4 December 2006
This year's Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) annual conference (7-9 December) will be hosted by the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. It features over 120 parallel papers and presentations by three international keynote speakers.
Reinventing the Medium, this year's conference title, was inspired by recent critical debate in art history regarding interdisciplinary art practice, photo-media art and installation. The conference explores contemporary art in an increasingly interdisciplinary field, where art, design, architecture, photomedia, advertising and fashion collide.
The three international keynote speakers and their speaking times are:
George Baker, Thursday 7 December, 6 pm
University of California, Los Angeles
George Baker teaches modern and contemporary art history and is an editor of October magazine. A critic for Artforum since 1996, his book publications include an edited anthology of essays on the work of James Coleman (MIT Press, 2003) and Gerard Byrne: Books, Magazines, and Newspapers (Lukas & Sternberg Press, 2004).
Amelia Jones, Friday 8 December, 6pm
University of Manchester
Amelia Jones is Professor and Pilkington Chair in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. Her edited anthology A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, a handbook and intellectual survey, includes 27 original essays and is just out from Blackwell Press. Her book Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject, on artists' use of technologies of representation to interrogate the boundaries of the self, is just out from Routledge Press.
Diarmuid Costello, Saturday 9 December, 6 pm
Warwick University
Diarmuid Costello teaches aesthetics in the philosophy department of Warwick University (UK). He has written widely on recent art, including articles on Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Jeff Wall, Gerhard Richter, Rineke Dijkstra and Thomas Ruff. He is co-editor of After Beauty: Exchanges on Art & Culture (Tate, 2007) and Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers (Berg, 2007).
The three keynote speakers are available for interview. Tickets for the keynote speakers, or full day sessions are available.
Full Conference details are available from the Art and Design website.
For more information please call Kirsten Freeman on 9903 4582.
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