Monthly Archives: May 2019

Geoffrey Batchen appointed Professorship of the History of Art, Oxford University

Funding

Geoffrey Batchen, currently Professor of Art History, Victoria University, Wellington has been appointed to the Professorship of the History of Art at Oxford University from 1 January 2020. Batchen is planning to undertake several research projects focusing on the photographic collections at Oxford University. He is encouraging applications from ambitious students wanting to write theses on the history of photography. For more information contact geoffrey.batchen@vuw.ac.nz

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Symposium: Towards a flexible future

Events

Managing time-based media artworks in collections Today digital technologies are so embedded in our daily lives that the rapid rate in which they develop often goes unnoticed. What does such intense and ongoing technological change mean for artists and art museums, where the notions of permanence and perpetuity have long reigned supreme? Featuring presentations from conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tate, London, as well as Australian artists, this symposium sets out to explore what it means to collect, display, preserve and make time-based media artworks. This symposium brings attention to the significant risk […]

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Assistant Curator, Kenneth E Tyler Collection National Gallery of Australia

Jobs

The National Gallery of Australia is looking for an Assistant Curator to assist the Senior Curator and Curator, International Art Department, in the preparation of exhibitions and publications related to the Kenneth E Tyler Collection. An important focus of the role will be to assist with the development of web-based material and online access. The Tyler Collection comprises of over 7,400 edition prints, proofs, drawings, paper-works, screens, multiples and illustrated books as well as a collection of rare candid photography, film and audio and reference material. To download the position description and how to apply click here Applications close Sunday, 26 May […]

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Index Journal: Identity Call for papers

Call for Papers

INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for its inaugural issue IDENTITY. Submissions are encouraged from art historians of all specialisations. IDENTITY POLITICS DISSOLVES THE IDENTITY OF THE ARTWORK INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL will invite a guest editor to raise a polemic – in the form of a single proposition – that calls for pressing art historical attention. Submit […]

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