COFA Head of Media Arts, Professor Ross Harley, and ABC arts presenter and COFA graduate Andrew Frost are producing Christian Jankowski’s newest work on behalf of the School of Media Arts and COFA for the 17th Biennale of Sydney.
Read the full story on the COFA Blog.
COFA lecturer and artist Lynne Roberts Goodwin has won the 2010 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.
Read the full story on the COFA Blog.
Check out some of the recent work of COFA graduates in the 2009 Annual exhibition.
Gerard Goggin, UNSW Journalism & Media Research Centre
Gerard is the Deputy Director of the UNSW Journalism and Media Research Centre
Cell Phone Culture draws on a wide range of national, regional, and international examples, to carefully explore the new forms of consumption and use of communication and media technology that the phenomenon of mobiles represents.
Grad Profile:
Zoë Foster - Media & Communications
Editor in Chief, Primped.com.au
Q: What were the 3 highlights of your uni experience?
A: “1. Re-embracing my high-school affair with musical theatre. Uni musicals were so much fun…it felt nice to be part of a big group, and experience some extra curricular uni life.
2. Spending up to 18 hours at a time in the media labs, existing on McDonalds, coffee and energy drinks, with my classmates.
3. Learning fascinating things from cool people…it’s rare in life that you’re exposed to such brilliant minds, interesting perspectives and curious subject matter. After uni, it’s kind of hard to learn about Freud and Chomsky, you know?”
Q: How did your degree/uni experience equip you for the career you have now?
A: “You have little to no chance of getting your dainty little hooves into any kind of publishing house without a journalism/media and communication degree…it’s expected…the fact that I had the basics under my belt was what my employers wanted to know.”
Q: What do you love most about your job?
A: “Being part of a Web 2.0 launch site is intensely creatively satisfying. The freedom and pace of working online after working in print media (I was Beauty Director at Cosmopolitan and then Harper’s BAZAAR) is immensely enjoyable. Ultimately, though, both mediums have afforded me my greatest luxury, which is to be able to write and call it a ‘job’.”
“Kaboom studios is the united front of COFA BDM graduate Jason Lam and Adam Synnott. They have a rich history in design and media, having worked with companies and artists such as Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Dance Company, Bayerisches Staatsballet, Dance North, Leigh Warren and Dancers, Tasdance, Australian Dance Theatre and Sue Healey Company. They specialise in interactive projection design and interactive installations. As well as collaborative works, they have exhibited and shown nationally and internationally. Adam and Jason have also lectured across different facets of digital media, performance and design at The University of Technology Sydney, Flinders University and the University of New South Wales.”
“Debs Majumdar—Producer at SBS, and MDM graduate. “A Charming and honest young man who will no doubt get to where he wants to be. Any prospective employer could only regard him as a bonus to have on staff” - Mike Munro, Presenter, Sunday Night - Channel 7.”
Animation by John Turello
Animation from by School of Media Arts Honours student John Turello, now working as a Junior Animator at Dr D Studios.
Dr D is a new digital production studio created by Academy Award winning producers George Miller and Doug Mitchell in partnership with the Omnilab Media Group. It’s a permanent Australian studio, attracting the best talent from here and around the world to craft fine, entertaining stories.
Empire of the Sun co-brainchild of sometime experimental musician Nick Littlemore (ex TBA BFA) capped off world wide commercial success with 4 ARIA awards for Single of the Year, Album of the Year etc.
Find out more about the awards at the ARIA site.
Listen to Nick’s music on his myspace page.
Brown Council (recent Painting and TBA BFA & BFA/ BA graduates ) had a residence to create new work in Beijing. Read the details in Realtime (link below).
Emmnuella Pringoli (recent TBA BFA) 3rd year work: ‘Partition for Obsolete Visuals’ AUS / 2008 / 3:55, was co-winning of the Evocative Film Award at the 3rd Sydney Underground Film Festival
This film interprets discarded 16mm film records of the past, deemed to be obsolete and irrelevant, in a piece of ‘reconstructed cinema’.
Other student work selected by SUFF for screening were:
‘Cue Howard’ Dir Pasan Chandraweera 4:33 2008 (Mart TBA)
‘Bin Fincan Kahve’ Dir Ebru Arda 2:30 2008 (BFA TBA)
‘The Protest Diaries: Outrage at the Embassy’ Dir Shahriar Shadab 6:00 2009 (Mart TBA)
(more than any other Aust institution)
“Finalist in the Freedman Foundation Awards”
