Ada_list February 2004

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NZ Herald - Crunch time for Maharey's tertiary research funding

by Cheryl Reynolds

The following article was copied from today's NZ Herald: ________________________________________________________ Colin James: Crunch time for Maharey's tertiary research funding 24.02.2004 COMMENT On March 23 an official study into the quality of university research is due to be published. It may well not make reassuring reading. Research is at the core of the Government's growth policy (though its spending is still below the OECD average, let alone compensating for the miserly private effort). It is also a core element in Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey's drive to differentiate (academic) universities from (practical) polytechnics. Maharey has siphoned $5 million of university funding into a performance-based research fund. Another $20 million is due in the three years 2005-07. Previously university research had to compete for money with teaching and administration and the EFT (equivalent full-time student) funding system steered institutions towards attracting maximum numbers of students. Now Maharey faces a crunch. Hints are that his quality study - an international peer review of researchers - rates universities here modestly at best by comparison with Britain, even in the case of some farm-oriented research, which is vital to our economy. Should Maharey therefore concentrate his research funding on one university - Auckland's track record makes it the obvious candidate - make it world-class and let the others wither? Should he spread his money around among "sites of excellence" in all universities? Or a mixture? Probably the last, though that also probably means Auckland will keep and build on its national pre-eminence and outlier universities will find it increasingly difficult to attract the top students and postgraduate students - and eventually top teachers - that go with top research. Research funding is also a tool for differentiating universities from polytechnics. A Tertiary Education Commission report defining their roles and those of teachers colleges, Maori waananga and private training establishments is to go to the Cabinet soon and is due for release late next month or in April. This is the beginning of Maharey's bigger challenge: to rationalise resources between universities and between the university and polytechnic systems. EFT funding was essentially a payment for bums on seats in lecture theatres. That helped lift numbers dramatically in the 1990s. But, coupled with constraints on overall funding, it also provided an incentive to emphasise courses that could be taught at low cost or in large volumes. And, because there were few constraints on what different institutions could teach, universities started offering sub-degree courses and polytechnics degree and postgraduate courses. That is, they began poaching off each other. Some polytechnics aspired to be universities in name and Auckland University of Technology succeeded. Maharey has put a stop to that. Next comes the definition of roles. He is likely to urge universities to focus on academic teaching - degrees and postgraduate study - backed by world-class scholarship and research, and limit sub-degree courses to disadvantaged groups being prepared for degree study. He is likely to urge polytechnics to focus on vocational teaching and practical education and applied technological research that supports industry innovation, particularly in their regions. There will be consultation - and controversy. But Maharey wants the definitions reflected in the institutions' profiles - their definitions of what they say they do - for next year. Then the TEC can start prodding them to reduce duplication of courses, concentrate on courses they are strong in and, in universities' case, focus more on value than on volume - even cap numbers, perhaps over time steer some whose aptitudes suggest they should not be on expensive university courses to less expensive polytechnic courses. But any reallocation of resources to reflect or stimulate that will not start to take effect for two years. That, however, will still not deal with a deeper issue: does the system maximise talent or does it preserve middle-class privilege? A teenager in a decile 10 suburb (the richest) is more likely to go to university than one in a decile 9 suburb and so on all the way to decile 1. For Maharey's system to be making the most of talent at university level, decile 1 kids would have to be dumber than decile 10 kids. Christine Fernyhough's Gifted Kids programme has falsified that. Maharey would claim he has programmes to dredge low-decile kids into the system. The waananga, for all their faults, seem to be first-stepping Maori dropouts, recovering wasted talent. But Maharey has a long way to go if he is to get every milligram of talent at the research coalface. Which he needs if he is to get this tiny country up to world class. *

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Senior Lecturer Design History and Theory

by Danny Butt

http://jobs.unitec.ac.nz/index.cfm?JOM_ID=2C&JOB_UUID=20040219733 Senior Lecturer Design History and Theory UNITEC - School of Design Auckland, New Zealand Applications close: Wednesday, 17 March 2004 The School of Design has long been recognised as an innovator in the field of Design History and Theory. We are now looking for someone capable of expanding this area further and willing to lead a committed and diverse team of academics. The ideal candidate will have a PhD or Master¹s degree in an appropriate field of study and/or a proven track record in research and publishing in the field of Design. Candidates should have a strong understanding of the cultural, intellectual and commercial role that design plays in the wider environment, both as it applies to New Zealand and to the wider international context. Knowledge and understanding of the current issues facing designers and artists in practise is essential. If you're keen to grow your career in a forward-thinking, supportive culture that offers an outstanding working environment out of the city, we'd like to hear from you. Please apply on-line by clicking on the APPLY button on the right and attach your CV (in Word format) and details. For further details on the role listed above click on the DOWNLOAD button. If you are an overseas applicant without NZ citizenship or residency please be aware that your application may not be accepted due to immigration requirements.

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Fwd: EMPIRES RUINS+NETWORKS Conference

by Sean Cubitt

>Running from ACMI, and with a significant online forum which should >be kicking off soon especially relevant with the Brashionals making too much ruinning, and Labour too slow in counterattack? apologies for cross-posting sean > > How is cultural difference represented in new media and contemporary art? >> >> EMPIRES, RUINS + NETWORKS: Art in Real Time Culture >> April 2 - 4 2004, Australian Centre for the Moving Image >> http://www.acmi.net.au/empires >> >> EMPIRES, NETWORKS + RUINS sets out to provoke a dialogue between art and >> politics. It asks artists, critics and curators to think of the place and >> function of art in the contemporary world. It questions how artists can >> contribute to cultural and technological change. >> >> While the debates on art and cultural difference have been raging for >> decades, current circumstances are compelling us to reframe the issues. >> >> Drawing together an exciting mix of local and international thinkers and >> artists, the emphasis of EMPIRES, NETWORKS + RUINS will be peer-to-peer >> participation and discussion. High quality presentations will open the >> space for discussion, workshops and critical feedback in open forums. >> >> You are invited to register and join the dialogue with speakers and >> participants that have been drawn from around the world including North >> and South America, Oceania, Africa, Asia and Europe. >> >> PLEASE REGISTER NOW >> Book online at http://www.acmi.net.au/empires >> Email empires(a)acmi.net.au for more details >> Phone Bookings: 03 8663 2583 >> Phone Inquires: 03 8663 2426 >> >> CONFERENCE PROGRAM >> Full conference includes keynote address and two days of the event: Full >> $375 Con $121 >> Friday April 2, 7.30pm >> >> Keynote address >> CRISIS IN GLOBAL CAPITAL AND THE WAR ON CULTURE >> Okwui Enwezor (USA) Artistic Director, Documenta >> Single ticket available only for the Keynote address: Full $18, Concession >> $10 >> >> Born in Nigeria, Okwui Enwezor is the Artistic Director of Documenta11, in >> Kassel Germany, 2002. He was the Artistic Director of the 2nd Johannesburg >> Biennale, 1997. Enwezor until recently held a position as the Adjunct >> Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the >> publisher and founding editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, >> a critical art journal co-published with the African Studies Center at >> Cornell University. A poet, critic, and curator, Enwezor has written >> extensively on contemporary African art and artists, as well as on >> American and international art and artists. >> >> Saturday April 3 >> >> Morning session >> MAPPING FLOWS AND LINKING CLUSTERS >> Lisa Reihana (Aotearoa/ New Zealand) Artist >> Carlos Cappelan (Uruguay/Spain) Artist >> Kendell Geers (South Africa) Artist >> >> Afternoon session >> RACIALIZED SPACES: THE WITNESS IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE >> Stefano Boeri (Italy) Architect, Multiplicity >> Simryn Gill (Australia/Malaysia) Artist >> Ana Kokkinos (Australia) Filmmaker >> >> Sunday April 4 >> Morning session >> THE BURDEN OF CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL CITY >> Don Bates (USA/ Australia) Architect, LAB Architecture Studio >> Eddie Berg (UK), Executive Director, FACT, Liverpool >> Virginia Pérez Rattón (Costa Rica) Director TEOR/éTica >> >> Afternoon >> NEW MODELS OF COLLABORATION >> Ross Gibson (Australia) Research Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, >> UTS. >> Marina Fokidis (Greece) Director of Oxymoron Artspace, Greece. >> Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia) Deputy Director. Australia Centre, >> University of Melbourne. >> >> Visit the website for more details: http://www.acmi.net.au/empires >> PLEASE REGISTER NOW >> Book online at http://www.acmi.net.au/empires >> >> >> Presented by The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, the Media and >> Communications Program, University of Melbourne, and the Australian Centre >> for the Moving Image. >> This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the >> Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It is an initiative > > of the Australia Council's Arts in a Multicultural Australia Policy. >> Cecelia Cmielewski >> Senior Policy and Research Officer >> Policy Communication Research >> tel 02 9215 9026 >> fax 02 9215 9062 >> >> empires ruins +networks conference: http://www.acmi.net.au/empires >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >This email,including any attachments, may contain private or confidential >information. If you think you may not be the intended recipient, or if you >have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and >delete all copies of this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you >must not reproduce any part of this email or disclose its contents to any >other party. > >Any information provided by a Council, Board, Committee or staff member >should be understood as information only. Applicants and others should not >alter their circumstances, nor act upon expectations arising solely from >such information. -- Sean Cubitt * Screen and Media Studies * University of Waikato * Private Bag 3105 * Hamilton * New Zealand * seanc(a)waikato.ac.nz * T: +64 (0)7 838 4543 * F: +64 (0)7 838 4767 http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film The Cinema Effect, MIT Press, March 2004 http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/

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Open Lecture - Monday 23rd

by Rosemary Forde

Free public lecture: Kestutis Kuzinas / Director of Lithuania's Contemporary Art Centre Venue: Physics Room (2nd floor, 209 Tuam St, Christchurch) Date: Monday 23 February, 6pm Kestius Kuzinas is one of the most important curatorial forces in contemporary Eastern European art today. During his brief visit to Christchurch he will speak about his organisation the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania - its history, exhibition strategy, funding, and place in the European and international contexts. This is a unique opportunity to find out about the continuing struggle of younger artists and curators working in contemporary practice and new media in the highly conservative artistic and political culture of formerly Communist Europe, and how the CAC has survived as a vital venue for contemporary experimental art. Kestutis Kuizinas has been Director of the Contemporary Art Centre since it began in 1992. He is a member of A.I.C.A. (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art), and has curated a number of major exhibitions in Lithuania and other countries including "Cool Places. The 7th Young Baltic Art Triennial" and "Lithuanian Art 1989-1999". Kuizinas has also been invited to curate projects for international contemporary art festivals including the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennial (2001) and in the 26th Biennial of Sao Paolo (2004). The Contemporary Art Centre is the largest venue for contemporary art in the Baltic states (which include Estonia and Latvia) and consistently exhibits the newest international trends in art. It also organises retrospective exhibitions of artists from Lithuania and abroad, attracting over 100 000 visitors a year. The building was inaugurated in 1968 as the Art Exhibition Palace. Until 1988, it was run as a branch of the Lithuanian Museum of Art. From 1992 the CAC became a separate institution under the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. More information can be found on the Contemporary Art Centre's website: http://www.cac.lt Kestutis Kuizinas visits New Zealand as part of the Artspace / Creative NZ international visitor's programme. His stay in Christchurch is hosted by Art & Industry Biennial Trust and the Physics Room. Rosemary Forde Director The Physics Room contemporary art project space PO Box 22 351, Christchurch, New Zealand ph. +64 3 379 5583 fax. +64 3 379 6063 www.physicsroom.org.nz The Physics Room receives annual funding from Creative New Zealand / Toi Aotearoa

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invitationt to 'Baltic Interconnections' by r a d i o q u a l i a: 15.02.04

by honor

Hi Ada's, Just wanted to let you know about a presentation that we're doing tomorrow in Wellington, which is about some of the work we've done in the Baltic country of Latvia. The lecture was organised by the ex-pat Latvian community, but its completely open to anyone, and we would like to invite our friends to come along too. As well as the presentation itself, there will be traditional Latvian food and a general Baltic ambience. If any of you are free and in town, it would be great if you could come along :-) best Honor 13 February 2004 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE r a d i o q u a l i a - Baltic Interconnections New Zealand new media artists, Honor Harger and Adam Hyde of r a d i o q u a l i a, will be giving a free public presentation this Sunday 15th February on their recent work in the Baltic country of Latvia. Time: 2pm, Sunday 15th February Venue: St Mary's Church Hall 170 Karori Road Karori Wellington Detailed information follows: r a d i o q u a l i a http://www.radioqualia.net r a d i o q u a l i a is an art collaboration from New Zealand which is now based in Europe. The participants are Honor Harger and Adam Hyde. r a d i o q u a l i a experiments with the concept of artistic broadcasting, using the internet and traditional media forms, such as radio and television, as primary tools. We are also interested in ways that audio can be used to illuminate abstract ideas and processes. We work in gallery, performance, broadcast and publishing contexts. r a d i o q u a l i a's work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Gallery 9, Walker Art Center, USA; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK; Sonar 2001 in Barcelona, Spain; VideoPositive2000 in Liverpool, UK; the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Infowar - Ars Electronica 98 and LifeScience - Ars Electronica 99 in Linz, Austria; the Bregenz Festival 98 in Austria; Iona Gallery, Scotland; the Lux Centre in London, UK; the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia; CACSA in Adelaide, Australia; The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the HDLU in Zagreb, Croatia, among other places. r a d i o q u a l i a have lectured and taught internationally at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles; the University of Amsterdam, the Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada; the Museum of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria and many other contexts. r a d i o q u a l i a are currently producing a major project about radio astronomy with the support of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. More information about r a d i o q u a l i a's work is available at: http://www.radioqualia.net/ Images can be seen at: http://www.radioqualia.net/documentation * r a d i o q u a l i a in Latvia r a d i o q u a l i a became involved with the Latvian new media community through work with net.radio in the mid-late 1990s. Net.radio as a loosely defined movement initially became visible through the activities of a network of musicians, DJs and sound artists called Xchange. * Xchange http://xchange.re-lab.net Initiated by Latvian media art collective, e-Lab <http://www.re-lab.net>, Xchange began life as a website and a mailing list documenting the growing number of artists' groups experimenting with radio online. As the network matured it grew into one of the earliest international communities of artists, broadcasters and musicians working together online on audio projects. There are now approximately 200 organisations and individuals subscribed to the Xchange mailing list. Since beginning collaborations with Xchange, r a d i o q u a l i a have worked with e-Lab (who have now evolved into the cultural centre, RIXC) on a number of projects. Probably most notable recent collaboration has been the Acoustic Space-Lab. * Acoustic Space Lab http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab/ In August 2001 r a d i o q u a l i a participated in the Acoustic Space Lab at the Ventspils International Radio Astonomy Center (VIRAC) in Latvia. This creative workshop and symposium was attended by 25 artists, scientists and researchers from many different countries. The occasion was to explore the a 32 metre satellite dish located in the forests of Latvia west of Riga. While participating in the Acoustic Space Lab, were surprised to discover that though space was audible, there were few opportunities for non-scientific personnel to 'listen to space'. In a response to this situation, r a d i o q u a l i a began work on creating Radio Astronomy in the literal sense - a radio station devoted to broadcasting sounds from space. The Radio Astronomy project will manifest as an online radio station, transmitting audio from radio telescopes. This work is being carried out in collaboration with VIRAC and RICX. * Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC), Latvia http://www.virac.lv In 1994 the Latvian Academy of Sciences assumed possesion of 32m and 16m fully steerable parabolic antennae from the former Space Communication Center of the Russian army. This former spy satellite dish was abandoned and nearly destroyed as the Soviet occupying forces retreated from Latvia in 1994. Since then a small group of Latvian scientists have dedicated themselves to the resurrection of the dish and have returned the radio telescope to complete functionality. VIRAC's 32M array is one of the ten best antennae in the world. An important part of VIRAC's role is its participation in the Low-Frequency Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network which connects radio telescopes across Europe and Asia. VIRAC is one of the only facilities of its kind in the world which has invited artists to visit and carry out research. RIXC have produced a DVD which documents the work of VIRAC and the Acoustic Space Lab symposium. In 2003, r a d i o q u a l i a also participated in another event in Latvia, the Locative Media workshop in Karosta. * the Locative Media Workshop http://locative.x-i.net The Locative Media Workshop brought an international group of artists and researchers to the K@2 Culture and Information Centre in Karosta (an partially abandoned military installation on the coast of the Baltic Sea resembling ('the Zone' from Tarkovsky's 'Stalker') to explore the potential of this new mapping paradigms, both conceptually and through the creative use of GPS technologies. * About Karosta http://www.karosta.org + http://www.karosta.lv Karosta, Latvian for 'war port', was built by order of the Russian Tzar Alexander III as a military port in the Baltic region. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Karosta became a military base housing some 25000 and was closed to civilians by a fortress wall was build all around the whole city. The Soviet army evacuated Karosta in 1994, following Latvian independence, leaving behind some 6000 people. Mostly Russian speaking, the stateless citizens of Karosta either carry Latvian issued so-called 'alien' passports, or old Soviet ones. Today the town appears to be a landscape of ruins. Many houses are completely destroyed, and the town is plagued by mass unemployment. After and experience setting-up arts workshops there, documentary film-makers Kristine Briede & Carl Biorsmark began making a film on Karosta and subsequently decided to step through the screen to "become documentary social workers" with the inauguration of the K@2 Culture and Information Centre in December 2000. ENDS For further information, please contact: Jeremy Scrivener on 021 433 658 email: jscriv(a)hotmail.com honor(a)va.com.au r a d i o q u a l i a: http://www.radioqualia.net * present location: wellington, .nz temp sms: +64 (0)21 1750264 * current work: radio astronomy: the space station http://frequencyclock.montevideo.nl/pMachineFree2.2.1/weblog.php?id=C0_4_1

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Re: Ada_list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 2 (OUT OF OFFICE until 23rd February)

by Lara Bowen

Hi I'm out of the office from the 9th to the 23rd February. For any enquiries during my absence please contact tom.eslinger(a)saatchi.co.nz. Kind Regards, Lara Bowen +64 4 385 6524 www.saatchi.com Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand

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