Talking about contemporaneity

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture

Terry Smith website
Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh

Talking about Visual Studies

At least it's not an -'ology'
Keith Moxey alerts us how knowledge is situated through visual studies, not making universal knowledges but situated with different subject positions noting gender, ethnicity, history...
'What Does Visual studies Do?'
Short interview here


James Elkins preview of new anthology 'Theorizing Visual Studies' in IMAGES: Journal for Visual Studies. The book is a collection of essays from graduates worldwide
Published by Routledge Dec 2012. Details here
Link to intro for this on academia here 

Open Arts Journal Issue 1

Open Arts Journal
Issue 1: Cosmopolitanism as critical and creative practice
Follow link to  Open Arts Journal

Vernon Ah Kee in conversation

Vernon Ah Kee in conversation with Daniel Browning for the State Library of Queensland

Barak

Wurundjeri artist Barak discussed by Judith Ryan senior curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria
http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william-barak/7609/remembering-barak/

'treating people like disposable waste'

Ghassan Hage post 'Against Colonial Rubbishing'

link here

http://hageba2a.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/against-colonial-rubbishing.html