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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), BMus (Griffith University)
Professor Gavin Sade is the Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. He is responsible for leading and managing the Faculty’s teaching and learning strategy, curriculum innovation and learning design (including online), accreditation and program quality. His portfolio also includes the Bachelor of Creative Industries (BCI) program, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and Student Support. In 2019, Gavin is leading QUT’s involvement with World Science Festival Brisbane 2019.
Gavin has held a number of other leadership roles across Creative Industries Faculty, including Associate Dean (International), acting Director, Creative Lab Research Centre in 2018 and acting Head, School of Design and Head of Interactive and Visual Design. Gavin has over 20 years of experience in learning and teaching and in that time has introduced a number of new subject areas to the University and developed new units and programs involving significant collaboration between disciplines and faculties. He led the development of the Masters of Digital Communication, the first Creative Industries’ program to be offered online, the B. Design International and introduced new double degrees between Creative Industries and Science, Engineering, Urban Development and IT.
Gavin is a designer in the field of interactive computational media with a PhD in Interactive Media Arts and Sustainability and a Bachelor of Music (Sonology). He has been creating interactive media systems and electronic art since 1990 when he began working as an electronic musician and performer. In 2003 he formed Kuuki, a creative media collective, leading the production of a number of high profile electronic artworks exhibited domestically and internationally.
Projects
- Augmented and Top-projected Visualisation of Real-time Data on a City-scale Model
- Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a Youth Mobile Help-seeking Tool-kit
Additional information
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2008
- Details
- Co-chair of technical program and publications for Interactive Entertainment 2008. Proceedings published by the Association of Computer Machinery.
- Type
- Curatorial/Juried selection of work for Exhibition Recording/Screening etc.
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Finalist in the Concurso de Artes Electrónicas y Video del Festival Transitio_MX 04 - http://transitiomx.net/contest
- Type
- Curatorial/Juried selection of work for Exhibition Recording/Screening etc.
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Creative work - Suzumushi - selected for inclusion in the UNCONTAINABLE & Untitled Exhibition at the International Symposium of Electronic Art Istanbul 2011. An Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
- Type
- Curatorial/Juried selection of work for Exhibition Recording/Screening etc.
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Creative work - e. Menura superba- selected for inclusion in the International Symposium of Electronic Art 2009 Juried Exhibition, Belfast, UK.
- Type
- Publicly commissioned Artworks
- Reference year
- 2006
- Details
- The creative project "Charmed" received an Expermienta New Visions commission in 2006, and was curated into the EXPERIMENTA PLAYGROUND International Biennial of Media Art and tours with this exhibition between 2007 and 2009.
- Type
- Publicly commissioned Artworks
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Winner of the Southern Downs Climatic Art Competition for a new major work of public art for the Town of Stanthorpe.
- Sade GJ, Bracks P, (2015) Grateful fateful sunshine rain, Austin 77 - 79 Grey Street, South Brisbane
- Sade GJ, (2014) Experimental creative practices, Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the arts and sciences p23-48
- Sade GJ, (2014) Aesthetics of urban media facades, Proceedings of the 2nd Media Architecture Biennale Conference: World Cities p59-68
- Bracks P, Sade GJ, (2013) Acacia Light Wall, http://kuuki.com.au/project/acacia-light-wall/
- Sade GJ, Bracks P, (2013) Every One, Every Day, http://kuuki.com.au/project/everyone/
- Armstrong KM, Sade GJ, Dean R, Carroli L, Page J, Nyfantis P, Fitzwalter Z, Thomas L, (2013) Long time, no see?, http://www.long-no-see.org
- Sade GJ, (2012) Designing well: Sustain-able Interaction Design and vegetarianism, Design and Ethics : Reflections on Practice p74-96
- Sade GJ, Bracks P, (2011) Suzumushi: The Silent Swarm, International Symposium of Electronic Art; LUMINA: art/light/motion
- Sade GJ, Bracks P, (2009) Distracted: Poetic interpretations of climate data, Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 2009 p1-5
- Sade GJ, Bracks P, (2009) e Menura Supurba, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Belfast, UK
- Title
- Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a Youth Mobile Help-seeking Tool-kit
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP150100178
- Start year
- 2016
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