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In this New Music Central concert, Dutch composer Jan-Bas Bollen performs with his HyperTheremin; a touchless, magical instrument by his own design. It allows him to create captivating sonic and visual poetry through manipulation of invisible controls, revealed only by a precise choreography of his hands in space. Cleverly programmed faders and switches are positioned in a virtual, multi-dimensional console, physically detached from the real world. Bollen’s feedback consists of the choreography’s result itself: sounds from loudspeakers and visuals from projectors.   Jan-Bas Bollen studied composition at the Royal Conservatory The Hague. Internationally active as a composer, performer and educator, he creates music for soloists, ensembles, theatre productions and installation art. In many of his works he employs live-electronics with visuals and he is often using cutting-edge technologies such as the HyperTheremin. He regularly collaborates with dancers and choreographers and is also an electric bass player, DJ and producer of club tracks under the moniker BAZR.   Image credit: Eric de Clercq.  

Free public talk: Medicine + Marketing: pandemic lessons on healthcare, technology, and reality In their upcoming, free Tauhere UC Connect public lecture at the University of Canterbury – Medicine + Marketing: what we’ve learned about healthcare, technology, and reality in a pandemic – UC Erskine Fellow Professor Stacy Wood from North Carolina State University and Professor Ekant Veer, UC Business School, University of Canterbury, will discuss wellbeing and social marketing amid Covid-19, on Wednesday 29 March. Two domains that have long viewed their consumers through a logic-loaded lens are technology and healthcare – both have made predictions about what their customers will do by what they think their customers should do. As these two domains now intersect in many futuristic disruptive innovations surrounding digital healthcare, the logic of “should” may be doubly dangerous in predicting and promoting consumer/patient behaviour. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, industry attention centred around telehealth and AI-assisted healthcare. But a global assault by a novel coronavirus demonstrated that the future of medical delivery and wellbeing has far deeper and more basic roots in behavioural elements like decision-making, risk perceptions, identity creation, narrative, etc. These elements are the bedrock of consumer behaviour, behavioural insights, and marketing, but have received little attention in medicine. In this public talk, Professors Veer and Wood will discuss several projects in the healthcare sectors in New Zealand and globally and highlight the need for marketing theory in the development of new means of healthcare delivery.  “We hope we can show the richness of this fast-changing ‘market’ for the creation of new consumer theory and the necessity of building really exciting interdisciplinary teams for building really impactful knowledge that actually changes lives for the better.” The year 2023 marks the University of Canterbury’s sesquicentenary and the 150th anniversary theme is: Ka titiro whakamuri, ki te anga whakamua | Guided by the Past, Shaping the Future. About the speakers Stacy Wood is the Langdon Distinguished University Professor of Marketing at North Carolina State University (NC State), United States. Dr Wood joined the NC State Poole College of Management in 2010. Dr Wood has won numerous awards including 13 teaching awards at USC, Duke, and NC State, including USC’s top university-wide undergraduate teaching award in 2007. Dr Wood was recently elected President of the Association of Consumer Research, serving as President-Elect in 2017, President in 2018, and Past-President in 2019. Her research focuses on how consumers respond and adapt to change or innovation. This applies both to individuals’ processing of new product information as well as emotional or cultural reactions to new innovations, trends or rituals. Current projects include investigations of new product design and investment, expert/novice differences in new product adoption, consumer response to technology innovations, medical innovations and patient experience, successful adoption of risky innovations, and the neuroscience of change behaviour. Her research has appeared in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Journal of Retailing. Dr Wood is the current Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. Dr Wood served as the Executive Director for the Center for Neuroeconomic Research while at USC and is an affiliated faculty member of MIT’s Convergence Culture Consortium and an affiliated scholar at the School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.Ekant Veer is a Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury’s Business School, in Christchurch. A multi-award-winning teacher and researcher, Dr Veer was named in the Top 40 under-40 Business School Professors worldwide, won an Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award, was UC’s 2017 Teaching Medal awardee, and won the UCSA’s Lecturer of the Year award five times (to date). His work looks at the role marketing can play in driving social change and community wellbeing as well as what impact digital technology plays in consumer interactions and their sense of identity. His research has been published in numerous international journals, such as the Journal of Marketing Management, The European Journal of Marketing, and The Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. Ekant is also the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Research supporting the learning journey of UC’s research students and supervisors.

Te Kura Ārahi Ako| School of Educational Studies and Leadership Presentation Join us for a presentation by Professor Hugh Lauder, Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath. Abstract Education is typically seen as having some autonomy from politics and society. This freedom is seen as a source of hope for the future; that at least is how policy makers often portray education. The problem is that the profits made through carbon extraction and manufacturing, financial instruments and the extended concept of property rights serve to undermine four key pillars of education: socialization into future time, knowledge and truth, democratic citizenship and the contribution that students as workers will make to society. In identifying the way that capitalism is fragmenting these pillars, the possibilities for progressive education are opened. About the presenter Professor Hugh Lauder is a graduate of and former Lecturer at UC, Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath, a position he has held since 1996. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was formerly Director of the Institute for Policy Research University of Bath, and Dean of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. All welcome Join us in-person in Rehua 103 or online via Zoom https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/3850447425

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are being increasingly utilized across various sectors of society, including healthcare, finance, transportation, and education. Technologies like ChatGPT have made AI suddenly accessible to everyone, however, many decision makers lack a comprehensive understanding of the inner workings of these technologies and are not fully aware of their potential, or their unintended consequences. When these innovations introduce new methods, processes and products, they challenge the status quo and demand that managers think differently about their businesses. Join us to hear a panel of New Zealand business leaders share their insights about leading with artificial intelligence. Our panellists include Ben Reid – author of Fast Forward Aotearoa (to be published mid-2023), former Executive Director of AI Forum NZ (2017-19), Kari Jones – General Manager – Analytics & Insights, Woolworths NZ, and Gareth Mitchell – Head of Digital and Improvement, Westland Milk Products.  All guests are invited to join us for networking and refreshments following the presentation. UC MBA Thought Leadership Series 2023The UC MBA Thought Leadership Series brings together leading business minds from New Zealand and abroad to feature in our Thought Leadership Series. Industry, students, and alumni are invited to be inspired by innovative and insightful expertise from executives and entrepreneurs.