THEMES
Theme 1: Arts Agendas
Theme 2: Supporting the Arts
Theme 3: Art in Communities
Theme 4: Constructing Art Worlds
Theme 5: Audiences
Theme 6: Arts Education
Theme 7: Analysing Artforms
Theme 8: Meaning and Representation
Theme 9: Festivals
Theme 10: Art and Human Rights
Theme 11: Public Art and Public Policy
Overall Theme - Symposium 2007: Art and Public Reception
- Changing the world: Global visions through art practices
- Arts policy: The role of local, regional/state and local governments
- The arts and collective memory
- Arts and heritage
- Indigenous arts and arts movements
- Feminist art histories and practices
- Arts and culture in economic development
- Arts in tourism
- Art of nature: Ecoaesthetics and the culture of sustainability
- Moral aesthetics: The ethics of art and arts practice
- Arts as activism: Politics and the arts
- Art embodied: Persons in art, the artist as human being
- Bottom lines: The economics of the arts
- Starving artists and the state
- Commercialism in art
- The role of government in arts funding
- The creative industries in a post-industrial society
- Cultural Institutions and Museums
- Marketing the arts
- Arts advocacy
- Sponsorship and philanthropy in the arts
- Art trade: Buying and selling arts objects, cultural properties and copyrights
- The arts in a civil society and cultural democracy
- The arts in popular culture and the media
- Art as propaganda
- Art in advertising
- Art in public spaces
- Art in cyberspace
- Architecture as art
- Art and religion
- Diaspora communities and the arts
- Ethnic and tourist arts
- Global/local arts: Making the connection
- The arts and disability
- Indigenous community-based art
- Working class and ‘popular’ arts
- Online cultures, hacker aesthetics, open sources
- Queer culture, politics and gender in the arts
- Art in community cultural development and capacity building
- The work of the artist
- The work of the curator
- The work of the director and producer
- The work of the critic
- The work of the arts manager
- Artist collectives
- Copyrights: Creative commons and other intellectual properties
- Defining audiences: The role of the reader, viewer, listener
- Blurring the boundaries of creator and audience
- New artforms and interactivity: From passive viewer to active user
- Participatory arts and the arts as participation
- Children and youth audiences
- Elder audiences
- Audience development
- Virtual audiences, blogs, cyber-art and performance
- Teaching the arts
- Creative arts in the humanities
- Literacy and the literary: Texts at school
- Art history: Purpose and pedagogy
- The pedagogy of performance: Teaching drama, dance, performance
- Ways of seeing: Perception, cognition, affect
- Art as therapy
- Art as self-inquiry
- The performing arts: Theatre, dance, music and its successors
- Visual culture
- Moving pictures, from cinema to television and the internet
- Textual and literary arts
- Photography and video arts
- New media and digital arts
- Spatial and architectonic arts
- Art Music, New Music and experimental music
- Multimedia, mixed media and multimodal arts
- Hypertext: What is a narrative?
- Interface art: Design and aesthetics of the web
- The nature of the ‘virtual’
- The art of games and gaming
- Art and advertising: Image, icon, brand
- ‘Craft’ and ‘decorative’ arts
- Art movements
- Mimeses and perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’
- New genres; What is a genre?
- Minimalism, complexity and art theory
- Sense-making: Connecting the arts to everyday life
- The artist as intellectual and the intellectual as artist
- Cultural theory in art history
- Crossing borders: Anthropology and art
- Defining the avant-garde: The creative, the innovative, the new
- Processes: The author, authority and the authoritative
- Products: Aura, authenticity, artefact
- Authenticity and voice
- Festival cities
- Cultural tourism and public display
- Festival and ritual
- Global festivals
- Ethnic arts festivals
- Regional festivals
- Theatre festivals, genres, regions and Shakespeare
- Music festivals
- Visual arts festivals and biennales
- Cultural diversity and festival development
- Festival and event management
- Book festivals
- Film festivals
- Festivals and civic engagement
- Economic impact and festival development
- Why create an arts festival
- Rural festivals as social life
- Olympic festivals – of real and imagined proportions
- Refugee arts and communities
- Prison art
- Healing broken communities through art
- War stories/narratives of war
- Relocations/dislocations
- Arts of the diaspora
- Protecting world heritage
- Art rights as cultural rights
- Cultural production and militarization
- Poetics of occupation
- Arts and social justice
- Public art and civic projects
- Art and cultural heritage
- Arts policy in local and regional governments
- Art and nationalism
- Public art policy, the state and politics