[Commlist] Funded PhD opportunity in Automation and Creative Labour

We have a funded PhD position available to work with us on our new DP 
in Automation and Creative Labour. It would be great if you could share 
this information with anyone you thought might be interested.



*Fully-funded PhD opportunity at the University of Western Australia*

Automation and Creative Labour


CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!

*Deadline for Expression of Interest: _25 May 2021_*

https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/phd-opportunites/able#anchor-Currentopportunities-DB2D8CBB-ECC2-4D55-B29D-B19F8442C41C 
<https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/phd-opportunites/able#anchor-Currentopportunities-DB2D8CBB-ECC2-4D55-B29D-B19F8442C41C>

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   The University of Western Australia is pleased to invite 
applications for a full PhD studentship, awarded under the ARC’s 
Discovery Project scheme to the project ‘A Cultural and Intellectual 
History of Automated Labour’, CIs Sarah Collins (UWA), Ionat Zurr (UWA), 
Oron Catts (UWA), and Elizabeth Stephens (UQ) - 
https://automationcultures.com/ <https://automationcultures.com/>

The project examines the history of automated labour through the lens of 
aesthetics. It aims to:

   * map key changes in how automated labour has been depicted in
     literature, music, fine art and the biological arts, and to explore
     the interaction between these shifting artistic representations and
     contemporaneous debates about labour automation in economic,
     scientific and philosophical texts, as well as in newspapers,
     government policy and in personal accounts.
   * analyse how perceptions and experiences of labour automation have
     been shaped by aesthetic categories. This will involve tracing the
     parallel shifts in concepts that are significant to both art and
     labour, such as 'value', 'judgement', 'creativity', 'production' and
     'consumption'.
   * explore historical and contemporary practices of exhibiting
     technologies of labour automation for public spectacle, as well as
     artistic practices that incorporate automated technologies or
     processes. We will analyse how these curatorial and artistic
     practices partake in changing attitudes toward agency and toward
     human interactions with non-human entities - including both
     mechanised and synthetically-created biological entities - involved
     in the automation of artistic labour.

The dissertation may focus an historical topic, looking at the 
interrelation between technologies and practices of automation in labour 
and art of the past. Or it may focus on the impact of a recent 
technology of automation or AI on artistic labour today.

We encourage particularly topics that include consideration of practices 
or ideas related to the Global South or the Australian context, or 
topics that engage with either the creative sector or the galleries, 
archives and museums sector. But all topics and candidates will be 
considered.


The PhD project will be jointly supervised by Sarah Collins and Ionat 
Zurr (UWA). The award will cover the standard ARC grant towards living 
expenses for three years, plus a top-up from UWA, totalling $AUD 30,000 
per year. This studentship will also give access to the standard UWA 
schemes to support some travel/research expenses and equipment.


For informal enquiries about the scope and details of the project, 
applicants are encouraged to contact Associate Professor Sarah Collins 
((sarah.collins /at/ uwa.edu.au) <mailto:(sarah.collins /at/ uwa.edu.au)>). The 
closing deadline for Expressions of Interest is*25^th May,*through this 
portal:https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/phd-opportunites/able#anchor-Currentopportunities-DB2D8CBB-ECC2-4D55-B29D-B19F8442C41C 
<https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/phd-opportunites/able#anchor-Currentopportunities-DB2D8CBB-ECC2-4D55-B29D-B19F8442C41C>



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