Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 29 April
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
That we live in a time of constant change is beyond doubt. Many grand narratives that have shaped the modern world are beginning to crumble as their usefulness to contemporary society comes under serious question. Representative democracy, marriage, print media and so much more are in flux, being replaced by new paradigms.
What does it mean to live in such a time of change, on an individual level? Who are the agents of true rebellion that will shape the world of tomorrow? How is this information shared? Will today’s generations be able to build on the success of their predecessors, or are they being handed a poisoned chalice?
This dynamic and interactive event, presented in partnership with Next Wave Festival 2014, examines new grand narratives and how people experience rebellion, both politically and personally. How are ideas surrounding fundamental change progressed through our society?
We hear from six speakers – including Erik Jensen, Georgie Mattingley, Phuong Ngo and Sarah-Jane Norman – who will reflect on their personal experiences of climate change, family, media and history. In an innovative format, the debate will flow in the direction you wish to explore, a unique opportunity to help shape all our tomorrows.
A good event starts great conversations. Here’s your chance to stay back a while and meet the guest speakers. Nibbles provided. Drinks at bar prices.
Featuring
Georgie Mattingley
Georgie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 2012. Often adopting a playful humour and a quirky use of visual aesthetic, Georgie aims to beautify confronting spaces or events, as a tool to question people’s limits and values.
She currently works at a local slaughterhouse, investigating the social and visual dynamics within Melbourne’s dense industrial landscapes. Georgie has spent time practicing in Melbourne, Australia and in Mumbai, India.
Alan Duffy
Associate Professor Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter.
He is attempting to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere at the bottom of a gold mine in Stawell, Victoria. He is also an Associate Investigator in two ARC Centres of Excellence investigating the origin of matter (CAASTRO-3D) and seeing the Universe with gravitational waves (OzGrav).
When not exploring simulated universes Alan lectures in physics as well as science communication at Swinburne University of Technology. Every fortnight Alan tries to explain breaking science from UFO sightings to the latest NASA discoveries on his space segment with ABC Breakfast News TV, ABC Radio Sydney with Robbie Buck and ABC Radio Melbourne with Clare Bowditch. He is also a regular on Ten’s The Project, Nine’s Today Weekends as well as Triple J’s Hack. Most recently Alan presented an episode of ABC's Catalyst and has another episode being released in 2018.
You can hear Alan on ABC Radio National Cosmic Vertigo, see him the in Todd Samson science show Life on the Line or catch him at any number of public speaking events. He’s even toured Australia with the BBC’s Science of Doctor Who show.
He was the Ambassador for the Sydney Science Festival 2016, and host for Famelab showcasing science talent across Australia.
He wrote and starred in a science show about dark matter, Dark, shown in 148 planetariums in 25 countries worldwide.
His other writing pursuits include his own column in the Conversation and Australia’s most popular science magazine Cosmos.
He was named one of Men’s Style Magazine’s Men of Influence, WA Sunday Time Magazine’s Best and Brightest as well as a finalist for the National Eureka Award for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research, Victorian State Finalist in the Fresh Science Award for science communication and Commbank’s Australian of the Day.
Erik Jensen
Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer, poet and screenwriter. He is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper and editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media. He is the author of Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death ...
Laura Bates
Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 10,000 women’s daily experiences of gender inequality.
She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New York-based project working to combat the use of sexualised violence as a tool of war. She has written for the Independent, the Huffington Post, Grazia, the Women’s Media Center and JUMP! magazine for girls.
Brendan Maclean
After training with the NSW Drama Company and under NIDA practitioner Kate Gaul, Brendan’s career kicked off when triple j offered him the chance to get behind the mic in 2007. Since then, he has hosted and produced some of triple j’s highest rating shows, from House Party to Super Request to Home and Hosed, scoring top interviews with Goldfrapp, John Butler, Krafty Kuts and Urthboy.
Brendan has been awarded Pedestrian.TV’s ‘King of Twitter’, presented segments for The Project and now has a music publishing deal with Universal. He arranged an overwhelmingly successful crowdfunding campaign for the video clip to his song Stupid, which was pasted on the front page of Buzzfeed and racked up over 130,000 views on YouTube. His newest song Winner also made the front page of Buzzfeed and drew 18,000 plays on YouTube in its debut week.
Phuong Ngo
Phuong Ngo’s practice explores the individual and collected identity of the Vietnamese diaspora through the exploration of history, politics and culture. He completed an honours degree in fine art at RMIT in 2012, and has exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Melbourne including the Counihan (2013) and the Centre for Contemporary Photography (2012).
Phuong participated in Fresh Produce, the closing event for NW12. He was a finalist in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (2012) and the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2011).