麻豆社madou

Postgraduate Research Conference

28 - 30 October 2024

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Sarah Eddowes, Hug midrender, 2024, digital image, image courtesy of artist.

A snapshot of the diverse and inventive research projects underway in our PhD, MFA and MPhil programs.

Join us in A Block (Campus Map) for the below conference sessions, which are open to all.聽

Monday 28 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 1: Mapping & Navigation

    Chair: Rochelle Haley

    Panel Member: Shuxia Chen

    Presentations

    Jeremy Smith (PhD), 'Counter-Mapping the Gay Male Body in Sydney Post PrEP'. Supervisors: Michael Garbutt, Emma Robertson, Gary Carsley.

    Shireen Taweel (PhD), 'Pilgrimage of a Hajjonaut; A futurism of Space migration'. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo. 聽

    Jianxiong Jing (PhD), 'How to understand the spatial representation in classical Chinese maps from the Ming and Qing dynasties?'. Supervisors: Paul Gladston, Ian McArthur, Marnie Feneley. 聽

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 2:聽Wellbeing & Vulnerability

    Chair: John McGhee

    Panel Member: Lizzie Muller

    Presentations

    Sally McKay (MPhil), 'Development of the AI Character 'Sophie' to support a Huntington's Disease community-wide focus on brain health'. Supervisors: Jill Bennett, Volker Kuchelmeister.

    April Mountfort (MFA), 'Productive engagements with vulnerability and control through puppetry and video artwork'. Supervisors: Stephen Loo, Fernando do Campo. 聽

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 3: Cultures, Histories & Counter-Histories

    Chair: Michael Garbutt

    Panel Member: Jennifer Biddle

    Presentations

    June Acido Miskell (PhD), 'Archipelagic Imaginaries: Contemporary Filipina/o/x Art in Australia鈥. Supervisors: Ver贸nica Tello, Mina Roces, Astrid Lorange.

    Julie Gai Oliver (PhD), 鈥楾he role of social and cultural stories in enlivening colonial jewellery displays in museums and galleries in Australia鈥. Supervisors: Zoe Veness, Kasia Jezowska.

    Lin Zhou (PhD), 鈥楽emiotics and Contemporary Chinese Peasant Painting: Recontextualising Traditional Folk Crafts鈥. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Paul Gladston.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 4: More-Than-Human Experience

    Chair: Stephen Loo

    Panel Member: Jill Bennett

    Presentations

    Ashley Eriksmoen (PhD), 鈥楳aking-With: Crafting Counter-Narratives from Salvaged Wood as a Reparative Practice鈥. Supervisors: Livia Rezende, Fernando do Campo.

    Lara Clemente (MFA), 鈥楾he aesthetic reformulation of tree modelling for 3D environments鈥. Supervisors: Dennis Del Favero, Grant Stevens, Susanne Thurow.

    Nagida Helsby-Clark (PhD), 鈥楾racing turbulence: Explorations in more-than-human design鈥. Supervisors: Dennis Del Favero, Andrew Yip, Maximilian Ott.

    Jane Michaele Cameron (PhD), 鈥業 think, therefore I am (an ant)鈥. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, John McGhee.

Tuesday 29 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 5: Site-Based Materials

    Chair: Emma Robertson

    Panel Member: Prue Gibson

    Presentations

    Amelia van der Laan de Vries (MFA), 鈥楽ite-specificity and the collaborative production of ecological knowledges鈥. Supervisors: Allan Giddy, Peter Sharp.

    Emma Pinsent (PhD), 鈥楢esthetics of Extraction and Erosion: Tracing spatiotemporal transformations of sand within the beach鈥. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Bianca Hester.

    Sadhbha Cockburn (PhD), 鈥極bject-body-place relations: a psychodynamic approach to sculptural practice鈥. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Prue Gibson, Bianca Hester.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 6: Poetic Encounters

    Chair: Caleb Kelly

    Panel Member: Clare Milledge

    Presentations

    Rachel Schenberg (PhD), 鈥Rose Mellie Rose: (re)naming as lyric enunciation鈥.聽 Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Brigitta Olubas.

    Gabriel Curtin (PhD), 鈥楥alippo: Theorising a Poetics of Overdetermination鈥. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Tim Gregory.

    Jingwen Yuan (PhD), 鈥楶oetic embodiments: Contemporary jewellery practice in times of transmediation鈥. Supervisors: Patricia Flanagan, Zoe Veness.

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 7: Encountering Place

    Chair: Livia Rezende

    Panel Member: Allan Giddy

    Presentations

    Felix Cehak (PhD), 鈥楴atural History Aesthetics: practice and recording in the Gondwanan rainforest鈥. Supervisors: Clare Milledge, Izabela Pluta.

    Joel Arthur (MFA), 鈥楥ounter-landscape: Remodelling a colonised space鈥. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Peter Sharp.

    Alex Moulis (PhD), 鈥楾he beach as desert: the affective entanglement of patriarchal white sovereignty, the visual archive and land between settler-colonial projects鈥. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Nicholas Apoifis.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 8: Revenant Histories

    Chair: Anna Munster聽

    Panel Member: John Gillies

    Presentations

    Jade Muratore (PhD), 鈥楪oing down: being with/ becoming the queer (un)dead through image-based practice鈥. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Rochelle Haley, Ver贸nica Tello. 聽

    Emma Fielden (MFA), 鈥楢lchemic Histories: Engaging Feminist Legacies through Materiality and the Body鈥. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.

    Lisa Myeong-Joo (MFA), 鈥樷淭he red chair in your picture does not exist鈥: Counter-memory, performance and the poetics of sitting鈥. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Ver贸nica Tello.

Wednesday 30 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 9: Surface & Tactility

    Chair: Alison Gwilt

    Panel Member: Jaye Early聽

    Presentations

    Mason Kimber (PhD), 鈥楢ssembling at the Surface: Painting, Casting, Framing鈥. Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Stephen Loo.

    Kristen Radge (MFA), 鈥楨ncountering traditional lands through touch: Working with found clay onsite to reveal how materials can be embedded with coloniality鈥. Supervisors: Izabela Pluta, Fernando do Campo.

    Sarah Eddowes (PhD), 鈥楴oodle Soup: A practice-based investigation of the emergent dialogue between sculptural extrusion and computer-generated simulation鈥. Supervisors: John McGhee, Peter Sharp.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 10: Reading & Legibility

    Chair: Astrid Lorange

    Panel Member: Tim Gregory

    Presentations

    Tia Madden (MFA), 鈥楳isreading Drawing: Legibility in the Gap Between Image and Word鈥. Supervisors: Peter Sharp, Rochelle Haley.

    Wei Wang (PhD), 鈥楶articipatory Method for Developing Fonts to Improve Dyslexic Readers' Experience鈥. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Scott Brown.

    elaine su-hui (MFA), 鈥楨mbodied Epistemologies: A Buddhist Reading of Resistance Literature鈥. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Clare Milledge.

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 11: Social & Communal Practices

    Chair: Izabela Pluta

    Panel Member: Scott East

    Presentations

    Anabelle Lacroix (PhD), 鈥楢 Curatorial Ear: Rhythming the museum after hours with public programs鈥. Supervisors: Caleb Kelly, Ver贸nica Tello.

    Tulla Carson (MFA), 鈥楻elationality, Indigenous Knowledge and Cross-cultural Co-design within Country鈥. Supervisors: Trent Jansen, Livia Rezende, Fabri Blacklock.

    Aulia Yeru (PhD), 鈥楾euleum/Immersed: An Overview of聽Attempts to the聽Hydrosocially Engaged Art鈥. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Clare Milledge, Arini Arumsari.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 12: Reclaimed Textiles

    Chair: Patricia Flanagan

    Panel Member: Kasia Jezowska

    Presentations

    Monika Cvitanovic (PhD), 鈥楥rafting Time To Care: Some thoughts about slowing down for environmental and social sustainability of practice鈥. Supervisors: Rochelle Haley, Alison Gwilt, Bianca Hester.

    Changrui He (PhD), 鈥楻eimagining Design Approaches to Foster Textile Up-cycling in a Circular Economy鈥. Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Zoe Veness.

    Emma Peters (PhD), 鈥楽leeping Soundly: Transformative opportunities for bedlinen waste鈥. Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Zoe Veness.

Header image: Sarah Eddowes, Hug midrender 2024, digital image. Image courtesy of artist.

Acknowledgement of Country

麻豆社madou School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.

We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.