Past events
Thu, 20 August 2026
12:00PM
Workshop: Reading the news otherwise
Hương Ngô
US-based interdisciplinary artist Hương Ngô leads a workshop exploring how texts can be collectively transformed into critical and empathic investigations of social reality.
Thu, 20 August 2026
10:00AM
Hương Ngô: Film screening and conversation
Hương Ngô
US-based interdisciplinary artist Hương Ngô shares recent and new work.
Wed, 19 August 2026
6:00PM
Networks of Invisible Labour
Hương Ngô
Artist Hương Ngo unearths networks of invisible labor, and their place within histories of the Asian and Southeast Asian diaspora.
Tue, 18 August 2026
11:00AM
Modalities of Everywhen
Terry Smith
A lecture about Yirawala, Narritjin Maymuru, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Emily Kam Kngwarreye, and Archie Moore’s kith and kin. Part Three of Professor Terry Smith's lecture series, "Visions, bodies, shadows, worlds".
Fri, 14 August 2026
10:00AM
Blur Analysis: Research, visual culture, and the digital
Ian Andrews, Margie Borschke, Katrina Grant, Paul B. Jaskot, Machine Listening, Yvonne Low, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Asti Sherring, Adrian Vickers, and Andrew Yip
A symposium about research using digital tools, and against research as a tool of the digital
Thu, 13 August 2026
6:30PM
Art History and the Cultural Character of War
Paul B. Jaskot
A lecture on architecture and urban planning as central to the Nazi military occupation of Europe. An event to mark Paul B. Jaskot's new book, "The Tyranny of the Object: An Introduction to the Barbarism of Art History", published by Power Publications.
Thu, 13 August 2026
3:00PM
Making the modern Middle East: The new artist-illustrators, 1842-1890
Mary Roberts, Ekaterina Heath, and Lucy Pittman
A roundtable on the rise of new illustrated newspapers in the 19th century, and the ways in which urban modernity in the Islamicate world was at the heart of emerging theories of aesthetic modernism in France.
Tue, 11 August 2026
11:00AM
Bodies as mediums of modernity
Terry Smith
A lecture about Edgar Degas and Willem de Kooning, Suzanne Valadon and Frida Kahlo. Part Two of Professor Terry Smith's lecture series, "Visions, bodies, shadows, worlds".
Thu, 6 August 2026
3:00PM
A great fire and whirling smoke
Marie Ngiam
A presentation by visiting scholar Marie Ngiam (University of Oslo) on arboreal aesthetics and the transcultural agency of tree burls.
Tue, 4 August 2026
11:00AM
Visual allegories of seeing as knowing
Terry Smith
A lecture about Piero Della Francesca's painting of St Augustine, Giorgione, and Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Part One of Professor Terry Smith's lecture series, "Visions, bodies, shadows, worlds".