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Symposium: Towards a flexible future

May 24, 2019Events

Managing time-based media artworks in collections Today digital technologies are so embedded in our daily lives that the rapid rate in which they develop often goes unnoticed. What does such intense and ongoing technological change mean for artists and art museums, where the notions of permanence and perpetuity have long reigned supreme? Featuring presentations from conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tate, London, as well as Australian artists, this symposium sets out to explore what it means to collect, display, preserve and make time-based media artworks. This symposium brings attention to the significant risk […]

Assistant Curator, Kenneth E Tyler Collection National Gallery of Australia

May 24, 2019Jobs

The National Gallery of Australia is looking for an Assistant Curator to assist the Senior Curator and Curator, International Art Department, in the preparation of exhibitions and publications related to the Kenneth E Tyler Collection. An important focus of the role will be to assist with the development of web-based material and online access. The Tyler Collection comprises of over 7,400 edition prints, proofs, drawings, paper-works, screens, multiples and illustrated books as well as a collection of rare candid photography, film and audio and reference material. To download the position description and how to apply click here Applications close Sunday, 26 May […]

Index Journal: Identity Call for papers

May 24, 2019Call for Papers

INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for its inaugural issue IDENTITY. Submissions are encouraged from art historians of all specialisations. IDENTITY POLITICS DISSOLVES THE IDENTITY OF THE ARTWORK INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL will invite a guest editor to raise a polemic – in the form of a single proposition – that calls for pressing art historical attention. Submit […]

EU Copyright Directive, Article 14

April 1, 2019Advocacy, News

An interesting post about incoming copyright policies concerning image reproduction fees for Art Historians: The end of museum image fees?

Statement on Christchurch Massacre

March 28, 2019Advocacy, Events, General

The AAANZ expresses its complete and utter abhorrence towards the events of March 15, 2019 in Christchurch which saw 50 people murdered and a similar number wounded. As an organisation dedicated to fostering understanding about the art and visual culture of the widest possible range of cultures, peoples, and histories, the Association is fundamentally opposed to the racist and hate-filled ideologies which gave rise to this attack on the Muslim community. On behalf of all members of the Association, in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, I would like to offer my heartfelt condolences to those colleagues, friends, and families who […]

CIHA Congress ‘MOTION: Migrations’ Sao Paolo, 13-18 September 2020, CFP

March 25, 2019Call for Papers, Conference

The CIHA Congress, ‘MOTION: Migrations,’ will take place in Sao Paolo, 13-18 September 2020. The call for papers will open for Sao Paolo from May until August 2019: http://www.ciha.org/content/são-paulo-2020-motion-migrations The Sao Paolo contact is: cihasaopaulo2020@gmail.com

Support the Redevelopment Project by Artefact Church Square

March 15, 2019News

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/114 The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that cultural visitors to Victoria in 2017 injected almost $2 billion into our economy, an 88 per cent increase since 2013. Yet, from 2008 to 2015, the income of art practitioners across all art forms decreased by 4.2 per cent. After six years of study for basic qualifications, 60 per cent of professional artists earn less than $10,000 per year from creative work and 42 per cent commit to four more years for higher qualifications and earn the same. With supplemented […]

CFP: ‘Belonging and Detachment’ the 19th Conference of Association RIdIM – Hobart, Tasmania – 13-15 November 2019

March 11, 2019News

CALL FOR PAPERS Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture The 19th Conference of Association RIdIM Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 13-15 November 2019 Musicians and artists rarely operate in complete isolation. Throughout history they have negotiated power structures and geographical circumstances, and these factors remain influential in the digital age. The 19th International Conference of Association RIdIM seeks to examine the ways in which musicians and artists experience ‘belonging’ and ‘detachment’ – be it socially, politically, geographically, artistically, aesthetically and/or philosophically. The primary concern of the conference is how such experiences impact upon the representation of musical identity in visual culture. The […]

CFP – ANZJA “War, Art and Visual Culture” Special Issue – EOI due March 31, 2019

March 5, 2019NewsANZJA

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: 31 MARCH 2019Final Submissions will be due 10 July 2019 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 20, Issue 1 War, Art and Visual Culture The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1 for 2020, War, Art and Visual Culture will be edited by Professor Charles Green, School of Culture and communication, University of Melbourne; Professor Ana Carden-Coyne, Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester; Associate Professor Kit Messham-Muir, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University; and Dr. Uros Cvoro, senior lecturer UNSW Art & Design. The editors are […]

Professor Jonathan Bloom – 2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture – 6.30pm, 14th of March 2019

February 25, 2019News

A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from Ancient China to Contemporary Australia Professor Jonathan Bloom – Norma Jean Calderwood Professor, Islamic and Asian Art, emeritus, Boston College and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. The development and spread of paper has always opened up new cultural possibilities for recording and disseminating information: the printing and literacy revolution in early modern Europe is only the best known case. Yet the broader history of this humble and every-day item as a transformative medium has been less discussed. From its origins in China, and especially as […]