Underbelly Exchange: Free Talks Program

Join us in the cafe corner of the Carriageworks Foyer during our LAB WEEKEND!

FRIDAY 4 JULY: 6.30pm

Creative Commons: Who, How and Why?

Creative Commons licensing has proved its place as an alternative to conventional copyright law by providing the flexibility of “some rights reserved” that artists and authors working in the digital age require to protect both themselves and others in the arts community. This panel, hosted by Imogen Semmler, the Director of Underbelly, will bring together Jessica Coates of Creative Commons Australia, Sherre DeLys, the Executive Producer of POOL, ABC’s media sharing site and a number of artists using or thinking of using Creative Commons Licensing to talk about the practicalities, the 'hows' and 'whys' of using Creative Commons.

SATURDAY 5 JULY: 4.30pm

Navigating the Grey: Re-imagining Art, Craft, Design & Technology

Art, Technology, Craft, Design: How, if at all, are these terms of definition relevant anymore? With some of the most intriguing work coming from the grey areas in between, should 'ART' as an cultural concept evolve or cling to its crumbling pedestal or whimper off and die in the private collections of movie stars, barristers and other old ladies? To tackle this topic, Hugo Bowne-Anderson, mathematician, writer and developer of interactive digital technologies will be responsible for trying to tame the tongues of writer and critic, Adam Jasper and Mark Havryliv, a string quartet composer turn coder, currently completing his PhD in the design of force-feedback devices for musical performance… of course.

SUNDAY 6 JULY: 5pm

Producing the Arts
What makes an allegedly sane person want to take all the discombobulation of a group of artists and their ideas and try to guide it through the deadly minefield of grant writing, public liability insurance, production scheduling and budgeting? And more importantly why are so many of them artists themselves? Jamie Gerlach of Token Imagination, Tendril and 107projects will tap the repressed unconscious of Bec Dean, Associate Director of Performance Space; Andi Mether the director of Chalk Urban Arts Festival and Zest Events and a few young up and coming producers to seek out the stories from the battlefields of Producing the Arts.