Micro Talk :: ANAT Synapse Residencies 2024

Join us for a short, lunchtime conversation featuring the artists and researchers undertaking the 2024 ANAT Synapse Residency program. Our speakers are:

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello + Prof Simon Haberle,
The School Of Culture, History And Languages, ANU

Keith Armstrong + Dr Eleanor Velasquez,
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Australia’s Land Ecosystem Observatory

WHEN:
Thursday, 10 October 2024
12:30pm - 1:10pm ACDT (Adelaide time) - YOUR LOCAL TIME is displayed under the event heading.

WHERE:
Join us online. A link will be provided to registrants prior to the start time.

The Stories Beneath My Ancestors’ Footprints

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM is a multi-award winning artist of Aboriginal (Lower Southern Arrernte), Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Her works are held in multiple national and international public and private collections. In 2023 she was recognised as a Pacific Region Craft Master by the World Crafts Council.

Read Jennifer’s Synapse Residency creative research journal HERE.

Prof Simon Haberle

Simon Haberle is currently Professor of Palaeoecology and Natural History in the School of Culture, History and Language. His research is currently focussed on our understanding of the impact of deep-time climate variability and human activity on terrestrial ecosystems of Australia and the region. He is also using his knowledge of Australian pollen to explore the impact of pollen and spores on respiratory health.

Forest Art Intelligence (FAI)

Keith Armstrong

Keith Armstrong (b. 1965) is an experimental artist profoundly motivated by issues of social and ecological justice. His engaged, participative practices provoke audiences to comprehend, envisage, and imagine collective pathways towards sustainable futures. His collaborative, experimental practices emphasise, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, art-science collaborations and socially and ecologically engaged practices.

Read Keith’s Synapse Residency creative research journal HERE.

Dr Eleanor Velasquez

Dr Eleanor Velasquez is passionate about education as a transformational experience, scientific communication, research, and the use of storytelling to break down accessibility barriers to research and scientific understanding. Currently, Eleanor is the Education and Training Manager at TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) at The University of Queensland, where she manages education and training programs in ecology, environmental sciences, and data sciences. In addition, she is an Adjunct Level A, Academic at Griffith University, where she continues to supervise PhD candidates and mentors early career researchers. Her research interests have spanned understanding and protection of critically endangered urban forests, recreational use of urban forests and national parks, forest response to wildfire, and processes that allow dispersal, connectivity and invasion within oceans.

Host: Melissa DeLaney

A vital focus of the work and practice of her work as the Chief Executive Officer of ANAT, is interdisciplinary partnerships and collaboration. Melissa continues building an international network, mostly interested in participatory forms - this includes residencies, programs and events, strategy, and facilitating spaces for others to connect and be creative, active and social.

ANAT Synapse Residency Program Overview

ANAT Synapse involves Australian research organisations hosting artists in residence, leading to profound artistic and professional development for the participants, while also building a sustainable support base for interdisciplinary creative collaboration in Australia.

The program brings artists and researchers together in partnerships that generate new knowledge, ideas, and processes that are beneficial beyond both fields. A distinguishing feature of the residencies is their creative research focus, with applicants supported in collaborative experimentation.

The call for applications to the ANAT Synapse 2025 Residency program is now open. Visit our website for more information.

Accessibility

This Zoom event will include auto-generated live captioning. We encourage you to advise ANAT of any further accessibility requirements when registering for your ticket. ANAT will endeavour to do all we can to make the event accessible for you.

Micro Talk will be recorded and the live transcription saved. It will be posted on the ANAT website at a later date.

Ticket pricing

This is a free event. Please consider a donation.

About ANAT

ANAT is a national network that creates opportunities for experimental artists to collaborate with science and technology partners. We do this because we believe artists are essential to how we imagine and shape our future.

ANAT works on Kaurna yarta and Boonwurrung Country of the Kulin Nation. ANAT and our project partners acknowledge and pay respects to the First Nations of the land known as Australia.
We recognise all Traditional Owners and their continued cultural, spiritual and technological practices.

ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the South Australian government through the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Images clockwise from top left: ANAT CEO Melissa DeLaney, photograph Sia Duff; Dr Eleanor Velasquez; 2023 ANAT Synapse resident Keith Armstrong, with Rattus villosissimus (Native Long Haired Rat), Arabana Country, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, 2012 (Photo Courtesy of Australian Wildlife Conservancy); Prof Simon Haberle, pollen count, Kerrie Brewer; 2023 ANAT Synapse resident Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, 2017, photograph Tina Fiveash.