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It is time for us to grow our ResFamily again!  Do you have experience with LimeSurvey or other survey tools?

Do you love technology and research? Are you the person your colleagues turn to with their SPSS questions? Are you interested in digital pedagogy? If you answered YES to any/all of the above, then Research Platform Services invites you to apply for the LimeSurvey research community co-ordinator position!

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The successful applicant will grow their respective communities through regular workshops and meetups. Maintaining an online presence is also an essential part of the job.

You would also be expected and supported in organising events within your communities, as well as team specific and Research Platforms-wide events such as Data Storytelling and the famous Research Bazaar conference at the beginning of next year.

Check out our post of this year’s conference here.

Please submit your:

1. cover letter
2. CV / Resume
3. document addressing essential selection criteria (3 pages maximum)

To kcdoy1@gmail.com. Applications close Friday the 8th of September.

Please see the below link for a detailed position description.

JUNIOR RESEARCH COMMUNITY CO-ORDINATOR (LimeSurvey)

It is time for us to grow our ResFamily again!  Do you have experience with Medical Imaging Software? 3D slicer, FSL, Matlab med or image J?

Do you love technology and research? Are you interested in digital pedagogy? If you answered YES to any/all of the above, then Research Platform Services invites you to apply for the Medical Imaging research community co-ordinator position!

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The successful applicant will grow their respective communities through regular workshops and meetups. Maintaining an online presence is also an essential part of the job.

You would also be expected and supported in organising events within your communities, as well as team specific and Research Platforms-wide events such as Data Storytelling and the famous Research Bazaar conference at the beginning of next year.

Check out our post of this year’s conference here.

Please submit your:

1. cover letter
2. CV / Resume
3. document addressing essential selection criteria (3 pages maximum)

To kcdoy1@gmail.com. Applications close Friday the 8th of September.

Please see the below link for a detailed position description.

JUNIOR RESEARCH COMMUNITY CO-ORDINATOR (Medical Imaging)

It is time for us to grow our ResFamily again!  

Do you love science and research? Are you the person your colleagues turn to with their MATLAB questions? Can you explain technology eloquently and kindly to the grumpiest professor? If you answered YES to any/all of the above, then research platform services invites you to apply for the MATLAB research community co-ordinator position!

The successful applicant will grow their respective communities through regular workshops and meetups. Maintaining an online presence is also an essential part of the job.

You would also be expected and supported in organising events within your communities, as well as team specific and Research Platforms-wide events such as Res.Search for Researchers and the famous Research Bazaar conference at the beginning of next year.

Check out our post of this year’s conference here.

Please submit your:

1. cover letter
2. CV / Resume
3. document addressing essential selection criteria (3 pages maximum)

to yamnimohan@gmail.com.Applications close Friday the 8th of September.

Please see the below link for a detailed position description

JUNIOR RESEARCH COMMUNITY CO-ORDINATOR (MATLAB)

by Emilie Walsh

Originally posted by abelmvada

For the next five weeks, I’m going to post a series of blog post on 3D printing in Fine Arts. So keep tuned!

Funnily enough, 3D printing very first historical mention is in fiction and was thus imaging by artists!

How the comics artist #Hergé came up with the idea for #3Dprinting ! #Tintin #comics #3Dprinter pic.twitter.com/o6hOgtsk20

— Emilie Walsh (@emilouwalsh)

3 August 2017

It makes no doubt that 3D printing is a technique that has appealed to creative at a very early stage of its development. An early example of an artist creation using 3D printing technology would be Patrick Jouin, Solid Chair.

It has now been acquired by some major contemporary museum across the world, including the Stedelijk museum in the Netherland and the Centre Pompidou in France.

Following the artist first experimentation, large national museum stated to dedicate exhibition to 3D printing in fine arts. Recently the Centre Pompidou in Paris had an exhibition solely on 3D printing in Fine Arts, Print the world. I tell you more about this show in a couple of weeks!

But what are the impact of this newly developed technology in the Art world?

Last year, I was asked by Master students Yuan, Mengxuan and their team about how are contemporary artists using 3D printing. One very interesting question I was asked was how is 3D printing shifting the Fine Arts practices and especially sculpture. Some very innovative practices with 3D printing involve using it to create forms that couldn’t be created otherwise.

Joshua Harker is an artist how has pushed the technology to a high level of achievement. Have a look at his beautifully intricate sculptures:

Because you can design your model theoretically in a 3D modelling software, it doesn’t need to be made in a way that the human hand could. For example, you can have designed some intricate forms, inside one another, is way no traditional tool could carve, mould or cast. example mask Bjork:

whole without parts : https://t.co/U9ks14c2ir

— björk (@bjork)

30 June 2016

Fashion is also an industry that is looking closely at 3D printing

Another extraordinary piece at @metmuseum’s MANUS X MACHINA. #3DPrinting used to push the boundaries of fashion. pic.twitter.com/wri3FIdip8

— Dejan (@heyDejan)

24 June 2016

Another aspect of 3D printing, that might be interesting some of you, is the capacity of testing out 3D ideas very quickly. This has early appeal to artists, and 3D printing is often uses as a prototyping phase. Some artist use 3D modelling and printing to create a model, and then make a mould and cast it in a more traditional material like bronze. 3D printing is not creating a competition between techniques and media. Artists will keep working with ceramic, marble or bronze. But 3D printing might open up the possibilities. It is just another fantastic opportunity for creative to imagine new forms and communicated their ideas quickly and test them out in a tangible material.

How is the democratisation of fabrication techniques created by 3D printing a challenge for artists and designers?

When photography was invented, some voices were heard saying that it was the death of painting. Almost 200 years after, both media are strong and vibrant in the Fine Arts world.

Walter Benjamin was questioning the impact of photography with it essay “Art at the time of reproducibility”. We could reactivate this question today and ask about sculpture at the time of reproducibility. Interestingly, the reproducibility of 3D printing models is not seen as a threat by artists, but rather use in their practices as a way of questioning our traditional means of production, or ownership issues. Duane Linklater from Canada uses 3D printing in his sculpture, reproducing Native American artefacts:

“ I was interested in unauthored art objects, more specifically, those objects that don’t have an attributed artist to their name. I thought that this is an interesting problem to work with. For me, it’s reflected what happens with Native American objects when they enter into predominately European modern and contemporary museums — that they often lose information when they’ve been acquired. I was looking for a particular way of making these objects, copying these objects as part of creating an analogous object to speak to that loss. As a result, the final sculptures that were presented, of course, are representative of all of this lost information, missed translations. For me, that was a really important project to do”

So there are many ways in which 3D printing could be inspiring for you. If you are interested in learning more for your art practice or your research, be in touch to take part in one of our free workshops. You can learn how to use some easy CAD software such as TinkerCAD. The 3D modelling software Fusion 360 also has a function that allows to free form a model by playing with it like a ball of clay. Yuliang, studying Engineering at Melbourne Uni, uses it for his CAD models:

using free_foaming to improve the capstone project pic.twitter.com/iWZHVs4eG4

— Yuliang Liu (@LiuLiuyl)

4 August 2017

Get in touch with us if you’re interested to learn about those CAD tools!

 

*credit to Yuan, Mengxuan and their team for the title of this blog post, borrowing the title of their great video on 3D printing in Fine Arts

by Bobby Li

It is once again that time of year where engineering students will be busy working on their design projects, and to support in their efforts to produce the very best we are pleased to announce the return of the CAD QuickStart Program for 2017!

Initiated by Dr. Colin Burvill, the QuickStart program is, what I would describe as, a mild mix of consultation for computer-aided design problems and a little bit teaching for beginner CAD learners. So, whether you are someone that wants to help in doing that little bit extra or simply wants to learn CAD for themselves, there is a something for students at all levels, so please do come along for some good times 😊

The QuickStart program will run for a total of five weeks in semester 2, through week three to eight (except for week four, so don’t show up for that one), with two sessions running per week:

Days: Thursday and Friday (these will be repeat sessions)

Time:  5:15pm – 7:00pm (student mentors will be available until 6:05pm)

Place: Old Engineering Building, EDS-5

Any CAD related questions outside of the sessions can be emailed in to: mcenCAD2017@eng.unimelb.edu.au

Meet Our Mentor Team.

Left to right: Tam Hong, Shyam Shiv Kumar, Ryan Carter, Clark Chen, Matt Viccars, James Gregory, Li Jian, Eleanor Lourey

In the spirit of community building, our mentor team comprises of eight engineering students that either are or was once in the position that you are now, and will have some great first-hand experience to share.

All mentors have completed formal training in computer-aided design (using Inventor specifically). And each session will be run by a pair of our mentors that will take you through a guided learning activity and answer any questions.  

The Teaching Schedule.

While this is in no way a complete course into CAD it is still sufficient for beginner CAD learners to pick-up and even useful to people just wanting to learn a little bit more as we have cherry-picked all the best parts for your everyday engineering needs:

A quick overview of the scheduled lesson plans per week:

Week 3: Parts Modelling

Week 4: (no session this week)

Week 5: Assembly Modelling

Week 6: Motion Simulation & Exploded Presentations

Week 7: Technical Drawings

Week 8: Stress Analysis

Course Materials.

The course materials that we will be going through in the sessions can all be found in the link: https://github.com/resbaz/QuickStart-Program

by Emilie Walsh & Dr Christina Tuke Flanders

Indiana Jones’ granddaughter…

Imagine Indiana Jones getting his hands on a beautiful ancient artefact…

Originally posted by t3chn0ir

How is he going to archive it and study it? It’s too fragile to be handled on an everyday basis, or to travel across the country to be examined by a fellow scholar… So, what would Indie do? Draw a beautiful board of detailed depiction of the artefact!

http://anthropology.si.edu/naa/exhibits/strong/strong4.htm

Next generation Indiana Jones Junior would probably just get his digital camera and take a snap of it!

But what would Indie’s granddaughter would do today? 3D scan it and built a beautiful digital 3D model of it, to share with researchers around the globe!

#3Dscanning taking place @digitalstudioUM ! Percy Grainger wife’s shoe getting digitised! @ResPlat #datstory pic.twitter.com/I4Kjnw654o

— Emilie Walsh (@emilouwalsh)

3 July 2017

Data Storytelling

This year at Data Storytelling, we ran workshops for researchers working with Object-based data sets.

What is an object-based data set? It is any collection of three-dimensional objects you are working with for your research. This applies to a wide range of disciplines, from zoologists working with bones or taxidermy, to archaeologists researching ancient ceramic, but also medical or dentistry research, art history and conservation, and so on.

During our two-day workshop, our participant learnt to 3D scan objects, and generate a 3D model than they can then 3D print to have a replica or just visualise online and create beautiful online exhibition with 3D models, to share with other researchers.

Awesome team work creating this #3Dmodel from a #3Dscan and display it in @omeka ! #datstory @ResPlat @unimelb #resbaz #digitalcollections pic.twitter.com/8TKcVxXjH2

— Emilie Walsh (@emilouwalsh)

4 July 2017

Grainger museum at Data StoryTelling

For this event, we partnered with the Grainger museum, who kindly lent some objects from their collection.

Selecting objects from the

@GraingerMuseum collection! Come to #datstory to learn #3Dscanning and online exhibition https://t.co/bGtOVl7Fqb pic.twitter.com/z3VdqrUw5x

— Emilie Walsh (@emilouwalsh) 22 June 2017

We were lucky to dig out some treasure and touch (with gloves!) and play with some of the personal belongings of Percy Grainger!

The participants were thrilled to get that opportunity and soon started to ask all kinds of questions about this particular denture cast, or an enigmatic lady’s shoe from the 19th century!

Time for some

#3Dscanning with the @GraingerMuseum collection at #datstory pic.twitter.com/k88hZJktnw

— Annelies Van de Ven (@archaeoa1) 3 July 2017

Instead of looking at photos in a book of Percy Grainger’s artefacts, people were given the chance to directly interact with the real objects. This immediately engaged people because they can get a real life sense of  what these objects feel, weigh and even smell like. It’s a very visceral experience. It triggers the curiosity and get people working together very quickly!

What is object based learning?

Object-based learning has been a way to learn about cultural collections in the museum world for years, but it’s only recently that universities started to show an interest.

I asked our Training Consultant, Dr Christina Tuke Flanders, what are the benefits to bring Object Based Learning into the classroom.

She explained: “Introducing object based learning to your curriculum can make for a visceral experience for your students by lighting up their five senses. Touching objects that have a direct link to the past can enhance students imagination and therefore an understanding of a topic/concept.

This technique also promotes transferable skills such as teamwork and communication via the discussions that naturally stem from using objects in this way. And lastly, the brain loves novelty in learning, it is helpful to combine traditional learning experiences (lectures/tutorials/workshops) with an Object Based Learning experience.”

Object-based learning at the University of Melbourne

At the University of Melbourne, the new Arts West building has been designed to engage students with object-based learning. the cultural collections of the University are in display in windows across the building, and Arts West is equipped with a Gallery space for exhibitions and several Objects-Lab to engage directly with Artwork and artefact in the classroom

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/articulation/editions/2016-editions/december-2016/object-based-learning-a-new-mode-in-arts-west

Case Study: Archaeology

3D printing can also be a fantastic tool for object-based learning. Annelies is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at the University of Melbourne and she has 3D scan some of the materials she works with, such as a Cyrus Cylinder, or some Egyptian statuette at Data Storytelling (Read more about it here).

She 3D printed a fac-simile of her Cyrus cylinder for conservation and pedagogy purposes. How great is it for students to actually get to touch a replica of a 3D artefact! To feel the embossing and engraving in it, to have a precise idea of its size and shape, is the best way to remember it and connect with it through experience.

Think of the potential of 3D printing for communication and teaching: how cool would it be to bring a 3D model at your talk for your audience to have a direct experience of what you are demonstrating!

If you want to organise a workshop on 3D modelling, 3D scanning and 3D printing, be in touch us at research bazaar!

Don’t be afraid and get in TOUCH with your research with Object Based Learning!

Originally posted by introverts-hideaway