Category Archives: News

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Heritage of the Built of Environment – The University of Melbourne

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Heritage of the Built Environment Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia Salary: AUD66,809* – AUD90,657 p.a. (*PhD Entry Level AUD84,458 p.a.) plus 17% superannuation The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to conduct interdisciplinary research on the Heritage of the Built Environment. This position is located in the Australian Collaboratory for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH). Working alongside industry, academic and government partners, ACAHUCH fosters a collaborative approach to the critical study of architectural history, heritage conservation […]

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Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Research Symposium, Archives: the Ethics of Keeping

Research Symposium, Archives: the Ethics of Keeping Tuesday 26 July 2016, 9am–12.30pm Explore the central and sometimes difficult topics concerning judgments and the place of the archive in contemporary society. In this symposium, speakers question and reconceptualise the idea of the archive. They will interrogate and upend understandings and practices of access, control, agency, power, choice, including the act of repurposing in the creative process. Private, public, cultural, legal, factual, interpreted and other categorisations of the archive are discussed by a series of experts offering different ways of thinking. How are cultural institutions and others addressing these ethical issues and taking […]

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iDARE RMIT Workshop 2016 – CREW

CREATIVE RESEARCH ETHICS WORKSHOP (CREW) Running from early August through late September, 2016 Activities will occur in multiple locations in the Melbourne CBD/inner north  Website Interested in participating? Let us know by Monday July 18, 2016.  EOI What should I do to be part of the CREW? Send an email to mcpherson.m@unimelb.edu.au with the following: – a 100-200 word statement indicating your interest in being involved in this project. Additionally, please confirm whether you are able to commit to the two full days of the intensive (Phase 1), and what days/times of the week you would be available for the […]

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Launch: emaj 9

Announcing emaj 9, the newly published 2015/16 edition of the peer-reviewed online art journal Please feel free to join the editors of online art journal emaj (electronic Melbourne art journal) for a drink this Friday, to celebrate the launch of the 2015/16 edition, emaj 9. Rex Butler, Professor (Art History & Theory) Monash University, will officially launch this edition. Details: The Lincoln Hotel, Cnr Cardigan Street & Queensberry Street, Carlton. Friday the 8th of July, from 6pm. www.emajartjournal.com

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Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowship

The Cité Internationale des Arts in the Rue de L’Hotel de Ville, in the Marais quarter of Paris, was opened in the early 1960s. It provides studio accommodation for foreign and provincial art students, including musicians, painters, sculptors and graphic artists. One of the first decisions of the Power Institute was the purchase of a studio for the use of Australian artists. Each year the Institute offers residencies in its studio to artists, art scholars and art writers. Information for applicants Selection Criteria and Categories of Awards Category A: Power Institute Award for Artists Applicants may be from any of […]

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UniSA Vacancy – Head of School: Art, Architecture and Design

Head of School: Art, Architecture and Design The University of South Australia is an enterprising and dynamic, outward-looking institution established in 1991, built on more than 150 years of teaching, learning and research excellence of our antecedent institutions.  We are South Australia’s largest university, and continue to enjoy a strong upward trajectory across a number of key indicators and global rankings – we are ranked amongst the top 3% of universities worldwide and in the top 50 international universities under 50 years of age. The School of Art, Architecture and Design is the oldest and most well-established school of its […]

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Sheridan Palmer – Hegel’s Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith

From Power Publications: Sheridan Palmer’s landmark biography of Bernard Smith launches at the Victorian Artists’ Society, site of ‘The Antipodeans’ exhibition of 1959. ‘Better to make history than to write about it. What is needed is a brotherhood of some kind, compact, devoted, with a colourful title . . .’ Bernard Smith, letter to Robin Boyd, 1957   Key dates: Thursday 16 June 2016 National Library of Australia, Canberra book launch & public talk by Sheridan Palmer Wednesday 20 July 2016 Art Gallery of NSW Sydney joint book launch with The Legacies of Bernard Smith (Power Publications, 2016) & public […]

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University of Melbourne – Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History

School of Culture & Communication Faculty of Arts Salary: $181,308 p.a.plus 17% superannuation The Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History is a professorship within the Faculty of Arts and the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. This position has been created by a visionary endowment from Faculty of Arts alumna Patricia Fullerton, the grand-niece of the Australian artist Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906); now memorialised in this important, endowed chair that will be based in the University’s Art History Program. The School is seeking to appoint a leading scholar in the area of Australian art history, with […]

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Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts – New PhD Scholarships 2016 & 2017

Three new PhD Scholarships offered by the Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts The Brisbane Consortium for the Visual Arts (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 […]

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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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