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Toby Juliff
Toby Juliff
Lecturer in Critical Practices
Acting coordinator of the BFA Honours and MFAD program
Art | School of Creative Arts and Media
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Toby is a Lecturer at the School of Creative Arts and Media (CAM), Hunter Street. An art historian, curator, writer, and sometimes artist Toby has worked across the interface of history, theory, and practice for over a decade. Publishing widely on subjects such as British and Australian sculpture, participatory art, and performance, Toby continues to examine the relationship between history and practice through teaching and research.
Biography
Previously coordinator of the BFA (Hons) program and lecturer in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the University of Melbourne (2012-17), Toby joined the University of Tasmania in 2017 working across a range of research divisions. From 2006-2012 Toby was Lecturer in Contextual Practices at Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Art University) where he taught across fine art, fashion, architecture, and interdisciplinary design. From 2008-2013 Toby was lecturer in the MA Art History program at the Open University (UK) where he specialised in teaching international cohorts.
With a background in literature and music, Toby continues to supervise projects that traverse disciplinary boundaries. Toby undertook graduate studies in the history and theory of sculpture at the University of Leeds, with scholarships from the Henry Moore Foundation (MA) and the Arts Humanities Research Council (PhD). He has presented his research and work at over 30 international conferences and served on the executive committee of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (2013) and the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (2014). He was selected as a peer-review in Art History and Theory (1901) for the 2015 ERA-exercise.
Toby is an active curator and writer. Recent A-rated publications sit alongside catalogue essays for Heide Museum of Art, Bus Projects, and Neon Parc. His most recent exhibition – Pandemic (March 2019) – was supported by competitive awards from Contemporary Art Tasmania and the Gordon Darling Foundation.
Career summary
Qualifications
Degree | Thesis title | University | Country | Awarded |
PhD | About October | University of Leeds | UK | 2012 |
MA (with Distinction) | The Moses of Michelangelo | University of Leeds | UK | 2004 |
BA (Hons) | The Northern Irish Protestant Imagination in Poetry | University of Leeds | UK | 2000 |
Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education | N/A – professional graduate teaching qualification | University of Leeds | UK | 2002 |
Memberships
Professional practice
AAANZ, ACUADS, Contemporary Art Tasmania
Administrative expertise
Executive organising committee of several large-scale international conferences (IPAD 2012- Leeds, AAANZ 2013 & ACUADS 2014 – both University of Melbourne).
Teaching
History, theory, sculpture, painting, affect, participation, coding, historiography, digital humanities, Australian Art, British Art.
Teaching expertise
Toby has supervised over 100 Honours to completion (across Leeds College of Art and University of Melbourne). Toby has further supervised to timely completion 3 MFA and 5 MA (by research) and 5 PhDs (across Open University and University of Melbourne).
Teaching responsibility
Toby is coordinator of Critical Practices 3A (FSA311) and (2018) acting coordinator of the BFA Honours and MFAD programs.
Research Appointments
Toby served as external evaluator in Art History & Theory for the ERA 2015 exercise.
Research Invitations
Toby has recently served as external examiner for PhDs in Art History and Fine Art (UNSW, UNE), MFA (Monash), and Art History Honours (UNSW, ACU). He has examined whole degrees (UniSA) and served on the consultative committee of several research projects related to the design of new art curricula.
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Expertise
British Sculpture; Australian Art; History of Modern Art; Contemporary Art; Art History; Art Theory; Participatory art; Cultural heritage; Art-science collaboration; Painting; Latin American Art; Curatorial Studies
Research Themes
Toby’s work stretches across several University research themes that reflect his interdisciplinary interests in participation, emotion, interaction, and history.
His most recent work Pandemic engages with the Better Health, by exploring shared histories and languages of public health through the creative arts.
Toby’s work on the exchange of ideas and practices between Australia, the US, and the UK (ANZJA) argues for a more nuanced and critical understanding of the history of Modernist and Contemporary art in a global context that stresses exchange and transmission. Sitting in the theme of Creativity, Culture and Society Toby explores the rich history of cultural exchange and how we might better understand the global transmission of ideas.
With publications in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Toby has a longstanding interest and profile in the digital humanities, in particular looking at how artists reframe the ways in which we experience data that move beyond traditional interfaces. Working alongside Data, Knowledge and Decisions, Toby continues to work alongside post-internet artists in exploring how code functions as a critical subject in and for contemporary art.
Awards
2019 – Gordon Darling Foundation Award; 2019 – Regional Arts Funding (Tasmania); 2018 – Contemporary Art Tasmania EDF; Arts Humanities Research Council PhD Doctoral Award; Henry Moore Foundation Postgraduate Award
Current projects
Toby is following up recent publications in cultural heritage and contemporary through an edited book (with Dr Antonio Gonzalez, Deaking), currently being prepared for 2021.
Toby is also preparing a follow-up article on the reception of British and Australian work in London and the US in the 1960s, as part of his wider historiographic interest in global histories of art.
Fields of Research
- Fine arts (360602)
- Visual cultures (360104)
- Crafts (360601)
- Art criticism (360101)
- Performance art (360603)
Research Objectives
- The creative arts (130103)
- Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies (280122)
- Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture (280116)
- Behaviour and health (200401)
- Disease distribution and transmission (incl. surveillance and response) (200404)
Publications
Toby has published across a broad range of platforms, including A-rated journals, chapters in established book series, and numerous catalogue essay for spaces of national importance (Heide Moma, NGV). He has several journal articles in review and accepted for publication in 2019 across contemporary visual art, Latin American sculpture, and cultural theory.
Total publications
15
Journal Article
(4 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Juliff T, Early J, 'The self-design of contemporary confessional art', Journal of Visual Art Practice, 4, (2) pp. 342-358. ISSN 1758-9185 (2019) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2018 | Juliff T, 'A new generation of British art: A problem of provincialism', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 18, (1) pp. 125-145. ISSN 1443-4318 (2018) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2015 | Juliff T, Cox T, 'The Post-display Condition of Contemporary Computer Art', Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, (8) pp. 1-16. ISSN 1835-6656 (2015) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2013 | Juliff T, 'Livingstone-heritage and the interstitial spectres of Trafalgar Square', International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 3, (2) pp. 200-209. ISSN 1759-0442 (2013) [Refereed Article] |
Chapter in Book
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Juliff T, 'The Battle of Orgreave (1984)', Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present, Routledge, L Smith, M Wetherell, and G Campbell (ed), New York, NY, pp. 85-101. ISBN 9780815370024 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] |
Review
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Juliff T, 'Octopus 19: Ventriloquy: Review', Art + Australia, July (2019) [Review Single Work] |
Conference Publication
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Haddon N, Juliff T, Fountain W, Kunda M, 'After you have gone: un-disciplined knowledge and new value/s, one year on', ACUADS Conference Program, 28-29 September 2017, Canberra, ACT, pp. 1-11. (2017) [Refereed Conference Paper] Co-authors: Haddon N; Fountain W; Kunda M | |
| 2017 | Juliff T, Keating MJ, Norrie H, Veness Z, Kratz SJ, 'Praxis now: Frayling's 'Research in Art and Design' 24 years on', ACUADS Conference Program, 28-29 September 2017, Canberra, ACT, pp. 1-14. (2017) [Refereed Conference Paper] Co-authors: Keating MJ; Norrie H; Veness Z; Kratz SJ |
Major Creative Work
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Juliff T, 'Pandemic: Gothic pathologies, quarantines, and creative explorations of fear and transmission', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2019) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2019 | Watt Y, Juliff T, Krebber A, Riedinger M, Holck A, 'OktoLab19', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania (2019) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Watt Y | |
| 2016 | Juliff TD, 'Translating Michelle Nikou's objects', Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Benella Art Gallery, Cairns Art Gallery, Anne and Gordon Samstag Gallery of Museum of Art University of South Australia, Coloundra Art Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, 1, pp. 74 (2016) [Published Creative Work] |
Other Creative Work
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Juliff T, 'Death Mask', Dark Lab / TMAG, Hobart, pp. 8 (2017) [Catalogue] | |
| 2014 | Juliff T, 'Critical Mumble', Neon Parc and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, pp. 2 (2014) [Minor Creative Work] |
Other Public Output
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Juliff T, 'Pandemic: Panel discussion with Dr Toby Juliff, Ravi Avasti and Helen Shield', Afternoons with Helen Shield, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hobart, Tasmania, 22 March (2019) [Media Interview] | |
| 2019 | Juliff T, 'Tintin and antisemitism within children's literature: Interview with Ryk Goddard', Breakfast, ABC Hobart, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hobart, Tasmania (2019) [Media Interview] |
Grants & Funding
Funding Summary
Number of grants
4
Total funding
Projects
- Description
- A tripartite exhibition and public program schedule to support and engage with the biennial Ten Days on the Island festival of culture. Hosted by Makers Workshop (Burnie), the Academy Gallery (Inveresk), and the Plimsoll Gallery (Hobart), three exhibitions explore contemporary place-based making strategies incorporating the very best local Aboriginal Tasmanian artists (Burnie), nationally touring cultures of ritual (Inveresk), and the art-science collision (Plimsoll). These three are programmed in conjunction with Ten Days and have benefited from partnerships with Contemporary Art Tasmania, University of Southern Queensland, and Australia Council.
- Funding
- Gordon Darling Foundation ($7,590)
- Scheme
- Grant
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Juliff TD; Bywaters MC; Gair J; Barlow JD
- Year
- 2019
- Description
- Okto-lab is an exhibition project focusing on the octopus. Conceived as a laboratory for studying and reevaluating animals, it also tests the contribution of curatorial practices and exhibitions to such a reevaluation. The octopus acts as both primary subject-matter andmodel for interdisciplinary research, responding to the alien complexity and physiology of the animal in manifold ways. In its entirety, the exhibition thus also represents a laboratory for the visitors to explore octopuses from different perspectives and positions that disturb the clear demarcation of scientific, artistic and cultural approaches while also questioningour understanding of the nonhuman world.
- Funding
- Regional Arts Australia ($9,734)
- Scheme
- Grant-Community
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Watt YM; Juliff TD
- Year
- 2019
- Description
- Okto-Lab is an exhibition project focusing on the octopus. Conceived as a laboratory for studying and re-evaluating animals, the exhibition allows visitors to explore octopuses from different perspectives and positions that disturb the clear demarcation of scientific, artistic and cultural approaches. Visitors are prompted to question our understanding of the nonhuman world. Meanwhile the laboratory format tests the contribution of curatorial practices and exhibitions to such a re-evaluation. The octopus acts as both primary subject-matter and model for interdisciplinary research, responding to the alien complexity and physiology of the animal in manifold ways.
- Funding
- Australia Council for the Arts ($28,688)
- Scheme
- Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Watt YM; Juliff TD; Krebber A; Hoelck A
- Year
- 2019
- Description
- The project focuses on the Octopus; both the animal itself as a tentacled, multi-brained creature, and the use of its form as a model for an interdisciplinary project with multiple partners and multiple outcomes.
- Funding
- Universities Australia / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) ($17,240)
- Scheme
- Grant
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Watt YM; Juliff TD; Krebber A; Riedinger M
- Period
- 2018 - 2019
Research Supervision
Toby has completed supervision of 5 PhDs (Practice-led), 3 MFA (Practice-led), 5 MA (by Research) and over 100 Honours. He is currently supervising 3 candidates in the MFA and PhD program.
Current
4
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| Masters | Waves, Thoughts and a Player Piano | 2019 |
| PhD | Fields of Force: connecting ethics and empathy for the more than human in the age of the Anthropocene, through fieldwork, technology and participatory installation | 2019 |
| PhD | Embracing Opposites: Conflict and cohesion in contemporary curatorial practice in Australian particpatory art projects | 2019 |
| PhD | The Conceit of Materiality and Immateriality in Sound Objects | 2020 |