Bronwyn Holloway-Smith

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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
Born
Bronwyn Smith

1982 (age 41–42)[1]
Lower Hutt[citation needed]
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materMassey University
Websitehollowaysmith.nz

Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is a New Zealand artist and author from Wellington. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Massey University, and is co-director of Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand.

Education

Holloway-Smith graduated from Massey University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) in 2006.[citation needed] In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship to study for a PhD in Fine Art.[2] Holloway-Smith completed her PhD at the university's Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts (CoCA) in 2018.[3][4]

Career

She describes herself as interested in "internet culture, 3-dimensional printing, open source art, and space colonisation."[5] She edited the book WANTED: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor, published in 2018.[6][1]

Creative Freedom Foundation New Zealand (CFFNZ)

Peter Dunne and Holloway-Smith face media outside Parliament House, NZ Internet Blackout protest, 19 February 2009

The foundation sought to "... encourage, and promote New Zealand artists' views on issues that have the potential to influence their collective creativity." through advocacy and education.[2] It was launched, in December 2008, to oppose section 92 of the Copyright Act, due to come into force at the end of February 2009.[7] Holloway-Smith was a co-founder of CFFNZ,[5] and served as their director and spokesperson.[2]

The Copyright Act 1994, s 92A read "Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers".[8] CFFNZ believed it would force Internet service providers to disconnect customers who had been accused, but not convicted, of illegally downloading copyrighted content. It was dubbed the guilt upon accusation law, and the foundation wanted it repealed.[7]

CFFNZ called for the first New Zealand Internet Blackout to run 16–23 February 2009,[9] and organised online and paper petitions. On 19 February, Holloway-Smith led around 200 protestors at parliament.[10] She handed the petitions to Peter Dunne MP with over 10,000 virtual and 149 written signatures.[11][12] Radio New Zealand interviewed Holloway-Smith at the protest,[13] the first of many appearances over the next ten years.[14]

Section 92A never came into force and was repealed by the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011.[8] CFFNZ advocated for creative freedom on that act, other domestic law and international treaties. In August 2014, Holloway-Smith stepped down from CFFNZ to start her PhD. Lacking a successor, the trustees put the foundation into hiatus.[2]

Ghosts in the Form of Gifts (2009)

Massey University commissioned Holloway-Smith to produce an artwork for permanent display on their Wellington campus. The university's College of Creative Arts building on Buckle Street used to be occupied by the National Museum of New Zealand.[15] The museum moved out to become Te Papa.[16]

Holloway-Smith imagined museum pieces,[15] most of them of culturally significant to the peoples of the Pacific,[17] that might have been lost or hidden during the move.[15] The work Ghosts in the Form of Gifts (2009) was a collection of ten replacement pieces created with an open design RepRap 3D printer.[15] Three of the originals were from the natural world: a cicada in flight, a sperm whale tooth,[16] and a giant snail shell. The rest were man made and, with one exception, generic and of unknown origin. Holloway-Smith called them "orphaned works".[15] They included a Māori matua (English: fish hook) and poi, a tapa cloth beater and an adze.[15] The exception was the Utah teapot, a virtual object with a well documented origin and purpose, that was made physical for the collection. As an artistic gift, Holloway-Smith offered the 3D printer instruction files for the collection from her official website under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.[15]

In 2010, Ghosts in the Form of Gifts won the Open Source in the Arts category at the New Zealand Open Source Awards.[17] The work toured, and in 2012 it was reviewed for EyeContact Magazine by artist and writer Peter Dornauf while exhibited at RAMP, Hamilton.[18] Dornauf wrote that common, perhaps mundane, museum pieces had been transformed by 3D printing. The replacements "... present themselves as highly tactile yet prohibit touch because of their strange translucent ghostly nature."[16] The work also raised questions. Holloway-Smith asked "Is something a sculpture if you print it out from a machine?"[15] And Dornauf linked the open sourcing of the instructions to the issue of authorship.[16]

Pioneer City (2011)

In 2011, Holloway-Smith produced a series of works exploring the possibility of settling Mars. As part of this project, she won a competition to erect a billboard on Ghuznee Street, Wellington, advertising "Pioneer City" on Mars.[19] The intention behind the work was to explore how the real estate industry has aimed its marketing at people's aspirations, and how residential developments are sometimes utopian:

"We have seen this with the boom in inner-city apartment living in the past decade. We saw it in the 19th century in the way the New Zealand Company sold a romanticised picture of New Zealand to prospective settlers before they’d visited the country. My project responds to this kind of marketing in the inner city and draws attention to its timelessness".[19]

A website was also produced.[20]

Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand (PAHANZ)

PAHANZ "... is a research initiative to find, document and protect [the nations's] 20th century public art heritage.", according to their website.[21] At Massey University's Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Holloway-Smith and Sue Elliott's research into the murals of E. Mervyn Taylor developed into an informal register of public art.[22][23] By the late 2010s, PAHANZ planned to make the register accessible through their website.[24] In the early 2020s, the initiative received $300,000 from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's innovation fund to put the register on the web and establish a forum for those working with public art to share resources and best practice.[25][26] The national register of 20th century public art was launched on the PAHANZ website in July 2023.[22]

As of June 2024, the register on the web lists 388 works. Each work has a current status for the viewing public: accessible, hidden or lost (whereabouts unknown or destroyed). The public is invited to submit further works for registration and further information about selected works whose details are incomplete.[27]

References

  1. ^ a b Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn, ed. (2018). Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor. Auckland: Massey University Press. ISBN 9780994141552.
  2. ^ a b c d Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn (11 July 2014). "Holloway-Smith Steps Down As CFF Director (Open Letter)". Creative Freedom Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Wellington Graduation Sees Four Staff Receive Doctorates". Massey University. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  4. ^ Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn (2018). The Southern Cross cable : a tour : art, the internet and national identity in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Massey Research Online (Doctoral thesis). Massey University. hdl:10179/14941. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Bronwyn Holloway-Smith". 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  6. ^ "10 questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith | Massey University Press". www.masseypress.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  7. ^ a b "CreativeFreedom.org.nz Launches with Campaign Against Guilt upon Accusation Laws in NZ". Creative Freedom Foundation New Zealand (CFFNZ). 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  8. ^ "CFF Announce Internet Blackout Against Guilt upon Accusation Laws". Creative Freedom Foundation New Zealand (CFFNZ). 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  9. ^ "Protesters Want Copyright Provision Scrapped". Radio NZ. 19 February 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  10. ^ McDonald, Greer (20 February 2009). "Internet Law Change 'Unjust'". The Dominion Post. Wellington. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  11. ^ Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn (20 February 2009). "Petition 2008/7 of Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and 148 Others". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  12. ^ Smith, Emma (19 February 2009). "Copyright Act Amendment Protest". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  13. ^ "Search Results: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith". Radio New Zealand. n.d. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h O'Neill, Rob (27 January 2010). "3D Printer Deployed for the Cause of Art". Computerworld: New Zealand. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  15. ^ a b c d Dornauf, Peter (6 May 2012). "Glancing at the History of Digital Art". EyeContact. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  16. ^ a b "2010 Winners and Finalists". New Zealand Open Source Awards. 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  17. ^ "Writers". EyeContact Magazine. n.d. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  18. ^ a b "A second public art billboard project". bartley + company art. 28 March 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  19. ^ "Pioneer City". n.d. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  20. ^ "Haere mai!". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  21. ^ a b "Safeguarding 20th Century Artwork in Aotearoa from Disappearing". Afternoons. 26 July 2023. Radio New Zealand. RNZ National. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  22. ^ "About". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  23. ^ "Public Art Register". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  24. ^ "Innovation Fund Recipients". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  25. ^ "Discovering and Protecting Our Public Art". Rangahau: Research at Massey. No. 4. Wellington: Massey University. 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  26. ^ "Artworks". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Retrieved 6 June 2024.

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