Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

AAANZ Conference | Registrations | Bursaries

AAANZ Conference

        Early bird registrations will open on August 15 To attend and present at the 2021 AAANZ Conference, you will need to register. Special efforts this year have been made to make registration costs as low as possible. Registration Details Please note: to register for the conference, you must be a AAANZ member. You can join or renew your membership here. Bursaries  Recognising that the costs of attending conferences like AAANZ can be high, often prohibitively so. In addition to lower registration prices, there will be two bursary schemes: Bursaries for Indigenous Scholars (sponsored by the Power Institute […]

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Request for Visual Artists to answer a questionaire for thesis research

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A student studying International Marketing Management at the HWR University in Berlin, Alba Martinez Matovina, has requested visual artists to assist with his questionnaire. Alba is currently writing a thesis and is trying to understand how visual artists and brand collaborations can be more satisfactory to the artist. The questionnaire is built on Microsoft forms and takes 5 to 6 minutes to complete and can be found through this link:  https://forms.office.com/r/0CsbqTn21d

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Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List │ Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson

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Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM is an internationally recognised expert on the art and culture of Renaissance and early-modern Venice, and has made fundamental and lasting contributions to the arts and to the public culture of Australia. Among her many achievements, she has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and her publications books on Italian art include Giuseppe […]

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Call for papers │ Graphic Landscape │ The British Library

Call for Papers

GRAPHIC LANDSCAPE THE LANDSCAPE PRINT SERIES IN BRITAIN, c. 1775–1850 The Paul Mellon Centre and the British Library 2–11 November 2021 Landscape and topographical print series proliferated in the late eighteenth century and in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Indeed, the format seems to have enjoyed an artistic and commercial boom in this period. The British Museum, the British Library and the Yale Center for British Art hold rich collections of such series, in various formats. Some, like Turner’s Liber Studiorum (1807–19) and Constable’s English Landscape Scenery (1830–33) are extremely well known. Many others, however, have still to receive sustained and critical […]

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Call for Papers │ Conference Utopias of (Non)Knowledge: The Museum as a Research Hub

Call for Papers

Jacques Rancière connects the notion of knowledge with that of ignorance: a person who knows must be aware that they do not know. Rancière’s theory of an ‘ignorant teacher’ problematizes the hierarchical regime of the one-way transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. By criticizing the neoliberal production and commodification of knowledge in this way, he reminds us that the purpose of democracy is to attain equality, and in particular the equality of knowledge. What he offers instead can be described as a modernist model of a ‘knowledge utopia,’ where all citizens are equal and therefore equally involved in practices of (not) knowing. […]

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