The Fairlight CMI: History, Technology, Ideology
Symposium
The Fairlight Computer Music Instrument catalysed the late 20th Century digital music revolution. From the visualisation of sound-on-screen, to combined sampling, sequencing, and synthesis capabilities in one machine, the Fairlight CMI forever transformed music creation and production. Fifty years…
Oral Presentation: Early Modern Women's Education and Marginalia, 1520-1700
Seminar
This thesis examines women’s education in sixteenth and seventeenth century England using marginalia as a case study for how educational skills were learned and practiced. By first tracing the development of women’s education across two centuries, using evidence from letters, diary entries,…
The Shadow and the Acolyte: On the Origins of Creative Writing in Australia
Seminar
Late in 1959, an up-and-coming novelist named Thea Astley knocked on the door of Dogwoods, Castle Hill. Her knock was answered by Manoly Lascaris, the lover and lifelong partner of Patrick White, who turned her away. Patrick was already seated at his desk. He would brook no interruption. Irked yet…
2024 Graduating Exhibition
Exhibition
Exhibition dates: Saturday 30 November - Sunday 8 December 2024 Open daily 10am - 4pm www.gradshow.com.au The Graduating Exhibition is a showcase of the culmination of our students' efforts across a wide range of practices in Visual Arts and Design.
Prof. Alice Roberts - From Cell to Civilisation
External
This is the story of us. Our story started 3.8 billion years ago. Who are we? Where do we come from? What does it mean to be human? For thousands of years, such questions have been explored through philosophy and religion, but the answers now seem to lie firmly within the grasp of an empirical…
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.Mark McGurl has spent much of his career posing bold questions. What did it mean, at the beginning of the twentieth century, to reconceptualise the novel as a work…
Tree Planting Ceremony to Celebrate the Dye & Fibre Garden
Other
We are delighted to invite you to a special tree planting event to celebrate the launch of the Dye & Fibre Garden, a collaborative project between the Landscape & Conservation Team and the School of Art & Design. Date: Thursday, 21st NovemberTime: 11:30 AMLocation: Dye & Fibre…