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Personal Details:
| Name: |
Jonathan Cooper |
Telephone:
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+612 / (02)
9225 1796 (business hours) |
| Fax: |
+612 / (02)
9221 5129 |
| E-mail: |
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Education:
| 1975 |
Awarded
NSW Higher School Certificate |
| 1975-78 |
Studied at Alexander
Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney (now College of
Fine Arts, University of NSW) |
| 1979 |
Awarded a Diploma
in Art Education |
SELECTED Publications:
"Subjectivity is No Excuse
-- Towards Fairer Assessment of Student Art", in Art
in Education (J. of Art Ed. Soc. of NSW) vol. 5, June 1980
Japan: Masterpieces from
the Idemitsu Collection -- An Educational Handsheet to the Exhibition
International Cultural Corporation of Australia/Art Gallery of NSW,
1982
"How Do Images Carry Meaning?"
in Bulletin (J. of Art Gallery Soc. of NSW), July
1983
"Achieving the Illusion of
Three-dimensional Space in Paintings" in Australian Artist
vol. 1, no. 1, July 1984
Belief in Art (catalogue
to "Onsight" exhibition of the same name) Art Gallery
of NSW 1985
"Learning by Looking: Educational
Exhibitions" in Journal of the Australian Institute of
Art Education , vol. 10 No. 3, Dec. 1986
The Expressive Image
(catalogue to "Onsight" exhibition of the same name) Art
Gallery of NSW 1987
"I Love Art: It's art works
I have problems with!" in Ministry (J. of Uniting
Church in Aust., NSW Synod -- Board of Education) No. 28, Sept.
1987
Look Again: Through Artists'
Eyes (catalogue to "Onsight" exhibition of the
same name) Art Gallery of NSW 1988
"Art and 'The Message' "
in Southern Cross (Anglican Church in Australia) Feb.
1989
"Of Toy Trains and Haystacks:
Modernism in Art" in Talents (J. of Christian
Artists Resources Australia) Issue 35, August 1990
Flowers and Nature: Educational
Handsheet to the Exhibition Art Gallery of NSW, 1990
"Engaging the Visitor: Relevance,
Participation and Motivation in Hypermedia Design" in Museums
and Interactive Multimedia (Proceedings of the Sixth Conference
of the Museum Documentation Assoc. and the second International
Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums) Cambridge,
U.K. 1993
"A Comparison of Interactive
Multimedia and Face-to-Face Methods of Museum Education" in
Museums and New Technology (Proceedings of the Seventh
Conference of the Museum Documentation Assoc.) Cambridge, U.K. 1995
"A selector's view of Artexpress"
in Art in Education (Journal of the Art Education
Society of NSW) Sydney 1996
"La erotiko de desegnado"
(The erotics of drawing) in Monato (Flandra Esperanto-Ligo,
Antwerp) 22a jarkolekto, n-ro 5, May 2001
Audio-visual:
Space video, 18
min. (wrote, produced and directed) Art Gallery of NSW, 1984-87
Composition is Artists'
Glue video, 15 min. (produced and directed) Art Gallery
of NSW, 1983-87
The Printmaker's Studio
video, 15 min. (produced and directed) Art Gallery of NSW, 1985-87
Sculptors' Means
video, 12 min. (produced and directed) Art Gallery of NSW 1982-87
Masterpieces from the Guggenheim:
Cézanne to Pollock audio-tour for children, 30 min.
(co-wrote) Art Gallery of NSW/Acoustiguide Australia 1991
Imperial China: The Living
Past audio-tour for children, 30 min. (wrote and narrated)
Art Gallery of NSW/Acoustiguide Australia 1992
Paid Employment (SINCE 1980):
Position -- Manager of Information
Employer -- The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Period -- April 2001 to present
Duties -- Responsibility for the Art Gallery's web-sites (Internet
and intranet) and regular publications
Position -- Museum Educator
Employer -- The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Period -- February 1982 to March 2001
Duties --
Provision of education services to various groups including:
* infants and primary students
* secondary students
* TAFE and University students
* adult migrants learning English
* the Gallery's Volunteer Guides and
* the general public
... by means of:
- Giving of slide lectures and
gallery talks on the permanent collection and visiting exhibitions
- Programming and screening of
films to groups and the general publicn giving of gallery-talks
to students from Kindergarten to year 12 (and beyond) in NSW country
towns, with the Travelling Art Exhibition (1982-8)
- Giving of talks to diverse
groups (e.g. nursing homes, schools, service clubs, art societies,
prisons) with the metropolitan travelling exhibition "Onsight"
(1984 - 1989)
- Planning and mounting of exhibitions
in the Gallery's Education Space, each consisting of original
art works, supported by diagrams, written material and interactive
displays
- Planning and mounting of four
"Onsight" (metroplitan travelling) exhibitions, including
the writing of catalogues, worksheets and news releasesn planning
and mounting of Artexpress (outstanding works from the
Higher School Certificate examination in Visual Arts), including
co-ordination of catalogue, promotional material and related events
- Writing and design of educational
and promotional publications, using desktop publishing softwaren
management of the Gallery's Information Bulletin (since 1990),
including gathering and compiling of information and images, editing,
supervision of Graphic Designer and co-ordination of its distribution
- Selection, training and management
of casual Teacher/Lecturers
- Production of various audio-visual
programmes, such as videos and audio-tours
- Design and creation of (Internet)
Web site for the Art Gallery
- Planning and co-ordination
of programmes for visitors with special needs, including in-house
staff trainingn running of inservice and pre-service courses for
teachers and teacher trainees on using the Gallery as an educational
resource
- Various promotional activities
for the Gallery, including a fortnightly 15 minute radio programme
and appearance on two children's television programmes.
July 1996-March 2001:
- Co-ordination of secondary
schools programmes
- Second-in-charge of Public
Programmes Department
Position -- Lecturer
Employer -- College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Period -- 1995-96, casual
Duties -- Lecturing to Masters of Art Administration students in
various aspects of Public Programmes for art galleries.
Position -- Lecturer
Employer -- Wesley Institute for Ministry and the Arts, Sydney/Drummoyne
Period -- 1992-94, part-time
Duties -- Lecturing in Art History & Theory, Colour & Design
and Drawing to tertiary students, including assessment.
Position -- Lecturer
Employer -- International Institute for Creative Ministries, Sydney
Period -- 1987, part-time
Duties -- Lecturing in Art History and theory to tertiary art majors;
including assessment.
Position -- Secondary Art Teacher
Employer -- Pittwater House Grammar School, Collaroy
Period -- 1980, 3 days/week; 1981, full-time
Duties -- Teaching art, art appreciation and art history to boys
and girls from years 7 to 12; contributing to the general running
of the school; in 1981 also taught some mathematics and religious
education.
Position -- Casual Secondary
Teacher (Art)
Employer -- NSW Department of Education
Period -- 1980, casual.
Duties -- Casual teaching, mainly of art but also mathematics, social
sciences and physical education.
SELECTED Consultancies:
Project -- CD-ROM: Australian
Art at the State Library of NSW
Client -- Charles Sturt University/State Library of NSW
Period -- February 1996 to December 1997
Details -- Creation of a non-commercial CD-ROM on Early Australian
Art in the Mitchell Collection of the State Library, for distance
education students and the Library's own use.
Project -- Australian Art Interactive
Client -- Charles Sturt University/Open Learning Australia
Period -- September 1994 to July 1995
Details -- Creation of pilot module for CD-ROM on Australian Art
1788-1939 for distance education.
Project -- The Digital Garden
Client -- Ross Harley, artist and lecturer
Period -- August 1993
Details -- Digitising of video sequences; refinement and programming
of computer-based interactive art work The Digital Garden for exhibition
at international cyber-arts conference in Austria.
Project -- Health Isn't
Handicapped
Client -- Spastic Centre of New South Wales/Ability Computer Services,
Manly
Period -- July-August 1992
Details -- Creation of pilot module for computer-based interactive
on the theme of making life-choices, for adults with moderate-to-severe
physical disabilities.
Voluntary Work:
Board member of the Australasian
Apple Programmers' and Developers' Association, from September 1999
to September 2000.
Served on the Conference Organising
Committee for the Museum Documentation Association (Cambridge,
UK) seventh international conference, from mid 1994 to October 1995.
Regular contributor to
Macinations, the monthly magazine of Club Mac (Apple Macintosh
users' group, with a membership of over 1200) from 1990 to 1996.
As committee-member (1978-79)
and President (1979-82) of the Middle Earth Creative Arts
Association, have organised and co-ordinated three Arts Festivals,
some "mini-festivals", a clowning workshop, an active
photographic co-operative with its own darkroom and produced Muse
Paper, a journal on the arts from a Christian perspective.
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