This panel brings together speakers whose practices are outside of ‘mainstream’ media and cultural sectors, often involving materials and intangible creativity not immediately subsumed or captured by AI and other digital technologies.

This panel is prompted by the current exhibition held at Monash Louis Matheson Library entitled Silence is no Refuge: Peter Lyssiotis – Artists’ Books. This is the first stand-alone exhibition celebrating the work of “master thief” and artist Peter Lyssiotis, exploring his 40-year career through hand-crafted artists’ books and a rich personal archive that considers how we use memory – and art – to respond to the world. It also draws on the finding of the ARC-funded research project Mapping Australian Homemade, Amateur and Do-it-Yourself Cultural Economies which offers the first detailed study of the contribution of the 45% of Australians who creatively participate in the arts as producers of forms including poetry, music and fine art and their relationship with the professional cultural and creative industries.

To see the full Creative Directions program, please visit monash.edu/arts/creative-directions

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