Eleventh International Conference on The Arts in Society

The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

10–12 AUGUST 2016 | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | LOS ANGELES, USA ARTSINSOCIETY.COM Eleventh International Conference on The Arts in Society

“The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene”

University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, USA 10–12 August 2016

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Dear Arts in Society Conference Delegates,

Welcome to Los Angeles and to the Eleventh International Conference on the Arts in Society. The Arts in Society Knowledge Community—its conference, journal collection, and book imprint—was created to provide a forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation, and developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world.

Founded in 2006, The Inaugural Arts in Society conference was held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in 2007. The conference has since been hosted at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany in 2007; at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK in 2008; the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy in 2009; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia in 2010; at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany in 2011; at the Art and Design Academy, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK in 2012; at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 2013; at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome Italy in 2014; and at Imperial College, London, London, UK in 2015. Next year, we are honored to hold the conference in partnership with the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

Conferences can be ephemeral spaces. We talk, learn, get inspired, but these conversations fade with time. This Knowledge Community supports a range of publishing modes in order to capture these conversations and formalize them as knowledge artifacts. We encourage you to submit your research to The Arts in Society Journal Collection. We also encourage you to submit a book proposal to The Arts in Society Book Imprint.

In partnership with our Editors and Community Partners, The Arts in Society Knowledge Community is curated by Common Ground Publishing. Founded in 1984, Common Ground Publishing is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Common Ground Publishing takes some of the pivotal challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities which cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for people, ideas, and dialogue. However, the strength of ideas does not come from finding common denominators. Rather, the power and resilience of these ideas is that they are presented and tested in a shared space where differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. These are the kinds of vigorous and sympathetic academic milieus in which the most productive deliberations about the future can be held. We strive to create places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.

Thank you to everyone who has prepared for this conference, including our hosts at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. A personal thank you goes to our Common Ground colleagues who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference: Jeremy Boehme, Monica Hillison, and Kim Kendall.

We wish you the best for this conference and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe. We hope you will join us at next year’s Arts in Society Conference, 14–16 June 2017, in Paris, France.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Host, Common Ground Publishing | About Common Ground

Our Mission Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media.

Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.

Our Media Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book imprint offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, monthly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works. The Arts in Society Knowledge Community

Exploring innovative theories, practices, and critical analyses of the arts The Arts in Society Knowledge Community

The Arts in Society Knowledge Community is brought together around a common shared interest in the role of the arts in society. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a collection of peer reviewed journals, and book imprint–exploring the affordances of the new digital media.

Conference The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging artists and scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.

Publishing The Arts in Society Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Arts in Society Journal Collection provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book imprint, The Arts in Society, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome.

Community The Arts in Society Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Join the conversations on Facebook and Twitter, or explore our new social media platform, Scholar. The Arts in Society Themes

Teaching and learning Theme 1: Arts Education through and about the • Ways of seeing, ways of knowing, ways of learning arts • Teaching and Learning Arts Practices • Multimodal literacies, multiliteracies in arts education • Literacy and the literary: texts at school • Arts pedagogies • Art history: purpose and pedagogy • Creative arts in the humanities • Art as self-inquiry • The work of the arts student, researcher, and teacher

Interrogating arts histories, Theme 2: Arts Theory and History theories, paradigms, and • Sense-Making: Connecting the Arts to Everyday Life frameworks for critical analysis • Mimesis: perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’ • Authenticity and voice • Continuity and change in arts histories • Cultural theory in art history • Naming and classifying art forms • Defining the aesthetic • Defining the avant-garde: the creative, the innovative, the new • Categorizing genres • The ethics of art and arts practice • Arts products: aura and artifact • The work of the critic • Abstraction in art • Crossing borders: anthropology, ethnography, and art • Art movements The Arts in Society Themes

Examining the use of Theme 3: New Media, Technology, and the Arts technologies and media • New Media, Internet, and Digital Arts in the arts • Moving pictures: Cinema, Film, Television, Video, Multimedia • From passive viewer to active user: new artforms and audience interactivity • Design Technologies • Spatial and architectonic arts • The art of games and gaming • Online Cultures, Social Networks, and the Arts • Multimedia, mixed media, and multimodal arts • The creative industries in a post-industrial or knowledge society • The nature of the ‘virtual’ • Digital media arts and education

Addressing social, Theme 4: Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the political, and community agendas in the arts Arts • The Arts and Disability • Arts Festivals and Biennales • Arts as Activism • Arts and identities: local, regional, national, global • Art, Religion, and Spirituality • Museums and galleries as social institutions • The Prison and Art • Defining audiences: the role of the reader, viewer, listener • The arts in popular culture and the media • Arts Policy, the State, and Law • The Business of Art • Human Rights, Social Justice, and the Arts • Art, Well Being, and Healing • Public Arts, Collective Memory, Cultural Heritage • Artistic Expression, Identity, and Cultural Rights • Art and Globalization • Diasporic, ethnic, multicultural and ‘world’ arts • Art of nature: ecoaesthetics and the culture of sustainability • Gender, LGBT arts, and queer culture • Art as propaganda, advertising as Art • Arts in Tourism and Economic Development The Arts in Society 2016 Special Focus

The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

Average global temperatures are rising. With increasing frequency we are faced with extreme weather events. Our water reservoirs are drying up. Natural resources are being exploited at an alarming rate. Once-pristine landscapes are filled with the debris of economic and social activity. These are some of the symptoms of the age of the Anthropocene—an age defined by all-consuming modes of production and imaginaries of innovation, the material consequences everywhere to be seen and felt in the natural environment. How do practices of art and our ways of interpreting art reflect, reverberate, contest, the eco-social realities that we now face? What is this duty of art, what are its practices and forms, in the age of the Anthropocene? The Arts in Society Scope and Concerns

Sites In our twenty-first century context, longstanding sites of production, consumption and display—such as the theatre, the museum, the gallery, and the publishing house—are being contested by new forces of media, popular culture, and commerce. These various forms of contestation and re-arrangement have given rise to new art forms, media and venues, from the street to the Internet. To what extent have old forms and new forms merged, replaced or challenged one another? In what ways do the various sites of reception and display affect sites of production—from the artist’s studio to the community hall? Is there such a thing as interdisciplinarity? And how do artistic media work with and interpret these cultural flows and institutionalized spaces?

Media We live in an increasingly visual culture, where all forms of media intersect with the ‘crisis of information’ that overloads everyday life. These media include the visual arts, the textual arts, the aural and musical arts, the gestural and performative arts, and the spatial arts. These categories roughly correspond to standard classifications of artforms as music, theatre, literature, poetry, dance, painting, sculpture, photography, film and television, and architecture. Such are the disciplines and artforms of our historical experience. While these disciplines undergo various processes of transformation and at times destabilization, they are sometimes displaced by new means of production and their related meanings (the raw materials and methodologies of representation), reproduction of forms and meanings (first mechanical and now digital), and distributions of meaning (the methods of reaching audiences and interacting with them). To what extent do we need to develop new creative tools and research approaches to redefine classical disciplinary classifications?

Policy Given the proliferation of cultural institutions, such as museums and galleries, what role do these institutions play in larger projects of community formation, nation-building, or international relations? How are hierarchies of art world classifications reproduced or challenged by new forms of institution-building and policy-making? Artists and the arts themselves are often referred to as ’cultural ambassadors’ in international forums. Such terms raise issues of political relevance and call into question related concerns of value neutrality and the deployment of art forms and practices to signal or help to dissolve social and political conflict at local, regional, and international levels. What is the role of public education in these debates? ‘Which publics’ are represented or included?

Participants Has the art world fragmented into a scattered heteronomy of ‘art worlds’? Who are the players, the gatekeepers, and to what extent do our mainstream institutions reinforce or reflect the hierarchies of art world structures and opportunities for artists? How do artists and cultural workers reconcile their visionary projects with the mundane pursuits of marketing and profit as measures of success? What are the structural constraints that create and perpetuate the motif of the “starving artist”? How do shifting contexts create and redefine audiences and audience participation? What is the responsibility of the artist to explore these and other issues? What, finally, is the role of art in society?

More than ever, these are open questions. As a space to engage these questions and others, and to broaden a participatory base, the Arts conference, journals, book imprint and news weblog provide an epistemic community setting in which to make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. The Arts in Society Community Membership

About The Arts in Society Knowledge Community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, The Arts in Society Knowledge Community brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching.

Membership Benefits As an Arts in Society Knowledge Community member you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your own work: • Digital subscription to The Arts in Society Journal Collection for one year. • Digital subscription to the book imprint for one year. • One article publication per year (pending peer review). • Participation as a reviewer in the peer review process, with the opportunity to be listed as an Associate Editor after reviewing three or more articles. • Subscription to the community e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the knowledge community. • Option to add a video presentation to the community YouTube channel. • Free access to the Scholar social knowledge platform, including: ◊ Personal profile and publication portfolio page; ◊ Ability to interact and form communities with peers away from the clutter and commercialism of other social media; ◊ Optional feeds to Facebook and Twitter; ◊ Complimentary use of Scholar in your classes—for class interactions in its Community space, multimodal student writing in its Creator space, and managing student peer review, assessment, and sharing of published work. The Arts in Society Engage in the Community

Present and Participate in the Conference You have already begun your engagement in the community by attending the conference, presenting your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and collaborative projects, as well as the start of a www.facebook.com/ conversation with community colleagues that will continue well into the future. ArtsInSociety

@artsinsociety Publish Journal Articles or Books #ICAS16 We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the journal. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the community. As a member of the community, you will also be invited to review others’ work and contribute to the development of the community knowledge base as an Associate Editor. As part of your active membership in the community, you also have online access to the complete works (current and previous volumes) of journal and to the book imprint. We also invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the book imprint.

Engage through Social Media There are several ways to connect and network with community colleagues:

Email Newsletters: Published monthly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the community. Contribute news or links with a subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected].

Scholar: Common Ground’s path-breaking platform that connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.

Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of special benefits for community members at: http://www.facebook.com/ArtsInSociety.

Twitter: Follow the community @artsinsociety and talk about the conference with #ICAS16

YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at http://commongroundpublishing.com/support/uploading-your-presentation- to-youtube. The Arts in Society Advisory Board

The principal role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of The Arts in Society Knowledge Community and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents of the field. Board members are invited to attend the annual conference and provide important insights on conference development, including suggestions for speakers, venues, and special themes. We also encourage board members to submit articles for publication consideration to The Arts in Society Journal Collection as well as proposals or completed manuscripts to The Arts in Society Book Imprint.

We are grateful for the continued service and support of these world-class scholars and practitioners.

• Caroline Archer, UK Type, Birmingham, UK • Mark Bauerlein, Emory University, Atlanta, USA • Tressa Berman, Institute for Inter-Cultural Practices, San Francisco and Los Angeles, USA • Judy Chicago, Artist and Author, New York City, USA • Nina Czegledy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada • Barbara Formis, University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France • Will Garrett-Petts, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada • Jennifer Herd, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia • Gerald McMaster, Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada • Mario Minichiello, Professor, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia • Attila Nemes, Kitchen Budapest, Budapest, Hungary • Susan Potts, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool, UK • Daniela Reimann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Institute of Vocational and General Education, Karlsruhe, Germany • Arthur Sabatini, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA • Peter Sellars, University of California, Los Angeles, USA • Ella Shohat, New York University, New York City, USA • Marianne Wagner-Simon, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany A Social Knowledge Platform Create Your Academic Profile and Connect to Peers Developed by our brilliant Common Ground software team, Scholar connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.

Utilize Your Free Scholar Membership Today through • Building your academic profile and list of published works. • Joining a community with a thematic or disciplinary focus. • Establishing a new knowledge community relevant to your field. • Creating new academic work in our innovative publishing space. • Building a peer review network around your work or courses.

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Scholar Next Steps – Build Your Academic Profile • About: Include information about yourself, including a linked CV in the top, dark blue bar. • Interests: Create searchable information so others with similar interests can locate you. • Peers: Invite others to connect as a peer and keep up with their work. • Shares: Make your page a comprehensive portfolio of your work by adding publications in the Shares area - be these full text copies of works in cases where you have permission, or a link to a bookstore, library or publisher listing. If you choose Common Ground’s hybrid open access option, you may post the final version of your work here, available to anyone on the web if you select the ‘make my site public’ option. • Image: Add a photograph of yourself to this page; hover over the avatar and click the pencil/edit icon to select. • Publisher: All Common Ground community members have free access to our peer review space for their courses. Here they can arrange for students to write multimodal essays or reports in the Creator space (including image, video, audio, dataset or any other file), manage student peer review, co-ordinate assessments, and share students’ works by publishing them to the Community space. A Digital Learning Platform Use Scholar to Support Your Teaching

Scholar is a social knowledge platform that transforms the patterns of interaction in learning by putting students first, positioning them as knowledge producers instead of passive knowledge consumers. Scholar provides scaffolding to encourage making and sharing knowledge drawing from multiple sources rather than memorizing knowledge that has been presented to them.

Scholar also answers one of the most fundamental questions students and instructors have of their performance, “How am I doing?” Typical modes of assessment often answer this question either too late to matter or in a way that is not clear or comprehensive enough to meaningfully contribute to better performance.

A collaborative research and development project between Common Ground and the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Scholar contains a knowledge community space, a multimedia web writing space, a formative assessment environment that facilitates peer review, and a dashboard with aggregated machine and human formative and summative writing assessment data.

The following Scholar features are only available to Common Ground Knowledge Community members as part of their membership. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like the complimentary educator account that comes with participation in a Common Ground conference.

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Scholar is a generation beyond learning management systems. It is what we term a Digital Learning Platform—it transforms learning by engaging students in powerfully horizontal “social knowledge” relationships. For more information, visit: http://knowledge.cgscholar.com. The Arts in Society Journal Collection

Committed to creating an intellectual frame of reference for the arts and arts practices The Arts in Society Collection of Journals

Indexing Art Abstracts (EBSCO) Art Full Text (EBSCO) Art Index (EBSCO) Art Source (EBSCO) Computer Science - Business Information About Systems Directory (Cabell’s) The Arts in Society Journal Collection aims to create an intellectual frame of reference Educational Curriculum & for the arts and arts practices, and to create an interdisciplinary conversation on the Methods Directory (Cabell’s) role of the arts in society. It is intended as a place for critical engagement, examination, The Australian Research Council and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world, on stage, in museums and galleries, on the streets, and in communities. Articles range from Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory the expansive and philosophical to finely grained analysis based on deep familiarity Founded: and understanding of a particular area of arts knowledge or arts practice. They bring 2006 into dialogue artists, theorists, policymakers, and arts educators, to name a few of the Acceptance Rate: stakeholders in this conversation. 28% (2015)

Publication Frequency: The Arts in Society Journal Collection is relevant to artists, curators, writers, theorists, Quarterly (March, June, September, December) and policymakers with an interest in, and a concern for, arts practice, arts theory and research, curatorial and museum studies, and arts education in any of its forms and in Community Website: any of its sites. As well as papers of a traditional scholarly type, this collection of journals artsinsociety.com invites presentations of practice—including documentation of curricular practices and

Bookstore: exegeses of the effects of those practices that can, with equal validity, be interrogated ija.cgpublisher.com through a process of academic peer review.

Collection Editor

Barbara Formis, University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Associate Editors Journals in The Arts in Society Journal Collection are peer reviewed by scholars who are active members of The Arts in Society Knowledge Community. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with the knowledge community, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion-based evaluation system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to The Arts in Society Journal Collection’s Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection. The Arts in Society Collection Titles

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review ISSN: 1833-1866 (print) DOI: 10.18848/1833-1866/CGP Indexing: Art Abstracts (EBSCO), Art Index (EBSCO), Art Full Text (EBSCO), Art Source (EBSCO), Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, The Australian Research Council (ERA) About: The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review aims to create an intellectual frame of reference for the arts and arts practices, and to support an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. It is intended as a place for critical engagement, examination, and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world, on stage, in museums and galleries, on the streets, and in communities.

The International Journal of Arts Education ISSN: 2326-9944 (print) | 2327-0306 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2326-9944/CGP Indexing: Art Source (EBSCO), Educational Curriculum & Methods Directory (Cabell’s), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Arts Education explores teaching and learning through and about the arts, including arts practices, performance studies, arts history, and digital media.

The International Journal of Arts Theory and History ISSN: 2326-9952 (print) | 2327-1779 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2326-9952/CGP Indexing: Art Source (EBSCO), Educational Curriculum & Methods Directory (Cabell’s), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Arts Theory and History interrogates arts histories, theories, and paradigms. It focuses on frameworks for critical analysis of arts practices and their relationships to society. The Arts in Society Collection Titles

The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts ISSN: 2326-9987 (print) | 2327-1787 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2326-9987/CGP Indexing: Art Source (EBSCO), Computer Science - Business Information Systems Directory (Cabell’s), Educational Curriculum & Methods Directory (Cabell’s), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts explores technologies of arts production and reproduction old and new, including photography, film, video, multimedia, and the Internet.

The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts ISSN: 2326-9960 (print) | 2327-2104 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2326-9960/CGP Indexing: Art Source (EBSCO), Educational Curriculum & Methods Directory (Cabell’s), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts explores the various points of interface of arts practices and communities, including the arts expressions of community and group identities, arts policies, art and government, art as activism, museums and galleries as institutions, arts in advertising, and public arts. The Arts in Society Submission Process

Journal Collection Submission Process and Timeline Below, please find step-by-step instructions on the journal article submission process:

1. Submit a conference presentation proposal.

2. Once your conference presentation proposal has been accepted, you may submit your article by clicking the “Add a Paper” button on the right side of your proposal page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the final submission deadlines. (See dates below)

3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If your article satisfies these requirements, your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate referees and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www.CGPublisher.com.

4. When both referee reports are uploaded, and after the referees’ identities have been removed, you will be notified by email and provided with a link to view the reports.

5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be required to submit a change note with your final submission, explaining how you revised your article in light of the referees’ comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it once, with a detailed change note, for review by new referees.

6. Once we have received the final submission of your article, which was accepted or accepted with revisions, our Publishing Department will give your article a final review. This final review will verify that you have complied with the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), and will check any edits you have made while considering the feedback of your referees. After this review has been satisfactorily completed, your paper will be typeset and a proof will be sent to you for approval before publication.

7. Individual articles may be published “Web First” with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All issues are published 4 times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume).

Submission Timeline You may submit your article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines are as follows: • Submission Round 1 – 15 January • Submission Round 2 – 15 April • Submission Round 3 – 15 July • Submission Round 4 (final) – 15 October

Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for the volume, it will be considered for the following year’s volume. The sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, because we publish “Web First,” early submission means that your article may be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full issue is published. The Arts in Society Common Ground Open

Hybrid Open Access All Common Ground Journals are Hybrid Open Access. Hybrid Open Access is an option increasingly offered by both university presses and well-known commercial publishers.

Hybrid Open Access means some articles are available only to subscribers, while others are made available at no charge to anyone searching the web. Authors pay an additional fee for the open access option. Authors may do this because open access is a requirement of their research-funding agency, or they may do this so non-subscribers can access their article for free.

Common Ground’s open access charge is $250 per article­–a very reasonable price compared to our hybrid open access competitors and purely open access journals resourced with an author publication fee. Digital articles are normally only available through individual or institutional subscriptions or for purchase at $5 per article. However, if you choose to make your article Open Access, this means anyone on the web may download it for free.

Paying subscribers still receive considerable benefits with access to all articles in the journal, from both current and past volumes, without any restrictions. However, making your paper available at no charge through Open Access increases its visibility, accessibility, potential readership, and citation counts. Open Access articles also generate higher citation counts.

Institutional Open Access Common Ground is proud to announce an exciting new model of scholarly publishing called Institutional Open Access.

Institutional Open Access allows faculty and graduate students to submit articles to Common Ground journals for unrestricted open access publication. These articles will be freely and publicly available to the whole world through our hybrid open access infrastructure. With Institutional Open Access, instead of the author paying a per-article open access fee, institutions pay a set annual fee that entitles their students and faculty to publish a given number of open access articles each year.

The rights to the articles remain with the subscribing institution. Both the author and the institution can also share the final typeset version of the article in any place they wish, including institutional repositories, personal websites, and privately or publicly accessible course materials. We support the highest Sherpa/Romeo access level—Green.

For more information on how to make your article Open Access, or information on Institutional Open Access, please contact us at [email protected]. The Arts in Society Journal Awards

International Award for Excellence The Arts in Society Journal Collection presents an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking in the area of arts knowledge or arts practice. All articles submitted for publication in The Arts in Society Journal Collection are entered into consideration for this award. This article was selected for the award from among the ten highest-ranked papers emerging from the peer review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the referee guidelines. Articles published in The Arts in Society Journal Collection range from the expansive and philosophical to finely grained analysis based on deep familiarity and understanding of a particular area of arts knowledge or arts practice. They bring into dialogue artists, theorists, policymakers, and arts educators, to name a few of the stakeholders in this conversation.

Award Winner, Volume No. 10 Dr. Aleksandra Kunce, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

For the Article “The Philosophy of Localness and the Arts: A Focus on the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona”

Abstract By analyzing the exhibitions of The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the author addresses problems of metropolis, the philosophy of locality, and the arts. Metropolis is topographical, physical and communicative, as well as cultural. Behind the cultural valence there is, however, still something more—a metaphysical community. Local orientation of a human brings about the common creation of the space, which involves not only pride in one’s identity, but also a sense of the infinite, the impossible, the incomprehensible, and the strange. The Arts in Society Subscriptions and Access

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Out of the Shadows: Fostering Creativity in Teacher Education Programs Dr. Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen

Out of the Shadows: Fostering Creativity and Teacher Education Programs is a culmination of five years of research into the role teachers have played in nurturing the world’s greatest artistic minds. The study focuses on the evolution of creativity in teaching practices and finds that many methods are as relevant in today’s classrooms as they were ten thousand years ago. The ancient Chinese used a painting style known as Moku-Chi to nurture the creativity of their children. They were encouraged to splash ink freely across rice paper, using broad, abandoned strokes to find inspiration.

This book fuses ancient and modern techniques to inspire teachers and their students.

We encourage teachers of today to learn from the lessons of the past. With a focus on ISBNs Australian Aboriginal and Chinese arts and culture, comprehensive learning models 978-1-61229-864-1 (hbk) and innovative teaching approaches aim to improve the art education in primary and 978-1-61229-865-8 (pbk) 978-1-61229-866-5 (pdf) secondary schools. 216 Pages

Community Website: Praise for Out of the Shadows: Fostering Creativity and Teacher Education thelearner.com Programs: “International and Australian research demonstrates how important it is that every Bookstore: thelearner. early childhood and primary teacher develop the confidence and expertise to teach cgpublisher.com/ the arts imaginatively and to embed quality arts processes and experiences across the curriculum. Dr. Wade-Leeuwen’s knowledge and expertise in this field is central to her inquiry in this book. Overall, a very impressive original work which has focused on a critical topic for the education of preservice teachers.”

—Professor Robyn Ewing AM, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Author Bio: Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen is an artist and creative arts lecturer at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on creativity in teacher education and understanding the nature of creative development in an intercultural context. A post-doctoral research fellow, she worked on the National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP) investigating attitudes and opinions of indigenous youth in regional and urban secondary schools. Her vision is to teach the arts imaginatively and to embed quality arts processes and experiences across the curriculum through STEAM education. She has extensive experience developing creative partnerships with artists from indigenous Australia, the Asian Pacific Region, and the United Kingdom. The Arts in Society Book Imprint

Seeking Engagement: The Art of Richard Kamler

Steven Zahavi Schwartz (ed.)

Art, for Richard Kamler, is active: it does something. What it does may be personal; it is also, in most of Kamler’s work, political, social, often collaborative, and always seeking to engage us as participants. If any statement could encapsulate Richard Kamler’s full and diverse body of work over four decades it would be the assertion that art acts as a corrective to that failure of imagination declared by Robert McNamara that caused the tragic wars of the 20th century. What art does is provide a vision, an opening, the potential for a real transformation—not just of consciousness, but in the words of Kamler’s early mentor Frederick Kiesler, “With art we can change the laws of the world.” And with steady conviction Richard Kamler’s art rouses us to see beyond our conditioned reactions—to challenge apparently unbendable realities with the possibility: imagine how it could be different. What if Picasso had painted Guernica before the bombs fell? ISBN—978-1-61229-624-1 182 Pages The works in this retrospective volume span Richard Kamler’s productive career, ranging Community Website: from Out of Holocaust (1976), a full-size reconstruction of a barracks from Auschwitz, to artsinsociety.com the Table of Voices (1996–2013), installed on Alcatraz Island and traveling throughout Bookstore: the United States, to Seeing Peace (2002–present), a continent-spanning collaboration theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ with international artists and the United Nations, to The Tower of Babel (in progress), which explores the origins of language and proposes building a literal tower at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Editor Bio: Writer and artist Steven Zahavi Schwartz is co-author of A Zen Odyssey: The Lives of Sokei-an and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, and artist/producer of The Boy Who Cried Wolf’s Art of Sight: On the Origin of the Speechless. He runs Meantimes Press in Northern California. The Arts in Society Book Imprint

Reframing Quality Assurance in Creative Disciplines: Evidence from Practice

J. Joseph Hoey IV and Jill L. Ferguson

Reframing Quality Assurance in Creative Disciplines: Evidence from Practice is the second book in a series by the authors to examine assessment practices in creative disciplines. It covers assessment and quality assurance on the individual student level, mapping course level learning outcomes, program learning outcomes (and to institutional learning outcomes in many cases), and promising and well-established principles of practice in creative disciplines. The book follows the links between quality assurance and teaching and learning; it delves into good practices and then provides a myriad of examples of those practices through case studies in seventeen creative disciplines. Finally, Reframing Quality Assurance in Creative Disciplines: Evidence from Practice places quality assurance within the institutional context by exploring ISBN—978-1-61229-771-2 requirements of both national and regional accrediting bodies, and then within the 318 Pages international context by looking at the recognition of competencies. Community Website: artsinsociety.com Author Bios: Bookstore: J. Joseph Hoey IV, Ed.D., spent two decades in the performing arts as a classical theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ guitarist and has provided leadership for 24 years in accreditation, assessment, effectiveness, and planning. Institutions served include North Carolina State University, Georgia Tech, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Ashford University. His published works cover program review, assessment, college transfer, building trust, and inquiry-based learning. He is a frequent public speaker. He is currently VP of accreditation relations and policy at Bridgepoint Education.

Jill L. Ferguson is an author; artist; editor; business, nonprofit, and higher education consultant; and frequent public speaker. She taught at Notre Dame de Namur University (communication, business, and literature classes) and was a professor, chair of general education, and the assessment coordinator at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She was also chief of staff at regional accreditor Western Association of School and Colleges. The Arts in Society Book Imprint

Domestic Space: Four Artists and the Australian Experience

Dr. Malcolm Bywaters

Domestic space: Four Artists and the Australian Experience focuses on the practices of three mid-career artists, Shaun Wilson, Stephen Haley, and Malcolm Bywaters (the author), and one established artist, Lyndal Jones. The book is a comprehensive examination of key artworks specific to domestic space that have been produced by these four artists. Shaun Wilson produces videos based upon the death of his father as a manifestation of house and home; the paintings and new media of Stephen Haley extend the understanding of Australian suburbia into a new territory dominated by the apartment city; Lyndal Jones uses a regional landmark house combined with her performance experience as a statement on the home as sustainable environment; Malcolm Bywaters’ artwork appropriates the biplane motif as a sculptural form ISBNs: representing childhood and, by association, house, home, and family. Domestic 978-1-61229-873-3 Space investigates the creative process of these artists and demonstrates the role and 978-1-61229-874-0 190 Pages significance of their artwork in the appreciation of domestic space in Australian visual culture. Community Website: artsinsociety.com

Bookstore: Author Bio: theartsinsociety. Dr. Malcolm Bywaters is a senior lecturer in the Tasmanian College of the Arts, cgpublisher.com/ Inveresk. For the past thirty years, Dr. Bywaters has worked as an artist, exhibition curator, and gallery director. He has a Diploma of Fine Art from Ballarat University, a Graduate Diploma from Victorian College of the Arts, a Masters Degree from RMIT, and a Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Bywaters research interests reside within the theme of creativity, culture, and society. His specific research interest concerns the use of the domestic space in Australian visual artwork. The Arts in Society Book Imprint

Art, Science, and Cultural Understanding

Brett Wilson, Barbara Hawkins, and Stuart Sim (eds.)

Art and science are often seen in contemporary Western society as almost entirely separate and polarised fields of human enterprise. In contrast, a growing number of practitioners are realising that art and science are both intimately concerned with how we conceive of the world around us; not just as individuals, but also as societies. Art and science share a common embodied imagination, cognitive creativity, and independent spirit of inquiry at their heart, and both can summon up the visionary power of revolution for our senses.

The editors and contributors to this book clearly highlight the many underlying themes that have always connected art and science throughout our history and show, through a range of essay styles and voices, how a hybrid art-science movement is now emerging. This new movement offers a broader transdisciplinary perspective to avoid relying on ISBN—978-1-61229-486-5 narrow specialisms and short-term fixes when addressing growing global problems such 234 Pages as climate change, economic instability, and provision of food, water, and healthcare for Community Website: a rapidly expanding world population. Practitioners, researchers, and students in the artsinsociety.com arts, sciences, and humanities will all find much in this volume to stimulate and inform Bookstore: new ways of thinking about their own disciplinary approaches. theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ Editor Bios: Brett Wilson’s scientific work centred on high-speed electronics and communication systems, both in an academic context and as an industrial consultant. His current research focuses on the role of cognitive metaphors in science. Brett acts as a consultant helping universities improve the structure, effectiveness and governance of postgraduate education.

Barbara Hawkins is a former film-maker and broadcaster whose academic career began by teaching film and media production in a number of UK film schools, before moving into senior management roles in art and design education. Barbara now works as an independent researcher and educational consultant, advising institutions on their postgraduate education provision and practice-led arts research.

Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He has published widely in the fields of critical theory, philosophy, and literary studies, with special interests in postmodernism, poststructuralism, scepticism, and eighteenth-century literature.

They have worked together for a number of years on previous projects and are founder members of Project Dialogue. The Arts in Society Book Imprint

Community Art: Creative Approaches to Practice

Jill Chonody (ed.)

Community Art: Creative Approaches to Practice is a collection of essays that cover a wide range of artistic endeavors including photography, street/mural art, singing, drawing, storytelling, sculpting, dance, drumming, horticulture, repurposed objects, theater, and film. Art is explored from the perspective that self-expression can be a powerful experience that raises consciousness for the person who created it as well as her/his audience. This book examines the use of art and its potential to create change for individuals, groups, and communities, and each chapter provides a description of one particular approach followed by a summary of its uses. Utilizing current literature and research evidence, the benefits of its use for particular populations are outlined. Practical tips including issues to consider prior to implementation are provided, and an example of how the technique has been used in practice illustrates its application. In ISBN—978-1-61229-566-4 221 Pages the final chapter, methods for evaluation are outlined that can be useful when thinking about grant applications, funding sources, and personal evaluation of practice. This Community Website: artsinsociety.com book provides an introduction to using art in practice and can be utilized by a variety of different fields, including social workers, drama and art therapists, community Bookstore: organizers, nurses, and students. theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/

Editor Bio: Jill Chonody, PhD, LCSW is an associate professor of social work at Indiana University Northwest where she teaches Social Work Practice and Research Methodology courses. She is also an adjunct research fellow at the University of South Australia where she has ongoing research collaborations in psychology. She researches issues related to attitudes, in particular ageism, and is interested in scale development and psychometrics. She also seeks to incorporate photography as a research methodology as well as a creative approach to practice. Jill previously worked as a therapist for eight years in both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric facilities. The Arts in Society Book Imprint

Creating Remembrance The Art and Design of Australian War Memorials

Donald Richardson

There are thousands of war memorials in Australia, ranging in size and importance from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to plaques affixed to simple pieces of natural rock in the smallest communities—but hardly anyone knows who designed and made them. This is due to the fact that there was—and still is—a general understanding that only the names of those who had served or died should appear on these monuments. So, those whose creative work, it being constantly and prominently on view, has been almost entirely responsible for supplying and maintaining the community’s memory of the sacrifice and tragedy of war have never received their due recognition. This book is an attempt to redress this deficiency.

ISBN—978-1-61229-618-0 Author Bio: 379 Pages Donald Richardson is an artist, art theorist and art educator. In 2010 he was awarded Community Website: the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community and the arts. Research artsinsociety.com for this book commenced in 1989.

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Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic

David Mills Chase, Jill Ferguson and J. Joseph Hoey IV.

Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic explores creativity and its assessment using easy-to-grasp concepts; concrete examples of arts education and assessment models and theories, including digital education models and e-portfolios; and case studies to form a blueprint that administrators, educators, practitioners, researchers, and students can use to assess endeavors in art, dance, design, and music, both on an individual basis and as a collective (course, cohort, department, program, etc.). While the book was written using examples from colleges and universities, its principles can easily be applied to the secondary arts education arena. Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic’s website is ISBN—978-1-61229-427-8 www.assessmentincreativedisciplines.com. 160 Pages

Community Website: artsinsociety.com Author Bios: David Chase is the vice dean of academic affairs at the American Film Institute Bookstore: theartsinsociety. Conservatory in Los Angeles, California. He was the senior associate director of cgpublisher.com/ institutional effectiveness at the University of the Pacific, where he also served as the assistant dean of the Conservatory of Music. Trained as a musician, he has brought the perspective of the artist to issues surrounding academic quality, accreditation, and learning assessment in his career in higher education administration.

Jill L. Ferguson is an author, editor, painter, and business and higher education consultant (in the areas of accreditation, assessment, and general education). She taught at Notre Dame de Namur University (communication and business classes) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (literature, writing, and oral communication) for more than a decade. She was also chief of staff at the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

J. Joseph Hoey IV, Ed.D., spent two decades in the performing arts and has provided leadership for 23 years in accreditation, assessment, effectiveness, and planning. Institutions served include North Carolina State University, Georgia Tech, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Ashford University. His published works cover program review, assessment, college transfer, and building trust. He is currently VP of accreditation relations and policy at Bridgepoint Education. The Arts in Society Conference

Curating global interdisciplinary spaces, supporting professionally rewarding relationships The Arts in Society About the Conference

Conference History The International Conference on the Arts in Society began in Australia in the early 2000s with three community- based events–a conference on Indigenous Visual Arts in Adelaide and then two conferences associated with the Adelaide and Melbourne Festival of the Arts. US Opera Director Peter Sellars curated the Adelaide Festival in 2002, and Australian singer and actor Robyn Archer curated the Melbourne Festival. These two directors provided the initial inspiration for the idea of talking about the arts at sites of arts practice, and in this case, arts festivals.

The International Conference on the Arts in Society has evolved to create an intellectual platform for the arts and arts practices and to create an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. It is intended as a place for critical engagement, examination, and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world– on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets, and in communities.

The International Conference on the Arts in Society has provided a venue and a framework for the arts and art practices that are situated within the context of international art expositions, festivals, and biennials engaged with the international production of art and its global distribution networks. The conference aims to discover what values, instincts, and common ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception around the world.

Past Conferences • 2006 - The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland • 2007 - University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany • 2008 - Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK • 2009 - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy • 2010 - Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia • 2011 - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany • 2012 - Art and Design Academy, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK • 2013 - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary • 2014 - Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy • 2015 - Imperial College London, London, UK The Arts in Society About the Conference

Plenary Speaker Highlights The International Conference on the Arts in Society has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including:

• Suzanne Anker, School of Visual Arts, New York City, USA • Judy Chicago, Artist, New York City, USA • Nina Czegledy, Independent Curator, Toronto, Canada • Beatriz García, Head of Research, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool, UK • Tessa Jackson, Founding Artistic Director, Artes Mundi, Wales International Visual Art Prize, Chair of the Edinburgh Art Festival, UK • Andrzej Klimowski, Head of Illustration at the Royal College of Art, London, UK • Aaron Levy, Director, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA • Sir Brian McMaster, Director, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, UK • Gerald McMaster, Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada • Fiamma Montezemolo, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA • Ruth Noack, Curator of Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany • Colin Rhodes, Dean, Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia • Sally Tallant, Artistic Director and CEO, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK The Arts in Society About the Conference

Past Partners Over the years, International Conference on the Arts in Society, has had the pleasure of working with the following organizations:

Adelaide Festival, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Birmingham Institute of Adelaide, Australia (2002) Sciences and Humanities, Art and Design, Berlin, Germany (2011) Birmingham, UK (2008)

Edinburgh Festival City, Institute of Cultural Liverpool Biennial, Edinburgh, UK (2006) Capital, UK (2012) Liverpool, UK (2012)

Melbourne Festival, Sydney College of the Arts, Sapienza University of Rome, Melbourne, Australia (2004) Sydney, Australia (2010) Rome, Italy (2014)

Become a Partner Common Ground Publishing has a long history of meaningful and substantive partnerships with universities, research institutes, government bodies, and non-governmental organizations. Developing these partnerships is a pillar of our Knowledge Community agenda. There are a number of ways you can partner with a Common Ground Knowledge Community. Contact us at [email protected] to become a partner. The Arts in Society About the Conference

Conference Principles and Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:

International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Arts in Society conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 42 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.

Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.

Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.

Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities. The Arts in Society Ways of Speaking

Plenary Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Conversation.

Garden Conversation Garden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.

Talking Circles Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.

Themed Paper Presentations Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty-minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.

Colloquium Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by a moderator. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session. The Arts in Society Ways of Speaking

Focused Discussion For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.

Workshop/Interactive Session Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.

Poster Sessions Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session.

Virtual Lightning Talk Lightning talks are 5-minute “flash” video presentations. Authors present summaries or overviews of their work, describing the essential features (related to purpose, procedures, outcomes, or product). Like Paper Presentations, Lightning Talks are grouped according to topic or perspective into themed sessions. Authors are welcome to submit traditional “lecture style” videos or videos that use visual supports like PowerPoint. Final videos must be submitted at least one month prior to the conference start date. After the conference, videos are then presented on the community YouTube channel. Full papers can based in the virtual poster can also be submitted for consideration in the journal.

Virtual Poster This format is ideal for presenting preliminary results of work in progress or for projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. Each poster should include a brief abstract of the purpose and procedures of the work. After acceptance, presenters are provided with a template, and Virtual Posters are submitted as a PDF or in PowerPoint. Final posters must be submitted at least one month prior to the conference start date. Full papers can based in the virtual poster can also be submitted for consideration in the journal. The Arts in Society Daily Schedule

Wednesday, 10, August

8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open Conference Opening & Host Remarks—Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Host, Common 9:00–9:20 Ground Publishing, USA UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Welcome Address—Professor David Roussève, 9:20–9:30 Interim Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA Plenary Session—Professor Rebeca Mendez, University of California, Los Angeles, Los 9:30–10:00 Angeles, USA “A CounterForce for Art and the Environment” 10:05–10:35 Garden Conversation & Coffee Break 10:35–11:20 Talking Circles 11:20–11:30 Transition Break 11:30–12:45 Parallel Sessions 12:45–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:40 Parallel Sessions 15:40–15:55 Coffee Break 15:55–17:10 Parallel Sessions

Thursday, 11, August

8:30–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:10 Daily Update—Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Host, Common Ground Publishing, USA Plenary Session—Dr. Etienne Turpin, PetaJakarta.org and Anexact Office, Jakarta, 9:10–9:40 Indonesia “Conspiracy of the Anthros” 9:45–10:15 Garden Conversation & Coffee Break 10:15–11:30 Parallel Sessions 11:30–12:45 Lunch 12:45–13:30 Parallel Sessions 13:30–13:40 Break 13:40–14:55 Parallel Sessions 14:55–15:10 Coffee Break 15:10–16:50 Parallel Sessions 17:30–19:00 Welcome Reception and Featured Talk by Professor and Director Peter Sellars The Arts in Society Daily Schedule

Friday, 12, August

8:30–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:20 Daily Update—Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Host, Common Ground Publishing, USA Plenary Session—Professor TJ Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 9:20–9:50 USA “Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment in the Age of Capital” 9:55–10:25 Garden Conversation & Coffee Break 10:25–11:40 Parallel Sessions 11:40–12:55 Lunch 12:55–14:35 Parallel Sessions 14:35–14:50 Coffee Break 14:50–16:30 Parallel Sessions 16:30–17:00 Special Event: Closing and Award Ceremony The Arts in Society Conference Highlights

Featured Sessions Publishing Your Article or Book with Common Ground Thursday, 11 August | 13:40–14:25 and Friday, 12 August | 10:25–11:10 Description: In this session, Common Ground Publishing will present an overview of publishing philosophy and practices for publishing within The Arts in Society Journal Collection. We will also offer tips for turning conference papers in to journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures, and provide information on Common Ground’s book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions—the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A.

Meet the Author Session—“Out of the Shadows” by Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen Thursday, 11 August | 12:45–13:30 Description: Common Ground Publishing is excited to announce the book launch for its newest publication within The Learner Book Imprint. During this session, the author will be presenting an overview of their book, and delegates will have the unique opportunity to meet and speak with the author after the presentation.

Book Spotlight Session—“Seeking Engagement: The Art of Richard Kamler” by Steven Zahavi Schwartz. Presented by Tressa Berman and Richard Kamler Thursday, 11 August | 12:45–13:30 Description: Common Ground Publishing is excited to announce a spotlight session for one of its featured publications within The Arts in Society Book Imprint. During this session, an overview of the book will be presented, and delegates will have the opportunity to meet and speak with the session hosts after the presentation.

Special Events Conference Tour: Hammer Museum Biennial Exhibition Guided Tour Wednesday, 10 August Description: Celebrate the third iteration of the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition with a private, guided tour of Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only. As part of an ongoing series, the exhibition addresses Los Angeles as a center of activity inseparable from the global network of art production and reveals how artists move fluidly between contexts and respond to their local conditions. Subtitled by the minimalist poet and writer, Aram Saroyan, as his contribution to the exhibition Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only extends into such disciplines as dance, fashion, literature, music, film, and performance.

Welcome Reception and Talk by Professor and Director Peter Sellars Thursday, 11 August | 17:30–19:00 Description: The UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture will be hosting a welcome reception in association with Eleventh International Conference on the Arts in Society and will feature a keynote talk by renowned artist and director Peter Sellars. The reception will be held at the UCLA Broad Art Center on 11 August 2016 directly following the last parallel session of the conference day. All conference delegates are encouraged to attend and enjoy refreshments and a chance to converse with colleagues from around the world. The Arts in Society Plenary Speakers

T.J. Demos “Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment in the Age of Capital” T.J. Demos writes widely on modern and contemporary art and his essays have appeared in magazines, journals, and catalogues worldwide. His published work centers broadly on the conjunction of art and politics, examining the ability of artistic practice to invent innovative and experimental strategies that challenge dominant social, political, and economic conventions. He has served on the Art Journal editorial board (2004-08) and currently is on the editorial board of Third Text and on the advisory board of Grey Room. Demos is Director of the forthcoming Center for Creative Ecologies at UC Santa Cruz.

Demos’ current research focuses on contemporary art and visual culture, investigating in particular the diverse ways that artists and activists have negotiated crises associated with globalization, including the emerging conjunction of post-9/11 political sovereignty and statelessness, the hauntings of the colonial past, and the growing biopolitical conflicts around ecology and climate change. His most recent books include The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013, winner of the 2014 College Art Association Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism), which explores the relation of contemporary art—including practices from North America, Europe, and the Middle East—to the experience of social dislocation, political crisis, and economic inequality, where art figures in ways both critically analytical and creatively emancipating; and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2013), which addresses the recent returns of artists (including Sven Augustijnen, Zarina Bhimji, Pieter Hugo, Renzo Martens, and Vincent Meessen) to former colonial states in Sub-Saharan Africa and the resulting art—predominantly photography and film—that investigates the traumas of past and present colonial relations and injustices.

Attendant to developments in environmental crisis, postcolonial studies, and artistic practice, he has recently edited a special issue of the journal Third Text on “Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology” (no. 120, January 2013) and is currently at work on a new book on this subject entitled, The Post-Natural Condition: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, forthcoming).

Demos is also the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), which places Duchamp’s installations and mixed-media projects—including his “portable museum,” La Boîte-en-valise—in relation to geopolitical and aesthetic displacement during the early twentieth century’s periods of world war and nationalism; and Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (MIT Press/Afterall Books, 2010), which examines Birnbaum’s art practice in relation to postmodernist appropriation, media analysis, and feminist politics, and explores the artist’s pioneering attempts to unleash the transformative capacities of video as a medium. The Arts in Society Plenary Speakers

Rebeca Mendez “A CounterForce for Art and the Environment” Rebeca Mendez received her BFA (1984) and MFA (1996) from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Méndez’s art practice is in various media—photography, 16mm film, video, and installation— with which she explores the nature of perception and media representation, specifically how cultures express themselves through the style of nature that they produce at a given time and the medium through which they construct this nature. She moves through different scales with ease—from photographic prints, to immersive sound and video installations, to murals of more than 25,000 square feet, to installations involving sixty-foot boulders and tons of lava rock. She considers the journey as a medium in itself and has produced a significant body of work based on travels to unfamiliar and extreme places such as Iceland, Patagonia, Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic, and the Sahara, where she is awakened to a heightened level of perception.

Méndez’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Latin America. Selected solo exhibitions include: Rebeca Méndez: At Any Given Moment at the Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada (2012); Each Day at Noon: Rebeca Méndez, Café Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Rebeca Méndez, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico (2011); Rebeca Méndez: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998).

Méndez was the 2012 recipient of the National Design Award bestowed by The White House and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Méndez was awarded the 2010 California Community Foundation Mid Career Fellowship for Visual Artist. She taught at Art Center College of Design and is currently a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Peter Sellars Peter Sellars, a director of opera, theatre, and film, is renowned worldwide for his innovative treatments of classical material from western and non-western traditions and for his commitment to exploring the role of the performing arts in contemporary society. He has served as artistic director of the Los Angeles Festival, the American National Theatre at the Kennedy Center, the Boston Shakespeare Company, and the Elitch Theatre for Children in Denver. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship and was awarded the Erasmus Prize at the Dutch Royal Palace for contributions to European culture. Recent projects include directing John Adams’ El Niño, a nativity oratorio, at the Theatre du Chalet in Paris, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s production; Handel’s Theodora; Stravinksy’s The Story of a Soldier with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a 25-year survey exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Viola; Jean Genet’s The Screens, adapted by poet Gloria Alvarez, with the Cornerstone Theater Company and performers from the community of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles; and Peony Pavilion composed by Tan Dun and featuring renowned Kun Opera performer Hua Wenyi. His past teaching positions include a visiting professorship at the Center for Theatre Arts at UC Berkeley, and he holds a BA from Harvard University. The Arts in Society Plenary Speakers

Etienne Turpin “Conspiracy of the Anthros” Etienne Turpin is a Research Scientist in the MIT Urban Risk Lab, where he coordinates the Humanitarian Infrastructures Group with Dr Tomas Holderness. The group conducts applied research on urban risk through the development and deployment of platforms for humanitarian response and community-led disaster co-management in South and Southeast Asia. Through strategic community organizing, institutional ethnography, and novel approaches to civic media, data gathering, and designed engagement, Etienne’s research develops new tools, techniques, and methods to help democratize processes of climate change adaptation by meaningfully engaging the concerns and capacities of the urban poor.

With Dr Holderness, Etienne co-founded and co-directed PetaJakarta.org, a community-led, open source flood map in Jakarta, Indonesia; PetaJakarta.org has been awarded the Open Data Institute’s Open Data Award and a Twitter #DataGrant, and has received funding from USAID and the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the United States, the Pacific Disaster Center, DM Innovation, the Australian National Data Service, the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction, the New Colombo Plan of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Australia, and the University of Wollongong Global Challenges Program. The project has been featured in news media including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, and National Geographic, as well as in the International Federation of the Red Cross 2015 World Disasters Report.

Etienne is also the founding director of anexact office, his design research practice based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The office is committed to interventive urbanism, curatorial, and artistic experimentation, and site-based philosophical research; the office operates as both a vehicle for inquiry and a platform for assembly with the aim of producing formations which solicit solidarity and and enable mutual aid in the Anthropocene. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at NTU CCA Singapore, founding coordinator of the Urban Lab Network Asia (labnet.asia) and founding co- director of the Urban Systems & Environments Research Group (USER Group Inc. LLP).

Etienne is the editor of Architecture in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2013) and co-editor of Fantasies of the Library (forthcoming MIT Press, 2016); Art in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2015), and Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation (Universitas Indonesia Press, 2013). As a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators’ Network, he is also the co-founder and co-editor with Anna-Sophie Springer of the intercalations: Paginated Exhibition series as part of Das Anthropozan-Projekt of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Previously, he held research fellowships with the SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan. He has also taught architecture theory and advanced design research at the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley. The Arts in Society Graduate Scholar Awardees

Cathy Horsley Cathy Horsley is an arts and cultural worker with a particular interest in inclusive, collaborative performance works. Having started her art-making career as a painter, she transitioned to community based arts in the late 1990’s and has immersed herself in the field ever since. As a local government council officer she has produced major art events involving people who have a marginalized experience, and she has managed large-scale community consultation with multiple stakeholders. Her producer credits include: Are You Lonesome Tonight? By SPARC Theatre, 2015; Site UnSeen, 2011 Melbourne Festival; The Rawcus Flash Mob, Federation Square, 2011; and Crisis and Rhapsody, winner of the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival Vic Health Award. Horsley is currently undertaking a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts.

Eliel Jones Eliel Jones is a graduate student in contemporary art theory at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His research is focused on an ongoing interest for the potential of performance art as a medium that intrinsically deals with the politics of value, gender, race, affect, publicness, and democracy. He has experience as an intern at several art institutions including Frith Street Gallery (London), Andipa Gallery (London), and the Dallas Museum of Art (USA). During his time as a McDermott Intern at the DMA, he curated Experiments on Public Space, a museum-wide public engagement project that had, at its core, to animate and exemplify what it means to be a public museum in the 21st century. In the past, he has also worked as a performer in works by Ei Arakawa, Pedro Reyes, and Geraldine Pilgrim, amongst others.

Aliyah Kennedy Aliyah Kennedy is an art history graduate student at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She has a bachelor’s degree in art history and works as the administrative assistant and curator of visual resources for the Art History Department of John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio. She gives art lessons in her spare time and helps to manage a local contemporary art gallery. Her research interests include contemporary museum methods, environmental art, and activist art. She is primarily concerned with how art actively engages the world.

Lydia Miliokas Lydia Miliokas is a graduate student in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and a 2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship recipient. Her current research focuses on contemporary discourses on spectatorship and public arts festivals in Canada. Miliokas has been employed as a curatorial research assistant with the MacKenzie Art Gallery since 2010, and completed a one-year term as curator of Regina’s Creative City Centre in 2014. She is currently employed as a graduate research assistant for the nationally-funded Meet in the Middle project, a series of events taking place in Regina that stages a meeting ground for artists and curators working at the intersections of art and film.

Elen Nas Elen Nas has a Bachelor’s degree in social science and currently works as an Artist. With a focus on technical studies in music, she is also working on a Masters in design and arts in the Design Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The main field of her research is technology in society, and her work is focused on the relations between arts, design, technology, and science. Through music and visual arts she produces and investigates works of interaction design. The Arts in Society Graduate Scholar Awardees

Claudia Rodríguez Ponga Claudia Rodríguez Ponga graduated with a fine arts degree from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain, and holds two master degrees in creative curating from Goldsmiths, University of London and art theory from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She is currently a PhD researcher and graduate student at the University of São Paulo with a project about the relations between art and magic and the figure of the witch as an artistic stereotype. She has ample experience in the art world and is a frequent collaborator of the multimedia platform El Estado Mental (Spain). She also works as a freelance curator and has recently qualified for the third edition of the Curatorial Lab Mercosul, organized by Blau Projects (São Paulo).

Constanza Salazar Constanza Salazar is passionate about expanding the traditional boundaries of the discipline of art history by incorporating new interdisciplinary theoretical paradigms that explore the intimate relationship between technology, art, and society. Salazar holds a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Waterloo from Canada. She also earned a master of arts in art history from the University of Guelph from Canada with a thesis that examined conceptual art through the lens of speculative realism. In the fall of 2016, Salazar will begin her doctoral studies at Cornell University in New York and will develop her research on the “obsolescence of the body” as represented in new media art by examining the themes of cybernetics, ontology, posthumanism, embodiment, and alterity.

Elia Vargas Elia Vargas is an Oakland based artist and curator. He works in video, sound, projection, and situational experiences that explore mediated information embodiment. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians including Bjork and Vincent Moon. He performs and exhibits work locally and internationally. Vargas is co-founder and co-curator of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly salon on new media art and digital culture; half of improvisational modular synthesis duo systemritual; board member of Mediate Art Group, organizer of the Soundwave Biennial; and a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. He is currently investigating the materiality of crude oil, frozen carbon dioxide, and obsolete projection technology in the anthropocene.

Haeyoung Youn Haeyoung Youn is a doctoral candidate in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University. She has a BFA. in fine arts from KyungPook National University and an MA in arts science from HoingIk University, both in South Korea. She has worked as an art critic for a monthly art magazine, an organizer of art exhibitions, and an instructor in art theory and history. In her dissertation, she focuses on the aesthetic value of new media art, which presents a performative interaction among art, technology, and life in a generative process. Her academic works have been presented at international conferences and published in The International Journal of Arts in Society. WEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 10 AUGUST

8:00-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:20 CONFERENCE OPENING & HOST REMARKS Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Host, Common Ground Publishing, USA 9:20-9:30 UCLA SCHOOL OF THE ARRTSTS AND ARCHITECTURE WELCOME ADDRESS Professor David Roussève, Interim Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA 9:30-10:00 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Professor Rebeca Mendez, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

"A CounterForce for Art and the Environment" 10:05-10:35 GARDEN CONVERSAONVERSATIONTION & COFFEE BREAK 10:35-11:20 TT ALKING CIRCLES Room 1: Arts Education Room 2: Arts Theory and History Room 3: New Media, Technology, and the Arts Room 4: Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 5: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (2016 special focus) 11:20-11:30 TRANSITION BREAK 11:30-12:45 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Salon BSalon B TheatrTheatree for Change Performing Peace in the North of IrIrelandeland Jennifer Keating-Miller, Department of English & Dean's Office, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA John Carson, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Overview: Performing Peace in the North of Ireland explores the roles individual citizens and artists undertake in navigating public and private spheres of a society in transition from conflict to peace. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts How Can Performance Art PrProvideovide Opportunities for Critical Strangeness? A Look thrthroughough Jacques RancièrRancière’e’ss "The Paradoxes of Political Art"Art" Eliel Jones, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Overview: In a society that is more often passive than not, more uninvolved than complicit, and more over-saturated than filtered, how can performance art provide opportunities for critical strangeness? Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon CSalon C NaturNature'se's Metaphors VVietnameseietnamese Artists Use Their TTam-giaoam-giao Metaphors in VVisualisual Arts to ExprExpressess Their ConcerConcernsns in the Global AnthrAnthropocene Topocene Transformation,ransformation, 2005-152005-15 Dr. Kim Le, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Overview: This paper examines how the use of Tam-giao metaphors in Vietnamese works of art (2005-2015) express the artists’ concerns about the anthropocene and how this condition impacts on future generations. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene A Crude Illumination Elia Vargas, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA Overview: Signal-materialism illuminates invisible subject-hood formulation. A deep viewing of Crude Illumination provides a complex consideration of petropolitics and climate change as a projected signal-flow of decaying technologies and western ideologies Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Modeling Plastic Replica of AlfrAlfreded Russel WWallace’allace’ss Beetle Specimens as Installation Art Object Bharoto Yekti, Film and Television Department, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Bogor, Indonesia Dr. Aprina Murwanti, Visual Art, Universitas Negeri Jakarta (State University of Jakarta), Bogor, Indonesia Overview: Utilizing poly modeling technique to replicate Alfred Russell Wallace beetle’s collection in order to produce fabricated plastic model kit look object using 3D printing technology for Installation Art. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST 11:30-12:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon D The Creative Process in Arts Education The Influence of TCT-DP by Applying Augmented Reality to Pop-up Books Prof. Pei-Fen Wu, National Chunghua University of Education, National Chunghua University, Chunghua City, Taiwan Prof. Kuang-Yi Fan, Wufeng, Taiwan Prof. Heien-Kun Chinag, Changhua City, Taiwan Pei-Chi Liu, Taichung, Taiwan Overview: We discuss designing an AR pop-up book for preschool children, and investigate and assess the effect of augmented reality of the pop-up book on creativity. Theme: Arts Education Exploring the Role of Creativity in the Secondary School Music Classroom: Awareness, Insights, and Perceptions of In-Service Teachers Dr. John L. Vitale, Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University, Brantford, Canada Overview: Through a mixed method design philosophically rooted in pragmatism, the primary purpose of this study is to determine what role creativity plays in the secondary school music classroom. Theme: Arts Education Active Learning through Contemporary Arts: A New Paradigm for Creative Arts Education Matthew Tommasini, Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Bright Sheng, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Prof. James Z. Lee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Overview: This paper will explore how contemporary arts-centered creative arts education paradigms can transform students' understanding of the arts and redefine notions of the creative process. Theme: Arts Education Salon E New Frountiers in the Visual Arts The Alternative Movie Posters Phenomenon Dr. Yaroslav Barichko, Faculty of Economics and Management, St. Petersburg State Technological Institute, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation Overview: The article explores a phenomenon which arose in the beginning of the 2000-s as a reaction on photo collages and not very smart modern film posters. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Small and Specialists: A Collaborative Approach to Research Data Management in the Visual Arts Carlos Silva, Library and Student Services, Centre for Digital Scholarship - University for the Creative Arts, Guildford, UK Overview: Research data in the visual arts are frequently non-text and may comprise of artefacts, performances, images, media and can present difficulties when managing and preserving to the wider community. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts e-Poetry and e-Portfolios: Creative, Multimodal Response and Assessment Daniel Anderson, Digital Humanities English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Overview: Scholars have pointed out the limits of critique, but few have modeled post-critical response. This paper provides examples of alternative modes of response that feature affect and reflection. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Salon F Social Agendas Mural Art Robert Frederick Hayden, Arts and Cultural Affairs Department, Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila, Philippines Overview: A mural painting competition for Urban Development Promoting Cultural Heritage and Pride of Place is discussed. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Connecting to the Artistic Culture of the New Home: The Journey of an Immigrant Artist Anahit Falihi, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Dr. Artin Lahiji, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Overview: Today, global, intercultural aspects of artistic production present challenges and opportunities for artists in diaspora related to discovering and adapting to a new audience in the dominant local community. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Concept of Honor in Shakespeare's Roman Plays Prof. Rinat Kitai-Sangero, Faculty of Law, College of Law and Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel Overview: The paper addresses the concept of honor in Shakespeare's Roman plays, based on the historian and biographer Plutarch's book Parallel Lives: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

12:45-14:00 LUNCH WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST 14:00-15:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon B Examining Visual Literacies Female Desire and Transformative Masculinity: Imogen Cunningham's Photographs of the Male Nude Jui-Ch'i Liu, Graduate Institute for Studies in Visual Cultures, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: I contextually decode how Imogen Cunningham developed her fascinations of male nudes in her photographs through negotiating with the New Woman’s gaze of transgressive, woman-made, masculinity in early-twentieth-century dance culture. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Visualizing the Minor: Pedagogy and the Work of Julie Mehretu Dr. George Hoagland, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, USA Overview: This paper argues that Mehretu’s abstract paintings highlight practices of looking that inform concepts of the minor--those that challenge dominant ideas about identity, spectatorship, and perspective--critical to visual literacy pedagogy. Theme: Arts Theory and History Ethnography and Anti-Aestheticism: The Case of "Documents" Prof. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA Overview: This paper discusses the late 1920s and early 1930s French avant-garde’s interpretation of the relationship between anthropology and aesthetics as represented in the journal "Documents." Theme: Arts Theory and History Distortion and Resistance: Re-appropriations of Fragmented Doll Bodies in a Visual Arts Practice Adi Brown, School of Creative Technologies, Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand Overview: This paper discusses the feminist re-appropriation of fragmented female doll bodies in a recent visual arts studio project that presents the artist with a creative conundrum. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Salon C Sonic Time Chinese Opera, Xiqu, in Diaspora: A Study of Three Cases Teresa Wang, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: Chinese opera in diaspora is studied from its earliest performance in 1837 to Mei Lanfang’s US tour in the 1930s to Kenneth Pai’s Peony Pavilion, Young Lover’s Edition in 2006. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts West Meets East: New Chinese Art Songs by American Composer Jody Nagel Dr. Mei Zhong, School of Music, Ball State University, Muncie, USA Overview: These newly composed songs, settings of poems by the great Chinese poet, Li Bai (701-762 CE), lean toward a “Sprechstimme-like” style with a type of “Neo-Romantic” style. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Adagio and Metamorphosis: Contemporary Interpretations Prof. Johanna Keller, Goldring Arts Journalism Program and Communications Department, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications & Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA Overview: Samuel Barber's 1936 Adagio for Strings began as a somber string quartet movement; by 2015, it appeared as a filmed battle between electronic DJs. Listen to this work's fascinating transubstantiation. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Cantonese Folk Songs in China Eva Chan, Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou City, China Overview: The discussion will be focused on the style, the Creation, the development of Cantonese folk song; and the new adaptations of Cantonese folk songs in present time. Theme: Arts Theory and History WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST 14:00-15:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon D Therapy, Wellbeing, and Healing Re-telling People in the Landscape: Storylines from History to Creative Work Dr. Jennifer Munday, Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia Overview: I discuss the landscape and stories from a former mental asylum form the basis of an exhibition planned for 2016. The paper describes the methodology and outcomes. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Connecting Culturally Diverse Communities through Collaborative Mural Making Elizabeth Burkhauser, School of Arts and Sciences, Keystone College, PA, Scranton, USA Mousumi De, Art Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Overview: We discuss a collaborative mural-making initiative that utilizes the aesthetic and therapeutic value of collaborative arts practice in diverse community settings to promote respect for cultural diversity, multiculturalism and healing. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Design as Social Action: A Case Study in Participatory Design Methods Supporting the Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition in Ohio Mike Compton, MindMarket, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, USA Eva B. Palmer, Studio And Digital Art School of Communication and Creative Arts, Liberty University, Lynchburg, USA Overview: The Columbus College of Art and Design integrated different design disciplines to help organizations of the Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition of Central Ohio create a shared path of care for survivors. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Voice from Spiritual Inner World: Art in Guanyin Song of Buddhism Music Prof. JingYing Xu, Music Department, NanFang College of Sun Yat-Set University, Guangzhou, China Overview: The research is to find out the art in Guanyin Song of Buddhism Music in order to reveal our spiritual inner voice- called “Guanyin Method” in Buddhism. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon E Workshop (14:00-14:45) Learning to Dance with Horses on Their Own Terms: The Ethics and Art of Physical Listening JoAnna Mendl Shaw, The Equus Projects + OnSite NYC, New York, Australia Victor Jaroslav Krawczyk, School of Communications, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Overview: Participants will be guided through a series of physical listening experiences, which are informed by extensive experience of choreographing interspecies performances with equine collaborators. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

15:40-15:55 COFFEE BREAK 15:55-17:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon B The Lives of Art Die Brücke between Time and Design: Young Pevsner’s Expressionist Search for Timeless Criteria in Good Design Dr. Ariyuki Kondo, Faculty of Letters, Ferris University, Tokyo, Japan Overview: This paper intends to examine Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's interest in Expressionism as a major source of inspiration for him in his life-long search for timeless criteria in good design. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Archetype of the Trickster Examined through the Life and Art of Marcel Duchamp Mary Weppler, Library, University of California, Merced, Stockton, USA Overview: The thesis of this paper is to frame Duchamp’s artistic output through the Trickster archetype in order to better understand his persistent role towards cultural enlightenment during the 20th century. Theme: Arts Theory and History Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut: The Creation of an Avant-garde Identity Antonia Dapena-Tretter, Education Department, The Walt Disney Family Museum, San Mateo, USA Overview: A careful reading of Dubuffet's publications reveals a purposefully crafted career with an aim toward originality, paradoxically at odds with the many Art Brut guidelines he espoused. Theme: Arts Theory and History Salon C Frontiers in New Media The A View From Inside: Rethinking Spatial Experiences through Design Boris Yu, The New School, Brooklyn, USA Overview: (In)Audible is an interactive performative installation exploring soundscapes not as static but dynamic entities. To control and manipulate soundscapes is to reintroduce an experiential component lacking from modern spaces. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Subverting the Design of Video Games: Mods, Bots, Hacks and Alternative Forms of Play Eric Nunez, School of Communication & The Arts Media Arts, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA Overview: Through the use of methods including modifications and hacks, the designed limitations of video games can be subverted to create new platforms for creative experimentation and expression. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Artist as a Scientist: Sound Performance, Aesthetics, Hybrids and Cyborgs Elen Nas, Departamento de Artes e Design Puc-Rio, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Overview: The performance, as semiotic practice, stimulates cognitive senses with those to whom performance contacts. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST 15:55-17:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon D Place and Structure The Threat of Placeless Spaces: Places and Non-places in John Boorman's "Point Blank" (1967) Carolin Kirchner, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Utilizing Marc Auge’s "Non-Places" (1995), I will argue that "Point Blank" (John Boorman, 1967) sets up an opposition between the urban structures of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Theme: Arts Education Traversing Virtual Domestic Space through Painting Fiona Harman, Architecture and Interior Architecture, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Overview: This research uses painting to explore virtual real estate tours of the "show home" to re-imagine the promise of paradise as one of weightlessness, anonymity and impossibility. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Woven Architecture: A Metaphor for Social Organization of Iraqi Marsh Arabs Rasha Al-Tameemi, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA Overview: Iraqi Marshlands are irregular clusters of small islands constructed by alternating layers of reed mats and layers of to constitute one of the most fascinating regions of the world. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon E Art as Activism Diasporic Memories: Oceanic Art and (Re)Mapping the Body Michelle Kari Barron, MA Candidate in the department of Law and Legal Studies, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Overview: This is an analysis of oceanic art by Jason deCaires Taylor and Nick Cave to explore the relationship between bodies of water and bodies lost in history. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts On Being Corrosively Present: The Politics of Time in Pilvi Takala's "The Trainee" Dr. Juuso Tervo, Department of Art, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Overview: This paper tackles the question of time and presence in the context of contemporary art, education, and labor through Pilvi Takala's interventionist artwork "The Trainee." Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Difficult Memories in Arts, Heritage and Media: The Healing Process of a Nation Inês Isabel Oliveira Ramos Rebelo Morais, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal Overview: This paper intends to show the importance of trauma communication and should be recognized as a communication field for itself. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon F Culture and Representation Beauty across Cultures: Male Beauty in Chinese and Western Representational Art Aihua Zhou, Falmouth University, UK, Thousand Oaks, USA Overview: I discuss male beauty in Chinese and Western representational art. Theme: Arts Theory and History Exploring a Holistic View of Art as the Vehicle and Agent for Creative Expression and Wellness in Aboriginal Communities Dr. Artin Lahiji, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Overview: This paper explores the relationships and connectedness of art, beauty, aesthetic experience, and the importance of art as an agent for purposeful creative expression and well-being in the Aboriginal communities. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Transnationalism of Bossa Nova: The Influence of Brazilian Popular Urban Music in Asia Yiyu Zhang, Department of Music, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Overview: This paper seeks to demonstrate the orientalization of Bossa Nova, by analyzing its characteristics of musical cultural and comparing features of Bossa Nova in the transnational propagation in different regions. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts THURSDAHURSDAYY, 11 AUGUST

8:30-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:10 DAILAILY UPDAY PDATETE Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Host, Common Ground Publishing, USA 9:10-9:40 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Dr. Etienne Turpin, PetaJakarta.org and Anexact Office, Jakarta, Indonesia

"Conspiracy of the Anthros" 9:45-10:15 GARDEN CONVERSAONVERSATIONTION & COFFEE BREAK 10:15-11:30 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Salon BSalon B Objects of the AnthrAnthropoceneopocene The Lost Object Ensemble: AbsurAbsurditiesdities of the Multi-functional Object Dr. Jane Venis, College of Art of Design, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand Overview: This paper will discuss my recent studio project The Lost Object Ensemble a multimedia installation that critiques the irony of creating objects that are so multi-functional they become absurdly impractical. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene An Evolution of the Unknown: A TTrajectoryrajectory of Facial ExprExpressionession and Bodily GesturGesture Pre Promptedompted by the Use of TTechnologicalechnological Gadgets Dr. Barbara Rauch, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto, Canada Overview: Gestures and body language change alongside social, cultural and technological developments. Through the use of digital communication devices language and facial expressions have changed our emotional consciousness. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene The FuturThe Future We e Remember: Contemporary Art and the AnthrAnthropoceneopocene Deborah Randolph, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA Cora Fisher, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA Sarah Higgins, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, USA Overview: The Future We Remember features artists considering the changes to the Earth, marking the Anthropocene. Presenters discuss exhibition and mediation including talks with humanities and scientific experts interpreting artist-submitted objects. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 10:15-11:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon C Virtual Lightning Talk Interactive Art Zines: Augmenting First Year Experience Sculpture Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem, College of Charleston Libraries Studio Art Department, College of Charleston, Charleston, USA Overview: This talk explores the reinvention of an "Old School" print zine with augmented reality. The project was completed as a conceptual art group project in an undergraduate introductory sculpture class. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Engaging with the Anthropocene through Creative Practice: Two Islands, a Collaborative Creative Research Project Assoc Prof Jane Messer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Overview: With the Anthropocene as lense, the Two Islands project reinterprets 1800s-21st century environmental histories of the Pacific Ocean through narrative and digital media, beginning with Dear Dr Chekhov, a radioplay. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene The Role of the School Principal in the Development and Implementation of a Strong Arts Program Dr. Abigail Schwent, Education, Edwardsville Children's Museum, Edwardsville, USA Overview: The context of education today is a focus on raising text scores in core subject areas. In this environment, how can leaders implement respected, quality arts programming that enhances learning? Theme: Arts Education Food, Fun, Fashion: Moschino, Jeremy Scott & Company Dr. Orna Ben-Meir, Wizo Academic Center, Haifa, Hertzliyah, Israel Prof. Arie Sover, Ashkelon Academic College, Shoam, Israel Overview: This study engages in the connection between humor, fashion and food. the integration of humor into fashion shows raising questions about social and cultural norms. Theme: Arts Theory and History Descriptive Illustrations in Geographic Visualization and Its Impact on Environmental Studies Dr. Amany Ismail, Graphic Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Overview: I discuss creating graphic illustrations of information in Geo-spatial virtual environment and dynamic interactive representations with controlling visual variables that affect the interpretation of the studied geographic subject matter. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Encouraging Empathy and Creating Critical Inquiry through Museum Storytelling Allison Clark, Getty Center, Los Angeles CA, Austin, USA Colin Ford, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA Overview: Inspired by the intersectionality of anthropology and arts education, this poster visually explores the pedagogical possibilities of collaborative storytelling, enabling visitors to empathetically examine multiple narratives in museum galleries. Theme: Arts Education The Transformation of Film and Novel in the Arena of Indonesian Literature Alberta Natasia Adji S. Hum, Magister Kajian Sastra dan Budaya, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia Overview: I discuss Iwan Setyawan's strategy in transforming his 9 Summers 10 Autumns from novel into film, then augmented motion picture hinted illustrative book in the field of Indonesian Literature. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts El Baile y el Salon: Arts and Cultural Activism around Gender and Sexualities in Colombia and Mexico Cesar Sanchez-Avella, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Overview: This paper addresses the deployment of arts and cultural activism around gender and sexualities in Colombia and Mexico, as alternative paths for mobilisation against violence and discrimination affecting LGBTI population. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Reading Community Social Agendas in Ewe, Ghana Storytelling Dr. Nathan Crook, Arts, Science and Business Division, Ohio State University ATI, Wooster, USA Dr. D. Rose Elder, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ohio State ATI, Wooster, USA Overview: Storytelling songs amuse listeners at storytelling events and educate and reinforce community values and norms furthering intergenerational communication and community social agendas. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 10:15-11:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon D Pedagogies of Art Enhancing Young Adult Learning through Interpretive Skill Training: A Tour-guide Internship Program at the Center for Creative Photography Claire Chien, Art and Visual Culture Education, The Center for Photography, Tucson, USA Overview: This case study presents how museum student tour-guides applied interpretive strategies beyond analyzing art to other learning aspects and became better public speakers, interpretive writers, thoughtful educators, and efficient learners. Theme: Arts Education Exploring the Impact of an Integrative, Problem-based Art and Society Course Redesign on Student Self-beliefs Dr. Delane Ingalls Vanada, Art and Art History Art and Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA Dean Adams, Department of Theatre Associate Dean of Performing Arts Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA Dr. Takiyah Amin, Department of Dance, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA Overview: We report on a study in an undergraduate Art and Society course redesigned to be multidisciplinary, problem-based, and more learner- centered, and its impact on students' perceptions about their learning. Theme: Arts Education The Benefits of Integrating Arts into Design Core Prof. Nanhee Kim, Communication Design, California State University, Chico, USA Overview: The paper will introduce a course project and explain how it brings art majors or non-major students to practical instruction on the practice and application of design. Theme: Arts Education Salon E The Functions of Art Institutions Inside the World of Arts Council: Artistic Excellence in the Peer-Review Process for Arts Funding Ms. Marisol J. D'Andrea, The Department of Leadership, Adult and Higher Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada Overview: The research objective is to understand how the peer review process works at the art councils and explore how the concept "artistic excellence" is applied during the adjudication process. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Museums in Social Work Education: Towards Diversity Engagement Dr. Michal Sela-Amit, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Dr. Susana Smith Bautista, USC Pacific Asia Museum, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Overview: This paper presents an innovative collaboration between museums and a graduate social work program to increase students’ use of museums for engagement of diverse communities towards change and social justice. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

11:30-12:45 LUNCH 12:45-13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS GH Ballroom Focused Discussions Arts' Imprint: Transformational Art Jenny Keyser, Evanston, USA Overview: Art can create an environment that can heal and hurt. Epigenetics tells us that an artist has the power to change the translation of a viewers' DNA. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Poetry as a Scaffolding Tool for Complex Text, Twitter and Video Creation Dr. Mark Geary, College of Education, Dakota State University, Colton, USA Overview: Use of poetry in schools has been declining. This discussion looks at ways the declined could be reversed by looking at Common Core and Technology tie-ins. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Masks Reflecting Multiple Self-Identities: Ancient Archetypes of the Human Drama Dr. Carol Francis, Dr. Carol Francis & Associates, Torrance, USA Overview: Discover the artistry and meaningfulness of your many identities' masks. Explore the beauty of Venetian, Peruvian and Mexican masks compared with your own creative techno-era expressions of self and society. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Art Education and Digitization: How to Negotiate the Internet Julie Etheridge, English Montreal School Board Concordia University, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Overview: The Internet has opened a possibility to engage with a variety of art experiences. This paper will focus on the digitization of art in the classroom from a practical perspective. Theme: Arts Education Theater ohne Publikum: Theater without Audience Prof. Emma Lewis Thomas, World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Overview: "Theater without Audience" frees Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstück concept from rigid Marxist dogma to be rediscovered as a performative matrix for youth in the 21st century. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Cooperative Making in Community Settings through Art Education: Exploring Intersections between Socially-Engaged Art and Service Learning Dr. James Woglom, Art Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA Overview: The presenter investigated the intersection of arts-centric service learning and socially-engaged art, facilitating scenarios for preservice candidates to develop relational art workshops with PK-16-aged students in school and community settings. Theme: Arts Education THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 12:45-13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS S. Poster Session Promenade Community Art as Asset Based Development: Key Findings from a Participatory Action Research Study in National City, California Christine Carino, Administrative Staff, Collaborations: Teachers and Artists, San Diego, USA Overview: Based on research conducted for my mater's thesis, this poster displays five significant findings and themesom fr a 2015 community art project conducted in National City, CA. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Political Art as Voice Nancy Ohanian, Department of Art, Rowan University, Glassboro, USA Overview: The poster exhibit will present published political illustrations by the artist that represent the global reach and capability of digitally created political art as a wordless voice for social awareness. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Archiving Cultural and Artistic Heritages: A Digital Platform for Creating Cross-Cultural Understanding in Stellenbosch, South Africa Gera de Villiers, Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Overview: Redefining dominant cultural heritage narratives through the collection, documentation, and archivization of art and cultural histories of previously marginalised communities - a case study of Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Role of Creative Coping in HIV/AIDS Michael B. Drew, Department of Education Counseling and Student Personnel Services, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA Overview: I discuss using creative expression in the HIV/AIDS community to overcome stigma and inspire social justice. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon B Workshop Artist, Illness and Resilience: Frida Kahlo Dr. Erika Landau, Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA Overview: Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keefe have suffered illness and many other adversities. Resilience and dedication overcame everything. The audience will draw and discuss their drawings in an interactive manner. Theme: Arts Education THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 12:45-13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon C Virtual Poster Session The Persistence of Escapology: The Relevance of Indeterminate Practices in Contemporary Art and Thinking through Unmaking Prof. Alec Shepley, School of Fine and Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK Overview: This paper contextualizes iterations of contemporary art practice identifying performed provisionality as a method for making art in the in the field of distribution. Theme: Arts Theory and History How to Generate Original Stories for the Next Generation: Customized Animation Memorytalk Dr. Kanako Sasaki, Department of Information Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Overview: Memorytalk is a platform that can automatically generate animated stories to stimulate next generation’s imagination. The team conducted a workshop with the Fukushima evacuees of 2011 nuclear explosion in Japan. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Hospital Theatre: We Never Step into the Same River Twice Dr. Persephone Sextou, Drama, Newman University, Birmingham, UK Overview: Is hospital theatre another aspect of experiencing illness? Is illness another aspect of life? Can theatre become an "escape" from illness? Is the artist open to the unexpected in performance? Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Environmental Art as a Participatory Strategy for Catalyzing Social Change Dr. Marcy L. Koontz, College of Human Environmental Sciences, Department of Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA Overview: We discuss two public sculpture installations by artists who had never worked with or considered bamboo as a possible medium in support of a community project for positive agricultural change. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene The Integration of 3D Software In Fine Art Lauren Carr, Department of Art & Design, Animation / Illustration, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA Overview: The synthesis of 3D software in fine art has been limited. However, fine artists do in fact have the capacity to expand their practice using technology. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Universe of James Joyce in Artist Books Dr. Helga Correa, Departament of Visual Arts, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Rs Brasil, Santa Maria, Brazil Dr. Severino Médice Aguinaldo, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil Overview: This is a pedagogical proposal for the establishment of poetic speeches using the book art strategy and literary works of James Joyce. Theme: Arts Education A Bestiary in Masks: Making Fossils of the Future Dr. Clarice Zdanski, Art and Art History, Franklin University Switzerland, Sorengo, Italy Overview: An art project exhibited in a natural history museum reflects on man's elationshipr with Earth’s creatures, the use of images in science and art, and our place in the cosmos. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Snail in the Age of Anthropocene Sanja Vasiljević, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Overview: Symbols appearing in art have the potential to be guides to development of individuals, but also to humankind. We examine the emerging Snail as a potential guide in the Anthropocene. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Reimagining the Walls of Karachi: Activism as Contemporary Art Experiment Dr. Atteqa Ali, College of Arts and Creative Enterprises, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Overview: A collective of artists, teachers, and students in Karachi, Pakistan made an effort to reclaim public spaces away from hate messages and transform the city walls into works of art. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Graphical Sound: From Inception to the Masterpieces Lavoslava Benčić, School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, Ljubljana, Slovenia Overview: Technology of sound synthesis is a result of abundant history of research and practices. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Cognitive Impact of Interactive Art Devices to People with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Thomas Audissergues, Arts, Université Paris, Paris, France Overview: I discuss artistic interactive devices realised for a public with impairment - such as pervasive developmental disorder, and present a description of the possible cognitive and therapeutic impact. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon D Featured Event: Book Launch & Meet the Author—“Out of the Shadows” by Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen "Out of the Shadows: Fostering Creativity and Teacher Education Programs" is a culmination of five years of esearr ch into the role teachers have played in nurturing the world's greatest artistic minds. The study focuses on the evolution of creativity in teaching practices and finds that many methods are as relevant in today's classrooms as they were ten thousand years ago.

During this session, Dr. Bronwen Wade Leeuwen will present an overview of the book, and delegates will have the unique opportunity to meet and speak with the author after the presentation. THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 12:45-13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon E Workshop Should Neuroscience Replace Psychology as the Most Relevant Science for Actors? David Ihrig, Private Acting Coach, Irvine, USA Overview: Steeped in the psychological theories of the early 1900’s, the basic principles of Stanislavski’s Psycho-Technique continue to dominate actor’s training today. Should today's actors consider a Neuro-Technique? Theme: Arts Theory and History Salon F Workshop Stories Art Can Tell Prof. Shadieh Mirmobiny, Humanities, Folsom Lake College, Folsom, USA Overview: This is an original documentary on arts and humanities education. It argues for art being a political discourse, therefore an indispensable part of any curriculum. Theme: Arts Education

13:30-13:40 BREAK 13:40-14:55 SPECIAL EVENT GH Ballroom Featured Session: Publishing Your Article or Book with Common Ground In this session, Common Ground Publishing will present an overview of publishing philosophy and practices for publishing within the Arts in Society Journal Collection. We will also offer tips for turning conference papers in to journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures, and provide information on Common Ground's book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions - the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A. Salon B Participatory Arts and Community Agendas Meet Us Here: Communities and the Place of the Viewer in Edmonton’s The Works Art and Design Festival and Nuit Blanche Lydia Miliokas, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Regina, Regina, Canada Overview: This paper addresses the social and community agendas of two urban arts festivals taking place in Edmonton, Alberta, through an investigation of their shared themes of civic engagement and transformation. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Benefits of Engaging in Creative Activity Susan Dragon, School of Arts, Humanities and Education, Central Queensland University, Brunswick East, Australia Overview: Does the process of engaging in creative activity run in diverse community settings in Victoria enhance communication and deliver the therapeutic outcomes of increased self-esteem and social inclusion? Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Supporting Improved Learning Opportunities for Hard to Reach Adults Using Participatory Arts Sue Potts, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool John Moores University, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool, UK Jane Johnson, Safe Productions, Bootle, UK Overview: SILO is an 2 year Erasmus Plus Funded Research Project which developed a methodology for artists working in participatory settings to identify key competencies and skills developed by beneficiaries. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon C Ecological Awareness and Interventions Anthropocene Interventions Susie Lachal, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper examines how a socially engaged art project applies methods for exploring the material and conceptual relationships, or "meshwork," of the Anthropocene through sculpture, installation and dialogue. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”: Literature and the Age of the Anthropocene Prof. Ulrike Zitzlsperger, College of Humanities Department of Modern Languages, Exeter University, Exeter, UK Overview: This paper analyses the potential of crime novels for raising awareness for the Anthropocene. It discusses the depiction of human agency and the literary mapping of global and regional impact. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene The Aesthetics of Compassion for Animals in Science Victor Jaroslav Krawczyk, School of Communications, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Overview: I begin to highlight what might make respect or compassion possible for animals through a close reading of art and films in which the influence of science is noticeably pronounced. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 13:40-14:55 SPECIAL EVENT Salon D Theories of Practice New Theories of “Otherness” in the Discipline of Art History Constanza Salazar, Independent Researcher, Brooklyn, USA Overview: This paper will examine the implications in the shift in art history from a post-modern notion of otherness to a "post-human otherness" that is afforded by new technology-based art. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene The Metamodern Paradigm and Misinterpreted Representation: The Marxian Symptom of Contemporary Revolutionary Desire Joshua Losoya, Department of English, Salisbury University, Salisbury, USA Overview: Metamodernism, the cultural successor to postmodernism, appears as a milieu of revolutionary, sincere, and liberatory power, and yet, unconsciously, exists as a means of conserving traditional means of oppression. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Public-ness of the Self: The Art Workshop "8/1 Kaohsiung Gas Explosion Has Everything to Do with Me!?" Pei-Kuei Tsai, The Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Overview: This paper examines the effects of an interdisciplinary art workshop that reflects on aiwan’T s massive gas explosion and looks for a contemporary meaning of Beuys’ utopia "everyone is an artist." Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon E Dance as Art Korean Traditional Dance as Art and as Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Focus on “Taepyeongmoo” Heejeong Hwang, Dance, World Ethinic Dance Institute at Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This paper talks about Korean traditional dance, "Taepyeongmoo," looking at three artistic points of view and three cultural heritage points of view, discussing its differences. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Kathakali and Motion Capture: An Experimental Dialogue between Indian Classical Dance and Technology Assoc Prof. Biju Dhanapalan, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Overview: With "Kathakali and Motion Capture," Biju Dhanapalan initiates dialogue between Indian classical dance and technology. Initial analysis of the numerical data helps better understand the kinesiology and pedagogy of Kathakali. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Transforming African Sacred Traditional Theatre to Secular African Modern Theatre Dr. Felix E. Ugbeda, Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Overview: In Africa, there are numerous sacred traditional theaters which are facing extinction. Such sacred performances have potentials which if properly harnessed, could lead to major breakthrough in world entertainment industry. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

14:55-15:10 COFFEE BREAK 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon B Praxis of the Contemporary Fragmented Cinema: Andy Warhol’s Reconstruction as Author Dr. Andrew Howe, Department of History, Politics, & Sociology, La Sierra University, Riverside, USA Overview: This is a study of the manner in which Andy Warhol's films serve to fragment arholW the creative director and re-inscribe him as "Warhol" the phenomenon. Theme: Arts Theory and History We Have Never Been Modern: The Thin Line between Theory and Anthropology of Contemporary Art Claudia Rodriguez Ponga, Department of Visual Arts, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Overview: Following the example of Bruno Latour and other contemporary thinkers, we propose to apply anthropological theories to western contemporary art mechanisms in order to expand interpretative criteria beyond traditional categories. Theme: Arts Theory and History An Inescapable Dilemma or a “Utopia” Jingqiu Guan, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Informed by economic anthropological literature, this paper explores where social relations involved in the production and circulation of dancefilm are situated in terms of gift and commodity relations. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Copyright of Choreographic Works Dr. YoungMee Jung, SangMyoung University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: It displays the case of the choreographic work for Korean pop star Secret's "Shy Boy" relevant to illegal procurements and discuss the types of copyright infringements regarding choreographic works. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon C Literacies of the Anthropocene Novelists of the Anthropocene Sean Hooks, English/Composition, Fullerton College, Los Angeles, USA Overview: This is an analysis of the work of David Mitchell and Tom McCarthy as presenting too divergent models for the anthropocentric novel of the contemporary moment. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Art Leadership as Genetic Entanglements: Disavowing the Autonomous Human Subject Kevin Tavin, Department of Art, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Overview: What are the characteristics and genetic entanglements of leadership in art? Learn how bio-art can produce infinite potentiality for different species of leaders, or develop mutations that cause radical passivity. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Art Education beyond Anthropocentricism: The Question of Animal in Contemporary Art Mira Kallio-Tavin, Department of Art, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Overview: Concepts such as posthumanism, post-anthropocentrism, new materialism, speciesism, and critical animal studies are explored through contemporary art, the question of ethics, and art education. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Talanoa: The Voices That Speak in Tongan Creativity Janet Tupou, School of Communication Studies Creative Industries, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: The growing number of Tongan creators searching for a place of belonging and acceptance in Aoteroa’s (New Zealand) creative industries has contributed to many cultural clashes questioning whose voice speaks. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon D Late Additions Master-Apprentice Relationship to Partnership as Co-Artists: A Comparative Analysis of Pedagogical Models in Contemporary Music Education Luca Marrucci, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy Marita Kerin, School of Education's Arts Education Research Group, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Erika Piazzoli, School of Education's Arts Education Research Group, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Overview: This research, a follow-up project from a doctoral investigation on creativity and music education, is an experimental methodology testing based on "active learning" set. Theme: Arts Education Performing Queer Italy: Resistance and Punishment in KYRAHM and Julius Kaiser’s “Il Gioielliere” Hyonju Ahn, New York, USA Overview: KYRAHM and Julius Kaiser’s “Il Gioielliere” forcefully manifests itself as a form of passive queer resistance; the queer individual fights violence with passivity. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon E Workshops (15:10-15:55 and 16:05-16:50) Visual Arts Practice: Experiencing Uncertainty, Learning to Think Flexibly and See Differently Dr. Bronwen Wade Leeuwen, Department of Education, Macquarie University & Workshop Art Centre, Sydney, Australia Overview: Mindful learning opens up the power of possibilities. This creativity workshop aims to foster diverse forms of knowledge creation, application, and creative practice to benefit society. Theme: Arts Education Towards an Ecological Chorus: Ritual Voices in the Theatre of Nature Dr. Lisa Parkins, Performing Arts, SUNY/Empire State College, New York, USA Overview: Participants will engage as poet-performers in a ritual response to the environmental crisis. Like an ancient Greek chorus, we'll bear witness to this tragic spectacle in the Theatre of Nature. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Salon F Colloquium Institutionalizing and Self-Institutionalizing Art as Social Practice in the 21st Century Dr. Izabel Galliera, Department of Art and Art History, McDaniel College, Westminster, USA Megan Voeller, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA Melinda Guillen, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, USA Jamillah James, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA John D. Spiak, Grand Central Art Center, California State University - Fullerton, Santa Ana, USA Overview: This panel calls for consideration of socially engaged art as a worldwide self-reflexive process of (self)-institutionalizing, aiming to critically reconsider the divide between institutions and anti-institutions, critical subversion and assimilation. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

17:30-19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION AND FEATURED TALK BY PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR PETER SELLARS Held at the Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles FRIDARIDAYY, 12 AUGUST

8:30-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:20 DAILAILY UPDAY PDATETE Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Host, Common Ground Publishing, USA 9:20-9:50 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Professor T.J. Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

"Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment in the Age of Capital" 9:55-10:25 GARDEN CONVERSAONVERSATIONTION & COFFEE BREAK 10:25-11:40 SPECIAL EVENT GH BallrGH Ballroomoom FeaturFeatureded Session: Publishing YYourour Article or Book with Common GrGroundound Publishing In this session, Common Ground Publishing will present an overview of publishing philosophy and practices for publishing within the Arts in Society Journal Collection. We will also offer tips for turning conference papers in to journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures, and provide information on Common Ground's book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions - the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A. Salon BSalon B Investigating Identity Rasa, EmpathyEmpathy,, and Identity: Kathak Dance and Social TTransformationransformation in the Diaspora Shweta Saraswat, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Overview: This paper focuses on the use of the classical Indian dance Kathak in the cultivation of transnational identity among members of the South Asian diaspora living in the United Kingdom. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Plurality in Experimental Music: ApprAppropriationopriation and Philosophical Hermeneutics Andrew John Kluth, Ethnomusicology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Recovering the idea of appropriation, I suggest it may be understood to mediate cultural difference rather than reproduce inequitable cultural representation. I offer examples from Los Angeles’ experimental music scene. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Expanding Cultural Competencies for InterprInterpretingeting American Indian Subject Matter in Museums thrthroughough Cognitive Perspectives Dr. Nancy Marie Mithlo, Department of Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College and the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, USA Dr. Aleksandra Sherman, Department of Cognitive Science, Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Research data suggests that cognitive perspective-taking is helpful for deepening cultural understanding and expanding the limited and flawed interpretations of American Indian arts and culture. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon CSalon C Aura and Artifact Antigone in Eschatology Message and Ismene in CrCreationismeationism Message Prof. Seung Hwan Kim, Chungbuk University, Cheongju, South Korea Overview: In Antigone, there are two messages. Firstly, the end of one age with judgement of the Gods in Eschatology context. Secondly, the start of new age in Creative context. Theme: Arts Theory and History Art beyond the Arts and Humanities: Pictorial Images for InterInterdisciplinarydisciplinary LearLearningning Dr. Natasa Lackovic, Educational Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Overview: The paper introduces a novel framework for using pictorial image art forms within learning development in Higher Education. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon DSalon D TTechnologiesechnologies of Experience Neo-TNeo-Ticketingicketing and the FuturFuture Box Ofe Office:fice: Dynamic Pricing Experiments and the FuturFuturee ofof EventEvent SalesSales Dan Eastmond, Firestation Arts & Culture, Windsor, UK Overview: This paper shares the results of The Neo-Ticketing project, an R&D project collecting and analysing data on three dynamic pricing models and looks to the future of cultural events ticketing. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Understanding Interactivity in New Media Art as the Play of Becoming Dr. Haeyoung Youn, Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, Athens, USA Overview: This paper explores interactivity in New Media Art as a form of play. Considering chance, processuality, and eternity, this paper defines interactivity as the play of becoming. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts FRIDAY, 12 AUGUST 10:25-11:40 SPECIAL EVENT Salon E Media and Medium From “Interactive Art” to “Participative Art”: Integrating New Media Technologies with Traditional Art Practices for Promoting Socio- Cognitive Skills Mousumi De, Art Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Dr. Paulo Cesar da Silva Teles, Department of Multimedia, Media and Communication, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil Overview: This paper describes an interactive, sensor-based multimedia installation project made from re-cycled objects, and implemented with teachers and students in art education classrooms in five different countries. Theme: Arts Education Using Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” as a Medium to Study Museum Professionals’ Perceptions of Museum Departments Argyris Karapitsanis, University College London Qatar, University College London (UCL), Doha, Qatar Overview: I discuss the research findings of a quantitative study implemented at CPD courses attended by museum professionals at UCL Qatar, using Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” as a medium. Theme: Arts Education When Classical Painting Meets Process Drama in the Creative Writing Classroom Dr. Dora Wong, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Overview: This paper reflects on training of creative writing through painting and drama. Student samples illustrate art when combined with drama can provide context and content to facilitate the writing process. Theme: Arts Education

11:40-12:55 LUNCH 12:55-14:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon B Access and Participation The Gallery Gachet: Art Is a Means to Survival Dr. Pierre Leichner, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, Canada Overview: Gallery Gachet, an artists collective run center in Vancouver focuses on the presentation of art and the professional development of artists informed by mental health issues, addictions, or otherwise marginalized/disabled. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Disability in the Art of Yinka Shonibare MBE Dr. Lucienne Auz, Art History Department, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, USA Overview: This paper examines the representation of disabled bodies in the work of Yinka Shonibare MBE and considers how the artist’s own disability has influenced his oeuvre. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Disability Arts, Consent, Collaboration and Darlings’ 7 Identity Careers Cathy Horsley, Arts Team, Community Development Division, Port Phillip City Council, Melbourne, Australia Overview: What comes into play when artists with differing levels of cognitive ability collaborate on art making? More specifically, my paper focuses on two artists collaborating on a performance art work. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Caring for Audience: How Does One Curate Access to the Arts? Amanda Cachia, Department of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA Overview: In this paper, I explore interdisciplinary questions around curatorial access in museums and galleries, with respect to policy, audience needs/ interests, artist-curator relationships, and everyday physical and material concerns. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Salon C Earthworks The Last Memorial: Maya Lin's Confluence Project Prof. Matthew Reynolds, Art History and Visual Culture Studies, Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA Overview: Situated at different locations along the Columbia River, Lin's work provides a model for rethinking public responses to ecological change. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Gagged in Dystopia: Exploring the Use of Plastic and Non-politically Correct Materials in the Creation of Art Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Nature and Technology Laboratory, Birchgrove, Australia Overview: Can the viewer identify with the problems in the Anthropocene without being able to connect it to daily living? I explore how the materiality of artworks connects to the viewer. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Ideas about Nature and Art Education Mark Graham, Art Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA Overview: This paper traces ideas about nature in art history, popular visual culture, in the work of contemporary artists, and in the practice of art education rooted in place-based pedagogy. Theme: Arts Education Preserved in the Sediment: Artwork Used to Facilitate Environmental Change and Document Our Cultural Landscape Aliyah Kennedy, Art History, Kent State University, Lakewood, USA Overview: This paper will feature the underwater sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor in a discussion of permanence and the use of art as a catalyst for change and preservation. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene FRIDAY, 12 AUGUST 12:55-14:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon D Workshops (12:55-13:40 and 13:50-14:35) Recycling Identities: "RecyClaySpain® " for Updating the Uniqueness Dr. Pablo Romero Gonzalez, Department of Visual Art Education, University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Dr. Estefania Sanz Lobo, Art Education Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Overview: What kind of process is more suitable for deconstruction of own culture? What kind of methodology allows to transform old identities into new creations? Theme: Arts Theory and History Writing Visual Art Dr. Tressa Berman, Institute for Inter-Cultural Practice, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Through presentation of examples of writing about visual art, I invite participants to share their own experiences, suggestions and guidance with others interested in writing and publishing about art. Theme: Arts Theory and History Salon E Workshops (12:55-13:40 and 13:50-14:35) Art Work: Using Artistic Techniques and Cultural Theory to Transform the Workplace, Workforce and Workflow Sacha Wynne, WAERK, Brooklyn, USA Overview: The expansion of the role of the artist into traditional business settings can: address limitations in the commercial sector by deepening meaning, developing empathy and forging connections. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Visual Narratives and Creativity through the Scroll Painting Dr. Pablo Romero Gonzalez, Department of Visual Art Education, University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Dr. Estefania Sanz Lobo, Art Education Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Overview: We discuss a cultural methodology to develop capacities of narration and representation, using the East Asian technique of Scroll painting (emakimono). The drawings had been collected in Melbourne and Madrid. Theme: Arts Education Salon F Late Additions Check conference notifications board for additions. 14:35-14:50 COFFEE BREAK 14:50-16:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon B Aesthetics and Semiotics Social Symbols: The Semiotics of Hegel's Aesthetics Dr. Charles DeBord, Philosophy, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, USA Overview: The social and historical dimensions of artistic significance are addressed through an analysis of the role of sign and symbol in Hegel’s aesthetic theory. Theme: Arts Theory and History Re(Making) Aesthetics in the Era of Anthropocenic Intrusions: The Return (or Revenge) of Natural Beauty Prof. William Hetrick, Division of Social Science, Bethel University, McKenzie, USA Overview: The paper constructs a counterhegemonic position that revisits the notion that nature has "purposiveness without purpose." The result is an alternative conceptualization of aesthetics from the standpoint of political ecology. Theme: Arts Theory and History Rethinking Yayoi: Neuroaesthetics, Asobi, and the Creative Practice Dr. David Bell, College of Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Overview: This paper examines Yayoi's expansive project from orthodox neuroaesthetic and autoethnographic perspectives, and develops extended explanations for her extraordinary invention as excercises in asobi, or play, as a creative disposition. Theme: Arts Theory and History Lui Shou Kwan and Modernization of Chinese Painting Hung Sheng, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong Overview: The art and Ink Painting advocacy of Lui Shou Kwan (1919-1975) is used to analyze the evolution of Chinese painting in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. Theme: Arts Theory and History FRIDAY, 12 AUGUST 14:50-16:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Salon C The 21st Century Classroom Reverse STEAM Ahead: Empowering Fine Artists with Technology Topher Maraffi, Department of Fine Arts, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Beaufort, USA Overview: I discuss a reverse STEAM (Art+STEM) approach to teach art students a new relationship with technology. Integrating practice-based research with traditional art pedagogy addresses technophobia in the classroom. Theme: Arts Education An OER Community for Pedagogical Practice in Art History Dr. Karen Shelby, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York City, USA Dr. Parme Giuntini, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Arthistoryteachingresources.org is a community driven, collectively authored site where art historians share pedagogical practices. Our paper outlines how AHTR provides discipline-specific pedagogical information through informal and peer-reviewed processes. Theme: Arts Education Role Immersion in the Music History Classroom: A Case Study Beverly Taflinger, Musicology School of Music & Dance, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Ashley Merriner, Musicology School of Music & Dance, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Kevin Whitman, Musicology School of Music & Dance, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Overview: This paper demonstrates how an adaptation of previous Reacting to the Past teaching models in a large music history survey setting can combat the deficiencies of traditional history pedagogy methods. Theme: Arts Education Decoding Symptoms of Practice-based and Practice-led Research Methodology in Indonesia Visual Art Practice Ecosystem Dr. Aprina Murwanti, Visual Art, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Bogor, Indonesia Overview: Utilizing Graeme Sullivan’s framework of practice-based research and practice-led research, this paper decodes the symptoms of these two methodologies to ignite critical understanding of visual art practice research in Indonesia Theme: Arts Education Salon D Late Additions Xu Bing’s Cross-Cultural Fertilization: Ziran (Nature) in Transplanting Dr. Ruobing Wang, McNally School of Fine Arts, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, Singapore Overview: Chinese artist Xu Bing approachs to nature of the others and his own demonstrates his frustration towards the cultural hegemony while drawing attention the notion of sustainability proposed by Ziran. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Constructing Relational Spaces: Rirkrit Tiravanija's Los Angeles River Project Patrizia Koenig, Los Angeles, USA Overview: This paper takes Rirkrit Tiravanija’s public artwork for CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial as a case study to discuss his practice with regard to art in the age of the Anthropocene. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene VoicingElder: Improving Quality of Life for Older Adults with Avatar Life-Review Semi Ryu, Department of Kinetic Imaging, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Overview: VoicingElder is a reminiscence storytelling platform designed for older adults, using interactive avatars. Storytelling nurtures intergenerational sharing, allowing seniors to express and affirm their identities as they share their memories. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Musico-Literary Relationships Bahadir Gulmez, Fine Art School, Anadolu University, Tepebasi, Turkey Overview: The possibility of using music as a model for narratives and using literature as a model of sound is a recurrent preoccupation. Theme: Arts Theory and History Salon E Music as Transendence and Transnational The Music in and of Ecology Prof. Michael D. Golden, Creative Arts Program, Soka University of America, Mission Viejo, USA Overview: This multidisciplinary paper considers musicking as essentially ecological behavior, connecting our inner and outer worlds, and explores implications of this perspective in education, identity construction, and environmental interactions in general. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts “I’ve Spent My Time Well Today”: The Effects of Community Choir Participation among People with Dementia and Carers Briege Casey, School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Overview: This paper presents a mixed methods study concerning the effects and experiences of singing in a community choir for people with dementia and carers. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Populist Inclinations in Classical Music: A Farewell to Elitism Dr. H. Zeynep Cilingir, State Conservartory - Music Department, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey Overview: This paper focuses on the populist inclinations in classical music that has been observed by musicians and audiences in the last several decades. Theme: Special Theme 2016: The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

16:30-17:00 SPECIAL EVENT: CLOSING AND AWARD CEREMONY The Arts in Society List of Participants

Adams Dean University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Adji S. Hum Alberta Natasia Universitas Airlangga Indonesia Ali Atteqa Zayed University United Arab Emirates Al-Tameemi Rasha DAAP / University of Cincinnati USA Amin Takiyah University of North Carolina Charlotte USA Anderson Daniel UNC USA Audissergues Thomas Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne France Auz Lucienne Memphis College of Art USA Axonovitz Judith USA Barichko Yaroslav St. Petersburg State Technological Institute Russian Federation Barron Michelle Kari Carleton University Canada Bell David University of Otago New Zealand Benčić Lavoslava University of Nova Gorica Slovenia Berman Tressa Institute for Inter-Cultural Practice USA Bishop Carol USA Boudreau Eveline Canadian Artists’ Representation / Canada Le Front des artistes canadiens Brown Adi Wellington Institute of Technology New Zealand Burkhauser Elizabeth Keystone College USA Cachia Amanda University of California San Diego USA Carino Christine Collaborations: Teachers and Artists USA Carnahan Julia University of California, Los Angeles USA Carr Lauren Montclair State University USA Carson John Carnegie Mellon University USA Casey Briege Dublin City University Ireland Chan Eva Sun Yet-sen University China Chang Yen-Han National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Chien Claire The Center for Photography USA Clark Allison The J. Paul Getty Museum USA Cilinger H. Zeynep Anadolu University Turkey Correa Helga Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Rs Brasil Brazil D’Andrea Marisol J. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Canada Dapena-Tretter Antonia The Walt Disney Family Museum USA Darwish Maha Alexandria University Egypt De Mousumi Indiana University, Bloomington USA de Villiers Gera Stellenbosch University South Africa DeBord Charles St. Charles Community College USA Demos T.J. University of California, Santa Cruz USA Dhanapalan Biju Nanyang Technological University Singapore Dragon Susan Central Queensland University, Melbourne Australia Drew Michael B. The University of Georgia USA Drucker Barbara University of California, Los Angeles USA Eastmond Dan Firestation Arts & Culture UK Elder D. Rose The Ohio State University Agricultural USA Technical Institute Etheridge Julie English Montreal School Board/ Canada Concordia University The Arts in Society List of Participants

Falasca-Zamponi Simonetta University of California, Santa Barbara USA Falihi Anahit University of Saskatchewn Canada Ford Colin University of California, Irvine USA Francis Carol Dr. Carol Francis & Associates USA Galliera Izabel McDaniel College USA Garrett-Petts W.F. Thompson Rivers University Canada Geary Mark Dakota State University USA Giuntini Parme Otis College of Art and Design USA Golden Michael D. Soka University of America/ USA Min-On Music Research Institute Grabbe Cody The Ohio State University USA Graham Mark Brigham Young University USA Guan Jingqiu University of California, Los Angeles USA Gulmez Bahadir Anadolu University Turkey Harman Fiona Curtin University Australia Hayden Robert Frederick Lyceum of the Philippines University Philippines Hetrick William Bethel University USA Heuser Frank University of California, Los Angeles USA Hooks Sean University of California, Riverside USA Hope Emily Kamloops Art Gallery Canada Horsley Cathy Port Phillip City Council Australia Howe Andrew La Sierra University USA Hwang Heejeong World Ethinic Dance Institute at Korea South Korea National University of Arts Ihrig David Independent Acting Coach USA Ismail Amany Alexandria University Egypt James Jamillah Hammer Museum USA Jones Eliel University of Edinburgh UK Jung YoungMee SangMyoung University South Korea Kallio-Tavin Mira Aalto University Finland Kamler Richard University of San Francisco USA Kane Kevin University of California, Los Angeles USA Kannar-Lichtenberger Lea Nature and Technology Laboratory Australia Karapitsanis Argyris University College London Qatar Keating-Miller Jennifer Carnegie Mellon University USA Keller Johanna Syracuse University USA Kennedy Aliyah Kent State University USA Keyser Jenny School of The Art Institute of Chicago USA Kim Seung Hwan Chungbuk University South Korea Kim Jee Won Yonsei University USA Kim Nanhee California State University, Chico USA Kirchner Carolin University of California, Los Angeles USA Kitai-Sangero Rinat College of Law and Business Israel Kluth Andrew John University of California, Los Angeles USA Koenig Patrizia Independent Researcher USA Kondo Ariyuki Ferris University Japan Koontz Marcy L. The University of Alabama USA Krawczyk Victor Jaroslav University of South Australia Australia Lachal Susie RMIT University Australia The Arts in Society List of Participants

Lackovic Natasa Lancaster University UK Lahiji Artin University of Saskatchewan Canada Landau Erika Mount Sinai School of Medicine USA Le Kim Curtin University Australia Leichner Pierre Gallery Gachet Canada Lindberg Lindsay University of California, Los Angeles USA Liu Jui-Ch’i National Yang Ming University Taiwan Livi Giulia Maryland Institute College of Art USA Losoya Joshua Salisbury University USA Maraffi Topher University of South Carolina Beaufort USA Marrucci Luca Trinity College, University of Dublin Italy and Ireland Mendez Rebeca University of California, Los Angeles USA Messer Jane Macquarie University Australia Miliokas Lydia University of Regina Canada Mirmobiny Shadieh Folsom Lake College USA Mithlo Nancy Marie Occidental College USA Mnatsakanyan Ani USA Morais Inês Isabel Oliveira Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal Ramos Rebelo Munday Jennifer Charles Sturt University Australia Murwanti Aprina Universitas Negeri Jakarta Indonesia Nas Elen Pontifícia Universidade Católica Brazil Nunez Eric Marist College USA Ohanian Nancy Rowan University USA Palmer Eva B. Liberty University USA Parkins Lisa Empire State College, SUNY USA Piazza Kirby NMUSD USA Piazzoli Erika Trinity College, University of Dublin Ireland Pietrantoni Nicole Whitman College USA Randolph Deborah Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art USA Rauch Barbara Ontario College of Art & Design University Canada Reynolds Matthew Whitman College USA Rodriguez Ponga Claudia Universidade de São Paulo Brazil Romero Gonzalez Pablo Autonomous University of Madrid Spain Rousseve David University of California, Los Angeles USA Ryu Semi Virginia Commonwealth University USA Salazar Constanza Independent Researcher/Cornell University USA Sanchez-Avella Cesar The University of Sydney Australia Sanz Lobo Estefania Autonomous University of Madrid Spain Saraswat Shweta University of California, Los Angeles USA Sasaki Kanako Tohoku University Japan Schwent Abigail Edwardsville Children’s Museum USA Sela-Amit Michal University of Southern California USA Sellars Peter University of California, Los Angeles USA Sextou Persephone Newman University UK Shaw JoAnna Mendl The Equus Projects + OnSite NYC Australia Shelby Karen Baruch College, CUNY USA Sheng Hung Lingnan University Hong Kong Shepley Alec Wrexham Glyndŵr University UK The Arts in Society List of Participants

Sherman Aleksandra Occidental College USA Silva Carlos Centre for Digital Scholarship - UK University for the Creative Arts Singh Ameeta Barkatuullah University Bhopal India Smith Bautista Susana University of Southern California USA Sover Arie Ashkelon Academic College Israel Spiak John D. Grand Central Art Center/ USA California State University, Fullerton Taflinger Beverly University of Oregon USA Tavin Kevin Aalto University Finland Teles Paulo University od Campinas Brazil Tervo Juuso Aalto University Finland Thomas Emma Lewis University of California, Los Angeles USA Tommasini Matthew Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Tsai Pei-Kuei National Kaohsiung Normal University Kaohsiung Taiwan Tupou Janet Auckland University of Technology New Zealand Turpin Etienne PetaJakarta.org & anexact office Indonesia Ugbeda Felix E. University of Nigeria, Nsukka Nigeria van Arnhem Jolanda-Pieta College of Charleston USA Vanada Delane Ingalls University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Vargas Elia University of California, Santa Cruz USA Vasiljević Sanja Independent Scholar/University of Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro Venis Jane Otago Polytechnic New Zealand Vitale John L. Nipissing University Canada Voeller Megan University of South Florida Contemporary USA Art Museum Wade Leeuwen Bronwen STEAM Education Australia & Australia Workshop Art Centre, Sydney Wang Teresa Open University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Wang Ruobing LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore Wang Shi Hui Ministry of Education Singapore Weppler Mary San Joaquin Delta College USA Wiley June USA Woglom James Humboldt State University USA Wong Dora The Hong Kong Polytechnic University China Wu Pei-Fen National Chunghua University of Education Taiwan Wynne Sacha WAERK USA Xu JingYing NanFang College of Sun Yat-Set University China Yekti Bharoto Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Indonesia Youn Haeyoung Ohio University USA Yu Boris Parsons School of Design USA Zdanski Clarice Franklin University Switzerland Italy Zhang Yiyu Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University China Zhong Mei Ball State University USA Zhou Aihua Falmouth University USA Zitzlsperger Ulrike Exeter University UK The Arts in Society Notes The Arts in Society Notes The Arts in Society Notes The Arts in Society Notes | Conference Calendar 2016–2017

Sixth International Conference on Thirteenth International The Image Conference on Environmental, Art and Design Academy, Cultural, Economic & Social Liverpool John Moores University Sustainability Liverpool, UK | 1–2 September 2016 Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 19–21 January 2017 www.ontheimage.com/2016-conference www.onsustainability.com/2017-conference

Inaugural Communication & Eleventh International Conference Media Studies Conference on Design Principles & Practices University Center Chicago Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College Chicago, USA | 15–16 September, 2016 Toronto, Canada | 2–4 March 2017 www.oncommunicationmedia.com/2016-conference www.designprinciplesandpractices.com/2017-conference

Ninth International Conference Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum on Tourism & Leisure Studies National Underground Railroad Freedom Center UBC Robson Square Cincinnati, USA | 16–18 September 2016 Vancouver, Canada | 6–7 April 2017 www.onmuseums.com/2016-conference www.tourismandleisurestudies.com/2017-conference

Aging & Society: Sixth Seventh International Conference Interdisciplinary Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Linköping University Society Linköping, Sweden | 6–7 October 2016 Imperial College London www.agingandsociety.com/2016-conference London, UK | 17–18 April 2017 www.religioninsociety.com/2017-conference Sixth International Conference on Food Studies Seventeenth International University of California at Berkeley Conference on Knowledge, Berkeley, USA | 12–13 October 2016 Culture, and Change in www.food-studies.com/2016-conference Organizations Charles Darwin University Sixth International Conference on Darwin, Australia | 20–21 April 2017 Health, Wellness & Society www.organization-studies.com/2017-conference Catholic University of America Washington D.C., USA | 20–21 October 2016 Ninth International Conference www.healthandsociety.com/2016-conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Spaces & Flows: Seventh Anglia Ruskin University International Conference on Cambridge, UK | 21–22 April 2017 Urban & ExtraUrban Studies www.on-climate.com/2017-conference University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA | 10–11 November 2016 Seventh International Conference www.spacesandflows.com/2016-conference on The Constructed Environment International Cultural Centre Krakow, Poland | 25–26 May 2017 www.constructedenvironment.com/2017-conference | Conference Calendar 2016–2017

Thirteenth International Twenty-fourth International Conference on Technology, Conference on Learning Knowledge & Society University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Toronto Honolulu, USA | 19–21 July 2017 Toronto, Canada | 26–28 May 2017 www.thelearner.com/2017-conference www.techandsoc.com/2017-conference Twelfth International Conference Tenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social on e-Learning & Innovative Sciences Pedagogies International Conference Center University of Toronto Hiroshima, Japan | 26–28 July 2017 Toronto, Canada | 27 May 2017 www.thesocialsciences.com/2017-conference www.ubi-learn.com/2017-conference Seventeenth International Tenth Global Studies Conference Conference on Diversity in National University of Singapore Organizations, Communities & Singapore | 8–9 June 2017 Nations www.onglobalization.com/2017-conference University of Toronto – Chestnut Conference Centre Toronto, Canada | 26–28 July 2017 Twelfth International Conference www.ondiversity.com/2017-conference on The Arts in Society Pantheon-Sorbonne University Seventh International Conference Paris, France | 14–16 June 2017 on Health, Wellness & Society www.artsinsociety.com/2017-conference University of Denver Denver, USA | 5–6 October 2017 www.healthandsociety.com/2017-conference Fifteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities Seventh International Conference Imperial College London on Food Studies Roma Tre University London, UK | 5–7 July 2017 Rome, Italy | 26–27 October 2017 www.thehumanities.com/2017-conference www.food-studies.com/2017-conference

Fifteenth International Second International Conference Conference on Books, Publishing on Communication & Media & Libraries Imperial College London Studies UBC Robson Square London, UK | 7 July 2017 Vancouver, Canada | 16–17 November 2017 www.booksandpublishing.com/2017-conference www.oncommunicationmedia.com/2017-conference

Eighth International Conference on Sport & Society Imperial College London London, UK | 10–11 July 2017 www.sportandsociety.com/2017-conference Twelfth International Conference on The Arts in Society

The International Conference on the Arts in Society began in Australia in the early 2000s with three community-based events–a conference on Indigenous Visual Arts in Adelaide and then two conferences associated with the Adelaide and Melbourne Festival of the Arts. The Adelaide conference was an initiative of the US Opera Director Peter Sellars, who curated the Adelaide Festival in 2002, and the Melbourne conference by Australian singer and actor Robyn Archer, who curated the Melbourne Festival in that year. These two directors provided the initial inspiration for the idea of talking about the arts at sites of arts practice.

We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, Virtual Lightning Talks, or 14 –16 Virtual Posters. 2017 Special Focus June 2017 Gestures That Matter Conference Partners Pantheon-Sorbonne Pantheon Sorbonne University, Paris, France University Institute ACTE (Arts Créations Théories Esthétiques), Paris, France CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), Paris, France Paris, France Returning Member Registration We are pleased to offer a Returning Member Registration Discount to delegates who have attended The Arts in Society Conference in the past. Returning community members receive a discount off the full conference registration rate.

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