by Ben Fox | Oct 25, 2013 | Culture, Fashion, Ideas, Live Art, Uncategorized
Last Saturday was the second Gold City Rollers home season roller derby bout. The whole event was super entertaining, held on a flat wooden track, the main audience discussion in the first fifteen minutes seemed to be “what is going on?” followed by...
by Ben Fox | Oct 16, 2013 | Art, Culture, Ideas, RAA2014, Uncategorized
One year from today the doors will open to the Regional Arts Australia Summit in Kalgoorlie. A year before today in Goolwa, scented smoke drifted across the waters of the mouth of the mighty Murray river as the Ngarrindjeri nation welcomed us to their land. The 2012...
by Ben Fox | Sep 28, 2013 | Art, Culture, Ideas, Live Art, Uncategorized
The New York Museum of Modern Art is super fun on a Friday night. I asked a security guard if the trend I have noticed in Indonesia of of taking pictures of yourself or your friends in front of famous or cool paintings is big in NY. (See image below – Van...
by Ben Fox | Sep 15, 2013 | Art, Ideas, Tech, Uncategorized
On a recent visit to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research I was lucky enough to be able to see the innermost chamber of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as it was shut down for an upgrade after operating continuously for the past 2 years. I was struck...
by Ben Fox | May 6, 2013 | Art, Collaboration, Culture, Ideas, Peer Learning, Uncategorized
I have been invited as one of 10 artists to prepare an idea which will be used as a provocation for discussion. Here is the brief Angharad Wynne-Jones the Director of Tipping Point Australia sent me. “Imagine it’s 20 years in the future (2033) and you are...
by Ben Fox | Mar 1, 2013 | Art, BestDressed, Peer Learning, Social Media, Uncategorized
For the Coriolis Effect Project I made a piece of immersive, experiential and super-fun live art, you can see pictures and stories about it here. What were the major benefits and outcomes? The live art project has extended out into an ongoing work that I have...
