Nuclear Futures

Online community, film, websites, games (2014-16 and ongoing)

A Nuclear Futures interactive on-line community will be created in collaboration with communities and linked to all other Nuclear Futures projects. This integration allows joint development of linked projects, cross-promotion, and community education strategies that support and distribute our multi-platform new-media work. A baseline objective of the on-line community is to document community cultural development within the wider Nuclear Futures program. Beyond this, the on-line community will allow production, dissemination and preservation of new digital art – we will produce webisodes (5-10 minutes each), installations, live streaming, games and a long-form (eg. 52 minutes) documentary for broadcast and festival screenings.

Key Partners: Documentary Australia Foundation, Bowerbird Films, Hiroshima Peace Film Festival, In Place of War, State Library of South Australia, ANVA, BNTVA, Murdoch University, Atomic Photographers Guild.

Key Artists: Pat Fiske (Producer), Jane Castle (Director), Linda Dement and Mick Broderick (Multi-media artists), Zubin Driver (Social media artist), Amitesh Grover (live streaming artist), Jessie Boylan (Photographer)

Showcases (2015-2016, and beyond)

We will use non-traditional venues to mount performances and installations for public presentation of new work sampled across the whole Nuclear Futures program. After an initial community performance in Balaklava (see above), we are planning at least six Showcases within the three-year life of the CCPI, in Australia, Britain and Japan. We have proposed a further period of development in conjunction with Australian venues; and the State Library of South Australia has confirmed interest in hosting an Adelaide Showcase. In conjunction with the showcases, we will run seminars designed to engage all our artists and the public in discussion of how present generations might communicate the story of nuclear society across millennia.

Key Partners: State Library of South Australia, other Australian and international venues.

Key Artists: All members of the Nuclear Futures creative team.

“Nuclear Futures Hub” (2013-2016, and ongoing)

Represented by a website and social media, and leading the development and coordination of new projects, the ‘hub’ manages project partnerships, enables networking, conducts international liaison, and supports steerage of the program via an advisory committee of artists, community members, researchers and project coordinators. The Hub manages finances, fundraising, copyright, employment contracts, legal matters and overall logistics. At various points across the three year program, we will assemble the combined creativity of all involved in ‘Nuclear Futures’ to address the fundamental question: “What are the creative projects that will communicate the story of Cold War nuclear legacies on the 10,000 year timescale?” This will instigate work beyond the life of the CCPI.

Key Partners: Global Hibakusha Project, ANVA, BNTVA, Maralinga Tjarutja Council.

Key Artists: Paul Brown (Creative Producer), Ellise Barkley (Program Manager), Tina Jackson (Development Coordinator) 

Reflection, Evaluation, Analysis and Documentation (READ) (Ongoing)

In “Nuclear Futures’, social and cultural outputs are numerous and diverse, and achievements need to be communicated across a wide range of contributors and partners. We will create tailored evaluation methodologies for each program element, while obtaining a robust picture of the whole; and attempting to gauge the program’s impact over time and across generations.

Key Partners: Queensland University of Technology, University of Western Sydney, University of New South Wales, Murdoch University, Hiroshima Peace Institute/Hiroshima City University, In Place of War/Manchester University.

Key Artists: Analysts: James Thompson, James Arvanitakis, Ingrid Matthews, Ros Diprose, Mick Broderick, Bo Jacobs, Ellise Barkley and Paul Brown; all other creative artists and communities as collaborators.