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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, art researcher and advocate specialising in 20th century work. She has a doctorate (PhD) in Fine Art from the Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts (CoCA) at Massey University. Holloway-Smith lives in Wellington.

Working life

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In 2006,[citation needed] Holloway-Smith graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art from Massey University.[1]

Between degree and doctorate

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Creative Freedom Foundation (2008–2014)

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

In October 2008, the Copyright Act 1994 was amended by the Fifth Labour Government. The additions included section 92A that said "Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers".[2] It was due to come into force on 28 February 2009.[3] Holloway-Smith supported copyright law to protect the intellectual property of artists. However, she believed section 92A was unjust because it would allow Internet access to be suspended without a fair hearing.[4]

In December 2008, Holloway-Smith co-founded the Creative Freedom Foundation (CFF) to campaign for the repeal of section 92A. The foundation called for the first New Zealand Internet Blackout 16–23 February 2009 and organised petitions.[5] On 19 February, Holloway-Smith led around 200 protestors at parliament.[6] Peter Dunne MP received the petitions with over 10,000 virtual and 149 written signatures.[3][7]

The newly-elected Fifth National Government did not bring section 92A into force.[2] In July, they proposed replacement legislation that narrowed the scope to file sharing networks. Copyright infringers would be warned then taken to the Copyright Tribunal for fines or suspension of Internet access. Holloway-Smith said the proposal was "... much better than the previous regime, ..."[8] The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 repealed section 92A and added the new regime as section 122.[9]

Ghosts in the Form of Gifts (2009)

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Replacement cicada

Massey University commissioned Holloway-Smith to produce artwork for display on their Wellington campus. The CoCA building on Buckle Street used to belong to the National Museum of New Zealand which moved out to become Te Papa.[10][11] Holloway-Smith imagined museum pieces that might have been lost in the move.[10]

Ghosts in the Form of Gifts (2009) was a collection of ten replacement pieces produced with an open design RepRap 3D printer.[10] The collection represented natural and man-made pieces;[11] the man-made replacements were for generic pieces of unknown origin with one exception.[10] They included a Māori matua (English: fish hook) and poi, and a tapa cloth beater.[10] The exception was the Utah teapot a 3D model. Holloway-Smith gifted the 3D printer instructions for the collection from her official website under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.[10]

In 2010, Ghosts in the Form of Gifts won the Open Source in the Arts category at the New Zealand Open Source Awards.[12] In 2012, it was shown at RAMP Gallery in Hamilton,[11] and was reviewed by artist Peter Dornauf.[13] He wrote that everyday 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."[11]

Pioneer City (2010–2015)

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Whisper Down the Lane (2012)

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In 2012, the City Gallery Wellington ran The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture exhibition 24 February–10 June.[15] Running alongside the exhibition was Whisper Down the Lane (2012) through which Holloway-Smith continued to raise awareness of copyright and produce art with 3D technologies.

Holloway-Smith picked one sculpture a week from the exhibition.[16] She discussed copyright issues with the artist then got permission to create a 3D model of the sculpture and 3D print the model as a miniature. The miniatures were sufficiently transformed from the originals that Holloway-Smith saw them as her works. She named them After ... the original artist and work in acknowledgement.[17] The miniatures were shown in the gallery's reading room and sold online.[16] Again, the 3D printer instructions were gifted under a Creative Commons license, this time Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA).[17]

Whisper Down the Lane was reviewed by art critic Mark Amery.[13] He wrote that it was "... one smart project, charged in its complexity by contemporary issues of copyright, reproduction and future changes to the art market."[16] It also won the Open Source in the Arts category at the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2012.[18]

Doctorate

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Te Ika-a-Akoranga (2014-2019)

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E. Mervyn Taylor mural search and recovery (2016–2018)

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The Southern Cross Cable: A Tour (2018)

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Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand

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Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand (PAHANZ) "... is a research initiative to find, document and protect [the nations's] 20th century public art heritage.", according to their website.[19] 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.[20][21] By the late 2010s, PAHANZ planned to make the register accessible through their website.[22] 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.[23][24] The national register of 20th century public art was launched on the PAHANZ website in July 2023.[20]

As of September 2024, the register on the web lists 403 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.[25]

Bledisloe Bebop (2020)

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Personal life

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References

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  1. ^ a b Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn, ed. (2018). Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor. Auckland: Massey University Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780994141552.
  2. ^ a b McDonald, Greer (20 February 2009). "Internet Law Change 'Unjust'". The Dominion Post. Wellington. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  3. ^ Smith, Emma (19 February 2009). "Copyright Act Amendment Protest". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  4. ^ "CFF Announce Internet Blackout Against Guilt upon Accusation Laws". Creative Freedom Foundation (CFF). 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Protesters Want Copyright Provision Scrapped". Radio New Zealand. 19 February 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  6. ^ Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn (20 February 2009). "Petition 2008/7 of Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and 148 Others". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Govt Launches New Internet Copyright Proposal". Radio New Zealand. 15 July 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011". New Zealand Legislation. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  9. ^ a b c d e f 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.
  10. ^ a b c d Dornauf, Peter (6 May 2012). "Glancing at the History of Digital Art". EyeContact. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  11. ^ "2010 Winners and Finalists". New Zealand Open Source Awards. 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  12. ^ a b "Writers". EyeContact. n.d. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  13. ^ Dekker, Diana (21 June 2011). "Prime Real Estate? Look to the Sky". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  14. ^ "The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture". City Gallery Wellington. n.d. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  15. ^ a b c Amery, Mark (10 April 2012). "The Stubbornness of Sculpture 2". EyeContact. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  16. ^ a b Freeman, Lynn (4 March 2012). "The Thorny Issue of Copyright". Arts on Sunday. Radio New Zealand. RNZ National. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  17. ^ "2012 Winners and Finalists". New Zealand Open Source Awards. 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  18. ^ "Haere mai!". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  19. ^ a b "Safeguarding 20th Century Artwork in Aotearoa from Disappearing". Afternoons. 26 July 2023. Radio New Zealand. RNZ National. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  20. ^ "About". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  21. ^ "Public Art Register". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  22. ^ "Innovation Fund Recipients". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  23. ^ "Discovering and Protecting Our Public Art". Rangahau: Research at Massey. No. 4. Wellington: Massey University. 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  24. ^ "Artworks". Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand. n.d. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
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