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Lecture: Charles Green – Biennales, Triennales and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art

August 15, 2016News

Charles Green Biennales, Triennales and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art Tuesday, 23rd August 2016, 6:00pm Clemenger BBDO Auditorium National Gallery of Victoria International Free to attend Two main questions overlap in this lecture. What is the impact of biennials on contemporary art? And how have biennials changed in the course of the appearance of contemporary art? We will sum up the issues that we see played out in different biennials between 1955 to now. We will work through a typology of biennial formats, noting that each appears in turn as an answer to a set of problems and […]

University of Queensland: PhD Scholarships, School of Architecture

August 15, 2016News

2 x PhD Scholarships, School of Architecture, University of Queensland (Deadline: Aug 21, 2016) The School of Architecture at the University of Queensland invites applications for two research projects: 1) How Meston’s ‘Wild Australia Show’ Shaped Australian Aboriginal History The Wild Australia Show (1892-93), staged by a diverse company of Aboriginal people for metropolitan audiences, provides the focus for an interdisciplinary study of performance, photography, collections, frontier environments and race relations in colonial Australia. Using archival and visual records, and in partnership with key cultural institutions and Indigenous communities, the research seeks to produce an authoritative and original interpretation of the […]

AAANZ 2016 Conference Postgraduate Day and Student Bursaries Announced

August 4, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ Conference 2016, Funding, Postgraduate Research, Student Bursaries

Postgraduate Student Day The 2016 AAANZ Annual Conference will open on Thursday, December 1, 2016 with a day dedicated to recent and current postgraduate student research. Everyone registered for the conference is welcome to attend this day, however, participation in the Postgraduate Student day as a speaker, is specifically open to current postgraduate students and to anyone who has completed postgraduate study (including MA, MFA and PhD) within the last eighteen months. The day will provide a supportive environment in which participants will be mentored in the art of presenting papers at a conference. Depending on time available there will […]

UQ Development Fellowships

August 1, 2016News

The University of Queensland Development Fellowships aim to foster development of the most promising early career researchers and retain mid-career and senior academic staff of exceptional calibre at the University. By investing in the best and brightest talent across all career levels, the UQ Development Fellowships facilitate a trajectory of continued excellence and impact in research, teaching and service at UQ. In doing so, the fellowships advance UQ’s strategic objectives in the pillars of Discovery, Learning and Engagement and develop elite professionals who create change in society in multi-dimensional ways. UQ Development Fellowships may be applied for and awarded funding […]

National Gallery of Art (USA) – Centre for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) – Fellowship Deadlines

August 1, 2016News

Senior Fellowship Program 2017-2018 The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for senior fellowships. Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Each senior fellow is provided with a study. In addition, senior fellows who relocate to Washington are provided with housing in apartments near the Gallery, subject to availability. Senior fellows have access to the notable resources represented by the art collections, the library, and the image collections […]

RUPC and Liquid Architecture: Autotune Everything, MAF Lectures and Forums Program 18-20 August 2016

July 25, 2016News

Melbourne Art Foundation (MAF) presents the 2016 Lectures and Forums Program in association with Liquid Architecture and the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) – University of Melbourne. Curated by Nikos Papastergiadis (RUPC), Joel Stern and Danni Zuvela (Liquid Architecture) Autotune Everything: Art and the Sonic – Cosmic – Politic This year’s program is an expanded symposium encompassing talks, music, performances and experiments. FREE EVENT OPEN TO ALL Date 18-20 August 2016 Venue Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia About By necessity, we tune in to some signals, and filter others out. In […]

Book Launch and Talk: Terry Smith – Talking Contemporary Curating

July 25, 2016News

Friday 29 Jul 2016, 6.00- 8.00pm || Terry Smith, Rebecca Coates & Tara McDowell In 2015, Terry Smith launched his second publication, Talking Contemporary Curating, as part of ICI’s series Perspectives inCurating. To accompany the Melbourne launch of this important publication, Terry Smith will be speaking with Rebecca Coates (curator and writer, Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, UoM, and Director, SAM, Shepparton Art Museum) and Tara McDowell (Associate Professor, Curatorial Practice, MADA, Monash University). The conversation will be moderated by Professor Charles Green. Talking Contemporary Curating offers timely reflections by curators, art historians, critics, and artists on emergent debates in curatorial practice […]

Call for Papers – AAANZ Conference 2016 – now open

July 24, 2016AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers, NewsAAANZ conference, AAANZ Conference 2016, Call for Papers

Call for Papers AAANZ Conference 2016 The call for papers for the 2016 AAANZ Conference is now open – the deadline is August 26th 2016. The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1–3 December 2016. The conference will be based at the Australian National University, with additional events hosted by the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery. Sessions will be 90 minutes with the expectation that each session will comprise 3 x 20 minute papers, followed by 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary […]

AAANZ letter on Closure of Sydney College of the Arts

July 22, 2016Advocacy, NewsSydney College of the Arts

Closure of the Sydney College of the Arts Anthony White, President of the AAANZ, has written to Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney, to express our concerns over the proposed closure of the Sydney College of the Arts. You can read more about the proposed closure and merger with UNSW here in a statement from NAVA Executive Director Tamara Winikoff: https://visualarts.net.au/news-opinion/2016/SCA-mediarelease-12July16/ We encourage all our members to write to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Dr Michael Spence, to state their position on what we believe is a very concerning development for arts education in the region. Letters can be emailed […]

Dr Melissa Chiu announced as Keynote Speaker for 2016 AAANZ Conference

July 21, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsKeynote

The conference committee is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. AAANZ 2016 Conference | The Work of Art Dr Melissa Chiu How has the work of art changed in the 21st century? Keynote Speaker for AAANZ 2016 December 1, National Gallery of Australia Dr. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern art, a Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She was previously Museum Director and Senior Vice President, Global Art Programs at Asia Society […]