User:Mark Elliott

My PhD
I am currently completing a PhD at the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, (http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/cfi/) researching and developing large-scale collaborative systems and methods. My primary interests in developing such systems and methods is for the continued positive development of humanity. By 'positive development' I mean a shared developing awareness of our universe which promotes an integrative, sustainable existence and meets the current challenges of the time.

One of my phd projects is running an online wiki project to collaboratively draft and Australian bill of rights (we're the only common law country that doesn't have one - and we need one!!) called the Australian Bill of Rights Initiative. The project is due to lauch publicly in Nov '05 - I'll post in news when it does.

Teaching
Other than my research & collab projects, I teach composition, computing for musicians, guitar and contextual studies for artists at Melbourne University, Victorian College of the Arts and Sophia Mundi Inner City Steiner School.

Background
I have a background in music composition - (ugrad & masters) with interests in improv, computer music & live processing - though I compose for traditional instruments as well - got concerto performance (solo Chinese mouth organ & orch) and an Australian tour coming up next year (very exciting).

MetaCollab Project
I'm hoping to get this project moved to a Wikicity: http://cfi.vca.unimelb.edu.au/metacollab/wiki/index.php/Main_Page