Tim Burns: From the Garden

Tim Burns: From the Garden
Bett Gallery, Hobart
9 October – 7 November 2009

Published December 2009

Zine publishing and the long tail

Adelaide-based Zinemeister Dr Ianto Ware discusses how prophecies of digital dominance are colosally wrong with regard to zine publishing a genre which remains exclusively hardcopy. He finds zines to be quintessential examples of Editor of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson's Long Tail in which tiny niches multiply and thrive.

Published December 2009

Centre of the Periphery: Three European art historians in Melbourne by Sheridan Palmer

Published December 2009

Gallery A Sydney 1964-1983 Edited by John Murphy

Published December 2009

Artists want catalogues

Campbelltown Arts Centre Director Lisa Havilah writes about the crucial importance of catalogues to artists. Famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had his first international survey exhibition at Campbelltown in partnership with Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. The incentive for Ai Weiwei was that a 2,000 print run book on his art would be published.

Published December 2009

Netting the big and the little fish: monographs and biographies

Emeritus Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia and highly respected investigative curator and writer Daniel Thomas pulls out the stops in a far-ranging appraisal of art book publishing in Australia. He writes: "Once the artist is well dead, even if the book is 'only' a monograph, disregard the family and friends; we need to know everything."

Published December 2009

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards
Art Gallery Of Western Australia
25 July - 15 November 2009

Published December 2009

Communicating and the law

Bill Morrow, artist and legal expert in copyright law, sets out the current state of play. He says that some form of copyright is here to stay but it is in flux with regard to digital rights and the upcoming introduction of laws providing greater privacy protection.

Published December 2009

Wild Design - ecofriendly innovations inspired by nature by Alan Marshall and Back to the City - Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions Edited by Steffen Lehmann

Published December 2009

Colour Country: Art from Roper River by Cath Bowdler and My Father, my brother: stories of Campbelltown's Aboriginal Men by Dvora Liberman

Published December 2009

The Ramingining Megaphone

Distinguished pioneer Indigenous Curator, activist and writer, Curator of Contemporary Art at Campbelltown Arts Centre Djon Mundine tells a very funny and intriguing story about how modern communication technology came to Ramingining and how it intersected with 'community consultation' by government departments.

Published December 2009

Collaborative Practice

Amanda Matulick is the managing editor of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)'s publication Filter magazine, which is hardcopy as well as online at http://filter.anat.org.au. Filter uses open source Creative Commons licensing for its contributors. This means free sharing of information and ideas or as she puts it: "creation for creation's sake".

Published December 2009