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Showcase and Workshop | IIIF and Glycerine

September 16, 2024Events

Glycerine, an image annotation platform built in partnership with Australian Research Data Commons as national research infrastructure, will be featured at a 2-day event in Canberra in October. This workbench is designed specifically for researchers and curators working with museum and gallery collections. You can read more about the use of image annotation in the study of art and collections here https://gandhari-texts.sydney.edu.au/collections/gandhari-inscribed-buddhas/ The IIIF consortium and the National Film and Sound Archive are organising this free event alongside the AI4LAM Fantastic Futures conference. The Day 1 showcase will feature presentations from the IIIF executive and national and international institutions, as well as showcasing Glycerine implementations […]

Survey | Visual Arts Work: national survey of visual artists, craft artists, and arts workers

September 16, 2024News

Are you a visual artist, craft artist, or arts worker in Australia – or an Australian citizen working in the sector overseas? Please fill in our 15-minute survey to give us a clearer understanding of the diversity of arts work and career lifecycles. The survey is open until Friday 27 September 2024 at visualartswork.net.au/survey. Image: Eugenia Lim, ‘The People’s Currency’ (2017), Federation Square, Naarm/Melbourne, commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art for AsiaTOPA, photo by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of the artist and STATION. — Visual Arts Work: sustainable strategies for the Australian visual arts and craft sector visualartswork.net.au

Publication | Protecting Indigenous Art

September 16, 2024Book

In late September Melbourne University Press will release, Protecting Indigenous Art by Colin Golvan. Colin is a leading Intellectual Property senior barrister. The cases in the book really focus on protecting Indigenous rights and voice, which weaves into many of the wider conversations about giving voice to Indigenous peoples happening in Australia and overseas. Below are further details for you to review. Protecting Indigenous Art is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of art, law and Indigenous rights as it outlines groundbreaking Aboriginal art copyright cases. Golvan, the legal mind behind them, has not only shaped the legal landscape but also championed the rights of Aboriginal artists’ rights within the western legal […]

Funding | AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARD | Deadline: Monday 30 September 2024

September 9, 2024Funding

The Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) at the University of Melbourne is collaborating with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) on a new annual award. The aim is to foster new and innovative research and public engagement by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Award (ECRA) is funded by the Australian Institute of Art History and administered jointly with AAANZ. The award will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

We need your help to celebrate 50 Years of AAANZ!

September 9, 2024News

AAANZ is proudly celebrating 50 years as the leading organisation that represents, art historians, practice-led researchers, arts writers and curators. Since 1974 it has fostered the dissemination of knowledge and debate about art, curatorship, and artistic practice throughout the region. As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations – to be marked at the annual conference in December – we are calling on our community to contribute to a digital publication. This 50th anniversary digital edition will: showcase the breadth of arts-focused research and writing across the region it will reflect on how our disciplines have changed since the 1970s invite people to […]

Publication | All my Country: Batchelor Institute Art Collection

September 9, 2024Book

All my Country is the first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades-long life of the Institute. The BIITE Art Collection comprises around 1000 artworks primarily by Indigenous artists from the Top End. The Collection began as a place-making initiative to make the campus more familiar to BIITE students, eventually becoming a more formalised entity with an advisory committee and curatorial roles, and supported by an artist-residency program. The title All my Country comes from the book’s editor-in-chief Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig, a Kungarakan and […]

Publication | New Women’s Work

September 9, 2024Book

New Women’s Work is a celebration of women’s work. Often underappreciated and undervalued, craft has long been an expression of artistic endeavour for women. Often, it’s a skill transferred for generations, or it may be a livelihood or a way of connecting with an ancestral homeland. But crafts with feminized histories, such as weaving, knotmaking, needlework, quilting, ceramics, and basketry, have historically lacked serious consideration from the art world. New Women’s Work serves to challenge this by featuring 38 contemporary artists who identify as women or nonbinary, working to reposition women’s work techniques. These artists are carrying cultural legacies into the future, preserving history and […]

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECOND KEYNOTE KIMBERLEY MOULTON

September 2, 2024AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2024 conference convenors are delighted to announce keynote Kimberley Moulton. Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman based between Melbourne and London. She is an accomplished Senior Curator and writer and is Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art at Tate Modern and Senior Curator at RISING, Melbourne’s international arts festival. Previously Kimberley held Senior curatorial roles at Museums Victoria (2008-2023). Kimberley works with knowledge, histories and futures at the intersection of historical collections and contemporary art and her practice works to rethink global art histories and extend what exhibitions and research in and out of institutions can be for First Peoples communities […]

FILM │ RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT

August 26, 2024News

NEW: RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT (2024) is a comprehensive film based on rigorous research providing a detailed, unprecedented look into the extraordinary life, achievements and legacy of Raphael, one of the most prolific and influential artists of the Renaissance. The film received an excellent review by The Guardian and by several celebrated historians and art experts, including Paul Joannides, Kim Butler Wingfield, Quentin Skinner and Jane Stevenson. In Australia and New Zealand the film can be viewed on the Ideas Roadshow app or Vimeo and Demand. The film is also available for educational licensing through Docuseek or directly through Ideas Roadshow. […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE THIS COMING FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

August 26, 2024Funding, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is calling for proposals for book publications from recently completed doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. The series has been divided into two rounds, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the […]