Life savings VIEW DETAILS This pilot project interrogates world building and representation in contemporary film making. The project aims to identify and experiment with innovative ways of working collaboratively in the development of a short film, generating a case study of methods and strategies which can then be implemented both in the classroom and wider industry. Researchers will draw upon the collective knowledge, experience, and input of staff within the creative and performing arts, as well as a diverse cohort of emerging student practitioners.

Chief Investigators: Dr Tom Young, Dr Nicholas Godfrey and Rebecca Edwards (Screen), Dr Sean Williams (Creative Writing) and Dr Sarah Peters (Drama).

Photo credit: Timescope designed by Shane Bevin Life Savings Sean Williams VIEW DETAILS A collaboration between the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the College of Science and Engineering, this project explores the possibilities of using Artificial Intelligence to complement or even enhance the creative writing process, asking questions around authorship, copyright, and collaboration.

Taking works by New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams and training an AI instantiation to generate text in Williams' voice, this project provides an opportunity for a collaboration between the real and artificial Sean Williams in the production, polishing and performance of creative works.

Team members: Sean Williams (CHASS), David Powers (CSE), Richard Liebbrandt (CSE), Tully Barnett (CHASS) with summer internship students from CSE.

 Sean Williams
AI creating an artificial author Verbatim theatre and aging well VIEW DETAILS This project will employ a verbatim theatre methodology to research the lived experience of ageing and transitioning into aged care from the triangulated perspective of patients and people accessing aged care support services, carers/families and staff members of aged care providers.

Chief Investigators: Sarah Peters (CHASS), Sue Gordon (College of Nursing and Health Sciences).

 Verbatim Theatre and Ageing Well Japanese War Art VIEW DETAILS This project studies remaining art and craft works made by Japanese people in civilian internment and POW camps in Australia and beyond revealing aspects of the lived experiences and inner lives of people who spent years in captivity as a result of the conflict.

Chief Investigators: Dr Tets Kimura (Flinders), Associate Professor Richard Bullen (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Japanese War Art in Australasia and the Pacific VIEW DETAILS A creative exploration and comprehensive literature review investigating the history and context of Colonel William Light’s survey of South Australia. The researchers are engaging with internal partners such as AusStage and FUMA, and external partners such as State Library, Art Gallery and History Trust of SA, SA Museum, and City of Adelaide.

Chief Investigators: Dr Sean Williams with Dr Alex Vickery-Howe

William Light:
The Unwritten History VIEW DETAILS This is a new dedicated forum to reflect on art and ethics in contemporary society. Every month we will invite an esteemed philosopher of art, curator, or artist to critically think about the urgent and sometimes challenging questions surrounding art today. For example: Can we experience art through digital means? Is it wrong to enjoy the work of immoral artists? What should happen with public sculptures that glorify a colonial or racist past? FAF will take place every last Thursday of the month during term time at FUMA, the Flinders Museum of Art.

Organiser: Dr Tom Cochrane

Flinders Aesthetics Forum Rainforest City VIEW DETAILS A climate changed future is a certainty and, while we have education and political discussion around this issue, people need emotional support to participate, and thrive, in the climate changed future. Mobilising ideas of ‘collective feelings’ (Berlant; Stewart), this project looks at a range of creative writing strategies to emotionally support and engage, and to strengthen resilience in a climate changed world. The project will produce innovative climate stories that both problematise and offer hope in the present and will seek to articulate a posthuman methodology to be practically applied to creative writing, engaging both in pedagogical and professional arenas.

Chief investigators: Dr Amy Matthews (CHASS, Flinders), Dr Tully Barnett (CHASS, Flinders), Dr Rachel Hennessy (University of Adelaide)

 Resilience and Hope:
Crafting new climate stories VIEW DETAILS Evaluation of a remote community-led arts in health project striving to improve community health and wellbeing.

Chief investigator: Robyn Clark CNHS/ Sean Williams CHASS/ Maz

 The Pinnaroo Project Degrees of Movement VIEW DETAILS This project explores patterns of embodiment and distributed cognition through choreographic sequencing. Garry Stewart works with 6 dancers and a number of cobots (collaborative robots) as well as a robotics programmer at the Flinders University College of Science and Engineering exploring kinesis and action/interaction in the confluence of cobotic and human subjects.

Chief investigator: Garry Stewart

Photo by Garry Stewart Degrees of Movement:
Cobotics and dance Double Trouble VIEW DETAILS There is a gap in what is currently known about 1) the experiences of women workers over age 50 in the screen production sector and 2) the chronic stops, starts, and sideways movements which characterise women’s careers in the sector. This study provides a preliminary overview of how gender intersects with age to impact sector workers, largely via a focus on careers of Australian women editors over the age of fifty. A second project brief is to reveal information about career movements and trajectories that are not encompassed within conventional, auteurist-oriented tropes, such as “the long career” (Bell 2021).

Associate Professor Julia Erhart with Dr Nicholas Godfrey, Dr Jeannine Baker (Macquarie University) and Dr Kath Dooley (Curtin University)

 Double trouble?
Age and Gender in the Screen Industries VIEW DETAILS AusStage is committed to collecting and sharing information about Australian live performance as an ongoing, open-access and collaborative endeavour. This innovative project provides an accessible online resource for researching live performance in Australia, giving researchers and the public access to information about some of the ambitious and innovative live performances that have projected images of Australian culture to audiences here and overseas.

Chief Investigator: Emeritus Professor Julie Holledge

Dancers (L-R): Ryan Pearson, Rikki Mason, Beau Dean Riley Smith, Tyrel Dulvarie and Baden Hitchcock, to make fire.
Photographer: Daniel Boud AusStage:
The Australian Live Performance Database VIEW DETAILS We are rapidly moving towards a post-print world. Australia’s literary and cultural record is shifting from hard to soft copy, but at this moment, we don’t fully understand the implications of digitising our cultural past. This project aims to investigate how reading and literature work in the post-print age, investigating forms of digitisation, which books, texts and objects are digitised, who can access them and how these changes influence our reading experiences.

Chief Investigator: Dr Tully Barnett Digitisation and the immersive reading experience VIEW DETAILS Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture is a multi-stage, multi-partner project funded by two ARC Linkage grants to develop new knowledge about the problems of understanding, measuring and communicating culture’s value in different contexts, beyond the economic data, ticket sales and spill-over effects. In 2018, the team published What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture (Monash University Publishing). We have published articles in Cultural Trends, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Media International Australia, Griffith Review, Australian Art Education, as well as numerous articles in The Conversation.

Chief Investigators: Dr Tully Barnett,
Professor Richard Maltby, Professor Julian Meyrick Laboratory Adelaide:
The Value of Culture VIEW DETAILS The Unbound Collective brings together years of research in a performance that moves through spaces that have historically seen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians excluded and reduced to tell untold chapters of Australia’s true history.

The Collective is Ali Gumillya Baker, Simone Ulalka Tur, Faye Rosas Blanch and Natalie Harkin. Ali Gumillya Baker shifts the colonial gaze through film, performance, projection, and grandmother-stories. Simone Ulalka Tur’s performance and poetics enact an intergenerational transmission of story-work through education. Faye Rosas Blanch engages rap theory to embody sovereignty and shedding of the colonial skin. Natalie Harkin's archival-poetics is informed by blood-memory, haunting and grandmother-stories. The Unbound Collective VIEW DETAILS Alex, Amy and Sean are professional writers who also lecture full-time at Flinders University, South Australia. They’ve joined forces to cover topics of interest to new writers in a lively, conversational style that frequently segues to areas far from where they started. If you’ve ever wondered what writers talk about beyond the lecture theatre or festival circuit, here’s your chance to find out.

Investigators: Dr. Amy Matthews Dr. Alex Vickery-Howe Dr. Sean Williams Word Docs (Podcast) VIEW DETAILS This research project sees the development of a new rehabilitation tool for patients/users who have experienced strokes, aneurisms and other acquired neurological damage. Using live interactive video effects, Proximity Clinical aims to restore proprioception, bilateral symmetry and motor acuity.

The technology was initially developed by Garry Stewart and French video engineer Thomas Pachoud for le Ballet Du Rhin (France) and Australian Dance Theatre. Proximity Clinical