I was commissioned by Meanjin late last year to write an essay about the role that funding bodies play in Australian culture. It appears in the current edition of the magazine and is now available online. Meanjin is one of Australia’s oldest and most esteemed literary journals and one that is currently enjoying a renaissance [...]
Evolution and Creation: Australia’s Funding Bodies (Meanjin Essay)
July 6th, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: Arts Funding · australia council · CAL essay · cultural policy · digtial arts · evolution and creation · Meanjin · media arts · Not Quite Art · policy australia
NQA wins coveted SMH “damned with faint praise” award!
January 28th, 2009 2 Comments
I am not sure whether I should chalk this one up as a plus or a minus.
Those of you who follow my TV adventures as closely as I do (OK, no one!) will remember, Not Quite Art took out the highly competitive “best arts show of the year” in 2007’s Sydney Morning Herald “Couch Potato” [...]
Tags: Arts TV · Couch potato awards · infomercials · late night quiz shows · Not Quite Art · SMH
Me. v. Adelaide radio host Peter Goers
October 22nd, 2008 6 Comments
I’d resisted posting this for a while because i wasn’t exactly sure how to introduce it.
Part of me was tempted to launch into an elaboration of my theory of why and how Adelaide is the least interesting cultural place in all of Australia. It is. Honest.
Part of me was tempted to elaborate on the highly [...]
Tags: ABC Adelaide · ABC Radio · ABC South Australia · Marcus Westbury · Not Quite Art · Peter Goers · Soda jerk
Looking for work
October 22nd, 2008 7 Comments
One of the strange things about being on television is that it creates the impression that you’re busy, jetsetting and living some sort of glamorous, high profile existence. To be fair, i did get to go to the Logies but it isn’t all tedious and bizarre nights surrounded by people who dig up people’s gardens, [...]
Tags: ABC · Marcus Westbury · Not Quite Art · Unemployment
Steal This Film
October 21st, 2008 8 Comments
The second episode of Not Quite Art Series Two goes to air on TV on ABC1 across Australia at 10pm local time tonight.
If you’re in Australia, it is possible to download all episodes of the series in full and for free from the ABC web site. However as a lot of people have observed this [...]
Tags: ABC TV · copyright · Creative Commons · lawrence lessig · legal stuff · Marcus Westbury · Mark pesce · mashup · Not Quite Art · parody · piracy · Soda jerk · yahtzee croshaw
Not Quite Art Series 2 tonight: Culture Shock
October 14th, 2008 12 Comments
The new series of Not Quite Art begins on ABC1 tonight at 10pm. You should also be able to download it from 10pm tonight from the ABC web site.
Here’s also a little piece i wrote the relates to the content of tonight’s episode.
Anyhow, I thought i’d open up a thread here for anyone who might [...]
Tags: ABC1 · chooky dancers · jodi rose · Not Quite Art · Yahtzee
My name is a google ad!
August 26th, 2008 1 Comment
I was googling myself this morning – as i should confess that i can be a bit prone to doing at times – and i noticed the strangest thing. Someone has bought my name!
Google “marcus westbury” yourself and see.
Sadly, it hasn’t been bought by a global a talent agency, or by that Nigerian prince’s family [...]
Tags: ABC iview · cleos most elligible bachelor · google adwords · googling yourself · Marcus Westbury · nigerian prince · Not Quite Art · self promotion
The Newcastle Scheme
August 20th, 2008 6 Comments
Expect much more on this as the months roll on but i’ve finally gone public about what I’ve been running around proposing for the Newcastle CBD. It’s so crazy it just might work.
Courtesy of ABC Radio 1233 (you can hear the interview and see some pictures here)…
Vacant shopfronts in the Newcastle CBD should be opened [...]
Tags: ABC 1233 · CBD · Marcus Westbury · Newcastle · newcastle community · Newcastle glasgow · Not Quite Art · Renew Newcastle · renewal trust · Vacant buildings
another supernova photo
August 7th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: Cosplay · Not Quite Art · photos · Sonic the hedgehog · Supernova
another NQA2 photo
August 5th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Cosplay · Not Quite Art · NQA2 · Supernova