Tag: Symposium

Call for Papers | ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’ The Long Eighteenth Century (Down Under) | David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV

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‘Ideas and Enlightenment’ – The Long Eighteenth Century (Down Under) David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV 10-13 December 2014, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Call for Papers The Sydney Intellectual History Network and ‘Putting Periodisation to Use’ Research Group at the University of Sydney invite you to the Fifteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar (DNS), with the theme ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’. Inaugurated and supported by the National Library of Australia, the DNS conference is the leading forum for eighteenth-century studies in Australasia. It brings together scholars from across the region and internationally who work on the long eighteenth century (1688-1815) in a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art and architectural history, philosophy, the history of science, musicology, anthropology, archaeology and studies of material culture. We welcome proposals for papers or panels on the following topics, although please note…

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Exhibitions and Symposium | ‘Rome: Piranesi’s Vision’ at the SLV and ‘The Piranesi Effect’ at the Ian Potter

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In February 2014 two exhibitions on the eighteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi will open in Melbourne. The State Library of Victoria will host ‘Rome: Piranesi’s Vision’ – an exhibition of Piranesi’s prints, with a particular focus on his Vedute di Roma. This exhibition will draw on the collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. It will also include illustrated books and paintings by his contemporaries. More information and details of related events on the SLV website. The exhibition is free and will run from Saturday 22 February 2014 – Sunday 22 June 2014 at the Keith Murdoch Gallery in the State Library of Victoria. The Ian Potter Museum at the University of Melbourne will host ‘The Piranesi Effect’. This exhibition will juxtapose Piranesi’s engravings with contemporary art. It will include objects from the Classics and Archaeology Collection…

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Symposium | Art Gallery of NSW – Revolutionary ideas Perspectives on the building of an American nation

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Symposium: Revolutionary ideas Perspectives on the building of an American nation This symposium considers the role of the visual arts and other forms of cultural expression in building an idea of nationhood in America from its foundation as a colony through the beginning of the 20th century. It addresses the aims of portraiture, the meanings of landscape, the rise of genre subjects and the significance of garden projects in the contexts of relationships with Britain, claims of independence, pivotal wars and moments of dramatic social change. Presented in conjunction with the Sydney Intellectual History Network at the University of Sydney Date: Saturday 16 November 2013, 10.30am Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bookings: $65 non-member/ $50 member/ $30 full-time student/ 02 9225 1878 or via the website. Website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/revolutionary-ideas/ Program 10.30am Registration and morning tea, Domain Theatre foyer 11am…

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Symposium | The TWMA Animate/Inanimate Symposium

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The TWMA Animate/Inanimate Symposium TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA) will present a unique public program to accompany the Animate/Inanimate exhibition at TWMA in conjunction with Healesville Sanctuary, its neighbour in the Yarra Valley, just four kilometres away as the bird flies. This symposium will present a day of lively discussions about the meanings, histories and vulnerabilities of the natural world through the eyes of artists, cultural theorists and environmental scientists, and coincides with Animate/Inanimate which presents the work of contemporary artists who explore the impact of global economic and climatic change on our natural environments and ask; can we find a ‘spirit’ in the inanimate? Animate/Inanimate is the first exhibition to launch the inaugural TarraWarra International and features 6 leading artists from Australia, the USA, India and China who have created haunting and beautiful works that consider the profound interconnections…

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Symposium | Iconoclasm | University of Melbourne, September 6th

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ICONOCLASM – A Symposium Symposium to be chaired by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Gerry Higgins Professorial Fellow Conveners: Dr F Harley-McGowan, Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Medieval Art History  Dr Justin Clemens, Senior Lecturer, English School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne The history of images is inseparable from the history of the hostility towards images. In its most extreme expressions, this hostility can become an injunction to the breaking of all images: iconoclasm. Sometimes certain images or kinds of image have been banned from being made, circulated, or exhibited; sometimes all images are held to be available for destruction; sometimes images themselves incorporate various kinds of auto-hostility; sometimes images are made only to be broken; sometimes images that should be broken never are. Justifications for iconoclasm can likewise be of many kinds: religious, economic, social, aesthetic, philosophical. This symposium takes…

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Symposium | Libri: Italian passion and the book

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As part of the exhibition Libri: six centuries of Italian books from the Baillieu Library’s Special Collections a symposium will be held at the Baillieu Library on the 24th July. Date: 1-5pm, 24th July 2013 Venue: Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne Website http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/exhibitions/ Program 1.00pm    Introduction 1.00 – 1.15 1.15pm    Andrea Rizzi – Language of love and love for language: the enterprise of Poliphilo’s dream    2.00pm    Jaynie Anderson – An Erotic Antiquarian Romance: the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili  (Venice, 1499)    3.00pm  Antonino Nielfi – Futurism’s Parole in libertà!: telling, assembling and representing 4.00pm  My experiences: Italians in Australia, short talks Angela Cavalieri, artist 4.00 Gianni Formica, manager, Brunetti 4:15 TBA 4.30 4.45pm Summary and thank you About the Exhibition This exhibition includes books by or about Italians and Italy throughout time, highlighting the University Library Special Collections exciting new purchase of Aldus Manutius’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed in Venice in 1499. It…

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Symposium | Impressions of Monet

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Impressions of Monet | Monet’s Garden To celebrate the most extensive exhibition of Monet’s work ever to travel to Australia the NGV is holding a symposium with local and international experts that will explore key themes of the exhibition. The symposium is generously supported by the Australian International Cultural Foundation, an affiliate of Art Exhibitions Australia. Program Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV | Welcome Colta Ives, Curator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Monet: Impressionist in the garden Marianne Mathieu, Assistant Director and Curator, Musée Marmottan Monet | Impressionism at the Marmottan Sophie Matthiesson, Curator, International Art, NGV | Monet’s political garden Prof Emerita Virginia Spate, University of Sydney | Paint and water Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, International Decorative Arts and Antiquities, NGV | Inside Monet’s house at Giverny Date: Saturday 11th May, 1:30-5pm Venue: BBDO Clemenger Auditorium,…

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Symposium | Sculpture: Place and Space

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 Sculpture: Place and Space Australian National University, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the ANU School of Art and the National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Australia, May 10 – 12, 2013 The symposium is a highlight of the 2013 Centenary of Canberra program TOUCH: Sculpture and the Land that has been designed to celebrate sculpture in all its forms. TOUCH: Sculpture and the Land is taking place in venues across Canberra in May 2013 and includes special exhibitions at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery and School of Art Gallery, various activities and events at ACT Galleries and Art Centres, artists in residence, walks, talks and tours of sculpture collections on the ANU Campus and International Sculpture Park and the NGA Sculpture Garden. Opportunities to visit Canberra’s public sculpture collections in Civic, Parliament House, New Acton and the Australian…

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Symposium | ‘Of Loves and Ladies, Knights and Arms’: The Renaissance Effect

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The Power institute is proud to present in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney, the forthcoming free symposium titled ‘Of Loves and Ladies, Knights and Arms’: The Renaissance Effect.

When we think of Renaissance art, we may think of individual examples of great painting and sculpture, but these works were often planned within complex decorative ensembles.

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The Power of Luxury: Art and Culture at the Italian Courts in Machiavelli’s Lifetime

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Symposium The Power of Luxury: Art and Culture at the Italian Courts in Machiavelli’s Lifetime This symposium argues that the real Renaissance took place in the realms of politics, fashion and the refinement of everyday living, rather than in the commissioning of paintings by Botticelli and Bellini. The symposium has been arranged in partnership with the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, the Italian Embassy in Canberra, the Fondazione SUM in Milan, and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Los Angeles. There will be eleven distinguished speakers from abroad in addition to the leading Australian scholars. The symposium should be of particular interest to curators of decorative arts in Australian museums. Registration is free and is available here. Further information and the full program can be found here. Date: 19 February – 20 February, 2013 Venue: Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth…

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Symposium | Colonial Art Exhibitions: Past, Present Future

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Colonial Art Exhibitions: Past, Present Future The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Australian colonial art, with an unprecedented number of important exhibitions being held in our major art galleries (national, state and regional) and libraries. This symposium brings together many of Australia’s leading directors, senior librarians, curators, conservators and academics to discuss the past, present and future interpretation of colonial art in this country. Speakers include John McPhee, Julie Gough, Gordon Morrison, Jane Hylton, David Hansen, Ruth Pullin, Richard Neville, John Jones, Lisa Slade, Simon Gregg, Alisa Bunbury, Chris McAuliffe, and many others. Full program is available here (pdf) Date: Friday, 23  (9am-8pm) – Saturday 24th (1oam-4:15pm) November 2012 Venues: Session 1 – 23rd Nov, 9.00am – 5.15pm, Sunderland Theatre, Medicine (Building 181), The University of Melbourne Session 2 – 23rd Nov, 6.15 – 8.00 pm, Theatre A,…

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Symposium | Migration and Exchange: Symposium on early Australian Photography, Melbourne 29-30 November

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Migration and Exchange: Symposium on early Australian Photography This symposium explores itinerant and sporadic image making in Australia (including those parts of the Pacific that Australia administered and that Australian photographers travelled to) in order to understand the effects of photographic transformation and exchange. It begins with images recruited to lend authority to colonial and indigenous elites and royals, includes the images created in the most intense period of Australia’s settlement – a period which includes the gold rush, the Great Exhibitions and Federation – and ends with the First World War which transformed relationships between foreign colonial powers, engendered a spirit of independence, and saw locals journeying to a European war carrying cameras and bringing back a new set of travel images with deep personal meaning. The symposium seeks to emphasise patterns of transformation and exchange. It includes the…

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Symposium | The Meaning of Materials in Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

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The Meaning of Materials in Modern and Contemporary Art  The 2012 AICCM Paintings Group + 20th Century in Paint Symposium will explore questions around artists’ intentions towards the materials they use, including the social significance of material choices. Speakers represent major collecting and research institutions and private conservators from Australia, Holland, New Zealand, the Philippines, the UK and the USA. The symposium immediately follows the weekend of opening events for ‘The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (8–9 December) at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Symposium Themes artists’ intent toward their materials the impact of culture and geography on artists’ material choices the conservation implications of material choices tools for understanding materials Date: 10-11 December, 2012 Venue: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Early-bird registration (before 2 November 2012): AICCM Members $250 AUD…

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Symposium | The Landscape Awry, TarraWarra Museum of Art

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The Landscape Awry The Landscape Awry is a two day event at TarraWarra Museum of Art and its surrounds. It features installations and presentations by authors, artists and academics about the ways in which we ‘see’ the landscape. The symposium has as its starting point the very terrain upon which the TWMA is built in the Yarra Valley. The Landscape Awry will explore the diverse ways in which visual artists encounter the land and examine how their representations generate perspectives that are tilted, awry, layered and open. Speakers include authors whose work has touched upon the Australian landscape; researchers who have specific knowledge about the indigenous history of the area; and artists whose work is engaged with the ecologies of the landscape in more general ways. The symposium will include performative and poetic explorations of the landscape; an attempt to…

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