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72-549: The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund was established in 2003 by the South Australian Premier, Mike Rann , to boost the local production of films. When the American festival director Peter Sellars was director of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts , he commissioned five films. Four of those films won awards, including The Tracker , Beneath Clouds and Walking on Water . That success prompted

144-643: A Map , from a journey taken with them into the Western Desert. This work, called Still Walking Country , was first shown at the Fremantle Arts Centre . Wallworth's feature documentary Tender (2014) follows a community group in the Australian town of Port Kembla as it seeks to establish its own not-for-profit, community-based funeral service. The film went on to win several awards. The not-for-profit funeral service Tender Funerals

216-599: A fall from the previous poll of five percent. Rann's Preferred Premier rating was at 50 percent compared to 25 percent for then Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith . Third quarter 2008 polling saw a more pronounced drop in the primary vote, down three to 38 percent, with the Liberal vote up five to 40 percent, breaking to a two-party vote of 50–50 after preferences – the Preferred Premier figure recorded

288-684: A five-part series, each episode focusing on a different indigenous community. Collisions won the Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary Award at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards in October 2017, on the day after it had screened on the opening night of the Adelaide Film Festival . Wallworth's interactive video installation Hold: Vessel (2001) involves the viewer with the natural world. Visitors hold

360-721: A fragile ecosystem under threat from global warming. The work was launched on the Transit of Venus 2012 , and screened in 23 different cities worldwide during the week of the Transit. It screened as part of the World Science Festival NYC , the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and at the Sundance Film Festival 2013 as part of New Frontier. New York-based composer and performer Antony Hegarty wrote

432-405: A glass bowl and walk into a darkened room. The bowls "catch" falling images of microscopic marine life and telescopic astronomical imagery from video projectors positioned in the ceiling. Hold: Vessel 2 (2007) follows on from Hold: Vessel 1 , and uses footage indicating changes in fragile marine environments such as Tasmania's giant kelp forests as well as footage from the 2004 Transit of Venus ,

504-522: A majority of one vote. In response, Kerin announced that in accordance with precedent set by Don Dunstan three decades earlier, he would stay in office until Labor demonstrated it had support on the floor of the House of Assembly. He argued that since the Liberals had won a bare majority of the two-party vote, he still had a mandate to govern. Three weeks of deadlock ended when the new legislature met for

576-611: A massive 9.4 percent swing, still the largest against a sitting government on record in South Australia. It also more than doubled its seat count compared to 1993, and actually came within three seats of making Rann premier. Olsen was forced into a minority government , supported by the Nationals and independents. Rann remained Leader of the Opposition until the 2002 election . The Labor opposition took two seats from

648-409: A plan for the state, not just promises at each election. A lot of colleagues interstate thought I'd gone mad when we named targets. Well we didn't want to set targets we could easily pass and then pat ourselves on the back for, what's the point of that?" A total of 79 economic and social targets were set, and in 2010 Rann commented "with most of its targets achieved, on track or within reach". However,

720-699: A position with then Premier Don Dunstan 's Industrial Democracy Unit. He subsequently worked as Dunstan's press secretary, speech writer and adviser, and went on to serve Labor premiers Des Corcoran and John Bannon after Dunstan's retirement from politics. Manning has stated that one commentator reported that Rann was "frankly inspired by Dunstan's idealism" as opposed to "Bannon's cool electoral pragmatism". Rann sometimes talked during this period of his ambitions to one day become Premier himself. Meanwhile, Rann wrote speeches on, and assisted in policy development for, civil liberties, Aboriginal land rights , gay and women's rights, and opposition to uranium mining . Revealing

792-441: A quality of resilience. The installation is designed for a one-to-one experience. When a person approaches the work they walk down a hallway and step up onto a platform before a doorway that pulses with blue light. There is an area of the video that is lit up and when a person puts their hand on the video the interactive system responds with one of the women placing their hand on your hand. This creates an intimate relationship between

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864-643: A rare astronomical event, and historically an event that signals global scientific co-operation. Evolution of Fearlessness (2006), commissioned by Peter Sellars for the Vienna Festival , is another intimate interactive installation. For this work, Wallworth filmed portraits of several women residing in Australia‚ but originating from countries such as Afghanistan‚ Sudan‚ Iraq and El Salvador‚ who have lived through war‚ survived concentration camps or extreme acts of violence. She wanted to show women who had

936-531: A six-point drop to 48 percent for Rann and up three to 30 percent for Hamilton-Smith. Some commentators put the poll slump down to "labour movement ructions" over the underfunded WorkCover liability (see 2008 Parnell–Bressington filibuster ), consolidation of rural health services, and the continued degradation of the River Murray . Newspoll saw Labor back in a winning position on 54 to 46 in late 2008, and then 56 to 44 in early 2009 along with increases in

1008-565: A stranger who reminds them of their own mortality. Other interactive installations include Still/Waiting 2 (2006), which includes the dramatic movement of enormous flocks of birds from the South Australian Flinders Ranges . Another focuses on the audiences engagement with powerful human emotions such as grief, loss and the re-emergence of hope seen in Duality of Light (2009). Wallworth's video work, Welcome ,

1080-502: A sustained period of time. He was also assaulted over this. The husband of Chantelois punched Mike Rann at the National Wine Centre . The Rann Labor government won a third four-year term at the 2010 state election with 26 of 47 seats though with only 48.4 percent of the two-party preferred vote. It was the first Rann Labor election campaign that took to YouTube and social networking. As Labor held government until

1152-582: A vein of idealism, his early predilection was left of centre. Rann was elected to Parliament as the Member for the safe Labor seat of Briggs in north Adelaide at the 1985 election . After the 1989 election , he entered the ministry, becoming Minister for Employment and Further Education, Minister of Youth Affairs, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Minister assisting in Ethnic Affairs. As Minister for Employment and Further Education he established

1224-401: A whole lot of priorities to concentrate on that Dunstan didn't even think about", with a legacy built on economic achievements, achieving the triple-A credit rating, as well as its capacity to deliver infrastructure projects. Fourth quarter 2007 polling saw a reduction in the strong support for Rann's Labor government since the previous election, on 54 percent of the two-party-preferred vote ,

1296-664: Is an Australian former politician who was the 44th premier of South Australia from 2002 to 2011. He was later Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2014, and Australian ambassador to Italy, Albania, Libya and San Marino from 2014 to 2016. Rann grew up in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, completing a Bachelor and Master of Arts in political science at the University of Auckland . Before entering Parliament, Rann worked as an advisor to South Australian Labor Parliamentarians. Rann became leader of

1368-416: Is now fully functioning and runs from the old Port Kembla Fire station, refurbished as a funeral home. Her mixed reality work Awavena had its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival 's New Frontier program. In September 2020, Awavena earned another Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary Award at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards for Wallworth. Wallworth's work has been exhibited at

1440-585: Is run in partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts , Screen Australia , ABC Arts and South Australian Film Corporation . A unique workshop environment, it fosters new opportunities for artists working in theatre, art, dance and other non-cinematic fields to collaborate with traditional screen practitioners. The LAB encourages art form cross-pollination – between practitioners, and between processes and creative approaches. The third and final LAB

1512-446: Is setting up a social inclusion unit based on ours. Again it's about us not only making a difference locally, but being a kind of model for others, which is what Dunstan used to say he wanted us to be ... a laboratory and a leader for the future." Rann says he expected other reforms to be based upon those enacted under his government, citing the state's strategic plan, a 10-year framework for the development of government and business. "It's

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1584-423: The 2014 state election , with four-year terms, it is the longest-serving period of a South Australian Labor government in history. Rann also served as Labor leader since 1994, a record period as Labor leader. New and continued projects for Rann Labor's third term were claimed to be the biggest infrastructure spend in the state's history, which included rail electrification of Adelaide's train lines , expansion of

1656-868: The Adelaide tram line , construction of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital , the Adelaide Oval redevelopment, expansion of the Adelaide Convention Centre , redesigning the River Torrens Riverbank precinct, expanding mining and defence industries, the Port Stanvac Desalination Plant , and continued various major road works including various upgrades to the North–South Corridor . Rann conceded that public sector budget cuts introduced in

1728-852: The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (which has not yet been ratified by all parties). The project was produced by Infinite Field, in partnership with Jaunt VR, with funding from the World Economic Forum , the Sundance Institute , the MacArthur Foundation , the Australia Council for the Arts , the Adelaide Film Festival Fund, and a number of other foundations and corporate sponsors. In March 2017, Wallworth shared plans to turn Collisions into

1800-631: The Samstag Museum of Art as part of the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival. In 2020, after the disastrous 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season , Wallworth became a strong advocate for stronger leadership on climate change . In January 2020, she used her platform at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting to tell the world about the fires, and promote the message that new leaders were needed throughout

1872-615: The South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party and South Australian Leader of the Opposition in 1994 and led the party to minority government at the 2002 election . He resigned as Premier in October 2011 and was succeeded by Jay Weatherill . Rann is the third- longest serving Premier of South Australia behind Thomas Playford IV and John Bannon and served a record 17 years as South Australian Labor parliamentary leader from 1994 to 2011. He

1944-1227: The World Economic Forum , the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian , the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art , the Royal Observatory Greenwich for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad , the Vienna Festival, the Auckland Triennial , and the Brighton Festival among many others, as well as various film festivals, including the Sundance, BFI London Film Festival , and Sydney Film Festival . In April 2009, Wallworth's largest solo show so far in Australia opened at

2016-715: The 1950s and legislated in 1991 to return the sacred Ooldea lands to the Maralinga Tjarutja people. As Minister of Tourism he legislated in 1993 to establish the South Australian Tourism Commission and had ministerial responsibility for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix . Labor lost government at the 1993 election in a landslide due to the State Bank collapse, falling to only 10 seats. After

2088-529: The 2010 budget were not popular, but said that 2011 would bring new activities, such as progress on the multi-billion Olympic Dam expansion, after it had been held up by the global financial crisis . The cuts caused protest amongst unionists, but Rann defeated a motion against his leadership at the yearly Labor convention in 2010. In early 2011, Rann reshuffled his cabinet after Deputy Premier and Treasurer Kevin Foley resigned from both positions but remained in

2160-630: The Imperial War Museum. Mike Rann acted as Australia's Ambassador to Italy, San Marino, Albania and Libya. He is also Australia's Permanent Representative to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme . As of 2020, he works as a business consultant for the Rann Strategy Group. In 2022, Rann joined the board of directors of Spacetalk . Rann was married to Jenny Russell until

2232-852: The International Leadership Council of The Climate Group , and the International Advisory Board of the Ecological Sequestration Trust. Rann was also appointed adjunct professor in public policy at Carnegie Mellon University , Fellow for Democracy and Development at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for National Policy and as member of the Council of the Royal Institution Australia . Rann

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2304-788: The Kickstart employment scheme, the South Australian Youth Conservation Corps, presided over a large expansion of TAFE, and signed an agreement in 1992 between Le Cordon Bleu , the Swiss Hotel Association, and the Regency College of TAFE to establish an international hospitality and cooking school, with Le Cordon Bleu school established at the Regency Park location. He introduced the legislation in 1991 to establish

2376-441: The Liberal leadership, to be replaced by Isobel Redmond . On 22 November 2009, Seven Network 's Sunday Night current affairs program aired a paid television interview alleging that Rann had an affair with Michelle Chantelois, a Parliament House barmaid, between March 2004 and October 2005. Rann commented before the interview went to air that claims of a sexual relationship were "wildly sensational", and that once he had seen

2448-748: The Liberal vote remained at 42 percent, whilst the Greens surged to 14 percent, an increase of 6 percent, with "other" slightly higher. The subsequent Newspoll saw the two-party vote narrow to 46–54, a swing against Labor of just 2.4 percent, however there was no statistical change in Rann's personal satisfaction-dissatisfaction ratings. In late July 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and The Advertiser reported that senior figures within Labor had indicated to Rann that

2520-435: The Liberals. This left Labor one short of majority government while the Liberals were four seats short. Despite this, it initially appeared Kerin would remain in office with the support of four conservative-leaning independents. However, one of those independents, former Liberal Peter Lewis , agreed to support Labor in return for a constitutional convention and being named Speaker. On paper, this made Rann premier-elect, with

2592-645: The Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion , Minister for the Arts, and Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change. Rann was appointed chairman of a new Australian Federation Council in July 2006, a council which was created to improve state-federal ties. Rann also ran for national presidency in the National Executive in August 2006, and made senior-vice president with 27 percent of

2664-476: The Preferred Premier rating. Polling taken from The Sunday Mail during the 50-50 polling suggested that whilst there had been large swings away from the government in country areas, polling held relatively firm at 2006 election levels in the metropolitan areas. The 2009 Frome by-election saw Labor pick up a small increase in the two-party-preferred vote. This, coupled with the "dodgy documents affair", also known as "dodgy-gate", saw Hamilton-Smith step down from

2736-829: The State Government to provide the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) with a production investment fund, which the AFF administers. Up to $ 1,000,000 is made available over a two-year period. The Adelaide Film Festival Board selects projects, based on recommendations from the Festival Director, and the slate of pictures produced premieres at the event. To date, the Investment Fund has invested in seventy-two projects, including features, documentaries, short films and new media projects. These projects have won 70 international and 130 national awards. Adelaide remains one of

2808-478: The abolition of the Playmander . Labor also garnered a two-party vote of 56.8 percent, a significant comeback from its low of 39 percent in 1993 under Arnold. Rann personally likened his government to Dunstan's, stating "I'm a totally different person to Don Dunstan, but in the 70s for different reasons South Australia stood head and shoulders above the crowd. We stood out, we were leaders. The federal government

2880-532: The cabinet. Attorney-General John Rau became Deputy Premier and Jack Snelling became Treasurer. The first Newspoll of the third term of the Rann Labor government in March 2011 showed Rann's personal satisfaction-dissatisfaction rating at a new low of 30–59 and a two-party vote of 44–56, a swing against Labor of 4.4 percent since the 2010 election . Labor's primary vote dived to 29 percent, down 8.5 percent,

2952-822: The convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music and technology. Since 2007, the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival has provided the highest level of curation in the emerging field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid projects to showcase transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, performances and films. It has a long presentation association of Australian work, including Lynette Wallworth ’s Evolution of Fearlessness and Coral: Rekindling Venus ; Matthew Bate’s Shut Up Little Man! ; and Closer Productions ’ My 52 Tuesdays project. Mike Rann Michael David Rann , AC , CNZM (born 5 January 1953)

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3024-444: The country, with his approach to government generally moderate and crisis-free. Newspoll early in 2007 saw Rann peak at a historic 64 per cent as Preferred Premier, and 61 per cent on the two-party-preferred vote . University of Adelaide Professor of Politics Clem Macintyre said that after the State Bank collapse, Rann had to re-establish Labor's credentials as an economic manager as a matter of urgency, and "in that sense Rann had

3096-661: The creation of the Adelaide Film Festival and establishing the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund as backing. He provided the funding to make three major festivals annual rather than biennial: WOMADelaide (from 2003), the Adelaide Fringe (from 2007) and the Adelaide Festival of Arts (from 2012) . Rann was comfortably re-elected in 2006 , taking 28 seats to the Liberals' 15—to date, Labor's largest majority since

3168-493: The election, Rann was first elected as Deputy Leader of the Opposition under Lynn Arnold . However, when Arnold resigned a few months later, Rann succeeded him as Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition in September 1994. As Opposition Leader Rann launched a "Labor Listens" strategy designed to re-connect with voters and vigorously opposed the privatisation of water services and electricity assets. Assisted by Liberal government leaks he exploited their internal divisions. Following

3240-469: The few festivals worldwide with an investment fund. The Adelaide Film Festival aims to support the projects of strong creative teams. It uses creative criteria such as bold and innovative storytelling, and also requires projects to contribute culturally and economically to South Australia. These projects will bring development opportunities, branding opportunities, or partnerships with national and international organisations. They should have potential to raise

3312-404: The first ever screening of a VR work at the Museum of Modern Art . Collisions went on to play in festivals around the world, including Tribeca , London , San Francisco , and Sheffield DocFest . Its Australian premiere season was commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2016. Collisions was also shown a UN Eminent Persons Group headed by Hans Blix in Vienna relating to

3384-568: The first time. With Lewis presiding, Kerin proposed a motion of confidence in his government. The motion failed, and Kerin's government immediately resigned. Rann then advised Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson that he could form a government, and was duly sworn in the next day. Rann later secured the support of conservative independent Rory McEwen and the Nationals' Karlene Maywald by adding them to his cabinet. He also agreed to back Liberal-turned-independent Bob Such as Speaker after Lewis retired. In addition to Premier, Rann also served as

3456-405: The form of British nuclear testing at Maralinga in the 1950s. She has won two Emmy Awards for her work: one for Collisions and one for Awavena . Wallworth attended the UNSW Art & Design . Wallworth's works span virtual reality 360 film, feature documentary, and digital fulldome and interactive video installations. Wallworth's work reflects on the connections between people and

3528-453: The late 1990s and had two children with her, David and Eleanor. On 15 July 2006, he married his second wife, actress Sasha Carruozzo. It was revealed in December 2011 that she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. In 2016, Rann's son, David, was appointed media advisor to South Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis . In 2020, Rann announced that he intended to purchase an apartment in Adelaide and that he would then live six months of

3600-460: The natural world. She often works in series or meditations on one theme, and her works experiment with using the latest technology. She aims to build a sense of community, compassion, revelation and wonder. The environments often rely on interaction with the participant/viewer. In 2010, Wallworth was invited to the Netherlands to create video imagery for the Hungarian composer György Kurtág 's piece, Kafka Fragmente . Her visual imagery accompanied

3672-409: The new University of South Australia , now the biggest university in the state. As a member of the Australian Education Council he played a key role in 1992 in the creation of ANTA, the Australian National Training Authority, with shared funding of TAFE by Federal as well as state governments. As Minister of Aboriginal Affairs he campaigned for a clean-up of Maralinga lands affected by nuclear tests in

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3744-440: The ousting of Premier Dean Brown by John Olsen , Rann released a series of damaging Cabinet documents and was involved in a prolonged and bitter legal battle with Premier Olsen. Rann went into the 1997 election as a decided underdog. However, he turned the campaign into a "referendum on privatisation." Under Rann's leadership, Labor regained much of what it had lost in its severe defeat of four years earlier. Labor picked up

3816-410: The performance of the work. In the same year she developed interactive she developed interactive video for the English National Opera performance of Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers , directed by Fiona Shaw . Wallworth's 2012 work CORAL Rekindling Venus creates an immersive film experience in a digital full-dome planetarium . The film uses underwater footage of coral reefs and sea life to portray

3888-447: The profile of South Australia. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a week-long festival of Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund films (from 7 to 13 April 2011). The MoMA week was a salute to the Adelaide Film Festival and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, "a testament to its vision and success in realising some of the most unique, creative, interesting, challenging and entertaining Australian films of

3960-465: The program, he would respond with a "brief statement". He also expressed frustration that he had been unable to "clear the air" because matters were before a court. The day after the allegations were aired, Rann called a press conference where he explicitly denied the allegations made in the interview, claimed the program was outrageous, and stated the claims were malicious lies aimed at damaging him politically and personally. An out-of-court settlement

4032-402: The public service. South Australia's debt achieved a AAA rating under the Rann Labor government, prompting Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan to praise Labor's economic management. Rann subsidised theatres, added Guggenheim galleries, introduced the Festival of Ideas and Adelaide's Thinker in Residence program, and encouraged the idea that film festivals fund movies, leading to

4104-546: The recent past." The program included Look Both Ways , Ten Canoes , Samson and Delilah , Stunt Love , Boxing Day , Last Ride , My Year Without Sex and Mrs. Carey’s Concert . In 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV Arts & Entertainment and the Adelaide Film Festival joined forces to create the Hive Production Fund. The inaugural FUND supported the projects The Boy Castaways by Michael Kantor, I Want to Dance Better at Parties by Matthew Bate , and Tender by Lynette Wallworth . The LAB

4176-420: The seat for Labor with only a slight swing against her, and Ramsay remained the safest of Labor's lower house seats. Rann's post-parliamentary appointments include the new Urban Policy Forum created by the federal government, as a professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies with Flinders University and as a visiting fellowship in political studies at the University of Auckland . He has also joined

4248-468: The song "Rise" for the film. The music of Max Richter , Tanya Tagaq Gillis , Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu , Fennesz and Sakamoto , also feature in the film. She developed a companion artwork for CORAL in the form of a set of interactive posters that are triggered into life by a mobile phone app called coral RKV . Wallworth's VR narrative Collisions (2016), was developed through the inaugural Sundance Institute New Frontier-Jaunt VR Residency. It

4320-555: The state party's left and right factions had formally decided to replace Rann with Education Minister Jay Weatherill as party leader. A day later, Rann confirmed he would stand down and undergo a party leadership transition to Weatherill, with the handover occurring in October 2011. Rann formally resigned from the premiership on 21 October 2011, and Weatherill was elected unopposed as his successor. Rann resigned from parliament on 13 January 2012 which created an 11 February 2012 Ramsay by-election . Zoe Bettison easily retained

4392-401: The state's Integrated Design Commissioner, Tim Horton, said in 2011: "Its targets are really great, but I don't think any of us have signed on to why those targets exist or what we can do to further them. It's a top-down approach. I worry the document exists in the minds of agencies but not in the minds of people." During Rann's first and second terms, Rann was often the most popular Premier in

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4464-508: The student newspaper Craccum . As a member of Princes Street Labour , he also spent considerable time working on New Zealand Labour Party campaigns including that of Mike Moore . After university, Rann was a political journalist for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation . Haydon Manning has stated that "it was reported that" Rann "struggled with being an objective reporter". Rann visited his brother Chris in Adelaide during 1977. Shortly afterwards he moved to that city, to carry out

4536-407: The video image and the visitor. This work is a sequel to Wallworth's earlier work Invisible by Night (2004), which presents a projection of a life-sized grieving woman whose eternal pacing can be interrupted by the viewer. Wallworth followed these works with a third in the series called Duality of Light (2009–2011), commissioned by Adelaide Film Festival , where the viewer has an encounter with

4608-466: The vote. As such, he also served a rotation of the Presidency of the ALP National Executive in 2008. Rann's earlier achievements included raising job numbers and lowering unemployment, increasing new project funding, increasing expenditure on schools, university, health and mental illness, halving rough-sleeping in the streets, making the state home to the largest amount of wind power in Australia, developing hot rock power , and utilising solar power for

4680-433: The year in Adelaide, and the other six in Puglia, Italy, where he would produce olive oil.   Lynette Wallworth Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist and filmmaker, known for her use of emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR), and interactive installations. She is known for her 2016 VR project Collisions , which tells of the "collision" between Aboriginal Australians and western culture in

4752-454: Was a South Australian MP in the House of Assembly from the 1985 election and Father of the House from the 2010 election until his parliamentary resignation on 13 January 2012. Rann was born in Sidcup , Kent , England. His father was an electrician who had served at El Alamein in World War II. His mother was employed in an armaments factory. Most of Rann's childhood was spent in the care of his father in South London . In 1962, when he

4824-506: Was appointed chair of Low Carbon Australia Pty Ltd in early 2012, the federal government's "green bank" providing finance to companies to reduce carbon emissions and to the International Leadership Council of The Climate Group . Rann was announced on 23 August 2012 as the next Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom . Rann also assumed the role of Permanent Representative to the United Nations International Maritime Organisation, Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner and Trustee of

4896-446: Was created to greet visitors to the 2011 exhibition Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours multimedia exhibition at the Immigration Museum Victoria . In this work, different groups of people would either warmly welcome a visitor, or stand with their arms crossed in an unfriendly manner, frowning, or turn their backs. In 2012 she was invited by the Martu people of Western Australia to develop a new video work for their exhibition We Don’t Need

4968-461: Was nine, his family emigrated from Blackfen to Mangakino , a small town north of Taupō on the Waikato River in New Zealand. His family then moved to Matamata , then to Birkenhead, New Zealand on Auckland 's North Shore where he attended Northcote College . He completed a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in political science at the University of Auckland . He was Vice President of the New Zealand Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and editor of

5040-432: Was paid by Seven Network to Rann in February 2010 and with an apology issued for suggesting the affair had an effect on Rann discharging his duties as Premier of South Australia. Polling was conducted by The Advertiser in December 2009 with answers to questions revealing little voter interest in the allegations. Others suggested that it was the turning point for Rann's decline, with the issue causing indirect damage over

5112-439: Was scheduled to run during the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival. Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund collaborates with Sundance Institute’s New Frontier program to identify potential opportunities for Australian artists and filmmakers to present new media work at future editions of the Sundance Film Festival . New Frontier at Sundance Institute is a dynamic initiative intended to identify and foster independent artists working at

5184-653: Was the first in a series of mixed-reality works, tells the story of Nyarri Morgan, a Martu man from the Western Australian desert, whose first contact with Western culture came in the 1950s when he witnessed the British nuclear testing at Maralinga in South Australia . It was the first theatrical screening of a VR work in the Egyptian Theatre at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival , and was

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