Ross Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7049-1090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intervention Methods in Secure Care: What Is Going on for Society’s Most Vulnerable Children
Secure care is used for the most vulnerable and high-risk children in society; however, there is insufficient research examining the way intervention methods are used in this context. This study uses a qualitative approach to examine the use of intervention methods with children in secure care. Data is obtained from 21 meetings with 81 professionals who are involved with children in secure care. The findings suggest that considerable variation ex…
Exercise
The Maslyn Williams Network
This paper provides some accounting for recent work by the authors on a cultural biography of Ron Maslyn Williams (20 February 1911 to 11 August 1999), an Australian photographer, writer, film-maker, and musician. An inveterate traveller and man of influence in many artistic and diplomatic spheres around the world, he became a leading Catholic figure, a kind of “cultural ambassador” promoting a worldview that far outreached “Anglican” constraints…
Cast Against Type
William Dawes was a marine lieutenant in the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. A self-taught engineer and natural philosopher, he became involved with the local people, particularly with an investigation of the language. His notebooks show people and cultures on both sides of the colonial cut slipping their organizational categories and commonsense typologies. At Sydney Cove, Dawes swirled into a relational world that undid the nominalist world that he…
Film, Television, Radio and Theatre Reviews
Narrative Hunger: GIS Mapping, Google Street View and the Colonial Prospectus
There are millions of maps like the one Wislawa Szymborska describes. But in this essay I’ll be looking at another kind: geographical information systems, which do get stirred when people engage with them. Arrayed on screens, the surfaces of these interactive maps are designed to get unsettled. There’s electricity and constant data-accrual agitating them, letting them change with context and consultation. They are still accounts of space, these n…
Wayfaring strangers: Reflections on an Artistic Investigation of Mood in Online Mapping
On any leisured late night, preferably with a lamp lit against the sombreness, you can search online for criminal court reports that will set you up for cruising via Google's Street View to the pho
Translating Gesture in a Transnational Public Sphere
Translation is a key concept for interpreting cross-cultural exchanges. In this article, we track the development of an artistic project that we developed in conjunction with Federation Square Melbourne and Art Centre Nabi in Seoul. It involved the performance of a live telematic dance that occurred in both cities and was transmitted via the use of large screens. The interaction across these physical and mediated spaces produced a dynamic exchang…
The flood of associations
This essay examines natural and artificial signifiers in a tract of colonised land in south-east Australia. The essay asks how do country and human consciousness mingle to fashion each other in long processes of remembrance? How does the present loom out of the past across generations, ecologies and geographies, within communities formed by actively remembering individual psyches? Language is one of these ways. Therefore, the essay pays attention…
The Rise of Digital Multimedia Systems
With this essay, I want to understand why interactive and relational media forms have become so ubiquitous so quickly. Comparing the nexus of cinema and nationalism with the contemporary dyad of digital media and transnationalism (or globalisation), we can ask whether digital multimedia systems have arisen to reflect and impel our contemporary psychic and social conditions. Because multimedia rarely gets 'locked-off', its component elements can a…
On the senses and semantic excess in photographic evidence
It is widely accepted that forensic procedures are meant to bring precise interpretation to puzzling scenes and parcels of evidence. Forensic activity is a cool, slow and deliberate process of making meaning. But what of the feelings that also suffuse the scenes and the evidence? Does the force of affect linger in or around forensic materials? Can these feelings be evoked so they can be assayed to produce a particular kind of knowledge, even as t…
Mega Screens for Mega Cities
This article considers how networked large urban screens can act as a platform for the creation of an experimental transnational public sphere. It takes as a case study a specific Australia-Korea cultural event that linked large screens in Federation Square, Melbourne, and Tomorrow City, Incheon, 1 through the presentation of SMS-based interactive media art works. The article combines theoretical analyses of global citizenship, mobility, digital …
How Looked After Children are Involved in their Review Process
What the eye can hear
This paper draws on studies of encounters with remote Indigenous Australian cultures by scholars such as Barry Hill and Martin Thomas. I also refer to my own studies of the transactions between Indigenous and invasive cultures around Sydney, 1788_1791. Again and again in Europeans’ first-contact accounts of Indigenous cultures, there is a sense that Indigenous knowledge is arranged in people and in space and time in ways that are completely at od…
Patyegarang and William Dawes: The Space of Imagination
In January 1788 Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay, on Australia’s southeastern coast, with the First Fleet Marines. Lately he has loomed into contemporary awareness in Australia. This emergence has occurred after he had just about disappeared from accounts having completed his four-year Sydney sojourn in December 1791. For almost two hundred years Dawes missed out on close historical attention because his papers and effects had been ass…
All things are in contact’
Extractive Realism
Forensics and Poetics: A Context for 'Accident Music
‘Accident Music’ is an evocative response to the NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive which is housed at the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney. The author has been working with this collection for almost fifteen years, sensing evermore strongly that its meanings and emotions are endless even though they are also structured by many factors: the spatial and temporal patterns of Sydney; the rigors of Police procedures; the aesthetics of black & w…
Ghosts of a Better Tomorrow: Looking Back on the Formalism of Late 1980s Film Workshop Productions
Does anyone recall The Exploded Form (1980), James Mellard's book about modernism? Surprising how it isn't more widely cited. The main thesis is as bold as it is simple: granted, says Mellard, mode
Places Past Disappearance
In this address, I think out loud about the work we need to do with history in order to understand better how to live well in the present and future. I call this process “vestige work”. Rummaging in Australia’s aftermath cultures, I try to re-dress the disintegration in our story-systems, in our traditional knowledge caches, our landscapes and ecologies. My job is to investigate and recuperate scenes and collections of artifacts that have been to…
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
Where the darkness loiters
Notice the superbly controlled tensions in this image? The composition torqued around the central tree; the welted concrete border that holds the park and the street so closely opposed; the dusty heat of the concrete city fizzing into the cooler ‘green’ on the other side of the dividing line; the man perched athwart that line; the machine motoring through the green on its way back to the grey; the harsh toilet block — a massed and pungent chunk o…
Ecologies of Meaning
Museums and 'interpreted' public spaces have become important sites for the deployment of new multimedia systems. Given that these locations areimbued with historical, architectural and aesthetic complexities, it is becoming ever more apparent that standard information technology approaches to data systems are inadequate to the tasks of evoking and interpreting such sites. For 20 years now, Gary Warner has worked to introduce lucidity and nuance …
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
The culture of nature
Blacks at Middle and Late Life: Resources and Coping
An analysis of national data collected in 1957 and 1976 reveals that older black Americans' use of their informal support networks and prayer in times of distress is distinct from that of older white Americans. Black-white disparities in income, education, and widowhood were large and appeared to widen from middle to late life. Blacks, in coping with distress, drew from a more varied pool of informal helpers than whites, both in middle and late l…
Mega Screens for Mega Cities
This article considers how networked large urban screens can act as a platform for the creation of an experimental transnational public sphere. It takes as a case study a specific Australia-Korea cultural event that linked large screens in Federation Square, Melbourne, and Tomorrow City, Incheon, 1 through the presentation of SMS-based interactive media art works. The article combines theoretical analyses of global citizenship, mobility, digital …
Narrative Hunger: GIS Mapping, Google Street View and the Colonial Prospectus
There are millions of maps like the one Wislawa Szymborska describes. But in this essay I’ll be looking at another kind: geographical information systems, which do get stirred when people engage with them. Arrayed on screens, the surfaces of these interactive maps are designed to get unsettled. There’s electricity and constant data-accrual agitating them, letting them change with context and consultation. They are still accounts of space, these n…
Palpable History
The article focuses on the essence of non-verbal and palpable historiography. It discusses some screen effects in an artwork called Street X-Rays and cites that viewers at the exhibition could think about the historical feeling rather than its meaning and that although the kinetic event is gone, one could imagine its continuity. Moreover, it is noted that the conditions of living and working in an aftermath-culture like Australia provides that th…
On the senses and semantic excess in photographic evidence
It is widely accepted that forensic procedures are meant to bring precise interpretation to puzzling scenes and parcels of evidence. Forensic activity is a cool, slow and deliberate process of making meaning. But what of the feelings that also suffuse the scenes and the evidence? Does the force of affect linger in or around forensic materials? Can these feelings be evoked so they can be assayed to produce a particular kind of knowledge, even as t…
Enchanted Country
Wayfaring strangers: Reflections on an Artistic Investigation of Mood in Online Mapping
On any leisured late night, preferably with a lamp lit against the sombreness, you can search online for criminal court reports that will set you up for cruising via Google's Street View to the pho
The flood of associations
This essay examines natural and artificial signifiers in a tract of colonised land in south-east Australia. The essay asks how do country and human consciousness mingle to fashion each other in long processes of remembrance? How does the present loom out of the past across generations, ecologies and geographies, within communities formed by actively remembering individual psyches? Language is one of these ways. Therefore, the essay pays attention…
How Looked After Children are Involved in their Review Process
What the eye can hear
This paper draws on studies of encounters with remote Indigenous Australian cultures by scholars such as Barry Hill and Martin Thomas. I also refer to my own studies of the transactions between Indigenous and invasive cultures around Sydney, 1788_1791. Again and again in Europeans’ first-contact accounts of Indigenous cultures, there is a sense that Indigenous knowledge is arranged in people and in space and time in ways that are completely at od…
All things are in contact’
Ghosts of a Better Tomorrow: Looking Back on the Formalism of Late 1980s Film Workshop Productions
Does anyone recall The Exploded Form (1980), James Mellard's book about modernism? Surprising how it isn't more widely cited. The main thesis is as bold as it is simple: granted, says Mellard, mode
Ecologies of Meaning
Museums and 'interpreted' public spaces have become important sites for the deployment of new multimedia systems. Given that these locations areimbued with historical, architectural and aesthetic complexities, it is becoming ever more apparent that standard information technology approaches to data systems are inadequate to the tasks of evoking and interpreting such sites. For 20 years now, Gary Warner has worked to introduce lucidity and nuance …
Intimacy
A reflection on the articles appearing above in the Rural Cultural Studies section of Cultural Studies Review 16.1, March 2010
Palpable History
The article focuses on the essence of non-verbal and palpable historiography. It discusses some screen effects in an artwork called Street X-Rays and cites that viewers at the exhibition could think about the historical feeling rather than its meaning and that although the kinetic event is gone, one could imagine its continuity. Moreover, it is noted that the conditions of living and working in an aftermath-culture like Australia provides that th…
Intimacy
A reflection on the articles appearing above in the Rural Cultural Studies section of Cultural Studies Review 16.1, March 2010
Blacks at Middle and Late Life: Resources and Coping
An analysis of national data collected in 1957 and 1976 reveals that older black Americans' use of their informal support networks and prayer in times of distress is distinct from that of older white Americans. Black-white disparities in income, education, and widowhood were large and appeared to widen from middle to late life. Blacks, in coping with distress, drew from a more varied pool of informal helpers than whites, both in middle and late l…
Age-by-Race Differences in the Health and Functioning of Elderly Persons
A review of health data identified four major trends in the elderly population: (a) a younger Black group that was more morbid than an older Black group, (b) an alternating pattern of Black morbid and robust age groups, (c) a Black disadvantage in health and functioning that was greater in race comparisons involving the Black morbid and less in comparisons involving the Black robust age groups, and (d) a Black health detriment that seemed to narr…
Enchanted Country
The culture of nature
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
Ecologies of Meaning
Museums and 'interpreted' public spaces have become important sites for the deployment of new multimedia systems. Given that these locations areimbued with historical, architectural and aesthetic complexities, it is becoming ever more apparent that standard information technology approaches to data systems are inadequate to the tasks of evoking and interpreting such sites. For 20 years now, Gary Warner has worked to introduce lucidity and nuance …
Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience
Where the darkness loiters
Notice the superbly controlled tensions in this image? The composition torqued around the central tree; the welted concrete border that holds the park and the street so closely opposed; the dusty heat of the concrete city fizzing into the cooler ‘green’ on the other side of the dividing line; the man perched athwart that line; the machine motoring through the green on its way back to the grey; the harsh toilet block — a massed and pungent chunk o…
Ghosts of a Better Tomorrow: Looking Back on the Formalism of Late 1980s Film Workshop Productions
Does anyone recall The Exploded Form (1980), James Mellard's book about modernism? Surprising how it isn't more widely cited. The main thesis is as bold as it is simple: granted, says Mellard, mode
Places Past Disappearance
In this address, I think out loud about the work we need to do with history in order to understand better how to live well in the present and future. I call this process “vestige work”. Rummaging in Australia’s aftermath cultures, I try to re-dress the disintegration in our story-systems, in our traditional knowledge caches, our landscapes and ecologies. My job is to investigate and recuperate scenes and collections of artifacts that have been to…
Extractive Realism
Forensics and Poetics: A Context for 'Accident Music
‘Accident Music’ is an evocative response to the NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive which is housed at the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney. The author has been working with this collection for almost fifteen years, sensing evermore strongly that its meanings and emotions are endless even though they are also structured by many factors: the spatial and temporal patterns of Sydney; the rigors of Police procedures; the aesthetics of black & w…
Patyegarang and William Dawes: The Space of Imagination
In January 1788 Lieutenant William Dawes came to Botany Bay, on Australia’s southeastern coast, with the First Fleet Marines. Lately he has loomed into contemporary awareness in Australia. This emergence has occurred after he had just about disappeared from accounts having completed his four-year Sydney sojourn in December 1791. For almost two hundred years Dawes missed out on close historical attention because his papers and effects had been ass…
All things are in contact’
How Looked After Children are Involved in their Review Process
What the eye can hear
This paper draws on studies of encounters with remote Indigenous Australian cultures by scholars such as Barry Hill and Martin Thomas. I also refer to my own studies of the transactions between Indigenous and invasive cultures around Sydney, 1788_1791. Again and again in Europeans’ first-contact accounts of Indigenous cultures, there is a sense that Indigenous knowledge is arranged in people and in space and time in ways that are completely at od…
The flood of associations
This essay examines natural and artificial signifiers in a tract of colonised land in south-east Australia. The essay asks how do country and human consciousness mingle to fashion each other in long processes of remembrance? How does the present loom out of the past across generations, ecologies and geographies, within communities formed by actively remembering individual psyches? Language is one of these ways. Therefore, the essay pays attention…
The Rise of Digital Multimedia Systems
With this essay, I want to understand why interactive and relational media forms have become so ubiquitous so quickly. Comparing the nexus of cinema and nationalism with the contemporary dyad of digital media and transnationalism (or globalisation), we can ask whether digital multimedia systems have arisen to reflect and impel our contemporary psychic and social conditions. Because multimedia rarely gets 'locked-off', its component elements can a…
On the senses and semantic excess in photographic evidence
It is widely accepted that forensic procedures are meant to bring precise interpretation to puzzling scenes and parcels of evidence. Forensic activity is a cool, slow and deliberate process of making meaning. But what of the feelings that also suffuse the scenes and the evidence? Does the force of affect linger in or around forensic materials? Can these feelings be evoked so they can be assayed to produce a particular kind of knowledge, even as t…
Mega Screens for Mega Cities
This article considers how networked large urban screens can act as a platform for the creation of an experimental transnational public sphere. It takes as a case study a specific Australia-Korea cultural event that linked large screens in Federation Square, Melbourne, and Tomorrow City, Incheon, 1 through the presentation of SMS-based interactive media art works. The article combines theoretical analyses of global citizenship, mobility, digital …
Film, Television, Radio and Theatre Reviews
Narrative Hunger: GIS Mapping, Google Street View and the Colonial Prospectus
There are millions of maps like the one Wislawa Szymborska describes. But in this essay I’ll be looking at another kind: geographical information systems, which do get stirred when people engage with them. Arrayed on screens, the surfaces of these interactive maps are designed to get unsettled. There’s electricity and constant data-accrual agitating them, letting them change with context and consultation. They are still accounts of space, these n…
Wayfaring strangers: Reflections on an Artistic Investigation of Mood in Online Mapping
On any leisured late night, preferably with a lamp lit against the sombreness, you can search online for criminal court reports that will set you up for cruising via Google's Street View to the pho
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