Category Archives: News

Launch: emaj 9

July 5, 2016News

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

Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowship

June 21, 2016News

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 […]

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

June 21, 2016Jobs, News

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 […]

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

http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/inasa-conference-2016/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 things, towards […]

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 […]