Category Archives: News

Vale Mr W. Wanambi

May 9, 2022News

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand extends its thoughts to family, extended family, the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre and the wider community of North East Arnhem Land for the loss of such a significant leader, artist and advocate for culture and Country. In 2007 Mr W. Wanambi became a director of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, where he was instrumental in the facilitation of the short film collection Nhama and the mentoring of young Yolŋu in media practices. In 2014 Mr Wanambi graduated from the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts at the University of Melbourne, specialising in Indigenous Arts Management and was a […]

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

April 9, 2022Book, Funding, News, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

Professor Terry Smith receives the 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award │ CAA

January 31, 2022News

Professor Terry Smith receives the 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College of Art Association of America AAANZ President and Executive congratulate Professor Terry Smith on receiving this prestigious award in recognition for his services to academic teaching and being an inspirational mentor to his students. Details of the announcement can be found at https://www.collegeart.org/news/ CAA 2020 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award Terry Smith has long written, curated and taught across borders, in the beginning coming from Australia to study and work in New York as both a scholar and an active member of Art & […]

JOB │Head of Department: Fine Art │ Monash University │ CLOSES SUNDAY 30 JAN

January 28, 2022News

Join a renowned and highly progressive experimental art school Foster interdisciplinary collaboration and excellence in research and teaching Lead a stellar group of artists in this key role The University As Australia’s largest university, Monash comprises a diverse range of inspiring individuals with a combined sense of purpose and a desire to create positive global impact through education and research. The Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) is an open, connected community of creative thinkers, makers and professional practitioners who tackle urgent issues together. Fine Art at MADA has created an intense interdisciplinary community for students […]

Winner announced for Research in Focus 2021

December 13, 2021NewsAwards, Early Career Researchers, PhD Research, Research in Focus

The Research in Focus Online Prize is being run in place of the annual PhD prize due to the online format of the 2021 conference. The Research in Focus Online Prize is based upon a video presentation of research and is open to all current PhD and recent graduates. Early career researchers were invited to prepare a short video that focuses on their research. They could talk to their entire PhD project, or choose a sub topic. Entrants were judged on the effectiveness of their communication. $1,000 will be awarded sponsored by Taylor and Francis Judges Dr Katrina Grant, Dr Raymond Spiteri and […]

New Emerging Scholars Program: The Necessity of Australian Art History Now

October 22, 2021News

As part of the 2021 AAANZ Conference, IMPACT, we are pleased to announce a new and exciting research intensive for postgraduate and early career scholars working in the field of Australian art history. Participants will have the opportunity to receive focused feedback on their own work from an invited audience comprised of their fellow workshop participants, alongside a panel of esteemed leaders in the field of Australian art history: Ann Stephen (co-author of The Necessity of Australian Art), Ian McLean and Greg Lehman. Applications close on 7 November. For more information and to apply: https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2021-conference-impact/Emerging-Scholars-Program/

Grounded in Place: Dialogues Between First Nations Artists from Australia, Taiwan and Aotearoa

October 5, 2021News

Register here 7-9 October 2021 This online symposium is a conversation between 15 First Nations artists, curators, and filmmakers, along with non-Indigenous scholars and museum professionals from Australia, Taiwan, Aotearoa, and the Philippines. It offers a space where First Nations creative practitioners who have not met, can gather, share ideas and insights, and develop connections. We hope these conversations will inspire new ideas and generate opportunities for future dialogue and exchange. This sharing of knowledge will also help build networks and foster cultural understanding and cooperation between our countries. The theme explores our relationship to the “land” from the standpoint […]

AAANZ October Newsletter

October 4, 2021News

The AAANZ October Newsletter is available to read here The Newsletter opens with the Presidents Report and contains updates regarding the Association. This includes the conference, awards and prizes, journal and the Indigenising Working Group. Updates from the regions include publication news, appointments, seminars and courses from the Australian Capital Territory, Aotearoa New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.

PhD Project at UTAS | Posthumanism at the edge of the world

September 20, 2021News

Posthumanism at the edge of the world Closing date: 29 October 2021 Location: Hobart Citizenship requirement: Domestic/International Onshore About the research project How might we image and imagine the posthuman on an island that sits on the 42nd southern parallel? Posthumanism at the edge of the world is a visual arts research area that seeks to expand knowledge of the posthuman through critical engagements with interdisciplinary creative speculations, experimental practice-led enquiries, and new discursivities of the more-than-human/human-to-come. This project explores practice-led and practice-based capacities to map and imagine new geographies, developing new possibilities that build on existing relations (e.g. with Antarctica and its […]

CALL FOR WORKS | 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale

September 6, 2021News

Executive curators with the support of the Contemporary Art Institute, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, are honored to present to you the 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale. They are proposing constructing the theoretical basis of the exhibition with the philosophical vision of materials, new materials, and new materialism. In the context of contemporary art, the emphasis on the text and dematerialization, along with the supremacy of concepts, not only exploit and mechanize materials and the materialization process but also gradually formed a kind of artistic discourse in the context of contemporary art. Reconstruction and perception of contemporary […]