Join us for SPARK: Kindling Girl’s Passion for STEMM! We invite local-area high school girls and members of the UNSW community to attend in person at the Kensington Campus; we welcome those who can’t join us in person to join us via livestream! Attendance in person or via stream is free.

The project centres on the creation of a digital exhibition that explores a single project within the practice of a number of individual designers. Through visually documenting each practitioner’s processes and design methods for a selected project, the exhibition will illuminate, and make tangible, the moments in creative practice when seemingly disparate ideas intersect.

The MOVE Symposium is a one day symposium and showcase that will bring together creative technologists, interaction designers, artists and other professionals from academia, the arts and industry to discuss how critical emerging technologies are changing creative practices and the design of experiences, discussing challenges and opportunities facing these fields.

Erotic Engines looks at the unmentioned force of the adult industry in the development of innovative technologies. Through distinct material explorations, each individual artist translates their own unique conversation on the role of the adult industry and its provided exchanges between the real and the virtual.

Catharine Ellis, co author of ‘The Art and Science of Natural Dyeing: principles, experiments and results’ a guide to natural dyeing, presents a lecture on why natural dyes are important today. The book, written with Joy Boutrup, explains the general principles of natural dyeing to help practitioners become more accomplished through an increased understanding of the processes involved.

Winner of the Prime Minster's Literary Prize, Brian Castro, will deliver the 2019 ASAL Patrons Lecture: Detours and Divagations: Consciousness, Otherness and Hospitality.

ASAL Conference 2019 Public Event

The Writers Panel features features a number of distinguished writers including Anna Couani, Evelyn Araluen, Angelo Louakis, and Ellen van Neerven who will read from the work of Antigone Kefala and from their own work.

Writers
Anna Couani is a Sydney writer and visual artist who runs The Shop Gallery in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe.

Join Elliott Bryce Foulkes and Maria Smit for an intimate tour of their exhibition 'Order of Events'. Both designers will discuss the development of their collaborative project and its exploration of graphic design and visual identities within the museum space.

Presented as part of Art Month

Learn more about the work of Gemma Smith in a conversation between the artist and independent writer, curator and broadcaster Julie Ewington.

Presented as part of Art Month

Government fish farms in Kenya were started with an aim of promoting aquaculture. These fish farms have made tremendous contributions to farm management and rural development such as creating more employment opportunities, improving infrastructure, contributing to National food security, and providing income to farmers and revenue to the government.

In this UNSW Art & Design Guest Talk, Los Angeles based art historian and editor Julian Myers-Szupinska will discuss a range of curatorial, editorial and writing projects. An influential scholar of contemporary art and exhibitions, Myers-Szupinska was founding faculty in the Curatorial Practice program at California College of the Arts; was senior editor for The Exhibitionist, a journal on exhibition making; and is part of the critical/curatorial duo

Are the experiences of women in leadership changing? Is this different in STEM? What more do our institutions need to do?

Join Professor Teresa Akenga (Vice-Chancellor, University of Eldoret and UNSW Science Alumna) and Professor Emma Johnston (Dean of Science, UNSW Sydney) in conversation with Dr Sarah Cook (Director, Institute for Global Development) exploring the changing experiences of women in leadership, education and science.

About the speakers

Beijing based visual artist Rose Wong joins Yu-Chieh Li, Judith Neilson Post-Doctoral Fellow of Contemporary Art at UNSW Art & Design, for a discussion on her recent work within the context of time-based media, performativity and gender in contemporary Chinese art.