Since first creating the program (in 2011), Dr Lisa Roberts continues to lead Living Data in an effort to increase public understanding and encourage informed action towards a sustainable future. Today ‘About’ Living Data explains itself as: “an independent programme of interactive authoring that is true to science, clear in language, appealing to senses, evolving and surprising (showing something…

  UTS Vice-Chancellor Attila Brungs is looking for bipartisan commitment for research and a strong drive to offer STEM skills for future generations of students. (STEM = science, technology, engineering and maths) He’s looking for a follow through on the plans from the end of last year and the beginning of 2016  when there was…

Paper Sculptures – macroscopic and microscopic

Rogan Brown – Paper Sculptures Brown writes: My work plays with the architecture of nature and organic growth. By identifying patterns and motifs that occur in the natural world in different contexts and at different scales, both macroscopic and microscopic, I have developed a formal, aesthetic vocabulary that I use to construct hybrid sculptural forms,…

Art in Antarctica

Follow the journey of four young artists  who have the opportunity to make art in Antarctica – with all the challenges involved. If you’d like to focus on the completed works, enter the film around 40 minutes – but the process is worth following.        

PHILLIP LAW LECTURE

Media Release   PROFESSOR TONY WORBY TO DELIVER PHILLIP LAW LECTURE The Phillip Law Lecture is a free event and will be delivered at CCAMLR, 181 Macquarie Street, Hobart on Friday 9 September at 5:30 pm. After a break of several years the next Phillip Law Lecture has been scheduled as part of the inaugural…

from The Conversation: June 8, 2016 6.18am AEST Read the full article:  It’s time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its story Excerpt: A paper published in WIRES Climate Change draws upon cognitive science, evolutionary psychology and philosophy, among other fields, to explore the emerging idea that global warming exceeds…

SATURDAY 18 JUN 2016 
Flying for your life: An unlikely saviour Listen(Link will open in new window)
 Download On the shorelines of the Yellow Sea, eight million shorebirds are probing the sediment for food, but their bellies are empty. Could their epic migration end here on this barren mudflat? SATURDAY 11 JUN 2016 Flying for…

Artists and activism Listen now(Link will open in new window)
 Download audio Wednesday 15 June 2016 8:05PM (view full episode)   Highlights of the arts and activism debate that artists have a responsibility to speak on political and social issues presented by the National Gallery of Victoria, 20 April 2016.   Guests: Hugh de Kretser…

Background Briefing, Sunday 29 May 2016 8:05AM (view full episode) Listen now(Link will open in new window)
 Download audio     A third of the CSIRO’s climate scientists have been sacked. It’s part of a radical change in direction for Australia’s premier science organisation. But scientists say this will leave us vulnerable to climate change? Paddy…

Steb Fisher throws down the challenge. Fisher was a former Physical Chemist at Oxford, has worked at the Harvard Business School and now lectures in Environmental matters at Monash University.   We have “wounded” the planet in a thousand ways. It will never return to what it was, but we can give it space for its…