Launch of Discipline Issue 3 DISCIPLINE 3 (Winter 2013) Editors: Nicholas Croggon & Helen Hughes Guest editor: Raimundas Malasauskas Design: Annie Wu & Ziga Testen Printed by Printgraphics Edition of 1000 Essays by: Adrian Martin on film, art and the support-surface; Anusha Kenny on Anastasia Klose; David Homewood on Dale Hickey’s cups; David Wlazlo...
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The fourth lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Lauren Cornell 31 JULY 2013, 6PM for 6:30PM Gertrude Contemporary, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy Free, no bookings necessary During her talk, Cornell will give a succinct overview of art engaged with the internet, and explore how the vastly accelerated...
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Books, Dreams and Stories: How Sandman Comics Help Us Understand Ovid C. W. Marshal, Professor of Greek, University of British Columbia This illustrated talk examines the structure of Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE) and Neil Gaiman’s comic series The Sandman (1989-96 CE). The comparison illuminates both works and demonstrates the reading strategies used by classicists and...
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un Projects is launching issue 7.1 of un Magazine tomorrow Issue 7.1 of un Magazine explores concepts of knowledge and research and the role they play in the production of contemporary art. With live performances from Michael Famularo and Solvent Cage, Edited by Jarrod Rawlins, sub-edited by Harriet Morgan, designed by Brad Haylock and...
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Jobs Curator of Art, Australian War Memorial - deadline 12th August 2013 Assistant Curator of Art, Australian War Memorial - deadline 12th August 2013 Staff Tutor in Art History (senior role), Open University, Milton Keynes - deadline 15th August 2013 Curator, Hurstville City Council, NSW - deadline 29th July 2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at...
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The Early Modern Villa: The Senses and Perceptions versus Materiality International Symposium, Wilanów Palace, Warsaw, October 15-17, 2014 Convenors: Barbara Arciszewska, Warsaw University | Paweł Jaskanis, Wilanów Palace Museum Enhanced interest in sensual perception was one of the mainstays of early modern culture. The development of new visual conventions (most notably the linear perspective)...
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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...
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Philip Brophy | Colour Me Dead: Art, sex and psychosis – an illustrated lecture series Philip Brophy has examined more than 3,000 artworks to trace how the nude has historically been posed, lit, depicted, rendered and transformed, he will present a series of illustrated lectures based on the source paintings of his current exhibition and forthcoming...
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Jobs Professor/Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Tasmania - deadline 11th October 2013 Cornell University Society for the Humanities fellowships 2013-14 - deadline 1st October 2013 Curator, Deakin University Art Collection (pdf link) - deadline 11th August 2013 Editor Arts and Culture at The Conversation - deadline 2nd August 2013 General Manager, CCP Fitzroy - deadline...
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A panel of prominent artists, collectors, curators and specialists will consider the motivations, passions and idiosyncrasies of contemporary art collectors and those driven to give. Potter director Kelly Gellatly will chair the conversation. The panel includes: Doug Hall AM, writer and critic. Director of Queensland Art Gallery|GOMA 1987–2007 and Australian Commissioner for the Venice...
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