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While imagination feeds breakthroughs in every field of human endeavour, creativity is a defining characteristic of working the arts, media, and design professions. The capabilities of creative people are therefore sought in the burgeoning global service industries; a wellspring of the innovation that provides long-term sustainability for communities.

Challenges exist within the tertiary sector therefore, to make the most of these emerging opportunities, calling for a re-purposing of education and research in the arts, media, design, and related fields, and a radical re-definition of the new humanities towards a focus on the application of knowledge and an appreciation of market forces.

This book presents the findings of an extended national debate on policy and practice developments in the fields of arts, media, and design. It brings together contributors from leading thinkers and practitioners that provide glimpses of the readiness of the field and its people, and of the robustness of its underlying epistemologies to succeed in the changing environments of Higher Education, Research and Development, and Cultural Policy.

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Contributions

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Contributors' Details
Preface - John Harley
Introduction - Rod Wissler, Brad Haseman, Sue-Anne Wallace

Part I: Disciplines in Transition

1. The visual Arts - an Aesthetic of Labyrinthine Form
   Charles Green
2. Dance - The Dance Ensemble as a Creative System
   Shirley McKechnie, with Editorial introduction by Shaaron Boughen
3. Drama - The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID 'Journey to Con-fusion'
   Peter Eckersall
4. Creative writing - The House of Words in the New Millennium
   Jeri Kroll
5. Music
   Barry Bignell
6. The Moving Image - Quickness
   Ross Gibson
7. Interactive Media - On Modes of Interaction in Arts Systems
   Ernest Edmonds
8. On shifting Grounds - Architecture, landscape and Planning
   Bharat Dave
9. Industrial Design
   John Redmond
10. Media and Communication
    Terry Flew

Part II: Institutions in Transition

11. Network Building in the Digital Age
    Paul Thomas
12. Network or Perish?
    Michael Keane
13. Copyright Liability of Universities in the Networked Environment
    Brian Fitzgerald
14. Creative Practice and Critical Thinking
    Nikos Papastergiadis
15. Building a Research Profile within the Creative Arts
    Elizabeth Presa
16. Research Training for Arts, Media, and Design
    Brad Haseman
17. Prometheus Bound: Art, Science, Creativity, and the Imagination
    Nigel Helyer

Part III: Policy in Transition

18. Creative Arts and the National Research Priorities
    Malcolm Gillies
19. The Humanities, Creative Arts, and the Innovation Agenda
    Stuart Cunningham
20. Research Outputs - Up for Auction
    Rod Wissler
21. Challengers for the Tertiary Sector - Emerging Partnerships
    Margaret Seares
22. Conclusion
    Rod Wissler, Brad Haseman, Michael Keane

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