GOMA Talks
Visitors participating in the live Twitter feed at GOMA Talks.
GOMA Talks ‘Novel worlds’ with musician and writer Dave Graney, interactive writer and director Lucas Taylor, ABC Radio National host Antony Funnell, author Krissy Kneen and music writer Noel Mengel.
During selected major exhibitions, the entertaining evening discussion program GOMA Talks explores contemporary ideas and issues from a range of perspectives with special guest panellists.
Contemporary Australia: Women
Thursdays fortnightly | 7 June - 19 July | 6.15 for 6.30pm | Cinema A, GOMA
In conjunction with the ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ exhibition and presented in partnership with ABC Radio National, the evening discussion series GOMA Talks tackles some of the most topical questions about contemporary Australia, from national identity and business to sexuality and science with hosts Sarah Kanowski (Weekend Arts), Natasha Mitchell (Life Matters), Geraldine Doogue, AO (Saturday Extra) and Fenella Kernebone (By Design) and all-female special guest panels.
7 June 2012 | GOMA Talks Nationhood: Who creates cultural identity?
Hosted by Sarah Kanowski
21 June | GOMA Talks Sex and Science: What’s the gender question?
Hosted by Natasha Mitchell
5 July | GOMA Talks Business Sense: Who can make it in the top jobs?
Hosted by Geraldine Doogue
19 July | GOMA Talks Art and design: Can women rewrite history?
Hosted by Fenella Kernebone
Admission to GOMA Talks is free and no bookings are required. The GOMA Audi bar opens at 5.15pm
View live webcast of GOMA Talks and tweet your comments, feedback and questions to the panel using hash tag #GOMAtalks.
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Past GOMA Talks Programs
GOMA Talks Surrealism
August - September 2011
During 'Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams', GOMA Talks explored the mind, imagination and art from a range of perspectives. The series questioned how the mind's capacity evolved, and the contributions of philosophy, science, art and literature to new ideas and innovations.
Thursday 18 August | GOMA Talks Art and the imagination | What makes creative minds tick?
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Philip Brophy (artist and filmmaker)
Jason Gallate (Neuroscientist)
Fiona Hall (artist)
Damon Young (Philosopher and author of Distraction (2008))
Hosted by Amanda Smith, presenter of ABC Radio National's Artworks program
Click here to view GOMA Talks: Art and the imagination program on the Gallery's webcast archive.
Thursday 1 September | GOMA Talks Novel worlds | What does the written word have to say?
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Krissy Kneen (Author)
Noel Mengel (Chief music writer, The Courier-Mail)
Lucas Taylor (Interactive Writer and Director, Hoodlum)
Dave Graney (ARIA-award winning Australian musician and singer-songwriter)
Hosted by Antony Funnell, presenter of ABC Radio National's Future Tense program.
Click here to view GOMA Talks: Novel worlds program on the Gallery's webcast archive
Thursday 15 September | GOMA Talks Mastering the mind | Do our brains control our behaviour?
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Nick Allen (Clinical psychologist)
Wayne Hall (Professor and Deputy Director of Policy, Centre for Clinical Research, UQ)
Neil Levy (Deputy Director, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics at the University of Oxford UK)
Sue Woolfe (author)
Hosted by Kate Evans, presenter of ABC Radio National's Rear Vision program.
Click here to view GOMA Talks: Mastering the mind program on the Gallery's webcast archive
Thursday 29 September | GOMA Talks Young minds | What is in store for our creative future?
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Alan Huynh (past Youth Chair, Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia)
Anastasia Klose (artist)
Jane Morley (fashion designer, consultant, lecturer, and researcher)
Thom Woodroofe (foreign affairs analyst)
Hosted by Richard Aedy, presenter of ABC Radio National's Life Matters program.
Click here to view GOMA Talks: Young minds on the Gallery's webcast archive
GOMA Talks 21st Century
February-April 2011
GOMA Talks was first presented in partnership with ABC Radio National during the Gallery's '21st Century: Art in the First Decade' exhibition.
17 February 2011 | GOMA Talks Communication | Who are we in the world of Web 2.0?
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Ian Farmer (Managing Partnerand Founder of Frontiering)
Andrew Frost (Writer, blogger, art critic and television presenter)
Dr Ian MacColl (Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology)
Dr Jason Sternberg (Lecturer in Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology)
Hosted by Antony Funnell, Presenter, Future Tense, ABC Radio NationalClick here to view this GOMA Talks: Communication on the Gallery's YouTube channel
3 March 2011 | GOMA Talks Places | What makes up a 21st Century city and are there any boundaries?
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Lawrence English (Sound artist)
Professor Michael Keniger (Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Queensland)
Meg Mundell (Author, journalist and researcher)
Angela Ndalianis (Associate Professor in Cinema and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)
Hosted by Alan Saunders, Presenter, By Design, Radio NationalClick here to view GOMA Talks: Places on the Gallery's YouTube channel
17 March 2011 | GOMA Talks Design | What does a 21st Century art museum look like and who is it for?
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Tony Ellwood (Director, Queensland Art Gallery)
Juliana Engberg (Director, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Callum Morton (Artist, Melbourne)
Brian Ritchie (Curator, Museum of Old and New Art Festival of Music and Art)
Hosted by Janne Ryan, Producer, By Design, ABC Radio NationalClick here to view GOMA Talks: Design on the Gallery's YouTube channel
31 March 2011 | GOMA Talks Science| How are health and the environment linked in the 21st Century and are our lifestyles putting economies at risk?
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Professor Ian Frazer (Clinical Immunologist and Director of the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute)
Anne Fulwood (Media consultant, Sydney)
Amanda McKenzie (Co-founder and CEO, Australian Youth Climate Coalition)
Dr Joseph Reser (Environmental Psychologist, Griffith University)
Hosted by Paul Barclay, Presenter, Australia Talks, ABC Radio NationalClick here to view GOMA Talks: Science on the Gallery's YouTube channel
14 April 2011 | GOMA Talks Futures | What will the future of the 21st Century hold?
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Tony Albert (Artist)
Ross Dawson (Futurist, Future Exploration Network)
Dr Melissa Gregg (Senior Lecturer, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney)
Tim Longhurst (Futurist and Strategy Lead, Key Message)
Hosted by Antony Funnell, Presenter, Future Tense, ABC Radio NationalClick here to view GOMA Talks: Futures on the Gallery's YouTube channel
