York’s Hollow: Virtual Corroboree uses state-of-the-art Motion Capture and Photogrammetry QUT Creative Lab facilities to create an immersive 3D experience, culturally specific to the locale of the QUT Creative Industries Precinct.

The custom cultural landscape produced for CreateX is topographically and ecologically accurate. It combines elements of dance, authentic local stories, traditional practices and role-play based cultural survival.

Experience York’s Hollow: Virtual Corroboree on a spectacular 7×4 metre configuration of the new Digital Canvas. Learn to better understand the natural environment and signs in the land as traditional custodians explain lores and customs of the First Nations People in a bespoke digital interactive setting. Cultural stories which have survived since time immemorial.

Virtual Songlines is the creation of Bilbie Labs who produce serious (authentic) cultural heritage simulations. Their team of artists and coders can take any location and create a virtual recreation of that environment as it existed prior to western colonization. Based on analytical reports from historians, archaeologists and cultural heritage representative bodies, modern height map data is combined with old maps to create an immersive landscape in 3D – complete with native flora and fauna. This becomes the setting for a virtual experience that explores the cultural heritage of traditional owners.

This session featured talks by project creators, a demonstration of work-in-progress and a short behind-the-scenes video exploring opportunities emerging from this experimental collaboration. The video will also play at intervals throughout the festival.

Based upon the successful Widening Participation work done in the Creative Industries Faculty over the past two years, including working with young people on the autism spectrum on Altered States and Super Conductor, this project uses a strength-based inclusion model to build capacity for these young adolescents from refugee backgrounds to engage in post-secondary education programs.

For six days students from Milpera State High School will participate in a post-school transition program using a creative workshop program of music, dance and video making.

The week culminated in a studio performance, accompanied by a discussion forum addressing diversity and access for disadvantaged communities to university and creative programs.

View an album from the performance and discussion here. 

This panel consisted of current and former professional female stage managers who have worked within Australia’s peak performing arts companies (AMPAG 2016) and leading entertainment organisations.

In recent times there has been a renewed focus on mental health and well-being of those working within the Australian arts and entertainment sectors. Globally, the Entertainment Industry has also been buffeted as result of the #metoo and #timesup movements. Systemic issues of gender discrimination and harassment have been uncovered and the discussion has turned to the experiences of those previously unheard voices.

This panel gave a forum to some of those voices and will explore the issues contributing to a disproportionate workforce and premature exits from the profession.

Panel: Eloise Grace, Rex Rees, Julie Amos, Tanya Malouf, Ashlee Hints

Moderator: Carly O’Neill

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was an emergence of post-punk Brisbane bands like the Go-Betweens, The Riptides and the Apartments. The Gin Club’s Scott Regan has analysed songs from artists such as these for his PhD research, and has composed and recorded a number of new songs that fit the idea of The Brisbane Sound.

This event featured live performances of these new songs, followed by a panel discussion with Andrew Wilson (Four Gods/Frontier Scouts), Michelle McIntyre (Dream Poppies/ Ratsack Magazine) and Ursula Collie (Ironing Music) – all of whom have personal connections to The Brisbane Sound – and chaired by current QUT lecturer and researcher John Willsteed (Go-Betweens).

A panel discussion after the film included guests including Tim Gaze and G. Wayne Thomas, who produced the original soundtrack album, and supplied its hit single “Open Up Your Heart”.

Artists credited on both versions of the soundtrack include John Willsteed from Halfway and The Go-Betweens, Chris Perren and Nonsemble, Drawn From Bees, Big Dead, Port Royal and Andrew Taylor.

Think. Listen. Network. Make music your business.

View a gallery from the event here. 

But how possible is it, really, to make a living from YouTube? What are the major obstacles and opportunities? What rights and responsibilities do YouTube creators have? What risks do they face? More broadly, what are the implications for Brisbane and Queensland’s creative communities?

This panel discussion brought leading YouTube scholar Jean Burgess, Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) together with leading Australian YouTubers Elly Awesome and Madison Lloyd from Sketchshe to ask:  Is being a YouTuber a real job?