Published May 22 2020

Art And Soul - What Happens Next? podcast on the impact of art

Jon
Mccormack
Professor, and Director, Monash SensiLab, Faculty of Information Technology
Nick mcguigan
Associate Professor, Accounting
Susan carland
Academic, author and social commentator

In this episode of the What Happens Next? podcast, we hear from two people who are finding and creating art in places and ways in which wouldn't have been possible, or even imagined, 20 or even 10 years ago.  They believe the future of art is bright, as long as we learn to look for and at it differently. Jon McCormack is an artist with a PhD in Computer Science and is a Professor of IT, which might seem an incongruous combination, but he believes the future of art is in human-robot collaboration. Nick McGuigan is an accountant who urges people to look for art where it may not obviously be. His highly successful Artist in Residence program, in the Monash faculty of Business and Economics, embeds art into accounting, pushing back against the ‘boring accountant’ stereotype.

"We need to find something common about being human and I think art plays a really important role in going really deep in ways that other disciplines or other ways of thinking about the world don't."

Jon McCormack

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About the Authors

  • Jon mccormack

    Professor, and Director, Monash SensiLab, Faculty of Information Technology

    Jon is a professor in computer science in the Faculty of Information Technology, an ARC Future Fellow, and founder and director of SensiLab. His research interests include generative art, design and music, evolutionary systems, computer creativity, visualisation, virtual reality, interaction design, physical computing, machine learning, developmental models, and physical computing. Since the late 1980s, Jon has worked with computer code as a medium for creative expression. Inspired by the complexity and wonder of a diminishing natural world, his work is concerned with electronic “after natures”.

  • Nick mcguigan

    Associate Professor, Accounting

    Associate Professor Nick McGuigan works as an Innovator, Instigator and Disruptor in Monash Business School to create future­‐oriented business education programs that focus on innovation, creativity and design thinking. Nick is the Director of Education in the Department of Accounting and instigated Monash Business School’s newly created Artist-­In-Residence program and conceptually designed the world’s first ever accounting perfume.

  • Susan carland

    Director, Bachelor of Global Studies, and Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics

    Susan's research and teaching specialties focus on gender, sociology, contemporary Australia, terrorism, and Islam in the modern world. Susan hosted the “Assumptions” series on ABC’s Radio National, and was named one of the 20 Most Influential Australian Female Voices in 2012 by The Age.

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