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Avondale lecturers in public eye
03 June 2008
Kristin Thiele
Public relations assistant
Two sessional lecturers from the Faculty of Lifestyle Education and Visual Communication at Avondale College have received public recognition for their professional expertise.
Jared Madden created the website, www.tune-out.com, after watching the anti-piracy documentary, "Australian music in tune," sponsored by the Australian Recording Industry Association. He created the site to post his own response to the documentary-an open letter to the music industry. In the letter, Jared, and colleague Adam Purcell, challenge the industry to change its business model and "embrace the digital space." The website allows readers to add their own electronic signature to the letter. Some 135 have obliged.
The letter and signatures caused a media stir. SBS TV invited Jared to appear on its Insight program after an article about Tune Out appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and on website Crikey.com.au. Radio stations 666 ABC Canberra and 1233 ABC Newcastle interviewed Jared. A myriad of bloggers are also following the story.
"The current conversation with the music industry is one-sided," says Jared. "It needs another voice to represent another angle."
Jared is not the only Avondale lecturer in the public eye. The University of Newcastle has included artwork by Aaron Bellette in two exhibitions, "BIG & small" and "Landscape." The former pleased Aaron as it featured artwork only from staff members. "It's good to interact with the staff, and I enjoyed showing new work," he says.
More of Aaron's artwork will feature in an exhibition on Toowoomba, Queensland, later in the year. He will present new pieces from "Moving still," which he first exhibited at Avondale.
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