Category Archives: News

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

June 14, 2016News

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 […]

University of Melbourne – Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History

June 14, 2016Jobs, News

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 […]

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

June 2, 2016Brisbane, News

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 […]

SMT 18 | Between Sensuous and Making-Sense-Of

May 30, 2016Call for Papers, News

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 […]

Curtin University – InASA Conference 2016

May 30, 2016Call for Papers, News

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 […]

CAUL / ASA Fellowship 2016

May 30, 2016News

The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) are pleased to announce that applications are now open for 2016 CAUL and ASA Fellowships. $10,000 fellowships for creators to access special collections in university libraries(CAUL / ASA Media Release 13/5/16) The Fellowships have been made possible through the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. CAUL and the ASA expect to award two fellowships, each with a value of $10,000 in 2016. The fellowships are designed to showcase university libraries’ special collections by providing artists, authors, scholars and researchers with an opportunity to work on creative projects that will benefit from concentrated […]

Conference: Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art, ANU Canberra 2016

May 23, 2016News

Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art 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-, three- and four-dimensional practices. Potentials of ‘moving […]

CHASS Australia Prizes 2016

May 17, 2016News, Prizes

The Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS). More information about our past winners is available here: http://www.chass.org.au/chass-media-releases/. Kindly note nominations are open for four categories: Book – cash prize of $3,500 sponsored by Routledge Distinctive Work: an artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition, or practical contribution to arts policy – cash prize of $3,500 sponsored by Routledge Future Leader: an individual demonstrating leadership skills and potential in the humanities, arts, and social sciences – cash prize of $2,000 sponsored […]

Lecturer (Level B) Position, Digital Humanities – ANU

May 2, 2016News

Lecturer (Level B), Digital Humanities Salary Package: AED 0 – 0 Reference: 508798 Classification: Academic Level B Salary package: $94,287- $107,381 per annum plus 17% superannuation Position overview This position results from the creation of an expanded digital humanities base in the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research, the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, the Centre for Art History and Theory, and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. More generally, the position is part of a strategic process aimed at ensuring that ANU remains at the cutting edge of digital humanities research and teaching by distributing expertise across its […]

Reparative Aesthetics: Rosângela Rennó and Fiona Pardington, Griffith University Art Gallery

May 2, 2016Brisbane, News

Reparative Aesthetics: Rosângela Rennó and Fiona Pardington Exhibition dates: Saturday 30 April 2016 – Saturday 2 July 2016 Guest curator: Professor Susan Best How do artists represent the disempowered without evoking pity or voyeurism? Rosângela Rennó and Fiona Pardington, artists based in the southern hemisphere (Brazil and New Zealand), take a reparative approach to this topic. Their powerful portraits are not, however, redemptive or restorative in the straightforward way one might suppose. For them, reparative aesthetics signals the capacity to assimilate the consequences of destruction and violence. Panel Discussion Ambivalence and The Archival Turn 2pm Saturday 7 May 2016 […]