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Art History and Curatorship student takes up Internship in Rome on the British School at Rome Image Digitisation Project
Art History and Curatorship student Caterina Sciacca takes up in December 2007 an internship in Rome to digitise rare images of Rome.
This project is a collaboration between the University of Western Australia, The University of Melbourne, the British School at Rome, URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche), the Archivio di Stato, Rome, and Elsewhereonline.
This project, which forms part of the Australian Research Council funded project E-Research project (First Chief Investigator, Professor Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia; industry partner: Australians Studying Abroad), is devoted to the task of digitising images of rare topographical prints in the British School at Rome, which has one of the finest collections in the world of topographical material relating to Rome, much of it assembled by its first director, Thomas Ashby. Forming part of this collection are several hundred topographical prints which have hitherto been uncatalogued and little known to scholars, let alone to a wider audience. The initial project will catalogue and digitise 110 of these prints at a high resolution, and make them publicly available through the websites of www.elsewhere.com.au, URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche), and the Archivio di Stato, Rome.
The BSR digitisation project is directed by Valerie Scott, Librarian at the British School at Rome, and Associate Professor David R. Marshall, Art History Discipline, the University of Melbourne. Digital photography will be undertaken by Laura Primangeli, Centro di Fotoriproduzione degli Archivi di Stato, and additional support provided by Beatrice Gelosia.
Scholarship takes Art History student to the British School at Rome
PhD student Katrina Grant will be taking up in January the first Melbourne Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome to work on "Gardens and Theatre in Arcadian Rome in the 18th Century". This scholarship, generously funded by a private donor, provides for travel, living expenses and board and lodging at the British School at Rome, together with Italian language tuition provided by the Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne, to undertake a research project dealing with the art history, archaeology, architectural history, urbanism, or history of designed landscapes of Rome or its region from antiquity to the twentieth century. The next round closes on 1 March.
For further details see http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/currentstudents/scholarships/rome.html
British School at Rome
Screen Studies staff and Experimenta Media Arts
Dr Wendy Haslem, lecturer in Screen Studies and Cinema Management, has contributed to the catalogue of a new exhibition which celebrates the 21st birthday of Experimenta, a leading contemporary arts organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting and promoting media art. Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts features artworks that engage with the creative possibilities emerging from a dynamic interaction between the moving image, art and new technologies. Each exhibit creatively expands the definition of play, performance and ritual, often exploring unexpected possibilities and unimaginable realms.
This international biennial exhibition of media art will be displayed at the Arts Centre, BlackBox (rear of Hamer Hall, riverside) near Southbank (August 25th - September 23rd, 2007).Wendy Haslem's current research is 'Gothic Projections: From Méliès to New Media an investigation of the evolution of the Gothic narrative and aesthetic from silent film to digital media.'
More about the exhibition: Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts
Honours student's play at the Malthouse Theatre
Mummies, a play written by Creative Writing Honours student Carly Nugent as part of the fourth-year subject Writing: Before and Beyond the Image, has been selected for performance at the finals of the VU-Malthouse Theatre 3-D Festival.
‘Writing: Before and Beyond the Image’ is designed to foster innovation and experimentation in the writing of advanced students. It focuses on the paradoxes of 'representation', on its 'impossibility' and engages with a range of theoretical, critical and imaginative texts and practices, which suggest possibilities for writing.
Carly Nugent’s other new work, Casper Dies, opens at the Guild Theatre at Melbourne University on Tuesday 21 August.
ATOM awards nomination for Screen Studies student
Screen Studies MA student Andrew Saunders has been nominated for two ATOM awards, in the category Best Tertiary Experimental. Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) is a professional organisation of media educators and industry professionals who are dedicated to the ongoing development of an innovative and diverse screen and media culture in Australia. Established in 1982, the ATOM Awards recognise excellence over thirty categories of film, television, animation and multimedia. The awards are open to students, production companies, independent filmmakers, educational bodies and educational producers, and celebrate the very best of Australian and New Zealand product. The winners of the 2007 ATOM awards will be announced on Friday 19 October 2007 at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne.
Read more about the ATOM awards.
Scholarship takes Art Curatorship student to the British Museum
Master of Art Curatorship student Kathleen Kiernan is currently undertaking research in the British Museum's Print Room, having been awarded the prestigious Harold Wright Scholarship. This Scholarship has enabled her to study the great collection of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Visit the Uni News site for more details about Kathleen's Harold Wright Scholarship.
Emerging Writers program success of Art Curatorship student
Master of Art Curatorship student Andrea Bell was announced as one of the successful applicants to the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 2007 Emerging Writers program. Andrea will be mentored by the NGV's Kelly Gellatly.