Pip Shea

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• PhD Media & Communication
• Product Designer & Researcher at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Makerspaces have helped frame processes of design, adaptation, and the repair of things and systems—hardware, software, networks, tools, food, currencies, energy, bacteria—as social activities (Sleigh et al., 2015). Makerspaces have also been revealed as sites that encourage self-directed civic practices and the assembling of new civic identities,...

Hackers circumvent to invent. They see the potential in things (their affordances) as well as themselves (their abilities and capabilities) to create anew with existing materials. Hackers model new structures, devise alternative infrastructures, or exploit systems. This process of material reimagining can help people gain a greater understanding of...

Northern Ireland is emerging from a violent sectarian conflict colloquially known as The Troubles. Contested top-down peace building initiatives (Murtagh 2011, 1132) imposing socio-economic development agendas on local actors underpin approaches to change (Richmond and Mitchell 2011, 338). The following case offers an alternative perspective of the...

The proliferation of media services enabled by digital technologies poses a serious challenge to public service broadcasting rationales based on media scarcity. Looking to the past and future, we articulate an important role that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) might play in the digital age. We argue that historically the ABChas acted...

Makerspaces—specifically those with a focus on digital fabrication and physical computing—are emerging as symbols of social and economic change in many cultures. Much of the empirical evidence that provides details of this phenomenon has been gathered in neo-liberal market economies in Europe and North America. Existing findings have helped situate...

This paper draws on Ingold's [1] idea of " meshworks " to reveal the entanglements that shape the exchange of knowledge between arts and humanities researchers and the creative sector in Northern Ireland. It offers a view of the " interwoven lines of growth and movement " that affect the passing of ideas between practitioners and academics arguing...

This thesis establishes appropriate internet1 technology as a matter of sustainability for the community arts field. It begins with a contextual review that historicises community art in relation to technological, cultural, and political change. It goes on to identify key challenges for the field resulting from the emerging socio-cultural significa...

Forming peer alliances to share and build knowledge is an important aspect of community arts practice, and these co-creation processes are increasingly being mediated by the Internet. This paper offers guidance for practitioners who are interested in better utilising the Internet The decision not to capitalise the word ‘internet’ in this paper is b...

This paper plots the design and production trajectory of the booklet, Appropriate Approaches to Online Community, an information design experiment devised to translate doctoral research into a useful form for community artists. It was inspired by a period of fieldwork with CuriousWorks, an Australian organisation whose practices lie at the intersec...

As global communication orders become reconfigured by socio-technical actors, the notion of disruption becomes a most familiar cultural dynamic. Part of the reason for this familiarity is because agents of communication change are becoming distributed. This paper argues that community artists who use the internet to try and shift cultural perceptio...

The Community Arts sector in Australia has a history of resistance. It has challenged hegemonic culture through facilitating grassroots creative production: contesting notions of artistic processes, and the role of the artist in society. The paper examines this penchant for resistance under the lens of contemporary digital culture, to establish tha...

This paper examines approaches to the visualisation of ‘invisible’ communications networks. It situates network visualisation as a critical design exercise, and explores how community artists might use such a practice to develop telematic art projects – works that use communications networks as their medium. The paper’s hypotheses are grounded in t...