Published May 29 2020

My Art Will Go On - 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
Ali alizadeh
Senior lecturer, Literary Studies, literary writer and theorist
Callum morton
Artist, Associate Dean, International and Engagement, Director, Monash Art Projects
Susan carland
Academic, author and social commentator

So what can you do to save us all from a world without art? In this podcast episode of What Happens Next?, our experts share all their best tips for finding art in new places, adding it into your own life. And why now, more than ever, art matters.

My view is that art is all around us. We can't escape it. We live in an instant visual world, if you like, and so I think art is there if we're just willing to open our eyes to see where that might occur. And it occurs through everything we do, it's advertising, it's walking down the street, it's nature, it's everything that's around us.

Nick McGuigan

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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.

  • Ali alizadeh

    Senior lecturer, Literary Studies, literary writer and theorist

    Ali Alizadeh is a literary critic, poet and writer on the philosophy of art. He is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University. Both his creative writing and literary scholarship interrogate the collisions between the political and the personal. Radical subjectivity, philosophy of history and theories of art are of particular interest to Ali.

  • Callum morton

    Artist, Associate Dean, International and Engagement, Director, Monash Art Projects

    Callum is a Melbourne based artist with a significant international profile whose art explores the personal and social impact of architecture and our built environment. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990. In 2007 Morton was one of three artists to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. In 2008 he completed the work Hotel on the Eastlink Freeway in Melbourne.

  • 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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