Ihlein, Lucas M. Dr

DECRA Research Fellow

  • Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
  • School of the Arts, English and Media

Top Publications

    Year Title
    2014 Blogging as art, art as research
    2012 Attending to Anthony McCall's long film for ambient light
    2007 Bilateral blogging
    2016 Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland

Research Overview

  • Dr Lucas Ihlein is ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of The Arts, English and Media. He uses a creative-practice based research methodology (including blogging, printmaking, public events, and scholarly publication) to explore complex environmental management issues, with a particular focus on Australian agriculture. His current research project: Sugar vs the Reef – Socially Engaged Art and Urgent Environmental Problems is the focus of his ARC DECRA Fellowship from 2016-18.

    Lucas is a member of the following research networks:

Geographic Focus

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article

    Year Title
    2016
    Cleaning up runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef: how art and science are inspiring farmers to help
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Volume
    3 November
    Pages
    1 - 4
    2016
    Editorial: Field Work
    Published In
    Unlikely Journal
    Pages
    1 - 18
    2016
    Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland
    Published In
    Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
    Volume
    36
    ISSN
    0727-1239
    2016
    Sugar vs the Reef? – Socially Engaged Art in the Field
    Published In
    NiTRO
    Volume
    4
    2015
    Reaching through to the object: reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1
    Published In
    Performance Matters
    Volume
    1
    Pages
    24 - 40
    2015
    The Yeomans Project: peri-urban field work
    Published In
    Axon: Creative Explorations
    Volume
    5
    Pages
    1 - 14
    ISSN
    1838-8973
    2014
    A heritage vision for sustainable housing goes to ICAC
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Pages
    1 - 7
    2013
    The human fax machine experiment
    Published In
    Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture
    Volume
    10
    Pages
    1 - 26
    ISSN
    1449-1818
    2010
    Editorial: What we talk about when we talk about 'the underground'
    Published In
    Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
    Volume
    30
    Page
    p. 19
    ISSN
    0727-1239
    2010
    To follow things as I encounter them: Blogging, art and attention
    Published In
    127 Prince (Online journal)
    Volume
    14 May
    2009
    Inhabiting Allan Kaprow's push and pull
    Published In
    Locksmith Project
    Volume
    1
    Pages
    12 - 17
    2007
    Bilateral blogging
    Published In
    The International Journal of the Arts in Society
    Volume
    1
    Pages
    53 - 62
    ISSN
    1833-1866

  • Chapter

    Year Title
    2014
    Blogging as art, art as research
    Published In
    Material Inventions - Applying Creative Arts Research
    Publisher
    London: I.B. Taurus & Co.
    Pages
    38 - 49
    ISBN
    9781780769868
    2014
    The human fax machine experiment
    Published In
    72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today
    Publisher
    Paris College of Arts, France: PCA Press
    Pages
    1 - 26
    2013
    In Conversation: Lucas Ihleinwith with Teri Hoskin
    Published In
    Unsitely Aesthetics - Uncertain Practices in Contemporary Art
    Publisher
    Errant Bodies Press
    Pages
    266 - 294
    2012
    Attending to Anthony McCall's long film for ambient light
    Published In
    Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History
    Publisher
    Bristol, UK: Intellect
    Pages
    333 - 346
    ISBN
    9781841504896
    2011
    Push and Pull
    Published In
    The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2
    Publisher
    Live Art Development Agency
    Pages
    171 - 175
    2010
    Environmental Audit Interview - Glenn Barkley interviews Lucas Ihlein
    Published In
    In the Balance: Art for a Changing World
    Publisher
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    Pages
    102 - 105
    2009
    Complexity, Aesthetics and Gentrification: the Tour of Beauty
    Published In
    There Goes the Neighbourhood - Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space
    Publisher
    Book published in conjunction with the Performance Space exhibition "There Goes the Neighbourhood."
    Pages
    46 - 49
    2009
    Public art as public conversations
    Published In
    Harmonic Tremors: Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere
    Publisher
    Gasworks
    Pages
    33 - 44

  • Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2016
    Creek Walking Dialogue: Art and Environmental Activism
    Published In
    Creek Walking Dialogue: Art and Environmental Activism
    2013
    Medium-specificity and sociality in expanded cinema re-enactment
    Published In
    Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art
    Pages
    1 - 2

  • Other

    Year Title
    2010
    Images, diagrams, and blog entries from the artwork "(Wo)man with Mirror"
    Publisher
    Published by Artspace
    2010
    Swallow - Cover illustration for poetry monograph by Claire Potter
    Publisher
    Five Islands Press
    2010 The Underground Radish
    2010
    Traffic Island
    Publisher
    Princeton Architectural Press

Available as Research Supervisor

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy Ecologies of Art: Collaboration, Social Engagement and the Environment Williams, Kim
    Doctor of Philosophy An Intellectual Adventure in Ignorance Whittaker, Malcolm

Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in Contemporary Arts, Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts 2005 - 2010

Top Publications

    Year Title
    2014 Blogging as art, art as research
    2012 Attending to Anthony McCall's long film for ambient light
    2007 Bilateral blogging
    2016 Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland

Research Overview

  • Dr Lucas Ihlein is ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of The Arts, English and Media. He uses a creative-practice based research methodology (including blogging, printmaking, public events, and scholarly publication) to explore complex environmental management issues, with a particular focus on Australian agriculture. His current research project: Sugar vs the Reef – Socially Engaged Art and Urgent Environmental Problems is the focus of his ARC DECRA Fellowship from 2016-18.

    Lucas is a member of the following research networks:

Geographic Focus

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article

    Year Title
    2016
    Cleaning up runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef: how art and science are inspiring farmers to help
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Volume
    3 November
    Pages
    1 - 4
    2016
    Editorial: Field Work
    Published In
    Unlikely Journal
    Pages
    1 - 18
    2016
    Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland
    Published In
    Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
    Volume
    36
    ISSN
    0727-1239
    2016
    Sugar vs the Reef? – Socially Engaged Art in the Field
    Published In
    NiTRO
    Volume
    4
    2015
    Reaching through to the object: reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1
    Published In
    Performance Matters
    Volume
    1
    Pages
    24 - 40
    2015
    The Yeomans Project: peri-urban field work
    Published In
    Axon: Creative Explorations
    Volume
    5
    Pages
    1 - 14
    ISSN
    1838-8973
    2014
    A heritage vision for sustainable housing goes to ICAC
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Pages
    1 - 7
    2013
    The human fax machine experiment
    Published In
    Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture
    Volume
    10
    Pages
    1 - 26
    ISSN
    1449-1818
    2010
    Editorial: What we talk about when we talk about 'the underground'
    Published In
    Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
    Volume
    30
    Page
    p. 19
    ISSN
    0727-1239
    2010
    To follow things as I encounter them: Blogging, art and attention
    Published In
    127 Prince (Online journal)
    Volume
    14 May
    2009
    Inhabiting Allan Kaprow's push and pull
    Published In
    Locksmith Project
    Volume
    1
    Pages
    12 - 17
    2007
    Bilateral blogging
    Published In
    The International Journal of the Arts in Society
    Volume
    1
    Pages
    53 - 62
    ISSN
    1833-1866

  • Chapter

    Year Title
    2014
    Blogging as art, art as research
    Published In
    Material Inventions - Applying Creative Arts Research
    Publisher
    London: I.B. Taurus & Co.
    Pages
    38 - 49
    ISBN
    9781780769868
    2014
    The human fax machine experiment
    Published In
    72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today
    Publisher
    Paris College of Arts, France: PCA Press
    Pages
    1 - 26
    2013
    In Conversation: Lucas Ihleinwith with Teri Hoskin
    Published In
    Unsitely Aesthetics - Uncertain Practices in Contemporary Art
    Publisher
    Errant Bodies Press
    Pages
    266 - 294
    2012
    Attending to Anthony McCall's long film for ambient light
    Published In
    Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History
    Publisher
    Bristol, UK: Intellect
    Pages
    333 - 346
    ISBN
    9781841504896
    2011
    Push and Pull
    Published In
    The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2
    Publisher
    Live Art Development Agency
    Pages
    171 - 175
    2010
    Environmental Audit Interview - Glenn Barkley interviews Lucas Ihlein
    Published In
    In the Balance: Art for a Changing World
    Publisher
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    Pages
    102 - 105
    2009
    Complexity, Aesthetics and Gentrification: the Tour of Beauty
    Published In
    There Goes the Neighbourhood - Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space
    Publisher
    Book published in conjunction with the Performance Space exhibition "There Goes the Neighbourhood."
    Pages
    46 - 49
    2009
    Public art as public conversations
    Published In
    Harmonic Tremors: Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere
    Publisher
    Gasworks
    Pages
    33 - 44

  • Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2016
    Creek Walking Dialogue: Art and Environmental Activism
    Published In
    Creek Walking Dialogue: Art and Environmental Activism
    2013
    Medium-specificity and sociality in expanded cinema re-enactment
    Published In
    Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art
    Pages
    1 - 2

  • Other

    Year Title
    2010
    Images, diagrams, and blog entries from the artwork "(Wo)man with Mirror"
    Publisher
    Published by Artspace
    2010
    Swallow - Cover illustration for poetry monograph by Claire Potter
    Publisher
    Five Islands Press
    2010 The Underground Radish
    2010
    Traffic Island
    Publisher
    Princeton Architectural Press

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy Ecologies of Art: Collaboration, Social Engagement and the Environment Williams, Kim
    Doctor of Philosophy An Intellectual Adventure in Ignorance Whittaker, Malcolm

Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in Contemporary Arts, Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts 2005 - 2010
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