What's On at UWA

The Winthorp Singers perform a programme of light music including jazz and music theatre standards in the Dining Hall.

Admission is free, bookings are required as there is limited space.

Art After Death

A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and other issues affecting artists after death.

Arranged and supported by The University of Western Australia Law School, The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct, and Artsource.

An artist’s primary concern is developing their professional practise, in whatever guise that might take. But do artists ever ponder what will happen to their work when they are no longer here? Who will decide where their work can be shown, who can reproduce it and for what purposes can it be copied or used?

Like any other personal property, planning for an artist’s artwork, including who will own the work, administer the artist’s copyright and moral rights, and protect their reputation after death is an important but rarely discussed consideration.

Art After Death provides a unique opportunity to hear from prominent legal, accounting and arts professionals about the issues artists and their professional advisors may need to consider when planning for an artist’s will and estate. Participants will also have the rare opportunity to ask questions and raise issues with the panel during the session.

The Cultural Precinct is pleased to invite you to this free public lecture by Katrina Strickland, as she discusses her new book Affairs of the Art: Love, loss and power in the art world on Monday 14 October 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist’s reputation after he or she dies.

Through interviews with those handling the estates of artists including Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley, John Brack, Howard Arkley, Bronwyn Oliver, George Baldessin and Albert Tucker, as well as a raft of art dealers, academics, curators and auctioneers, Strickland traverses the strange alleyways of the art market, where power resides with those who hold the best stock, and highlights the sometimes heart-wrenching way emotion and duty intersect in the making of decisions by those left behind.

Katrina Strickland has been writing about the arts for more than fifteen years, for the past six as arts editor of the Australian Financial Review, and is now Deputy Editor of Australian Financial Review Magazine.

Prior to that she worked at The Australian for eleven years, filling various roles including arts editor, deputy arts editor, national arts writer and marketing writer. She is a former World Press Institute fellow and joint winner of the 2010 Trawalla Foundation Arts Journalism Scholarship. She holds arts and law (hons) degrees from the University of Melbourne. Her first book Affairs of the Art (MUP) was published in May 2013.

Copies of Katrina's book are available from the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. RRP $34.99

This event is FREE. However, registration is essential: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/publicprogram/katrina-strickland/_nocache

The UWA Film Society, together with the section of Italian Studies at UWA, and the Consulate of Italy are happy to present: "The Italian 'Spaghetti' Western". A three movie series including:

- Monday 14th October - "Per un pugno di dollari" ("A Fistful of Dollars", by Sergio Leone, 1964);

- Thursday 17th October - "Django" ("Django", by Sergio Corbucci, 1966);

- Monday 21st October - "Il mio nome e' nessuno" ("My Name is Nobody", by S. Leone and T. Valeri, 1973).

FREE event, original soundtrack with ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

7 PM, SOCIAL SCIENCES LECTURE THEATRE (G130).

ABSTRACT: Two critical and interrelated means of success in the workplace are maximizing one’s current performance by exploiting existing skills, and improving one’s future performance by developing ones skills. In the short-run, trade-offs often exist between learning and performance; time spent learning is often time that could instead be spent performing.

Honours presentations: Cathering Bapty; Michelle Welschbillig; Eboney Nheu-Leong; Jessica Khoo

An Inquiring Minds public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director of The UWA Oceans Institute.

The ocean is the ultimate sink for plastic pollution, impacting marine life from tiny copepods to whales. The finding of an accumulation of plastic debris floating in the NW Pacific alerted the public to the accumulation of plastic in areas of the ocean with particular oceanographic dynamics. This triggered interest in mapping the abundance of floating plastic debris in the ocean.

This lecture will present the first results of a global survey of plastic pollution in the ocean along with the ensuing insights on the fate of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Cost: free, RSVP required via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/duarte-inquiring-minds

The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts will host a public workshop, part of the national Office of Learning and Teaching research project ‘Recasting Terra Nullius - Indigenising Built Environment Education and Practice'.

The workshop is organised in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA - WA Chapter) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). The workshop will provide opportunities to discuss the aims of the project and to get vital feedback on how both planning and design education, and practice, can respond to the future challenges of working with Indigenous Australians.

All interested parties welcome to attend. Register using the URL below.

Join us in acknowlegement of Archbishop Riley, a key figure in the foundation of the University, the second Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia, first Warden of the UWA Convocation and co-founder of St George's College. It will be an afternoon and evening of events to mark Archbishop Riley's vital contribution to the founding of UWA and St George's College.

5.00 pm Eucharist in the College Chapel conducted by The Most Reverend Roger Herft AM, Anglican Archbishop of Perth.

6.00 pm Archbishop Riley Lecture

7.00 pm Complimentary Refreshments

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

A public lecture by Dr Jesse Ransley, Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Southampton and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.

Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ransley

The labour of Indian Ocean sailors (known by Europeans as ‘lascars’) underpinned transoceanic trade, and the newly-global flow of people, materials and ideas which characterised the eighteenth century. Lascars were among the first people to live truly global lives. Their experiences are central to understanding the earliest structures of colonial trade, migration and labour in the Indian Ocean. Lascars are, however, largely invisible in historical accounts of colonial trade or the development of European colonial power structures in the region. This lecture will explore the material, spatial and institutional engagements shaping lascar lives in the eighteenth century. It will look to illuminate their experiences by drawing together some of these fragments alongside archaeological sources.

"Integrate" - Craig Ogden is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Visiting Lecturer at London’s Royal College of Music. In this performance, Craig works with some Western Australia’s finest emerging artists in a concert that is sure to mesmerise.

Every year, the outstanding ability and youthful passion of the emerging artists and their mentors combine to celebrate the culmination of a yearlong collaboration. Under the baton of Head of School and resident conductor, Alan Lourens, three young artists perform a movement of their chosen concerto onstage with orchestra in the finals of the prestigious VOSE competition. In the interval, vote in the People’s Choice Award for your favourite performance before immersing in the magnificence of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. For tickets, please visit: http://www.music.uwa.edu.au/concerts/artistry

The natural world provides a rich and varied array of depth information – numerous cues that are commonly divided into monocular and binocular categories. Our experience with two-dimensional representations of depth in paintings, 2D movies and computer simulations is so vivid that the additional information supplied by the primary binocular cue, namely stereopsis, might seem superfluous. What does stereo add to our knowledge about the location and shape of real objects? To answer this question, we asked subjects to judge the depth between two real objects, viewed either monocularly or binocularly, and measured their sensitivity to small incremental changes in depth. Even in an enriched environment containing texture, occlusion and motion parallax cues, the monocular thresholds were very imprecise, ranging from 5 to 18 times worse than the binocular thresholds. Consistent with these results, recent work from other laboratories (Melmoth et al, 2009) shows that grasping movements are slower and less precise during monocular viewing. Thus, the main contribution of stereopsis in natural settings is a highly precise, if biased, representation of the distance separating objects along the line of sight. Surprisingly, some subjects with excellent stereoacuity for natural objects were unable to make precise judgments of pure disparity in stereoscopic computer displays, which suggests that, in naïve subjects, conflict from imprecise monocular cues can degrade even the most reliable stereo information.

The 2013 Reid Oration will be presented by Paul McLeod, Associate Professor of Economics, UWA and Adjunct Professor with the Australian and New Zealand School of Government.

This lecture will discuss how policy formulation is potentially fragmented and losing its ability to distinguish justifiable policies from vested interest policies when polices are articulated in public before they have had detailed consideration. It will also consider whether our understanding of public policy is lacking context and depth notwithstanding the mountain of material produced on all manner of topics in the media.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/2013-reid

Join us for a special talk by visiting speaker Dr Diana Young on October 23, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Ernabella Arts, situated on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the Western Desert, is the oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre in Australia.

Dr Diana Young, the Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, will discuss the significance of Ernabella, its 64 year story and what it might teach us.

RSVP: This lecture is free, however seats are limited and RSVP is essential to [email protected] or (08) 6488 3707.

PUBLIC PROGRAM: This FREE event is part of the Berndt Museum public program accompanying the current exhibition (Little Painting, Big Stories) at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. For similar events visit the website: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/publicprogram

PARTNERSHIPS: This lecture is co-presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA. The Campus Partner for the exhibition is the Graduate School of Education

The Business School is holding an information evening for its Doctor of Business Administration (DBA).

The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a professional doctorate designed for research-oriented individuals working in management positions.

Join us on Wednesday 23rd October to learn more about our 2014 intake. You will have the opportunity to meet with UWA Business School staff and professors, discuss your study options and have all your questions answered.

The evening will begin at 6.00pm for light refreshments, and the presentation will commence at 6.30pm.

Hideo Iwasaki and Juan M. Castro are in Western Australia to investigate notions of deep time in the North West with Oron Catts; examining the landscape and strata for the upcoming Biogenic Timestamp project. Both artists have come into close contact with SymbioticA in the past: Iwasaki has collaborated with Catts on several prestigious projects and Castro was involved in the Adaptation exhibition in 2012. The artists will share their experiences up north, together with an overview of their creative approach. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr will join the conversation to provide further insights into the new project.

Hideo Iwasaki (PhD. Biologist/Artist) is an Associate Professor in the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Network & Biomedia Art at Waseda University. As a biologist, he has studied molecular genetics and theoretical biology of spatio-temporal pattern formation dynamics in cyanobacteria. As an artist, he has produced contemporary papercutting art and some biomedia art. For the latter, to avoid simple transfer of scientific skills or knowledge we already know in the field of current biology, he searched for as-yet-scientifically-unknown cyanobacterial behaviors as a source for both science and art. At his lab both fine/media artists and scientists are sharing the benches for biology and art simultaneously.

Together with interactive installations, Juan M. Castro has been working in real-time visualization of organic information and the creation of hybrid architectures with bio-materials. Born in Bogota, Colombia, he is currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. In 2008 he founded “Biodynamic geometries” as a unit for experimental creative projects. Since its inception it has developed an exhibition program of biomedia art installations. As a postdoctoral research fellow, he is investigating the impact of “synthetic ecosystems” and “interkingdom communication” upon artistic practice in the laboratory for molecular cell network—department of electrical engineering and biology— at Waseda University.

Acclaimed worldwide for his technique and musicianship, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator and author. As a concerto soloist he appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including in recent seasons with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, NHK Symphony, Washington National Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra. Steven Isserlis gives frequent masterclasses around the world, and for the past fifteen years he has been Artistic Director of the International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall.

Steven Isserlis appears courtesy of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

RSVP [email protected] **please note seating for this event is strictly limited.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm