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Day 1 : Friday 18 March 2005
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| 8.45am |
Registration/coffee |
| 9.30am |
Welcome to Country
Allen Madden, Cultural Educational Officer, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council |
| 9.35am |
Convenor's address, Brian Ladd, Head of Public Programmes, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 9.45am |
Keynote address
Democracy and contemporary museums
Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Response
Chris Saines, Director, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Ta-maki |
| 11am |
Morning tea |
| 11.20am |
Panel session
Spaces for containing art
Are we still in the white cube? What is the current thinking behind new art museum architecture? What is the impact of the design of physical spaces on the way we exhibit art and the visitor experience?
Chair Chris Saines, Director, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Ta-maki
Alison Page, designer of Indigenous Gallery, Powerhouse Museum and panellist New inventors, ABC TV
Peter Emmett, freelance curator
Richard Johnson, Director, Johnson Pilton Walker and architect new Asian galleries, AGNSW
Christopher Naylor, Director, engage, UK |
| 12.50pm |
Lunch |
| 2pm |
Panel session
Do audience expectations influence exhibition practice?
Where do we situate ourselves between static collections and dynamic interpretation? How have museums in general responded to more informed and demanding audiences? How has this affected the display and interpretation of temporary exhibitions and permanent collections?
Chair Jonathan Sweet, lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
Penny McKeon, Head, School of Art Education, COFA, University of New South Wales
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art
Jackie Menzies, Head Curator of Asian Art, AGNSW
Michael Beckmann, Director, Ipswich Art Gallery |
| 3.30pm |
Keynote address
Theatres for alteration
Ross Gibson, Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology Sydney
Response
Gail Hastings, artist |
| 4.50pm |
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