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Kari
HanetKari Hanet has extensive experience and expertise in education in cinema and the visual arts, supported by very strong interdisciplinary skills in teaching and management. She was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in Paris, studying at the Louvre and Universities of La Sorbonne and London. Her commitment to film was nurtured in the "New Wave" period of world cinema. After teaching at the University of Reading and lecturing widely in Britain, she migrated to Australia in 1982. She founded Screen Studies at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), leaving in 1994 as Head of Screen Studies. She is presently lecturing in the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong University . Kari has worked in curriculum design and development for secondary and tertiary education, and for the Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islands Media Association (TAIMA). Kari has presented in semiotics, narrative film and documentary at various international conferences and in publications. International cultural consultancy includes the Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institut and Japan Foundation, and the organisation of exchange programs with Western and Eastern Europe. She presently works in cultural tourism with various French organisations. In addition to formal teaching, Kari has lectured and curated for numerous professional and cultural bodies including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), the Australian Screen Directors Association (ASDA) and UNESCO in Paris. These include Visions of Independents for the Australian Film Institute, Indian cinema festivals for the National Gallery of Australia and the Sydney Film Festival. In 1994 she mounted the first symposium on Indian screen culture to be held in Australia, bringing together Indian and Australian film and television professionals and academics. In 1995 she contributed to the Alliance Francaise Centenary film festival program, including the Gaumont Centenary retrospective of silent films working with some of Australia's finest actors. She has also curated a photographic exhibition of portraits and interviews of 50 contemporary Australian film and television directors, The Imagemakers, which has toured Australia and Europe. Her recent pursuits in new media art include New Territories displaying European and Japanese works for the 1996 Adelaide Arts Festival and FilmWest Festival. Kari is presently pursuing postgraduate study into interactive narrative and the creative possibilities of new technology and its application in education. She is a director of the cultural consultancy image without frontiers and the president of the Alliance Francaise de Sydney. |