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Dr Carolyn Barnes |
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Director, External Research Liaison and Leader, Swinburne Design Factory Project |
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PhD. 2004. The University of Melbourne. School of Culture and Communications.
M.A. (Hons) 1991. The University of Melbourne. The School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology.
B.A. (Hons) 1983. The University of Melbourne. The School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology.
B. Ed, 1978. The University of Melbourne.
Dr Barnes is a Senior Research Fellow. In the field of design, her research spans the areas of participatory design, the role of design in mediating information in the contemporary museum and the history of Australian modernist design. In the field of Australian art history, she has established research interests in site-specific and post-conceptual painting practices, artists’ networks, artist-generated initiatives and the institutional dynamics of the Australian art world. Craftsman House published her monograph on the Hong Kong-Australian artist John Young in 2005.
Within the Faculty of Design, Dr Barnes is Director, External Research Liaison, which involves promoting the value of the work of the Faculty’s research clusters to industry and community partners.
Dr Barnes is an assistant editor of the International Journal of Design and a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Visual Arts Practice and visual:design:scholarship: Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association. She is an assessor for project funding for the Australian Research Council.
Select Recent Publications and Conference papers
Barnes, C., ‘Peter Cripps: Art & other strategies’ in Peter Cripps, South Melbourne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2010.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Sydney Non Objective: Redrawing the geography and history of abstraction in the context of the contemporary’, in SNO Catalogue, Sydney, Sydney Non Objective, 2010, pp. 89-99.
Barnes, Carolyn, Simone Taffe, Deirdre Barron, Simon Jackson, Margaret Zeegers, ‘Research experience as professional learning and a change agent for design: Two case studies in undergraduate participation in design research projects,’ ConnectED 2010 -2nd International Conference on Design Education, 28 June – 1 July, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Taffe, S. and C. Barnes, ‘Outcomes we didn’t expect: Participant’s shifting investment in graphic design’, PDC 2010, November 29 – December 3, 2010, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Kocsis, A., C. Barnes and S. Huxley, 'Framing the phenomenon of visitor experience in interactive exhibitions' in G. Rouette (e.), Exhibition Design for Galleries and Museums: an insider's view, Carlton, Museums Australia (Victoria), 2010, pp. 10-18.
Barron, Deirdre, Zeegers, Margaret, Jackson, Simon, Barnes, Carolyn and Simone Taffe, ‘The role of Honours in promoting research literate graduates for, and with, industry.’ ConnectED 2010 -2nd International Conference on Design Education, 28 June – 1 July, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Barnes, Carolyn and Simon Jackson, ‘A Strange Case of Cultural Borrowing: The Australian Pavilion at Expo ’70 Osaka”, in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art, Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2009, pp. 574-579.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Ken Friedman: Event, idea and enquiry’ in Ken Friedman: 99 Events 1956-2009, New York, Stendahl Gallery, 2009, pp, 7-16.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Abstraction, architecture and the everyday in the recent work of Trevor Richards’, in Trevor Richards: New Work, Perth, Turner Galleries, 2009, pp. 12-15.
Barnes, Carolyn, Hall, Barbara and Simon Jackson, ‘Relaxed and Comfortable: The Australian Pavilion at Expo '67’, Design Issues, Winter 2009, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 80–93.
Barnes, Carolyn and Simone Taffe, ‘Encouraging sustainable cleaning in childcare through participatory design’, International Nonprofit and Social Marketing Conference, 14-15 July, Victoria Law School, Melbourne.
Barnes, Carolyn and Simon Jackson, ‘No accounting for the environment: Robin Boyd, Expo’70, Australian design history and defuturing’, Design Philosophy Papers, No. 2, 2009, http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_index.html
Barnes, Carolyn, Simone Taffe and Lucy Miceli, ‘Multiple information failure: A case of different investments in form and content in graphic design’, Visible Language, 43(2/3) 2009, pp. 144-167.
Akama,Yoko and Carolyn Barnes, ‘Where is our diversity? Questions of visibility and representation in Australian graphic design’ visual:design:scholarship: Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association’ Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009.
Barnes, Carolyn and Simon Jackson, ‘A significant mirror of progress’: modernist design and Australian participation at Expo ’67 and Expo ’70’, in Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis (Eds.), Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the world, Clayton, Monash University E-Press, 2008, pp. 20.1-20.19.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Art World Changes in the 1970s’ in Helen Vivian (ed.), When You Think About Art: The Ewing and George Paton Gallery 1971-2008, Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008, pp. 144-161.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘John Young: Three Works’, HEAT 18: The Library of Fire, 2008.
Kocsis, Anita and Carolyn Barnes, ‘Making Exhibitions, Brokering Meaning: Designing new connections across communities of practice’, in David Durling, Chris Rust, Lin-Lin Chen, Philippa Ashton and Ken Friedman (eds) UNDISCIPLINED! Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2008. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, 2009.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Taking a position: visuality and sensation in the work of Andrew Leslie’, in Andrew Leslie, Melbourne, John Buckley Gallery, 2008.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘There are only Practices: Expanded foam and cosmology in the work of Giles Ryder’, in Dark Matter, Melbourne, John Buckley Gallery, 2008, pp. 24-27.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘The Field: Art, Context and the Historical Moment’, in Lynne Sear and Julie Ewington (eds.), Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006, Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery Publishing, 2007, pp. 22-31.
Barnes, Carolyn, John Young, Sydney, Craftsman House/Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Defiance as a Constructive Principle: Art Projects 1979-1984, in Max Delany, Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects, Store 5, 1st Floor, Clayton, Monash University Museum of Art, 2005, pp. 6–13.