Date/Time
Date(s) - 16 Feb 2012
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
The Edge Auditorium
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Panel Discussion
Often the hardest part of being an artist is not the artistic bit at all. If negotiating contracts, copyright, licencing and royalties all leave you a feeling of dread, don’t worry, you are not alone.
Join our panel of experts as they share their insights into the technical and legal aspects of being an artist. Learn from their experiences and find out where to turn for advice, information and support.
When: 6-7:30pm, 16 Feb
Where: Edge Auditorium
Cost: Free!
Register here.
Panelists include:
Priscilla Bracks
Priscilla Bracks is a visual artist practising in photography, illustration, installation, and new-media art. She also studied and practiced law in Australia. Priscilla has worked as a policy advisor to then Arts Minister the Hon. Matt Foley, and also completed a secondment as Executive Officer – Creative Services of Queensland Artworkers Alliance where she established an Artwork Leasing Scheme and joined with the National Association for Visual Artists to lobby the Federal Government for a Resale Royalties Scheme.
More recently Priscilla has worked collaboratively with Gavin Sade on kinetic, illuminated and robotic interactive new-media sculptures, exhibiting in Istanbul and Taipei.
Edward Guglielmino
Edward Guglielmino is a musician, an academic and a blogger. He has toured through Australia, Europe, The UK, and North America both with his band ‘The Show’ and solo. He also composed the soundtrack to three plays: ‘Speak Truth To Power’ (2004), ‘The Ruling Class’ (2004) and ‘Modlovex’ (2005) as well as two short films: ‘Giraffe’ (2003) and ‘Love Coincidence’ (2004). Much his earlier music was self-released though the Internet and CDR.
Andrew Gibbs
Andrew has been involved in all things entrepreneurial and creative since 1999. He is currently the Creative Director at Human Ventures, a social enterprise using innovation and creativity to work with individuals, communities, governments and businesses.
With a background in the audiovisual world, he has completed a Bachelor of Journalism (Television), a Bachelor of Film & TV, and founded a video production company. Andrew has extensive experience managing creative projects specifically in the realm of digital and community arts. He has a particular love for video projection and clever audiovisual installations.
Michael Doneman
Michael is founding director of Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship. He has a background in community cultural development which inspired work in business design, vocational education and training, and information technology.
Michael was a Senior Research Fellow at QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty from 2002-2005 and is a Founding Affiliate of the ATN University network’s e-Grad School, in the field of knowledge transfer and research commercialisation. Michael founded the Edgeware model of ethical entrepreneurship development in 2006. Edgeware’s operating DNA is ‘Make Money, Have Fun, Change the World’, to indicate the interdependence of economic sustainability, personal meaning and social responsibility. He has a coaching practice focused on the generic value of creativity in the growth of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and leaders
Ben Hamley
Ben is an aspiring technology futurist and emerging leader in creative innovation, with a particular interest in using technology to support creative and interdisciplinary learning. He was selected as one of the Foundation for Young Australians ‘Young Social Pioneers’ in 2011, works part time as a strategic advisor to Josephmark (a brisbane based digital and design agency) and is currently the Queensland Project Manager of the youth-led creative agency – Smart Artz – founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Graeme Wood (founder of wotif.com & Wild Mob). In 2010, Ben project managed a team of academics and entertainment industry leaders to introduce Australia’s first triple-faculty degree in Entertainment Industries at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His original undergraduate degree was in Fine Arts were he trained formally as a lighting designer within QUT’s Technical Production program; later returning to study post-graduate business. His latest projects have seen Ben work in the fields of copyright communication campaigns, public art, interactive entertainment technology and cognitive science.