June 2020 - AAANZ | The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand

Online exhibition from University of Tasmania creative arts and media students

June 29, 2020Exhibition, Teaching and LearningDigital Exhibition, Exhibition, University of Tasmania

During lockdown, 30 creative arts and media students from the University of Tasmania produced a virtual art for a virtual exhibition at Domain House in Hobart. View the exhibition here: https://www.utas.edu.au/creative-arts-media/events/domain From the UTAS DOMAIN website: During the course of Semester One, 2020, students in Making the Event were invited to respond to the historical, material, social and educational legacies of Domain House and its surrounds. Some students have interpreted this through dramatic and musical representations of the various eras that have been experienced within the walls of the building, while others have evoked a parallel history for the site. Of interest […]

PhD Scholarship: Visual Medical Humanities | Australian National University

June 29, 2020FundingArt and Medicine, Funding, PhD Scholarship

The Australian National University is offering a PhD scholarship for a candidate interested in Art History, Visual and Material Culture, Medical History, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies or, preferably, a combination of the above. The candidate will work with Dr. Keren Hammerschlag, with funding from the ANU Futures Scheme, on a topic related to the Visual Medical Humanities. The Visual Medical Humanities, which encompasses museum studies, art history and art practice, has been recognised as a major area for research and teaching innovation in the new critical Medical Humanities. In the Medical Humanities, medicine engages with the humanities, social sciences, and […]

Joanna Mendelssohn | Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently

June 25, 2020Advocacy, News

Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently Thennicke/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne On September 10 1965, Sir Robert Menzies commissioned the National Art Gallery Committee of Inquiry to consider the establishment of a national gallery for Australia. The resulting Lindsay Report, published in 1966, is an ambitious document, describing an art gallery to serve the nation through the quality and range of its collections and exhibitions. It emphasised the need to have an all encompassing collection of Australian art. The report recognised, […]

News | Humanities hit hardest when needed more than ever | Australian Academy of the Humanities

June 19, 2020News

Humanities hit hardest when needed more than ever The Australian Academy of the Humanities today expressed deep concern about the Government’s changes to university fee structures, which disproportionally affect the humanities and call into question the very role of the 21st century university. “This is potentially the greatest hit to Australia’s humanities sector in a century”, said Professor Joy Damousi, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. At a time when the Government has announced new policy strategies to combat disinformation and to develop ethical AI, the incentives for students to study the subjects which are the ‘source code’ of […]

Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

June 19, 2020Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) are now open. The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Following a review of the Awards earlier this year, AAANZ is pleased to announce a new category, Best Medium Exhibition Catalogue. This […]

Call for Papers | The World We Want: Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making | CAST at RMIT University

June 19, 2020Call for Papers

Contemporary Art & Social Transformation Research Group (CAST) at RMIT University is calling for papers for a new publication The World We Want: Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making edited by Grace McQuilten & Daniel Palmer Abstracts due Friday 17 July 2020 How can we think in times of urgencies without the self-indulgent and self-fulfilling myths of apocalypse, when every fiber of our being is interlaced, even complicit, in the webs of processes that must somehow be engaged and repatterned? Donna Haraway, 2016 It is art’s job – along with the other natural, social and human sciences – to […]

Books | Top 20 Book Facts | Publishing Industry Trends | Friends of the South Australia State Library

June 5, 2020Book

Top 20 Book Facts 1. Did you know, the fear of running out of something to read is called Abibliophobia 2. The world’s smallest book is Teeny Ted from Turnip Town 3. There are four law books bound in human skin at the Harvard University Library 4. Fact has it that former American President Theodore Roosevelt read one book a day 5. People say the longest sentence to ever be printed in literature belongs to Victor Hugo. The claim is that in Les Misérables there is a sentence which is 823 words long 6. 1 in 5 adults around the world cannot read […]

News | Prime Minister, this is your moment to create Australia’s future | NAVA

June 5, 2020News

The National Association for the Visual Arts highlights what’s needed and what’s at stake with the Arts and cultural investment statement. Priorities for immediate investment: Introduce a substantial $500m recovery fund accessible to all arts and cultural organisations across all artforms and at all scales Establish an arts and culture working group to advise the National COVID19 Coordination Commission Harmonise income averaging arrangements between the ATO and Centrelink, so that artists can claim JobSeeker; extend JobKeeper for casuals who have been employed at least 3mo; extend JobKeeper to the end of January 2021 Expand income support eligibility to local government […]

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