CoVA was established in 2018 to facilitate innovative and sustainable research and collaborative projects in the visual arts at the University of Melbourne.
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Dialogues
Online seminar series September - November 2021
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MEMORY Conference 2021
2 - 3 September, online. Click for Information + Registration
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Art & Ecology Residency
Expressions of Interest Now Open
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Is Viral Marketing a Key to Our Planet's Health?
Episode 3 of Eavesdrop on Experts podcast. With Margaret Wertheim, Dr Brent Coker and Prof Will Steffen.
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Art+Australia 57.1 | Multinaturalism Launch
An online launch to celebrate Art+Australia issue 57.1 'Multinaturalism', as part of the Melbourne Art Book Fair
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Experimental Institutionalism: Exchange
Nikos Papastergiadis and Laura Raicovich in ACCA's 2021 Lecture Series.
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Picturing the Event Horizon
Episode 2 of Eavesdrop on Ideas podcast. With Margaret Wertheim and Prof Peter Galison.
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Dr Simon Maidment appointed Associate Director, Art Museums
Wednesday 17 March, 2021
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Call for Contributions: Enough is Enough
! Submission date extended to EOD 23.04 ! A publication by the Feminism & Intersectionality Research Program at COVA.
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Finding Friendship in Art and AI
Episode 1 of new podcast: Eavesdrop on Ideas, hosted by CoVA's Dr Suzie Fraser and Dr Andi Horvath. With Prof Rosi Brandotti, Prof Nikos Papastergiadis and Dr Katie Greenaway.
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Necessary Work: Study Group with Adelita Husni Bey
APRIL 12, 16, 26 + 30 2021
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GAPS [ ] Podcast: Episode Four
Curator Adam Porter speaks with artists Caroline Garcia and Eugenia Lim.
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GAPS [ ] Podcast: Episode Three
The Year of Looking Remotely with Nikki Iacovella
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GAPS [ ] Podcast: Episode Two
Radical hospitality and radical spaces with artists Mithu Sen and Keg de Souza.
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GAPS [ ] Podcast: Episode One
Composing in Space with artists David Rosetzky and Shelley Lasica
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GAPS [ ] : Encounters with Art
Stay tuned for our upcoming summer series of podcasts, produced by CoVA’s Graduate Academy.
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Translating Ambiance: Unlikely Journal #6 Launch
Online launch seminar November 30, 2020. Recording now available.
NEWS + EVENTS
cova-research@unimelb.edu.au
CoVA’s research priorities align with the University of Melbourne’s aims of engagement-led research that value s invention and innovation. They serve to build strong research collaborations with industry partners and are explicitly conceived to bring about positive change to local communities, Australia and the world.
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
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Postnational Art Histories
During the past 50 years, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged deeply with the many postnational challenges to national sovereignties yet the nation state and nationalisms are as strong and influential as ever.
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Asian Art Research
This program aims to produce a new understanding of cultural alliances across the Asia Pacific region with programs specifically focused to facilitate collaboration between institutions and individuals across Australia, Indonesia and India.
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Communicative Cities
Contemporary society, and public culture, is no longer formed by values and practices that arise from and remain bound to a homogenous group, but has multiple origins, addresses diverse communities, and flows across territorial boundaries.
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Feminism and Intersectionality
The Feminism and Intersectionality program is designed to challenge dominant narratives and ideologies, and propose new frameworks in which to continue making and legitimising forms of knowledge and cultural production that are otherwise rendered invisible.
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Art + Science
The CoVA Art and Science program, supported by Science Gallery Melbourne, facilitates vital, national and international research projects in this space, building relationships between the University of Melbourne and scientific and creative research institutions across the world.
Recent Projects
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MEMORY Conference 2021
2 - 3 September, online. Click for Information + Registration
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Art+Australia 57.1 | Multinaturalism Launch
An online launch to celebrate Art+Australia issue 57.1 'Multinaturalism', as part of the Melbourne Art Book Fair
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GAPS [ ] : Encounters with Art
Stay tuned for our upcoming summer series of podcasts, produced by CoVA’s Graduate Academy.
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Translating Ambiance: Unlikely Journal #6 Launch
Online launch seminar November 30, 2020. Recording now available.
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Archipelagic Encounters, NOV 5 2020
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Mentoring Matters Seminar
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Zero O'Clock
Online Exhibition launched September 10, 2020
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On Kindness and Care
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ERASURE
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JUNE 17: ERASURE | Artists + Curator Talk
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WATCH: Which Resilience, Why Resilience, Whose Resilience?
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25 MAY: Which Resilience, Why Resilience, Whose Resilience?
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19-22 MAY: Art Anywhere? Symposium 2020
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20 APRIL: Performance Artist STELARC
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20 MARCH: Art Anywhere? [Postponed]
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27 NOVEMBER: Approaching Pedagogy Through and with Contemporary Art Practices
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19 + 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Unlocking Creativity
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6-8 NOVEMBER 2019: Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference
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14 OCTOBER: 'Branches from the Same Tree-Integrating Arts and Humanities with STEMM in Higher Education' with Prof Gunalan Nadarajan
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An Interview with CoVA Coordinator Dr Suzie Fraser
cova-research@unimelb.edu.au
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Art + Australia
Art + Australia is a publishing and research body that focuses on contemporary art and its relationship to broader theoretical, social and geo-political contexts. Based at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, and living intimately with the vibrant pulse of its art school host, Art + Australia presents a rigorous and uncompromising perspective on what might constitute both art and Australia in the twenty first century.
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ANZJA (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art)
The AAANZ publishes the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA). The ANZJA is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. The journal is dedicated to research in art history, art practice, art theory, and exhibition and museum studies. 2014 ushered in a new era for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. The journal is now published with Taylor and Francis, a division of Informa. It is published in hard copy and online via the ANZJA site on Taylor and Francis.
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Project Anywhere
Project Anywhere is a global blind peer reviewed exhibition program dedicated to art at the outermost limits of location-specificity. Although descriptions and images of hosted projects are featured on a dedicated website, Project Anywhere is neither an online exhibition nor a journal. It is instead a vehicle for illuminating artistic projects located anywhere and elsewhere in space and time. It is perhaps best imagined as an exhibition comprising the entire globe in which the role of curator is replaced with a peer evaluation system.
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Currents Journal
Currents is an interdisciplinary arts and practice-led-research journal dedicated to the flow of ideas occurring between the disciplines of visual art, film, production, architecture, design, dance and theatre; along with art, architecture, theatre and music history. Collaboratively published between the Centre of Visual Arts (CoVA) University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia, Currents charts the social, creative and historical dialogues generated by early career researchers across these discrete yet interrelated disciplinary fields.
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Unlikely
Unlikely is a transdisciplinary online journal. An experiment in form, Unlikely engages its audience and contributors through a two-stage process of live events that showcase the work of creative practitioners, followed by peer reviewed electronic publication of creative arts work and traditional scholarly articles and essays—both overseen by an international editorial board and panel of peer reviewers. Unlikely opens unexpected spaces for artistic exchange and scholarly conversations across mediums, disciplines and continents. It offers researchers from humanities and artists working in practice-led research the chance to participate in and explore a range of practical and theoretical contemporary art concerns.
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Perimeter Editions X CoVA
Perimeter Editions X CoVA is a exemplary new publishing series reflecting current and emerging research from the Centre of Visual Art at the University of Melbourne. Launching in 2021, this series aims to deliver responsive and relevant material intersecting art, culture, society, and science published by Perimeter Editions.
Recent Publications
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