Queensland University of Technology

Graduate Student, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

About

Pip is a media researcher, designer, artist and educator. She is currently completing a PhD in media and communications at the Queensland University of Technology with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi). Her practice explores the structures and dynamics of networked sharing and grassroots culture-making.

She has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Electrofringe Festival (Newcastle), and the Next Wave Festival (Melbourne); has been a participating artist at the 2009 International Symposium of Electronic Art (Belfast), the Light In Winter Festival (Melbourne), the Melbourne Festival, 2009 Creative Sydney Festival; was a speaker at the 2008 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures; and, makes art with boat-people.org.


PhD ABSTRACT
This study asserts that the current digitally networked moment is creating new challenges and opportunities for Australian community arts and cultural development (CACD) practitioners, particularly among those who are closely engaged with digital media technologies. It moves sustainable practice – the field’s central ethical foundation – in to the digitally networked context, through the idea that the ongoing production of grassroots culture-making requires a new kind of human agency – network agency. The thesis argues for new CACD approaches to be adopted that develop network specific literacies and competencies with the view to nurturing network agency among project participants.

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