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Featured events
The Department of Rural Health in partnership with the Shepparton Region Reconciliation Group invite you to a special film showing to be held at the lecture theatre at The Department of Rural Health in Shepparton for our annual Reconciliation Week event.
This year, we are excited to host a special screening of ‘Ablaze,’ featuring an online guest appearance by the film’s co-director, Tiriki Onus. Doors open at 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start, with finger food available on arrival. Bookings are essential.
Ablaze tells of Bill Onus, a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man from Victoria, a truly heroic cultural and political figure who revived his peoples culture in the 1940s and ignited a civil rights movement that would, against enormous odds, change the course of history. Through rare archival footage, state of the art animation, vividly created digital motion graphics and eye witness accounts, Ablaze is the compelling tale - part detective story, part contemporary opera - of how Bill and supporters brilliantly orchestrated their campaign for equality through performance, entertainment, film and sheer audacity outsmarted mighty forces seeking to destroy Indigenous cultures, languages and communities.
The School of Computing and Information Systems of The University of Melbourne invites you to join them at the 2024 Cybernetics Futures Showcase. This exhibition features over 30 physical computing prototypes made by the Designing Novel Interactions students that examine the future relationships between natural and technological systems. By reimagining both existing systems and speculative new ones, they present not only design solutions but also problems and perspectives that need our immediate attention.
As part of their master’s program, computing students are encouraged to break free from the screen, mouse and keyboard to utilise a range of techniques from embedded systems, wearable electronics, digital fabrication, interactive methodologies and more to extend their practice and build technologies intentionally and critically for the future we want to see.
Designing Novel Interactions is led by Mel Huang, Dr Antony Chacon, Dr Adelaide Genay and Dr Arzoo Atiq from School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne.
This event is supported by the mentorship and guidance of Science Gallery Melbourne and Telstra Creator Space.
This event is presented as a part of Melbourne Design Week, Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival.
No bookings required.