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Dr

Danny Butt

Senior Lecturer In Interdisciplinary Practice
Victorian College Of The Arts
research methods
artistic research
settler colonialism
history of universities
platforms
neoliberal aesthetics
communication
social sciences
participation
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Dr

Danny Butt

 
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Fine Arts And Music
 
Primary Interest
Cultural Theory
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Dr. Danny Butt is Associate Director (Research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where he also coordinates programmes in Social Practice and Community Engagement. His book Artistic Research in the Future Academy was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017.

He is the editor of PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (with Jon Bywater and Nova Paul) (Cambridge Scholars Press 2008) and Internet Governance: Asia Pacific Perspectives (Elsevier 2006). He works with the Auckland-based collective Local Time , whose work engages the dynamics of visitor and host in the context of mana whenua and discourses of indigenous self-determination. Recent sites for Local Time projects have included Waitangi (2017), Mangere maunga (2014) and the Waitemata Harbour (2013) in Aotearoa New Zealand; Footscray, Australia (2014); Delhi, India (2013); and Rarotonga, Cook Islands (2015).

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Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network - Research Proposal Development

2020 - 2021
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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Local Time: Paihamu

Tiriki Onus, Vicki Couzens, Gina Maree Bundle, Natalie Robertson, Daniel Butt, Alex Monteith, Jonathan Bywater

Recorded or Rendered Work - Inter-Arts  |  2020

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Ethics and the infrastructure of artistic research: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument

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Book Chapter  |  2019

This book is perfect for academics, ethics administrators, higher degree research candidates and supervisors looking to engage fur..

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Libraries as redistributive technology: From capacity to culture in Queensland's public library network

Danielle Wyatt, Scott Mcquire, Danny Butt

Journal article  |  2018  |  New Media and Society

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Infrastructures of Autonomy on the Professional Frontier: ‘Art and the Boycott of/as Art'

D Butt, R O'Reilly

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

Rachel O’Reilly and Danny Butt discuss an artistic refusal (boycott) to provide meaning for the service of the extractive and inca..

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Artistic Research in the Future Academy

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Book  |  2017

The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge and, yet, as Dan..

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Local Time: Waitangi 2-Feb-2017 - 6-Feb-2017 1000 1300

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Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2017

Local Time’s contribution to Politics of Sharing will be to extend the opportunities for exchange, and collective, situational lea..

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The Platform University: Knowledge infrastructures and networked media

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Book Chapter  |  2017

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Platforms and Public Participation

D BUTT, S McQuire, N Papastergiadis

Journal article  |  2016  |  Continuum

The concept of the “platform” has recently received extensive analysis in media studies and urban planning. This paper explores th..

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Colonial Hospitality: Rethinking Curatorial and Artistic Responsibility

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Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal for Artistic Research

The recent enthusiasm for gestures of hospitality in contemporary art promises relief from the individualising forces of neolibera..

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Critical Care in Creative Research

D BUTT

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2016

During the 1990s and 2000s, as readers of NiTRO know well, an intensive debate took place among art and design academics as to whe..

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Keyword Analysis

Arts and Leisure
Communication and Media Studies
Art Theory and Criticism
Film, Television and Digital Media
Visual Arts and Crafts
Cultural Studies
Communication
Journalism and Professional Writing
Library and Information Studies
Curriculum and Pedagogy

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2005

Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Research

Macquarie University

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Credentials

Positions

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Interdisciplinary Practice

Victorian College Of The Arts

Member

Society for Artistic Research

Associate Member

ORBICOM International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications

Education

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts

Macquarie University

Certificate in Adult Teaching

Waikato Polytechnic

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