Faculty Member, Sydney College of the Arts - Visual Arts
Associate Dean Learning and Teaching
Object Art and Design, Glass studio
About
Jane is a Senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, in the Object design studios, her teaching is focused around several research led projects such as;
Article Lightness: Sustainable practice in Object design
Factory as Studio: Developing a practice-based framework for artists and designers who choose to work within industrial communities.
MACUMASCI ; Building a horizontal network around Material Science and Material Culture at the University of Sydney
Jane also teaches in the Leadership and Creativity Module of the Global EMBA with the Faculty of Business, University of Sydney
Jane is a board member of the multidisciplinary Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
About : The Factory as Studio
Factory as Studio: Developing a practice-based framework for artists and designers who choose to work within industrial communities.
This project is orientated around two questions. The first question asks how an artist researcher can create opportunities for practice that are embedded within an industrial factory. The second question asks how an artist researcher can structure their practice in a way that is conducive to making a contribution to the culture (and/or products) of the factory?
As a practicing artist, I have always been drawn to the innovative, productive and creative activities of the factory communities I have visited.
My aim is to expand on my current practice by creating new installations and/or functional and non-functional objects in the factory context.
I have chosen to focus on one particular factory as the location and subject of a case study; there I
will use the factory as a “studio” to make new works.
This case study will focus on the development of a relationship with the community at a factory in Belgium. This study will explore issues relevant to artists and
designers who choose to be professionally engaged in factory environments.
In industry, concepts of invention, manufacture, experiments and everyday engagement with materials are common, though these all may be led by different desires and motivations than those of the artist.
The location of the artist researcher in the factory network could allow for social change through the development of new structures or a type of “shared knowledge” (Reckwitz, 2002) within certain parameters, between the factory community (broadly defined as, but not limited to:scientists, manufacturers, marketers and designers) and the artist researcher.
The project positions practice based material enquiry, research and experimentation in relation to artifacts as a locus for the potential restructuring of social practices. I will look at the emergent working relationship between the factory community and the artist researcher.
It is anticipated that this thesis will develop a framework for artists and designers who wish to practice within the parameters of a dynamic social environment of an industrial space such as a factory.
The anticipated framework will be developed within the context of a case study.
Jane is a doctoral student in the Design, Architecture and Building Faculty at the University of Technology,Sydney
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