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insea 2014

November 24, 2013News

The 34th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art will be held from 7 – 11 July 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. Located in the Asia Pacific, this Congress will consider key themes which demonstrate artistic diversity and celebrate the innovations of the present against the backdrop of the past. The growth of a contemporary art in many nations throughout Asia will be a major theme, as will the revived awareness of traditional and indigenous cultures throughout the Pacific region. Particular emphasis will be placed on Australian Indigenous culture and its emergence as an international art force and […]

professor gernot böhme on atmospheres

November 24, 2013News

Sunday 1 December 2013, 2:00-4:00pm at the MCA Veolia Lecture Theatre Join us for a Sunday afternoon at the MCA to hear eminent philosopher Professor Gernot Böhme speak about the concept of atmospheres in art, architecture, cities and aesthetics. Atmosphere, Boehme argues, is not only the subject matter of art and architecture. We equally recognize the atmosphere of a city as something that makes it peculiar and individual. But what is really at stake when we talk about the atmosphere of a city or a building is precisely the way that life unfolds within it. Gernot Böhme theories have become highly […]

vale – dr pamela zeplin

August 19, 2013News

Dr Pamela Zeplin (19 January 1949 – 9 August 2013) was a much loved and highly regarded academic at the School of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia. After undertaking studies at Monash University Pam moved to Adelaide in 1981 to take up a position at what was then the South Australian School of Art located at Underdale. Working in the Department of Art History and Theory for thirty-two years she influenced generations of South Australian artists, writers and curators. Pam considered teaching and post-graduate supervision to be an essential part of her art practice. Pam was […]

professor bonnie english

July 30, 2013News

The AAANZ sends its respects to the family and colleagues of Associate Professor Bonnie English who passed away on 25 June 2013. Bonnie spent much of her life building up the area of fashion research, gained an international reputation in the area, and staged the first exhibition of Japanese fashion in Australia, ‘Tokyo Vogue’, in 1999, which I reviewed at the time for ‘Art Monthly’. Bonnie was a regular conference speaker at AAANZ over the years and she will be missed by her community at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University where she worked since 1975. Peter McNeil

camouflage cultures

July 30, 2013News

To be held at the University of Sydney, 8-11 August. Read more…

phd graduate prize

July 18, 2013News

A new competition for recent PhD Graduates to be judged on Saturday 7 December 2013. The outstanding presentation will receive $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis the new publisher of the AAANZ journal. Read more…

the practice of drawing lines: architecture and art

July 18, 2013News

12-14 August, read more

new directions for aaanz journal

May 6, 2013News

As the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand approaches its 40th anniversary I’m delighted to announce a number of significant changes for our Journal of Art. A new publisher In 2014 we will partner the international publisher Taylor & Francis, allowing us to maintain the highest standards of scholarship into the 21st century while streamlining production. The change will give our journal online global reach while members will continue to receive a hard copy. A new editorial committee Our new editorial committee is to be hosted by Power Professor Mark Ledbury, Power Institute, The University of Sydney who will be working with Dr Keith Broadfoot, […]

daao

May 6, 2013News

Design and Art of Australia Online (www.daao.org.au) is the next generation of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, which in turn had its origins in Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists. Despite its incomplete state, the DAAO is already the most comprehensive data base on Australian visual culture, and as such is proving to be a valuable research tool. freely available to all. Its new iteration enables researchers to modify existing incomplete entries, and also to write on exhibitions and associated events, as well as writing on curators. There is however one category of entry that cannot be altered: those entries that […]

joan kerr biography

February 24, 2013News

Dr Susan Steggall’s biography of art historian Joan Kerr – ‘A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian’, has just been published by LhR Press. A MOST GENEROUS SCHOLAR: JOAN KERR, ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN is an important record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art history students but also a scholar whose work changed the way Australians view their visual cultural heritage. The book is a comprehensive record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art […]

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