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Conference Travel Funding Opportunities – October 2026

October 12, 2026AAANZ Conference, Grants

A selection of funding opportunities is currently available to support eligible researchers and students with conference participation and travel expenses. These may be of interest to members planning to attend the 2026 AAANZ Conference: Haereka, taking place from 2–4 December 2026 at the University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. Maunuhanga Travel Grant 2026 Applications close: Friday 16 October 2026, 5pm The Wellington Postdoc Society is offering travel grants of up to NZD $500 to support eligible fixed-term early career researchers based in Wellington. Applicants must hold a doctorate, be within ten years […]

Open Call │2nd Aion Digital Art Prize 2026–2027 │ Deadline 1 March 2027

October 12, 2026Prizes

Aion Laboratory, a division of Ise-Shima Art Company, invites submissions to the 2nd Aion Digital Art Prize, an international award for digital artistic expression. There are no age or nationality restrictions, and both individual and collaborative works are welcome. Previously exhibited or awarded works are also eligible. Eligible practices include digital visual art, video and animation, interactive art, installations, AR/VR, and sound or music, including audio-only works. AI-assisted work is permitted where the artist explains the use of AI; however, work produced solely by AI is not eligible. The Grand Prix consists of JPY 50,000 and a printed certificate. Up […]

Announcement│Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research 2026 – Winner

October 12, 2026News

The Len Lye Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research: Shannon Novak Novak is a New Zealand artist of Croatian descent based in Auckland. He trained at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and held an artist residency at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in 2023. His practice spans installation, sculpture, painting, and digital work, with abstract compositions of colour, shape, and sound at its core – creating works that draw people into direct engagement with space. Roger Horrocks, a Trustee of the Len […]

Fellowship│2026 ACIS–Save Venice │Deadline 31 October 2026

October 12, 2026Research Fellowship

The Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), in collaboration with Save Venice Inc., invites applications for the 2026 ACIS–Save Venice Fellowship. The fellowship supports postgraduate and early career researchers, fostering research opportunities and strengthening connections between Australasia and Italy. Up to two fellowships, valued at A$8,000 each, are available to current Masters and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers within three years of completing their PhD. Successful applicants will undertake a two-month fellowship in Venice from 1 January to 28 February 2027. Applications close: 31 October 2026 Further information and applications: ACIS website Fellowship details and application guidelines (PDF)

AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | EARLY-BIRD registration is now open

October 5, 2026AAANZ Conference

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ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE 2026: Our Forests in Danger | Winners Announced

October 5, 2026News, Prizes

Culture Plus presents the 2026 winners of the: ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE Mohamed Khadra, National art School AAANZ PRIZE Hamish Adams, University of Melbourne AUDIENCE PRIZE Henry Wolff, University of New South Wales VAULT PRIZE Tina Agic, University of Queensland ISFAR PRIZE Lilah Gillam, University of Western Australia DISCOVER THEIR TALKS all videos and summary papers Cultureplus.com.au DISCOVER THE STORY behind THE ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE SBS FRENCH PODCAST

Call for Proposals | Expanded Documentary | Deadline extended 9 October

October 5, 2026Call for Panels

Expanded Documentary in Aotearoa brings together scholars, artists, practitioners and creative researchers to explore what documentary might be—or become—in Aotearoa New Zealand today. Inspired by Jihoon Kim’s concept of documentary’s “expanded fields,” the conference moves beyond conventional cinematic forms and frames to consider expanded, hybrid, Indigenous, experimental and practice-led approaches to documenting and storytelling. Aotearoa provides a particularly generative context for this exploration. From installation, photography and animation to embodied, digital and mixed-media practices, the conference invites dialogue between contemporary documentary practices and Māori forms of storytelling and knowledge transmission, while reconsidering the histories and assumptions that have shaped […]

AIAH Event Series in October with Macgeorge visiting speaker Professor Terry Smith

October 5, 2026Events

You are invited to two special lectures with Macgeorge visiting speaker Professor Terry Smith in early October, co-presented by the University of Melbourne and the NGV, and as part of the AIAH event series. The Parkville lecture on Wednesday 7 October at 6.30 pm will examine the influence of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave on art from the pre-modern to the contemporary period. The NGV lecture on Saturday 10 October at 3 pm will look at visual frameworks that contemporary artists deploy to intervene critically against authoritarianism. Terry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Sydney and Andrew […]

Publication | Undisciplined: Of Architectural Nomadism and the Rebellious Practice

October 5, 2026Book

Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. This concern is addressed through the critical examination of a hybrid body of practice-based work, which, although founded on the discipline of architecture, results from its contingent amalgamation with other fields, including contemporary art, politics, and theory. The book reflects on projects developed in contexts of profound sociopolitical instability (i.e., corruption, violence, poverty, and exile), including informal settlements in Venezuela that provide the background to the discussion of projects undertaken elsewhere. In this process, the book interrogates the volatility of the crisis refrain, articulating […]

Curatorial scholarship | Documenta16 | Deadline 31 October

October 5, 2026Opportunity, Scholarship

Stipend for a visual arts professional to work at documenta16 in 2027 documenta in Kassel, Germany, is one of the largest and most important contemporary art exhibitions in the world. The exhibition takes place every five years, with each edition led by a different internationally recognised Artistic Director. documenta16 will take place from June 12 until September 19, 2027 and will be curated by Naomi Beckwith, currently Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Through its activities as a registered Australian not-for-profit organisation, The Friends of Goethe Australia complement the work of the Goethe-Institut by […]