[csaa-forum] free melbourne public lecture & book launch - ross gibson 16/6

[Brian Morris]

You are warmly invited to the following two events being hosted the
School of Applied Communication, RMIT University, as part of its
biannual Graduate Research Conference on 16-17th June.

BOOK LAUNCH
5.00pm, Friday, 16 June
Village Roadshow Theatrette Lobby in the State Library (Entry 3, La
Trobe Street)  

The launch of Associate Professor Deb Verhoeven's (Applied
Communication, RMIT) academic monograph, Sheep and the Australian Cinema
(Melbourne University Publishing) by Professor Ross Gibson

RSVP to MUP by Mon. 12 June on 03 9342 0300 or mup-info at unimelb.edu.au


KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
5.30pm, Friday, 16 June
Village Roadshow Theatrette in the State Library (Entry 3, La Trobe
Street)  

Professor Ross Gibson,
'When an art work is a live environment:  immersed experience and
reflective analysis in audio visual research'

Ross Gibson makes books, essays and films.  He also produces multimedia
environments and IT systems for museums and public spaces. He is now
Research Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of
Technology, Sydney.  He is also a Board Member for the NSW Film and
Television Office and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
His books include: The Diminishing Paradise (1984); South of the West
(1992); The Bond Store Tales (1996); Exchanges (1996, editor);  Seven
Versions of An Australian Badland  (2002);  and Remembrance + The Moving
Image (2003, editor). His films include: Camera Natura (1985), Dead to
the World (1991) and Wild (1993). His major exhibitions include
'Remembrance + The Moving Image', 'Street X Rays', and 'Crime Scene',
the latter being part of a suite of multimedia productions entitled Life
After Wartime, made in collaboration with Kate Richards.

Contact: Diane Cook, Research Administration Officer, School of Applied
Communication, diane.cook at rmit.edu.au 

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Dr. Brian Morris
Senior Lecturer & Postgraduate Research Coordinator
School of Applied Communication
RMIT University (City), GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia

tel: (61 3) 9925 3882, fax: (61 3) 9925 9730
office: 4.3.2A (city campus)
e-mail: brian.morris at rmit.edu.au
http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/brianmorris