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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> 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) - <a href="https://automationcultures.com/" style="margin:0px">https://automationcultures.com/</a><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">The project examines the history of automated labour through the lens of aesthetics. It aims to: </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif">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.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif">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'.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif">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.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"></span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">The dissertation </span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">For informal enquiries about the scope and details of the project, applicants are encouraged to contact Associate Professor Sarah Collins (</span></span><a href="mailto:sarah.collins@uwa.edu.au" target="_blank" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">sarah.collins@uwa.edu.au</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">).
The closing deadline for Expressions of Interest is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>25<sup>th</sup>May,</b>through this portal:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/phd-opportunites/able#anchor-Currentopportunities-DB2D8CBB-ECC2-4D55-B29D-B19F8442C41C" style="margin:0px">https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/phd-opportunites/able#anchor-Currentopportunities-DB2D8CBB-ECC2-4D55-B29D-B19F8442C41C</a></span></p>
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