Category Archives: News

A Letter from the Sydney College of the Arts

June 5, 2017Advocacy, News

An update on the Sydney College of the Arts situation from Professor Stephen Garton, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. Dear Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Thank you for your previous interest in SCA. As a representative of the Visual Arts community who provided feedback on the developments at SCA, we wanted to share key details of the final change plan with you. Today we released the Final Change Plan (FCP) to staff. In this document we outline the following changes: The high-level plan for relocation in 2019 to the Camperdown/Darlington Campus (the Old Teachers […]

4A EMERGING WRITER’S PROGRAM

May 29, 2017News

4A EMERGING WRITER’S PROGRAM CALLOUT Applications are open now for the 4A Emerging Writer’s Program. DEADLINE: Friday 30 June 2017 TRAVEL DATES: September 2017 Following the inaugural offering in 2016, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is pleased to announce the 4A Emerging Writer’s Program that will support an emerging Australian writer to travel to the Pacific in September 2017 to realise two publication outcomes. The 4A Emerging Writer’s Program is open to Australian students currently undertaking a degree at honours or postgraduate level in art, history or related fields of study at an Australian tertiary institution. This program will […]

CFP | Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment (David Nichol Smith Seminar), Griffith University and the University of Queensland, December 13-15, 2017

May 29, 2017Call for Papers, NewsBrisbane, Call for Papers

Brisbane, Griffith University and the University of Queensland, December 13 – 15, 2017 Deadline: Aug 1, 2017 The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to announce that the sixteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment, will be held in Brisbane, Australia, at Griffith University and the University of Queensland on the 13th to 15th December 2017. We welcome proposals for papers or panels on the theme ‘Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment’, broadly conceived as referring to the plurality of Enlightenments as well as the ideas and uses of nature which they endorsed, and the spaces in […]

2017 Conference Call for Sessions – DEADLINE EXTENDED

May 22, 2017AAANZ Conference, Conference, News

This year’s AAANZ Conference, ‘Art and its Directions’, is to be held at the University of Western Australia from the 6-8th of December. The conference organisers wish to announce an extension of the deadline for the Call for Sessions. The new deadline is the C.O.B. May 29, ie. next Monday. Please visit the conference website for all the relevant details. https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2017-conference/art-and-its-directions-call-for-sessions/

Booklaunch: Barbara Creed – Stray

May 15, 2017News

The Power Institute and the Ian Potter Museum of Art are pleased to invite you to a talk by Barbara Creed, followed by a book launch celebrating Stray: Human-Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene. Barbara Creed’s timely polemic explores the relationship between human and animal in the context of the stray. To celebrate the launch of this new publication, Creed, with respondent Dr lynn mowson, Vice Chair of the Australasian Animal Studies Association, will discuss the concept of the stray through the visual arts, film and literature, introducing the concept of the anthropogenic stray and exploring the contradictions it embodies. Following […]

University of Queensland – ATCH Visiting Fellows Program 2018

May 8, 2017Jobs, News

ATCH Visiting Fellows Program 2018 The ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History) Research Centre invites Expressions of Interest for the Visiting Fellows Program 2018. The program welcomes Expressions of Interest from scholars with varying levels of experience who are carrying out critical research in architecture. ATCH is located within the School of Architecture at The University of Queensland (UQ), in Brisbane, Australia. The Centre supports innovative and interdisciplinary research on the history, theory and criticism of architecture. Architecture and its place within a larger history of ideas is a strong focus within the Centre. Bringing together Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Fellows, Postgraduates […]

Ian McLean appointed to the Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History, the University of Melbourne

April 28, 2017News

Announcement by Peter Otto: I am delighted to announce the appointment of Ian McLean to the Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History, based in the Art History Program at the University of Melbourne. Ian has published extensively on Australian art and particularly on Indigenous art. His books include Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art, with Darren Jorgensen (2017); Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art(2016); Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous art (2014); How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art (2011); White Aborigines Identity Politics in Australian Art (1998); and The Art of Gordon Bennett, with a chapter by Gordon […]

Free Public Lecture by Julia Bryan-Wilson: “Cecilia Vicuña, About to Happen” – Thursday 4 May 2017, University of Melbourne.

April 24, 2017News

Free Public Lecture by Julia Bryan-Wilson: “Cecilia Vicuña, About to Happen” will be held Thursday 4 May 2017 at the University of Melbourne. Keynote Speaker: Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Associate Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson will give a lecture on Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña. Bryan-Wilson’s lecture will discuss Vicuña’s sculptural work looking closely at her textile-based work from the 1970s to think through issues of production and materiality. Drawing on her forthcoming book, Fray: Art and Textile Politics, Julia Bryan- Wilson investigates how Vicuña’s use of knotted threads and strings signified politically […]

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1, 2018

April 19, 2017ANZJA, Call for Papers, News

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1, 2018. Submissions deadline: 30 July 2017 Issue 1, 2018 Open Issue Issue editors: Professor Deborah Ascher Barnstone, (University of Technology, Sydney), and Dr Donna West Brett (University of Sydney). Journal aims and scope The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). 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. ANZJA […]

Art and Revolution: A Symposium – Dunedin School of Art, October 13-14 2017

April 10, 2017Conference, News

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. […]