Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)

Chair: Diana Baker Smith

Panel Member: Scott East

Presentations

• Chenxi Zhang (PhD), ‘Queering the Dragon Lady: Meaning-Making of the Encounter’. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Shuxia Chen, Kerryn Drysdale.
• June Acido Miskell (PhD), ‘Archipelagic Imaginaries: Contemporary Filipino/x Australian Art’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Andrew Brooks, Shuxia Chen.
• Henry Wolff (MFA), ‘Cutting both ways’. Supervisors: Ed Scheer, Prue Gibson, Grant Stevens.

Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)

Chair: Rochelle Haley

Panel Member: Andrew Yip

Presentations

• Jacquie Meng (MFA), ‘Smiling through a hundred teeth’. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Ramesh Nithiyendran.
• Giles Alexander (PhD), ‘From devotional aesthetics to musical memory: Reimagining late medieval devotional paintings to investigate and illuminate contemporary forms of secular spiritual connection as experienced through music’. Supervisors: Emma Robertson, Oliver Bown.
• Fiona Macpherson (MFA), ‘A Latent Trace: Post-photographic Painting, Trauma and Haunting in Post-digital Culture’. Supervisors: Tim Gregory, Clare Milledge.

Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)

Chair: Jennifer Biddle

Panel Member: Jaye Early

Presentations

• Shani Black (MPhil), ‘Memes as Print: Critical image-macro memes as a form of agitprop print’. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Scott East.
• Alex Moulis (PhD), ‘The beach as desert: the affective entanglement of patriarchal white sovereignty, the visual archive and land between settler-colonial projects’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Nicholas Apoifis.
• Gabriel Curtin (PhD), ‘Greenwell’s Chip: commodity form and Marxist literature’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Tim Gregory.

Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)

Chair: Grant Stevens

Panel Member: Clare Milledge

Presentations

• Wei Wang (PhD), ‘Towards a Spatial Psychoanalysis: Finding the Entrance in the Unconscious Place’. Supervisors: Michael Garbutt, Jill Bennett.
• Mel Deerson (PhD), ‘garden dreams of a garden dreams of a garden dreams of a garden dreams of a’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.
• Xiaochu (Daisy) Dai (PhD), ‘Between Land and Sea: Experiencing the Neo-Sublime through Sydney Mangroves in an Immersive VR Installation’. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Andrew Yip.

Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)

Chair: Livia Rezende

Panel Member: Michael Garbutt

Presentations

• Lin Zhou (PhD), ‘Re-thinking Contemporary Chinese Peasant Painting in Transcultural Contexts: A Discourse Analytical Approach’. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Paul Gladston.
• Jiawen Li (PhD), ‘An Analytical Framework for Examining Contemporary Chinese Art in Australian Public Art Institutions’. Supervisors: Shuxia Chen, Lizzie Muller, Olivier Krischer.
• Candice Ng (PhD), ‘Critical and Experimental Design Education in Singapore’s Neoliberal Developmental State’. Supervisors: Katherine Moline, Scott Brown.

Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)

Chair: Tim Gregory

Panel Member: Moon Lacroix

Presentations

• Emma Pinsent (PhD), ‘Porous material afterlives of an intertidal zone’. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Bianca Hester.
• Lara Merrett (MFA), ‘How can a collaborative and situated expanded painting practice with pest-kin generate better-balanced ecological futures?’. Supervisors: Izabela Pluta, Adriana Verges, Fernando do Campo.
• Maya Martin-Westheimer (PhD), ‘Curating as a Practice of Place: Toward a Site-Responsive Curatorial Practice’. Supervisors: Prue Gibson, Scott East, Consuelo Cavaniglia.

Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)

Chair: Katherine Moline

Panel Member: Trent Jansen

Presentations

• Lu Forsberg (PhD), ‘Power Play: Alternative Electricity Systems in Contemporary Media Art’. Supervisors: Caleb Kelly, Bianca Hester.
• Benjamin Chevalier (MFA), ‘Playing with the Machine: Reverse Engineering Craft Knowledge Through Manual Knitting’. Supervisors: Bic Tieu, Alana Clifton-Cunningham, Alison Gwilt.
• Leah Giblin (MFA), ‘Design for Enduring Use: Translating Attributes of a Long-Loved Garment into a Design Method’. Supervisors: Matthew Harkness, Alison Gwilt, Alana Clifton-Cunningham.

Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)

Chair: Emma Robertson

Panel Member: Peter Sharp

Presentations

• Linda Marie Bretherton (PhD), ‘Activating the archival collection: How contemporary artists and curators are driving museum practice change’. Supervisors: Edward Scheer, Felicity Fenner.
• Keroshin Govender (MFA), ‘Dis-orientation: Deconstructing presentation of “Indian” culture in contemporary Australia’. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Ramesh Nithiyendran.
• Abby Murray (MFA), ‘A site of negotiation: Feverish visualisations of archival re-encounters’. Supervisors: Fernando do Campo, Izabela Pluta.

Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)

Chair: Zoe Veness

Panel Member: Consuelo Cavaniglia

Presentations

• Suzanne Claridge (PhD), ‘At the edges of the portal: archival incantations and re-envisioning minor history’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Andrew Brooks, Livia Rezende.
• Marcia Swaby (PhD), ‘Reperforming Guanin: Crafting a practice of embodied and materially driven jewellery-making in dialogue with indigenous Caribbean craft legacies’. Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Fernando do Campo.
• Shireen Taweel (PhD), ‘Unearthing Repertoire, Heritage Practice and Memory in a body of Postcolonial Speculative Fiction’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.

Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)

Chair: Caleb Kelly

Panel Member: Jill Bennett

Presentations

• Tom Willma (PhD), ‘Examining Values: Generative AI and the Music Sector’. Supervisors: Oliver Bown, Anna Munster.
• Shaozhi Pi (PhD), ‘Governing AI-Generated Game Music in Real Time: A Composer-Centred Music Manager’. Supervisors: Oliver Bown, Adam Hulbert, Michael Bain.
• Zhongyu Jia (PhD), ‘Design Toolkits: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Video Game Players and Non-Players in Family Settings’. Supervisors: Deborah Tillman, Katherine Moline.

Join artist and MFA candidate Remy Faint for a floor talk about his current exhibition. Meet in UNSW Galleries, upstairs foyer.

Request a calendar invitation via the Session Sign-Up Form.

Location: Level 4 Block F, Sherman Postgraduate Studios.

Launch of the inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated installation space F408, with HDR candidates to lead a guided tour featuring spotlight talks.

Request a calendar invitation via the Session Sign-Up Form.

Location: Level 4 Block F, Sherman Postgraduate Studios, UNSW Paddington campus (enter via lift at Oxford St end of Block F).

RSVP required by 4pm Monday 19 October for catering purposes via the Session Sign-Up Form.

Location: Level 4 Block F, Sherman Postgraduate Studios.

Student-led studio critique session.

Presenters

• Giles Alexander (UNSW PhD)
• Climbing Pixels (SCA PhD)
• Henry Wolff (UNSW MFA)
• Liam Sinha (UNSW Honours)