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<DIV align=center><FONT color=#808080 size=4>University of New South Wales
Media, Film and Theatre Seminars<BR>Wednesday <SPAN
class=972570901-06042005>13</SPAN> <SPAN class=972570901-06042005>April
</SPAN>2005 5 p.m. Webster Building 327<BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#008080
size=7>Ross Gibson<BR></FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=1>Research Professor of
New Media & Digital Culture<BR>University of Technology
Sydney<BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#800000 size=7><B>Complexity, Change and
Dynamic Aesthetics<BR><BR><BR></B></FONT></DIV><FONT color=#808080 size=4>What
are the aesthetic forms -- inherited as well as recently invented -- that help
us to understand complexity, change, interactivity and the investigative
impulses? And how well do our traditional aesthetic criteria and
compositional methods assist us to analyse, evaluate and improve these
forms? <BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=2>Ross Gibson makes
books, essays and films. He also produces multimedia environments and ICT
systems for museums and public spaces. His books include: THE DIMINISHING
PARADISE (1984); SOUTH OF THE WEST (1992); THE BOND STORE TALES
(1996); EXCHANGES (1996, editor); SEVEN VERSIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN
BADLAND (2002); and REMEMBRANCE + THE MOVING IMAGE (2003,
editor). His films include: CAMERA NATURA (1985), DEAD TO THE WORLD (1991)
and WILD (1993). His major exhibitions include 'Remembrance + The Moving
Image', 'Street X-Rays', and 'Crime Scene', the latter being part of a suite of
multimedia productions entitled LIFE AFTER WARTIME made in collaboration with
Kate Richards. Between 1993 and 1996, he was senior consultant producer
during the inaugural phase of the Museum of Sydney. From 1999 to early
2002 he was Creative Director for the establishment of the Australian Centre for
the Moving Image at Federation Square in Melbourne.
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<P></X-SIGSEP>_________________________________________________<BR>Dr James
Donald<BR>Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences<BR>Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and
Theatre<BR>University of New South Wales<BR>Sydney<BR>NSW
2052<BR>Australia<BR><BR>Telephone:
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4858<BR>Mobile:
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126445<BR>Facsimile:<X-TAB> </X-TAB>(02) 9662
2335<BR><BR>International<BR>Telephone:
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