Twelfth International Conference on The Arts in Society
“Gestures That Matter”
14–16 June 2017 | The American University of Paris | Paris, France
www.artsinsociety.com
www.facebook.com/ArtsInSociety
@artsinsociety | #ICAS17 Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society www.artsinsociety.com
First published in 2017 in Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Research Networks www.cgnetworks.org
© 2017 Common Ground Research Networks
All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the applicable copyright legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. For permissions and other inquiries, please contact [email protected].
Common Ground Research Networks may at times take pictures of plenary sessions, presentation rooms, and conference activities which may be used on Common Ground’s various social media sites or websites. By attending this conference, you consent and hereby grant permission to Common Ground to use pictures which may contain your appearance at this event.
Designed by Ebony Jackson Cover image by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope The Arts in Society Table of Contents
Welcome Letter - Common Ground ...... 1 Welcome Letter - Barbara Formis...... 3 Welcome Letter - Oliver Feltham...... 5 About Common Ground...... 7 The Arts in Society Research Network About The Arts in Society Research Network...... 11 Themes...... 12 2017 Special Focus...... 14 Scope and Concerns...... 15 Research Network Membership...... 16 Engage in the Research Network...... 17 The International Advisory Board...... 18 Scholar...... 19 The Arts in Society Journal Collection About the Journal Collection...... 23 Collection Titles...... 24 Article Submission Process and Timeline...... 26 Common Ground Open...... 27 International Award for Excellence...... 28 Subscriptions and Access...... 29 The Arts in Society Book Imprint Call for Books...... 33 Call for Book Reviewers...... 34 Recently Published Books...... 35 The Arts in Society Conference About The Arts in Society Conference...... 47 Ways of Speaking...... 51 Daily Schedule...... 53 Conference Highlights...... 55 Plenary Speakers...... 56 Emerging Scholars...... 58 Schedule of Sessions...... 63 List of Participants...... 125 Notes...... 137 Conference Calendar...... 146
The Arts in Society artsinsociety.com
Dear Arts in Society Delegates,
Welcome to Paris and to the Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society. The Arts in Society Research Network—its conference, journal collection, and book imprint—was created to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society.
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; Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK in 2008; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy in 2009; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia in 2010; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany in 2011; Art and Design Academy, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK in 2012; Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 2013; Sapienza University of Rome, Rome Italy in 2014; Imperial College, London, London, UK in 2015; and University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA in 2016. Next year, we are honored to hold the conference in partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada.
Conferences can be ephemeral spaces. We talk, learn, get inspired, but these conversations fade with time. This Research Network 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 Network Partners, the Arts in Society Research Network is curated by Common Ground Research Networks. Founded in 1984, Common Ground Research Networks is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Common Ground Research Networks takes some of the pivotal challenges of our time and builds research networks 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.
I want to thank our Conference Chair Barbara Formis and the local Paris committee, especially Oliver Feltham, who have poured much time and energy into this conference. I’d also like to thank my Arts in Society colleagues, Grace Chang, Jeremy Boehme, and Kim Kendall, who have put a significant amount of work into preparing for and carrying out this conference as well.
We wish you all the best for this conference, and we hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks
Dear Delegates,
It is a pleasure to welcome you to Paris and an honor to chair the Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society. I have participated in conferences from the Common Ground Research Network since 2007, and I have found that they always provide a particularly collegial and scholarly context for the development of research and the sharing of ideas. This conference aims to follow and expand the values that are at the core of Common Ground: knowledge sharing, dialogue, interdisciplinary, and faith in the future of the humanities.
This is also the reason why I proposed the theme “Gestures that Matter” as a Special Focus for the conference. From a classical and purely theoretical perspective, there has been a lasting indifference with regard to the critical power of corporeal awareness and knowledge—as if thought and research could actually be separated from physical experience. Such a bias shows an implicit prejudice towards somatic and emotional experience that needs to be reevaluated and changed in order to increase and improve scientific knowledge of the corporeal sphere, and to reconsider its value in society. The focus on the materiality of gestures aims to reassess the supposed primacy of “higher” forms of research and education (theoretical approaches and scientific facts) over other forms that are believed to be “lower” (emotions, sensations, and personal experience). Gestures “matter” because they are indispensable in our ordinary lives, but also because they indicate the social and political consequences of the primacy of the intelligible over the sensible.
At this conference we are privileged to host three of the most well known international scholars and specialists of the idea of “gesture”: Sha Xin Wei (PhD, Professor and Director of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University), Pr. Carrie Noland (PhD, Professor in the French School of Humanities at the University of California Irvine), and Alexandra Bidet (PhD, sociologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research). I would like to thank the three of them here for honoring us with their presence as Keynote Speakers.
I also would like to thank the members of the team Institute ACTE who are participating in the conference for their insight and enthusiasm: Mélanie Perrier, Coline Joufflineau, Gwenn-Aël Lynn, Kahena Sanaâ, Simona Polvani, June Allen, Barbara Portallier, Sarah Leperchey, Raphaëlle Widault Waddington, Olga Kisseleva, and Christine Leroy.
The American University of Paris accepted to host the conference, and I would like to deeply thank Oliver Feltham for having organized and supervised this hospitality, as well as Celeste Schenck, President of AUP, for her support.
A big thank you to Phillip Kalantzis-Cope for this marvelous opportunity of knowledge sharing and to his colleague Grace Chang from the Arts in Society Network for her very helpful contribution. I wish you many meaningful and rich moments at the conference and I hope to meet and speak with many of you.
Yours sincerely,
Barbara Formis Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the Sorbonne University Director of the research team EsPAS (Aesthetics of Performance) at the French National Center for Scientific Research Co-director of the Laboratoire du Geste
3 4 Dear Conference Delegates,
The American University of Paris extends a warm and cordial welcome to everyone participating in the 2017 Arts and Society Conference. We are particularly happy to host this event, and to continue our long-term relationship with both Common Ground and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, since there are many overlaps between the conference themes and our own mission and vision; for instance, the focus on the intersection between artistic practice and social engagement whether it be in the form of activism and civil society initiatives or in the form of interdisciplinary academic research. The very goal of a liberal arts education at AUP is encourage the emergence of what we call ‘global citizens’, citizens who are adept in not only moving from one culture to another in their professional life but more importantly in building bridges and breaking down walls between supposedly separate communities: ‘transcending the bounds of narrow nationalism’ was inscribed as our motto fifty-five years ago by our founder Dr Lloyd Delamater. We pride ourselves on our cross-cultural and interdisciplinary pedagogy, and we are home to over 100 nationalities with many of our students speaking three of more languages. We house a vibrant scientific community, with many local connections with French research networks, and we are also one of the few institutions in Europe offering Bachelors and Masters degrees within the framework of a liberal-arts style American education.
I would like to thank both of our partners in hosting this conference: Philip Kalantzis-Cope of Common Ground and his staff, and Barbara Formis, Director of the research team EsPAS (Aesthetics of Performance) at the French National Center for Scientific Research for her invaluable scientific input.
During the conference, you may notice that we are in the midst of our summer semester, and our buildings distributed across the 7th arrondissement are full of students and events. We hope that your stay in the city of light proves highly productive for your research projects, and that the conference provides just the right context for that chance encounter that sees the birth of new ideas and new dialogues.
Yours sincerely,
Oliver Feltham
Professor of Philosophy Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales Coordinator of the Philosophy Program, Department of History, American University of Paris
5
| About Common Ground
Our Mission Common Ground Research Networks 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 research networks 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 research networks 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 research networks 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 research network). 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 research network also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, quarterly 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.
7
The Arts in Society Research Network
Exploring innovative theories, practices, and critical analyses of the arts
The Arts in Society Research Network
The Arts in Society Research Network is brought together around a common shared interest in the role of the arts in society. The research network 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 Research Network enables members to publish through two media. First, research network 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 Research Network offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the research network YouTube channel. Quarterly 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.
11 The Arts in Society Themes
Teaching and learning Theme 1: Arts Education through and about the arts • Ways of seeing, ways of knowing, ways of learning • 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
12 The Arts in Society Themes
Examining the use of Theme 3: New Media, Technology, and the Arts technologies and media in • New Media, Internet, and Digital Arts 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, political, Theme 4: Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts and community agendas • The Arts and Disability in the arts • 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
13 The Arts in Society 2017 Special Focus
Gestures That Matter
Making a gesture involves confronting the unknowable. A gesture is not simply mechanical like a movement, nor is it fully semantic as a sign might be, nor fundamentally intentional like an action must be. The idea of a “gesture” escapes the classical categories of meaning and is never developed as an independent notion. A trait that often characterizes gesture is its ability to use the body as a means to draw evanescent traces. Because a gesture inadvertently creates relation, a “milieu” institutes itself within the interstices of being and metamorphoses our quotidian lives. The gesture is often a tool towards the transformation of the self and of the world. André Leroi-Gourhan writes that “the tool is only real in the gesture which renders it operative and only exists within a cycle of operativity.”
Intrinsically inter-corporeal and inter-subjective, the gesture is a “means without end,” in the words of Giorgio Agamben. The gesture is always a form of the intermedial. But when the gesture apprehends its mediality in an honest and noble manner, it becomes an artwork. That is when a gesture “matters.” Whether it emerges in a ritualistic, artistic or technical context, the gesture extends and transmits itself well beyond the duration of its concrete manifestation for both the doer (the actor) or the one doing the observing (the spectator). It is right there that the body draws a simple gesture and aims to show the most rudimentary form, but also the most essential, of that which we call “art.” The gesture shows a clear materiality insofar as it does not disappear as it seems, and it leaves permanent changes in the art world and in within society. That is when gestures “matter,” insofar as they both are important for giving a deep meaning to our lives and inscribe durable transformation in the flux of everyday event. Gestures matter because they are ethically, politically and aesthetically important. Gestures matter because they do not evaporate but shape our lives on the long term.
—Barbara Formis
14 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.
15 The Arts in Society Research Network Membership
About The Arts in Society Research Network 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 Research Network 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 Research Network 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 a Reviewer. • Subscription to the network e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the Research Network. • Option to add a video presentation to the research network 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.
16 The Arts in Society Engage in the Research Network
Present and Participate in the Conference You have already begun your engagement in the research network 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 conversation with research network colleagues www.facebook.com/ that will continue well into the future. ArtsInSociety
@artsinsociety Publish Journal Articles or Books #ICAS17 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 research network. As a member of the network, you will also be invited to review others’ work and contribute to the development of the research network knowledge base as a Reviewer. As part of your active membership in the research network, 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 research network colleagues:
Email Newsletters: Published quarterly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the research network. 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 research network members at: http://www.facebook.com/ArtsInSociety.
Twitter: Follow the research network @artsinsociety and talk about the conference with #ICAS17
YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at http://cgnetworks.org/support/uploading-your-presentation-to-youtube.
17 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 Research Network and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents 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 • 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
18 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.
Scholar Quick Start Guide 1. Navigate to http://cgscholar.com. Select [Sign Up] below ‘Create an Account’. 2. Enter a “blip” (a very brief one-sentence description of yourself). 3. Click on the “Find and join communities” link located under the YOUR COMMUNITIES heading (On the left hand navigation bar). 4. Search for a community to join or create your own.
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.
19 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.
• Create projects for groups of students, involving draft, peer review, revision and publication. • Publish student works to each student’s personal portfolio space, accessible through the web for class discussion. • Create and distribute surveys. • Evaluate student work using a variety of measures in the assessment dashboard.
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.
20 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
About The Arts in Society Journal Collection aims to create an intellectual frame of reference 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 museums and galleries, on the streets, Indexing and in communities. Articles range from the expansive and philosophical to finely Art Abstracts (EBSCO) grained analysis based on deep familiarity and understanding of a particular area Art Full Text (EBSCO) of arts knowledge or arts practice. They bring into dialogue artists, theorists, Art Index (EBSCO) policymakers, and arts educators, to name a few of the stakeholders in this Art Source (EBSCO) Computer Science - conversation. Business Information Systems Directory The Arts in Society Journal Collection is relevant to artists, curators, writers, (Cabell’s) Educational Curriculum & theorists, and policymakers with an interest in, and a concern for, arts practice, Methods Directory arts theory and research, curatorial and museum studies, and arts education in (Cabell’s) any of its forms and in any of its sites. As well as papers of a traditional scholarly The Australian Research Council type, this collection of journals invites presentations of practice—including Ulrich’s Periodicals documentation of curricular practices and exegeses of the effects of those Directory practices that can, with equal validity, be interrogated through a process of academic peer review. Founded: 2006
Acceptance Rate: Collection Editor 28% (2015) Publication Frequency: Barbara Formis, University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, Quarterly (March, June, September, December) France
Community Website: artsinsociety.com Reviewers Journals in The Arts in Society Journal Collection are peer reviewed by scholars Bookstore: who are active members of The Arts in Society Research Network. Reviewers ija.cgpublisher.com 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 Research Network, 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 Reviewers 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 Reviewers contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection.
23 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.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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].
27 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. 11 Sally Cloke, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
For the Article “Between Two Earthquakes: Gazing Beyond Kant’s Sublime in Humanitarian Disasters”
Abstract As the number of natural and other disasters world-wide increases, so too does the variety of platforms that produce, distribute, and display images of catastrophe victims. Are compassion fatigue and disaster voyeurism inevitable consequences of the networked society or can a new understanding of art, aesthetics, and representation be employed to help shape a more ethical and engaged viewing self? Using the image of the earthquake in history, art and sacred text as the paradigmatic catastrophe, and drawing on the research of aesthetic theorists and theologians, this paper investigates the shortcomings of the West’s prevailing visual paradigm for representing victims of natural disaster, the Kantian sublime and its Romantic developments. As an alternative, it posits the framework of the “eschatological” as a more creative and productive lens. In doing so, it uses the work of Australian war artist George Gittoes as an exploratory case study.
28 The Arts in Society Subscriptions and Access
Network Membership and Personal Subscriptions As part of each conference registration, all conference participants (both virtual and in-person have a one-year digital subscription to the entire The Arts in Society Collection. This complimentary personal subscription grants access to both the current volume of the collection as well as the entire backlist. The period of complimentary access begins at the time of registration and ends one year after the close of the conference. After that time, delegates may purchase a personal subscription.
To view articles, go to https://cgscholar.com/bookstore and select the “Sign in” option. An account in CG Scholar has already been made on your behalf; the username/email and password are identical to your CG Publisher account. After logging into your account, you should have free access to download electronic articles in the bookstore. If you need assistance, select the “help” button in the top-right corner, or contact [email protected].
Journal Subscriptions Common Ground offers print and digital subscriptions to all of its journals. Subscriptions are available to the full The Arts in Society Collection, individual journals within the collection, and to custom suites based on a given institution’s unique content needs. Subscription prices are based on a tiered scale that corresponds to the full-time enrollment (FTE of the subscribing institution.
For more information, please visit: • http://artsinsociety.com/journals/hybrid-open-access • Or contact us at [email protected]
Library Recommendations Download the Library Recommendation form from our website to recommend that your institution subscribe to The Arts in Society Collection: http://cgnetworks.org/support/recommend-a-subscription-to- your-library.
29
The Arts in Society Book Imprint
Aiming to set new standards in participatory knowledge creation and scholarly publication
The Arts in Society Book Imprint
Call for Books Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.
We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of: • Individually and jointly authored books • Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme • Collections of articles published in our journals • Out-of-copyright books, including important books that have gone out of print and classics with new introductions
Book Proposal Guidelines Books should be between 30,000 and 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats and are available through Amazon and as Kindle editions. To publish a book, please send us a proposal including: • Title • Author(s)/editor(s) • Draft back-cover blurb • Author bio note(s) • Table of contents • Intended audience and significance of contribution • Sample chapters or complete manuscript • Manuscript submission date
Proposals can be submitted by email to [email protected]. Please note the book imprint to which you are submitting in the subject line.
33 The Arts in Society Book Imprint
Call for Book Reviewers Common Ground Research Networks is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts.
As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication process.
Common Ground recognizes the important role of reviewers by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the Editorial Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website.
If you would like to review book manuscripts, please send an email to [email protected] with: • A brief description of your professional credentials • A list of your areas of interest and expertise • A copy of your CV with current contact details
If we feel that you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you.
34 The Arts in Society Book Imprint
Immersive Theatre: Engaging the Audience Josh Machamer (ed.)
Immersive Theatre: Engaging the Audience is a collection of essays that look to catalogue the popularization of “immersive” theatre/performance throughout the world; focusing on reviews of works, investigations into specific companies and practices, and the scholarship behind the “role” an audience plays when they are no longer bystanders but integral participants within production. Given the success of companies like Punchdrunk, Dream Think Speak, and Third Rail Projects, as current examples, immersive theatre plays a vital role in defining the theatrical canon for the 21st century. Its relatively “modern” and new status makes a collection like this ripe for conversation, inquiry, and discovery in a variety of ways. These immersive experiences engage the academy of “the community” at large, going beyond showcasing prototypical theatre artists. They embrace the collaborative necessity of society and art – helping to define the “stories” we tell and the WAY in which we tell them.
ISBNs: 978-1-61229-918-1 (hbk) 978-1-61229-919-8 (pbk) Editor Bio: 978-1-61229-920-4 (ebook) Josh Machamer is a University Distinguished Teaching Award recipient and
150 Pages the current chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. An MFA graduate of Penn State University, he has extensive college/ Network Website: artsinsociety.com university and professional directing credits, as well as production experience within the television and film industry. In the field of international education, Bookstore: theartsinsociety. Josh has served as: a faculty leader in university programs abroad; an exchange cgpublisher.com/ coordinator; an invited artist in locations such as London, Sarajevo, Dakar, and Prague. Additionally, he just recently finished an eightyear stint as a part-time faculty professional with the Pacific Conservatory Theatre, teaching courses and having performed on stage.
35 The Arts in Society Book Imprint
Ordinary Wars: Doing Transdisciplinary Research Genevieve Durham DeCesaro and Elizabeth A. Sharp*
Transdisciplinary projects are messy, complicated, and exhilarating. They stretch the collaborators, sometimes uncomfortably, beyond the predictable, expected, and routine ways of engaging with research. Making public the Ordinary Wars private tensions of “ordinary” cultural expectations associated with singlehood, Doing Transdisciplinary Research GENEVIEVE DURHAM DECESARO AND ELIZABETH A. SHARP* marriage, and motherhood, the authors used a kinesthetic analysis of socialscience qualitative data to create an evening-length professional dance concert. Ordinary Wars: Doing Transdisciplinary Research is an exploration of the project, from its inception through its current state. It focuses on providing readers with an understanding of the ways in which working collaboratively on a transdisciplinary project is both incredibly challenging and unpredictably rewarding. Our project has been fraught with fears of distortion and dishonesty, punctuated with questions of truth, fiction, acts of commission, and acts of omission. It has also been accompanied by groundbreaking ideas, feelings of triumph, and exponential growth. ISBNs: 978-1-61229-842-9 (pbk) 978-1-61229-843-6 (pdf) In this book, we invite readers “backstage,” exposing our discomfort, missteps,
111 Pages confusion, successes, and lessons learned. We explore how ordinary practices (i.e., disciplinary paradigms, social expectations of femininity) constitute Network Website: artsinsociety.com complex, yet barely visible battlegrounds on which wars are often fought in silence. We offer readers a vision of the larger project as a means of affecting Bookstore: theartsinsociety. change in the academy, our respective fields, and in our communities through cgpublisher.com/ making visible what we have come to understand are extraordinary Ordinary Wars.
Author Bios: Genevieve Durham DeCesaro is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Tech University. Her choreography has been commissioned nationally, with notable presentation at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She maintains an active performance career and researches across areas related to feminism in dance.
Elizabeth A. Sharp is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and an affiliate faculty member of Women’s Studies at Texas Tech University and held an Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, England. She has published in Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Family Therapy.
*Indicated equal authorship. The authors are listed in alphabetical order.
36 The Arts in Society Book Imprint
Camel Hair Tattoo Art of Pakistan: The Analysis of its Motifs and Symbols Afsah Idrees Akhtar
The unique and mystifying camel hair tattoo art practiced in the remote desert of Cholistan, Pakistan is a distinctive blend of art, philosophy, and mysticism. The artists make beautiful motifs by cutting the hairy coat of the camels. This technique involves cutting rough and coarse hair of the camel with scissors in multiple stages to make patterns and symbols covering the entire body of the camel. Later, the hair-tattoo artists adorn the tattooed camels further by applying natural red and black henna dyes to these geometrical and vegetal motifs. The embellishment of these camels pays homage to their beloved Sufi, who stands as their symbol of the Divine mercy. Seeking spiritual enlightenment, the owners bring these beautiful camels with them when visiting the shrines of the Sufis.
ISBNs: This book also explores the roots of the symbols and motifs used in this unknown 978-1-61229-888-7 (hbk) 978-1-61229-889-4 (pbk) art. Some of the fascinating discoveries include striking similarities with the 978-1-61229-890-0 (eBook) motifs of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization and prehistoric rock art, pointing
118 Pages to the continuation of the art heritage since times immemorial. These desert pastoralists and nomads, living in isolation in the deprived and pitiable region of Network Website: artsinsociety.com Cholistan, carry a rich and abounding heritage and tradition in the form of camel hair tattoo art which the world should know, understand, protect, and promote. Bookstore: theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ Author Bio: Afsah Idrees Akhtar is an ambitious, emerging art historian who has her M.Phil. in art history from University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan and received her Bachelor’s in painting from National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan. In her eighteen years of teaching, she has taught a diverse range of art subjects at various universities. She has presented at multiple conferences including the Arts in Society conference at the Imperial College, London, where she highlighted the unique art of camel hair tattoo. Her interests explore symbols and motifs used in the traditional arts and crafts of Pakistan.
37 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, Network Website: ranging from Out of Holocaust (1976), a full-size reconstruction of a barracks artsinsociety.com from Auschwitz, to the Table of Voices (1996–2013), installed on Alcatraz Island Bookstore: and traveling throughout the United States, to Seeing Peace (2002–present), theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ a continent-spanning collaboration 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.
38 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 requirements of both national and regional accrediting bodies, and then within the international
ISBN—978-1-61229-771-2 context by looking at the recognition of competencies. 318 Pages
Network Website: artsinsociety.com Author Bios: J. Joseph Hoey IV, Ed.D., spent two decades in the performing arts as a Bookstore: classical guitarist and has provided leadership for 24 years in accreditation, theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ 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.
39 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 representing childhood and, by association, house, home, and family. Domestic Space investigates the creative
ISBNs: process of these artists and demonstrates the role and significance of their 978-1-61229-873-3 artwork in the appreciation of domestic space in Australian visual culture. 978-1-61229-874-0 190 Pages
Network Website: Author Bio: artsinsociety.com Dr. Malcolm Bywaters is a senior lecturer in the Tasmanian College of the
Bookstore: Arts, Inveresk. For the past thirty years, Dr. Bywaters has worked as an artist, theartsinsociety. exhibition curator, and gallery director. He has a Diploma of Fine Art from cgpublisher.com/ 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.
40 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 narrow specialisms and short- term fixes when addressing growing global problems such as climate change, ISBN—978-1-61229-486-5 234 Pages economic instability, and provision of food, water, and healthcare for a rapidly expanding world population. Practitioners, researchers, and students in the Network Website: artsinsociety.com arts, sciences, and humanities will all find much in this volume to stimulate and inform new ways of thinking about their own disciplinary approaches. Bookstore: 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.
41 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 the final
ISBN—978-1-61229-566-4 chapter, methods for evaluation are outlined that can be useful when thinking 221 Pages about grant applications, funding sources, and personal evaluation of practice.
Network Website: This book provides an introduction to using art in practice and can be utilized by artsinsociety.com a variety of different fields, including social workers, drama and art therapists,
Bookstore: community 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.
42 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.
Author Bio: ISBN—978-1-61229-618-0 Donald Richardson is an artist, art theorist and art educator. In 2010 he was 379 Pages awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community and the Network Website: arts. Research for this book commenced in 1989. artsinsociety.com
Bookstore: theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/
43 The Arts in Society Book Imprint
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 www.assessmentincreativedisciplines.com.
ISBN—978-1-61229-427-8 160 Pages Author Bios: David Chase is the vice dean of academic affairs at the American Film Institute Network Website: Conservatory in Los Angeles, California. He was the senior associate director of artsinsociety.com institutional effectiveness at the University of the Pacific, where he also served Bookstore: as the assistant dean of the Conservatory of Music. Trained as a musician, theartsinsociety. cgpublisher.com/ 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.
44 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 • 2016 - University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
47 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
48 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 Research Networks 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 Research Network agenda. There are a number of ways you can partner with a Common Ground Research Network. Contact us at [email protected] to become a partner.
49 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 research network:
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 50 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 research network. 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 research network 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 research network.
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.
50 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.
51 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 network 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.
52 The Arts in Society Daily Schedule
Wednesday, 14 June
8:30–9:00 Registration Desk Opens 9:00–9:15 Transition Break Conference Opening (American Church in Paris)—Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common 9:15–9:35 Ground Research Networks, USA Welcome Address (American Church in Paris)—Barbara Formis, Conference Chair, 9:35–9:45 Director ESPAS, Institute ACTE, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France Plenary Session (American Church in Paris)—Sha Xin Wei, Professor and Director 9:45–10:20 of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, USA 10:20–10:50 Q&A Session (American Church in Paris) 10:50–11:05 Transition Break 11:05–11:50 Talking Circles 11:50–12:45 Lunch 12:45–14:25 Parallel Sessions 14:25–14:40 Coffee Break 14:40–15:55 Parallel Sessions 15:55–16:05 Break 16:05–17:20 Parallel Sessions 17:20–17:30 Transition Break 17:30–18:20 Publish Your Article or Book with Common Ground
53 The Arts in Society Daily Schedule
Thursday, 15 June
8:20–8:50 Registration Desk Open 8:50–8:55 Daily Update Email 8:55–10:35 Parallel Sessions 10:35–10:45 Transition Break 10:45–12:25 Parallel Sessions 12:25–13:10 Lunch 13:10–13:55 Parallel Sessions 13:55–14:05 Coffee Break 14:05–15:20 Parallel Sessions 15:20–15:30 Break 15:30–16:45 Parallel Sessions 16:45–17:00 Transition Break Plenary Session (American Church in Paris —Carrie Noland, Professor, University 17:00–17:30 of California, Irvine, USA 17:30–18:00 Q A Session (American Church in Paris
Friday, 16 June
8:30–9:20 Registration Desk Opens 9:20–9:30 Daily Update Email 9:30–11:10 Parallel Sessions 11:10–11:25 Transition Break 11:25–12:40 Parallel Sessions 12:40–13:40 Lunch 13:40–15:20 Parallel Sessions 15:20–15:35 Coffee Break 15:35–17:15 Parallel Sessions 17:15–17:30 Transition Break Plenary Session (American Church in Paris —Alexandra Bidet, Sociologist 17:30–18:00
18:00–18:30 Q A Session (American Church in Paris 18:30–19:00 Closing Award Ceremony (American Church in Paris
54 The Arts in Society Conference Highlights
Specia l Events Pre-Conference Welcome Reception Tuesday, 13 June | Time: 18:30–20:30 (6:30–8:30PM) | Location: Combes-104 Common Ground Research Networks and the International Conference on the Arts in Society will be hosting a welcome reception at The American University of Paris in Combes, Room 104. The reception will be held in the evening on Tuesday, 13 June 2017. Join other conference delegates and plenary speakers for drinks, light hor d’oeuvres and a chance to converse.
Conference Closing & Award Ceremony Friday, 16 June | Time: 18:30–19:00 (6:30–7:00 PM) | Location: American Church in Paris, Thurber Room Come join the plenary speakers, panel members, and your fellow delegates for the Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society’s Closing Award Ceremony, where there will be special recognition given to those who have helped out at the conference as well as announcements for next year’s conference. The ceremony will be held at the American Church of Paris directly following the plenary session and corresponding Q A session. Stay afterwards to take pictures with your fellow delegates and get their information to stay in touch for next year’s conference!
Featured Sessions Performing the Public: Figures and Gestures of Protest – 2018 Conference Host Wednesday, 14 June | 12:45–14:25 (12:45–2:25 PM) | Location: Room 7 (Saint Dominique) Dr. Cissie Fu, Dean, Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design Vancouver, Canada How does the public materialize? Let’s inspect the aesthetics of taking a stance and the politics of social choreographies through recent expansions of (dis embodied protest repertoire from Asia to Europe.
Publish Your Article or Book with Common Ground Wednesday, 14 June | 17:30–18:20 (5:30–6:20 PM) | Location: Room 1 (Combes) In this session, the Managing Editor for The Arts in Society Journal Collection will present an overview of Common Ground’s publishing philosophy and practices. He will also offer tips for turning conference papers into 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. Living Corpus Performance: By the Gesture Laboratory - 2017 Conference Host Friday, 16 June | 13:40–15:20 (1:40–3:20 PM)| Location: Room 2 (Amelie) • Kahena Saana • Mélanie Perrier • Simona Polvani • June Allen • Barbara Formis • Gwenn-A l Lynn • Barbara Portailler “Living Corpus” is a performance of signs, not by a validation of the association of ideas, but by a succession of gestures. 55 The Arts in Society Plenary Speakers
Sha Xin Wei, Professor and Director of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, USA Resistance Is Fertile: Textural Gesture, Nuance and Rhythm Sha Xin Wei is Professor and Director of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State University. He also directs the Synthesis Center for transversal art, philosophy and technology at ASU, and is a Fellow of the ASU-Santa Fe Institute Center for Biosocial Complex Systems. Dr. Sha’s core research concerns a topological approach to poiesis, play and process. His art and scholarly work range from gestural media, movement arts, and realtime media installation through interaction design to critical studies and philosophy of technology. Trained in mathematics at Harvard and Stanford Universities, Dr. Sha has pursued speculative philosophy, experimental art, and visionary technologies that are reciprocally informed to equal depth and poetry. In 2001 Sha established the Topological Media Lab as an atelier for the study of gesture and materiality. From 2005-2013 as Canada Research Chair in media arts and sciences and Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, he led the TML creating responsive environments for ethico-aesthetic improvisation. Sha has published in the areas of philosophy and media arts, science and technology studies, performing arts research, and computer science, including the book Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Media (MIT Press).
Carrie Noland, Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA The Ethics of Gesture Theory Carrie Noland is the author of Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology (Princeton, 1999), Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture (Harvard, 2009), and Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print (Columbia, 2015), as well as numerous articles on twentieth-century art. Collaborative interdisciplinary projects include Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement (Palgrave), co-edited with the Language poet Barrett Watten, and Migrations of Gesture (Minnesota), co-edited with anthropologist Sally Ann Ness. She is currently writing a book on Merce Cunningham provisionally entitled Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary. She teaches French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Noland has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (alas, in danger!), the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the John Guggenheim Foundation, and the Camargo Foundation.
56 The Arts in Society Plenary Speakers
Alexandra Bidet, Sociologist Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France Gestures : A Co-Genesis of Aesthetics and Sociality that Matters—Insights from André Leroi- Gourhan’s and Tino Sehgal’s Works? Alexandra Bidet is a sociologist researcher in the french National Center for Scientific Research (Paris). Her research are interested in work as an embodied experience, where gestures matter. She studies the genesis of valuations within daily activities, and pays attention to the inquiries led by workers, citizens or mere passer-by on what to desire or to care about. She is the author of L’engagement dans le travail. Qu’est-ce que le vrai boulot? (PUF, 2011). Among many articles, she wrote “Le corps, le rythme et l’esthétique sociale chez André Leroi-Gourhan” (Body, Rhythm and Social Aesthetics in the works of André Leroi-Gourhan). She published a paper on the Ethicized and Public Dimensions of Work in the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. The last book she co-edited, Penser le travail pour penser l’entreprise, has just received the 2017 Award for the Best Book on the world of work, category experts.
57 The Arts in Society Emerging Scholars
Anna-Mari Almila Anna-Mari Almila is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She writes in the fields of cultural, global and historical sociology, and her topics range from historical/political construction of urban spaces, materiality of dress and globalized fashion, and the history of fashion studies, to gendered wine and food mediation and mediatization. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2017 in press, I.B. Tauris) and the editor of The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017 in press).
Malaika Cunningham Malaika is a theatre practitioner and PhD candidate based at the University of Leeds working within the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity with Professor Kate Oakley. Her research focus is the role of theatre within political and social change. She is currently exploring the potential role for theatre practice within the political discourse and policy reviews post- Brexit, with a specific focus on environmental policy. She is interested in bringing together her work as a theatre maker and her academic background in Politics within this project. Alongside her academic work she is Artistic Director of The Bare Project theatre company. She is also a facilitator with Cardboard Citizens, and works with interactive arts company, Invisible Flock.
Janine Irvine Janine Irvine is a PhD (English) candidate at Massey University, New Zealand. Janine has worked as a life writer practitioner with a group called Time of Your Life and co-written a collection of stories. She also worked alongside the Rakaia community (South Island) to record, write and publish their community history. Participation in this community-driven, interdisciplinary collaborative process prompted her return to academic studies. Janine embarked on a PhD journey to explore how geographic communities in Aotearoa New Zealand research and write their own local history as a means to preserve their story. In her earlier career, Janine trained and worked as a development researcher in South Africa.
Harnoor Bhangu Harnoor Bhangu received her Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from University of Winnipeg, where she is currently working on her Master of Arts in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices. She focuses primarily on South East Asian, Central Asian and Middle-Eastern artists who interrogate gender, religion and diaspora in their work. After the completion of this program, she intends to pursue a PhD in contemporary Islamic Art.
58 The Arts in Society Emerging Scholars
Maryam Rashidi Maryam Rashidi is currently completing her PhD research with Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University (but lives in Paris permanently since mid-2016). Her thesis investigates the mutual contributions of art practice and social research based on multiple fieldworks and case studies of artists’ social engagements in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. She has conducted additional research with the Culture Section of UNESCO (Paris, 2012-13) and, since, independently persuaded the research, on the role of culture in sustainable development. She has presented the results of various stages of each of these in numerous international conferences and is currently preparing them for publication.
Donlisha Moahi Donlisha Moahi holds a Masters’ in Visual Art (Art Education) and a BA in Visual Art (Visual Communication Design) from the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, Western Cape South Africa, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Arts. She also graduated with a teaching Diploma from Hillside Teachers’ College, Zimbabwe. Her professional experience includes teaching Art at Junior Secondary School level in Botswana. Her research explores to what extent art processes can facilitate open, safe spaces where, through dialogue, stereotypes and stigmas can be negotiated. She was a recipient of the Strategic Merit Award in her academic career.
Rebecca Neale Rebecca D. A. Neale is a doctoral student in the department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, whose current research involves feminist anthropology, the visual aesthetic of religion and art as a source of ethnography. Rebecca’s recent MSc which was conducted at the University of Oxford alongside working as a Religious Studies teacher in the UK, focused on the role of art as an epistemological and experiential source for engagement with religion. Her research interests therefore include religious education, religious visual culture, gender studies and the intersection of art, religion and society.
Rémy Jarry Rémy Jarry is a PhD Candidate at the China Academy of Art, researching on Chinese contemporary art under the supervision of Prof. Gao Shiming. A French national, he has been serving in the role of Lecturer in the Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok since 2015. Rémy holds 4 Master’s degrees from Sorbonne University, Paris respectively in Art History (valedictorian), Journalism, Marketing & Communication and Business Administration (MBA). Fluent in French, English and Chinese, he had been working for renowned art galleries and auction houses in both Europe and Asia.
59 The Arts in Society Emerging Scholars
Seulkee Kang Seulkee Kang received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and English Literature from Ewha Womans University, South Korea. She is currently a Master’s candidate at the Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, South Korea. As a member of Emotion Technology Lab, Seulkee conducts research on how lines influence emotional response to art especially in Georges Seurat’s paintings and explores interdisciplinary perspectives to determine the impact of lines in various fields. Based on her previous research experience, she aims to study 19th and 20th century art and begin a comparative research of emotional lines in Eastern and Western arts.
Charlotte Tegan Charlotte Tegan is a photomedia artist, and PhD Candidate with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Her current research is an investigation into the ways in which creativity is affected by ambivalent entanglement and perpetual connection to digital devices. Previous research has focused on the museum sector and the role of mobile applications in education and visitor experiences. Charlotte has previously worked in children’s education within museums, and now teaches in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. Her photomedia work has been featured in a number of recent exhibitions around Australia.
Sara Richardson Sarah Harvey Richardson is a PhD candidate in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. Her research is concerned with the concept of ‘audiences’ and audience engagement and development practices in art galleries; in particular an exploration of the juncture between the theoretical and the practical, influenced by her work in gallery education. Sarah is also a member of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage, and an Education Outreach Fellow in Art History and Art Gallery and Museums Studies for the University of Leeds.
Annchen Bronkowski Annchen is currently an Art History Masters candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a focus on African art. Before studying at SOAS, she completed a MA in Museum Studies at University College London, a postgraduate Honours degree in Curatorship at the University of Cape Town and a got her Bachelors with Honours in Fine Arts (interdisciplinary practice) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include African Art, Museology, Art History pedagogy and the boundaries of the archive. When she is not chasing academic deadlines, she is thinking about a way to expand and diversify African art archives.
60 The Arts in Society Emerging Scholars
Clare Massey Clare Massey is a visual artist and educator based in Manchester UK with a profound interest in domestic photography as a cultural artefact. Using methods of appropriation, extraction, and intervention her work examines how we make and use images as a culture. Funded by the Arts Council of England, her current PhD research reflects on Instagram as contemporary practice discussing its origins and transformations. It demonstrates that visual culture is always active and in progress, negotiated through a complex temporal relationship, observed in the present, referring to the past yet facing the future.
Ilinca Damian Ilinca Damian works as Art Conservator at the National Museum of Art of Romania, department Museum of Art Collections. She recently defended her PhD thesis in Philosophy, area of research Anthropology of Art, at the University of Bucharest. Other studies include a BA in Art Conservation and Restoration at the National University of Arts, MA in History of Art and Philosophy of Culture. During her PhD program she received a scholarship from the Romanian Academy and she undertook research stages at the University of Vienna and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. She received the Graduate Scholar Award at the Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, held at Imperial College, London. Her work is focused on research regarding artistic practice and techniques, collection making, and art conservation methodologies. Her academic interests are in the area of philosophy of art with a focus on mind, meaning making and image making. The current presentation in the conference deals with defining artistic practice as being closer to scientific practice in the sense that both help not by defining or understanding the world, but actually by inventing it. The invention of reality is made through similar processes for both visual arts and science.
Inês Morais Inês Morais is a Phd student from Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal whose current research involves with the importance of communication strategies in museums of difficult memories. Inês has a MSc in Communication, Culture ad New Technologies which was conducted at ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal alongside working as a communication professional, researcher and teacher in Nova University in Portugal and in the Polytechnic Institute Rising Sun of Huambo, Angola. Inês presented papers in Germany, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom and United States. Her research interests therefore include communication, culture, arts, society.
61 The Arts in Society Emerging Scholars
Ninette Rothmüller Ninette Rothmüller is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Dance at Smith College and a research associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College, where she leads an interdisciplinary practice-led research project called ‘Undisciplined Interactions’. Her interdisciplinary ABD PhD project is located at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Ninette is a practicing artist and interdisciplinary theorist. Her research focuses on embodied knowledge production processes and perceptual intelligence and draws amongst others on voices from philosophy of the body and embodiment, cultural studies, performance studies, movement studies, and art. She is interested in investigating modes of enhancing public access to joint processes of knowledge production through embodied and/or artistic forms of knowledge inquiry, as well as by means of the creative activation of architectural sites through participatory creative interventions. Drawing on works by, for example, Henri Lefebvre and Julia Brauch, her work frames time and space as social conditions and constructs. As such, they are both vulnerable and open to change and interpretation through social gestures, acts of creating and embodied inquiry.
Kyla Searle Kyla Searle is an artist, educator and producer. Searle has over ten years experience in inquiry- based arts pedagogy. Her work as a dramaturg has been developed at New Dramatists, La Mama ETC, Soho Rep and the Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue; for her dramaturgy on Daniel Alexander Jones’ Duat she received awards from the Kennedy Center and the O’Neill Center. She holds degrees in Urban Studies and Public Health (UCLA), and Interdisciplinary Studies (NYU); she is currently completing an MFA in Playwriting at Brown University. RESIDUE is her latest play, an investigation of the East Bay Area where she was born and raised.
Tatjana Portnova Tatjana Portnova is a lecturer at the University of Granada (Russian Center). Also she is a PhD student in the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences, and her research is on the impact of creativity on language learning. She is working as a creative writing teacher at the University of Granada’s Cultural Center - Casa de Porras. Her interest in learning and teaching languages led her to work on a project based on a creative writing program designed to improve writing skills for students learning English, Spanish, or Russian as a second language.
62 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE
8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION DESK OPENS (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS - COMBES BUILDING) 9:00-9:15 TRANSITION BREAK 9:15-9:35 CONFERENCE OPENING (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS) Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Research Networks, USA 9:35-9:45 WELCOME ADDRESS (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS) Barbara Formis, Director ESPAS, Institute ACTE, University Paris I, Pantheon- Sorbonne, Paris, France PLENARY SESSION (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS)- SHA XIN WEI, PROFESSOR AND 9:45-10:20 DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF ARTS, MEDIA + ENGINEERING IN THE HERBERGER INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA "Resistance Is Fertile: Textural Gesture, Nuance and Rhythm" 10:20-10:50 Q&A SESSION (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS) 10:50-11:05 TRANSITION BREAK 11:05-11:50 TALKING CIRCLES -Room 1: 2017 Special Focus -Room 3: Arts Education -Room 4: Arts Education -Room 5: Arts Theory and History -Room 6: Arts Theory and History -Room 7: New Media, Technology and the Arts -Room 8: New Media, Technology and the Arts -Room 9: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts -Room 10: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts 11:50-12:45 LUNCH 12:45-14:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshops Full Bodied Voice: Movement That Releases Sound Prof. Debra Hale, School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Overview: Overdependence on technology has restricted the human voice in theater and in public speaking. Specific yoga movements practiced with vowel sounds reconnect actors' sound to their bodies for fuller communication. Theme: Arts Education Spirituality and Its Impact on Artistic Practice Candace Vance, Theatre Department College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA Overview: I experiment with the Ancient Spiritual Discipline of Meditation and its effect on the actor's Artistic Practice. Are there new artistic pathways available when we incorporate spirituality into our work? Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 2 Workshop: Special Session Un-Gendered Gestures Mélanie Perrier, University Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Overview: How do you "un-gender" the gestures? This is a focus on a choreographic piece and some experiences of practices. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
63 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 12:45-14:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Sonic Spaces Collaborating with Robert Crumb and Jack White on Discovering Old Time Roots Music through Rare 78 RPM Recordings: The Stories behind the Artists and the Songs. Dr. Jerry Zolten, Arts and Humanities, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, USA Overview: This is a discussion of the rationale, and content of collaborative projects with cartoonist Robert Crumb and rocker Jack White designed to connect contemporary listeners with vernacular music of old. Theme: Arts Education Changing the World One Voice at a Time: Philanthropy and Community Choirs in Australia Dr. Jane Elizabeth Southcott, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Dawn Joseph, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This Australian case study of With One Voice Choirs explores intersections between social entrepreneurship, corporate philanthropy and community engagement, and identifies benefits to quality- of-life and social connection through music engagement. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The International Student Experience: The Benefits of Blended Learning in the Tertiary Music Education Classroom Dr. Louise Jenkins, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Renee Crawford, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This case study discusses the imperative for the development of socially inclusive practices in tertiary classrooms and explores the benefits of blended learning for international students in music education classes. Theme: Arts Education Music Space in Urban City Life: A Research Model for Tourist Attractions in South China Yiyu Zhang, Department of Music, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Overview: This research will explore how Baiyun Mountain can be a model for describing the ways that new social spaces become sites for exploring musical life outside the urban city. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
64 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 12:45-14:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Critical Postures Human on Fire as a Gesture of Self-offering in Polish Documentary Films Urszula Tes, The Institute of Philosphy, The Institute of Cultural Studies, Jesuit University Ignatianum, Cracow, Poland Overview: I discuss a phenomenon of self-immolation as a form of protest in communist Poland. I analyze two documentaries: “Hear My Cry” and “Holy Fire.” Both films restore the society’s memory. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter The Visible Gestures: Ondaatje’s Anti-War Protest Dr. Christy Burns, English Department, Film and Gender Studies, College of William & Mary, Richmond, USA Overview: Michael Ondaatje novels draw on visual gestures to critique war. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter A Call to Conscience: Human Rights through Music for Solo Piano Dr. Ruth Morrow, Department of Music, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, USA Overview: Focusing on solo piano music which brings the plight of those less fortunate into the light, this presentation will include examination and performance of selected compositions. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Can Art Change the World? The Activism of French Artist JR Dr. Gisele Loriot-Raymer, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, USA Overview: "Can art change the world?" French artist JR reinvents the art of portraiture and realizes his 2011 TED Wish through monumental photographic installations and global participatory art projects. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 5 Practices of Teaching Pushing Hard on the Interdisciplinary Sound Byte: The Practice of Teaching and Research across Disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University Jennifer Keating-Miller, Department of English & Dean's Office, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA James Duesing, School of Art Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Overview: This paper considers the impact the Center for Arts in Society plays at Carnegie Mellon in fostering and developing interdisciplinary teaching throughout the university, with a foothold in the arts. Theme: Arts Education Tales of Divergent Thinking: Unconventional Materials Shifting Education Paradigms Dr. Terese Giobbia, School of Art and Design, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA Overview: This ongoing study defines unconventional materials and examines the impact they have on divergent thinking and visual literacy among secondary school art students in the U.S.. Theme: Arts Education Full STEAM Ahead? Perspectives on Arts Integration in STEM Education Dr. Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Overview: I explore arguments for and against the STEAM movement--arts integration in STEM education--through a case study of Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth’s intensive summer program, “Geometry through Art.” Theme: Arts Education Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Benefits of Arts Education Amanda Ditto Hernandez, Education, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA Overview: The objective of this literature review is to explore two dominant arguments within arts education and to establish the groundwork to make a case for consistently funded arts education programs. Theme: Arts Education
65 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 12:45-14:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Evanescent Traces Reciprocal Gestures in Arts: How One Gesture is Reciprocated and Posted Forward to Another Person - A Case Study of DIY and Upcycling Practices Barbara Portailler, Institut ACTE, équipe Art&Flux, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CNRS, Paris, France Overview: How can artists’ gestures be passed on from one person to another? A case study on the gestures behind DIY and upcycling – creating a bridge between art and society. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Performing Domestic Tasks: Gestures in Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1975) Sarah Leperchey, Institut ACTE (UMR 8218), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France Overview: "Jeanne Dielman" shows the gestures performed by a housewife while she gets on with her domestic tasks. This film questions quite accurately the way quotidian gestures shape our lives. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter First Generation of Immigrants in Beur Literature: Exile and Dreams of Return in Gestures of Resistance Dr. Imene Belhassen, Foreign Languages Department, Arts and Humanities, Penn State University Altoona, Altoona, USA Overview: It is a study of some gestures presented in the novels of Begag and Charef to depict the clash of existence between Beur and their parents. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 7 Sociopolitical Intersections Making Shift: Ecofeminsism and Basketry Aly Degroot, Law, Business, Arts, Charles Darwin Univesity, Darwin, Australia Overview: Basket-making methodologies are increasingly being recognised as an environmental contrivance. An emphasis is placed upon how women (predominantly) use basket making techniques along with recycled materials to promote ecological integrity. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Can Art and Imagination Battle against the State? Dr Mario Alberto Morales Domínguez, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Mexico Overview: Crater Invertido is an art group from Mexico City that produces drawings that question the notion of “state” as a political term but also as an ontological concept in art. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Performing the Public: Figures and Gestures of Protest Dr. Cissie Fu, Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada Overview: How does the public materialize? Let’s inspect the aesthetics of taking a stance and the politics of social choreographies through recent expansions of (dis)embodied protest repertoire from Asia to Europe. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Feminist Systems Thinking Theory: Analysis of Three Contemporary Art Exhibitions Dr. Ann Rowson Love, Department of Art Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Deborah Randolph, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA Overview: This theoretical paper explores the possibilities and development of a new feminist systems thinking theory applied to three contemporary art exhibitions that promote empathy through social and environmental action. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
66 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 12:45-14:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Art Policies Cultural Planning for Local Authorities Dr Beste Gokce Parsehyan, Arts and Design Faculty Art Management Department, Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey Overview: This study focuses on the practices of local authorities around the world. It aims to present a roadmap for Turkey, which will allow them to develop a culture oriented planning. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Mutual Impact between Performing Arts and Politics: An Analysis of House Bill 2 in North Carolina Amy White, William Peace University Theatre Department, William Peace University, Raleigh, USA Dr. Elizabeth Kusko, Political Science, William Peace University, Raleigh, USA Overview: This paper examines the relationship between performing arts and politics in the contemporary American LGBTQIA movement; specifically, the reaction of the performing arts community to North Carolina's House Bill 2. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts High Definition Politics: Political Subjectivity and BBC's Planet Earth Rhiannon Goad, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA Overview: I explore how Planet Earth constitutes audiences into environmentalist identities through and by a neoliberal humanist discourse, a discourse that constructs humans in opposition and as separate from animals. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 9 Innovations in Teaching Teaching Buddhist Art History with Animation: Two Experiments Dr. Yin Ker, School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Overview: This paper examines the ways in which animation can contribute to the pedagogy of Buddhist art history through the examples of an animated film and animated game. Theme: Arts Education The Space Between: Materiality and Teacher Education Dr. Boyd White, Department of Integrated Studies in Education Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dr. Anita Sinner, Department of Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Overview: This paper offers examples of investigations into the Japanese concept of “ma” —the spaces between private/public, teacher/student, old/new, young/old, self/other—that contribute to arts-based research in teaching and learning. Theme: Arts Education Realizing "Aural Vision": An Inspiration for Creating a Multi-Disciplinary Project- based Curriculum Larry Thompson, School of the Arts Division of Art and Design, Samford University, Birmingham, USA Dr. Kathryn Fouse, School of the Arts Division of Music, Samford University, Birmingham, USA Overview: This session offers ideas for re-designing an arts curriculum incorporating freely-structured opportunities which allow for crossing discipline boundaries and for exploring the connectivity of art to society. Theme: Arts Education Creative School Partnerships with Visual Artists Prof. Catarina Martins, Arts Education, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Overview: Creative School Partnerships with Visual Artists is an European Erasmus+ project that involves 5 countries (Portugal, Spain, UK, Sweden, Cyprus) and INSEA, developing collaborative work among artists, students and teachers. Theme: Arts Education
14:25-14:40 COFFEE BREAK
67 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 14:40-15:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Traces of the Ancient The Muse as Subject, Not Object Prof. Tracy Pattison, The Inspired Body, Shaker Heights, USA Overview: The muse redefined as a protean, multi-faceted creature, willing and able to deconstruct or destabilize his/her “moving identity” to embrace the present schemas of a choreographic process or choreographer. Theme: Arts Theory and History Greek Modernism and International “Avant-garde”: The Greek Artistic Participation in “L’exposition des Arts et Techniques dans la vie moderne," Paris, 1937 Dr. Maria Vigli, DOEPT Department, TEI of Western Greece, Pyrgos, Greece Overview: Greek modernism and international “avant-garde” concerns related to the greek artistic participation in “L’exposition des Arts et Techniques dans la vie moderne” (Paris, 1937) are discussed. Theme: Arts Theory and History Room 2 Art in Place Neighborhood Interventions: Art In Place Betti-Sue Hertz, San Francisco, USA Overview: Through international cross-cultural case studies I investigate innovative contemporary artist- curator initiatives in neighborhoods that create new consciousness using art as a social vehicle that challenges existing attitudes and structures. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Releasing Creative Genius for Social Change: Infusing Leadership with the Mytho- poetic Sensibilities Found through Being "in" the Arts Dr. Michael Bell, School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Overview: This paper explores how leadership infused with the artistic sensibilities and attendant to our primary concerns might release creative genius for social change. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 3 Art, Mind, and Body Preparing the Mind and Learning to See: Art Museums as Training Grounds for Medical Students and Residents Lisa Abia-Smith, Art Museum and Arts Administration Program within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Overview: Art museums and inquiry-based courses in the visual arts contribute to the training of medical students to gain improved skills in observation, better patient care, empathy, and reasoning skills. Theme: Arts Education Autopathographical Art Making Approaches to Health: The Mind, Body and Spirit Balance Clare Weeks, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia Overview: I discuss research approaches using autopathographic methods, visual imagery, gestural and performative arts to examine and reshape the illness experience: expanding our understanding of the role of art in society. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Making Meaning, Making Special: Learnings from Hospital-based Artist-in- Residency Programs Sally Francis, Arts in Health at FMC, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia Overview: Drawing on the experience of Arts in Health at FMC, this session will explore benefits of the South Australian Living Artist Festival Artist-in-Residence program at Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
68 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 14:40-15:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Digital Contexts Surviving in Photojournalism in the Digital Context Dr. Maria Bella Palomo, Department of Journalism, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain Virginia Guerrero, Journalism Department, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain Overview: This paper tries to discover how photojournalists survive and react to participatory media contexts. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Electronic Arts: Exploring the Interrelationship between Technological Innovation and Visual Creativity David Martin, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Prof. Jill Journeaux, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Overview: This paper explores the interconnectedness of creativity in the visual arts with technological innovation through a case study of the development of a groundbreaking provision at Coventry University, UK. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Towards an Understanding of Media Art Claudia Mosqueda, Arts and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Campus Lerma, Mexico City, Mexico Overview: This text proposes a comprehensive theoretical view of the present condition of the artistic languages of Media Art as events that break with the linear logic of art. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 5 Policy Impacting Institutions Tenthaus as an Intervention in Educational Policy in Norway Helen Eriksen, Tenthaus Oslo, Oslo, Norway Overview: Tenthaus Oslo is an artist initiated outreach program for refugees in Oslo´s schools. Our practice as artists in education affecting policy discussions in art education. Theme: Arts Education Affective Politics and the Becoming-Reflexive of the Artist Peter Zuurbier, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Tara Mahoney, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Frédérik Lesage, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vacnvouver, Canada Overview: The authors will discuss an affect probe research project uniquely designed for two Vancouver artists who were facilitating an art-based community engagement program around the 2015 Canadian Federal Election campaign. Theme: Arts Education Embedded Aesthetics: Artist-in-Residencies as Sites of Discursive Struggle and Social Innovation Dr. Michael Lithgow, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Edmonton, Canada Dr. Karen Wall, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Edmonton, Canada Overview: This paper explores embedded artist-in-residencies as sites where social and epistemological change can occur through the emergence of unique discursive tactics for redistributing sensibilities of sectoral, disciplinary and professional legitimacy. Theme: Arts Education
69 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 14:40-15:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Social Texts Community in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf Dr. Margueritte Murphy, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Rochester, USA Overview: This paper addresses the Modernist crisis of community by examining the trajectory of Virginia Woolf’s fiction where the affective fabric of the interpersonal is central to communities’ success or failure. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Many Women, Many Words: Narrating the Self in Post-Conflict Kurdistan Dr. Graham Mort, Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Dr. Muli Amaye, Department of English & Creative Writing, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago Overview: We explore older Kurdish women's narratives of their experience of the Iraqi "Al Anfal" genocide against the Kurdish people. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Politics of Non-identity in Edward Said's Autobiography Dr. Asmaa Elshikh, Damanhour University, Cairo, Egypt Overview: The paper offers a postcolonial reading of Edward Said's "Out Of Place." Theme: Arts Theory and History Room 7 Bodily Mediation The Art of Burkini: Design and Political Cartoons as Gestures That Matter Dr. Anna-Mari Almila, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, London, UK Overview: The burkini, often read as a political symbol, is instead a material gesture of semiotic multiplicity, allowing its wearer to engage in certain activities and penetrate (or not) certain spaces. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter The Hairy Other: Aestheticizing Body Hair in the South Asian Diaspora Harnoor Bhangu, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada Overview: This paper considers the aestheticization of body hair that is developing through the creative work of women in the South Asian diaspora. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Empowered Ingénue: Women Stepping Out as Solo Performers Onstage Dr. Melanie Enderle, Art History, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Overview: Images of female performers onstage during the past 150 years, from ingénues to superstars, illuminate the incremental achievements in the empowerment of women as they have struggled to gain equality. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
70 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 14:40-15:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Stakeholders' Perspectives Considering the Audience for Contemporary Chamber Opera Prof. David Forrest, School of Art, RMIT University, Parkville, Australia Overview: The experience of the audience as an integral part of the creative and aesthetic process is considered in the context of a small chamber opera company. Theme: Arts Education The Alchemy of Art as Research: Creating Data Dr. Jocene Vallack, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Overview: Arts-based research is becoming increasingly popular in Education. Alchemy Methodology provides an approach for turning subjective data into universally significant research. It is informed by Husserl's Phenomenology, and Jung's psychoanalysis. Theme: Arts Education The Evolution of Physical and Vocal Gesture through a Collaborative and Immersive Practice Dr. Geraldine Cook-Dafner, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Tanya Gerstle, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Overview: A director and a vocal specialist collaborate in an immersive rehearsal process. This paper investigates the collaborative communication style of vocal and physical gestures which emerged during this process. Theme: Arts Education Room 9 Theory and Perspective The End of Mimesis in Art and the Indifference to the Audience: The Romantic Theories of Karl Philipp Moritz and William Wordsworth António Machuco Rosa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal Overview: We will analyze some aspects of the transition between classical conception of art as mimesis and the romantic conception. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Dionysian Artistic Approach towards the Symbol: A Nietzschean Perspective Riccardo Carli, HAPI department, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Overview: Nietzsche’s conception of Dionysian art offers an emancipative approach towards our symbols, between the utilitarian tendency to crystallise their meaning and the existential need to remain faithful to nature. Theme: Arts Theory and History Eating Beauty: The Gesture of an Edible Flower Prof. Constance Kirker, College of Art and Architecture, Penn State University, Philadelphia, USA Dr. Mary Newman, Healthcare Environments, Cincinnati, USA Overview: Including flowers in a culinary paper is never an accident, but constitutes a meaningful gesture. This presentation explores the relationship between flowers and food, considering “Eating beauty,” edible flowers. Theme: Arts Theory and History
15:55-16:05 BREAK
71 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 16:05-17:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Performing Change Theatre Addressing Social Issues: Zolidis' Play "First Person Shooter" Dr. Judith M. Babnich, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA Overview: In the play "First Person Shooter," playwright Don Zolidis takes a complex look at the emotional abuse and bullying that led a student to commit murder at his high school. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Social Agenda and Audience Response: Things I Learned from Fat People on the Plane Kimberly Dark, California State University, San Marcos, San Diego, USA Overview: Autoethnographic performance is often about revealing the hidden architecture of everyday life. This paper explores the social agenda and audience responses of/to a currently touring performance about fat stigma. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Playing with Resistance: Applied Theatre and Neoliberalism Prof. Tim Prentki, Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester, Southampton, UK Overview: Applied Theatre opens spaces where alternatives to the neoliberal mantra of austerity can be explored. These are not spaces of violent, revolutionary change but rather playgrounds for irony and contradiction. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 2 Transformation Acts How Art Shapes Us: A Postdisciplinary Critique of Objectivism Prof. Tomas Pernecky, Faculty of Culture and Society, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: This paper presents postdisciplinarity as an invitation to creativity, various interpretations, critical analyses, and creative problem solving. It is argued that knowledge is profoundly shaped by art and inter-subjective experiences. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Art and Self-Knowledge Prof. John Pauley, Department of Philosophy, Simpson College, Indianola, USA Overview: Visual Art often works toward what I call "ecological explanation." This kind of explanation is crucial for knowledge of our shared cultural and human condition. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Well-being of Vulnerable Youth through a Community-based Media Participation Mari Pienimäki, The Faculty of Communication Sciences, Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET), University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Overview: The paper focuses on the potential of a community-based artistic media participation to support vulnerable young people to take part in society and to increase their well-being. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
72 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 16:05-17:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Gestures of Humor Virality in the Environment of Political Cartoons: Humour and Its Discontents Dr. Vinod Balakrishnan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, Tiruchirapalli, India Vishaka Venkat, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Trichy., Tiruchirapalli, India Overview: Why does humour go wrong? The paper examines Environment as a significant determinant of the semantic field in the representation and reception of humour as in the Ambedkar Cartoon controversy. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts How the Traditional Vietnamese Acerbic Sense of Humour Is Used as Gestures That Matter in Literature and Contemporary Visual Arts Dr. Kim Le, UWA School of Design, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Overview: This paper explores how Vietnamese people use their acerbic sense of humour to present personal and social matters in literature and visual arts. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Visual Humor: Cognitive and Social Aspects Prof. Arie Sover, Open University of Israel, Shoam, Israel Overview: The purpose of this study is to examine the cognitive, social and cultural aspects of visual humor, and the underlying technique that accompanies it. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 4 The Social as Text Illustration and Significance Avivit Gera, Tel Aviv University, Shoham, Israel Overview: The curator reads an archaeological site like a text. The curator uses remains and findings in history and memory in terms of creating a narrative. Theme: Arts Theory and History Steampunk's Rhetorical Allohistory Dr. Barry Brummett, Department of Communication Studies, National Communication Association, Rhetoric Society of America, Austin, USA Overview: The ability of Steampunk art and culture to create an allohistorical social vision is explored from a rhetorical perspective. Theme: Arts Theory and History Art and Agency for Positive Change Dr. Artin Lahiji, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Overview: This paper is a theoretically-based critical analysis that aims to explore the relationships and connectedness of art, aesthetic experience, and the role of art as an agent for positive change. Theme: Arts Theory and History
73 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 16:05-17:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Representing Gender The Representation of Male Gesture: A Comparison of Chinese and American Art Aihua Zhou, Art Department, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA Overview: Gestures play an important role in how we interpret the cultural background of figurative art. Theme: Arts Theory and History Children´s Picture Books and the Issue of Gender Dr. Pirjo Helena Suvilehto, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Overview: This research is concentrating on babies´ first books, picture books, and the contents of the written story and colorful pictures depicting gender. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Batallones Femeninos, Mexican Feminist Hip-Hop Activism: Disruptive Bodies, Constructing Citizenship Linda Daniela Villegas, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Overview: The female hip-hop collective Batallones Femeninos from the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez construct themselves as disruptive bodies while denouncing "feminicides" through autonomy practices and extended sorority networks. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 6 Hybrid Identities Towards a Critical Aesthetic Education of Everyday Life Prof. Dirk Michel-Schertges, Faculty of Arts, Department of Educational Sociology, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark Overview: Critical aesthetic education is to sense everydayness in its societal dissonances and to create perceptual disturbances in order to de-garbage the alienated mind and to struggle against cultural analphabetism. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Unconventional Costume Collection Inspired by Brancusi Art Alina Mihaela Gurguta, Fashion Design Department, National University of Arts Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Overview: The garment - objects collection "Endless Dress," in its various versions, is an example of transposition of the high Romanian cultural spirituality in fashion and unconventional costume. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Australian Children’s Drawings of a Hybrid Greek Identity Dr. Maria Gindidis, Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Jane Elizabeth Southcott, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This study explores the hybrid cultural identity of over 100 third generation eight to ten year old children using illustrations of what it meant for them being Greek in Australia. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
74 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 16:05-17:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 7 Interactive Immersion Land to Light-scapes: Vital Materialism as Interactive Enlightenment Dr. Jennifer Dyer, Humanities, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada Overview: The topological movement of light in contemporary Newfoundland/Labrador painting opens a new picturing of ecological responsibility: how non-human and human forces actively participate and interact in ecologically. Theme: Arts Theory and History Immersive Media Design: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great and Greek Museum Exhibitions Maggie Burnette Stogner, School of Communication Film and Media Arts, American University, Washington, USA Overview: The author elucidates the power of media to contextualize objects with authentic imagery, evoke a sense of time and place, and bring alive the rich cultures of ancient Greece. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Developing Timbre Palette of Film Music: The Emergence of World Instruments for Non-Ethnographic Association Andrew Sutherland, Faculty of Education, Monash University, London, UK Overview: I discuss globalisation and the modern film composer, considering the rich palette of world instruments in nonethnographic film scores. Theme: Arts Theory and History Room 8 Language and Literacy Transforming Literacy Learning through Drama and Literature: The School Drama program Prof. Robyn Ann Ewing, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Overview: This paper reports on "The School Drama" teacher professional learning program that equips teachers to use the transformative potential of drama and literary texts in the teaching of literacy. Theme: Arts Education Creative Writing as a Tool for Learning and Teaching Second Languages Tatjana Portnova, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Luis Gonzaga Roger Castillo, Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas, Santa Fe, Spain Overview: The present study documents the latest tendencies of the use of creative writing in language teaching and its advantages for the development of personal values. Theme: Arts Education Language in the Paternalism of the Arts Education Tiago Assis, Arts Edcuaction, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Overview: This is an analysis of some (im)possibilities of action and reflection on relations between the maternal language of a student and the paternal language of the master in arts education. Theme: Arts Education Room 9 Creative Identities Finding Identity: Using Narratives as Art and Pedagogic Actions Thibault Zimmer, Department of Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Overview: The arts-based research explores the role of Narrative Inquiry as multimodal, and pedagogic action to shift artistic instructional strategies when working with disenfranchised teens in the public educational sector. Theme: Arts Education Telling Stories: The Poetics of Difference Prof. Ian Whitehouse, Department of English, Vancouver Island University, Duncan, Canada Prof. Sally Carpentier, English Department, Vancouver Island University, Duncan, Canada Overview: This joint paper examines the relationship between art and identity in the Cowichan First Nation community and how the arts are being employed in revitalizing its language and traditional values. Theme: Arts Education
75 WEDNESDAY, 14 JUNE 17:20-17:30 TRANSITION BREAK 17:30-18:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Publish Your Article or Book with Common Ground
76 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 8:20-8:50 REGISTRATION DESK OPEN (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS - COMBES BUILDING) 8:50-8:55 DAILY UPDATE 8:55-10:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshops Movement Creation through the Lens of Diversity: Dance, Disability, Possibilities Prof. Barbara Allegra Verlezza, School of Theatre and Dance, Kent State University, Kent, USA Prof. Sabatino Verlezza, Verlezza Dance, New York, USA Prof. Nancy Lushington, Department of Dance, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, USA Overview: The presenters will address methodologies, conceptual and physical, they have used for twenty years in creating movement/choreography for dancers with and without disabilities in integrated settings. No dance experience necessary. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Collaboration or Isolation? Challenges of Being a Collaborative Artist Jeanine Henry, Performing and Visual Arts, Eastern Florida State College, Cocoa, USA Dr. Janet E. Rubin, Communications Department, Eastern Florida State College, Cocoa, USA Lynn Spencer, Humanities Department, Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne, USA Prof. Don Mangone, Humanities, Eastern Florida State College, Cocoa Beach, USA Overview: Centered on theatrical production, the workshop includes discussion of collaboration with participants applying ideas to a design and staging activity using a simple script. Theme: Arts Education Room 2 Icons of History Between Two Souths: Leonilson, São Paulo, Madrid, 1981 Yuji Kawasima, Contemporary Art History Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Overview: I discuss the Brazilian artist Leonilson in 1981 impacts on his oeuvré and reveals a transatlantic dialogue between the peripheral postmodernities in Brazil and Spain. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Nikolaus Pevsner’s Neo-Victorianism: What a Modernist-Functionalist Saw in Victorian Architecture Dr. Ariyuki Kondo, Faculty of Letters, Ferris University, Yokohama, Japan Overview: Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian and one of the founding members of Victorian Society, considered Victorian architecture as the perfect art-educational tool to develop people's aesthetic and mental faculties. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Artist as a Child: The Case Study of Maurizio Cattelan Edwige Comoy Fusaro, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France Overview: A substantial part of contemporary art refers to childhood, as well as the ongoing paradigm of the current western and westernized societies. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Jikken Kobo: Reconsidering the Concepts of Artist, Artwork and Exhibition through Analysing Jikken Kobo’s Two Presentations Yang Chen, MRes Exhibition Studies, University of the Arts London, London, UK Overview: The artistic experimentation and presentational experimentation in Jikken Kobo’s practices indicated several hints on reconsidering the notion of artwork, artist and exhibition, that requires further discussions through analysing its projects. Theme: Arts Theory and History
77 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 8:55-10:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Possibilities of Collaboration Soundwalks: New Possibilities for Spectatorship Dr. Charlotte Gould, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France Overview: New practices involving hearing have naturalized an association between contemporary art and the decentering of opticality. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Aesthetics of Interaction Design in Teaching and Learning Arts Practices: A Matter of Language-Gestures Awareness Liton Furukawa, Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada Overview: This paper is an interdisciplinary study exploring the collaboration of the linguistic and gestural expressions as a conceptual mapping modality in communicating arts practices to design aesthetical interactions. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Exploring the Feminist Hero Journey through Gesture and Visual Art Assoc. Prof. Jana Perez, Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA Dr. Matthew Henley, Department of Dance, Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA Overview: This paper outlines the development of a mixed visual art and dance performance that explores the ways in which feminist hero journeys are constructed by traditional and contemporary imagery. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Gesture/Painting: Allusions and Illusions Prof. Jürgen Streeck, Communication Studies, Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA Overview: The paper explores how gesture and painting illuminate each other as media/practices of pictorial depiction. Focus is on their common and different sensory qualities. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 4 Arts Impacting Youth Art-informed Research with Children and Youth in a Post-flood Community Dr. Julie Drolet, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Edmonton, Canada Overview: This paper presents an art-informed research approach to understanding child and youth experiences in a post-flood community. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Aesthetics and Ethics Informing an Exhibition of Artworks by Indigenous Youth Dr. Janice K. Jones, School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education, Faculty of Business, Education, Law and the Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia Overview: Exhibiting children’s art works can raise issues of representation, voice, authenticity and power. Non-Indigenous facilitators working with an Indigenous community youth group, encounter added challenges of de-colonising concepts of aesthetics. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Aesthetics-based Arts Integration in Elementary Education Dr. Marina Sotiropoulou-Zormpala, Faculty of Education Department of Preschool Education, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece Dr. Alexandra Mouriki-Zervou, Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Patra, Greece Overview: This paper examines how aspects of aesthetic theory correspond to different types of educational practices and how they could be the basis for designing workable arts integration in elementary education. Theme: Arts Education
78 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 8:55-10:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Memory and Identity Imaging the Body: Exploring Plight, Resilience, and Identity through Black Visual Culture Rashad Timmons, School of Journalism, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Overview: This work explores the ways Black writers and photographers engaged questions of representation and Black identity through visual culture and art in the United States during the twentieth century. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Art and Genealogy Dr. Lolita Nikolova, International Institute of Anthropology & Ancestry ProGenealogist, Salt Lake City, USA Overview: The paper offers a synthesis of how art is embedded in genealogy and a historical analysis of family photos and artworks, especially of European immigrants in the USA. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Art as Counter-Memory: Contemporary Lens-based Art in East Asia Nayun Jang, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK Overview: A paper on contemporary lens-based artworks in East Asia that represent resistance against the operation of official hegemonic memory, which eventually establish a renewed understanding of East Asian history. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Soul Murder: The Tragic Art Prof. Andonia Cakouros, Department of Theater and Dance, California State University, Sacramento, USA Overview: The ancient Greeks throughout the great tragedies captured the suffering and demise of the soul through carefully crafted characters. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 6 Social Implications of Music The People's Own MP: Music and the Northern Irish Hunger Strikes Claire Green, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Overview: I examine of the use of music to express support and opposition to the Northern Irish hunger strikes of the 1980s, by the hunger strikers, wider communities and popular artists. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Music as Gestural Performance: Self and the Community in the Indian Musical Tradition Dr. Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan, School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, India Sucharita Sen, Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, India Overview: We explore the role of gestures and movements in art and culture in South India, especially South Indian music and its social implications. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Impact of Western Music Culture on the Modern Chinese Chaozhou Pipa Xinyang Wu, Music Department, Nanfang College of Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou, China Overview: This paper provides a description of its morphological features, an investigation of its musicians and the characteristics of performance and an analysis of ethnography and culture. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Beauty from the Interaction between Chinese and Western Culture: The Influence of American Broadway Musicals on China Today Prof. JingYing Xu, Music Department, NanFang College of Sun Yat-Set University, Guangzhou, China Overview: I discuss the beauty from the interaction between Chinese and Western Culture: the development, innovation and change of contemporary Chinese musicals under the influence of American Broadway musicals. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
79 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 8:55-10:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 7 Education as Change Agent Extreme Environments: Arts-Based Field Research Scott Hessels, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: Hong Kong's art and design course partners students with climate scientists in remote ecosystems. Collected data is transformed into new media artworks for multi-modal public outreach. Theme: Arts Education The Role of Education on the Improvement of Glass Art in Public Spaces Parinaz Faghihi, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Dr. Fernando Quintas, Lisbon, Portugal Dr. Teresa Almeida, Oporto University, Porto, Portugal Overview: This paper studies the role of education to develop the artists' skills and motivations for making glass art in public spaces in the countries Netherlands, Portugal and Iran. Theme: Arts Education Characteristics of Engaging Music Performances for Very Young Audiences Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This research paper will describe and explore characteristics of engaging practice in music performances for very young audiences. Theme: Arts Education The Educational Project of Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon: A Revealing Experience on Childhood and Its Art Madalena Wallenstein, Fábrica das Artes, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal Overview: This paper proposes a reflection on the participation of young audiences in political concerns, throughout fruition and dialogue with the autobiographical creations featured in the Memories of Political Intention Cycle. Theme: Arts Education
80 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 8:55-10:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Resilence and Transformation Through the Lens of Age: A Portrait Exhibition Exploring the Power and Resilience of the Human Spirit across Generations Prof. David Schwittek, The Art Department of Lehman College The Division of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College CUNY, Bronx, USA Prof. Justine McGovern, Department of Social Work, City University of New York, Bronx, USA Overview: This photo exhibition serves to contextualize ageism across generations, highlighting the supremacy and intimacy of the portrait and its ability to reflect and elevate the human spirit, regardless of age. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Music Performance in Segregated Spaces: The Case of Lisbon Ana Estevens, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal Sónia Pereira, CEG - IGOT, Lisbon, Portugal Leandro Gabriel, Centre for Geographical Studies, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Overview: We analyse, in a culturally and spatially segregated areas, the music performance of Borja (2011) and the importance of urban collectives feelings and a sense of place. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts From Rats to Riches: An Exploration of Banksy’s World Inside and Outside of the Streets Emilee Lupi, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, New York, USA Overview: This paper explores street artist Banksy's encapsulating divisions through his work, creating tensions between anonymity and celebrity, streets and museums, promotion of activism and creation of art. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Art of Dressing-up in Fantastical Performance: An Examination of the Cosplay Fantastical Dress-up Phenomenon Dr. Anne Frances Peirson-Smith, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Overview: This paper will examine the cosplay trend to make, dress-up and photograph fantastical themed costumes of fictional characters to explore the motivations behind this creative, performative activity. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
10:35-10:45 TRANSITION BREAK 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshops Art and Medicine: Teaching Art in Medical Schools Dr. Erika Landau, Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA Overview: Teaching art in medical schools increases the students' observational skills and empathy and it broadens their horizons. The audience will be asked to discuss the presented artists and will draw. Theme: Arts Education Sparking New Conversations: Carver [On] Record Nelly Anderson, Partners In the Arts (PIA), Richmond, USA Toni Wynn, Partner In the Arts (PIA), Hampton, USA Elizabeth Claud, Partners In the Arts (PIA), Richmond, USA Sarah Marcellin, Partners In the Arts (PIA), Richmond, USA Overview: Through our project, Carver [ON] Record, we will demonstrate an approach to developing oral histories and new media into enduring works of civic art. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
81 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Colloquium Expanded Classrooms and Constructing Cross-curricular Communities Elissa Armstrong, Art Foundation Program, VCUarts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Sarah Mizer, Art Foundation Program, VCUarts, Richmond, USA Rachel Cohn, Art Foundation Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts Qatar, Doha, Qatar Simone Muscolino, Art Foundation Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar Nathan Ross Davis, Art Foundation Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar Valerie Molnar, Art Foundation Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond, USA Jill Ware, The Depot, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA John Henry Blatter, The Depot, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond, USA Matt Spahr, Art Foundation Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond, USA Overview: We discuss cross-cirricular and collaborative projects both in and outside of the classroom. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 3 Community Art for Change Cultivating Shared Learning Communities: Preparing Emerging Dance Artists for a Broader World Prof. Joan Meggitt, School of Theatre and Dance, Kent State University, Kent, USA Prof. Barbara Allegra Verlezza, School of Theatre and Dance, Kent State University, Kent, USA Overview: The presenters will share methodologies and best practices in teaching dance for nontraditional and integrated dance populations and engaging students in a broader movement community. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Educating Community through Theatrical Production: Bringing the Black Lives Matter Movement to a Conservative American College Town Suzanne Delle, Division of Theatre, Department of Communication and the Arts, York College of Pennsylvania, York, USA Overview: In this current political climate, can an educational institution safely explore diverse points of view theatrically without protests and with buy-in from all opposing views? Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Social Artist: The Implications of an Artist Working with and within Community Dr. Mandy Francis, University Of Newcastle Australia, Sydney, Australia Overview: "Social Artist" provides an informed rhetoric to help guide both socially engaged artists and organisations who wish to employ artists for outcome based projects. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy for Social Change Kyla Searle, Theater and Performance Studies, Brown University, Providence, USA Overview: How can we activate art as an intersection for interdisciplinary inquiry? How can dramaturgy be used to investigate social history, personal choice and political futures? Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
82 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Writing as Change Catalyst Squiddle, the Octopus with the Unicorn Horn: (Re)engaging Students with Creative Writing Reesa Sorin, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia Naomi Porter, Global Strategy and Engagement, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia Overview: This paper describes an action research project in which a creative writing club was introduced to upper primary school students in Australia. Findings include joyful engagement and more expressive writing. Theme: Arts Education Writing That Matters: Teaching and Tutoring Creative Writing in the Prison and the Community Helen Raica-Klotz, Academic Affairs, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, USA Dr. Christopher Giroux, Academic Affairs, English Department, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, USA Overview: This paper will discuss two creative writing projects led by undergraduate creative writing students held at a regional men’s prison and a local library. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Creative Nonfiction Writing as a Classroom Practice and Means for Personal and Professional Growth in a Canadian Teacher Education Classroom Dr. Robert Christopher Nellis, School of Education, Red Deer College, Edmonton, Canada Overview: This paper discusses a university assignment inviting teacher candidates to use creative nonfiction to explore lived and observed childhood narratives in support of teacher authenticity. Theme: Arts Education A Rustling and Waking Within: Poets Respond to Art Dr. Sharon Fish Mooney, Regis University & Indiana Wesleyan University, Scio, USA Overview: Ekphrastic poetry is the focus with an overview of cooperative ventures by the Ohio Poetry Association (USA), English teachers and their students, art historians and art museums in Ohio. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
83 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Visual Thinking Visual Thinking in Art and Constructive Play Dr. Adrienne Gans, Psychology Department, New York University, New York, USA Overview: Aesthetic visual thinking as a motivated interaction of emotion and cognitive processes is illustrated in: audience engagement with public art; aesthetic style in constructive play, and painter Wassily Kandinsky's iconography. Theme: Arts Theory and History Drawing, Painting and Sculpting as Educational Navigation between the Present and the Past Dr. Jari Martikainen, Social Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland Overview: I discuss art-based learning-by-doing as a method of learning and teaching art history. Theme: Arts Education Disorderly Aesthetics: Fractals, Contagion, Infinity Dr. Natasha Lushetich, Faculty of Fine Art, New Media, and Creative Industries, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore, Singapore Overview: By engaging in a comparative analysis of the 1960s’ and 2010s’ intermedial artistic practices, this paper advances the theorisation of disorder beyond the transgressive/ameliorative aesthetics, offering a phenomenology of complexity. Theme: Arts Theory and History Nonverbal Communication of Color in Indian Miniature Painting Prof. Amit Ray, School of Humanities & Social Sciences Department of Art, Design & Performing Art, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida (NCR), India Overview: Color plays an important role in Nonverbal Communication. The Indian Rajput Miniature watercolor painting (classical music) contributed in the field of nonverbal communication through visual illustration of musical scores. Theme: Arts Theory and History
84 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Art Intersections Accessibility in Arts and Culture: Learning from Crip Theory Dr. Anu Laukkanen, Research Center for Culture and Health School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Overview: This paper examines the overlapping discourses of access(ibility) in the intersection of arts and health as presented in a selection of Finnish cultural policy documents and reports from the 2000s. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Effectiveness of Art-based Interventions in Reducing Stress among Mental Health Professionals Dr. Dorit Segal-Engelchin, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Prof. Orly Sarid, Spitzer Social Work Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Dr. Ephrat Huss, Spitzer Social Work Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Overview: Art-based intervention effectiveness on stress among MHPs who shared war-related stress with their clients was measured using a pre-post design. Implications for MHPs operating in additional shared disasters are discussed. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Visual Communication in the Urban Space of Novosibirsk: Differentiation and Perception Kseniya Kalashnikova, Department of Economics Chair of General Sociology, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation Overview: This research mostly aims at identifying the kinds of objects of visual culture in public space. The following kinds are particularly described: inscriptions and marks, graffiti, street-art, public-art, HCS- art, buffs. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Pioneering Collaborative Arts in the Philippines through Kapwa Psychology Micah Sofia Pinto, Para Sa Sining, Manila, Philippines Overview: The arts is essential to community building. Linking collaborative arts to the core of the Filipino psyche leads to more concrete strategies in realizing community development goals. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
85 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 7 Acts of History Gestures That Matter: Winslow Homer and the Demi-Monde Dr. Marie Louden-Hanes, College of Liberal Arts Department of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Findlay, Findlay, USA Overview: Winslow Homer’s illustrations of urban environments identify select groups of women. As engaged players in the sexual life of the city, the prostitutes had become a visible dimension of culture. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Gestures that (Still) Matter: Obscene Gestures in 17th-century Dutch Genre Painting Dr. Jochai Rosen, Department of Art History, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Overview: This lecture discusses the various embodiments of obscene gestures in 17th-century Dutch genre painting, the methods chose to conceal them, and the ethical questions surrounding the misrepresentation of such paintings. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Re-enacting Laurence Sterne's 18th Century Gesture Dr. Paul Munden, International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI), University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Assoc. Prof. Paul Hetherington, International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI), University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Overview: Sterne's famous inclusion of a blank page in Tristram Shandy urged every reader into an active, imaginative contribution to the work. How might contemporary artists give such imaginings form? Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter American Artists and the West German Art Field during the 1960s Dr. Mira Banay, Department of Literature, Language and Arts, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel Overview: I discuss the organized penetration of American artists of the 1960s, especially to Germany as they promoted their vision in exhibitions and site-specific installations. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
86 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 10:45-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Artist Perspectives The Kjersmeier: Man Ray Vision of African Art Prof. Christer Lindberg, Lund University, Department of Social Ánthropology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Overview: This is the story about the images that Man Ray did'nt take even though he established a collaboration with famous Danish art collector Carl Kjersmeier. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Art of Adi Da Samraj as Self-inquiry: Participation in Aesthetic Ecstasy as Liberation Dr. Joseph Troncale, Arts and Sciences Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Richmond, Richmond, USA Overview: Adi Da Samraj’s art invites participatoriness and engenders radical self-understanding in the self-inquiring viewer, who enjoys a form of ecstasy in liberation from the confines of point of view. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Duchamp’s Gestures as Templates for Art-as-Life Practices Dr. Carol Bishop, Department of Art, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles, USA Overview: Marcel Duchamp’s gestures reverberate not only as templates for developing contemporary innovative studio art; they also act as a framework for art-as-life practices. Theme: Arts Theory and History Georges Seurat’s Rhythmical Lines: Embodiment of Gestures and Emotions Seulkee Kang, Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea Prof. Sungju Woo, Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea Overview: Integrating art and science, Georges Seurat experimented the theories of rhythmic lines in his works and applying these theories to digital contents is important for sentiment analysis and effective communication. Theme: Arts Theory and History
12:25-13:10 LUNCH 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshop Gestures of Defiance: The Older Woman Centre Stage Sian Stevenson, Drama Department, Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company, Canterbury, UK Overview: The Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company present a workshop, “Gestures of Defiance,” within which participants will be introduced to some of the key elements that drive the company's creative process. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
87 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Poster Session Equality Roberta Orlando, Genoa, Italy Overview: Started in 2011, Equality is the collection of performances, videos and photographs related to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, made by Roberta Orlando. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Mythmaking from the Other Side: Creating Narratives of Strength and Equality Lynette Vought, Humanities, Ferris State University, Rodney, USA Overview: I discuss visual narratives that navigate away from traditional patriarchal forms and toward feminine narratives of strength and authenticity. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Drawing Together: Collective Arts-based Autoethnography Addressing Community-Engaged Art Educational Initiatives Dr. James Woglom, Art Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA Overview: The presenter and three undergraduate fellows have composed a series of arts-based visual analyses of shared experiences related to the collaborative expansion of a community-engaged, art educational service learning initiative. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Rubbing Up Against Time: Waterford, Ireland-Fulton, New York Richard Metzgar, Art Department, State University of New York at Oswego, Fulton, USA Eric Metzgar, Rochester, USA Overview: Through frottage drawings and music compositions, an examination of Waterford, Ireland and Fulton, New York that reveal the expressive qualities of place through the lens of time and scale. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Teaching Social Responsibility through Dance Appreciation Haley Hoss-Jameson, Kinesiology & Health Science, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, USA Overview: Concepts of social responsibility, politics, and religion are explored in a Dance Appreciation class. This aims to share dance forms and student learning with regard to dance education and politics. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Beautiful Affliction: Revealing the Beauty of Suffering and Disease through Collaborative Performance Art Cherie Acosta, Department of Theatre & Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Lamar University, Beaumont, USA Travis Prokop, Department of Theatre & Dance/College of Fine Arts and Communication, Lamar University, Beaumont, USA Overview: The unseen beauty found in suffering and disease is uncovered through costume design and dance utilizing the photographs of microscopic disease printed onto fabrics and constructed into Grecian gowns. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Regional Cultural Partnerships Program Elizabeth Zito, Cultural Partnership Team, Regional Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Overview: We explicitly address social and community agendas in the arts, as well as political agendas through our advocacy work. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Constructing the Ineffable in the Poetry of Rumi Prof. Behzad Nakhjavan, Auburn University, Auburn, USA Overview: Can visual inquiries into the space of poetry find parallels into teaching the making of spaces in interior architecture? Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
88 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Creating Authentic Patterns in Woodblock Kerchief Printing Ayse-Secil Tekin-Akbulut, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey Overview: The current study is aimed to create a different outcome through following the basic principles of the art, but through developing new and authentic cloth printing patterns. Theme: Arts Education Sari and Fashion Dynamics in Tamilnadu, India Nithya Shreen, Department of Commerce, Stella Maris College, University of Madras, Chennai, India Dr. Kala Shreen, Department of Research, Centre for Creativity, Heritage and Development, Chennai, India Overview: The poster reflects the valuation of the sari as evidenced in the findings of a consumer survey and its co-relation to the practices of leading fashion houses in Chennai, India. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
89 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Poster Session Living Mandala: The Cosmic of Being Jing Zhou, Department of Art and Design, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, USA Overview: Built with an open source programming language with real-time data, this interactive graphic installation is a visual exploration into uncharted territories of the human soul sculpted by our present time. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Application of Hapa-Zome to Cotton Fabric Duygu Irem Can, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey Overview: Hapa-Zome technique will be applied to cotton fabrics by using various plants. Theme: Arts Education Expressions of the Forbidden: Choreography and Societal Pressures Heather Samuelson, College of Education, Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, Dance Program, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, USA Overview: "M.E." is a choreographic exploration depicting eating disorders and self-mutilation; specifically cutting. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter The Populariztion of Science through Art Dr. María Eugenia Sánchez Ramos, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Carmen Dolores Barroso García, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Overview: The popularization of science requires a link to graphic design because it demands the socialization of knowledge generated by science in a clear and simple form. Theme: Arts Education The Social Violence and Political Events That Influenced African-American Artists during the Civil Rights Movement 1960's and Early 1970's: Human Rights, Social Justice, and the African-American Artists Dr. Willie F. Hooker, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Charlotte, USA Overview: The social, political, and community agendas influenced African-American Artist during the Civil Rights Movement helped galvanize the political,social, and aesthetic agenda for African-Americans. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Native American Wearing Blanket Series Product as Portrait Kathleen VanDeMark, Graphic Design, Ferris State University, Rodney, USA Overview: I discuss visual images which use ethnological artifacts to gesture towards portraiture by embodying the semiotic relationship of intimacy through visual semantics. Theme: Arts Theory and History The World's Largest PDF: A Work in Internet Art Matthew Jenkins, Department of Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, USA Overview: I routinely search the internet for any PDF file with the words "world's largest" in the title or the description. Subsequent files are recombined into a new PDF. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Le Art de la Mode: An Art and Fashion Design Battle Dr. Marcy L. Koontz, College of Human Environmental Sciences, Department of Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA Overview: I discuss an experiential eight-hour art and fashion design battle held simultaneously in six different locations in the city center featuring teams partnered with a local food/beverage business. Theme: Arts Education
90 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Dance Any Way: A Pedagogic Framework for Primary School Dance Miriam Torzillo, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia Reesa Sorin, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia Overview: This paper will introduce the Dance Any Way framework for primary school students, developed through qualitative case study research. It presents strategies for generalist classroom teachers to teach dance. Theme: Arts Education Hotline Namie: Conversation without the Other Dr. Kanako Sasaki, Department of Information Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Overview: Hotline namie provides Fukushima evacuees a sense of home and a place to speak inner voice, while they are loosing their voices from being stigmatized. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Great Mongolian Shahnama: A Manifestation of Power Elahe Shahrad, Department of Arts and Architecture, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Prof. Abolghasem Dadvar, Faculty of Arts, Al-zahra University, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: This poster discusses the social dimension of The Great Mongolian Shahnama. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
91 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Virtual Lightning Talk Soma and Solidarity: How Musical Knowledge Can Motivate Social and Environmental Activism Dr. Brian Harlan, Office of the Provost, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA Overview: I discuss how musical knowledge can motivate social and environmental activism. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Blurred Boundaries: Student as Teacher, Teacher as Student Dr. Lisa Sharpe, Digital Media Department, Greenville College, Greenville, USA Overview: Professors of art judge student work, critique work, and facilitate the creative process. When the professor removes him or herself from the position of authority, new creative possibilities exist. Theme: Arts Education Arts Pedagogy: Refining Our “Touch” with Gifted and Talented Youth Dr. Angelica Astor, Educational Specialties, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA Martha Astor, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA Overview: Brains of gifted and talented appear to work quite differently. Pedagogy can capitalize on this and enhance student motivation, sense of self and strengthen focus. Theme: Arts Education Interactive Music through Vocal Ecosystems Jeri Brown, Music, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Overview: Vocal ecosystem is an improvisational aide in the creation of interactive music through the biological ecosystems of vocal language, culture, sound technology, environment and the interaction of these domains. Theme: Arts Education What I See, Who I Am: Saudi Women Enrolled in University Photo Course Teach Disabled Children to Communicate with Cameras Prof. Janice L. Levy, Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA Overview: Fifteen photography students from Princess Nora University (PNU), Riyadh, KSA taught chidren from the Disabled Children’s Association (DCA) to express themselves through photography. The outcome was inspiring. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Redefining Cultural Literacy: Emerging Cultural Literacy Initiatives in the Philippines Janine Patricia Santos, Department of Theatre, Fo Guang College, Manila, Philippines Overview: This paper looks at the redefinition of cultural literacy in the advent of neoliberal advancements based on the critical ethnography of six cultural literacy initiatives in the Philippines. Theme: Arts Education Chinese Characters as Concept and the International Language of Visual Art Dr. Jean Ippolito, Humanities Division Art Department, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, USA Overview: A number of artists of China use Chinese characters in their work. Whether legible or illegible, the results are wrought with deep layers of meaning, and social or political content. Theme: Arts Theory and History Lions, Spiders, and Termites, Oh My! Valued, Yet Imperiled, Moments in Ewe Storytelling Dr. Nathan Crook, Arts, Science and Business Division, Ohio State University, Wooster, USA Dr. D. Rose Elder, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ghana Research & Education Abroad Coordinator & Leader, and Community Service Tutor Coordinator, Ohio State, Wooster, USA Overview: This paper addresses how storytelling constructs and maintains Ghana's Ewe communities and evokes the storytelling performance to describe the art of Ewe cultural expression in honk, aria, stomp, and whisper. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
92 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Transmediation of Art, Reading, and Writing: Using Sketch Journals for Critical Literacy and Reflective Learning Dr. Mi-Hyun Chung, Department of Literacy and Multilingual Studies School of Education, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, USA Overview: Sketch journals can promote diverse ways of learning and critical literacy practice. As teachers used the sketch journal, transmediation of art and literacy occurred to help their reflective learning. Theme: Arts Education Creative Writing as a Gesture in Synchronicity: One Moment in Time Dr. Donna Clovis, Visual Culture/Arts, Franklin University, Princeton Junction, USA Overview: Synchronicity is serendipitous creativity. Moments in time when events come together to create product, it is art as gesture, in this case, creative writing of my novel, Six Doors Down. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Fang and Feather: The Origin of Avian-Serpent Imagery at Teotihuacan and Symbolic Interaction with Jaguar Iconography in Mesoamerica Kathryn Math, Department of Anthropology Department of Art History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Overview: I propose that the Feathered Serpent served as a symbol of Teotihuacan and was conceived in direct opposition to the jaguars used to symbolize kingship in contemporary Mayan polities. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 5 Creative Showcase Community Arts-Equal Meeting Ground for All Maud Clark, Somebodys Daughter Theatre Company, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Working creatively with women in prison and vulnerable young people, we know how potent the arts can be. The arts work where often all else has failed. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Transformational Gestures: Creating Gestures for Acting and for a Life Well Led Kevin Marshall, Center for Arts and Public Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Overview: Many elements learned through gesture for acting purposes can be transferred to everyday life skills. This dual use of gesture in acting and in life will be the focus. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 6 Creative Showcase Artists as Cultural Ambassadors Grazia Peduzzi, Emergent Art Space, San Francisco, USA Overview: The experience of Emergent Art Space is a non profit art organisation based in San Francisco, whose mission is to encourage cross cultural exchange and dialogue among young artists. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Connecting the Dots: Advocacy in the Arts and Mental Health Linda Studena, Strategic Projects Industry Development, Arts Access Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Connecting the Dots is an innovative project that builds sustainable arts participation opportunities drawing on principles of co-design and community collaboration and development for artists living with mental health issues. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
93 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 13:10-13:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 7 Creative Showcase The Innovation Batik Cap Learning Media Ema Iis Rofingah, Education University of Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia Jian Al Ma'arij, Education University of Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia Overview: The innovation and creativity in making learning media is necessary. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Archetypal Gesture for Visual and Performing Artists Kristen Cerelli, School of Theatre, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, USA Jeanine Henry, Performing and Visual Arts, Eastern Florida State College, Cocoa, USA Overview: Using theatre practitioner Michael Chekhov's "Archetypal Gesture" work as a starting point, visual and performing artists will be guided to explore the impact of gesture and movement on their process. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 8 Workshop Much Ado about Yoga Jean McDaniel Lickson, School of Theatre, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Overview: This workshop concentrates on breath extension and memory work for the actor using yoga asana. The addition of Shakespeare's text bring the mind, body and breath together thru sound. Theme: Arts Education Room 9 Workshop Working with Injury in Music Pedagogy: How Teaching, Performing, Dystonia, and the Feldenkrais Method Created a Base for Reexamining Pedagogy in the Performing Arts Dr. Lisa M. Burrell, Applied Music, Lone Star College System, Houston, USA Overview: Research, personal experience, and Feldenkrais based teaching techniques form the basis of this workshop exploring pedagogical approaches to musicians' injury and its prevention. Theme: Arts Education
13:55-14:05 COFFEE BREAK 14:05-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Photographic Activism Photographic Pedagogy and Activism Dr. Ya'ara Gil-Glazer, Department of Education, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel Overview: The concept "activist photographic pedagogy" will be developed through analysis of a historical example from the USA and a contemporary Israeli example of pedagogical activity conducted by social- documentary photography collectives. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Representing the Sublime in Capitalism: The Aesthetics of Andreas Gursky's Photography Duygu Nazli Akova, Communication Design, Multimedia Department, Istanbul Kultur Unversity, Istanbul, Turkey Overview: This study aims to examine representation of reality and sublime through the issues of capitalist system and the place of individuals in contemporary life by analyzing Andreas Gursky's photography. Theme: Arts Theory and History Truth in Artistic Gesture: How Art Responds to Global Issues Tania Price, Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Overview: Art dealing with global issues and news events is not journalism, so what is it doing? Does art get closer to the truth than our daily news? Theme: Arts Theory and History
94 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 14:05-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 The Visual Narrative Branding Authenticity: Exploring Reality Television Tamar Salibian, Media Studies, Claremont Graduate University, Glendale, USA Overview: This paper investigates the branding of authenticity in reality television through the use of self- reflexivity and metacommentary to perpetuate ideologies of consumerism, hegemony, and power. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Aristotle versus Brecht: Theater Theory and Computer Game Play Dr. Erwin J. Warkentin, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada Overview: Using Bertolt Brecht’s theoretical narrative constructs, an alternative to the Aristotelean theories contained in the Poetics will be developed to explain how the narrative of a computer-mediated game functions. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Frames of Light: Technologies of Materiality and Experience Sara Buoso, Department of Critical and Curatorial Studies Department of Art history and Theory, UAL, Central Saint Martins, London, UK Overview: From the late ‘60s, light-based practices have advanced autonomous propositions of light, as opposed to representation. By investigating "Materiality" and "Technology," the paper introduces new understandings of Light through "Experience." Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 3 Metaphor and Meaning Gestures That Touch "The Beyond": Choreographing Performance Studies with Philosophy Miriana Lausic Arratia, Dance Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada Overview: This essay presents the structural relations between gesture, ritual, and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia, conceptualized as processes of thought and physical inscriptions, which explore gesture in relation to death. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Do You Speak Art? An Inquiry into the Relationship of the Artwork and the Audience Dilek Basar Baskaya, Department of Philosophy Department of Basic English, Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey Overview: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the interaction between artworks and the audience, inquiring into the tools the audience needs to decode artworks if art is a language. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Dreaming Time Prof. Jivan Astfalck, Faculty of the Arts, Design, and Media, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK Overview: Creative work expose new possibilities of referring to reality, it allows for intervention and discovery, a quality which allows the image or object to give body, shape, contour to meaning. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
95 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 14:05-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Sustainable Practices On a Knife’s Edge: Exploring Tourism Industry and Consumerism Environmental Effects through Art Assoc. Prof. Lina M. Espinosa, School of Arts and Humanties Art Department, University de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, BelleBear Studios, Birchgrove, Australia Overview: This paper explores Art as a vehicle to make visible the effects of tourism industry and economic development in two coastal Latin-American environments and communities, Santa Marta and Galapagos Islands. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Walk the Talk: Promoting Sustainable Living through Art Practice Dr. Birut Zemits, School of Academic Language and Learning Faculty of Law, Education Business and Arts, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Aly Degroot, Law, Business, Arts, Charles Darwin Univesity, Darwin, Australia Overview: Concerned artists respond to challenges in practice and materials to educate for environmental sustainability. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Urban Living Labs: Cultural Scenes, the Arts, and Artists as Levers of New Urbanities Filipe Matos, Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Leandro Gabriel, Centre for Geographical Studies, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Ana Estevens, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal Overview: We discuss Urban living labs as methodologies to reinforce or reinvent local cultural scenes, creating new ways of producing urban places which promote social justice and creativity. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 5 Change Practices Art Schools as Heterotopias Prof. Alec Shepley, School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, UK Overview: Drawing on previous research this paper discusses the paradoxical necessity of a place for art on the one hand and the impossibility of housing such a place on the other. Theme: Arts Theory and History Investigating Materiality through Art-Based Research Chun Wei Choy, The Design School, Taylor's University, Shah Alam, Malaysia Overview: Though Art-Based Research methodology, my own visual art practice is re-situated within two processes of interpretive research practice (Sullivan, G.2010) - that is “the Reflective” and “the Generative” research domains. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Teaching Design Principles Interdisciplinarily: A New Pedagogy of Text and Image Dr. Maia Toteva, Department of Art & Visual Communication, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA Overview: This paper proposes a new methodological framework of collaboration between visual and literary analysis. It explores the teaching of design principles interdisciplinarily—across disciplines, such as art, design, and writing. Theme: Arts Theory and History
96 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 14:05-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Development Challenges The Representation of City Architecture in Films: Construction and Deconstruction of Social Practices Maria Zykova, Department of Sociology, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation Overview: The main idea of the paper is to analyze how architecture of the city is represented in films and what problems such representation indicates. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Fiber Optic Ocean: Merging Media for New Meaning Making Strategies Ozge Samanci, Radio TV Film, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Overview: This paper explores the interactive art installation, Fiber Optic Ocean, portraying the consequences of technology’s invasion of oceans. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 7 Contemporary Confrontations Modern and Postmodern Explorations in Digital Narrative Kardelen Koşaner, Universitat de Barcelona, Marseille, France Overview: The multimodality of digital literature implies that modernism and postmodernism can be both at play during the creation and consumption. Many works evaluated as postmodern, in fact contain modern elements. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Artistic Experiences on the Cloud Julija Naskova, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Homanting, Hong Kong Overview: While applying Erving Goffman’s frame analysis to eight interviews with designers turned digital artists, this paper attempts to form conclusions about their experiences from the use of Cloud based technology. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Artistic Interrogations of Biometric Technologies: Towards a Queering of Visibility Rosa Wevers, Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Overview: The paper investigates artistic interrogations of biometric technologies, arguing that they question the ideological basis of these technologies and make tangible their controlling and classifying effects on marginalized identities. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 8 Defining the Aesthetic Futurism in the Caucasus Tamar Paichadze, Department of Humanitarian Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Georgia Overview: Futurism in the Caucasus was not just the historic event; It spread in the literary life of later period and initiated the psychological turning point in the history of arts. Theme: Arts Theory and History Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale": A Creative Writing Theory Prof. Ebtihal Elshaikh, Department of Foreign Languages, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt Overview: The paper compares Keats' idea of writing poetry in "Ode to a Nightingale" to Freud's theory of "Creative writing." Theme: Arts Theory and History A Neoexpressionist Case in the 1980s: The Work of Tassos Mantzavinos in the Postmodern Era Rosalia Adamopoulou, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Overview: I discuss the neoexpressionist movement in the 1980s. Theme: Arts Theory and History
97 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 14:05-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 9 Art and the Body Sensitive Worlds: Bio-interface as an Art and Science Research Field Olga Kisseleva, Institut ACTE, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France Overview: The research tries to figure out what lies in the heart of "artificial," "technological" reality engagement and how this reality influences us trough it's art-science approach. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Sublime Gesture: The Fading Art of Ballet Mime Dr. Lisa A. Fusillo, Department of Dance Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, USA Overview: Examining the history and tradition of ballet mime, this paper will argue for the importance of maintaining this gestural art form including a demonstration to highlight the universality in storytelling. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 10 Art Theory Shadowgraphs: Aesthetic Process and Existentialist Praxis Nabia Majeed, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Overview: I discuss how the constructs of poetry, literature, art, and architecture mirror a radical existential construct of human gesture and authenticity. Theme: Arts Theory and History
15:20-15:30 BREAK 15:30-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 The Real and the Virtual You Can't See through White: Occlusion 1 Ben Davis, Department of Visual and Aboriginal Art, Faculty of Arts, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada Derek Brown, Philosophy Department, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada Eric Platz, Applied Music Department, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada Overview: A visual artist, philosopher of perception and jazz percussionist create multi-media works. Informed by perceptual theory, their works explore layerings of natural and altered landscapes, composition, improvisation, and audiovisual experience. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Between the Real and the Virtual: Augmenting Interactions with Spatial Platforms Dr. Claire Brunet, Faculty of Art, Sculpture/Installation Program, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Overview: When spatial platforms become a means to investigate technological advances, allowing for more intimate or immersive interactions with objects in space, artists’ focuses may shift from real to virtual spaces. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Ambivalent Entanglement and Contemporary Creative Practice Charlotte Tegan, Creative Industries Faculty School of Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Overview: This is an exploration into the contemporary phenomenon of ambivalent entanglement and how creative practice navigates the spaces between multi-functional digital platforms. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts
98 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 15:30-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Theory into Practice Aesthetic Sensibility and Morality Prof. Per Bauhn, School of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Lund, Sweden Overview: The intentional destruction of beautiful objects indicates a denial of the dignity of individuals or groups associated with these objects. Often, but not always, such destruction is also morally wrong. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Rhythm of the Void: Bresson, Tarkovsky and Winterbottom Jay Plaat, Radboud University Nijmegen, Uden, Netherlands Overview: This is a Deleuzian enquiry into the exact moment all meaning leaves the screen and the film image becomes pure rhythm. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Aesthetics of Rhetorical Geometry and Neo-Platonist Theory in Selected Works by Botticelli: Art as Consciousness Frank Martin, Department of Philosophy & Department of Visual & Performing Arts, University of South Carolina & South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, USA Overview: I examine space, shape, and number as metaphors for Neo-Platonist metaphysical commitments in several painted images by Florentine painter, Alessandro Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli. Theme: Arts Theory and History Room 3 Collective Creation Re-Imaging Visual Images in Schools: Tugging at the Roots of Visual Culture Dr. Sherry Martens, Education Faculty of Arts and Science, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada Overview: This paper investigates the intersubjectivity of visual culture in education. Specifically, I address the question of how visual displays have come to appear in elementary schools. Theme: Arts Education Social Empowerment: The Evolution of a Model and Scale Design that Measures Arts Integration, Social Enterprise, and Other Socially Empowered Learning Dr. Brittany Harker Martin, Werklund Youth Leadership Centre Leadership, Policy and Governance Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Overview: Three streams of psychology are united for a framework that harnesses the effects of collective creation and social impact. Theme: Arts Education Weaving the Social Fabric: Art and Women’s Education in Saudi Arabia Khulod Albugami, Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Birmingham, UK Overview: The aim of this paper is to present new research on the relationship between contemporary art and women’s education in Saudi Arabia. Theme: Arts Education
99 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 15:30-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 The Personal and the Collective Nature et Âme: A Coast to Coast Engaged Art Project Dr. Pierre Leichner, Federation Culturelle Canadienne Francaise, Vancouver, Canada Overview: An immersive, peripatetic and participatory art installation created by Canadian francophone community artists traveled from coast to coast and engaged over a thousand in diverse public events. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Arts in Small Communities: Festivals in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Stornoway, Scotland Dr. James Charles Marchant, Department of Performing Arts Arts Administration Program, Elon University, Greensboro, USA Overview: In this paper, I investigate, analyze, and compare how the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Hebridean Celtic Festival affect the small communities of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Stornoway, Scotland. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Telling a "Sing Out" Story: A Narrative Exploration of a Children's Community Music Performance Kathleen Turner, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Overview: This paper explores the development of an interactive performance with children in a long- term community music project, using narrative inquiry as a primary method of investigation and data analysis. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 5 Places and Spaces Variations of Our Unconscious Architecture: Fictional Places in Visual Art and Literature Jodi Lightner, Art Department, Montana State University Billings, Billings, USA Overview: A body of visual art that examines the contrast between human unconscious needs and desires for dwelling spaces and the functional purposes of our actual built structures. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter The Arts and the Environment: How the Arts can Promote Environmental Protection and Restoration Dr. John Ray, Liberal Studies Department, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, USA Overview: Art can be an imaginative vehicle for communicating information and arousing feelings about societal issues such as environmental degradation. Art can challenge society to preserve and protect our natural environment. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Granby Winter Garden: Experiments in Collaborative Design Sue Potts, Liverpool John Moores University, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool, UK Ms Maria Brewster, Scott Brewster Ltd, Liverpool, UK Overview: This paper discusses elements of participatory design and the dangers of 'art washing' when forming a framework for community led commissioning in Granby, Liverpool. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
100 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 15:30-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Challenges to Representations Thinking with Water: Materiality and Flow in Watercolour Painting Fiona Edmonds-Dobrijevich, Faculty of Social Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Overview: I explore watercolour painting's capacity to create oceanic imaginaries and interrogate relationships between geological and biological bodies, in context of posthuman feminism and Anthropocene ecologies. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Visual Distortion and "The Couple in The Boat" in Henry James' "The Ambassadors" Dr. Christina Tourino, English, The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Saint Joseph, USA Overview: I study a scene in The Ambassadors framed and inflected by a painting, and argue that here Henry James undermines the ability of both literary and painterly arts to represent. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Feminine Gestures: Challenging Objecthood with White Performance and Black Performance Art Rachel Trusty, Fine Arts, University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, Morrilton, USA Overview: White and Black Feminist Performance artists both challenged the objectification of the female body, but their methods and subjects differed greatly as white artists overlook issues of race and class. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 7 The Lived Experience The Poetry of Language: A Necessary Art Dr. Margaret Louise Dobson, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Overview: This paper explores the intimate relationship between language and authentic identity. Theme: Arts Education Art Study Tours: Education, Experience and Values Dr. Robin Kingston, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Art study tours provide students with alternate modes of learning and experiencing art. The paper presents observations, encounters and reflections of conducting art study tours to New York City. Theme: Arts Education Wisdom From Walden: 200 Years of Henry David Thoreau Dr. Paul Guajardo, Department of English, University of Houston, Houston, USA Overview: Henry David Thoreau celebrates his 200th birthday in 2017, and in our increasingly complex world, the philosophies in Walden are more relevant than ever. Theme: Arts Theory and History
101 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 15:30-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Art as Healing Art Therapy for Victims of War Anahit Falihi, University of Saskatchewn, Saskatoon, Canada Overview: This paper reflects on the outcome of art related programming and activities as a form of self reflection and healing for Syrian refugee youth and families. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Art as a Recovery Tool: A Line of Fire Mahony Maia Kiely, Community Cultural Development Department City of Whittlesea (Municipal Council) Victoria, Australia, Burning Sensations, Community Theatre Collective, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Eight years after fatal bushfires, Kinglake Ranges, we reflect on the role art played in community recovery and share video images of collective rituals as performances that mapped change. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Theatre for Peace: The Pedagogy of Theater-Making Using the Framework of Humanistic Buddhism Katherine Mae Sabate, Fo Guang College, Manila, Philippines Overview: The paper focuses on the negotiations in the on nurturing college scholars between two seemingly different paradigms of Humanistic Buddhism and Theatre Making. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 9 Late Additions Ways of Change: From Academic to Contemporary Uncertainty in Visual Arts Education Dr. Patricia Raquimán, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile Miguel Zamorano, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación., Santiago, Chile Overview: This work examines how knowledge and comprehension of diversity and multiculturalism, understood in the context of postmodernism, can improve the learning process in Visual Arts Teaching. Theme: Arts Education Colour, Form and Line Become Stories, Topographies of Memories and Landscapes of Emotion Elena Hadjipieri, Simon Fraser University, Nicosia, Cyprus Overview: I discuss art pedagogical methods used to initiate dialogic engagement between students and artworks or monuments of the past to raise awareness on social issues and lead to empathy. Theme: Arts Education The Urgency of Renewal: Arts Education as an Open Field for the Construction of the Subjects Dr. José Carlos de Paiva, Research Institute in Art, Design and Society, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Mariana da Costa Mendes Gonçalves Delgado, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Overview: From the agonistic experience of intercultural actions performed within schools from Brazilian backlands, we reconsider unacknowledged cultures/movements off the Western background, aiming for a radical movement towards Arts Education. Theme: Arts Education
102 THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 15:30-16:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 10 Education and Art Poetic Resonances of Synaesthetic Beauty, Spectrums of Rage: Autism and Embodied Art(s) Dr. Lorna Ramsay, Faculty of Education, Department of Language and Literacy, University of British Columbia, North Vancouver, Canada Overview: This is a photo-poetic inquiry around autism invites reflective, nonjudgmental collaboration with possibilities of synaesthetic resonances, visceral beauty living through nature’s shared energies, and transcending processes in embodied art(s). Theme: Arts Education Curators, Artists and Critics: Assessment in Arts Education Dr. Rachael Jacobs, School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia Overview: This paper discusses the role of teachers and students in arts assessment, using examples from Dance, Drama and Visual Arts classrooms to arrive at metaphorical comparisons with professional arts roles. Theme: Arts Education Where Do We Learn to Appreciate the Arts: A Case Study on Recollections of Youth Education Dr. Anthony Rhine, School of Theatre of Theatre, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Overview: This single case qualitative study took a methodological approach of participatory examination to open discussion regarding levels of education, experience, and engagement with the arts as a youth. Theme: Arts Education
16:45-17:00 TRANSITION BREAK
17:00-17:30 PLENARY SESSION (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS) - CARRIE NOLAND, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, USA "The Ethics of Gesture Theory" 17:30-18:00 Q&A SESSION (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS)
103 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 8:30-9:20 REGISTRATION DESK OPENS 9:20-9:30 DAILY UPDATE 9:30-11:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshops Arts Learning Thresholds: What Constitutes "Creativity" in an Era of Standardisation and Management? Dr. Bronwen Wade Leeuwen, Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Overview: This Moku-chi (ink-splash-energy) creativity workshops use arts-based inquiry research to foster an 'ethics of life' where the learner becomes an artist (atelierista) and facilitator of their own learning. Theme: Arts Education Room 2 Colloquium Art and Museums Strenghten Communities: Building Immigrants' Academic, Social and Cultural Capital Patricia Lannes, CALTA21, New York City, USA Cecilia Garibay, Garibay Group, Chicago, USA Prof. Kitty Bateman, English Department, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Queens, USA Marianna Pegno, Education Department, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA Overview: Presenters will examine CALTA21, a replicable USA model initiative that uses art and museums for community engagement, cultural participation and language development for newly arrived immigrants. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 3 Social Innovations An Odyssey of America's Public Art: Observations from the Road Danielle Foushee, Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts, The Design School, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Overview: I examine public art throughout the Western U.S.A. offering observations, questions, and recommendations for artists and communities as they work to create meaningful experiences for both residents and visitors. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Politics of Public Art: National Identity, Collective Memory, and Iconoclasm in South Africa Annchen Bronkowksi, University of London, London, UK Overview: Investigating the visual agency of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, this paper examines the complexities of public art in post-apartheid South Africa and considers alternative views on iconoclasm and museums. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Gestures of Street Art: A Global Tale from Two Cities, Athens and Rome Prof. Thomas Houser, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA Overview: Graffiti is an artifact of a defiant gesture, which may become part of a community’s cultural heritage. The act may have legal consequences for the artist, both criminal and material. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
104 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 9:30-11:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Digital Signs Digital Gestures in the Interdisciplinary Studio: Aesthetic Materialization Dr. Barbara Rauch, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto, Canada Overview: The paper explores art practice that involves digital fabrication as gesture of contemporaneity. It expands conceptual areas of emotional location, and the boundaries between natural information and data. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Art Unscaled: How Digital Expressionism Mirrors Existence Dr. Jonathan Doner, DP/DS, Keswick, USA Overview: Unscaling is where aesthetics is not bound by image scale. It is characteristic of our world and provides a powerful tool for the creation of digital art. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects Theresa Slater, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Overview: I devise rasterization to be a "practice of mattering" showcasing digital objects as embodying the theoretical logic of sensual exteriority, indicating the capacity of digital objects to experience otherness. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Mapping the Meme in China: Online and Offline Signification Justine Poplin, College of Arts Creative Arts Industries, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: The aim of this study is to deepen the Western perspective on Chinese stereotypes in visual culture by working with, and interpreting cultural flows in the digital age. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 5 Critical Engagement Over the Horizon: Nature's Social Practice Dr. Ruobing Wang, McNally School of Fine Arts, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore Overview: Created by artist Wang Ruobing, "Over the Horizon" is a site-specific kinetic installation dealing primarily with marine plastic bottles in highlighting the issue of interdependency of individual activities. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Nile Project: Creating Harmony through Music in the Nile Basin Region Kelly Mancini Becker, CESS: Center for Education and Social Services, The University of Vermont, Burlington, USA Overview: This paper presents findings from a qualitative, arts-based research study on The Nile Project, a musical collective aimed at finding a solution to the water crises in East Africa. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Crafting Anti-stereotypes: Creating Space for Critical Engagement through Art Donlisha Moahi, Visual Art, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Elmarie Costandius, Overview: Art practices can become a platform for the negotiation and construction of meaning and lobby for removing the historic inequalities and injustices created by a stratified society. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Postcards from the Asylum: Creating Art in Response to Research Data Dr. Jennifer Munday, Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga, Australia Overview: The paper will address artworks that respond to data collection in the "Bedlam: living with a mental asylum in town" project, discussed through the principles of crystallization. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
105 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 9:30-11:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Performance as Public Dialogue Devising Thread City: Performance as Public Dialogue Prof. Kristen Morgan, Performing Arts Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, USA Alycia Bright Holland, Performing Arts, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, USA Overview: I discuss the creation of Thread City, a student/community devised performance centering around stories of migration to and from Windham, Connecticut, once the largest producer of thread in North America. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Using Improvisation to Rehearse Outcomes for Homeless Veterans Dr. Charlie Mitchell, School of Theatre and Dance, The University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Overview: This paper outlines a recreational therapy treatment for homeless veterans that used improvisational games and scene work to address low self-esteem and the erosion of positive social interaction. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts So, Sue Me: Legal Actions as a New Staging Ground For Performance Art Courtney Davis, Department of Art & Design, Utah Valley University, Orem, USA Overview: This paper proposes and explores a new artistic category, legal performance art, in which underlying artworks are merely an initiation to expand conceptual performance within the legal arena. Theme: Arts Theory and History Performance and Activism Gwenn-Aël Lynn, Chicago, USA Overview: This paper presents activists who do not identify as artists, yet deploy compelling performances within the performative formats of rallies, vigils, marches direct action, and other forms. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 7 Visualizations and Representations Religious Art in Funerary Architecture: San Diego Cemetery of Quito Wendy Ribadeneira, Visual Arts and Communication Faculty, San Francisco de Quito University, Quito, Ecuador Overview: This proposal presents an aesthetical analysis of the presence of religious art in the funerary architecture of San Diego Cemetery in Quito, has been functioning since its opening in 1872. Theme: Arts Theory and History Arts versus Science: A Discussion about Inventing the World Ilinca Damian, The Arts Collections Museum, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania Overview: Supposedly there is a gap between arts and science. Visual arts represent reality while science creates means for surviving reality. But what if both are actually inventing the world? Theme: Arts Theory and History The Paradox of Arjuna and Srikandi Characterizations in Javanese Wayang Kulit Ratna Cahaya, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia Prof. Yasraf Piliang, Art and Design Faculty, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia Dr. Ira Adriati, Art and Design Faculty, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia Overview: The paper presents research about visualization of Arjuna and Srikandi characters in Javanese version of the Mahabharata in Wayang Kulit. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Bakhtin's Circle's Contribution to a Twenty-First Century Theory of Art Dr. Stephen Pierson, Department of English, Reading, and Communication, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, USA Overview: My paper argues for the effectiveness of the Bakhtin Circle's contribution to a contemporary theory of art that emphasizes conscious human agency, embodied cognition, and context. Theme: Arts Theory and History
106 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 9:30-11:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Viewing Spaces A Participatory Music Journey in Museum Space Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Edinburgh College of Art School of Art, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Jing Zhao, Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Overview: This paper investigates participatory art in museum space through an interactive mobile app. It explores the possibility of creating alternative user experience while using audience as medium for composing music. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Aura and Spectacle: Digital Reproductions in Original Sites Dr. Carlos Ramos, Department of Spanish, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA Overview: This paper explores how the installation of digital reproductions in the original sites invites epistemological and hermeneutical questions related to the experience, the meaning, and the interpretation of art. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Defeating Authorship: Revisiting the Museum of Jurassic Technology W.F. Garrett-Petts, Faculty of Arts, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada Emily Hope, Curatorial, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada Overview: This paper "revisits" the extensive literature on The Museum of Jurassic Technology, arguing that, contrary to the prevailing critical narrative, the museum's project gestures toward "defeating authorship." Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Learning through the Co-Creation of Heritage in the Cultural Institution of the 21st Century Michael Kurniawan, Master of Art, Art and Design in Education, University College London, Bracknell, UK Overview: This article expands the idea of the co-creation in the museum as a mean to learn about heritage and identity through the co-creation of heritage. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
107 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 9:30-11:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 9 Artistic Lives Georgian Artist-scientist, and a Creative Prophet of Georgia’s European Future: David Kakabadze Tamar Goguadze, Department of Academic Research and Development, Faculty of Humanities, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Overview: The constructive-decorative compositions by Georgian artist David Kakabadze (1889-1952) are discussed in the context of his association with the European artistic tradition in the beginning of the 20th century. Theme: Arts Theory and History Camille Billops, Drawings, Prints, Films, Ceramics: The Poetics and Politics of Genre Prof. Barbara Lekatsas, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, Hofstra University, Jackson Heights, USA Overview: Billops is an African-American artist who works across multiple genres. This paper focuses on the politics of genre-crossing in her work and and questions what type of unifying vision emerges. Theme: Arts Theory and History Christo’s Iron Curtain, Wall of Oil Barrels, Rue Visconti, Paris, 1962: A Multivalent Gesture Dr. Gerald Silk, Art History, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Overview: Christo’s 1962 Paris installation, "Iron Curtain, Wall of Oil Barrels, Rue Visconti," exemplifies a multivalent artistic gesture probing boundaries, borders, barriers, and binaries, including intervention- exhibition; ephemeral-permanent; aesthetics-politics; outlawed-approved; and (trans)nationalism- colonialism. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Artistic Ruptures: The (De)colonial AestheSis/AestheTics of Jaime Black’s The REDress Project and Conversations with the Land Melissa Nesrallah, The Women & Gender Studies Institute, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Overview: Indigenous artwork can be a powerful form of (de)colonial aestheSis/aestheTics. Through her pieces, The REDress Project and Conversations with the Land, Jaime Black ruptures settler colonialism and activates (de)colonial possibilities. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 10 Late Additions The Absence of Gap in the Craft of Artistic Subjectivation Artur Guimarães Dias Pimentel, Department of Sociology, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil Overview: This work focuses on mapping the operating system that contributed to the construction of the artistic identity of the brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, from literature to cinema. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Peculiarities of Georgian Modernism Prof. Nino Mindiashvili, Caucasus International University, Tbilisi, Georgia Overview: I discuss the peculiarities of Georgian Modernism. Theme: Arts Theory and History Russian Romanticism and Nikoloz Baratashvili Prof. Tamar Sharabidze, Department of Humanitarian Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Overview: The work will reveal general features, which characterize creative work of Russian romanticists in different contexts, and compare their way of thinking to Baratashvili’s creative thinking. Theme: Arts Theory and History Propaganda in Georgian TV-Documentaries Doctor Nino Chalaganidze, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Caucasus International University, Tbilisi, Georgia Overview: Georgian documentary cinematography has always been and is still working on protecting state policy and reminds us at every possible moment who is against the well being of Georgia. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
108 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 11:10-11:25 TRANSITION BREAK 11:25-12:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Responsive Gestures Gesture and Anti-gesture in Ozu's Cinema Dr. James Moyer, Department of Liberal Arts, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, USA Overview: Ozu’s cinema sees characters not seeing, involved as they are in gestures--of deflection, social grace, or bad faith. HIs cinematography of their time-bound fates turns such satire into sympathy. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Homo Sacer: Art and Architecture Responses to the Current Refugee Crisis Prof. Leoni Schmidt, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand Overview: Refugees are Homo Sacer, outside the protection of the law. This paper explores critiques in art and architecture as gestures that matter in light of the ascendancy of the Right. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Getting Air: Technology and the Levitating Body in Sports Media Isla Hansen, Department of Art and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Overview: I discuss the history, technology, and ideology behind representations of the weightless human body in sports media. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 2 Political Contexts Stuck on Siam: The Semiotics of Pop Culture Stickers and Sticker Art in Thailand Dale Alan Konstanz, Fine and Applied Arts Division, Mahidol University International College, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: This is a study involving the interpretation of symbols and language found on pop culture stickers and sticker art in Thailand as a means to better understand contemporary Thai culture. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Mexico's Reddish Orange Economy: Politics and Money in the Veracruz Son Jarocho Dr. Randall Charles Kohl, Music Faculty, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico Overview: In this paper I will present results from a 3-year microeconomic study on the musicians' labor market in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, with a look at music's role in economic development. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Audience Profiling: Cities, Audiences and the Politics of Cultural Identity in the US Arts Ecology Dr. Lynne Conner, Department of Theatre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA Overview: Audience profiling, derived from demographic markers, perceived habitus, and the western habit of place-based gazing, is a significant though often misleading determinant of cultural value in the American arts ecology. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
109 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 11:25-12:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Transformative Cinema The Peripatetic Image and the Birth of Cinema: Gestures of Walking between Psychodynamics and Art Thomas Deane Tucker, Department of English and Humanities, Chadron State College, Chadron, USA Kathleen Woods, Department of Psychological Sciences, Counseling, and Social Work, Chadron State College, Chadron, USA Overview: Walking and filmmaking are intrinsically linked. This paper offers a psychodynamical analysis of walking through the lens of early filmmaking which culminates in cinema as both art and technics. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Preservation of Kiowa Cultural Expression in "The Daughter of Dawn," 1920: An Evaluation of the Accuracy of Native American Cultural Representation and Nonverbal Communication in a Previously Lost 1920 Docudrama Prof. Frank Scheide, Department of Communication, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA Overview: This study considers how accurately the 1920 film "The Daughter of Dawn" utilized Native American performers, costumes, tipis and sign language to reenact 19th century Kiowa culture through nonverbal communication. Theme: Arts Theory and History La Nouvelle Vague Revisited Dr. Nicos Terzis, Department of "Graphic Design", Greek Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece Overview: The proposed paper will attempt to delineate the history and the aesthetic characteristics of French "Nouvelle Vague," the most famous cinematic movement in history up to now! Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 4 Religious Intersections The Image of Divine Mercy: How a Painting Has Been Redefining a Major Religion Kenneth DiMaggio, Humanities, Capital Community College, West Hartford, USA Dr. Carl Antonucci, Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, USA Overview: A once prominent patron--the Catholic Church--has a new relationship with art through the painting "The Image of Divine Mercy," which has already begun redefining this major world religion. Theme: Arts Education The Visual Arts as Pedagogy for Religious Education Rebecca Diane Amelia Neale, Department of Theology and Religion The Study of Religion, Durham University, Durham, UK Overview: This is an exploration of the visual arts as a means to improve teaching and learning in Religious Education via epistemological and experiential approaches. Theme: Arts Education Spirituality in Contemporary Polish Abstract Painting Agnieszka Tes, The Association of Polish Artist and Designers, Jesuit Academy Ignatianum in Cracow, Cracow, Poland Overview: In contemporary abstract painting in Poland we observe a tendency towards exploring spirituality. It refers to both recognised and emerging artists. Their work is often accompanied by original theoretical reflection. Theme: Arts Theory and History
110 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 11:25-12:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Art as a Political Resource The Development of Macao Cultural Industries Dr. Yu-Ching Lee, Arts School, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China Overview: The aim of the research is positioning and classifying Macao’s eight categories of cultural industries to be developed under considering the city's advantages and existing industries. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Waiting for Water: An Art and Science Collaboration about Water in Three Regions of Australia Sarah Pirrie, Faculty of Law, Education, Business, Arts School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Dr. Amy Elizabeth Jackett, Faculty of Law, Education, Business, Arts School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Hobart, Australia Penny Jones, School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Suzi Lyon, Faculty of Law, Education, Business, Arts School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, Australia Overview: This paper describes the aims and collaborative combination of scientific and artistic methods employed in the 2016 art exhibition and accompanying catalogue entitled Waiting for Water. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Other Art Worlds: Alternative Art Economies in New York City Dr. Mary Kosut, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, USA Overview: In hyper-gentrified New York City, artists generate alternative urban art economies beyond the corporate gallery system. This ethnography explores how artists create networks of artist-run galleries in unlikely spaces. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 6 Art Pathways Teaching Film Appreciation in Junior High Schools Fu-Ju Yang, Department of Information Communications, Kainan University, Taiwan Overview: I develop a teaching model and strategies appropriate for teaching film appreciation to junior high school students. Theme: Arts Education Beyond the School Gate: An Australian Study of Arts Engagement and Employment in Post-secondary School Years Dr. Frances Alter, School of Education, University of New England, Armidale, Australia Overview: Following the lives of a group of talented visual artists. Had any remained engaged with visual arts, design, or media after leaving school? What had influenced their life choices? Theme: Arts Education Drama Education, Democracy and Politics Dr. Michael Finneran, Department of Drama & Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Overview: Drama has a unique relationship with democracy and politics. This paper will examine the historical claim and focus on its educative potential amid the pressing current context. Theme: Arts Education
111 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 11:25-12:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 7 Collective Identities The Symbolic Functions of Murals in Nematollahi Monastery, Yazd, Iran Dr. Fahimeh Zarezadeh, Department of Islamic Art School of Art, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: This study was based on murals in Monastery that contain a set of symbols simultaneously depicting a pattern of what Sufism believes in as a major portion of spiritual journey. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Cultural Ambassadors: A Case Study of Inclusive Municipal Funding Strategies Laura Lee Odegaard, Cultural Arts Division, Economic Development Department, City of Austin, Austin, USA Overview: In 2017, the City of Austin's Cultural Arts Division launched two cultural equity pilot programs for artists of all ethnic backgrounds in an effort to invest in local cultural heritage. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Phantoms: Journey Following Relics of Dictatorship Prof. Dana Arieli, Dean, Design Faculty, Holon Institue of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel Overview: Phantoms, a Journey following the relics of dictatorship, describes the currant memory of culture and its implications of societies once ruled by totalitarian regimes. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 8 Traditional Elements The Sheng and Its Representation in Early China Burials Dr. Eileen Hau-ling Lam, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper attempts to examine the ideology of the form of the Xiwangmu headdress in relation to the belief of immortality throughout the Han and post-Han times. Theme: Arts Theory and History Death, Sacrifice and Monumentality: Study of the Cultural Materials in the Work of Chen Zhen, Gu Wenda and Huang Yong Ping Remy Jarry, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: Exploring the cultural significance of Chinese funerary arts, Chen Zhen, Gu Wenda and Huang Yong Ping have established a fruitful dialogue between East and the West cultures. Theme: Arts Theory and History Room 9 New Media Animation off the Screen Emine Gokcek, School of Communication, Animation, Royal College of Art, London, UK Overview: This research seeks to explore Animation as an art form that extends beyond the screen, in order to offer new perspectives both in practice and conceptual understanding of Animation. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Integrating Meaningful Technology in the Arts Administration Classroom Dr. Rachel Shane, Department of Arts Administration, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Dr. Yuha Jung, Department of Arts Administration, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Overview: Technology is part of the educational process, but too often it is not integrated into the classroom learning experience. This paper shares activities designed for implementing learner-based technology tools. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Forest of Vowels Alan Dunning, Art Department, University of Calgary, Victoria, Canada Overview: I discuss an artwork using speech and pattern recognition to explore the digital uncanny. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts
112 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 11:25-12:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 10 Contemporary Frontiers Costume for the Ballet: Material and Making Caroline O'Brien, Faculty of Communication and Design School of Performance: Production, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Overview: This paper probes the mechanisms of costume production and use in order to promote a more considered relation between makers and wearers in a professional ballet company. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Turfing, Desire Pathing and Gestures of Remembrance and Creative Citizenship under Surveillance Ninette Rothmüller, Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA Overview: Focusing on the dance practice Turfing, this paper discusses gestures of resistance, remembrance and the desire to challenge socio-cultural and political landscapes. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Tracing the Steps of Araceli Gilbert, the Pioneer of Geometric Abstraction in Ecuador Ana María Garzón Mantilla, College of Communication and Contemporary Art, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador Overview: Critical analysis of Araceli Gilbert (1914-1993), the first Ecuadorian artist to introduce geometric abstraction in Ecuador and the first woman in the country to be recognized as a professional artist. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter
12:40-13:40 LUNCH 13:40-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshops Expressing Multicultural Identities and Healing Intergenerational Themes through the Creation of Art-based Genograms Deborah Schroder, Art Therapy/Counseling, Southwestern College, Santa Fe, USA Overview: This workshop will explore a visual link between one's ancestors and one's current lived experiences. An Art-Based Genogram makes the multicultural influences, intergenerational trauma, and ancestral strengths visible. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Art Therapy for Treatment of Distressful Memories and Images Prof. Orly Sarid, Spitzer Social Work Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Dr. Dorit Segal-Engelchin, Social work departemnet, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel Overview: CB-ART is an innovative published model of treatment that integrates cognitive behavioural interventions with guided imagery and art therapy. Theme: Arts Education
113 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 13:40-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Workshop: Special Session Living Corpus Performance: By the Gesture Laboratory Kahena Saana, Institute ACTE (Arts Créations Théories Esthétiques), University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Mélanie Perrier, Institute ACTE (Arts Créations Théories Esthétiques), Laboratoire du geste, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Simona Polvani, Institute ACTE (Arts Créations Théories Esthétiques), Laboratoire du geste, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France June Allen, Institute ACTE (Arts Créations Théories Esthétiques), Laboratoire du geste, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Barbara Formis, Institute ACTE (Arts Créations Théories Esthétiques), Laboratoire du geste, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Gwenn-Aël Lynn, -, Chicago, USA Barbara Portailler, Institut ACTE, équipe Art&Flux, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CNRS, Paris, France Coline Joufflineau, Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris, France Overview: “Living Corpus” is a performance of signs, not by a validation of the association of ideas, but by a succession of gestures. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 3 Artist Contexts Living and Perceiving Contemporary Art Dr. Paulo Cezar Mello, Creative Direction Communication and Art, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, São Paulo, Brazil Mariza Reis, Presbyterian University Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil Overview: This paper analyzes, through semiotics and art theory, the work of Walter Lambert, who uses computer scratches to compose his pieces presented at 2014 CIANTEC, connecting cognitive universe and art. Theme: Arts Theory and History Gestures of Arts in Maurice Merleau-Ponty Aïko Okamoto-MacPhail, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Eric-Akira MacPhail, Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA Overview: The real or virtual gesture, that entails the movement in time and space, is the cradle of memory, or its lapsus, to create a body of arts for Merleau-Ponty. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter The Secular Conversation of Giovanni Borgherini and His Tutor Prof. Jeffrey Rayner Myers, English Department, Goucher College, Cheverly, USA Overview: I discuss Giorgione's exploration of the relationship between tutor and pupil in "Giovanni Borgherini and His Tutor" and the placement of that relationship in a secular Renaissance context. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Rivera's Red Right Hand: Clifford Wight and the Coit Tower Scandal Dr. Michael Pearce, Arts and Sciences, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA Overview: Clifford Wight was Diego Rivera's principal assistant from 1927-1933. This paper offers details about the Coit Tower scandal that have previously been omitted from the record. Theme: Arts Theory and History
114 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 13:40-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Reflecting Culture Relating to the World through 19th Century Down East, Maine: Cultural Sensitivity and Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs Dr. Jeffrey Hughes Morgan, College of Arts & Sciences, Lynn University, Boynton Beach, USA Overview: Using cultural sensitivity theory, I will illustrate how Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs can help us become more relational toward people of difference. Theme: Arts Theory and History Connecting Art Histories: the Early History of Artistic Education of Arab Students in Moscow State Art Institute in 1950-70s Dr. Olga Nefedova, School of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Overview: I explore the early history of artistic education in Moscow in relation to Arab art students that arrived after a long break again in 1950-70s from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Valorizing Contemporary Prints in France: An Economic and Systemic Analysis Prof. Claire Gauzente, University of Nantes, Nantes, France Overview: The research deals with the difficult situation of contemporary prints in France. It is based on field interviews and proposes an economic and systemic analysis. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 5 Social Acts of Art Apartheid’s Demise, Transition, and Reconciliation: The Role of Art in South Africa Kebedech Tekleab, Department of Art & Design City University of New York, City University of New York, Bayside, USA Overview: I explore the works of William Kentridge, Kay Hassan, Kendell Geers, and Willie Bester to shade light on the role of art in the socio political history of South Africa. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts A Garden of Time and Silence as Feminist Ecocritical Project Dr. Laura Severin, Department of English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA Overview: This paper explores poet Valerie Gillies and artist Anna King’s A Garden of Time and Silence (Scotland, 2016) as an innovative theoretical and activist artwork that creates new environmental insight. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Colonial Landscapes in Modern Portuguese Painting Dr. Maria Joao Castro, CHAM, The Portuguese Centre for Global History, The Portuguese Centre for Global History, Lisboa, Portugal Overview: Art and Travel, two import ways of knowing our contemporary society, have genealogy in the Discoveries Times and in the Colonial World. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
115 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 13:40-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Social Impacts of Music Songs of Resistance and Education: The Case of Aotearoa New Zealand Marko Galic, Faculty of Arts Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Maja Curcic, Faculty of Arts Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: This paper discusses the ongoing practice in tertiary education of using both live and recorded music (songs of resistance) to analyse social issues in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Songs of Resistance and Education: Invisible but Persistant Melodies of Memory and History Dr. Taja Kramberger, EHESS-École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France Prof. Drago Braco Rotar, Paris, France Overview: The paper discusses socio-historical reflection of gestures that – the authors believe – matter in our society such as songs of resistance and pedagogical practice. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Reaching Out and Reaching In: Musical Performance Pedagogy in Practice Prof. Michael Grenfell, The Southampton Education School Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, UK Marita Kerin, Education, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Overview: We discuss the theory and practice of musical performance pedagogy set within an empirical research project. Theme: Arts Education Intermedia Variations on Chopin’s Ballades and Keats’s Odes: A Discussion about Intermedia and Interdisciplinary Performance Dr. Steven Pane, Department of Sound, Performance, and Visual Inquiry/Arts Division, University of Maine, Farmington, USA Overview: I discuss intermedia/interdisciplinary performances such as placing classical literature into new contexts. Lyric Time asked artists, philosophers, writers, others to create works based on themes taken from Keats and Chopin. Theme: Arts Theory and History
116 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 13:40-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 7 New Media Impacts Sentient: Towards a Post-Human Experience through Choreography in the Responsive Media Environment Garrett Johnson, Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Britta J. Peterson, Performing Arts, American University, Washington DC, USA Overview: Sentient is a transdisciplinary project problematizing mind and consciousness. Drawing on collective practices in choreography, lighting, responsive media, and theory, our process takes the form of workshops, installations, and performances. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts New Digital Economies of Distribution and Regional Popular Music Industries in India Dr. Andrew Alter, Department of Media, Music, Cultural and Communication Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Overview: Widespread ownership of mobile phones, coupled with Bluetooth technologies and playlist construction, provide widespread cultures of sharing that reveals new patterns of production and listening amongst musicians and their audiences. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts The Origin and Transformation of Photographic Culture Clare Massey, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Overview: With a focus on Instagram as contemporary photographic practice, this paper discusses nostalgia as retrospective and prospective, it determines how nostalgia will remain a guiding influence over future photographic landscapes. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 8 Public Arts, Collective Memory, Cultural Heritage The U2 Show: Where Visual Music and Social Content Collide Prof. Robert Martin, Department of Art, California State University, Los Angeles, USA Overview: This paper seeks to show how the band U2 became rebels against indifference through an audience-based art aesthetic that promotes a civil society. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Challenging Ageism in the Bronx and Beyond with Community-based Arts Activism Prof. Justine McGovern, Department of Social Work, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Lehman College CUNY, Bronx, USA Prof. David Schwittek, Art Department, Lehman College CUNY, Bronx, USA Devika Seepersaud, Social Work, Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, USA Overview: This paper reports on a community-based arts project exploring age-based beliefs among intergenerational participants through photographs and interviews. The project culminated in arts activism actions including multimodal presentations and exhibitions. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Mapping the Institutional Trajectory: Incorporating the Relational in Museums of Art Maria Nicolacopoulou, Independent, New York, USA Overview: This paper identifies sustainable institutional methodologies for contemporary art museum programming by tracking the development of social practice theory, and its misinterpreted representations and applications, in the 21st century. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
117 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 13:40-15:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 9 Curriculum Change in Arts Education Shifts of Political Regimes and Art Pedagogy Agita Gritane, Department of Art History and Theory, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia Overview: The proposed paper is the research how political regimes shifts have influenced art pedagogy system in Latvia during first half of 20th century. Research is based on specific case studies. Theme: Arts Education Australian Teachers’ Perceptions of Curriculum Change in the Arts Linda Merewyn Lorenza, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Asst. Prof Robyn Gibson, Faculty of Education, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Prof. Michael Anderson, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Overview: My paper discusses research into teachers’ responses to the incoming 21st century Arts curriculum in Australia with findings analysed through the six influences upon Arts education identified by Elliot Eisner. Theme: Arts Education Graphic Memoir in the Composition Classroom: A Case for Comics Dr. Lenore Maybaum, English Department, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City, USA Overview: This purpose of this paper is to explore the use of graphic memoir and the role of multiliteracies in an introductory college composition class. Theme: Arts Education Room 10 Perspectives and Abstractions The Secret Geometry behind the Masterpieces: Renaissance Perspective Petr Bouc, Tomas Bata University, Zlin, Czech Republic Overview: This is a revelation of the Renaissance perspective. The geometrical method used by the old masters to create their masterpieces. Theme: Arts Theory and History Abstraction Levels and Viewer Uncertainty: A Pilot Study Dr. Gordon Edward Lyon, Montgomery College, Potomac, USA Overview: A first-year art student may wonder, “How does one rank-order works along the dimension of abstraction?” Subjective scores by viewers and a statistical uncertainty metric provide complementary approaches. Theme: Arts Theory and History Oblique Strategies, Dice and Train Commuters: The Re-imagining of Interventionist Aleatory Art Systems to Change Personal Realities David Colton, School of Art, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK Overview: I discuss how we can we appropriate aleatory art systems to help us change the way we see ourselves and how we relate to the world around us. Theme: Arts Theory and History Breaking the Fourth Wall through Diegesis in Antigone by Sophocles Prof. Seung Hwan Kim, College of Education, Chungbuk University in South Korea, Cheongju, South Korea Overview: Sophocles himself may not know his breaking the invisible 4th wall. Without noticing it, he communicates to the reader/audience directly. It is homodiegetic narrative to the Gérard Genette's narratology. Theme: Arts Theory and History
15:20-15:35 COFFEE BREAK
118 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 15:35-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshops Art, Senses, and Symbols to Reduce Trauma Symptoms Autumn Marie Chilcote, Department of Psychology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA Overview: Using art, senses, and symbolic movement, this workshop invites attendees to explore integrating art and mindfulness, toward reducing the intensity of the trauma response when working in a therapeutic environment. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Gestural Lineage: Evoking Feeling through Practiced, Intentional Gestures for Dance Reconstruction Prof. Kim Jones, Dance, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA Blakeley White-McGuire, Dance, Martha Graham Dance Company/LaGuardia School for the Performing Arts, New York, USA Overview: In this interactive workshop, participants will experience the process and methodology for research and embodiment of the contemporary re-imagining of Martha Graham’s lost dance, Imperial Gesture (1935). Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 2 Workshops The Process of Life Writing in a Community History Narrative and Its Potential Use as a Development Tool for Communities Janine Irvine, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: This is an exploration of life writing processes, a particular approach to preserving history, to build community engagement and write with subjects in a collaborative life-narrative on a community scale. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Mash-up: De-cluttered and Extended Alejandra Iannone, Multidisciplinary Productions, Sparkle Theatricals, USA Overview: We can encourage a comprehensive understanding of contemporary art’s context if we develop a comprehensive understanding of the term "mash-up" that extends beyond music to other art forms like dance. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts
119 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 15:35-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Portraying Identity Traditional Painted Portrait to Ubiquitous Digital Selfie: New Aesthetic in Search of Individual Identity Eveline Boudreau, Independent Artist, CARFAC, Saskatoon, Canada Overview: Reflecting on identity and today’s aesthetic, I compare and contrast early traditional painted portraits with the recent profusion of portraits, self-portraits and selfies emanating from digital technology. Theme: New Media, Technology and the Arts Here We Go Again: Using Art to Talk about Diversity in the USA Dr. Carl Gombert, Division of Fine Arts, Maryville College, Maryville, USA Overview: A series of self portraits depicting the artist as various races, and ethnicities enables discussion of issues of identity. The current political climate has increased the need for such tools. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Mataaho-Tableux: Windows on Appropriation Anita DeSoto, Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand Overview: Tableaux are narrative devices that feature in current arts practices as postcolonial windows on appropriation. This paper focuses on socio-critical tableaux from Gericault to Polynesian artists Reihana and Semu. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter On Portancy of the Matter Christine Leroy, Institut ACTE, Paris, France Overview: We'll focus on the link between the body's matter and the "body mater," in order to specify how the phenomenological concept of "portance" can enlighten the fact that gestures matter. Theme: Special Theme 2017: Gestures that Matter Room 4 The Eye of the Beholder Negative Vision as a Transgressive Affirmation Miguel Zamorano, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación., Santiago, Chile Overview: This is an inquiry about ways to explain the acts of transgression in contemporary art based on the concept of negative vision. Theme: Arts Theory and History Incidents and Accidents in Plein Air Painting: One Path towards Post- Impressionism Dr. Lloyd Bennett, Arts, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada Overview: The Impressionists the stipple or the color-patch to paint quickly to record changing light on form. However, in this endeavor to record nature something else happened: incidents and accidents. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Text as Social Construct: An Historical Perspective Dr. Katherine Lawber, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Salve Regina University, Newport, USA Dr. Harold Lawber, Department of Business and Economics, Salve Regina University, Newport, USA Overview: Taking a multidisciplinary as well as a multinational approach, examples will be studied in order to show how the text became foundational to the development of ideas and ideologies. Theme: Arts Theory and History Art-Based Future Research: Aesthetic Intelligence and Disruptive Idea Engineering from LIID Future Lab Raphaële Bidault-Waddington, LIID Future Lab, Paris, France Overview: Via a series of experimental art-based research projects carried by LIID with various organizations since 2000, this presentation will introduce disruptive theoretical reasoning to envision the art of the future. Theme: Arts Theory and History
120 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 15:35-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Neighborhood Identities The Anonymous Public Figure: The Ethical Dilemma of the Participatory Project with the Homeless Liisa Söderlund, Department of Media, Photography, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Overview: The paper considers photography as a method of the participatory project by exploring the ethical dilemma of photographs ability to present issue but at the same time reveal the participants. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Impacts of Arts and Culture: Negotiating Neighbourhood Urban Spaces for Community Arts in Singapore Dr. Zdravko Trivic, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Dr. Beng Kiang Tan, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Dr. Rita Padawangi, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Quyen Duong, Center for Sustainable Asian Cities, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Nina Mascarenhas, Center for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC), School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Overview: In this paper, we discuss the strategies employed to activate public spaces through arts and culture initiatives in five housing neighbourhoods in Singapore, focusing on identifying and measuring their impacts. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Art of Having Fun: Knowledge Co-creation with Children with Learning Disabilities Dr. Karian Schuitema, Community Animation & Social Innovation Centre, Keele University, Keele, UK Overview: This paper introduces a project that invites children with learning disabilities to become researchers. It will focus on laughter, comedy and art as ways to communicate and share diverse stories. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Beyond the Artistic Excellence versus Community Outreach Dualism: Rethinking Audiences and Participation in the Contemporary Art Gallery Sarah Richardson, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Overview: How can arts organisations challenge persisting art world hierarchies regarding aesthetics, excellence and access? This paper considers examples where traditional binaries of excellence or community are eschewed for both/and conceptions. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
121 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 15:35-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Creative Frontiers Evidencing Integration of Art in Social Research: A Collaborative Practice-based Study of Cultural Stereotyping and Social Exclusion with Six Australian Muslims Maryam Rashidi, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, Paris, France Overview: This paper uses the international academic scholarship on contemporary socially engaged art (1990s onward) as a point of departure to advocate further integration of artistic research into broader social mechanisms. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Hybrid Artists in Finland Heli Irmeli Ansio, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Overview: The paper discusses working practices and identities of Finnish “hybrid” artists who practice multiple professions and/or work in new, non-artistic environments. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Artist's Light Pete Reader, College of Communication & The Arts-Theatre, Seton Hall University, South Orange, USA Overview: Should museums be searching for an ideal light by which to experience art? This paper explores what light should art be seen in. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Scents and Non-Sense: Reclaiming the Aromatic Imagination Dr. Dorothy Abram, Department of Social Sciences, Johnson & Wales University, Providence, USA Overview: Examining the power of the aromatic imagination to heal a divided consciousness, this paper explores the use of fragrant plants in diverse artistic, cultural, and historical contexts. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Room 7 Roles of Art in Education Gestures of Inclusion of the Arts in School Education Dr. Kerry Thomas, School of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Overview: I investigate how "the arts" are represented in school education in nation state curriculum development and partnerships with industry. Theme: Arts Education Embodiment and Emotion in Arts-Infused Literacy Learning: Adolescents Engage with the Anne Frank Narrative Dr. Kathryn Whitmore, Early Childhood Research Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA Dr. James Chisholm, Middle and Secondary Education, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA Overview: We illustrate how the roles of embodiment and emotion promoted meaning making and active literacy learning about the Anne Frank narrative in middle schools in Louisville, Kentucky (USA). Theme: Arts Education Non-Zero-Sum, Drawing Transciscipilnarity: The Discipline of Visual Arts and the Challenge of Complex Problems Prof. Richard K. Merritt, Department of Art, Luther College, Decorah, USA Overview: This paper examines the ways training in the visual arts enhances overall cognitive competency and improves complex problem analysis. Skills necessary to address significant real world challenges. Theme: Arts Education
122 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 15:35-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Cultures of History A Kosode in the Gesù of Rome: Japanese Female Garments Depicted in the Painting The Great Martyrdom of 1622 in Nagasaki Blanco-Perales Jose, Department of History of Art and Musicology, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain Overview: The proposed paper studies the representation of Japanese female garments in a painting depicting the Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki in 1622 which belongs to the Gesù in Rome. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Changing Face of Embroidery in India: Chikankari, Rabari, Phulkari, and Kantha Dr. Punam Madhok, School of Art and Design: Art History, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA Overview: Embroidery has changed from a medium of expression into a means of earning a livelihood for women artisans in India. New techniques are being used to enhance traditional skills. Theme: Arts Theory and History Qumran: Aura and Artifacts Eva B. Palmer, Studio And Digital Art School of Communication and Creative Arts, Liberty University, Lynchburg, USA Overview: A twelfth Dead Sea Scroll cave was recently discovered. The ancient Qumran community, the significance of the find, and an overview of archaeology and ancient pottery will be presented. Theme: Arts Theory and History Room 9 Late Additions Postmodernism and the End of Art Dr. Gary Teeple, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Overview: Much of postmodern art portrays the irrational, the chaotic, the happenstance, the accidental, and the eclectic, as art. Meaninglessness and open-ended interpretation in art signals the end of its development. Theme: Arts Theory and History Musicians as Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs as Musicians Dr. Staffan Albinsson, Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Overview: This qualitative study found some remaining reluctance among musicians to identify themselves as entrepreneurs. I conclude that it would be beneficial if entrepreneurial skills were taught in Schools of Music. Theme: Arts Education Mapping Collaborative A/r/tography: Becoming through Multisensory Art Production Jennifer Wicks, Department of Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Overview: This paper explores the development of a collaborative a/r/tography and the mapping familial histories through multisensory art production. Theme: Arts Education New Approaches in Developing Art Curriculum Zaruhi Amiraghyan, National University of Architecture, Yerevan, Armenia Overview: I discuss adaptation of new approaches for building innovative curriculum in art education. Theme: Arts Education
123 FRIDAY, 16 JUNE 15:35-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 10 Impacting the Art Process The End of Art and Its Wake Cecília Samel, Arts Department History of Art, Universidade Federal, Juiz de Fora, Brazil Overview: I discuss how the conceptualization of art affected the idea of art, especially artworks following Duchamp’s footsteps, aided by the concept of end of art evoked by several authors. Theme: Arts Theory and History The Cycle of Rationalization and Traditionalization: Culture of Music in Turkey Dr. Hilmi Yazici, Performing Arts, Selcuk University Dilek Sabanci State Conservatory, Konya, Turkey Overview: This study aims to describe how the culture of music in Turkey evolved Ottoman to Republican period. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Transcultural Capital and Emigration of Contemporary Portuguese Visual Art(ists) Leandro Gabriel, Centre for Geographical Studies, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Overview: This research intends to deepen the relations between the visual arts and the emigration of Portuguese artists and the way they mobilize their transcultural capital. Theme: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts The Rosc Exhibitions: Overlooked Biennials Dr. Brenda Moore-McCann, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Overview: The six Rosc exhibitions took place in Ireland between 1967 and 1988. They can be counted amongst the earliest biennials yet they are missing from the growing historiography. Theme: Arts Theory and History
17:15-17:30 TRANSITION BREAK PLENARY SESSION (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS) - ALEXANDRA BIDET, 17:30-18:00 SOCIOLOGIST RESEARCHER, FRENCH NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, PARIS, FRANCE "Gestures : A Co-Genesis of Aesthetics and Sociality that Matters—Insights from André Leroi-Gourhan’s and Tino Sehgal’s Works" 18:00-18:30 Q&A SESSION (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS) 18:30-19:00 CLOSING & AWARD CEREMONY (AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS)
124 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Lisa Abia-Smith University of Oregon USA Dorothy Abram Johnson & Wales University USA Cherie Acosta Lamar University USA Rosalia Adamopoulou Ionian University Greece Duygu Nazli Akova Istanbul Kultur Unversity Turkey Jian Al Ma’arij Indonesia University of Education Indonesia Staffan Albinsson University of Gothenburg Sweden Khulod Albugami Birmingham City University UK Angeles Aleman Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain June Allen Paris-Sorbonne University France Anna-Mari Almila University of the Arts London UK Andrew Alter Macquarie University Australia Muli Amaye University of the West Indies Trinidad and Tobago Zaruhi Amiraghyan National University of Architecture and Armenia Construction of Armenia Nelly Anderson Partners In the Arts USA Heli Irmeli Ansio Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Finland Carl Antonucci Central Connecticut State University USA Dana Arieli Holon Institue of Technology Israel Elissa Armstrong Virginia Commonwealth University USA Tiago Assis University of Oporto Portugal Jivan Astfalck Birmingham City University UK Angelica Astor Northern Arizona University USA Judith M. Babnich Wichita State University USA Vinod Balakrishnan National Institute of Technology India Eugen Banauch University of Vienna Austria Mira Banay Open University of Israel Israel Dilek Basar Baskaya Middle East Technical University Turkey Kitty Bateman City University of New York USA Per Bauhn Linnaeus University Sweden Imene Belhassen Penn State Altoona USA Michael Bell Flinders University Australia Lloyd Bennett Thompson Rivers University Canada Harnoor Bhangu University of Winnipeg Canada Raphaële Bidault-Waddington LIID Future Lab France Alexandra Bidet French National Centre for Scientific Research France Carol Bishop Los Angeles Valley College USA John Henry Blatter Virginia Commonwealth University USA Jeremy Boehme Common Ground Research Networks USA Rudolph Botha University of Fort Hare South Africa
125 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Petr Bouc Czech Republic Eveline Boudreau Canadian Artists’ Representation/ Canada Le Front des Artistes Canadiens Annchen Bronkowksi University of London UK Barry Brummett National Communication Association USA Claire Brunet Ontario College of Art & Design University Canada Sara Buoso University of the Arts London UK Christy Burns College of William & Mary USA Lisa M. Burrell Lone Star College System USA Ratna Cahaya Multimedia Nusantara University Indonesia Andonia Cakouros California State University USA Duygu Irem Can Anadolu University Turkey Riccardo Carli University of Queensland Australia Sally Carpentier Vancouver Island University Canada Maria Joao Castro CHAM-FCSH/NOVA-UAc Portugal Kristen Cerelli Oklahoma City University USA Nino Chalaganidze Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgia Grace Chang Common Ground Research Networks USA Yang Chen University of the Arts London UK Autumn Marie Chilcote Duquesne University USA Sharon Chilcote-Doner Independent Scholar USA James Chisholm University of Louisville USA Chun Wei Choy Taylor’s University Malaysia Mi-Hyun Chung Mercy College USA Maud Clark Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company Australia Donna Clovis Franklin University Switzerland USA David Colton University of Wolverhampton UK Edwige Comoy Fusaro Université Côte d’Azur France Lynne Conner University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Geraldine Cook-Dafner University of Melbourne Australia Renee Crawford Monash University Australia Nathan Crook Ohio State Agricultural Technical Institute USA Malaika Cunningham University of Leeds UK Maja Curcic The University of Auckland New Zealand Ilinca Damian University of Bucharest Romania Kimberly Dark California State University San Marcos USA Caitlyn D’Aunno Common Ground Publishing USA Ben Davis Brandon University Canada Aly Degroot Charles Darwin Univesity Australia Mariana da Costa Mendes University of Porto Portugal Gonçalves Delgado
126 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Suzanne Delle York College of Pennsylvania USA Anita DeSoto Otago Polytechnic New Zealand Kenneth DiMaggio Capital Community College USA Margaret Louise Dobson McGill University Canada Jonathan Doner Doner Projects / Doner Systems USA Julie Drolet University of Calgary Canada James Duesing Carnegie Mellon University USA Alan Dunning University of Calgary Canada Jennifer Dyer Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada Fiona Edmonds-Dobrijevich University of Technology Sydney Australia D. Rose Elder Ohio State Agricultural Technical Institute USA Ebtihal Elshaikh Tanta University Egypt Asmaa Elshikh Damanhour University Egypt Melanie Enderle Seattle Central College & University of Washington USA Helen Eriksen Tenthaus Norway Monica Escudero Simon Fraser University Canada Lina M. Espinosa University of Los Andes Colombia Ana Estevens University of Lisbon Portugal Robyn Ann Ewing University of Sydney Australia Parinaz Faghihi Vicarte Portugal Anahit Falihi University of Saskatchewan Canada Michael Finneran Mary Immaculate College / University of Limerick Ireland Barbara Formis Paris-Sorbonne University France David Forrest Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Australia Kathryn Fouse Samford University USA Danielle Foushee Arizona State University USA Mandy Francis University Of Newcastle Australia Cissie Fu Emily Carr University of Art + Design Canada Yuri Funahashi Colby College USA Liton Furukawa Royal Roads University Canada Lisa A. Fusillo University of Georgia USA Leandro Gabriel University of Lisbon Portugal Marko Galic The University of Auckland New Zealand Adrienne Gans New York University USA Cecilia Garibay Garibay Group USA W.F. Garrett-Petts Thompson Rivers University Canada Ana María Garzón Mantilla Universidad San Francisco de Quito Ecuador Claire Gauzente University of Nantes France Avivit Gera Tel Aviv University Israel Tanya Gerstle University of Melbourne Australia Laurence Gewirtz New York University USA Robyn Gibson University of Sydney Australia
127 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Ya’ara Gil-Glazer Tel-Hai Academic College Israel Terese Giobbia West Virginia University USA Christopher Giroux Saginaw Valley State University USA Rhiannon Goad University of Texas at Austin USA Tamar Goguadze Tbilisi State University Georgia Beste Gokce Parsehyan Istanbul Kultur University Turkey Emine Gokcek Royal College of Art UK Carl Gombert Maryville College USA Brian K. Gould Orange Coast College USA Claire Green Queen Mary University of London UK Michael Grenfell University of Southampton Management School UK Victor Griss City of Moreland Australia Agita Gritane Art Academy of Latvia Latvia Paul Guajardo University of Houston USA Aysegul Guchan Yeditepe University Turkey Virginia Guerrero University of Malaga Spain Artur Guimarães Dias University of Brasilia Brazil Pimentel Alina Mihaela Gurguta National University of Arts Bucharest Romania Elena Hadjipieri Simon Fraser University Cyprus Debra Hale Florida State University USA Elaine Tuttle Hansen Johns Hopkins University USA Brian Harlan California Institute of the Arts USA Kharen Harper Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company Australia Laura Harris University of Liverpool UK Jeanine Henry Eastern Florida State College USA Amanda Ditto Hernandez Claremont Graduate University USA Betti-Sue Hertz Independent Curator USA Scott Hessels City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Zhaohua Ho Fu Jen Catholic University Taiwan Willie F. Hooker North Carolina Agricultural and USA Technical State University Emily Hope Kamloops Art Gallery Canada Haley Hoss-Jameson Stephen F. Austin State University USA Thomas Houser University of Georgia USA Alejandra Iannone Sparkle Theatricals USA Ema Iis Rofingah Education University of Indonesia Indonesia Jean Ippolito University of Hawaii at Hilo USA Janine Irvine Massey University New Zealand Rachael Jacobs Western Sydney University Australia Nayun Jang University of London UK Remy Jarry Chulalongkorn University Thailand
128 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Louise Jenkins Monash University Australia Garrett Johnson Arizona State University USA Janice K. Jones University of Southern Queensland Australia Blanco-Perales Jose Universidad de Oviedo Spain Coline Joufflineau Paris-Sorbonne University France Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Common Ground Research Networks USA Kseniya Kalashnikova Novosibirsk State University Russian Federation Seulkee Kang Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger Independent Scholar Australia Yuji Kawasima Complutense University of Madrid Spain Jennifer Keating-Miller Carnegie Mellon University USA John Keller Rutgers University USA Yin Ker Nanyang Technological University Singapore Marita Kerin University of Dublin Ireland Mahony Maia Kiely Burning Sensations Community Theatre Collective Australia Seung Hwan Kim Chungbuk University in South Korea South Korea Robin Kingston Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Australia Constance Kirker Pennsylvania State University USA Olga Kisseleva Paris-Sorbonne University France Kardelen Koşaner Universitat de Barcelona France Randall Charles Kohl Universidad Veracruzana Mexico Ariyuki Kondo Ferris University Japan Dale Alan Konstanz Mahidol University International College Thailand Marcy L. Koontz The University of Alabama USA Mary Kosut Purchase College, State University of New York USA Taja Kramberger School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences France Michael Kurniawan University College London UK Artin Lahiji University of Saskatchewan Canada Eileen Hau-ling Lam The Education University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Erika Landau Mount Sinai School of Medicine USA Patricia Lannes CALTA21 USA Anu Laukkanen University of Turku Finland Miriana Lausic Arratia York University Canada Harold Lawber Salve Regina University USA Kim Le The University of Western Australia Australia Yu-Ching Lee Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China Pierre Leichner Gallery Gachet Canada Barbara Lekatsas Hofstra University USA Sarah Leperchey Paris-Sorbonne University France Christine Leroy Paris-Sorbonne University France Janice L. Levy Ithaca College USA
129 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Jean McDaniel Lickson Florida State University USA Jodi Lightner Montana State University Billings USA Christer Lindberg Lund University Sweden Michael Lithgow Athabasca University Canada Linda Merewyn Lorenza University of Sydney Australia Gisele Loriot-Raymer Northern Kentucky University USA Marie Louden-Hanes University of Findlay USA Emilee Lupi New York University USA Natasha Lushetich LaSalle College of the Arts Singapore Nancy Lushington Marymount Manhattan College USA Gwenn-Aël Lynn Independent Scholar USA Gordon Edward Lyon Artists & Makers Studio 2 USA Greer Lorca MacKeogh University of Arts London UK Eric-Akira MacPhail Vanderbilt University USA Punam Madhok East Carolina University USA Nabia Majeed University of Toronto Canada Kelly Mancini Becker The University of Vermont USA Don Mangone University of Pittsburgh USA James Charles Marchant Elon University USA Kevin Marshall University of Florida USA Sherry Martens Ambrose University Canada Jari Martikainen University of Eastern Finland Finland Brittany Harker Martin University of Calgary Canada Catarina Martins i2ADS - Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society Portugal Clare Massey North of England Consortium for Arts and Humanities UK Kathryn Math Purdue University USA Filipe Matos University of Lisbon Portugal Lenore Maybaum Kirkwood Community College USA Justine McGovern City University of New York USA Joan Meggitt Kent State University USA Paulo Cezar Mello Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing Brazil Richard K. Merritt Luther College USA Eric Metzgar Independent Scholar USA Dirk Michel-Schertges Aarhus University Denmark Nino Mindiashvili Caucasus International University/ Georgia Sokhumi State University Charlie Mitchell The University of Florida USA Sarah Mizer Virginia Commonwealth University USA Donlisha Moahi Stellenbosch University South Africa Sharon Fish Mooney Regis University / Ohio Poetry Association USA Brenda Moore-McCann Trinity College Dublin Ireland
130 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Inês Isabel Oliveira Ramos Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal Rebelo Morais Mario Alberto Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico Morales Domínguez Jeffrey Hughes Morgan Lynn University USA Ruth Morrow Midwestern State University USA Graham Mort Lancaster University UK Claudia Mosqueda Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Campus Lerma Mexico James Moyer Moore College of Art and Design USA Jennifer Munday Charles Sturt University Australia Paul Munden University of Canberra Australia Aedan Murphy Common Ground Research Networks USA Simone Muscolino Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Jeffrey Rayner Myers Goucher College USA Behzad Nakhjavan Auburn University USA Julija Naskova The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Rebecca Diane Amelia Neale Durham University UK Olga Nefedova National Research University Higher School of Russian Economics Federation Robert Christopher Nellis Red Deer College Canada Melissa Nesrallah University of Toronto Canada Maria Nicolacopoulou Independent Curator USA Lolita Nikolova AncestryProGenealogists USA Carrie Noland University of California, Irvine USA Caroline O’Brien Ryerson University Canada Laura Lee Odegaard City of Austin USA Roberta Orlando Italy Tamar Paichadze Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgia José Carlos de Paiva University of Porto Portugal Eva B. Palmer Liberty University USA Steven Pane University of Maine Farmington USA Eleni-Ira Panourgia University of Edinburgh UK Tracy Pattison The Inspired Body USA John Pauley Simpson College USA John Hunt Peacock Maryland Institute College of Art USA Michael Pearce California Lutheran University USA Grazia Peduzzi Emergent Art Space USA Marianna Pegno Tucson Museum of Art USA Anne Frances Peirson-Smith City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Jana Perez Texas Woman’s University USA Tomas Pernecky Auckland University of Technology New Zealand
131 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Mélanie Perrier Laboratoire du Geste France Britta J. Peterson American University USA Mari Pienimäki University of Tampere Finland Stephen Pierson State University of New York USA Sarah Pirrie Charles Darwin University Australia Jay Plaat Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands Simona Polvani Paris-Sorbonne University France Marlena Pop National R&D Institute For Textiles and Leather Romania Justine Poplin Victoria University Australia Barbara Portailler Paris-Sorbonne University France Tatjana Portnova University of Granada Spain Sue Potts Institute of Cultural Capital UK Tim Prentki University of Winchester UK Tania Price University of Tasmania Australia Shreen Raghavan Independent Researcher India P. Gibson Ralph The College at Brockport USA Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan O.P. Jindal Global University India Carlos Ramos Wellesley College USA Lorna Ramsay Simon Fraser University Canada Patricia Raquimán Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación/ Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Maryam Rashidi Australian National University France Barbara Rauch Ontario College of Art & Design University Canada Amit Ray Shiv Nadar University India Pete Reader Seton Hall University USA Razia Rezaie Kabul University Afghanistan Anthony Rhine Florida State University USA Wendy Ribadeneira San Francisco de Quito University Ecuador Sarah Richardson University of Leeds UK António Machuco Rosa Universidade do Porto Portugal Jochai Rosen University of Haifa Israel Ninette Rothmüller Mount Holyoke College USA Ann Rowson Love Florida State University USA Janet E. Rubin Eastern Florida State College USA Kahena Saana Paris-Sorbonne University France Tamar Salibian Claremont Graduate University USA Ozge Samanci Northwestern University USA Cecília Samel Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Brazil Heather Samuelson Stephen F. Austin State University USA María Eugenia Sánchez Ramos Universidad de Guanajuato Mexico Janine Patricia Santos Fo Guang College Philippines
132 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Orly Sarid Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel Kanako Sasaki Tohoku University Japan Frank Scheide University of Arkansas USA Leoni Schmidt Otago Polytechnic New Zealand Deborah Schroder Southwestern College USA Karian Schuitema Keele University UK David Schwittek City University of New York USA Kyla Searle Brown University USA Sucharita Sen O.P. Jindal Global University India Laura Severin North Carolina State University USA Xin Wei Sha Arizona State University USA Elahe Shahrad Payame Noor University Iran (Islamic Republic of) Tamar Sharabidze Tbilisi State University Georgia Lisa Sharpe Greenville College USA Alec Shepley Wrexham Glyndŵr University UK Kala Shreen Centre for Creativity, Heritage, and Development India Gerald Silk Temple University USA Anita Sinner Concordia University Canada Theresa Slater Ontario College of Art & Design University Canada David Smith University of Sydney Australia Liisa Söderlund Aalto University Finland Reesa Sorin James Cook University Australia Marina University of Crete Greece Sotiropoulou-Zormpala Jane Elizabeth Southcott Monash University Australia Arie Sover Ashkelon Academic College Israel Matt Spahr Virginia Commonwealth University USA Lynn Spencer Eastern Florida State College USA Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger The University of Melbourne Australia Sian Stevenson Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company UK Maggie Burnette Stogner American University USA Jürgen Streeck The University of Texas at Austin USA Donna Strode Alere Informatics, Inc. USA Linda Studena Arts Access Victoria Australia Andrew Sutherland Monash University UK Pirjo Helena Suvilehto University of Oulu Finland Gary Teeple Simon Fraser University Canada Charlotte Tegan Queensland University of Technology Australia Ayse-Secil Tekin-Akbulut Anadolu University Turkey Kebedech Tekleab City University of New York USA
133 The Arts in Society List of Participants
Nicos Terzis Technological Educational Institute of Athens Greece Agnieszka Tes Jesuit Academy Ignatianum in Cracow Poland Kerry Thomas University of New South Wales Australia Larry Thompson Samford University USA Rashad Timmons Michigan State University USA Miriam Torzillo James Cook University Australia Maia Toteva University of Cincinnati USA Christina Tourino The College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University USA Zdravko Trivic National University of Singapore Singapore Joseph Troncale University of Richmond USA Rachel Trusty University of Arkansas Community College USA Thomas Deane Tucker Chadron State College USA Kathleen Turner University of Limerick Ireland Jocene Vallack James Cook University Australia Jennifer Van de Pol Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Canada Candace Vance Seattle Pacific University USA Kathleen VanDeMark Ferris State University USA Barbara Allegra Verlezza Kent State University USA Maria Vigli Technological Educational Institute of Patras Greece Linda Daniela Villegas University of Sydney Australia Lynette Vought Ferris State University USA Bronwen Wade Leeuwen Macquarie University/STEAM Education Australia/ Australia Workshop Art Centre Karen Wall Athabasca University Canada Madalena Wallenstein Centro Cultural de Belém Portugal Ruobing Wang Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore Jill Ware Virginia Commonwealth University USA Erwin J. Warkentin Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada Clare Weeks The University of Newcastle Australia Elisabeth Wennerström Uppsala City Theatre Sweden Rosa Wevers Utrecht University Netherlands Amy White William Peace University USA Ian Whitehouse Vancouver Island University Canada Blakeley White-McGuire LaGuardia School for the Performing Arts/ USA Martha Graham Dance Company Kathryn Whitmore University of Louisville USA Jennifer Wicks Concordia University Canada James Woglom Humboldt State University USA Kathleen Woods Chadron State College USA Xinyang Wu Nanfang College of Sun Yet-sen University China Toni Wynn Word-Burning Stove LLC USA
134 The Arts in Society List of Participants
JingYing Xu NanFang College of Sun Yat-Set University China Fu-Ju Yang Kainan University Taiwan Hilmi Yazici Selcuk University Dilek Sabanci State Conservatory Turkey Cheung-shing Yeh Education Bureau Hong Kong Miguel Zamorano Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación/ Chile Wenlock School Fahimeh Zarezadeh Tarbiat Modares University Iran (Islamic Republic of) Birut Zemits Charles Darwin University Australia Yiyu Zhang Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University China Aihua Zhou California Lutheran University USA Thibault Zimmer Concordia University Canada Elizabeth Zito Regional Arts Victoria Australia Jerry Zolten Penn State University USA Peter Zuurbier Simon Fraser University Canada Maria Zykova Novosibirsk State University Russian Federation
135 The Arts in Society List of Participants
136 The Arts in Society List of Participants
137 The Arts in Society Notes
137 The Arts in Society Notes
138 The Arts in Society Notes
139 The Arts in Society Notes
140 The Arts in Society Notes
141 The Arts in Society Notes
142 The Arts in Society Notes
143 The Arts in Society Notes
144 The Arts in Society Notes
145 | Conference Calendar 2017–2018
Fifteenth International Conference Tenth International Conference on on New Directions in the the Inclusive Museum Humanities University of Manchester Imperial College London Manchester, UK | 15–17 September 2017 London, UK | 5–7 July 2017 onmuseums.com/2017-conference thehumanities.com/2017-conference
Seventh International Conference Fifteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society on Books, Publishing & Libraries University of Denver Imperial College London Denver, USA | 5–6 October 2017 London, UK | 7 July 2017 healthandsociety.com/2017-conference booksandpublishing.com/2017-conference
Seventh International Conference Eighth International Conference on Food Studies on Sport & Society Roma Tre University Imperial College London Rome, Italy | 26–27 October 2017 London, UK | 10–11 July 2017 food-studies.com/2017-conference sportandsociety.com/2017-conference
Eighth International Conference Twenty-fourth International on The Image Conference on Learning Venice International University University of Hawaii at Manoa Venice, Italy | 31 Oct.–1 November 2017 Honolulu, USA | 19–21 July 2017 ontheimage.com/2017-conference thelearner.com/2017-conference
Aging & Society: Seventh Twelfth International Conference Interdisciplinary Conference on Interdisciplinary Social University of California at Berkeley Sciences Berkeley, USA | 3–4 November 2017 International Conference Center agingandsociety.com/2017-conference Hiroshima, Japan | 26–28 July 2017 thesocialsciences.com/2017-conference Second International Conference on Communication & Media Seventeenth International Studies Conference on Diversity in UBC Robson Square Organizations, Communities & Vancouver, Canada | 16–17 November 2017 Nations oncommunicationmedia.com/ University of Toronto – Chestnut 2017-conference Conference Centre Toronto, Canada | 26–28 July 2017 ondiversity.com/2017-conference
146 | Conference Calendar 2017–2018
Fourteenth International Eighth International Conference Conference on Environmental, on Religion & Spirituality in Cultural, Economic & Social Society Sustainability University of California at Berkeley The Cairns Institute, Berkeley, USA | 17–18 April 2018 James Cook University religioninsociety.com/2018-conference Cairns, Australia | 17–19 January 2018 onsustainability.com/2018-conference Tenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Fourteenth International Responses Conference on Technology, University of California at Berkeley Knowledge & Society Berkeley, USA | 20–21 April 2018 St John’s University, Manhattan Campus on-climate.com/2018-conference New York, USA | 1–2 March 2018 techandsoc.com/2018-conference Third International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies Eleventh International Conference Hotel Melia Salinas on e-Learning & Innovative Canary Islands, Spain | 17–18 May 2018 Pedagogies tourismandleisurestudies.com/ St John’s University, Manhattan Campus 2018-conference New York, USA | 2–3 March 2018 ubi-learn.com/2018-conference Eighth International Conference on The Constructed Environment Twelfth International Conference Wayne State University on Design Principles & Practices Detroit, USA | 24–25 May 2018 Elisava Barcelona School of Design and constructedenvironment.com/ Engineering 2018-conference Barcelona, Spain | 5–7 March 2018 designprinciplesandpractices.com/ 2018-conference Eighteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Eighteenth International Nations Conference on Knowledge, University of Texas at Austin Culture, and Change in Austin, USA | 6–8 June 2018 Organizations ondiversity.com/2018-conference University of Konstanz Konstanz, Germany | 15–16 March 2018 organization-studies.com/2018-conference Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning University of Athens Athens, Greece | 21–23 June 2018 thelearner.com/2018-conference
147 | Conference Calendar 2017–2018
Thirteenth International Eleventh Global Studies Conference on The Arts in Society Conference Emily Carr University of Art + Design University of Granada Vancouver, Canada | 27–29 June 2018 Granada, Spain | 29–30 July 2018 artsinsociety.com/2018-conference onglobalization.com/2018-conference
Sixteenth International Eighth International Conference Conference on New Directions in on Health, Wellness & Society the Humanities Imperial College London University of Pennsylvania London, UK | 20–21 September 2018 Philadelphia, USA | 5–7 July 2018 healthandsociety.com/2018-conference thehumanities.com/2018-conference
Sixteenth International Spaces & Flows: Ninth Conference on Books, Publishing International Conference on Urban & Libraries and ExtraUrban Studies University of Pennsylvania Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg University Philadelphia, USA | 7 July 2018 Heidelberg, Germany | 25–26 October 2018 booksandpublishing.com/2018-conference spacesandflows.com/2018-conference
Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society Florida International University Miami, USA | 19–20 July 2018 sportandsociety.com/2018-conference
Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences University of Granada Granada, Spain | 25–27 July 2018 thesocialsciences.com/2018-conference
148