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Blog Central is a space for RMIT academics and senior staff to blog about their areas of expertise and interests.
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Category Archives: Art & Design
Seeing Melbourne in a different light
When the Cheeky Falcon Band was invited to play as part of RMIT Gallery’s contribution to White Night Melbourne, we jumped at the chance. The concept behind White Night Melbourne is so simple, yet so effective: pack the CBD with art and music, leave all the galleries and restaurants open, and let the public roam [...]
Posted in Art & Design Tagged art, Cheeky Falcon Band, Melbourne CBD, music, RMIT Gallery, Swanston St, White Night Melbourne Comments closed
An experiment in balance
Tim Collins is one of three Australian designers in the international design exhibition New Olds: Design between Tradition and Innovation at RMIT Gallery (7 December – 9 March 2013). He talks with RMIT Gallery about his work and the tension between experimentation and commercial reality. What are some of the main challenges you’ve faced as [...]
Posted in Art & Design Tagged Australian design, Cloud, design, industrial design, RMIT Gallery, Tim Collins Comments closed
The auspicious university: What’s an artist to do?
I work with the cool people at the university: artists, designers, architects, social scientists, humanities scholars and educators – all sorts of excellent people. Many of them are professionals in their chosen professions. That is, they are professional artists, designers, architects, poets, writers, etc. Their research is ‘practice-based’ research; they create stuff. The process of [...]
Also posted in Education, Research Tagged arts funding, auspicing agent, funding, practicing artist, research funding, university lecturer Comments closed
Pregnancy sucks: Twilight’s high-risk journey
When it comes to The Twilight Saga’s latest instalment, Breaking Dawn, author Stephenie Meyer pulls no punches. Pregnancy sucks, literally. After a series of successful movies in her unstoppable vampire franchise, which is notorious for its lack of blood and violence as well as abstinence, fans are subjected to Bella’s high-risk pregnancy from hell. The second-last [...]
Also posted in Entertainment, Media & Communications, Research Tagged Breaking Dawn, Edward, Jacob, Movie, Stephenie Meyers, teen pregnancy, Twilight Comments closed
Browsers vs Browsers
The last few weeks has seen a renewed focus on the perilous state of brick-and-mortar book retailing in Melbourne. The usual suspects often referred to are the fixed costs of traditional retailing (especially rent) and the growth of online retailing.
Also posted in Economics & Finance, Media & Communications, Social Media, Writing Tagged bookshop, online retail Comments closed
Why we bother – long live the story
Damn. I was a tardy soul and neglected to log into the Melbourne Writers Festival site the second it opened for bookings, and so missed out hearing Jonathan Franzen give his opening keynote address. Sulking, I went to the RMIT library and borrowed his collection of essays How To be Alone, which includes “Why Bother?”, [...]
Also posted in Media & Communications, Technology, Writing Tagged Ann Patchett, death of the book, How To Be Alone, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, Melbourne Writers Festival, MWF, technology, Why Bother? Comments closed
Peter Corrigan: Embracing depth, complexity and passion