Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

'Play It Forward – Sustainability in a Time of Rapid Change' Technical Day explores the many issues faced by audiovisual collections, collecting institutions and related organisations, in order to remain sustainable into the future. The Technical Day will address digital and analogue preservation, education and Australian cultural production. It may be of interest to anyone concerned with the long-term preservation of digital and audiovisual materials as well as Australian arts and cultural materials and practices.

Presented by: Digital and Audiovisual Heritage Special Interest Group (Electron) of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) in collaboration with the Australasian Sound Recordings Association (ASRA).

Speakers include: Professional education and the preservation of audio heritage: crisis and opportunity? Dr. Sigrid McCausland - Senior Lecturer, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Graduate Certificate in Audiovisual Archiving, Charles Sturt University Mick Newnham - Manager, Conservation & Research, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Sarah-Jane Rennie - Head Collections Care, Sydney Living Museums Bruce Tulloch - Managing Director, Bitscope Super-abilities: sustainability of the arts, culture and collections Nicole Canham - artistic director, clarinettist, PhD candidate, Queensland University Clare Cooper - harpist, graphic designer, PhD candidate, Macquarie University Assoc Prof Melanie Swalwell - ARC Future Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Screen and Media, Flinders University

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to davhsig@gmail.com