Australian Music and Art Research Group

• Dr Warren Burt

Music Performance and Composition; Music Technology and Instrument Building; Video Art. Since 1970, Warren Burt’s work has bridged disciplines between visual art, music, experimental poetry and scientific research. In many of his video works, the visual and sound components develop from similar processes, sometimes invoking sound poetry as well. He is a builder of experimental acoustic musical instruments, is involved in web-based media work, and is the author of many published articles. He is currently a Lecturer, and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies in Music, at Box Hill Institute, Melbourne.

• Dr Denis Collins

Musicology. Denis Collins is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Queensland. His interests include the interaction between music and the visual arts in the medieval and early modern periods.

• Dr Jane Hardie

Musicology. Jane Hardie is an Honorary Associate at The Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney. Trained as a Rare Book Librarian and Musicologist she has published widely on Medieval and Renaissance Iberian topics including music and visual culture.

• Dr Michael Kieran Harvey

Music Performance and Composition. Since curating music for the 1993 Melbourne International Art Fair, Michael Kieran Harvey has been actively involved in the cross-domain interface between the visual arts and music, whether through the creation and performance of graphic scores, through improvisation contexts in which the visual stimulus is applied to sound, or in the application of art theory and techniques to music composition.

• Dr Jason Stoessel

Musicology. Jason Stoessel is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of New England. His research addresses music in European visual culture of the 14th-17th centuries, including the representation of canon and canonic techniques.

• Dr Arabella Teniswood-Harvey

Music Performance, Musicology and Art History. Arabella Teniswood-Harvey is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Classical Music Performance at the University of Tasmania. A trained art historian as well as a pianist, her research traverses the late 19th -21st centuries, and includes the impact of music and theatre on James McNeill Whistler’s art, the ways in which music and musicians are depicted in Australian visual culture, and the visual marketing of celebrity pianists.

• Assoc. Prof. Vanessa Tomlinson

Music Performance and Composition. Vanessa Tomlinson is Associate Professor of Music at Griffith University. She is a percussionist, devoted to using the skills of listening to enhance community engagement. She does this through performance, composition, improvisation, site-specific work, environmental works, intercultural work and artistic and architectural collaborations.

• Arvi Wattel

Art History. Arvi Wattel is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Western Australia. His interests include the representation of music in early sixteenth-century Ferrarese art, in particular the use of music in allegories of love, and the depiction of ritual performance and identity in the Dutch colonial city of Batavia (today’s Jakarta).

• Assoc. Prof. Suzanne Wijsman

Music Performance and Musicology. Suzanne Wijsman is Associate Professor and Head of Strings at the University of Western Australia. She is a cellist and musicologist whose particular interest is the study of images of music and sound in Hebrew mediaeval manuscripts.