In Conversation: Environment and Communities
Annette Wagner will reflect on her 2021 honours research on the connective power of water and waterways. Both destructive and desired, water is of national and international relevance, socially, politically and artistically, as an ongoing curatorial theme and artistic reference. Her research sought to generate oral literature to map social and political memory of water. The outcome scrutinises insights from the built archive of autobiographical memories to generate abstracted sound and light installations titled ‘Voice Prints’.
Martin Potter specialises in media for development, documentary, transmedia and participatory methods. His research and practice seeks to translate and operationalize ways of working with marginalized communities using transmedia to co-create knowledge, examine issues that relate to structural power imbalances, and effect social change and structural transformation. Martin's practice explores how creative work and distribution across a range of media can foster community and drive social change.
In person at Solidarity Hall
ACCESS: AUSLAN, QUIET ROOM
Annette Wagner
Engagement: LAB.01Annette Wagner is a passionate advocate for the arts and dedicated creative professional with a diverse background delivering strategy through to execution specialising in research, creative and communication service outcomes. She draws on over 20+ years of experience, across varies roles, business models and diverse industries. This broad experience has contributed to her deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that businesses and creative enterprises face in audience engagement, acquisition and retention.
Martin Potter
Engagement: LAB.01Martin Potter researches and lectures in Screen and Design at Deakin University. He has worked with James Cook University, Monash University and the Centre for Communication and Social Change at University of Queensland.
Martin is a multi-award winning creative director and producer of transmedia and media for development projects. He has produced work across Asia, Africa and the Pacific. Martin has an extensive track record as a transmedia and documentary producer and has received over $10 million in competitive funding to deliver this work.