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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.