Past events

Headshot of Tina Campt.

Fri, 2 December 2022

12:00PM

The Afterlives of Images: A Correspondence

Tina Campt

The fourth and final program in our 2022 series Image Complex, which introduces new scholarship on the way visuality shapes the history and politics of identity, technology and imperialism.

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Chairs and clothing stacked together.

Thu, 17 November 2022

12:00PM

Feeling Media: A Seminar with Miryam Sas

Miryam Sas

In this seminar Miryam will introduce attendees to her new book, Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Aftermath of Art.

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A Japanese woman dancing.

Miryam Sas

A lecture on Japanese photographer Tokiwa Toyoko, and the implications of their work for our understanding of photography and gender in 1950s-60s Japan.

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Photo of the outdoor sculpture, jugama.

Thu, 20 October 2022

12:00AM

Art in Place: jugama

Katrina Liberiou

A workshop for University of Sydney students, focused on the artwork ‘jugama’ by Waanyi artist Judy Watson.

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Photograph of a mural featuring a mountain.

Christopher Pinney

This seminar will build on Christopher’s September 29 lecture, “Citizens of Photography: Demotic Visual Practices in South Asia”, to consider his broader Photo Demos project, and the associated pamphlet series.

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A bright, stylised photograph of a couple.

Christopher Pinney

This presentation reports on recent ethnographic field research in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

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Black-and-white artwork of Great-grandmother Barka, an old tree.

Thu, 25 August 2022

6:00PM

Barkindji Ways of Being

Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, and David Doyle

A conversation with artists, curators and collaborators Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and David Doyle about their work with Barkindji Country and knowledge systems.

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A group of people stand with their backs to the camera, facing a mural

Thu, 18 August 2022

12:00AM

Art in Place: Spine

Stephen Gilchrist and Ann Stephen

A workshop for University of Sydney students, focused on D Harding's Spine.

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Artwork using pencils.

A symposium celebrating the past, present and future of Indigenous art writing and research.

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Avatars in the metaverse.

Thu, 4 August 2022

9:00AM

The New Metaverse and Women of Color

Lisa Nakamura

Part of our 2022 series Image Complex, convened by Nick Croggon.

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