Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Women in the Creative Arts (ANU, August 2017)

The School of Music at the Australian National University, is pleased to announce a call for papers and submissions for an innovative research conference on “Women in the Creative Arts” to be held at the school from 10-12 August, 2017. Papers and proposals are invited from scholars and industry practitioners from the creative arts. The topical focus for this conference is the creative work of artists who identify as women. Delegates of all gender identities are invited to submit proposals for papers. Research papers will receive 30 minutes of presentation time – papers should be presented within 20 minutes, allowing […]

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Agency and aesthetics: A symposium on the expanded field of photography – Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki – Saturday 1 April 2017

Agency and aesthetics: A symposium on the expanded field of photography With more photographs circulating than ever before, what do photographers want their images to do? How are artists retaining agency amongst the changing ontology of photography and its conventions and technologies? Does photography either in an art gallery or online still offer a democratic potential in its ability to alter or resist existing positions? As part of a consideration of the shifting politics and aesthetics of photography this event is an opportunity to consider the current nature of subjectivity in image worlds. If the selfie is the “the first […]

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Symposium: ‘Art and Revolution’ Dunedin School of Art 13-14 October 2017

ART AND REVOLUTION A SYMPOSIUM DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART 13-14 October 2017 Following eight successful symposia held at the Dunedin School of Art, from ‘Illustrating the Unseeable: Reconnecting Art and Science’ (2009) to ‘Art and Future: Energy, Climate, Cultures’ (2016), the Dunedin School of Art, together with the scholars at the University of Otago, is organising an ninth symposium entitled ‘Art and Revolution.’ 2017 is a significant centenary year. One hundred years ago the Russian Empire was brought to an end by two events, the February and October Revolutions of 1917 that heralded the formation of the Bolshevik-led Soviet Union. […]

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Call for Papers – AAANZ Conference 2016 – now open

Call for Papers AAANZ Conference 2016 The call for papers for the 2016 AAANZ Conference is now open – the deadline is August 26th 2016. The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1–3 December 2016. The conference will be based at the Australian National University, with additional events hosted by the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery. Sessions will be 90 minutes with the expectation that each session will comprise 3 x 20 minute papers, followed by 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary […]

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SMT 18 | Between Sensuous and Making-Sense-Of

Studies in Material Thinking, in collaboration with organisers of the conference Image Matter: Art and Materiality (Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2015), is calling for contributions to a special issue of new research articles to be published in late 2017. Conference participants are especially encouraged to submit papers, though the call is open to all researchers. How do we – as artists, makers, viewers, participants, historians, theorists – make sense of the material substance of art practice and product? Confronted with the work of art (object, environment, performance), the viewer is at once both granted access to, and rebuffed from, the […]

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Curtin University – InASA Conference 2016

Call for papers Closing date for submission of abstracts is 30 June 2016. As a result of the intensification of overlapping, interpenetrating and mixing of cultures and peoples in everyday life in Australia – its public culture has become increasingly re-imagined through intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue and debate, activating the possibilities of an emerging cosmopolitan society. This, however, continues to be challenged at the same time by recurrent racism, misogyny, homophobia and ecophobia produced in the public sphere. To re-imagine Australia thus demands new ways of thinking and understanding what is required to go beyond Australia’s ambivalence, among other […]

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ANZJA Call for Papers: Open Issue 1, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art Issue 1, 2017 Open Issue Closing: 15 August 2016 Issue editors: Professor Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, and Rachel Kent, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The Journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, […]

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Adaptation: ACUADS Conference 2016, QUT Brisbane

2016 ACUADS Conference: Adaptation 29 – 30 September 2016 QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment create one set of pressures that art schools need to adapt to – along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints. External industry structures and commercial aims create another set of compulsions. The art and design school is continually asked to define itself against and adapt to the conditions of its environment, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and […]

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Call for Papers | ART AND FUTURE: Energy, Climate, Cultures | Dunedin October 2016

ART AND FUTURE:  Energy, Climate, Cultures A SYMPOSIUM at the DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, 14-15 October 2016 Following seven successful symposia held at the Dunedin School of Art, from ‘Illustrating the Unseeable: Reconnecting Art and Science’ (2009) to ‘Art and Design’ (2015), the Dunedin School of Art, together with the Centre for Sustainability, the Centre for Science Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Otago, is organising an eighth symposium entitled ‘Art and Future: Energy, Climate, Cultures.’ Art has always had to do with identity—with kin and class, with gods and demons, with past and present, and also with […]

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