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For three days in March this year, senior executives from the biggest studios in Hollywood made their way to hot and sultry Mumbai to participate in FICCI Frames 2013. The event, the annual flagship convention of the Indian Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry, was organized by the M&E division of the Federation of Indian Chamber ...

The Chinese TV industry has grown rapidly during the past decade. One estimate puts the value of the domestic advertising market at RMB 112.2 billion. Yet despite these impressive figures China’s production culture remains an anomaly to most outsiders. The market size is enormous but the question is how and where do you enter? The ...

Currently, the Australian government is constructing a national broadband network (NBN), which represents the largest infrastructure project ever to be undertaken. According to the Australian government, the NBN will support the nation in becoming one of the world’s leading digital economies by 2020, and perhaps a key player in the Asian century. Australia is ranked ...

Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China by Bianca Bosker (University of Hawai’i Press 2013) A review essay by Michael Keane In May 2007 I was invited to be a speaker at the Shenzhen International Cultural Industries Expo, one of the many events on China’s cultural creative industries speaking circuit. From Shenzhen airport my taxi ...

Recently I pondered an unfathomable question: were Chinese people as creative as people in the free world? I offered a provocation about China, freedom and creativity in a faculty seminar at Queensland University of Technology. An element of controversy is a useful ploy to attract an audience on a Friday afternoon. I saw an opportunity ...

A huge inflatable dog turd, an enormous black cockroach and a huge sucking pig set against a hyper-real backdrop of multinational real estate have been talking points of a public art exhibition entitled Mobile M+ Inflation! Controversy is exactly what the curators of this inflatable sculpture exhibition wanted. While dividing Hong Kong locals as to ...

Oh dear – I’m afraid it’s been some time since I last updated our Australian Twitter News Index; I’ve been significantly delayed by a number of overseas research engagements. So, to catch up to somewhere approximating the present, here’s a […]

LIVE BLOG: Creative Industries in China The QUT Creative Industries Research Seminars – Creative Industries in China will be LIVE blogged from this platform on Friday the 10th of May from AEST 12-2pm. QUT Creative Industries Research Seminars present: The Tier 4 in Asian Creative Transformations book launch: Michael Keane, “Creative Industries in China: Art, ...