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Senior Manager, Schools & Learning | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

July 21, 2021Jobs

Applications close Sunday, 1 August 2021 He angitūtanga: The opportunity Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich communities. Our vision is to be the home of art for Auckland, its people, and visitors from our internationally recognised award-winning building. Established in 1888, the Gallery holds a pre-eminent collection of New Zealand art and a significant collection of international art presented alongside a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions, events and outreach activities. An exciting opportunity […]

CEO Digital Mentoring Program for cultural organisations

July 21, 2021Professional Development

ACMI, in conjunction with the Australia Council’s national Cultural Digital Program, will run a new pilot mentoring initiative for strategic technology and digital mentoring for cultural organisations. The program, funded by the Ian Potter Foundation, is an investment in building the digital mindsets of the senior decision-making staff and building a sustainable network of peers within the cultural sector and across artforms and practices. Operating to build capacity, awareness, and improve the internal ability for institutions and organisations to make better long term technology choices, understand a rapidly and continually changing digital environment, and be better able to select and […]

Call For Proposals: edited collection on museums and intersectionality

July 15, 2021NewsCall for Papers

It has been more than three decades since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ as a conceptual tool with which to conceive subjectivity/identity as other than singular, and analyse the contextually-specific ways in which axes of power connect and cohere. The notion of intersectionality was also an attempt to move beyond the limitations of the ‘additive model’ which categorised individuals in terms of levels of oppression: for example, a working-class Blak lesbian with a disability would be understood as quadruply oppressed. While this model of identity had significant political import, it did not, and could not, grapple with the complex, […]

Assistant Director Curatorial and Exhibitions | Northern Territory Government

July 8, 2021Jobs

Assistant Director Curatorial and Exhibitions Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities Alice Springs & Central Australia Advertising, Arts & Media Management $142,733 – $159,266 Full Time Deadline: 20 July 2021 Senior Professional 1 – Remuneration Package Range $142,733 – $159,266 (including salary $123,559 – $138,034) Project Implementation Team, National Aboriginal Art Gallery Alice Springs Fixed for 2 years Be a part of developing a new National Institution in Alice Springs Bring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Culture to the world stage Develop Curatorial and Exhibition strategies with a focus on inclusive practice and co-creation An opportunity to create […]

Job | Lecturer or Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Art | ANU

July 7, 2021Jobs

Job no: 540239 Work type: Continuing Location: Canberra / ACT Categories: Academic Classification: Academic Level B or C Salary package: Level B $99,809 – $113,165 / Level C $119,844 to $133,202 plus 17% superannuation Term: Full time, Continuing Deadline: 8 August 2021 Position overview The ANU School of Art & Design (SOA&D) is focused on achieving excellence in research and teaching in accordance with its position within Australia’s highly ranked university. The School is seeking a new team member to contribute to the School’s aims through its Design, Visual Arts and Art History and Curatorship programs. The School’s program pursues a conception of practice that is […]

Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium | ANU and Zoom

July 7, 2021Events

Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium at the Australian National University About this event Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium The Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University is hosting a one-day symposium devoted to emerging scholarship in the Visual Medical Humanities presented in-person and live online via zoom. Time and Date: 9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday 22 July 2021 In-person Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Rowland Wilson Building, Australian National University An online keynote address Tales of the unbeautiful: The Elephant Man as modern fable by Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) will be held at […]

Job | Executive Officer ArtBackNT

July 5, 2021JobsJob, Northern Territory

EXECUTIVE OFFICER Artback NT is looking for a dynamic individual to lead one of Australia’s unique and most exciting arts organisations. Artback NT’s Executive Officer is responsible for the successful leadership and management of the organisation. This includes the proper administration of all artistic, financial and business affairs of Artback NT and other duties as required by the Board in accordance with the Artback NT Strategic Plan 2020 – 2024 and Artistic Program. The position is responsible for staff in offices in Darwin, Alice Springs and Borroloola, and teams delivering activities across the Northern Territory, nationally and internationally. This role […]

Applications open for Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies

July 2, 2021Funding, Jobs

Position Description The Committee on Australian Studies at Harvard University seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for the 2023-2024 academic year. For history of the chair, see http://harvaus.fas.harvard.edu Incumbents of the Chair will ordinarily hold the title of Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies and be expected to be in residence at Harvard for the full academic year. He or she will be appointed in an appropriate department and will ordinarily teach two courses. Basic Qualifications Doctorate or terminal degree is required. Additional Qualifications Candidates […]

ANU Humanities Research Centre | Visiting Fellowships Program

July 2, 2021News

Applications for the 2022 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program – on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ – are now open. The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the humanities and as a catalyst for innovative humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University. The HRC interprets the ‘humanities’ generously, recognising that new methods of theoretical enquiry have done much to break down the traditional distinction between the humanities, the creative arts, and the social sciences. It also recognises the importance of establishing a dialogue between the humanities and the […]

Call for papers and sessions | Digital Intimacies #7: Conflict in My Outlook Symposium | University of Queensland

July 1, 2021Call for Papers, EventsCall for Papers

December 6 & 7, 2021. On site at The University of Queensland, plus virtual sessions. Digital Intimacies #7 now invites abstracts, proposals for digital experiments and in-person or virtual sessions. We welcome papers across disciplines and approaches that explore the entanglements between our intimate experiences, feelings, affects, bodies and digital media and technologies. Due 15 August 2021. The on-campus event will be run in partnership with UQ Art Museum’s Conflict in My Outlook: Don’t Be Evil exhibition. The symposium will conclude with a public keynote lecture by AI ethics scholar Kate Crawford on the subject of her new book Atlas of AI: […]