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Speaker: Patrick FlaneryDate\Time: Thursday 24 October2024, 12:30-13:30Location: 1A21 (accessed from the foyer joining Building 1 and Mizzuna Café)or Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92761071018AbstractThis paper considers a preoccupation with entropic zones across American artist Robert Smithson’s seminal 1970 work of land art, Spiral Jetty, American novelist Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 novel Gravity’s Rainbow, the Russian novelists Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1972 novel Roadside Picnic and its subsequent film adaptation, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 Stalker. In each of these cases, the unspeakable but omnipresent spectre of nuclear holocaust lurks as the summoner of entropy in its most apocalyptic form.All are welcome to this seminar.BioPatrick Flanery is Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining the University of Adelaide, he was Professor at the University of Reading, and subsequently Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of the novels Night for Day (2019), I Am No One (2016), Fallen Land (2013) and Absolution (2012), which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, among others. In 2019, he published a volume of creative-critical nonfiction, The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption. Patrick holds a BFA in Film & TV from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford.The Culture and Creativity Seminar Series is hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research (CCCR), Faculty of Arts and Design, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ. To discover upcoming seminars, please follow us on Facebook @uccccr, or Instagram and Twitter @uc_cccr. Alternatively, join our mailing list by emailing cccr@canberra.edu.au.If you have any questions and/or accessibility requests, please contact: cccr@canberra.edu.au.

One-Day Conference at the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵA free event curated by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam) and Denise Thwaites (Faculty of Arts and Design, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ)With lectures, presentations, performances and conversations led by Ella Barclay, Nicole Curato, Sophie Dumaresq, Caroline Fisher, Catherine Page Jeffery, Geert Lovink, David Nolan, Mathieu O'Neil, Phoebe Quinn, Melinda Rackham, Litia Roko, Erin Stapleton, Tyne Sumner, Denise Thwaites, Temple Uwalaka and Ashley Van den Heuvel.Date/Time: Thursday 21 November 2024, 10:00-18:30Location: Building 1 Level A Room 1A21, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ (NB Room 1a21 is accessed from the foyer joining Building 1 and Mizzuna café); A free event, registration is required. Register here.The full program is available here. Join us for an event that maps the depression, boredom and loneliness that feed (and are fed by) social media platforms. Beyond fake news, our platform dependencies, miseries, and anxieties are all too real. Many feel sadness about our collective inability to change - yet cannot imagine deleting social media accounts for fear of isolation. Platform Blues are an area of interest for multiple and varied forms of research, which intersect with our topic through critical enquiry into techno-feudalism, memes, online dating, doom scrolling, right-wing libertarian/conspiracy cultures and internet 'girl' theory. Alternative ways of community organizing provide glimpses of hope, as seen in protest and solidarity movements, such as those addressing climate action, #metoo, and the ongoing war in Gaza. Platform Blues in Australia exist, but neither strict regulation nor the melancholic dream of going offline will solve it. How can our phones become a tool of connection again? Resisting the distractions of AI eye candy, let's address the reality of our tech-induced mental poverty. This gathering of bodies and souls will coincide with the one-month residency of Dutch media theorist and internet critic, Geert Lovink, at the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ. Presented by the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, The Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance and the News and Media Research Centre (all º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam). Supported by the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ as part of its Distinguished Visiting Fellow Program.For questions and accessibility requests, please contact: cccr@canberra.edu.au.

Should a doctor prescribe poetry-writing, or visiting an art gallery, as an alternative for medication? The fact that medical professionals are increasingly doing so in a range of countries provides the context for this two-day event. Could this be a case where Western medicine is catching up with practices First Nations communities have enacted for millennia? How are health and wellbeing impacted by creative art?Sessions will range from a discussion of current policy settings, papers on the relationship between poetry and wellbeing, panel discussions among artists and community workers, along with hands-on poetry writing and creative arts workshops. The first day’s activities (attend in person or online) will culminate in the award of the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize and the 2024 Health Poetry Prize. ?The second day (in person only) will include two creative workshops, starting with a morning haiku walk on Belconnen Lake.? This is a free event.For further information and to register: cccrevents.orgThis event is hosted by the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ's Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in collaboration with the Health Research Institute and Belconnen Arts Centre.

Should a doctor prescribe poetry-writing, or visiting an art gallery, as an alternative for medication? The fact that medical professionals are increasingly doing so in a range of countries provides the context for this two-day event. Could this be a case where Western medicine is catching up with practices First Nations communities have enacted for millennia? How are health and wellbeing impacted by creative art?Sessions will range from a discussion of current policy settings, papers on the relationship between poetry and wellbeing, panel discussions among artists and community workers, along with hands-on poetry writing and creative arts workshops. The first day’s activities (attend in person or online) will culminate in the award of the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize and the 2024 Health Poetry Prize. ?The second day (in person only) will include two creative workshops, starting with a morning haiku walk on Belconnen Lake.? This is a free event.For further information and to register: cccrevents.orgThis event is hosted by the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ's Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in collaboration with the Health Research Institute and Belconnen Arts Centre.