Category Archives: News

Verónica Tello – Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art

October 17, 2016News

Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, […]

AAANZ 2016 Student Bursaries Announced

October 13, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ 2016 Conference, Bursaries, Funding, Student support

The AAANZ 2016 Conference is pleased to announce the following students and recent graduates as 2016 bursary recipients. We particularly acknowledge Associate Professor Denise Ferris (Head of School) and the School of Art, ANU for the generous support of five accommodation bursaries. Joanne Baitz (UWA) Tracy Clement (SCA/USyd) Fernando DeCampo (Parsons) Macarena de Leon (UCan) Jane Eckett (UMelb) Stephanie Holm (UNewcastle) Olivia Spiers (UAdelaide) Margaret Summerton (VCA/UMelb) Anastasia Tyurina (QCA/Griffith U) Kate Warren (Monash)

Booklaunch: Dr Christopher Marshall, Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench – Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Thursday October 20, 6-8pm

October 10, 2016News

Book Launch : Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Dr Christopher R. Marshall Senior Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016 To be formally launched by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Australia Presented in partnership with the Australian Institute of Art History. Thursday, 20 October 2016 6.00pm-8.00pm The Ian Potter Museum of Art University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010 In Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting, Marshall presents a new reading of 17th-century Italian […]

AAANZ Early Bird Registration extended to October 14, 2016

October 6, 2016News

Due to the overwhelming response to the call for papers for the AAANZ 2016 annual conference in Canberra we are delighted to extend the Early Bird Registration deadline to October 14, 2016. We will shortly be announcing the recipients of the 2016 Student Bursaries. Please see the AAANZ Conference page for updated information regarding scheduling of the Postgraduate Student Day (Dec 1) and Keynote Address by Dr Melissa Chiu (Dec 1) and Professor Anthea Callen (Dec 2). A full list of speakers and paper abstracts will be available towards the end of October. We look forward to seeing you in […]

Job Opportunity: Head, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne

September 26, 2016Jobs, News

The Faculty of Arts wishes to appoint a distinguished academic as Head of School, Culture and Communication. The successful applicant will have a strong research, teaching and engagement record and a proven track record in leadership. The Dean and Heads of School constitute the senior leadership team of the Faculty of Arts and the successful applicant will both manage her or his School as well as assist with the running of the Faculty. Under the broad direction of the Dean and within the general outlines of the Faculty Business Plan and the Faculty Budget, the Head has the overall academic […]

University of Melbourne Duldig Lecture – Sculpture and the Museum: From Fortunate Son to Runaway Child

August 29, 2016News

Dr Christopher Marshall will give this year’s Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture, titled: Sculpture and the Museum: From Fortunate Son to Runaway Child 6.15-7.15pm Thursday 1 September, 2016 Forum Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne In 2005, the Director of the National Gallery, London, signalled the long-standing eclipse of sculpture in favour of painting when he noted that “sculpture is what you fall over when you step back from the paintings”. The expanded field of contemporary sculptural practice, including installations, conceptual art and commissioned artist interventions, has nonetheless re-energised and revitalised the potential of sculpture to engage with the historical, […]

Brisbane Consortium for the Visual Arts – PhD Scholarships (extended deadline for applications)

August 29, 2016News

Three new PhD Scholarships offered by the Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts (BCVA) The BCVA facilitates scholarly collaboration between the art history-theory programs of Griffith University (GU), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland (UQ) working in conjunction with the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). The BCVA’s key areas of focus include: contemporary Asian art; art of the Asia-Pacific; Australian and Australian Indigenous art; the global contemporary; curatorial education and training; new approaches to art history and theory. The BCVA is now offering three PhD scholarships for research in the visual arts in these […]

Australian National University Conference – Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art, 26-28th August 2016

August 22, 2016News

Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art 26-28 August 2016 Australian National University, Canberra This conference addresses historical and contemporary manifestations of spatio-temporality in Asian art. In addition to the relatively recent international visibility of ‘new media’ art, there are pronounced instances of time and space being addressed together in various art traditions across the Asian region, ranging from the murals of Ajanta and Dun Huang (Mogao) to contemporary video installations. We consider ‘moving image cultures’ as ways of comprehending and representing time in space, not being restricted to cinematic or digital domains, but claiming deeper historical developments through various two-, […]

University of Melbourne Symposium – Hidden Traces of Shared History

August 22, 2016News

Hidden Traces of Shared History: Rethinking Asia Pacific through 19th and early 20th century photographs Academic Symposium 29 August 2016, 9:30am-4:30pm, Japanese Room, MSD Building Register here for the Symposium and Keynote attendance Keynote Address: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington 29 August 2016, 5:30-7:00pm, Singapore Theatre, MSD Building Register here for the Keynote Address attendance only This symposium brings together leading researchers who are working on 19th and early 20th century collections of Asia Pacific photographs. Alongside a broader consideration of the significance of the history of photography in the region, explorations of visual and built traces of […]

University of WA Symposium – Colonization & Wilderness: Nineteenth-Century Amercian and Australian Landscape Painting

August 22, 2016News

Online registration for ‘Colonization & Wilderness: Nineteenth-Century American and Australian Landscape Painting’, an international symposium, convened by Emeritus Professor Richard Read, held at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 27-28 September 2016, is now open. In collaboration with The University of Western Australia and The Terra Foundation for American Art, the symposium addresses paintings from both countries brought together in the exhibition Continental Shift and Unknown Land: Mapping and Imagining Western Australia.’ Speakers include Professor David Peters Corbett (Courtauld Institute, London and University of East Anglia), Associate Professor Rachael Z. DeLue (Princeton University), Dr David Hansen (Australian National University), […]