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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
    Published in   The International Journal of the Arts in Society
    2016 Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland
    Published in   Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
    2015 Reaching through to the object: reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1
    Published in   Performance Matters

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
    2018
    Socially Engaged Art and Agriculture: Experimenting with Extension
    Published In
    Journal of Sustainability Education
    Pages
    1 - 17
    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
    2018
    Agricultural Inventiveness: Beyond Environmental Management?
    Published In
    Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World
    Publisher
    Santa Barbara: Brainstorm Books
    Pages
    197 - 212
    ISBN
    9781947447691
    2018
    Socially Engaged Art as a Boundary-Rider
    Published In
    Associations: Creative Practice and Research
    Publisher
    Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing
    Pages
    83 - 103
    ISBN
    9780522869989
    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

  • Catalog

    Year Title
    2009
    Bilateral Petersham (print edition)
    Date of Exhibition
    28 July to 7 August
    Publisher
    George Paton Gallery

  • Cross-disciplinary Artwork

    Year Title
    2013 (Wo)man with Mirror
    2011
    Yeomans Project
    Venue
    Art Gallery of NSW
    Date of Exhibition
    2011
    Publisher
    Yeomans Project
    2010
    Tending: a Garden Experiment
    Venue
    Ongoing experimental arts/garden project at Sydney College of the Arts
    Date of Exhibition
    From July

  • Curatorial Work

    Year Title
    2016
    Futurelands2
    Venue
    Kandos
    Date of Exhibition
    November 12-13, 2016
    Publisher
    Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
    External URL
    Futurelands2
    2013
    Big Fag Press at First Draft Depot
    Venue
    Artist residency program at Big Fag Press and exhibition at First Draft Depot
    Date of Exhibition
    2 February
    Publisher
    Big Fag Press

  • Exhibition Catalogue Essay

    Year Title
    2011
    Catalogue essay for "Learning from Experience: In League with the City of Melbourne" Visual Arts Project
    Date of Exhibition
    15 January to 13 April
    Publisher
    League of Resonance / City of Melbourne
    2008
    The Bon Scott Project: A Blogger's Perspective
    Published In
    Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Bon Scott Project."
    Publisher
    Fremantle Arts Centre
    2008
    Today is a Day Like No Other
    Published In
    Catalogue essay for the exhibition "New 08"
    Pages
    14 - 15
    ISBN
    9780977597789
    Publisher
    Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

  • Other

    Year Title
    2010 The Underground Radish
    2010
    Traffic Island
    Publisher
    Princeton Architectural Press

  • Visual Arts - Artwork In A Group Exhibition

    Year Title
    2015
    The Feral Amongst Us
    Venue
    Bundanon Trust
    Date of Exhibition
    September 26, 2015
    Publisher
    Bundanon Trust
    2013
    Environmental Audit
    Published In
    Community & Context
    Venue
    Monash Art Design and Architecture Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    6 February to 12 March
    Publisher
    Monash University
    2011
    Green Bans Art Walk Project
    Venue
    Exhibitions at First Draft Depot and The Cross Arts Projects accompanied by public programs including walks and a film night
    Date of Exhibition
    6 to 27 August
    2011
    UnReal Estate
    Venue
    Collaborative artwork by Squatspace Collective exhibited in "The Right to the City" exhibition and arts project - Tin Sheds Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    7 to 30 April
    2010
    Environmental Audit of the MCA exhibition "In the Balance: Art for a Changing World"
    Venue
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    Date of Exhibition
    21 August - 31 October
    2010
    MAP
    Venue
    Artwork in the exhibition "Nowhere: Selections from the Files of the Hand Drawn Map Association" - Arcadia University Art Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    23 September to 19 December
    2009
    Gruffling
    Date of Exhibition
    21 March
    Publisher
    West Brunswick Sculpture Triennale
    2009
    Push and Pull Redfern
    Venue
    Art project exhibited at Locksmith Project Space in conjunction with the Performance Space exhibition "There Goes the Neighbourhood."
    Date of Exhibition
    28 May - 13 June
    2008
    The Bon Scott Blog
    Venue
    Artwork featured online and in the exhibition "Bon Scott Project" - Fremantle Arts Centre
    Date of Exhibition
    17 May to 29 June

  • Visual Arts - Body Of Work In A Group Exhibition

    Year Title
    2016
    Guangzhou Delta Haiku
    Venue
    Observation Society
    Date of Exhibition
    June 1 to July 24, 2016
    Publisher
    Observation Society
    External URL
    Guangzhou Delta Haiku
    2015
    Walking Upstream: Waterways of the Illawarra
    Venue
    VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    9 October to 7 November 2015
    Publisher
    VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery
    External URL
    Walking Upstream: Waterways of the Illawarra

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

  • Socially Engaged Art
    Culture and Environmental Management
    Art and social relations
    Media Arts
    Experimental Film and Video

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy Blossoms from the death of the last summer’s bloom: Exploring the role of conflict and care in collaborative art practices in and with communities
    Doctor of Creative Arts Mystery of the Plinth Armanious, Hany
    Doctor of Philosophy Ecologies of Art: Collaboration, Social Engagement and the Environment Williams, Kim
    Doctor of Creative Arts A Very Long Echo: Cultural Grief and Embodied Archives Dalziel, Anne Maree
    Doctor of Creative Arts Between: An Investigation Into Aesthetic Possibilities of Recording Liminality Within Unfamiliar Environments. Chaseling, Scott
    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
    Published in   The International Journal of the Arts in Society
    2016 Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland
    Published in   Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly
    2015 Reaching through to the object: reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1
    Published in   Performance Matters

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
    2018
    Socially Engaged Art and Agriculture: Experimenting with Extension
    Published In
    Journal of Sustainability Education
    Pages
    1 - 17
    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
    2018
    Agricultural Inventiveness: Beyond Environmental Management?
    Published In
    Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World
    Publisher
    Santa Barbara: Brainstorm Books
    Pages
    197 - 212
    ISBN
    9781947447691
    2018
    Socially Engaged Art as a Boundary-Rider
    Published In
    Associations: Creative Practice and Research
    Publisher
    Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing
    Pages
    83 - 103
    ISBN
    9780522869989
    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

  • Catalog

    Year Title
    2009
    Bilateral Petersham (print edition)
    Date of Exhibition
    28 July to 7 August
    Publisher
    George Paton Gallery

  • Cross-disciplinary Artwork

    Year Title
    2013 (Wo)man with Mirror
    2011
    Yeomans Project
    Venue
    Art Gallery of NSW
    Date of Exhibition
    2011
    Publisher
    Yeomans Project
    2010
    Tending: a Garden Experiment
    Venue
    Ongoing experimental arts/garden project at Sydney College of the Arts
    Date of Exhibition
    From July

  • Curatorial Work

    Year Title
    2016
    Futurelands2
    Venue
    Kandos
    Date of Exhibition
    November 12-13, 2016
    Publisher
    Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
    External URL
    Futurelands2
    2013
    Big Fag Press at First Draft Depot
    Venue
    Artist residency program at Big Fag Press and exhibition at First Draft Depot
    Date of Exhibition
    2 February
    Publisher
    Big Fag Press

  • Exhibition Catalogue Essay

    Year Title
    2011
    Catalogue essay for "Learning from Experience: In League with the City of Melbourne" Visual Arts Project
    Date of Exhibition
    15 January to 13 April
    Publisher
    League of Resonance / City of Melbourne
    2008
    The Bon Scott Project: A Blogger's Perspective
    Published In
    Catalogue essay for the exhibition "Bon Scott Project."
    Publisher
    Fremantle Arts Centre
    2008
    Today is a Day Like No Other
    Published In
    Catalogue essay for the exhibition "New 08"
    Pages
    14 - 15
    ISBN
    9780977597789
    Publisher
    Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

  • Other

    Year Title
    2010 The Underground Radish
    2010
    Traffic Island
    Publisher
    Princeton Architectural Press

  • Visual Arts - Artwork In A Group Exhibition

    Year Title
    2015
    The Feral Amongst Us
    Venue
    Bundanon Trust
    Date of Exhibition
    September 26, 2015
    Publisher
    Bundanon Trust
    2013
    Environmental Audit
    Published In
    Community & Context
    Venue
    Monash Art Design and Architecture Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    6 February to 12 March
    Publisher
    Monash University
    2011
    Green Bans Art Walk Project
    Venue
    Exhibitions at First Draft Depot and The Cross Arts Projects accompanied by public programs including walks and a film night
    Date of Exhibition
    6 to 27 August
    2011
    UnReal Estate
    Venue
    Collaborative artwork by Squatspace Collective exhibited in "The Right to the City" exhibition and arts project - Tin Sheds Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    7 to 30 April
    2010
    Environmental Audit of the MCA exhibition "In the Balance: Art for a Changing World"
    Venue
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    Date of Exhibition
    21 August - 31 October
    2010
    MAP
    Venue
    Artwork in the exhibition "Nowhere: Selections from the Files of the Hand Drawn Map Association" - Arcadia University Art Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    23 September to 19 December
    2009
    Gruffling
    Date of Exhibition
    21 March
    Publisher
    West Brunswick Sculpture Triennale
    2009
    Push and Pull Redfern
    Venue
    Art project exhibited at Locksmith Project Space in conjunction with the Performance Space exhibition "There Goes the Neighbourhood."
    Date of Exhibition
    28 May - 13 June
    2008
    The Bon Scott Blog
    Venue
    Artwork featured online and in the exhibition "Bon Scott Project" - Fremantle Arts Centre
    Date of Exhibition
    17 May to 29 June

  • Visual Arts - Body Of Work In A Group Exhibition

    Year Title
    2016
    Guangzhou Delta Haiku
    Venue
    Observation Society
    Date of Exhibition
    June 1 to July 24, 2016
    Publisher
    Observation Society
    External URL
    Guangzhou Delta Haiku
    2015
    Walking Upstream: Waterways of the Illawarra
    Venue
    VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery
    Date of Exhibition
    9 October to 7 November 2015
    Publisher
    VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery
    External URL
    Walking Upstream: Waterways of the Illawarra

Potential Supervision Topics

  • Socially Engaged Art
    Culture and Environmental Management
    Art and social relations
    Media Arts
    Experimental Film and Video

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy Blossoms from the death of the last summer’s bloom: Exploring the role of conflict and care in collaborative art practices in and with communities
    Doctor of Creative Arts Mystery of the Plinth Armanious, Hany
    Doctor of Philosophy Ecologies of Art: Collaboration, Social Engagement and the Environment Williams, Kim
    Doctor of Creative Arts A Very Long Echo: Cultural Grief and Embodied Archives Dalziel, Anne Maree
    Doctor of Creative Arts Between: An Investigation Into Aesthetic Possibilities of Recording Liminality Within Unfamiliar Environments. Chaseling, Scott
    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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Research Areas

Geographic Focus