Features

What else? The next stage of arts online
Smart cultural organisations are moving beyond online archiving and social media to make digital media part of their creative process.

Does pain make you more creative?
Emotional shocks and grief can blow your life apart but they can also be the very thing that connects you…

Visual Delights of Australian Screen, from Outer Space to the Ultimate Frock
Underneath the money and the mechanics is the raw fact that screen media are just lusciously visual and transplendant...

Australian International Documentary Conference in a hiring mood
The AIDC is hiring a new team, has changed the management model, and is looking nationally for its conference staff.

Who runs this show anyway? A very Australian answer
New styles of television demand new models of creation. The emerging role of showrunner is changing the way writers work.

2015 Melbourne International Film Festival launch starts booking frenzy
More Australian films than ever before, hugely diverse, but every one modestly budgeted. Welcome to the future with an edge…

Piracy: Who will walk the plank?
The Government has finally responded to the long scandal of digital piracy with a historic piece of legislation. What happens…

Beyond Bowie
The echoes and influences of David Bowie continue to reverberate through popular culture. With an exhibition of Bowie memorabilia soon…

New Geelong cinema rises from voices on the street
Cinemas are central to our cultural life in public spaces, and they are evolving quickly at the hands of young,…

Working across disciplines
Artists are becoming more ambitious in their desire to work across platforms but is it what audiences want?