Dr Greg Jenkins

Biography

Greg Jenkins is a lecturer in the School of Creative Practice, Creative Industries Faculty. He coordinates the Situated Creative Practice suite of units. These units are the final-year capstone projects of the Bachelor of Fine Arts. Each semester, over 300 students from nine different disciplines elect to work in multidisciplinary teams on one of 10 different industry-linked creative projects. Creative outcomes of these projects include live performances,  screen based works and virtual productions, podcasts, site-specific installations, arts and culture magazines, arts-based workshops for young persons, recording and online release of original music. Greg has previously worked as the academic coordinator of the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy QUT, a joint venture with the Ars Electronica Futurelab (Linz, Austria) that devised new layers of knowledge creation through transdisciplinary practice.

Greg has also occupied academic manager and curriculum developer roles.  From 2012 - 2016 he was responsible for the coordination of all undergraduate studies in the school of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts.  Throughout this time, he was also the lead user representative for the design, construction and implementation of stage 2 of the QUT Creative Industries Precinct at Kelvin Grove.  In this role, Greg was responsible for ensuring the $90 million music, dance, drama, and visual arts facility incorporated world leading pedagogical and design practices. As a result, the  facilities are recognised as a pre-eminent centre of interdisciplinary teaching and research practices for the creative arts.

Greg's creative practice is as a composer and producer of electronic music.  Performances included the Brisbane Festival Fringe, Shock of the New,  Wild Front Ear, Xstatic, and Electrofringe. Greg has also been a programmer and producer of music festivals and events, most notably as a co-curator of the Small Black Box experimental music series in Brisbane from 2001 - 2005.  He has also managed the co-delivery of innovative undergraduate, coursework post graduate, and research higher degree programs delivered in conjunction with public events such as the REV (Real, Electronic, Virtual) festival, Electronic Music Performance Symposia, Escape concert series, and Australasian Computer Music Association Conferences.

Greg's current research is focussed on the benefits of an approach to curriculum design and delivery that encourages students to build, maintain and modify their own personal knowledge networks.