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Job Opportunity | PhotoAccess Director

Hours of work: 4 – 4.5 days per week (negotiable) Term: 2 years (with 6 months’ probation and possibility of extension) Reports to: Board Responsible for supervising: PhotoAccess staff, contractors and volunteers Remuneration: $ 85,000 – $100,000 pro rata plus superannuation. Remuneration will be negotiated to reflect the experience and skills of the successful applicant. Website: https://www.photoaccess.org.au/about/job-vacancy/ ABOUT PHOTOACCESS PhotoAccess is the ACT and region’s centre for contemporary photography, film and video and media arts. Located at the Manuka Arts Centre in Canberra, ACT, we’re an established non-profit, member-based organisation fostering excellence in the photographic arts and developing understanding and appreciation of photographic culture. Each […]

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Job Opportunity | Head of Discipline, Art | University of Tasmania

The University of Tasmania are seeking a dynamic and established practice-based academic leader to drive the sustainable and strategic growth of the Art program and enrich Art engagement within their unique Tasmanian context. With a balanced academic workload, this critical role offers the opportunity to: lead the creation and implementation of a strategy to enhance research and teaching capacity contribute high-quality research and supervision of higher degree students drive curriculum innovation and exemplary teaching, committed to enhancing the student experience and securing student load targets This is a full-time ongoing opportunity at Academic Level C or D and will be […]

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ANZJA CALL FOR PAPERS: PECIAL ISSUE, KO TE MOANANUI-A-KIWA TE WAHI WHAKARAHI, THE PACIFIC OCEAN JOINS US ALL

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all.  This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

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Job opportunity for Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo

Visiting Professor of Australian Studies 2023-24 and 2024-25 Centre for Pacific and American Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Position: Visiting Professor Open to: Australian citizens and permanent residents Location: Centre for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus Salary: Starting Salary ¥600,000 per month (before tax). See also section 5. Duration: Approximately 10 months Commencement of position: Late September 2023 or late September 2024. Applicants may apply to be considered for a specific term only or for either term. This must be indicated clearly on your application. Closing date for applications: 1 February […]

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ANZJA Call for Papers: pecial Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all.  This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte. ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

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Call for Papers: INDEX JOURNAL, Issue No. 5, LIQUID TIME

Call for Papers Issue No. 5 LIQUID TIME But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us? — Emily Dickinson To restage or reconstitute archives of art and exhibitions is not to calcify history but to register its fluidity. That’s how the past survives—by being liquid time. INDEX JOURNAL invites historians of art (including artists and curators) anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career to submit essays that consider the act of restaging. For this issue, we are particularly interested in exhibition histories and practice-led inquiries into restaging from the global south […]

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AAANZ END OF YEAR NEWSLETTER

      Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2022 2022 has been another difficult year for many people with the devastation caused by extreme flooding events in many parts of the country. Unfortunately floods are still continuing in some parts of the country, which is another troubling sign that the impacts of climate change are undeniable. I hope members have not been caught up in these weather events and express my sympathies to anyone who has been adversely affected. While it has been a difficult couple of years, AAANZ has emerged in a strong position with increased membership and a program that connects […]

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2022 AIAH Art History Research Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the 2022 AIAH Art History Research Grant Recipients. There were four recipients chosen from sixteen submissions. 2022 AIAH Art History Grant Recipients $20,000 ($5,000 per grant) sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History Judges Louise Box, Melanie Cooper and Susan Lowish Wes Hill Institutional recipient from Southern Cross University Jeff Gibson: Public Pictures About the project ‘Jeff Gibson: Public Pictures,’ involves art history research and publishing, producing the first ever monograph on the Australian artist Jeff Gibson, to be published (confirmed) in 2023 by Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, and Griffith University, Brisbane). As sole editor of the book, the […]

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Winner of the 2022 AAANZ PhD Prize

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 AAANZ PhD Prize. There were four shortlisted thesis’ from twenty-three entries. Thesis titles and abstracts will be published on the website under “Awards and Funding”. 2022 AAANZ PhD PRIZE RECIPIENT $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Judges Katrina Grant, Kate Warren and Raymond Spiteri Kirsty Baker Constituting the ‘Woman Artist’: A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Art History 1928 – 1989 From the judges This thesis traces written representations of the ‘woman artist’ in published literature, constructing a genealogy to examine the ideologies both embedded in and perpetuated by them. In doing so […]

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WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2022 AWAPAs

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2022. This years nominations can be viewed here BEST BOOK PRIZE $1,000 sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA Judges Emeritus Professor Tony Bennett FAHA FAcSS and Emeritus Sasha Grishin AM FAHA JOINT WINNER Susan Ballard, Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021) From the judges In proposing the perspective of ‘planetary aesthetics’ this immensely scholarly and clearly argued study proposes two major challenges for contemporary art histories. First, it establishes the case for a critical revision of the earlier traditions of art history and aesthetic theory associated […]

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