Author Archives: Laetitia

New Directions in Circus Research Symposium

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Laetitia

Centre for Creative Arts, New Directions in Circus Research  - This link takes you to audio recordings of presentations from ‘New Directions in Circus Research’ – a symposium presented by La Trobe University’s Centre for Creative Arts, Faculty of HSS and … Continue reading →

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Spiegeltent Video

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Laetitia

Here is the video from our May 2011 Spiegeltent event, by filmmaker Anna Vaz.

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What Surprised Me…

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Laetitia

Here are a few of the answers to ‘What Surprised Me…’ at our Nov 18 Progress Meeting.  The full list of comments can be found in the discussion papers section of our wiki (access restricted to project team only – … Continue reading →

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Key messages from Circus Oz for the prototype

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Laetitia

A few of the key messages from Circus Oz on how to develop the prototype prior to the community launch in February: 1.  Provide the ability for comments.  This will be particularly useful for finding out what data is wrong … Continue reading →

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Revealing the first Living Archive prototype

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Laetitia

Last Friday we drew back the curtain to reveal and test the first working prototype of the Living Archive with some of our key project partners. Attending were Linda Mickleborough, Robyn McGregor, Clare McKenzie, Miranda O’Brien, Tim Coldwell and Mike … Continue reading →

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Knitting the materials together…and dropping a few stitches

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Laetitia

In no small measure due to the timely arrival of our new Computer Science PhD candidate Lukman Iwan, over the last week or so we have been making further progress towards our first prototype. As the Living Archive will have … Continue reading →

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About the Circus Oz Living Archive Project

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Laetitia

I wanted to put something up here about the project in general, to give new visitors to the site a bit of an overview of what we’re doing.  I remembered David Carlin’s recent article ‘Narrative of our project at a … Continue reading →

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Meet the Living Archive

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Laetitia

This is the invitation for our ‘Meet the Living Archive’ event for Circus Oz company members and current employees.  To be held in the Melba Spiegeltent in May.

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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Laetitia

Narrowly avoiding a potential US Government shutdown rendering them unable to travel, the folks from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum flew across the world to present a workshop at the Museums 3 Conference in Melbourne yesterday. I only had … Continue reading →

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The murky waters of copyright

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Laetitia

Thanks to Patricia Stokes for these very helpful links, to help us navigate through some of the complex copyright issues in this project. 1. Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Digitising Collections in Public Galleries and Libraries ARC Linkage Project 2003-2005 http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/projects/copyright.html … Continue reading →

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