SCMP News: July 2006

• Application Closing date for round 1, 2007 of the PGRF (Postgraduate Research Fund) - 5pm, Wednesday 9th August, 2006 [Posted: 27/07/2006]
• Consolidation of Exams Register meeting-2.30 pm Wednesday, 12th July [Posted: 10/07/2006]
• Media Department and Biennale of Sydney - Symposium [Posted: 11/07/2006]

Application Closing date for round 1, 2007 of the PGRF (Postgraduate Research Fund) - 5pm, Wednesday 9th August, 2006

Application Closing date for round 1, 2007 of the PGRF- - 5 pm, Wednesday 9th August, 2006
The Research Office closing date for round 1, 2007 of the PGRF (Postgraduate Research Fund) is Friday 11th August. The following internal deadline has been set for submission of applications to the Dean's office for signature:

Close of business (5pm) Wednesday 9th August.

Applications should be submitted to Lisa Taituma PA to the Dean in W6A 703.

Consolidation of Exams Register meeting-2.30 pm Wednesday, 12th July

The Consolidation of Exams Register meeting will be held on Wednesday, 12th July at 2.30 pm in W6A 707.

Representative from each Department should be available to attend this meeting to go through the results for students enrolled in SCMP.

Those present should have a break-down of marks for units offered in their Department and be prepared to account for any anomalies.

Media Department and Biennale of Sydney - Symposium

The Media Department and the Biennale of Sydney co-hosted a three-day symposium in July entitled After the Event: Rewriting Art History. The Symposium, was co-convened by the Artistic Director & Curator of the 2006 Biennale Dr Charles Merewether and Associate Professor John Potts, Head of the Department of Media, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from July 7 to July 9, 2006.

The Symposium undertook a rethinking of art history, contemporary art practice and media culture - including an investigation of performance, re-enactment, the documentary and the archive - in the era of globalisation. The Keynote Address was given by Professor Boris Groys, (Philosophy and Media Theory, Academy for Design, Karlsruhe, Germany) on Friday 7 July. The symposium continued on Saturday 8 July and Sunday 9 July with papers delivered by leading international and Australian writers and theorists.

Selected international speakers included Lolita Jablonskiene (Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania); Geeta Kapur (curator, critic and writer, New Delhi, India); Dipesh Chakrabarty (Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, The University of Chicago, USA); Michael Renov (Professor of Critical Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Cinema - Television, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, USA); Peter Osborne (Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, School of Arts, Middlesex University, UK); Midori Matsui (Critic and Writer, Yokohama , Japan ); and Lee Weng Choy (Artistic Co-Director, The Substation, Singapore).

Participants from the Media Department were John Potts, Kathryn Millard and Maree Delofski.

Sessions included 'New Art Histories'; 'After the Post-colonial and Empire'; 'Other Spaces and Indigenous Art Histories'; 'Documentary and the Archival'; 'The Event and Memory'; 'Popular Culture/ Media Culture / Globalisation'; and 'Re-enactment and Performance'. Also other Biennale-related talks and seminars were held on the Macquarie campus.