Category Archives: News

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 […]

Art + Australia Presents – Turning On Burn: A Reflective Conversation, Wednesday 4th May, VCA Art School Auditorium

May 2, 2016News

Turning on Burn: A Reflective Conversation This symposium explores and speculates upon the work and legacy of Australian conceptual artist Ian Burn (1939–1993). After graduating from the National Gallery of Art School (now the VCA School of Art), Burn spent much of his career working in the avant-garde scenes of London and New York. He was a key member of Art & Language, a collaborative group who produced the ground-breaking publication Art–Language and included artists Roger Cutforth, Joseph Kosuth and Mel Ramsden. Returning to Australia in 1977, Burn became involved in the Art Workers Union (AWU), a political and social […]

Booklaunch: Thirty Six Views by Stephen Whiteman and Richard Strassberg

April 28, 2016News

STEPHEN WHITEMAN & RICHARD STRASSBERG Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints The Power Institute is pleased to invite you to the launch of departmental colleague Stephen Whiteman’s new book Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints, co-authored with Richard Strassberg, to be formally launched by Professor Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University In 1712, the Kangxi emperor published Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat (Yuzhi Bishu shanzhuang shi). His views from his summer palace, captured in poems and descriptions, reflect […]

ANZJA Call for Papers: Open Issue 1, 2017

April 22, 2016ANZJA, Call for Papers, News

CALL FOR PAPERS Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art Issue 1, 2017 Open Issue Closing: 15 August 2016 Issue editors: Professor Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, and Rachel Kent, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. 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. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, […]

Modern Art: The Politics of the New – Sessional Lecturer position at the University of Melbourne

April 18, 2016News

The Art History program at The University of Melbourne is seeking a sessional lecturer to teach AHIS10002 Modern Art: The Politics of the New in second semester 2016. The opportunity arises as a result of a staff member being on leave for the semester. The appointee will be expected to have a PhD in a relevant area and will be required to deliver two lectures per week and co-ordinate a group of tutorial staff and take at least one tutorial. Payment will be at the sessional lecturer rates in the University of Melbourne Enterprise Agreement. Please email an expression […]

Adaptation: ACUADS Conference 2016, QUT Brisbane

April 11, 2016Call for Papers, News

2016 ACUADS Conference: Adaptation 29 – 30 September 2016 QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment create one set of pressures that art schools need to adapt to – along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints. External industry structures and commercial aims create another set of compulsions. The art and design school is continually asked to define itself against and adapt to the conditions of its environment, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and […]

Photographic.Ontology.Symposium – University of Sydney

April 4, 2016News

Photography.Ontology.Symposium. engages in critical debate with international scholars and specialists on the photographic medium. It will explore the relationship between photography’s ontology, the camera as a human perceptual apparatus and the unconscious through themes of evidence, the archive, photographic practice and theory. 2-3 JUNE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH & ANDRÉS ZERVIGÓN PLENARY ADDRESS: MELISSA MILES WITH SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS, KATHERINE BIBER, DONNA WEST BRETT, HELEN GRACE, JOHN DI STEFANO, DANIE MELLOR AND TONI ROSS.