Interesting South
Interesting people. Interesting ideas. An evening of interestingness.2009 Topics & Speakers
At Interesting South 3 (2009) held back on August 20th at the Chauvel Cinema, we considered how improv is more than just a joke, pondered what makes cool cool, hopped on bikes to Beirut and much, much more. Have a look (in no particular order)…
Please note, we’re hoping to post video as soon as possible.
- Oral sex is the new black – Over the past generation a range of Clintonesque sexual practices have boomed. Why? I don’t know. But we need to factor this trend into our calculations.
- Professor Basil Donovan,
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales,
www.nchecr.unsw.edu.au
- Professor Basil Donovan,
- Anatomy of cool – What’s cool? What’s daggy? Who decides? Remo learned something about the anatomy (and alchemy) of cool by observing a kid named Bob D’Angelo in a school playground circa 1973.
- Remo Giuffré,
General Thinking |
REMO General Store,
generalthinking.com | remogeneralstore.com
- Remo Giuffré,
- Perform your own stories – Who sits behind the screen typing away the stories that the DeNiros of the world speak for them? Why don’t writers speak? Speakers write. Why aren’t we telling our own stories?
- Miles Merrill, Word Travels,
www.wordtravels.info
- Miles Merrill, Word Travels,
- Bondi to Beirut – Military tanks, soldiers with guns…and three hundred women in bike shorts? Virginia Mesiti and Amy Frasca joined the annual Follow the Women peace ride lead by British Nobel Peace Prize nominee Detta Regan, to bicycle from Lebanon to Syria, Jordan and Palestine/Israel.
- Amy Frasca & Virginia Mesiti,
Ariel Media, www.bonditobeirut.com
- Amy Frasca & Virginia Mesiti,
- Away with words – Creating Icons and Images To Satisfy All Audiences – Millions are invested translating words to explain products across lingual markets. But what about the visuals? Some eye-opening examples reveal that icons and images too often fail the needs of their audience.
- Patrick Hofmann, Google
- Patrick Hofmann, Google
- Rebuilding our singing society – Two generations ago, singing was an everyday activity for ordinary Australians. Now our untrained voices go unheard. We’re missing out on a free and joyous activity. Can we ever rebuild the singing society?
- Adam Dennis
- Adam Dennis
- Why do we believe silly things? – We’ll explore why belief can trump evidence, superstition can defeat logic, and emotion can beat reason hands down, any day of the week.
- Ash Donaldson, Produxi Consulting,
www.ashdonaldson.com
- Ash Donaldson, Produxi Consulting,
- How improv can save the world – Improv can save the world, end all wars and make everything better. It teaches you to say ‘yes’; to listen; it forces you to work with people and not against them in a creative and constructive manner and, most significantly, it’s good, old fashion fun.
- Cale Bain, www.improvisation.com.au/tutor/2
- Cale Bain, www.improvisation.com.au/tutor/2
- The Permanence of Temporary Things (and Vice Versa) - Monuments crumble and empires may fall but some of the things we perceive as temporary are the most enduring. Interesting? Yes. Possibly also important for saving the world.
Click here to view.- Tim Baynes, www.csiro.au/people/Tim.Baynes.html
- Tim Baynes, www.csiro.au/people/Tim.Baynes.html
- We welcome our new placebo overlords! – Learn how surprisingly powerful the “placebo effect” can be in medicine and human behaviour. The presenters have no formal training in medicine or organic chemistry, just an abiding interest in the topic and a big surprising proposal: we should consent to the administration of placebos even – especially when – we’re critically ill.
- Miles Campbell, www.tta.edu.au &
Alan Jones, www.doingwords.com
- Miles Campbell, www.tta.edu.au &
- Stand up! Be counted! - In these days of online media, political debates often take place behind the shelter of laptops. Some brave souls still have the courage to jump on a soapbox, look strangers in the eye and express their policital ideas. Steve Maxwell, a Speakers’ Corner regular in The Domain, will share his passion from the stage.
- Steve Maxwell, www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/insites/speakers_corner
In the lobby area Tim and Lukasz showed of their video installation, Face OFF, which used facial recognition technology to interact with audience members. Here’s a video (from another installation) showing it in action.
- Tim Buesing & Lukasz Karluk, www.hollersydney.com.au
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We’re hoping to post up video of the event. An ABC crew filmed the entire event and we’ll get more information on how posting/distributing is handled.
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