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CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA | SPECIAL ISSUE: DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN: “THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,” 24.1, 2024

Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue: documenta fifteen: “the first exhibition of the twenty-first century,” 24.1, 2024. Editors: Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau Full article submissions due: 29 September 2023 This special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is edited by emerging art historians and critics Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau. They have worked together across numerous art historical editorial projects, including Index Journal, Discipline, and Memo Review. For ANZJA they focus on historicising documenta fifteen (2022). ANZJA is calling for […]

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Book | Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Book

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East By Byung-Chul Han Translated by Daniel Steuer About the Book Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. Drawing on this fundamental distinction, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of […]

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Call for papers | 36th CIHA Congress | Deadline 15 September 2023

Call for Papers

The 36th CIHA Congress will host more than 90 panels over 4 days of conferences. Submission proposals are invited. Consult the list of panels on the website: Call for papers. The panels are divided into 15 themes on the submission platform for easy browsing. Check out the platform of the Call for papers here Proposals for papers must include: • a title • an abstract of 350 to 500 words • a CV of 500 characters Proposals will be reviewed by the chairs of the panels. Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 September 2023 Travel grants will be available. Call for […]

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Job | Assistant Curator of Art – Australian War Memorial

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Under general direction, the Assistant Curator participates in the care, custody and day to day administration of the Art Collection.  The work involves: responding to enquiries and liaising with clients, artists, institutions and organisations; contributing to collection development; and performing a range of tasks associated with control, maintenance and care of the collection using the Memorial’s collection management system. A Tertiary qualification in the field of Art History is required for this position. Core Responsibilities Under general direction and professional supervision participate in the control, maintenance, care and development of the art collection, including: Prepare recommendations related to acquisitions; Undertake […]

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Image from Choix de Chanson songbook of performers at piano and on violin

Call for Papers | Sound, Image, Text Symposium, Australian National University

Call for Papers,

Date: Thursday 24 and Friday 25 August 2023. Location: Australian National University, Canberra. Deadline: Friday 23 June. This symposium hosted by the Centre for Art History and Theory in the ANU School of Art and Design will be of interest to scholars, curators, or creative practitioners interested in the relationship between sound, image, and text in the history of music, art, and literature. The event is inspired by the digital critical edition of Jean-Benjamin de la Borde’s Choix de Chansons (1773), developed by an interdisciplinary team of art historians, musicologists and literary scholars from the Australian National University, University of […]

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ANZJA now indexed by Scopus

ANZJA

We are pleased to announce that the ANZJA’s application to be indexed by Scopus (and Scimago) has been approved. Scopus has become a vital index of scholarly journals, often seen by universities and funding bodies as a measure of research quality. In its letter of approval, Scopus praised the ANZJA’s high citation rate and disciplinary and regional relevance. Being listed by Scopus will help ensure we continue to attract excellent scholarship. The Journal will appear in Scopus and Scimago by the end of June. We thank the current editor in chief Verónica Tello for her work on this.

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Call for Papers | ANZJA | Special Issue: documenta fifteen: “the first exhibition of the twenty-first century,” 24.1, 2024

ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue: documenta fifteen: “the first exhibition of the twenty-first century,” 24.1, 2024. Editors: Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau Full article submissions due: 29 September 2023 This special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is edited by emerging art historians and critics Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau. They have worked together across numerous art historical editorial projects, including Index Journal, Discipline, and Memo Review. […]

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AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2023 ARE NOW OPEN

AWAPA, Prizes

The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Categories for the AWAPAs include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Māori and Pasifika art writing. AWAPAs recognise: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area […]

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Call for Papers | BORN DIGITAL HERITAGE NOW | Deadline 27 July

Call for Papers, Conference

Call for Papers: BORN DIGITAL HERITAGE NOW #BDCH23  https://aama.net.au/conference/ Thursday, November 30th – Friday, December 1st, 2023 #BDCH23 is the third iteration of the Born Digital Cultural Heritage conference series. The first and second iterations – in 2014 and 2022 – brought together academics and practitioners from across the world to consider issues in the field of born digital heritage, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. A notable feature of this conference series has been the deliberate attempt to establish dialogue between those working in different professional fields. We recognise that born digital heritage reaches into all disciplines and that, […]

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Call for artist book submissions | 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024

Exhibition, Publication

About the Project: The “10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024” is a unique non-commercial cultural project. The purpose of the Artist’s Book Triennial is to promote artist’s books, creators of artist’s books from all over the world; to connect in one big art family galleries, publishers, editors and printers of fine art & limited editions, the greater general public, collectors and individual artists. The “10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024″ is a relevant an educational interdisciplinary art project that introduces the diversity of ideas, structures, forms and book bindings of the “artist’s book” of world artists. The “10th […]

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