ICS Seminar Series - Giles Lane

Date: Thursday 26 March 2015
Time: 11.30am - 1pm
Venue: EB.2.21, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South campus

Giles Lane

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Giles Lane is an artist, designer and researcher, and the founder of Proboscis (opens in a new window). Since 1994 he has led Proboscis, developing a creative practice that is renowned for its pioneering work in fusing emerging technologies with social and cultural concerns. Giles has been instrumental in establishing numerous groundbreaking collaborations across disciplines and sectors, bridging grassroots communities with government, industry, academia and NGOs and the arts. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate of the Extreme Citizen Science Research Group at University College London. Giles is currently collaborating with Professor James Leach (University of Western Australia/CNRS CREDO, Marseille) to co-design a toolkit for recording and sharing traditional biocultural knowledge with villagers of Reite in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

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The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.