Category Archives: Events

Forthcoming ANU Event Series: Critical AI in the Art Museum

October 30, 2023Events

Artist Hito Steyerl will be giving the first Keynote at 7pm (AEST) on Tuesday to launch ‘Critical AI in the Art Museum’ – a series of discursive events happening over the next month; artist and writer James Bridle will be closing the event. The series will address questions of politics and praxis in contemporary art relating to the current “AI Spring” at a time of political, economic and environmental crisis. Further panels address the future of the commons in an age of extractive AI; on the limits of curatorial knowledge/education; and a final session (TBC) on ‘Bodies, Data, Models, Publics’ that will address the […]

Book Launch | Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art | 17 October, 1-3pm

October 2, 2023Events

Celebrate the book launch with artists and writers for the publication Variations A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White When: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023; 1-3pm Where: Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Level 7, Storey Hall, Building 16, RMIT University, 336–348 Swanston Street (near the corner of Latrobe Street), Melbourne To be launched with short readings from artists and writers featured in the book. Please RSVP to Book Launch: Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White | Humanitix Enquiries to: cast@rmit.edu.au Read more about Variations here This is an important new publication that positions […]

EVENT | The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies | 5.30 – 7.30pm, Wednesday 4 October

September 18, 2023Events

The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies This exhibition brings together eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future. ARTIST DISCUSSION & EXHIBITION OPENING 5.30 – 7.30pm, Wednesday 4 October Register to attend The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies brings together eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future. The exhibition includes artworks and designs that engage audiences in critical, playful and agentic reflections on data and creative technologies. Through the […]

SYMPOSIUM | More Than a Tarrang (tree) | Melbourne Museum | Save the Date 2 November

September 11, 2023Events

Event Details Date: 2 November 2023 at 9:00 am – 3 November 2023 at 5:00 pm Venue: Theatre, Melbourne Museum Categories: Fine Art; Design; Architecture; Research: Wominjeka Djeemban Description More Than a Tarrang (tree) is a research symposium presented by Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, Monash Art Design and Architecture. Tarrang is the Boonwurrung word for tree shared by N’Arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which this event will take place, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. Responding to the exhibition More Than a Tarrang: Memory, Material and Cultural Agency at Bunjilaka […]

Symposium | Collecting and conserving early Australian Maps Symposium

June 22, 2023Events

Please join us for a public symposium exploring three of the most important early map collections in Australia with a particular focus on Dutch Golden Age maps showcasing recent innovations in their care and conservation. This symposium will feature engaging presentations from historians and researchers formative in the development of the map collections of the National Library of Australia, the Kerry Stokes Collection, and MONA as they discuss the history, significance, and motivation for these collections in the context of Australian mapping. Conservators from the University of Melbourne will describe their recent award-winning journey to conserve two different copies of […]

Symposium | Nineteenth-Century Worlds of Vision, 1820s-1870s, Canberra, July 16-18

June 22, 2023Events

This symposium brings together artists, curators and scholars of nineteenth-century visual culture who work across and beyond traditional art historical methods. The nineteenth century was a period of increased mechanisation and innovation for the visual arts. In the Global South, and the Australian colonies particularly, it was also a period of frontier violence and dispossession where sophisticated Indigenous practices of visualising Country and Kin were devastatingly upset. The papers in this symposium consider visual worlds in flux and tumult during the middle decades of the nineteenth-century. With panels on expanded portraiture; colonial science and the visual imaginary; photography and archival […]

Public Lecture │Digital Humanities and cultural heritage partnerships │Thursday 16 March

March 13, 2023Events

Public Lecture │Digital Humanities and cultural heritage partnerships Where and when: Thursday 16 March 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm AEDT Location: Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit Canberra, ACT To register visit: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-lecture-digital-humanities-and-cultural-heritage-partnerships-tickets-565942237467 About the event: The Digital Humanities (DH) benefit from partnerships with cultural heritage institutions… but how can DH researchers and practitioners build partnerships that facilitate functional, sustainable and innovative collaborations? I will explore this question based on my work with small archives and museums in the UK. My exploration will highlight methods for developing sustainable projects that encourage students, teachers and practitioners to use Digital […]

Roundtable│The Humanities and the Public Good │Friday 17 March

March 13, 2023Events

The next roundtable is open to everyone and will be on The Humanities and the Public Good, Friday 17 March. For more information and to register visit: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/humanities-and-public-good-roundtable Speakers: Dr Joel Barnes (University of Queensland), ‘Thinking about the Public Value of the Humanities through their History’ Professor Frank Bongiorno (ANU), ‘The National Cultural Institutions and Humanities Research’ Professor Julia Horne (University of Sydney), ‘Humanities and the Universities Accord’ Professor Kylie Message-Jones (ANU) ‘Beyond Universalism and Impact Pathways: Why the Success of the Sustainable Development Goals relies on the Humanities’ Dr Katrina Grant (ANU), ‘Communities of Practice, Knowledge Sharing, Digital Transformation and Collaboration between Humanities, Public Culture […]

Event │Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès │Wheeler Centre

December 5, 2022Events

Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès Join Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès – writers at the forefront of black feminist theory and antiracist action – for a conversation about listening and translating spaces of joy, hope and connection. Convened by Wiradjuri artist Brook Andrew. Wheeler Centre Tuesday 7 December 6:30-7:30pm Register here: https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/change-and-collaboration-with-tina-campt-and-francoise-verges/ Image: Tina Campt (top) and Françoise Vergès (bottom)

Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in Victorian Britain

November 7, 2022Events

The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is pleased to host this extended seminar on colour in Victorian Britain. Through presentations and discussion, colour in Victorian arts, sciences and discourse will be axamined. Join in person and online to hear papers by Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum) and Keren Hammerschlag (ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory), and presentations by early career researchers Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean) and Sarah Hodge (ANU). These will be followed by an open discussion with the presenters and audience about the multiple facets of colour in Victorian Britain. Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in […]