ATTENTION writers, small publishers, editors, artists, curators, students, web content providers, policy makers and all those interested in communication and media!

Artlink is organising a one-day national Forum titled Changing Climates in Arts Publishing to be held on Saturday 27th June at CAL, 233 Castlereagh St, Sydney.

The forum aims to create dialogue amongst a group of speakers, respondents and attendees on the changes affecting arts publishing ranging from environmental sustainability to freedom of expression, art in the age of Remix culture and global digitisation of content.

The state of arts publishing, including magazines, monographs, catalogues and biography will be analysed by a range of excellent speakers including writers, small press arts publishers, lawyers, curators, philosophers and biographers.

With an emphasis on open discussion and looking at future scenarios, the Forum will be free of charge and open to all.

Changing Climates in Arts Publishing will be held at the CAL Auditorium, Level 15, 233 Castlereagh St, Sydney from 10:30 AM - 4:15 PM Saturday 27 June.  
 

Sydney 27th June » Register to attend or email forum@artlink.com.au
 

CHANGING CLIMATES IN ARTS PUBLISHING - PROGRAM

Chaired by Dr Colin Rhodes, Dean, Sydney College of the Arts

Registration: Coffee and cakes: 10:30am

SESSION ONE 11 - 12:30pm

CONTENT CREATION IN THE RECESSION WE DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE

Staying relevant: Artlink
Art writing for general readers on complex issues relating to current questions in art and society, national and global, 29 years on.  Its future depends on its ability to adapt
Stephanie Britton AM, Executive Editor of Artlink Magazine [10 mins]

Lean mean and living dangerously
The health of art writing: who does it, who reads it, who buys it, who publishes it?  Journals of debate and record, archives of change.  What does the world need now?
Joanna Mendelssohn, art writer, book author, critic, curator, Assoc Prof and COFA, lecturing in professional practice and art writing [20 min]

The digital challenge to carbon
Getting content on blogs, e-books, e-print, online publishing, Print on Demand and mobile technology.  Print addiction vs environmental sustainability.
Sean Cubitt, (recorded presenation) Director Media and Communications Program, University of Melbourne [15 min]

    Respondent Panel:
    Tim Wallace, editor Ecologic online magazine [10 min]
    Tess Allas, online writer and editor of Storylines on DAAO (Dictionary of Australian Artists
    Online) [10 min]
    Ianto Ware, Zine and DIY activist [10 min]

Questions 10 min

Lunch 12:30 - 1:15pm

SESSION TWO 1:15 - 2:30pm

SURVIVING INTERESTING TIMES: GETTING ORGANISED

Progressing or regessing
The challenge of a new model for copyright - Creative Commons.  Whose interests are being served by allowing ideas to be shared and re-used?  Who is using it and does it work?
Elliott Bledsoe, Program Manager Creative Commons [12 mins]

Journey into hybridity: collaboration or death by photoshop?
The Artwork in the age of Re-mix culture.  How fair is fair use? Primary and secondary reproduction of printed and online imagery morphs into new 'tertiary' hybrid works.  Attitudes to creativity in a new fluid world.
Zina Kaye, artist, House of Laudanum [12 mins]

Going Once, Going Twice, Gone... The Story of the Australian Resale Royalty Scheme
The new resale royalty scheme: the principles, the Australian legislation, how it will work in practice, the role of the collecting agency, what the implications are for the art market, the controversies.
Joanna Cave, CEO Viscopy [12 mins]

Copyright collection: powering up
Royalties to writers and others providing a long term income stream for creatives.  How it works.  What's new in the business and law of copying print and online material.  Wholesale digitisation and the washup from the Google settlement.
Zoe Rodriguez, Copyright lawyer, Copyright Agency Ltd [12 min]

    Respondent Panel:
    Danni Zuvela, works with experimental and avant-garde moving images through historical
    research, writing and curatorial activites [10 min]
    Linda Jaivin, author of eight books, essayist, translator and playwright  [10 min]

Questions 10min

Tea break 2:30 - 2:45pm

SESSION THREE 2:45 - 4:15pm

ONE DOOR OPENS, ANOTHER CLOSES

Freedom of Expression
The new conservatism and changes in community standards.  Censorship and Government progress on new Charter of Human Rights.  Proposed Internet censorship.  Sedition laws and the common good.  Implementing Codes for use of images of children in the aftermath of the Bill Henson affair.
Tamara Winikoff, Executive Director, National Association for the Visual Arts [15 min]

Read it: Digitise it
The global rush to digitise big and small libraries in order to gain global access to documents and texts including those non-profit exhibition spaces.  Will most of this digitised material be fodder for the internet?  The Google libraries judgement and possible implications for artists, art writers and publishers.
John Shipp, Librarian, University of Sydney [15 min]

    Respondent Panel:
    Lisa Havilah, Director Campbelltown Arts Centre, curator, publisher [8 min]
    Andrew Frost, The Art Life [8 min]
    Ross Harley, Head School of Media Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW [8 min]

WRAP UP
Audience discussion on topics raised during the day [15 min]

POST EVENT PUBLICATION
Papers to be published in Artlink

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