Events

Art historian Ekaterina Heath traces the history of an 18th century sabre, examining its movement across Russian, steppe, and Qing imperial contexts, as part of a broader history of Kalmyk visual culture.

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The second event in our series on the way technology is changing what it means to see, co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This session explores how vision machines see the world.

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Art historian and curatorial scholar Lilian Cameron analyses one of the most prominent and contested components of the exhibition: the wall text.

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A presentation by UK-based art historian Maddie Hewitson drawing together Victorian art, the Hebrew Bible, and Anglo-Jewish identity in the 19th century.

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Art historian Yvonne Low introduces the often overlooked history of society-based, medium-specific exhibition networks, an important parallel to the much-analysed biennale explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.

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The third event in our series on the way technology is changing what it means to see, co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This session explores the forces that vision machines serve, and how to resist them.

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A lecture on gender transition, sensory deprivation tanks, human-dolphin communication, and high-dose ketamine use.

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Presentations by two art history PhD candidates. Aiden Magro introduces his research into Australia's queer "grassroots archivists”, while Ruihan Ma explores subjectivity and modernity in the work of contemporary Tibetan artist Gade.

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