Thursday, 6 September 2007
Creativity has undergone a transformation, according to one of Australia’s most innovative cultural critics who will discuss the role of creativity at a free public lecture at The University of Western Australia next week.

Writer, teacher, editor, film-maker, curator and multi-media producer Professor Ross Gibson credits developments in digital technology with changing his own art.

Ross Gibson makes books, essays and films, and also produces multimedia environments and IT systems for museums and public spaces. Gibson’s engaging and challenging work ‘has an evocative quality that can disturb and prompt imaginative adventure,’ according to “Arts in Australia”.

He is Research Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney, a board member for the NSW Film and Television Office and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities

His lecture, in UWA’s Geography Lecture Theatre 1, at 6pm on Thursday, September 13, forms part of the first-ever Thinking Society, Thinking Culture Symposium being held at the University during the week and will explore his unique concept of creativity.

For more information about either the lecture or the symposium, please contact the Institute of Advanced Studies on 6488 1340 or email [email protected]

Media references

Audrey Barton (Institute of Advanced Studies) 61 8 6488 1340

Simone Hewett / Sally-Ann Jones 61 8 6488 7977
(UWA Public Affairs) 0420 790 097 / 0420 790 098

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