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Senior Lecturer/Grad Research Coord
BFA, PhD Visual Arts (Major Studio Project) UniSA
Co-recipient: 2004 Vice Chancellor's award for Quality Teaching
Co-recipient: 2004 Dean's Award for Quality Teaching
Dr Ashley Holmes has award-winning teaching skills. He has management and administrative experience in a regional university context. This follows a successful twenty five-year business career as a creative industry producer and company director. He is an awarded designer, widely-published photographer and more recently he has gained international recognition as a new media digital artist. Ashley has established an innovative research and publication profile. He teaches into the Bachelor of Multimedia Studies at CQUniversity Mackay campus.
Graduate Research Coordinator: Creative and Performing Arts / Mackay Campus
Head of Program: Bachelor of Multimedia Studies Dec 2008 - March 2012
Academic representative, Faculty Arts, Business, Informatics and Education, Academic Board of CQUniversity Australia, 2011 - 2012
Campus Academic Manager Mackay, Faculty Arts, Business, Informatics and Education (acting) Mar 2009 - Mar 2010
Sub Dean, Mackay Campus, Faculty of Informatics & Communication, 2003 - 2006
Deputy Head of School, Contemporary Communication, 2002 - 2006
Member CQU Academic Board, Regional Academic Representative (elected position), 2004 - 2005
Transformations Journal editorial board member
Mackay Base Hospital Redevelopment: Public art design consultancy curated by Brecknock Consulting 2010 - 2011.
Holmes, A, Kinslow, R & Pope, M, 2012, 'Learning integrated work: inter-organisational collaborators reflect on provision of authentic virtual multimedia project experience', in Collaboration Education: investing in the future, Proceedings of the 2012 Australian Collaborative Education Network National Conference, Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN), Victoria.
Holmes, A 2003, 'Embodiment computer networks and symbiosis revisited', in Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Holmes, A 2009, 'Woodstock forty years on' in J Chism (ed), Waters' edge - creating environments, Jill Chism, Mackay, Qld., http://www.jillchism.com.au/pdf/Jill_Chism_Waters_Edge_Catalogue.pdf
Holmes, A 2003 ��The Government: The Book��, creative work.
Holmes, A, 2012, 'Social creativity at the coalface: a heuristic case study incorporating non-human agency', TEXT, iss. 16, October, viewed online http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue16/Holmes.pdf
Holmes, A 2011, 'Reciprocal and complementary knowledge conversion in a work integrated learning collaboration', Studies in Learning, Evaluation Innovation and Development, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 40-52, http://sleid.cqu.edu.au/viewarticle.php?id=351
Holmes, A 2010, 'Cohesion, adhesion and incoherence - magazine production with a Flickr special interest group', M/C Journal - A journal of media and culture, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-12, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/210 (viewed 18/5/10)
Holmes, A 2009, 'Haphazart! Ashley Holmes', Haphazart!2: Contemporary Abstracts, no. 2, November 2009, pp. 6-35, http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/956638
PhD Visual Art (Major Studio Project), South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, 2005.
Thesis Title:
"Bridging Adelaide 2001: photography and hyperimage; hyperreality and the documentary"
For more information on thesis see:
"20-year documentary a good-news story for Adelaide’s Torrens River" in UniNews, 5 May 2005, CQU
Master of Communication: Thomas Duggan. Thesis: Exploring the aesthetics of digital media genres. Co-supervision with Prof. Denis Cryle.
Master of Arts: Michael Lee. Thesis: Smart Mark: a study into the Internet Wrestling Community's impact on the world of pro-wrestling. Co supervised with Assoc. Prof. Errol Vieth.
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