UCSFA

**28-29th September, University of Canterbury**
 * OCULUS 2012: Postgraduate Visual Arts Conference**

You are warmly invited to attend this year's Oculus postgraduate conference which will feature a full-day of sessions including range of papers by Honours, Masters and PhD students from across New Zealand and Australia. The conference is proudly hosted by The Department of Art History and Theory, School of Fine Arts and Platform Festival at the University of Canterbury. The conference will open with a welcome event from 5-7.30 pm on Friday 28 September in the School of Fine Arts Foyer followed by a full day of sessions on Saturday 29 September, to be held in the South Arts Lecture Theatres.

There is a full-day attendance fee of $25, payable in cash at registration on either Friday evening or Saturday morning. The registration fee includes morning/afternoon tea, lunch and two complimentary copies of //Oculus// back issues. If you would like to attend, please register your interest via email at **__oculus@canterbury.ac.nz__**

This year's keynote speaker is Dr Jane Button. Jane graduated with an honours degree in Art History from the University of Canterbury before going on to complete a PhD in 2009 at the School of Culture and Communications, the University of Melbourne. Her research investigated the cultural significance of photography's shift from analogue to digital imaging with respect to artistic practice and social relations. Her background in the Arts includes organising the national tour of the Centre for Contemporary Photography's 2004 LEICA exhibition alongside professional experience in institutional and private galleries in New Zealand. An early career researcher Jane now guest lectures and tutors in the Media and Communications department at RMIT University (Melbourne) and has also tutored for a New Media course (Swinburne University) and has presented guest lectures and tutored for the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne.

The conference will be closed by Felicity Milburn who will speak about the challenge of curating a post-quake Christchurch. Felicity is a Curator at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Her recent projects for the Gallery's off-site series **Outer Spaces** include: **from white darkness** (Ruth Watson), IceFest Hagley Park, Christchurch, 2012; **Do You Remember** **Me Like I Do?** (Scott Flanagan), NG space, Christchurch, 2012;**Tjalling is Innocent** (Tjalling de Vries), CoCA wall, Christchurch, 2012; **Out of Place**, NG space, Christchurch, 2012; **Waters Above Waters Below** (Hannah and Aaron Beehre), NG space, Christchurch, 2012; **Breathing Space** (Zina Swanson and Georgie Hill), NG space, Christchurch, 2012; **Render** (Sam Harrison), NG space 2012.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Enquiries: __oculus@canterbury.ac.nz__