Reinventing the Medium

This conference addresses the state of the art medium in art history. With one eye on Rosalind Krauss’ recent critique of the ‘post-medium condition’ – in which the medium is ‘outmoded, cashiered, washed-up, finished’ – and another on the extravaganza of photo-based art, spatial research and digital media, the conference explores the following, in relation to Australian, New Zealand and international art:

• The challenge of photo-based representation to traditional aesthetic paradigms
• Photography, video and painting
• Aesthetics and pluralism in the post-medium age
• Modernism
• Architecture and space
• Art and liminality
• Multimedia, digital art and aesthetics
• Interfaces between art and design

Convenors : Associate Professor Anne Marsh and Dr Daniel Palmer