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Conference 2017: Art and Its Directions – Keynote Speakers

July 3, 2017AAANZ Conference, ConferenceAAANZ conference

The conference committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for this years conference: Professor Anne Dunlop holds the Herald Chair in Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. She has also taught at Yale University and at Tulane University. She works on Italian and European art in the later Middle Ages and early modern period, and for several years now has been researching and writing on the links between Italy and Eurasia in the Mongol period. She has been a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, at Peking University, and at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, […]

One day event at the VCA – Some artists and philosophers walked into a room

July 3, 2017News

Tuesday 11 July, 2017 – 9.30am-5.30pm Theme: A work might be experienced in numerous ways—in person, online, across multiple versions, as a record, diagram, report, description, witness account, podcast, video, plan, remix, or even as a scalable aggregate of elements. Perhaps, once we consider the world of a work of art as a constellation of elements, the indeterminacy of art is given a more conspicuous materiality. Where is a work of art? Is there an optimum or primary point of entry into a work of art? Chairs: Sean Lowry (VCA) and Jenny McMahon (Philosophy, Adelaide) Presenters: Barbara Bolt, Elizabeth Burns […]

Upcoming Events at the Art Gallery of NSW

July 3, 2017NewsArt Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Philosophy and Art Symposium: Where is the Artwork? Register for a one-day event at the AGNSW taking place this Saturday, July 15 from 9.30-4.30. Five philosophers will each give a short floor talk on a particular artwork in the AGNSW collection. It is then opened up for discussion. There will be some commentators on hand to prompt the discussion. Registration and more details are here: http://artgalleryofnsw.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/103346D45AF673302540EF23F30FEDED Cynthia Freeland is giving a talk: “Do Portraits require posing?” Wednesday July 12th at 6.00pm at the AGNSW. In the lead up to this year’s Archibald Prize, Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART, ISSUE 1, 2018

July 3, 2017Call for Papers, News

Issue 1, 2018 Open Issue Issue editors: Professor Deborah Ascher Barnstone, (University of Technology, Sydney), and Dr Donna West Brett (University of Sydney). Journal aims and scope The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. ANZJA is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, theory and exhibition. The editors […]

Call for Applications/Nominations | Field Director, Hue – Site and Space in Southeast Asia

June 29, 2017Jobs, NewsJobs

The organisers of Site and Space in Southeast Asia are seeking applications and nominations for the role of Field Director, Hue, for a multi-year research initiative led by the Power Institute and its partners. ABOUT THE INITIATIVESite and Space in Southeast Asia is a new research initiative exploring intersections of urban space and artistic cultures through site-based, collaborative research. Engaging with cities as sites that generate social and cultural narratives, research teams will explore spaces of memory, interaction, and cultural production across national and regional boundaries, from the early modern to the contemporary. Running from 2018-2020, the project will support teams […]

Symposium: The Arts and Imagination – Art Gallery of SA – July 3

June 29, 2017General

Outreach Session of the Australasian Association of Philosophy 2017, jointly organised with the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (JMCCCP), the Art Gallery of South Australia, and partly sponsored by the Australian Research Council and the American Society for Aesthetics. Date: Monday afternoon July 3rd Time: 2.00-5.00 Venue: Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of SA (AGSA) Title: Myths, metaphors and tropes: the narratives which guide studio practice Cost: Free and all welcome. Tea and coffee will be provided. No registration required. The session is a component of a workshop on the Arts and Imagination which runs as part of the […]

Call for Papers for AAANZ 2017 ‘Art and its Directions’ now open

June 27, 2017AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The Conference Committee would like to invite proposals for papers for the AAANZ 2017 Conference to be held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, from 6 to 8 December 2017. The deadline for proposals is Monday 14 August 2017 Please see the submission instructions below and follow the links for the Call for Papers – Abstracts and Guidelines and the Participation Proposal Form Session Format Conference sessions are each timetabled for 90 minutes; consisting of three 20 minute papers plus 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary per paper (except where noted otherwise in the session abstract) Session Convenors manage […]

CFP: The Transnational in Asian Art, Graduate Workshop, September 28 2017, ANU

June 19, 2017News

Call for Papers: Intensive Graduate PhD students Workshop The Transnational in Asian Art: Historical and Contemporary Contexts around Migration, Diaspora, Mobility and Cultural Flows Date: 28 September 2017 Location: Centre for European Studies, Australian National University and National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Conveners: Caroline Turner, Jacqueline Lo, Elly Kent, Alex Burchmore (ANU) Lead speaker: Emeritus Professor Margo Machida (University of Connecticut) The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University Canberra is issuing a call to PhD scholars who would like to participate and present short papers on their thesis research, in an intensive one day Workshop on 28 September 2017 […]

Residency for NZ artist to work in Rome for 3 months

June 18, 2017NewsArtist Award

The BSR Wallace New Zealand Residence Award will be made as part of the 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2017 and be granted to an outstanding New Zealand visual artist to undertake a three month residency at The British School at Rome [BSR]. Deadline: 25th July 2017 This Award is valued at 26,000 Euro and includes: 1. Three Months Residency at The British School at Rome – January 2018 – March 2018 The residency includes accommodation in a residential studio, board (except dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday), group exhibition, inclusion in the annual Fine Arts catalogue, staff support […]

Academia and Bohemia: New Perspectives on the National Gallery School – Wednesday June 21 – VCA

June 15, 2017News

*updated The full program for the free one-day symposium Academia and Bohemia: new perspectives on the National Gallery School, including abstracts and biographies, is now available on the VCA events website: http://vca-mcm.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=1486 Date: Wednesday 21 June 2017 Venue: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Grant Street, Southbank. Registration: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/details?event=8791 Enquiries: Alison Inglis: asi@unimelb.edu.au Summary of Symposium Program 10.15 am Registration 10.30 am-12.15 pm Session One Professor Su Baker (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne) Introduction Assoc. Professor Alison Inglis (University of Melbourne) and Fiona Moore (University of Melbourne) The National Gallery School from 1867 to World War One – collection, creativity […]