Thank you to all keynote speakers, presenters and delegates of the 7th ELIA Leadership Symposium for a fantastic event!
The 7th ELIA Leadership Symposium kicked off on Tuesday with a Welcome Cocktail; facilitating networking between ELIA delegates and representatives of African Universities who came together in Cape Town for the preceding African Tertiary Arts Education networking event.
The second day was all about in-depth round table discussions, fueled by the opening keynote talk of Vishakha Desai, a panel session between Xolela Mangcu and Mark Fleishman, as well as a panel session between Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Maude Dikobe and Ruth Simbao. Closing keynote of the day was Aino Laberenz, who established The African Opera Village in Burkina Fasso with her late partner Christoph Schlingensief. In the evening dinner took place at Spier Wine Farm in the Stellenbosch Valley.
The final day started with a keynote by Gavin Jantjes, followed by discussions and the closing session of Oussama Rifahi.
With an eye to oversubscription, applicants are encouraged to submit their registration forms as early as possible. After completing the form, applicants will receive an email asking to provide:
The organisers will seek to create an overall balanced representation of delegates based on the profiles submitted.
| Early-Bird Members Fee (registered before 20 September 2015) | EUR 850 |
| ELIA Regular Members Fee | EUR 950 |
| Non-Members Fee | EUR 1850 |
| Accompanying Person Fee | EUR 250 |
DOMINANCE
venue: Hiddingh Hall
10.00 Vishakha Desai, Table Talks afterwards
11.15 Coffee Break
11.45 Panel with Xolela Mangu and Mark Fleischman
venue: The Company's Garden
13.00 Lunch
DIVERSITY
venue: Hiddingh Hall
14.15 Panel with Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Ruth Simbao and Maude Dikobe
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Aino Laberenz, Table Talks afterwards
17.15 Closing of the Day
17.30 Bus leaves for Dinner
19.00 Dinner at the Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
DISRUPTION
venue: Hiddingh Hall
09.30 Gavin Jantjes, Table Talks afterwards
10.45 Oussama Rifahi, Table Talks afterwards
11.45 Coffee Break
12.15 Closing
venue: The Garden at Bertram House
13.00 Lunch
venue: various
14.00 Optional: City Visits and Tours
Post-apartheid South Africa is a laboratory of social transformation. Working within this context we will address this changing world and reflect on how key notions of ‘the canon’, aesthetics and standards of excellence play out in a culturally diverse world.
Institutions are shaped by history, by social context, by those who lead and teach, who are themselves shaped by history, education, context and institutional cultures. Increasingly though, institutions are also impacted by the pressures of those who fund them, either as public authorities or as fee-paying students. How do leaders
of institutions - themselves in the process of transformation - disrupt, reinforce or
nuance the tensions between the economic, the political, the cultural and the artistic dimensions?
While many art schools and universities are facing some of these questions in the light of economic pressures and demographic shifts, the intensity with which South African institutions are dealing with these will provide a new lens and focus for leaders of institutions to reflect on these issues of transformation and change.
The tripartite conference title is reflected by the keynotes and correlating roundtable discussions, each focusing on one of the key terms:
DOMINANCE reflects on what has been called the ‘Canon’ in recent aesthetics theory and puts up for debate the relevance of ideas like objective standards of excellence- which are largely Eurocentric in historical origin- in art and art education in the 21st century and future developments.
DISRUPTION reflects on how the emergence of alternative sources of knowledge and value has affected and transformed the established social, cultural, economic and educational institutional structures.
DIVERSITY reflects on different points of view on cultural diversity and the challenges, as well as the opportunities, developments such as globalisation, worldwide migration processes and cultural changes in society present for established institutional structures like art universities and colleges- now and in the future.
Judge and anti-apartheid activist, South-Africa.
Director of Research at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD), Uganda, Research Fellow at the Academy of Art & Design in Bergen (KHiB), Norway and Research Associate in the Institute of Art Education at the Zurich University of the Arts.
University of Botswana Travelling Theatre, University of Botswana, Botswana
Professor of Art History and Visual Culture in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University, South Africa
Founded in 1925, the Fine Arts department of the University of Cape Town is better known as the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and has a long and proud tradition of producing outstanding graduates. Today Michaelis is staffed by some of South Africa’s leading fine artists, curators and art academics. Internationally the school is recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost institutions for the study of fine art and new media at an advanced level.
Special recognition is given to the school’s place in Africa, and the School strives to provide a stimulating and supportive environment in which both undergraduate and postgraduate students can achieve their full potential.
Michaelis’s location on UCT’s Hiddingh Campus – adjacent to the historic Company’s Garden – ensures that students have access to many cultural institutions and heritage resources. These include the Iziko South African National Gallery, the South African Museum and the National Library of South Africa, as well as some of the country’s leading commercial art galleries and creative hubs. The School houses the Michaelis Galleries at which visitors to the campus can view regular exhibitions by local and international artists. It also hosts an annual end-of-the-year exhibition of fourth-year student works, which has become a highlight of the South African arts calendar.
We are very pleased to welcome in Cape Town the following senior figures, representing higher arts education institutes from across the globe:
BAYARAA Baasandorj
Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Mongolia
BACHMAN Ursula
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, School of Art and Design, Switzerland
BALETIC Borna
Academy of Dramatic Art (ADU), University of Zagreb, Croatia
BECK Thomas
University of the Arts Berne (HKB), Switzerland
BROCH KNUDSEN Cecilie
Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Norway
CHANG Chung-shiuan
Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), Taiwan
CHRISTEN Gabriela
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, School of Art & Design, Switzerland
CHULUUN Altantsetseg
Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Mongolia
CRABTREE Paula
Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden
DALNÄS Ulf
University of Gothenburg, Academy of Design and Craft, Sweden
DE FREITAS Nancy
AUT Faculty of Design & Creative Technology, New Zealand
DIKOBE Maude
University of Botswana, Botswana
DISERENS Corinne
Art Academy ERG, Belgium
ELAM Ingrid
University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Sweden
FLEMING, Karen
University of Ulster at Belfast, United Kingdom
GARSHOL Gyrid
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
GAYLARD Joseph
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, Swiss Arts Council, South Africa
GRUNDER Nina
Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland
IACOB Bogdan
University of Art and Design, Romania
INGVARSDÓTTIR Fríea Björk
Iceland Academy of the Arts, Iceland
JONKER Thera
HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
KALLIO-TAVIN Mira
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
KIEVITS Bridget
Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK), the Netherlands
LAI Torben
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
MBOYA Mzobanzi
New Partnership for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency
(NPCA), South Africa
MOOR Tina
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, School of Art & Design, Switzerland
MORTENSEN Jorn
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
NAUMOVS Aleksejs
Art Academy of Latvia
O'CONNOR John
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
ÖQUIST Eva
University of the Arts Stockholm, Sweden
PAGES Estelle
Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), France
ROBINSON Hilary
Middlesex University, School of Arts, United Kingdom
SBARCIU Ioan
University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania
SEAWRIGHT Paul
University of Ulster at Belfast, United Kingdom
SOLOVASTRU Radu
University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania
SPIER Steven
Kingston University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, United Kingdom
SWANEPOEL Cobus
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), Switzerland
SYSKA Andrzej
University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
TAVIN Kevin
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
TCHAMBA Jean Robert
Institute of Fine Arts Foumban, University of Dschang, Cameroon
TEIKMANIS Andris
Art Academy of Latvia
UTRIO Markus
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
VERVELD Bert
Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK), the Netherlands
VODICKA Richard
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Czech Republic
WANG YunYu
Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
WENNERSTRÖM Mark
University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Sweden
WICKERT Hartmut
Zurich University of the Art, Switzerland
WUELFERT Stefan
Bern University of the Arts (HKB), Switzerland
01. Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA)
Housed in the landmark industrial Silo building and situated at the V&A Waterfront, the Zeitz MOCAA aims to be an architectural icon which spans over 9,500 sqm across nine floors, with 6,000sqm dedicated to African Contemporary Art. The tour ensures that participants get fully up to date with contemporary visual arts on the continent.
02. Cape Town Architecture
A guided tour of the hidden architectural gems of Cape Town- from historic Cape Dutch buildings to contemporary experimental eco-architecture- will take place through the central City of Cape Town.
03. Cape Town Theatre landscape
Explore the theatre landscape of Cape Town from publically funded institutions such as the Baxter and Artscape to independent theatre spaces like the Fugard and Alexander Bar.
04. Meet the Educators
Gain insights into the varying arts education offerings in Cape Town through a guided tour of arts campuses ranging from Stellenbosch University, University of Western Cape, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the University of Cape Town among others.
05. Design in Cape Town
Cape Town was designated World Design Capital 2014. Meet design thinkers, creatives and institutions who are changing the design sector in Cape Town. This tour includes visits to the Cape Craft and Design Institute, the FEDISA fashion school, the Design Indaba and more.
06. Africa in Cape Town tour
Experience a different side of Cape Town by meeting and enjoying Pan-African cuisines, fashion and craft from the African diaspora. This tour will welcome you into artists’ homes and studios, giving you a taste of the life and work of some members of one of Africa’s largest diasporic communities.
07. History of Cape Town
Cape Town's history as an important port city that marked the beginning of the era of global travel is still tangible today, the city’s melting pot of cultures and civilisations predates the colonial era. This history comes alive in this guided walking tour of Cape Town's indigenous, colonial and post-colonial pasts. This tour includes a tour of District Six Museum, an important living memory in Cape Town’s apartheid history.
Dr. Vishakha Desai is Special Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and Professor of Practice at its School of International and Public Affairs. 
She also serves as Senior Advisor for Global Programs to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. From 2004 through 2012, Dr. Desai served as President and CEO of the Asia Society, a global organisation dedicated to strengthening partnerships between Asia and the U.S. through arts education and foreign policy. In addition to several featured articles, and numerous editorials, Dr. Desai’s publications include: Asian Art History in the 21st Century (March 2008), Gods Guardians and Lovers: Temple Sculpture of North India (November 1993), and Life at Court: Art for India’s Rulers (June 1985). A recipient of five honorary degrees, Dr. Desai holds a B.A. in Political Science from Bombay University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Art History from the University of Michigan.
Mark Fleischman is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Cape Town and artistic director of Magnet Theatre, an independent theatre company established in 1987 in Johannesburg and based in Cape Town since 1994. He has created and directed many performance works for the company that have been performed nationally and internationally over the past 29 years and is involved in development projects in urban townships and rural communities using theatre as a tool for social justice and transformation.
His articles have appeared in the South African Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review and Theatre Research International as well as numerous edited collections, most recently in Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd (eds.) Performing Heritage (Manchester University Press – 2011) and Nicholas Whybrow (ed.) Performing Cities (Palgrave Macmillan – 2014). He is editor of Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa: Cape of Flows in the Studies in International Performance series at Palgrave (2015). He is an active member of the Performance as Research Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research and was co-convenor from 2009-2013.
His paintings and graphic work has been collected internationally including by the Tate Gallery and the V&A, UK; the National Museum of African Art Smithsonian, US; the 
South African National Gallery Cape Town; The Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia; Gothenburg Art Museum Sweden; Henie Onstad Art Center Oslo and numerous private collections.
He was a senior lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK. He served as a trustee of the Tate, Whitechapel and Serpentine Galleries and was called to the Arts Council of Great Britain (today the Arts Council of England), where he structured the Council’s national policy on cultural diversity. He was Advisor to the Arts Council on the creation of INIVA, the Institute for International Visual Art, and to CIRCLE, the European Commission Policy Group, for its special report on diversity. He was appointed artistic director of Henie Onstad Art Center (1998 -2004) and as senior curator for the National Museum in Oslo (2004 - 2014). He was a member of the finding commission for Documenta 12 and he served as a trustee and advisor to the Office for Contemporary Art OCA in Oslo. He is the initiator of the Visual Century Project and author of Visual Century: South African Art in Context 1907 - 2007 volumes I - IV, published by Wits University Press in 2011.
He lives and works in Oslo and Cape Town.
Aino Laberenz had studied art history before she assisted as a costume designer at 
Schauspielhaus Bochum between 2001 and 2002. Later she worked as a photographer and costume designer at several theaters like Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Volksbühne Berlin, Wiener Burgtheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Opera of Manaus in Brasil, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Berlin and Oper Bonn. Aino Laberez designed costumes for numerous short films and worked together with René Pollesch, Schorsch Kamerun and regularly with Armin Petras.
In 2010 Aino Laberenz took over the management of Festspielhaus Afrika gGmbH, continuing Christoph Schlingensief’s project The African Opera Village, established in 2009.
Furthermore she designed the German pavilion together with Susanne Gaensheimer at the 54th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia and was honored for that with the award Goldener Löwen.
Aino Laberenz is the editor of Christoph Schlingensief’s biography Ich weiß, ich war’s, which was published by the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 2012. She was co-curator of the exhibition Christoph Schlingensief at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and MoMa PS1 in New York.
Dr. Xolela Mangcu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, and Oppenheimer Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author and co-author of eight books and numerous journal articles, book chapters and newspaper columns. His book on black consciousness icon, Steve Biko Biko: A Biography (Tafelberg 2012) was finalist in the Sunday Ties Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, the Recht Malan Prize, and the South African Book Awards. His latest book on race in contemporary South Africa, The Colour of our Future, was published by Wits University Press in 2015.
Mangcu was the Founder of the Platform for Public Deliberation and the Founding Executive Director of the Steve Biko Foundation. He obtained his Ph.D in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and holds fellowships at Brookings Institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rockefeller Foundation. His research interests are in African intellectual history and biography, comparative race studies and transformation of higher education in South Africa. The Sunday Times has described Mangcu as 'possibly the most prolific public intellectual in South Africa'.
Professor Njabulo Ndebele has served at highest levels in a number of South African and Lesotho tertiary institutions including Pro Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Lesotho, Vice-Rector of the University of the Western Cape, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the North and Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town. The recipient of more than ten honorary doctorates and numerous literary awards, Ndebele is considered to be one of the country’s foremost thinkers.
Ndebele obtained his Ph.D. in American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver, USA, having completed his MA in English Literarture at Cambridge University. He is the author of eight books including The Cry of Winnie Mandela (David Philips, 2003) and Fine Lines from the Box: further thoughts about our country (Umuzi, 2007).
A former president of the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW), Ndebele serves on a range of boards including the MTN Foundation (Chairperson), Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
He has chaired various task teams including the Ministerial Task Team on the Development of Indigenous African Languages as Mediums of Instruction in Higher Education and the Minsterial Panel on the Teaching of History in South African Schools.
Oussama Rifahi joined the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture as Executive Director in July 2010. Previously, he was Managing Director for Museum Development in New York with Global Cultural Asset Management, and provided cultural consultancy services to governments, cities, foundations and private collectors in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. As Director of Special Projects for the Guggenheim Foundation, Rifahi led feasibility studies of modern and contemporary museums in Lithuania and France in 2007. From 2003 to 2006, he was project manager at Mubadala in Abu Dhabi and an advisor to the chairman of Tourism Development and Investment Company - TDIC. Rifahi directed the market analysis, strategy definition and development of the business model for tourism and culture in Abu Dhabi and supported the first architectural developments on the cultural district of Saadiyat Island, as well as the initial negotiations between Abu Dhabi and the Louvre and Guggenheim museums.
Albert (Albie) Louis Sachs, the son of Lithuanian Jewish parents who fled persecution in the Russian Empire and emigrated to South Africa, served two terms in the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest post-apartheid court. Having been detained without trial in the 1960s because of his anti-apartheid activism, Sachs went into exile in Britain in 1966, where he worked with the banned ANC. Sachs moved to Mozambique after it gained independence, learned Portuguese and became a professor of law at Eduardo Mondlane University, the premier tertiary institution. In 1988, Sachs was the victim of a carbomb, the work of agents of the apartheid government, in which he lost his right arm. After 24 years of exile, Sachs returned to South Africa in 1990 after the unbanning of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organisations, and was appointed to the Constitutional Committee, mandated to draft a new constitution for a non-racial, democratic state. Sachs played an influential role in the drafting of the Bill of Rights now enshrined in South Africa’s constitution. During his Presidency, Nelson Mandela appointed Sachs to one of the 11 seats on the new Constitutional Court. He played a major role both in the design of the building for the Court as well as in the murals, paintings, sculptures and other art works which has won the building international acclaim. Among other groundbreaking judgments, Sachs wrote the judgement legalising same-sex marriage in South Africa. He continues to have a significant interest in African arts generally, and visual art in particular.
She fulfilled Social Studies at Salvador University in 1982. She has a St. Andrew´s 
University upgrade in Academic Actualization of Education New Challenges. Nowadays she attends for FLACSO University Education Management Master Diploma. Ines is President of Crear Vale la Pena Organization and she is developing Teaching for Teachers programmes in Art, Welfare and Creativity for schools and community cultural centers.
She has designed and currently coordinates for the City Government of Buenos Aires the implementation of 'arts across the curriculum' in 19 public schools, which applies for common education improvement and social cohesion. From 2005 to 2009 she has coordinated the Latin American Network of Art for Social Transformation which operates in 17 countries and she is a council member of the Latin American Community Live Cultures Net. Ines Sanguinetti is a conference speaker in her country and abroad for arts for social transformation, education and culture development.
www.crearvalelapena.org.ar
EMMA WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA is an artist and researcher. She studied Literature at Cambridge University and Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She is Director of Research at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda, Uganda and has recently been appointed Research Fellow at the Academy of Art & Design in Bergen (KHiB), Norway. She is also Research Associate in the Institute of Art Education at the Zurich University of the Arts (CH) and Convener of the Another Roadmap for Arts Education network’s Africa Cluster (http://another.zhdk.ch).
Emma works in a wide range of media, formats and contexts, including installation, sound, video, photography, printmaking, performance and writing. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Kabbo Ka Muwala (National Gallery of Zimbabwe, ZW, Makerere University Art Gallery, UG & Kunsthalle Bremen, DE), Feedback: Art, Africa and the Eighties (Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, US), Greetings To Those Who Asked About Me (Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG), Artificial Facts (Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, DE & CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, ES) and Giving Contours to Shadows (Savvy Contemporary/Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE). She is currently revising her recent essay, ‘Margaret Trowell’s School of Art: A Case Study in Colonial Subject Formation’ for The Arts as White Property: Interrogating Racism within Arts in Education - an academic publication edited by Amelia Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and B. Stephen Carpenter II that will be published in the US next year.
Emma is currently working on colonialism’s continuing impact on ways of thinking, seeing and remembering. Her work in this area explores processes of subject formation, ‘colonial exhibitionism,’ and art education’s ‘colonial hangovers’.
http://there-are-alternatives.tumblr.com
currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Botswana where she teaches courses on literature and the expressive arts of Africa and the African Diaspora. In addition, she teaches a general elective, “GEC 268 Literature of Liberation” which looks at prison writing in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is an educator, researcher and consultant on cultural and creative industries in Africa, and is a member of the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA) based in Mozambique. She wields, more than twenty years of higher education research and teaching in various places such as; the U.S. , Germany, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago. Recently, she was appointed to revive the University of Botswana Travelling Theatre, a theatre group which she co-founded with Dr. Victor Mntubani and other fellow students as an undergraduate student at the University of Botswana in the mid- 80’s. In addition, she is co-founder and artistic director of Reetsanang Community Theatre, which she established with some of her friends upon graduating from the University of Botswana. She has carried out consultancy for ACP/EU project on the survey looking at the contribution of the creative and cultural industries to the economy of Botswana, as a national researcher. In 2009, she was an invited speaker at the World Summit on Arts and Culture. She is author of one book, Doing She Own Thing: Gender, Subversion and Performance in Trinidadian Calypso” (2009), book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on different topics relating to the arts.
DR RUTH SIMBAO is a Professor of Art History and Visual Culture in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University and NRF SARChI Chair of the research initiative "Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa". Her research interests include contemporary art with a particular focus on Africa, the geopolitics of art and society, geopolitics in relation to biennialisation, ‘strategic southernness’ and the Global South, theories of ‘place’, contra-flow diasporas, cosmopolitanism and cosmolocalism, redefinitions of ‘the local’, the power of small spaces and modest gestures, artists’ responses to xenophobia, China-Africa relations and the arts, contemporary cultural festivals and globalisation, performance theory and live art, the performance of heritage in Zambia, and site-situational art.
Simbao received her PhD from Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture in 2008, and was an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellow as part of the Humanities in Africa programme in 2010. In 2002 she received a Harvard University Teaching Award as a Teaching Fellow, and was the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award at Rhodes University in 2009.
She has received a number of research and travel grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the College Art Association, the American Social Science Research Council, the Jennifer Oppenheimer Foundation, Norton, the Canada Council of the Arts, Harvard University (History of Art and Architecture, African and African-American Studies, Film Studies and the Graduate Student Council), the National Research Foundation (South Africa), the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, the National Arts Council, Rhodes University, and the Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council. In recent years Simbao founded the following research initiatives, projects and networks: Visual and Performing Arts of Africa (ViPAA) (2011 to present), Residencies for Artists and Writers (RAW) (2014 to present), and Art & Culture: Writers in Africa (ACWA) (2015).
She has published in various journals including African Arts, Art South Africa, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, JACANA: Journal of African Culture and New Approaches, Third Text, Kronos: Southern African Histories, Parachute, Mix, Lola, De Arte, Image & Text, Social Dynamics and the
International Journal of African Historical Studies. Recent curatorial projects include SLIP: Mbali Khoza and Igshaan Adams, the performance art programme BLIND SPOT at the National Arts Festival, and Making Way: Contemporary Art from South Africa and China at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg.
Associate Professor B. Bayaraa is Head of Department of International Collaboration at the MONGOLIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND CULTURE (MSUAC), 
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA (since 2010). During her 25-year career for the university she worked as Dean of the Faculty of Management in Culture and Arts (2004-2010), Chair of the Department of Social Sciences (1994-1996) and Chair for the Department of Foreign Languages (1998-2004). She was educated at the Kubansky State University, Russian Federation, specialized in history (1985), and graduated from the National University of Mongolia as an interpreter (1991).
Her area of expertise is development and implementation of international projects in the field of arts and culture. As a project leader and coordinator she initiated and organized numerous international workshops and forums in the field of arts management, cultural administration, cultural tourism, creative industries and cultural policy. In the role of a dean and project manager, she put her efforts into establishment of the first in the country MA Program in Arts Management and coordinated trainers’ teamwork on curriculum development.
Assoc. Prof. B.Bayaraa is an initiator of such international events as the nomadic arts festival “Culture Naadam” and international discourse meeting “Tree of Culture”, annually organized by MSUAC in collaboration with international partners. Lately she has contributed to successful implementation of the university UNESCO supported projects, organized in the field of cultural diversity, intercultural communication and cultural statistics; and has collaborated with Urban Nomads//Nomad citizens (Germany) on interdisciplinary art projects organized both in Mongolia and Germany.
Born in Switzerland.
Ursula Bachman received her teaching certificate at the Lucerne University of Applied 
Science and Art – School of Art and Design. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Fine Art degree from Birmingham University (GB). Since then she has lived and worked as an independent artist in Lucerne and Zurich. She has taken part in national and international exhibitions and festivals, where she has exhibited drawing, installation and animation. She has also realised several art and architecture projects.
Studio residencies in New York and Cairo followed and frequent travel in the Middle East made her an expert on the region. From 2004 – 2010, she was a member of the Swiss UNESCO Commission, Section for Cultural Affairs.
From 1995 – 2011, Prof Ursula Bachman has taught three-dimensional design, drawing and exhibition design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Art and Design. From 2007 – 2014, she led the interdisciplinary study area “Projektmodule” (now called “IDA-Module”) and is committed to its continuous development.
Since 2011, she has been Vice Dean and Head of Interdisciplinary and International Programmes at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She is currently responsible for the bachelor’s degree programme and the foundation course (a. i.).
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Dr. Gerald Bast is rector / president of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria since 2000. After his studies in law and economics at Johannes Kepler 
University Linz where he earned a Doctorate in Law, he worked at the Federal Ministry of Higher Education and at Ludwig Boltzmann Research Society. He is Vice president of the Austrian Rectors‘ Conference (Universities Austria), executive board-member of ELIA, and editor-in-chief of the book series ”Art, Research, Innovation and Society”. The main fields of interest and activities are higher education policy, university management, cultural policy and the role of cultural knowledge for societal innovation and progress.
As university president Gerald Bast initiated various new programs focusing on transdisciplinary teaching and research and on the interrelation between art and society, e.g. “Social Design-Arts as Urban Innovation”, “TransArts“, “Art and Science”. In 2014 he founded the “Angewandte Innovation Lab” at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, accentuating the role of the arts in innovation processes by facilitating intercommunication between the arts, science & technology, social science, economics and politics.
Gerald Bast published in the fields of university law, university management as well as educational and cultural policy. He held various invited lectures on the role of art, creativity, innovation and higher education, among them Johns Hopkins University Washington D.C., Tsing Hua University Beijing, Tong Ji University Shanghai, University of Auckland, Dunedin School of Arts, City University Hong Kong, University of the Arts Utrecht, Lakit Kala Akademi New Delhi and the European Culture Forum Brussels.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Beck is president of the University of the Arts in Berne/Switzerland .jpg)
(HKB). Being educated as a journalist he studied literature, theatre science and musicology in Erlangen/Germany. After leaving the university Thomas Beck became chief dramaturge at the Theatre of St. Gallen/Switzerland before he changed to Swiss National Television as head of the Performing Arts departement.
Chair of the board of the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Norway since January 2015. The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme www.artistic-research.no has overall national responsibility for promoting and guiding artistic research in Norway. The programme has two sub-projects: The Fellowship Programme and The Project Programme.
Chung-shiuan Chang obtained an Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University in
1991 with her research focus on children’s creative dance. Influenced by Dr. Liu Feng-hsueh, a famous choreographer and dance scholar in Taiwan, she has shown her interests and talents in dance performances and dance studies. She was a founding member of Dr Liu’s Neo-Classic Dance Company at the age of 13 and continued her dancing career till 1993.
She has been a full-time teacher at the Taipei National University of the Arts（TNUA） since 1992. At TNUA, besides teaching, she was selected as the chair of dance department, the dean of school of dance from 2000 to 2006. Specializing in dance pedagogy and curriculum design, her papers have been presented in conferences in Taiwan, Greece, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Her academic papers related to dance education are also published in different Taiwan’s journals including “Arts Review”, “Research in Arts Education”, “Taiwan Dance Research Journal” and “Journal of Aesthetic Education”. In recent years, she published “Creative Dance Guidebook” (2007) and “To Dancer．TNUA”(2008) two books . Currently she is the vice president at TNUA.
Zuerich and Berne she worked as project manager and curator at the Swiss National Museum. From 1994 to 1996 she was director of the museums of the canton of Nidwalden. Since 1996 Gabriela Christen worked as cultural editor at Swiss Radio DRS; from 1999 to 2002 she was deputy editorial director of the culture department. From 1999 to 2009 Gabriela Christen gave lectures at the department of Art & Media at Zurich University of the Arts, furthermore she was a member of the executive team from 2002 to 2007. Since 2009 she was deputy head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at Zuerich University of the Arts. She has been dean of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Art & Design since March 2010.
Professor Chuluun Altantsetseg is Vice President for Academics and Research of the 
Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (since 2010). She received her B.Sc. in Clothing technology at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russian Federation (1985), did her M.Sc. in Clothing science (1994) and Ph.D. in Engineering (1998) at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST). In 2015 she defended her D.Sc. in Clothing science at the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia. Upon her graduation from the university, she had been employed as a Coordinator by the Ministry of Domestic Services of Mongolia (1985-1987), as a Lecturer at MUST (1987-1998), and worked as Head of Fashion Design & Technology Department and Director of Clothing Research Centre of MUST in 1998-2010.
Professor Ch.Altantsetseg’s area of research is clothing thermal engineering design, while her expertise area is fashion technology of Mongolia national costume and art education study. During her career in the higher art education field she contributed greatly to curriculum and training technology development of both MUST and MSUAC. Since 2010 she has worked intensively for improvement of academic programs of MSUAC in relevance to international standards in higher art education. Besides her work dedicated to upgrading of a credit system and artistic research of MSUAC, Professor Ch.Altantsetseg has worked as a project leader and concept developer for several big scale international and national projects, conducted by MSUAC in the field of art education, creative industries and cultural statistics.
Since April 2014 I have held the position as Vice Chancellor at Stockholm University 
of the Arts in Sweden. Prior to this I was Rector at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) in Norway (2010 – 2014) where I was also Dean at the Dept. of Fine Art (2002 to 2010).
For the past four years I have been a member of the ELIA Executive board.
I have been actively involved in projects initiated within the auspices of ELIA and for two of these make the link between the respective projects and report to the board. I am co-artistic director for NEU NOW Festivals, which have been held successfully in Vilnius, Nantes, Tallinn, Porto and Amsterdam. In 2014 the Festival was held in Glasgow, coinciding with the ELIA Biennial conference. From 2015 onwards the NEU NOW Festival returns to Amsterdam, for a period of 5 years.
I am also member of the steering group for EQ-Arts and am active in both training programmes for experts and in institutional reviews.
Ulf Dalnäs is the Head of HDK - Academy of Design and Craft at University of 
Gothenburg graduated from School of Music at university of Gothenburg 1992 and has a background as a teacher, freelance musician, senior lecturer, Director of studies, Education Leader, investigator and Head of Faculty Office. He has held several international assignments, including member of the board (2006–2014) and Vice President (2010–2012) of the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). In 2008, Ulf was responsible for ELIA’s biennal conference held in Gothenburg, and in 2010 he was chairman of the board for the same conference in Nantes, France. On a national level he has represented art educations in the Bologna expert group 2008–2013. He is also a member of the advisory board for art education at the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education.
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Technology, New Zealand. Throughout her career, she has been active as a professional artist, as an academic and in the arts community. De Freitas’ research has contributed to the body of knowledge associated with artistic and design research practices. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Studies in Material Thinking.
De Freitas has been the recipient of several awards, including: a Teaching Fellowship awarded by the Canadian government to study aboriginal (Inuit) art initiatives in the Canadian Arctic; the Amtrust Artist in Residence, a studio/research residency and a Fulbright Travel Award to enable a lecture tour in the United States. She has been invited to lecture internationally on art and design research practice and material thinking method at over 15 host universities around the world.
As a university academic, de Freitas has been involved in curriculum-based research and in the development of innovative collaborative teaching strategies for art and design. At the Auckland University of Technology she has been Leader of Foundation Studies in Art and Design and Year Leader for an interdisciplinary Masters programme, Master of Art and Design and Programme Leader for the Master of Arts Management. She has been actively involved in numerous university and professional societies, including the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Cumulus) and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA).
Since 2011, Corinne Diserens is director of art academy erg (école supérieure des arts, Brussels, Belgium), and jury chairwoman of Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, 
Germany). She studied art history at Université Panthéon Sorbonne Paris 1, and was Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, NY. From 1989 to 1993, Diserens was curator at IVAM – Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Spain) ; between 1996 and 2008 she was the director of Les Musées de Marseille (France), of the Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes (France), and of the new Museion (Bolzano, Italy). As art historian and curator, she organized international co-productions for MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain), curated numerous artists retrospectives, biennales, thematic exhibitions, and published monographs and catalogues. Through these professional activities, Diserens has never ceased to work closely with artists, researchers, students, archives, and lead researches and conferences in the frame of international art museums and university seminars.
As per South Africa, Diserens was curator of the exhibitions and books:
Since 2012 I hold a position as Dean at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing 
Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Before that, between 2008 and 2012 I was Pro Vice Chancellor International at Malmö University, Sweden.
My field of research is Literature, I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Gothenburg since 1985, and I have during my years at various leadership positions also worked as a senior lecturer in Comparative literature, journalism and creative writing, and currently I am supervising two PhD students in Literary Composition at the University of Gothenburg.
In my spare time I write essays and literary critique, published by Swedish publishing houses such as Bonniers and Norstedts and in the Swedish Daily Dagens Nyheter.
2003-2010 I was Member of the evaluation panel for artistic and practice based research at The Swedish Research Council, and 2007-2012 I was President of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. I am currently Member of the Board of the Swedish National Research School in the field of Arts.
Professor Karen Fleming is Director of the Research Institute for Art and Design at the Ulster University where she has lectured since 1989 and was appointed Professor in 
2008. Before taking up leadership of the art, design and architecture research at the University of Ulster (2009) she was a leader in the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design (2004-8) where she was instrumental the development of collaborative and cross disciplinary research. Her recent cross-disciplinary practice includes textile metaphors for anatomy developed with the medical school at Durham University. In 2015 she led a leadership development programme to develop research leaders of the future, piloting a technique called question-based tactical planning.
A former board member of Craft NI and a Trustee of Museums and Galleries NI, Fleming has juried international exhibitions including curation of ‘Reinventing Linen’ Smithsonian Institute (2007) and the Biennale du Lin, Quebec (2011). Fleming was co-investigator on several EU funded projects and principal investigator of Wellcome Trust and AHRC funded research. Fleming currently leads CXNI, an AHRC project to research creative industry knowledge exchange among solo and micro creative including designers, architects and artists.
As Director of art, architecture and design research at Ulster she managed their recent success in the UK Research Excellence Framework in which their research environment was recognised as 100% internationally significant and world leading research, 3rd in the UK for research Intensity recognising world leading quality and volume, with the highest world-leading research of any subject in any university in Northern Ireland.
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Joseph Gaylard is a South African researcher, writer and organiser. During the course 
of the past twelve years he has also worked extensively as a consultant on policy research, strategy formulation, and programme development and evaluation for different spheres of government and international cultural agencies. He currently serves as Head of the regional office of Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, the SADC office of the Swiss Arts Council. Pro Helvetia Johannesburg encourages exchange between Switzerland and Southern Africa for organisations and individuals operating professionally in the arts, and supports the development of collaborative networks of arts professionals within the SADC region. He has honours degrees in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of Cape Town.
Teacher education, Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Singing, as well as a Master of Advanced Studies in Integrative Management. As of 2004, founder and 
director of an art agency for young musicians, from 2005 onwards managing several large projects in the music field (amongst others, for the Venice Biennale, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Days for New Chamber Music in Witten and the Bern Municipal Theatre). As of 2006, chief executive ad interim of the Bern Music Festival. In 2009 developed several further education programmes for the Bern University of the Arts, in 2010 established the arts doctoral programme “Graduate School of the Arts”. Director of the renowned music competition „Concours Nicati“ and artistic representative of the opera festival Hallwyl Castle. Since 2012, member of the board of directors at the Bern University of the Arts and within the scope of this role responsible for the overall educational issues. At the same time, head of the further education programmes in singing voice.
Born in 1979, Bogdan Iacob is art historian and art critic and works as senior lecturer, 
Ph. D. at the University of Art and Design in Cluj – Napoca, Romania. He teaches Art History and Contemporary Art (since 2002) and is currently Head of the Theoretical Subjects Department of UAD. His institutional experience also includes work within the Department for Public and International Relations, as coordinator of the university’s gallery, among other tasks (2006 – 2009), and holding the position of Chancellor of the university (2008 - 2011).
He obtained his Ph. D. title in Visual Arts with the thesis From Pathos to Cynicism. The Image of History in Modern and Contemporary Art (2011) and has published art critical texts, including the Offline book (2010). His current main topic of research is Romanian art criticism under the communist regime.
Bogdan Iacob has actively been involved in several activities and projects undertook by E.L.I.A. (such as Inter}artes Thematic Network, the Biennial conferences in 2006, 2008 and 2010, the Leadership Symposium in Zurich in 2009) and attended the E.L.I.A. Quality Enhancement Project QA&E Experts Training Workshop in Birmingham (2012). He is currently a member of the organization’s Representative Board (since 2010).
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creativity. Since 2012 she is Managing Director of the Expertise Centre of Education at Utrecht University of the Arts, the Netherlands. This Centre focuses on a) Research in new didactics (use of game principles, interdisciplinarity, sustainability, blended education and the triangle creativity-entrepreneurship-technology), b) Professional development of teaching artists and c) Art Teachers’ courses (bachelor & master). She is Dean of the interdisciplinary Master of Education in Arts and lectures on the didactics of creative processes.Publications: labour market position theatre graduates, physical theatre, talent development, creative partnerships, coaching, intercultural arts education. .
KALLIO-TAVIN MiraMira Kallio-Tavin works as a senior university lecturer of international art education at Aalto University. She has worked as an art educator in comprehensive schools, upper secondary, and higher education. In her current position she has introduced and employed international approaches to Finnish art education. Her research area focuses on questions of diversity, social justice, embodiment and disability studies, and on the relationship of education and gaming. She has developing arts-based research methodology within social contexts and in relation to the questions of dialogue, community, ethics and philosophy of education. She is the chair of the Finnish InSEA (International Society for Education through Art), and chair and program head of the international Master’s degree program Nordic Visual studies and Art education, NoVA.
Born in 1960 in Holland, I studied Dutch Language and Literature in Amsterdam, 
where I graduated Cum Laude in 1988. After graduation I started working at De Nederlandse Opera, where after two years I became manager of the Opera Choir. In 2004 I left the Opera and became head of the management team at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
In 2008 I went to the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK), where I became Secretary to the Executive Board, under Olchert Brouwer, the then President.
Since October 2010 I have been Vice-President of the Executive Board, together with my colleague, Bert Verveld, who is President. My principal portfolios are education and research, quality control, lectorates, student affairs and accreditations.
The AHK exists of six independent and unique art schools, from the Conservatoire of Amsterdam, to the Reinwardt Academy for cultural heritage studies. As Board we have the final responsibility for these schools; to govern them with an eye on the uniqueness of each school, with an understanding of their differences and with a vision on what we have in common.
My aim as member of the Board is to create the best possibilities for those people who actually do the work: our students, teachers, artistic leaders and directors. That means making sure the management is of high quality, that there is a demanding but safe atmosphere in which the talent of students can be fostered and developed, and that they are well prepared for the outside world that awaits them.
Since 2014 I am a member of the Executive Board of Elia, as well as treasurer.
Torben Lai is the head of Academic Affairs at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, responsible for creating a framework for education and research across the Visual Arts, the Performing Arts and Design. He is involved in stimulating the development of the Academy towards a strong focus on third level education and artistic research. He has a background as an artist.
On a national level he is a member of the National Council for Artistic Research and a deputy member of the Research Commitee in The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions.
He is has involved himself in working groups connected to policy development within the field of artistic research. A current example is a working group producing a contemporary, joint Norwegian understanding of the definition, scope and impact of artistic research.
Within ELIA he has been avtively involved in Enhancing Quality in the Arts (under EQ-arts) and he has followed the SHARE initiative with a special interest.
for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) in Midrand, South Africa. He completed his B.A., U.E.D., B.ED. at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa. He received his M.ED. and Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America.
From 1988 to 1992 Tina Moor studied textile design at the Zurich University of the 
Arts. Subsequently she worked as a freelance textile designer.
With the research team of the Swiss company Prospective Concepts she developed textile pneumatic structures for different applications in the aviation and the health sector:
• Feasibility study and prototyping of pneumatic airplane seats for Lantal Textiles
• Testing and manufacturing of liquid-filled pilot suits against the centrifugal forces
• Testing and prototyping of pants for elderly people to prevent falls and hip fractures
Since 2001 Tina Moor teaches at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts at the textile design department.
Since 2004 she is also working in the design research team of the Competence Center Products & Textiles at Lucerne University, where textile materials and techniques are explored and applied in new products. The link between teaching and research is very important to her.
Since 2010 she is head of the textile design department.
Jørn Mortensen is currently the rector (since August 2015) at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. From 2011 to 2015 he was the dean at the Department of Art 
and Craft at the same institution. Previous jobs include associate director at Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) (2007-09), head of communication and programming at Public Art Norway (KORO)(2005-07), director at Momentum – Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art (2001-05), director at Young Artists Society (UKS)(1993-01).
In 2011 he edited “Visual Art in the Oslo Opera House” (Press Publishing 2011) with essays from amongst others Marta Kuzma, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Jürg Heisser.
Jørn Mortensen chairs Kunsthall Oslo. He also chairs the art selection committee responsible for establishing two national memorial sites after the July 22 attacks in Oslo.
Aleksejs Naumovs (1955) has graduated from the Department of Monumental Painting of the Art Academy of Latvia and later received a French government scholarship to 
study painting at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Since 2007, Aleksejs Naumovs is the rector of the Art Academy of Latvia. He is very active at the Latvian and international art scene: the initiator, leader, exchange program organizer and exhibition curator for collaborative art projects in Italy, France, Japan, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Russia, USA etc.
Aleksejs Naumovs is an outstanding plein-air painter. He has regularly participated in exhibitions since 1979, held more than 60 solo exhibitions, has taken part in and organized group exhibitions and art projects, promoting the creative activities of students and developing international contacts and cooperation with art academies in various parts of the world.
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Leadership Team, chaired by the President, which has overall responsibility for leading and managing the Institute.
I am also Dean of the College of Arts and Tourism – comprising six schools and three research centres. With over 5,000 students and around 360 academic staff it is one of the the largest of the four colleges in DIT. I sit on the Strategic Leadership Team, Academic Council and chair a range of sub-committees. I also chair the College Leadership Team.
My strategic focus is on three key issues: the development of a National Strategy for Higher Education by the Higher Education Authority in Ireland, the Dublin Technological University Alliance, the new DIT city centre campus at Grangegorman. These issues are a response to the global crisis will shape the future of Irish Higher Education for the next generation providing an exciting opportunity to reimagine the sector and to embed the cultural and creative industries at its heart.
I led the development of the only full time honours degree programme to be delivered on an offshore island in Ireland, the BA in Visual Art. Commencing in 2000 there is now a biennial intake. In 2010 President of Ireland Mary McAleese attended the conferring ceremony – the first visit of an Irish President to the island. The programme is offered in partnership with the Sherkin Island Development Society and the West Cork Arts Centre.
In 2008 I launched a new Masters programme developed specifically for senior personnel in the Irish design sector to support its strategic development in Ireland.
One of the modules I developed and continue to teach – Virtual Environments: Is one life enough? – won the national Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in 2010. The module went on to win the Learning Without Frontiers Award in London in 2012.
Director of Administration at University of the Arts Stockholm, Sweden
Estelle PAGES (1964), graduated with a Master Degree in History of art at the Sorbonne. She studied the sculptor’s studios place and role and the exhibition place’s 
function through the examples of Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Arman and Donald Judd. She was in charge of private collections as the collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and she participated in inventoring the works and in the the foundation’s publication. After that and during 15 years, she taught History of art, specialising in Contemporary art, in different Fine Art School in France like Ecole supérieure d’art et design de Reims or l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Cherbourg and also at University at the Sorbonne and Paris 8. At the same time, she worked as a curator and organised a lot of group shows in art Center and museums and as an art critic wrote some introduction of catalogues. From 2005 to 2012, she founded and managed a Foundation course called “Les Arcades” at Issy les Moulineaux. Since 2012, she works as Head of Academic affairs at HEAR.
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Culture at Middlesex University, London. Her teaching and research focuses on feminist art theory, and publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today (1987); Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women (2006); Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014 (2015). She is currently working on a history of the feminist movement in art internationally.
Hilary gained BA Fine Art (Painting), University of Newcastle upon Tyne; MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, London, and PhD in Art Theory from the University of Leeds (supervisor: Griselda Pollock).
Hilary’s academic career has been in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Pittsburgh PA, USA; and London, England. At the University of Ulster (1992-2005) she taught art theory to studio students. She became Research Co-ordinator and subsequently Head of School for Art & Design. She also gained her first Chair, as Professor of the Politics of Art. In 2005 Hilary was appointed Dean, College of Fine Arts and Professor of Art Theory and Criticism, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh she was a board member of The Andy Warhol Museum; Quantum Theatre; Silver Eye Centre for Photography; Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and The Mattress Factory. She headed the Creative Entrepreneurs research project, to retain artists in post-industrial Pittsburgh. She moved back to the UK to take up the deanship at Middlesex University. She is presently on the advisory and management boards for the AHRC-funded research project Black Arts and Modernism.
Ioan Sbarciu was born on April 9th 1948 in Feldru, Bistrița-Nasaud. He lives and 
works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He had studied within “Ioan Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts Cluj-Napoca, Painting Department. He is currently professor PhD and has been the dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts within 1999-2000, rector of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania, within 2000-2008, and President of the Senate of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca since 2008.
He has an important activity as an artist with personal and group exhibitions in important institutions in Romania and abroad. We mention here some of the exhibitions held in the National Museum of Art Cluj, Romania, the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, Romania, the Kunsthalle Cologne, Germany, MKM Duisburg, Germany, MODEM Debrecen Hungary, The Prague International Biennial, Czech Republic, the Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy, Marino Marini Museum of Pistoia and the Etruscan Museum in Murlo, Italy, the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, Italy. He has works in state collections, museum collections and private collections in Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Spain, UK, Hungary, Poland, Canada, USA, Argentina and Japan.
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Ulster University. His photographic work is held in many museum collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Centre of Photography New York, Arts Councils of Ireland, England and N.Ireland, UK Government Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum London as War Artist for Afghanistan and his photographs of battle-sites and minefields have subsequently been exhibited in more than 20 countries. In 2003 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and in 1997 won the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize. He has published seven monographs. Formerly Dean of Newport School of Art & Design Wales and panel member for Art & Design in RAE08, REF14 and member of the HEFCE advisory group on the Research Excellence Framework. Currently Vice President of the Royal Ulster Academy.
Radu-Calin Solovastru was born on October 26th 1957 in Cluj-Napoca. He lives and 
works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania He had studied within “Ioan Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts Cluj-Napoca, Graphic Arts Department. He is currently professor PhD and has been the dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts within 2004-2008 and rector of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania since 2008. He is IAA - AIAP member and ELIA member.
He has an important activity as an artist with personal and group exhibitions in Romania and abroad. We mention here the exhibitions held in the National Museum of Art Cluj, Romania, the National Biennial of Graphic Arts, Miskolc, Hungary, Marino Marini Museum of Pistoia and the Etruscan Museum in Murlo, Italy, MODEM Debrecen Hungary, Espace Bateau Lavoir, Paris, France, Tarohei Nakagawa Gallery Tokyo, Japan, the Romanian Cultural Institutes in Paris, France and Budapest, Hungary. He has works in collections public collections in Romania and in private collections in Austria, Algeria, Israel, Germany, France, Egypt, Greece, SUA, Australia, Hungary
His research interests focus on the development and the importance of drawing in contemporary art that is why he initiated cooperation projects with institutions and events within this area such as Foire Iinternationale du Dessin Paris, Ecole Europeene Superieure de l'Imade Angouleme, FIAV Casablanca, Romualdo del Bianco Foundation, Florence Italy.
Steven Spier is a professor of architecture and dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and 
Architecture at Kingston University London. He has two research areas: contemporary architecture, particularly Swiss, and choreography through the work of William Forsythe. He is the author of numerous articles in both areas and the author of Swiss Made and the editor of William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography. He was born in Montreal, grew up in the United States and has worked the last twenty years in Berlin, Zurich, Glasgow, Hamburg, Belfast and London.
Cobus Swanepoel, born in Johannesburg in 1972, grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. After matriculation at the Pro-Arte School 1990 with the violoncello as his main 
musical instrument, he obtained the degrees Bachelor in Music as well as Bachelor Honours in Music from the University of Pretoria - receiving honorary colours for academics and also culture.
Winning two major music awards 2005, the SASOL Music Competition and the JCI Jim Joel Competition enabled him to further his studies in Europe - starting with a Diploma in Music Performance at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf 1998 with distinction and culminating in a Soloist’s Diploma at the Zurich University of the Arts 2003.
2003 Cobus Swanepoel was appointed head of the Bachelor of Arts in Music programme and lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts, receiving the title of professor 2007. 2014 saw his calling as head of master programmes in Music Performance as well as Specialized Music Performance at the same institution, where he also serves as deputy head of the music department.
Mr Swanepoel is an active chamber musician, appearing in formations ranging from piano trios and string quartets to crossover groups and contemporary music ensembles. These performances frequently lead to concerts and festivals all over Europe and beyond. He is a permanent member of the Pianova Piano-Quartett as well as Trio Silenzio with Paul Giger, Violin, and Srdjan Vukasinovic, Accordion.
Cobus Swanepoel enjoys frequent appearances as guest principal-cellist with ensembles such as the Camerata Zurich and the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, Austria. Previous engagements in this position were with ensembles such as the Münchener Kammerorchester , the Zürcher Kammerorchester, the Sinfonieorchester St.Gallen, Salzburg Chamber Soloists and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein.
Regular engagements as soloist with orchestra complete the spectrum of his performing activities. Among others, he has presented works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Elgar, Françaix, Haydn, Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky in this role.
Cobus Swanepoel is married to Barbara Swanepoel-Kreis and they have three children.
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Professor, head of the Studio of Space Forming and Transformations, Intermedia Department at Multimedia Communication Faculty.
Since 2008 Vice-Rector (Vice-President) in charge of international cooperation and research programmes at University of Arts in Poznan, Poland.
Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (now the University of Arts in Poznan) in 1985 (diploma with distinction in painting and artistic education). He received his doctorate degree (PhD) in 1993, Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, AFA Poznan. Habilitation in 1999, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, AFA, Poznan. The professorial title awarded by the Polish President in 2004.
Has held numerous solo exhibitions and featured in a broad range of group exhibitions and art projects in Poland and abroad. Andrzej Syska’s main art fields are sculpture, painting and the "new" media. Has completed many multimedia projects, installations and films.
Has been working at the Poznan University of Arts since 1987. 2000-2002 Held the position of Vice - Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Multimedia Communication 2003 - 2008. Furthermore in 2001-2008 Headmaster of High School of Arts in Poznan. Coordinator of various research projects, workshops and art exhibitions curator.
Led many many international projects. For example, a project entitled NATURE, which lasted two years and had a budget of 250.000 Euro. Since September 2013 Chair of the Steering Committee of PARADOX the Fine Art European Forum.
Art residences / fellowships and stipends:
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Nordic Institute for Contemporary Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Kultursekretariat Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Republic of Poland
Kevin Tavin is Professor of International Art Education, and Head of the Department of Art at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland. Tavin holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, a MEd from Towson University, and a PhD. from Penn State University. He has taught K-12 and post-secondary courses since 1990. Tavin’s previous work includes the Department of Art Education at The Ohio State University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His research focuses on visual culture, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, Nordic art education, and psychoanalytic theory. His work has been published in international art and education journals and books, and presented as keynote and research papers across the globe. He is co-editor of the book, Stand(ing) up, for a Change: Voices of arts educators, published by NAEA. Tavin has held the office of Coordinator for the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education and Director of the Western Region of the National Art Education Higher Education Division in the US, and the World Council Regional Representative for North America for the International Society for Education through Art. Tavin was a Fulbright Senior Specialist and recieved the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award from NAEA and Outstanding Art Educator of the Year from the Maryland Art Education Association.
J. R. Tchamba is actor, playwright, theatre director and a professor of acting, writing 
and directing in the Institute of Fine Arts Foumban, University of Dschang, since March 2010. I acted as Coordinator of the Performing Arts Department for three years (from 2010) and was officially appointed Head of Department a.i. in March 2013.
My field of research includes the African traditional performances, the contemporary theatre and the one-person show called monotheatre, among others. I am particularly interested in the use of other Medias in theatre and other performances. This confluence of arts constitute the subject of all the articles (03) I’ve published till date.
As an artist, I have written 14 plays, three of which are published (two at Editions L’harmattan and one locally), and directed about 17 plays mostly written by me. I have a particular burden for transmission; as such, I have organized and taken part in many theatre workshops with secondary school students, and trained many actors who are employed both in local and international companies. Through my civil associations, Foumban Workshop Theatre and the Harvestime Theatre Team, I am currently training young actors towards a theatre for education project, and using theatre as a means for evangelism.
I am a holder of a pre-doctorate degree (DEA) from the University of Yaounde I in 2006, and am currently waiting to defend a Ph.D thesis in the same university, Department of Arts and Archaeology, Performing Arts Section.
Research work of the Art Academy of Latvia. His work is concentrated on the unity between creativity and scientific research. Processes of creativity, research and valuation are of equal importance in arts, design and visual culture.
pedagogical affairs at the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. Before that he worked as the head of the degree program in music in the same university.
Bert Verveld (Hengelo, 1957) was general director of the Office of the University of 
Groningen (RUG) from 2000 and was responsible, among other things, for the formation of the University’s strategic plan, the performance agreements, the preparation and execution of the administrative cycle and change management processes. The Office includes most group functions of the University, which counts 5,500 employees and 28,000 students. Prior to 2000, he fulfilled numerous (executive) positions within the RUG at both central and decentralised levels.
In addition to his directorship of the RUG Office, Bert Verveld occupies various executive and advisory positions. He is chairman of Humane, the European network of all heads of university administrations. As member of the advisory board on internationalisation, he advises the University of Göttingen on international strategy. As secretary/treasurer of Foundation de Beauvoir he strives to promote the position of women in academia.
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Yunyu Wang is a native of Taiwan, received the Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Illinois – Champaign (1983). Wang is a founding dancer of Cloud Gate .jpg)
Dance Theatre, the first professional modern dance company in Taiwan and danced with the company between 1973 – 81. Yunyu is a certified Labanotation Teacher (1984), Reconstructor (1985) and Laban Movement Analyst (1996). She is the Executive Director of the Chin-Lin Foundation for Cultural and Arts, Taiwan since 2004. Her research interests are in Labanotation reconstruction; analyzing the dancers between east and west; human rights and dance as well as training American and Taiwanese dancers in Arts Administration through internships in Taiwan and South East Asia. Yunyu choreographed works have been presented in Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Indonesia. She was the Chair for 2012 daCi/WDA Global Dance Summit that received 1,235 international and local participants. She taught full-time at Illinois Wesleyan University, the University of Georgia and Colorado College in USA (1985-2012) and is now the Dean of the School of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts. She led a dance technology project funded by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (2006-2011). Wang served as the President of World Dance Alliance, Asian-Pacific since 2009.
Mark Wennerström is the Head of Faculty Office of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.jpg)
at the University of Gothenburg. He is a graduate as an officer from the Military Academy Karlberg and also holds a bachelor in Pedgogics and Human Resource management from Stockholm University. He has a background as a sea officer in the Swedish Royal Navy, as a manager within administration, service and HR and as HR business partner at Chalmers University of Technology. He has also worked with IT development, change management and as a group developer. From both his military carrer and academic studies he holds a very special interest in leadership and management.
Dr Stefan Wuelfert is the Deputy Director of Bern University of the Arts (Hochschule .jpg)
der Künste Bern HKB), Switzerland. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bern. After specialising in Conservation Science he worked as Head of the Laboratory at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich for several years. In 1995 he became a Lecturer in Conservation Science. Being elected full-time Professor at the Conservation-Restoration Department of HKB in 1999 he became Head of the Department in 2004. Since 2010 he also is the Deputy Director of HKB.
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