehensive service to many public and private organisations. Rus talked about why cultural institutions can and should take Rights Management online, with VISCOPY as a live case study. View Rus's presentation in Flash 6 Sharon Longridge
Taking twelve months leave without pay from the ABC, Sharon took on the position of Content Manager at K*Grind a short lived broadband youth entertainment network. Upon returning to the ABC, Sharon was appointed Executive Producer for Youth Content Development. In this position she created the ABC's first Cross Media Youth Content Strategy integrating radio, television and online. As part of the implementation of the strategy, she then helped establish the ABC's new youth digital television channel Fly. Sharon is the General Manager of the noise festival. Synopsis of presentationThe media is undergoing significant change. New technologies mean that more people are content creators as well as content consumers. As audience and/or artist, we have the power to satisfy our information urges from an ever-broadening array of media options. Recognising these shifts, noise (a national media-based arts festival) utilises the multi-platform media environment to bring current art forms to a wide audience. View Sharon's presentation in Flash 6 Kim Machan
Peter MatthewsPeter Matthews spent the majority of his early life in regional Victoria on his parent's farm near Kyabram. After completing secondary education he undertook a degree in engineering before commencing his arts career. Peter Matthews has worked in the arts in many different areas, starting with a successful dancing career and then later entering Arts Management and Education. Prior to his appointment as Director, Regional Arts Victoria in 1998, Peter led the Graduate Program in Arts Management at the Victorian College of the Arts while also working as a consultant. From 1995 -1996, Peter was Acting CEO and Deputy CEO at the Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities, now the Australia Foundation for Business and the Arts. This followed a period at the Australia Council in planning and policy development, while on a secondment from the University of South Australia, where he was Director of the Graduate Program in Arts Management from 1990-1995. Peter's dance career includes choreographic commissions with the Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Australian Ballet School and Victorian College of the Arts, and work with the Melbourne Theatre Company. He has danced with Human Veins, One Extra Company and Australian Dance Theatre, among others. While a Churchill Fellow in 1986, he was a guest artist at the Julliard School in New York and the University of Michigan. Nathan McLay
Nathan spoke about the TownB internet radio community and the ways music consumption is evolving. Margret Meagher
State of the Arts was one of the first Australian arts companies to go online, launching a website in 1994. Since that time, Margret Meagher has evidenced first hand the major developments and opportunities for eBusiness in the arts industry. Margret shared her experiences in utilizing the internet to facilitate marketing and ebusiness for the arts. Amanda MorrisAmanda is Head of New Media at NIDA, Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. She produced the internationally award-winning CD-ROM, StageStruck, and co-produced LoveCuts, Australia's first interactive drama for broadband. She has also produced and directed for theatre. For NIDA she established the Open Program in 1992 to provide community access and school education programs in performing arts. She has a PhD in English Literature from Sydney University and a Diploma in Directing from NIDA. Amanda discussed the creation of Australian interactive drama for broadband, with reference to the NIDA/AFTRS production LoveCuts. View Amanda's presentation in Power Point Scott O'Hara
Scott discussed the implementation of an online pilot to deliver accredited training in community cultural development as an ebusiness strategy. View Scott's presentation in Power Point Helen Page
Following a first degree in Applied Language, including an honours thesis on natural language processing, her IT and multimedia systems career began in 1986 with the Wellcome Trust and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine developing electronic publishing, image databases and interactive computer aided learning applications. This included electronic exotic language publication, the digitisation of 50,000 images from the iconographic collection integrated with the library cataloguing system, and co-ordinating a multidisciplinary team which transferred the Wellcome Museum of Tropical Medicine into interactive modules including image and knowledge databases and artificial intelligence patient diagnostic simulations. Helen has also worked for the CSIRO on the implementation of internet technologies, the Victorian Department of Education’s Navigator Schools Project integrating IT into the classroom, and the State Library of Victoria, managing the implementation of a Web-accessible database of 107,000 digital images from the Library's special collections as well overseeing the initial redevelopment of the Library's web site and working on the development of a Library wide intranet. Since 1997 she has been developing, then implementing with her team, the Gallery’s strategy for the use of information and communications technologies to enhance the public’s access to and understanding of the visual arts and specifically NGV’s collection. Helen also has a Diploma in Interactive Multimedia Technology from the University of London in 1991, which followed a part-time Masters in Computer Science at the same institution. She is currently studying part-time for a Masters of Knowledge Management at the University of Melbourne. Helen spoke about the concepts, content and infrastructures resulting from the impetus of two major building developments aligned with government priorities supporting multimedia, which has culminated in the delivery of fully integrated, sustainable multimedia applications and services for the public both onsite at NGV Australia at Federation Square, which opened in November 2002, and the soon to be re-opened NGV International at St Kilda Road, and online at http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Malcolm Paterson
Malcolm spoke about what to do when a multimedia display has past its use by date, and what issues are involved in creating a succession plan in a large regional gallery situation where some components turn over frequently and others have a life of up to four years.
Karen Powell
She has experience in the delivery of government services in regional and remote areas. She has been involved in the development and implementation of Information Communication Technology projects and infrastructure developments particularly in the provision and the delivery of government business requirements and online services. Karen is at present the Manager of the ABRpublic website and responsible for the Digital Credential Project in the Business Entry Point Branch of the Department of Industry Tourism and Resources. View Karen's presentation in Power Point
The Pure Drop is an interactive documentary that explores the world of traditional folk music, it deals with the relationship between culture and music including the ways in which online communities contribute to forming and defining cultures. Tim RichardsTim Richards has spent the last three years heavily involved in the mobile Internet industry, coming to the field with a background in entertainment and technology law. He has substantially worked in mobile data entertainment and in 2000 received a Special Commendation from the Law Institute of Victoria for a mobile Internet WAPsite he developed. He has worked for the Australian Communications Authority as senior lawyer and clients have included Ericsson, Austrade and Jumbuck Ltd. Tim has worked in the UK, Singapore, and Japan and contributed to The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, New Media Age (UK), and Exchange Telecoms newsletter. He runs WAPSITES, edits the Game Developers Association of Australia newsletter and GameNews.com.au. Tim talked about what is happening in 'mobile multimedia' - the convergence of the Internet and the mobile phone. He will identify the current opportunities for Australian artists and cultural organisations, with a special note on coordinating mobile content with Internet content. View Tim's presentation in Power Point Louise van Rooyen
Prior to this, van Rooyen was Managing Director of Massive Interactive, one of Australia's leading interactive media development agencies, a company she co-founded with two partners in 1996. Massive employs leading Australian new media professionals including an internationally recognised iTV division and has developed a suite of content management systems and a middleware product for convergent technologies. Highlights of Massive's extensive awards and internet development portfolios include MSN Expedition Icebound (1996) and Expedition Reefbound (1997), Mars Confectionery Mondo 3D Online Game (2000) and the Patternbook Website (2001). With over 10 years experience working in the interactive media industries, Louise was previously Executive Producer for the Digital Hollywood Award-winning TeraMedia CD-ROM series (1994) where she helped launch and grow Australasia's largest interactive agency at the time and lead the team to garner a string of international development awards for a suite of six CD-ROM titles. She also managed strategy and implementation for the Interactive '94 conference in Auckland, NZ, at which Bill Gates gave the keynote address. Prior to that, van Rooyen worked as an interactive exhibition developer for science museum environments in the USA where digital video, graphics, text, and animation began introducing users to the power of rich media in an interactive context for communicating complex content and subject matter. Van Rooyen holds an MA from the University of Auckland, NZ, has participated in a variety of national and international forums including the APEC Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs forum in Beijing and Shanghai, and is also actively involved in the National ICT Alliance and the Australian Coalition for Cultural Diversity. View Louise's presentation in Power Point Pam Saunders
Pam discussed the impetus for content digitisation at ScreenSound Australia and the impediments, challenges and opportunities that have reshaped and repurposed its digital delivery agenda over the last two years. View Pam's presentation in Power Point http://www.screensound.gov.au/ Ronald Schroeter
Ronald completed his thesis on "Web Based Video Retrieval Systems using MPEG-7" at KRDL, Singapore, in 2001 and continued to work within the MPEG-7 framework on the COALA project (Content Oriented Audiovisual Library Access) at EPFL, Switzerland. His past work focused on the use of XML and RDF technologies, including Tamino XML database, XQuery (using QuiP) and RQL. Ronald described the FilmEd project which is developing software tools to enable collaborative digital video browsing, annotation, discussion and editing over Australia's high-bandwidth academic research network, GrangeNet. Ronald demonstrated the software tools developed to date, the standards on which they've been built (MPEG-2, MPEG-7, MPEG-21) and described the challenges faced so far and will face in the future. http://www.metadata.net/filmed/ Michael Snelling
Michael Trudgeon
Recent project work was included in The Unprivate House exhibition at MoMA in New York. In 1998 Michael Trudgeon won the Seppelt Contemporary Art Award at the MCA in the Environmental Design Category with an architectural project addressing the integration of new technologies and innovative design strategies. Michael Trudgeon has a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in architecture and has taught over the past 15 years in industrial design, interior design, graphics and architecture. Michael spoke about the recently designed and installed media lounges at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square. Judi Tucker
Judi spoke on the achievements of FIBRE (Film Industry Broadband Resources Enterprise) in its work to reduce the cost of bandwidth for the creative sector. View Judi's presentation in Power Point Daniel Wilksch
Daniel talked about the role of online exhibitions in engaging and creating dialogue between traditional, institutional and other 'owners' of stories about large historical characters and events, such as Ned Kelly and the Eureka Stockade. View Daniel's presentation in Power Point http://nedonline.imagineering.net.au/ http://eureka.imagineering.com.au/
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OZeCulture is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres has worked in the library sector since completing a Ph.D in English. She was the inaugural Executive Manager of AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (1999-2002), and an early implementer of the Encoded Archival Description standard for archival finding aids. She joined the National Library as Project Manager, MusicAustralia, in 2002.
Linda has research interests in Italian traditional music, Australian indigenous music, and music technology. Now based at the University of Sydney, she has previously lived and worked in Adelaide, Perth, Armidale and Hong Kong. She has published widely on theoretical matters and on her field research in Australia, Italy and the Philippines, and has collaborated in the recording and production of a number of CDs of Australian Indigenous music. She is a great believer in collaborative community-based research and in the importance of intangible cultural heritage.
Mark
Billinghurst is a researcher developing innovative computer interfaces
that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged to enhance face-to-face
and remote collaboration. Director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory
(New Zealand) and a research scientist at the HIT Lab (US), he has produced
over 80 technical publications and his work has been demonstrated at a
wide variety of conferences. He is active in several research areas including
Augmented and Virtual Reality, wearable computing and conversational computer
interfaces.
Dr.
Margot Brereton is Deputy Director and a founding academic of the Information
Environments Degree program, a design focussed, studio-based IT degree
at University of Queensland. She heads an active research program exploring
human-centred design of multi-modal ubiquitous computing environments.
She is recognised for her work on the role played by manipulation of objects
in supporting human thinking processes, particularly those of engineering
designers. She teaches design, visual thinking, human-machine interaction
and interaction design. She holds a BScEng(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering
(University of Bristol), Masters degrees in Technology Policy and Engineering
(MIT) and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering Design (Stanford University).
Andrew
Brown is a composer, performer and senior lecturer in music and sound
at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and a researcher at
the Australasian Center for Interaction Design, in Brisbane, Australia.
His work focuses on generative music studies, electronic music performance,
music for digital media, computer music composition, and sound spatialisation.
He is an active composer of electronic music and multimedia sound design.
Andrew is currently the president of the Australasian Computer Music Association.
Professor
Mark Burry is Professor of Innovation (Spatial Information Architecture)
at RMIT University. He has published internationally on two main themes:
the life and work of the architect Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, and
putting theory into practice with regard to ‘challenging’
architecture. He has also published widely on broader issues of design,
construction and the use of computers in design theory and practice. As
Consultant Architect to the Temple Sagrada Família, Mark Burry
has been a key member within the small team untangling the mysteries of
Gaudí’s compositional strategies for the Sagrada Família,
especially those coming from his later years, the implications of which
are only now becoming fully apparent as they are resolved for building
purposes. He has been active with the project, and the museum associated
with it since 1979. In 2003 Mark Burry was appointed as Visiting Professor
at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (USA) and he is also Visiting Professor at Liverpool University
and Honorary Professor of Architecture at Deakin University. He is also
a member of the founding team for the MIT Medial Lab Australia project
and is a team member of the QUT/RMIT CRC for Interaction Design.
Malcolm
is a producer, lecturer, author and researcher of film and television.
He has recently finished his ABCTV series 'One Small Room' (www.onesmallroom.com)
and is developing a number of international documentaries and feature
films, as well as lecturing at the Queensland School of Film and Television,
and undertaking research with Central Queensland University on the topic
of 'Online film security'. Malcolm also regularly publishes articles
on film security and other film-related issues locally and internationally.
Lisa
Colley is Executive Director of the Policy Communication Research Division
of the Australia Council. The Division manages a broad range of policy,
research, publishing and public relations activities, including liaison
with government, arts organisations and the public. The Division's
domain also includes online services and the Council's library.
Dr
Lenore Coltheart is Websites Content Manager at the National Archives
of Australia. A political historian, Lenore developed the content for
both the Documenting a Democracy website launched in 2001 and the Australia’s
Prime Ministers website launched in November 2002. She has a special interest
in new media and democratic transformations. 
With over twenty years in the industry, Peter has a wealth of experience in the application of Information Technology in a diverse range of business sectors. These include education (University and Vocational Education and Training) and multimedia (especially in eLearning and eBusiness). Over the past ten years, Peter has focussed on the use of digital technology in education, especially in the areas of animation and graphics and culminating in a number of successful national elearning projects.
Stuart
Cunningham is Professor and Director of the Creative Industries Research
and Applications Centre (CIRAC), Queensland University of Technology.
He is an experienced researcher and research manager in the fields of
media, communications, cultural policy, higher education and in what is
now called the 'creative industries'. He is co-leader of the Education
Program in the new Co-operative Research Centre for Interaction Design;
currently directing a large-scale creative industries mapping project
funded by the Australian Research Council; co-editing an international
reader in creative industries for a US publisher; and working on the idea
of creative industries as an R&D-based sector.
Joseph
Di Gregorio is currently Manager of Statistical Analysis Section in the
National Office for the Information Economy. The main responsibilities
of the Section include:
Vince
Dziekan is Lecturer in Digital Imaging, and Coordinator of Digital Imaging
and Photomedia, at Monash University in Melbourne.
Dean Economou is the Chief Technologist for the CeNTIE project at CSIRO. Prior to this he was Manager of Advanced Networking R&D at the CSIRO division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics. He also recently initiated a research program into high quality telecollaboration.
David
Eedle is the Managing Director of The Dramatic Group, the leading online
provider of jobs, news and information services to the arts and entertainment
industry. The Company's publications include artshub.com.au and screenhub.com.au
in Australia, and artshub.co.uk in the United Kingdom. The company has
had a long involvement in arts and new media development, producing web
sites for organisations including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Regional
Arts Australia, and the Next Wave Festival. David is a committed lifetime
computer geek and remembers what the internet looked like before there
were pictures on it.
Bunji studied graphic design and new media at the University of Wollongong. She has since been working in Darwin doing a mixture of commercial and artistic multimedia work. One of the projects that Bunji has been working on is ongoing project working with youth at risk and young offenders. Bunji delivers multimedia workshops to young people in the Don Dale juvenile detention centre and to young people in Darwin and Palmerston's wider community. Bunji works in partnership with BighART, a national youth arts organisation, The Don Dale Education Unit, Corrugated Iron, a local youth arts organisation and Bunjiboo Multimedia Productions. The project's current funding is provided by the Young Australian Foundation. Bunji is currently working with other young people on a music project which will involve Creative writing/Song writing, Digital track mastering, Singing, Digital track editing, Graphic Design (CD Cover), Claymation & Video taping (Film Clip), and Digital video editing.
Jeremy has a Doctorate in Creative Arts from UTS, and qualifications in design, writing and education. Currently Member Relations Executive, Copyright Agency Ltd, he has worked in editorial or management roles for Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Harcourt, Esso and the Medical Journal of Australia. He was the Inaugural winner (1984) of the Australian Society of Indexers Medal for the 4th edition of the Australian Encyclopaedia. Professional positions include: President, Society of Editors (NSW) 1986-1987; Convenor, Tertiary and Professional Committee, Australian Publishers' Association 1997-1999; Board Member, Australian Publishers' Association, 1997-1999; NSW Representative, Australian Society of Authors, 2002; Board of management, Australian Society of Authors, 2003.
Trevor
Graham is a British Academy Award (BAFTA) nominee for his interactive
documentary Mabo - The Native Title Revolution. He has produced
and directed films for Channel 4 and the BBC in Britain, PBS in America
and ABC TV and SBS in Australia. His films have won numerous national
and international film and television awards, most recently, MABO
- Life of an Island Man was winner of the Australian Film Institute's
Award for Best Documentary 1997. The film was nominated for a Logie and
won the prestigious NSW Premier's History Award and the NSW Premier's
Award for Best Screenplay. Trevor was the inaugural Head of Documentary
at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney.
Robyn
Holmes took up a newly created position of Curator of Music at the National
Library of Australia in June 2000. She was previously head of academic
and graduate music studies at the Australian National University. Robyn
is the author of several books on Australian music and has chaired major
national collaborative projects to develop music research infrastructure
in Australia.
Dr
Jane Hunter is a Senior Research Fellow at the Distributed Systems Technology
Centre (DSTC) at the University of Queensland. Her research interests
are multimedia metadata modelling and semantic interoperability. She is
project manager of DSTC's MAENAD (Multimedia Access for Enterprises
across Networks and Domains) project which is developing schemas, ontologies
and tools for the archival, management and integration of multimedia collections.
She is currently the liaison between MPEG, W3C and Dublin Core, a member
of the Dublin Core Advisory Board, the AGLS Working group, the W3C XML
Schema Working group, and on the State Library of Qld's Information
Steering Committee.
Jeff
Jones has 15 years experience as a writer, designer, software developer
and animator for museums, universities, and publishers in New York City
and Australia. He is an experienced academic, entrepreneur and strategist
for small businesses, governments, universities and other cultural institutions
worldwide. In 1996, just after publishing the game "Chaos" (HarperCollins
1996) at NYU, Jones was recruited to Australia to start the Communication
Design discipline at Queensland University of Technology which lead to
the Creative Industries initiatives at QUT. Since 2000, Jones has worked
to establish industry, government and university participation in new
research initiatives centered on Interaction Design. This work has lead
to the establishment of am Australasian Centre for Interaction Design
under the Commonwealth CRC Program with $85M in support for basic research,
new R&D and technology diffusion initiatives, and unique sector-specific
commercialisation strategies.
Richard
Jones, a former ABC cinematographer and journalist, has made forty independent
film and multimedia productions including a feature film, short dramas,
documentaries, music clips, television ads and CD-ROMs. His work has been
screened in many international festivals. In 1997 he was nominated for
seven AIMIA and ATOM International Multimedia Awards including Most Innovative
and Creative Production, Best Interactive and Interactive Writer of the
Year. In 1998 he received the "Gold Camera" Award for Best Interactive
Program at the 31st US International Film Festival. Richard is currently
a Production Fellow in QUT Creative Industries Faculty.
Apolline
Kohen is currently Arts Director at Maningrida Arts & Culture, and
is responsible for its exhibition program. She is also curator of the
Djomi Museum, Maningrida's local Museum. She had worked on various
projects including a documentary film project dealing with Kuninjku art
shown on ARTE (Franco-German TV station). She has initiated two major
international projects for the arts centre: the exhibition 'In the
heart of Arnhem Land: Myth and the making of contemporary Aboriginal art',
Musee de l'Hotel-Dieu, Mantes-La-Jolie, France and the cultural exchange
'Crossings' between indigenous artists from Maningrida and French
artists.
Sharon
Longridge has been working in the media for over ten years. Her first
position was as the Sydney reporter on triple j's Morning Show. During
her 5 years at triple j she also produced the arts show, programmed Mix
Up and produced several documentary series and network campaigns. Sharon
was seconded by ABC Training and was a broadcast trainer for 6 months.
Kim Machan has worked in the area of contemporary art, nationally and internationally, for the past 17 years as curator, arts producer and consultant. She pioneered art projects in free-to-air television broadcast as producer and curator of Art Rage: Artworks for Television commissioning over seventy artists productions 1995-2000. She has spoken at numerous conferences and Chaired Online Art in Asia at the World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong. Machan is a founding member and Festival Director of Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) since 1998 and has researched new media art networks and projects in Australia and Asia Pacific regions in the past 6 years. Last year she was Contributing Curator, "Media City Seoul" and Chief Curator "MAAP in Beijing".
Nathan studied business, interactive multimedia and sound at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was admitted into the Australian Technology Park in 2001 to develop TownB, a daily guide to underground Internet radio. Since establishing the site he has travelled to international festivals such as Midem, Sonar and Documenta, worked for a record label and on various freelance projects. He currently manages a music production company in Sydney where he also DJs and presents a weekly radio show.
Margret Meagher (BA. Dip.Ed) is the founding publisher/editor of Australia's leading visual and performing arts magazine State of the Arts (1991) and website 
Originally
an impoverished archaeologist and musician, Scott has developed a career
in arts management, cultural development and arts education. He has a
masters degree in Arts Management, managed the Suzuki Talent Education
Association, taught at Macquarie University and spent five years working
for the Community Cultural Development Board of the Australia Council.
He wrote the recent new edition of Hands On for the Australia
Council, and has been published as a songwriter, poet and academic. He
now works as CEO of the peak Community arts and Cultural Development organisation
in New South Wales and serves on various arts Boards and committees.
Helen
Page is Manager of Multimedia at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Malcolm
is a zoologist who became a filmmaker, then got caught up in the world
of art and history. A significant stint at CSIRO in Melbourne originally
making films (with sprockets!), and later public communication using travelling
exhibitions and multimedia, resulted in one of the first Australian CD-ROMs
produced, 'Insects - a world of diversity'. A move to Brisbane
saw him appointed as Multimedia Coordinator at Global Arts Link in 1997,
where the challenge was to create a museum to suit the staging of multimedia
displays integrated with art and history exhibitions. He now project manages
new multimedia components at GAL.
Karen
has worked in government for more than twenty years. Her experiences have
covered a number of portfolios including the Commonwealth Department of
Resources and Energy, Department of Primary Industries and Energy and
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
Most recently Molly Reynolds was the executive producer with Beyond Online
which developed three award-winning broadband channels (ATOM Best Multimedia
2002). Previously Molly worked at the ABC which also involved producing,
designing and creating online content and policy in a cross-media environment.
Molly teaches new media, is a published industry commentator/broadcaster
and represents industry (AIMIA). Molly has a BA in Communications and
Diplomas in Business Systems, Multimedia and Media Arts. She has worked
in the film and video industry (freelance), print media (Australian Consolidated
Press) and radio (2SER FM, ABC Radio).
In the role of Executive Director of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Louise van Rooyen manages the operation and growth of the Association - building relationships between AIMIA and its members, the broader industry, government, industry partners and educational and cultural institutions. Key responsibilities include growth and management of the Association, relationship building, representing the industry, providing leadership and corporate governance for AIMIA in order to represent, support and advocate the interactive media industry.
Pam
Saunders is responsible for collection acquisition, cataloguing and storage;
audio, video and film preservation; IT and ebusiness; and priorities management
activities at ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive,
in Canberra. She has a background in cultural institutions having previously
managed Old Parliament House and the National Portrait Gallery as well
as the National Australia Day Council. Prior to this she spent a number
of years in public affairs roles in various Government and private sector
bodies and is a librarian and an art historian by training.
Ronald Schroeter is undertaking a PhD at The University of Queensland
and works on the FilmEd project as part of his studies. He completed a
Bachelor of Multimedia at Griffith University and a Diploma in Computer
Science, (Majoring in Multimedia), at Furtwangen University, Germany.
Michael
Snelling is Director of the IMA, the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
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.
Michael has been an artist, lecturer, photographer, publisher, curator
and barman. He was 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 2001and curated the exhibition "Tracey
Moffatt" which toured Korea and Taiwan.
Michael
Trudgeon is the principal designer with Crowd Productions P/L, a transdisciplinary
design practice engaged in industrial design and research on the deployment
of new technologies in industrial design and architecture. Recent projects
include ACMI Screen Lounges at Federation Square, Hyperkitchen; a mobile,
modular island based kitchen work station composed of interlocking appliances,
MVR Bathroom; a roll in, roll out bathroom service capsule with retractable
fittings, built around a water recycling unit, the Mechanical Dry Break
Integrated Service loom, a flexible multi cell service duct integrating
all building services and Hyperhouse a production engineered house pod
with a digital glass facade responding to light, temperature and the demands
of the occupants. Other projects include the interactive exhibition design,
Creating Culture in 1994 for DOCA at the new parliament house.
Judi Tucker has eight years experience in senior sales and marketing roles with Telstra Corporation prior to establishing her own business "Content and Communications". During her tenure at Telstra she was responsible for managing the relationship with the Public Broadcasters, ABC and SBS for four years before being appointed as the Account Director for Media and Broadcasting customers for a further two years. During this time she led the team in the development and sale of the Telstra Digital Video Network to the free to air commercial television stations. In her last two years at Telstra she was the National Manager, Industry Marketing, Media and Technology industries, where she developed solutions designed to meet the future needs of the content production industries. One such project had the working project title "film.net". Judi brings a combined knowledge of the media, production industries and telecommunications to the role of Executive Director of her new company.
Daniel has an MA in medieval history and has worked for the Public Record Office in Victoria since January 2000. In addition to developing online exhibitions he has worked extensively with Victorian community history groups through administering a local history grants program.