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TransCultural Exchange’s 2018 Annual Report

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2018 ANNUAL REPORT

Executive Summary

TransCultural Exchange turned 30th the year. We celebrated this momentous occasion by producing our first International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts to take place outside of our home base of Boston, making the Conference theme Exploring New Horizons as relevant for us as for our attendees.

We brought this Conference to Québec City at the request of the artist Jeanne Landry who attended our 2009 and 2011 Conferences in Boston. As a result, she was invited to participate in a number of international exhibitions and residencies. These experiences so changed her life that she wanted the same for other Quebecois artists. So, she lobbied for us to bring the Conference here and, with the continual assistance of Suzanne Roy of the Québec City Business Destination.

Along the way, we were joined in our efforts by the extraordinarily kind help of the Gouvernement du Québec, our gala co-sponsor swissnex Boston and the Conference’s lead academic host, l’École d’art de l’Université Laval. I would like to personally thank the Director of l’École d’art Georges Azzaria for his unflinching support and Professor Marie-Christiane Matthieu for her work in soliciting the participation of the local arts community – especially Mois Multi/Recto Verso’s Director Gaëtan Gosselin who so ably took the lead in arranging the Conference’s closing reception. For this event at the complex of artist-run centers Méduse, we also thank the Ville de Québec and the Gouvernement du Québec. In addition, we would like to thank our main Conference venues, the Morrin Centre, Auberge Internationale de Québec and the Maison de la littérature|L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire, whose former Director – and now Managing Director of Robert Lepage's Le Diamant – Bernard Gilbert so graciously fulfilled my dream to have Robert Lepage’s artistic genius represented at the Conference.

When TransCultural Exchange first began nearly three decades ago, we were producing traveling exhibitions and related programming for artists. But, with these Conferences, we have absorbed the truism of the ancient proverb: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a many to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” We are continuously delighted that by teaching our attendees “to fish,” our efforts have grown exponentially. And, for this we have our wonderful speakers to thank. From our surveys, we can see that our attendees’ careers have taken off, their works have blossomed and they have made more opportunities for themselves and others. Through both our speakers and attendees’ work, a mesh of global networks is growing – one that transcends borders, strife, local interests and prejudices, united by the power of art. This has been our dream since our inception, as we believe that the arts are civility’s calling card, which is why ruthless tyrants are so quick to quash them.

The arts offer the engagement of the senses, the lure of excellence, the stimulation of curiosity and the fearless embrace of new horizons. As we know from nature, we need diversity to survive and art offers us this in spades. We, therefore, thank all of you for all you do and for joining us here to 2

support each other in this important work, and are pleased to announce that Vernon Press has approached us to publish the 2018 Conference papers in 2019 as a peer-reviewed book.

– Mary Sherman Executive Director, TransCultural Exchange

. . . with heartfelt thanks to all our sponsors, who enabled us to produce this Conference and to TransCultural Exchange's remarkable Board of Trustees, steadfast Advisory Board and all the speakers, moderators and volunteers who have come from near and far to be with us over these three days. Most of all, though, I would like to thank the hundreds of artists and organizations for whom TransCultural Exchange has worked with for over three decades. It is their work, inspiration and kindness that continue to guide us forward.

TransCultural Exchange’s Board of Trustees Gordon L. Amgott Mira Bartók Thaddeus Beal Blake Brasher Susan Cohen Michèle Oshima

TransCultural Exchange’s Advisory Board Ute Meta Bauer Marie Fol Jan Hanvik Lisa Hoffman Jean-Baptiste Joly Catherine Lee Margaret Shiu Caitlin Strokosch Mitsuhiro (Mitch) Yoshimoto

FINANCIAL REPORT

All financial decisions are made by TransCultural Exchange’s Board of Trustees. The mission of the Board of Trustees is to formulate policy for the organization, to monitor execution of that policy, and to support the staff in the fulfillment of the organization’s purposes through oversight of TransCultural Exchange’s finances, governance and all activities and programs. Actual execution of programs, however, continues to remain the responsibility of the Director and staff.

We are deeply indebted to the tireless efforts of our staff – Siyi Wang for her stunning graphics, Rudi Punzo for his round-the-clock updates our website in a moment’s notice and Carol van Zandt’s for 3

her added marketing efforts. Special thanks also to Rudi and Carol for their remarkable efforts throughout the Conference. They stepped in whenever needed, ensuring that the Conference went off without a hitch. Our board also deserves kudos for that as well, as each board member took on a great deal of the logistical tasks required of running the Conference at three, unique spaces. As usual, our advisory board lent the Conference their expertise both through their Conference presentations and during our advisory board meeting. Their global perspective and insight remains invaluable to us.

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Still, none of TransCultural Exchange’s activities would be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. TransCultural Exchange is pleased to have Université Laval’s l'École d'art de la Faculté d'aménagement, d'architecture, d'art et de design as the lead academic sponsor of the 2018 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons. We also are very grateful to the Gouvernement du Québec, who so graciously lent crucial funding, expert advice and remarkable goodwill to make this first venture from our home base possible. Other individuals who TransCultural Exchange would like to single out to thank include the generous and steadfast support of our wonderful anonymous donors and Mrs. Ralph Ghormley whose funds carry us through our Conference planning years. We are also would like to thank all the volunteers and speakers who have so graciously given so much to be with us for this event. We thank all of these people and all the countless artists and organizations we have worked with over the years and to which TransCultural Exchange owes its success.

The production of these Conferences is, of course, a huge financial undertaking. It would not be possible without the aid of many people and institutions.

Diamond - $10,000+ Anonymous Donor Mrs. Ralph Ghormley Gouvernement du Québec Université Laval, l'École d'art de la Faculté d'aménagement, d'architecture, d'art et de design

Platinum - $7500+ swissnex boston

Gold - $5000+ Auberge Internationale de Québec

Silver - $2500+ Délices Érable & Cie DutchCulture, Centre for International Cooperation Goethe-Institut Montreal Richard Lappin and Julia Rabkin Locke Lord, LLP Mois Multi, an international festival produced by Recto-Verso Musée de la civilisation, Québec Royal Jordanian airlines Québec City Business Destination Romanian Cultural Institute, New York Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

Individual Sponsors Austrian Cultural Forum Austrian Embassy Ottawa Boston Cultural Council Blake Brasher 5

Susan Cohen Consulat Général d'Israël à Montréal | Consulate General of Israel in Montreal Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) Research Committee at University of Dundee Florian Grond Gabriele Koch Ivanna Muse LIA - Lab Inter Arts, Salzburg Nordic Summer University Séminaire de Québec Urban Ramstedt Rhonda Smith Society of St. John the Evangelist Emmanuel Zazopoulos ZHdK – Zurich University of the Arts

TransCultural Exchange would also like to thank the Ville de Québec and Gouvernement du Québec for their contribution to the closing event, hosted by Mois Multi/Recto Verso. In addition, TransCultural Exchange would like to acknowledge the Bilingual Tourism Program at Cégep Limoiloi for providing us with volunteers for the Conference, and Suzanne Roy of the Québec City Business Destination and Jeanne Landry for their continued help in planning the Conference; Glenn Pudelka, Allison O'Neil and Douglas Sweeney of Locke Lord, LLP for their legal expertise; the MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, School of Communication at Northwestern University for their in-kind support and the National Endowment for the Arts for funding to make our Conference web pages fully accessible to visitors with disabilities. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency that is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural, administered by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture. A summary of the year’s expenses and income follows. Copies of TransCultural Exchange’s 2018 tax forms are publically available on GuideStar, Common Giving and with the Massachusetts State House’s Office of Public Charities.

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2018 Conference Expenses 2018 Expenses Personnel Actual Volunteer Total TOTAL PERSONNEL $37,396 $47,820 $85,216 NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES Actual In-Kind Total Accounting $384 $7,200 $7,584 Advertising & PR $94 $0 $94 Bank Fees $54 $0 $54 Event Insurance $1,142 $0 $1,142 Legal $2,771 $2,200 $4,971 Meals/Entertainment $13,560 $0 $13,560 Office Supplies $771 $0 $771 Parking $58 $0 $58 Telephone $1,416 $0 $1,416 Refunds, Conference $514 $0 $514 Postage $612 $0 $612 Printing Costs $2,169 $0 $2,169 Programs/Residencies/ars $3,740 $150 $3,890 Conference spaces and Speaker housing $3,942 $6,240 $10,182 Stationery $0 $0 $0 Survey & Evaluation $50 $0 $50 Travel (including inkind provided by speakers' organizations) $7,351 $48,941 $56,292 Website $3,435 $14,400 $17,835 NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES $42,063 $79,131 $121,194 Total Expenses $79,459 $126,951 $206,410 INCOME Actual In-kind Total Earned Income - Conference Fees $23,706 $0 $23,706 Individual $22,106 $14,460 $36,566 University, Laval University/Boston College (intern) $10,266 $2,400 $12,666 Bank Interest $22 $0 $22 Societe du Centre des Congres de Québec $3,673 $9,400 $13,073 Foundation/Non-Profit, inc. inkind from the Goethe Institut Montreal, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Dutch Culture etc. $250 $48,941 $49,191 Fundraiser (amazonsmile) $63 $63 Government, including, the Ministry of Culture Quebec ($10,000), Quebec Delegation ($2500), Israeli Consulate ($1072), swissnex Boston ($5,500) $19,072 $150 $19,222 Volunteer $0 $51,600 $51,600 TOTAL INCOME $79,158 $126,951 $206,109 Net Income/Loss -$301 $0 -$301 Carry over from 2017 $86,255 Remaining to carry over to 2019 $85,954

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

Talks

“TransCultural Exchange and Global Opportunities,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

“Causality, Contingency or how the arts come to be suspect (followed by a brief, cautionary tale),” Global Humanities Campus, Freie Universität, Berlin

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGE’S 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ARTS: EXPLORING NEW HOIZONS

Dates: February 22nd – 24th, 2018 Location: The Auberge International de Québec, the Maison de la littérature and the Morrin Centre in Québec City, Canada

While Artistic Research and the rise of a Ph.D. in the arts is now fairly established in Europe1, it is only just beginning to gain a foothold in the U.S., where there is no doubt that it will make its way into American colleges and universities. What would this then mean, not only for arts education but also for the future of art? To start thinking about this, in the fall of 2017 swissnex Boston and TransCultural Exchange created ars (artistic research salons). The aim of ars is to thoughtfully consider the artistic implications inherent in the likely American adoption of a Ph.D. in the arts by

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producing intimate, dinner gatherings, where representative stakeholders can meet, network and talk with key players in the formation of Artistic Research.

1Under the Bologna Process, signed in 1999, European universities agreed to start adopting similar standards for the awarding of degrees. With that came the acceptance of a Ph.D. in the arts and the notion of Artistic Research.

ars 2 Date: Saturday, February 17, 2018 Invited Guest: Prof. Ute Meta Bauer founding Director, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore. Joined by guests from Boston University, MIT, Northeastern University the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Montreal’s Society of Art and Technology (SAT), and others.

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As part of Florian Dombois: Galleria del Vento at the 2017 Research Pavilion of Venice, Dombois sailed a boat with golden sails through the lagoon. Photo: Ugo Carmeni, 2017 ars 3 Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Invited Guest: Prof. Florian Dombois, Artist and Professor, Zurich University of he Arts Joined by guests from Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, MIT, Northeastern University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Catalyst Conversations, Goethe Institut, Le Laboratoire and others.

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Presenters

Friday Evening Keynote Speaker: Bernard Gilbert Bernard Gilbert is a well-known Québec City writer and arts manager. After being director of Théâtre Périscope (1989-1992) and Carrefour international de théâtre (1992-2000), he became a freelance consultant in management and programming. From 2004 to 2013, Ex Machina hired him as production manager for operas. He was then appointed founding director of Maison de la littérature and artistic director of Québec en toutes lettres festival (2013-2017). He recently became general manager of Le Diamant, an ambitious performing arts centre due to open in 2019 Québec City. Also a writer, Bernard Gilbert has published, in French, three novels, two poetry collections and essays on director Robert Lepage's opera productions.

Bernard Gilbert est un écrivain et gestionnaire culturel reconnu de Québec. Directeur général du Théâtre Périscope (1989-1992) et du Carrefour international de théâtre (1992-2000), il réalise par la suite plusieurs mandats de consultants en gestion et en programmation. De 2004 à 2013, il occupe la direction de production des opéras mis en scène par Robert Lepage réalisés par Ex Machina. De 2013 à 2017, il dirige la Maison de la littérature et le festival Québec en toutes lettres. Il vient de prendre la tête du Diamant, espace de diffusion ambitieux qui ouvrira ses portes en 2019. Aussi écrivain, il a publié trois romans, dont Pygmalion tatoué (Druide, 2016), deux recueils de poésie et trois essais sur le travail opératique de Robert Lepage. Photo credit: Renaud Philippe.

Friday Luncheon Keynotes: Ute Meta Bauer is the Founding Director of the NTU CCA Singapore and Professor at School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and was prior Associate Professor (2005-2012) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, United States where she served as the Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. Previously, she was Co-Curator for Documenta11 (2001- 2002), Artistic Director for the 3rd berlin biennale for contemporary art (2004) and the Founding Director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (2002-05). She co-curated with MIT List Centre for Visual Art Director Paul Ha the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), presenting eminent artist Joan Jonas and developed the concept for Cities for People (2017), the pilot edition of NTU CCA Ideas Fest. She also co-edited with Brigitte Oetker Southeast Asia Spaces of the Curatorial (2016), published by Sternberg Press.

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Jean-Baptiste Joly is the former Director of the French Cultural Institute in Stuttgart. Currently (since January 1, 1989), he is the chairman of the board of the foundation Akademie Schloss Solitude and Founding Director and Artistic Director of the Akademie. In addition, he is an honorary professor at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee, College of Art and Design, Berlin; and a member of the board of trustees of different foundations and cultural institutions in Germany and in France, including a member of the advisory board of TransCultural Exchange, board of Res Artis and a former member of the French-German Council for Culture.

Confirmed Speakers, Moderators and Mentors

Antoine Abi Aad is a designer, Assistant Professor at the Lebanese University (Lebanon) and, currently, a visiting Associate Professor at the Industrial Design Center, IIT Bombay. He is also a frequent guest lecturer and has given talks and workshops at numerous institutions, including the Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil), International Design School (Jakarta), Institute of Business and Design (Moscow), Hong Kong Design Institute, Greenside Design Center College of Design (Johannesburg), Nara University of Education (Japan) and Yale University (New Haven). Additionally, he has served on numerous juries and his works have been exhibited widely, including in Kanji at Aliança Cultural Brasil-Japão (São Paulo, Brazil), Bienal Del Cartel Bolivia, subject vs. object at the Galerie vorn und oben (Eupen, Belgium) and Beirut: Ana, Enta, Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin, Germany).

Rachela Abbate is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, writer and curator. Her work investigates the significance of architected spaces – in particular, intangible structures in communication or archiving. In her artistic work, which includes photography, installations, videos and drawings, she explores aesthetic imaginaries, which open up possibilities of reflection and awareness. She is also the co-founder and producer of different participatory projects related to social transformation, such as Bait al Karama and Social Soups. Further, she is involved in collaborative artistic projects. Her work has been shown extensively internationally.

Cardiela Amezcua Luna is a dancer, choreographer, director, stage producer, promoter, cultural manager and environmental educator. She is a frequent consultant in regional development, specializing in environmental management, resolution of socio-environmental conflicts and sustainable human development. She has recevied numerous national and international awards and recognitions. Additionally, she ahas presented her stage work in fifteen countries and organized and founded numerous festivals. Her work has impacted the P'urhépecha, Nahuatl, Mazahua, Otomi, Maya, Huichol and Tzoltzil communities as well as those in Hispanic-America and Europe. Further, she is a teacher of the Master in Human Development and founder of the Bachelor of Performing Arts at the Contemporary University of the Americas of Michoacán. She also has published in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Her numerous awards include the Quetzalcóatl Award for Ecological Merit, Prize for the Promotion of Dance of the Comunidanza International Festival and a tribute for her contribution to Dance in El Salvador, among others.

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Eslam Abusarah is a photographer, teacher of photography to children and students at Al Albayt University in Jordan.

Tom Ashcraft is an Endowed Professor of Art and MFA Director in the School of Art and Design at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. He also is an artist, builder and founding member of the collaborative Workingman Collective. For over 30 years, he has navigated his practice in and out of the public realm with a combination of object making, community engagement and inquiry based wandering. He has collaborated with a wide range of people, from barbers to biologists, and exhibited and produced work in the US, Europe, Caribbean and Africa. Workingman Collective recently was commissioned by the Arts in Embassies program to create a playground, sculpture and work with women quilters in Monrovia, Liberia and is currently developing a project with a team of students from Western Carolina University for the US Embassy in Niamey Niger.

Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik works in a variety of media, including print-making, painting, sculpture and public art. Along with her husband Roger Colombik, she has composed several outdoor commissioned sculptures in Texas, including works in Austin, Beaumont and Texas State University-San Marcos. A recent community project was developed in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee-Abilene and The Grace Museum, working with resettled families from Congo, Burundi and Nepal.

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Alberto Balestrieri is a writer and documentation consultant currently living in Montreal. Formerly, he was Rare Books Cataloguer and Special Collections Librarian at Cornell University Libraries, Publicist and archivist for the architectural firm of Moshe Safdie and Associates (Massachusetts), Program Officer for the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Assistant Dean at the Department of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University (Rhode Island)

Maria Rebecca Ballestra is an Italian-based artist working on re-processing and resetting social, political and environmental issues as well as on synthesizing ethno-cultural codes, investigated during journeys and artist residency programs. Her works have been exhibited internationally in personal and group exhibitions, galleries, art fairs and public and private collections. She has been awarded several international residencies in the United States, Korea, France, Monaco and Italy and held lectures and participated at symposiums in several European countries. Her last production, Journey into Fragility, was oriented towards the perception of the future in relation to climate change and multiple human interventions in the environment. In 2014 she anf artist Rachela Abbate created the

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platform for social transformation Social Soups and, in 2016, she conceived and organized the first edition of the Festival for the Earth in Venice.

Manon Barbeau has worked for more than thirty years as a screenwriter and director for several organizations, including Télé-Québec and the National Film Board of Canada. She has written hundreds of scripts – mostly for television – and has made dozens of short and feature films, which have won numerous awards. She also co-founded the Wapikoni Mobile with the Atikamekw Nation Council, the First Nations Youth Council, supported by APQNL and ONF. An official UNESCO partner, the Wapikoni Mobile is a traveling studio of film and musical creations for First Nations youth, which has produced nearly 1,000 short films – a cultural heritage that is unique in the world. In addition, Barbeau won several awards and nominations, including the Chevalière des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française, the l’Ordre du Canada, Officiè re de l’Ordre national du Québec and the Albert-Tessier prize. She has also presented at several conferences on the innovative model of intervention, training and the creation of the Wapikoni, a prevention tool for vulnerable populations. Photo credit: Guy Labissoniere

Thaddeus Beal was formally educated at Yale College and Stanford Law School. He left an active legal practice in 1985 when he withdrew as a senior partner of the Boston firm, now Nixon Peabody, to attend The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has continued to work in the legal field in many pro bono capacities, including as a hearing officer in matters relating to lawyer misconduct; but he now works primarily as an artist. He has been awarded three Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowships; and his works are in many collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He regularly shows in Boston. He also has served on several charitable boards, and is currently a board member of Discovering Justice, a non-profit dedicated to educating public school students about justice and community involvement, as well as TransCultural Exchange.

Claude Bélanger is a photographer and the founder of Manif d'art. Previously he was the director of the artist-run centre L'Œil de Poisson, which he co-founded in 1985. He also has been involved in numerous regional and provincial associations (RCAAQ, RAAV, SODART, Méduse, CCRQCA ), served on selection committees for several cultural events and organizations, worked as an independent curator for such exhibitions as Bestiaire mutant, Machines et Machines, Deux générations Deux sensibilités, Corpus and Latinos del Norte (in Mexico City) and was a co- creator of Mirabile Visu. Since 1989, he has shown his work in numerous international exhibitions and has been commissioned to create a number of public artworks. He has been a recipient of grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2004, he received the Prix François, Samson, awarded for cultural development in the Québec City region.

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Karmela Berg is an artist based in Tel Aviv. Her works, which include paintings, installations, works on paper and artist books (most notably that with the author Amos Oz and with the late poet Dalia Rabicovich) have received prizes from Japan, Italy and Sweden. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Europe, the USA, Japan, Korea and China. In 2004, she also participated in TransCultural Exchange’s The Tile Project, Destination: The World for which she was the contact artist for the installation at Tel Aviv University. In addition, she is a consultant for the Hezla and Cabri Artist-in-Residency programs, and has curated a number of exhibits, including Israeli Art for the Beijing Museum of Natural History and the Tianjing Academy of Fine Art.

Catherine Bernard is Associate Professor of Art History at SUNY Old Westbury. She obtained a Doctorat d’Etat at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has written extensively on diaspora and contemporary art. Her work has been published in African Arts (UCLA); Parkett Magazine; The Art Journal (College Art Association); Documents of Contemporary Art, (White Chapel Art Gallery and MIT Press); Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Duke and Cornell University); Les carnets du Bal (Paris) and the Blaffer Art Museum (Houston). Her curatorial work includes more than 20 exhibitions and several catalogues for the Neuberger Museum of Art, Hunter College, CUNY; Katonah Museum of Art; Museo Gurvich, Montevideo; The Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury and the Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin. Her research focuses on transcultural phenomena and pluri-cultural identities. In her writing, she engages with notions of historical, political and cultural transformations. Her recent work investigates how migrations, displacements and entanglements create hyphenated identities.

Courtney Bethel is the Admissions Director at The MacDowell Colony, a contemporary leader in the field of artists' residency programs whose mission has been advancing artistic freedom since 1907. For nearly 20 years, she has guided the application experience for artists, successfully transitioning it to an online, paperless process. Her responsibilities also include overseeing more than 2,000 applications a year, and coordinating a selection process that fields rotating admissions panels in seven disciplines three times a year. Before joining MacDowell in 2000, Bethel served as an information coordinator with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Women Together/Mujeres Unidas in McAllen, Texas and as an intern with the International Rescue Committee in London.

Andrée-Anne Blacutt is an artist and doctoral candidate in adaptive arts and technology at Université Laval. Her research and work in theater, painting, design, television and music focus on the processes of sensory perception. Since 2001, she has presented projects that multiply the way human beings can be differently contextualized according to space and time. Currently, she is working on a project to improve the quality of mobility as a value to foster a model of interaction between art and science.

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Camilla Boemio is a writer, curator and theorist whose practice deals with investigating the politics of participation in curatorial practices and contemporary aesthetics. She co-founded and directed the thematic AAC platform in Rome. She is also a member of AICA, the International Association of Arts Critics, and was the curator of Diminished Capacity, the first Nigerian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition Biennale, Venice. Additionally, she was Deputy Curator of the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and, in the summer of 2014, she curated Apprehension Global Society and Contemporary Art for the Twitter Generation Symposium, a Parallel Event at the 6th Bucharest Biennial. Further, she developed A Hybrid Archipelago lecture and Post- society and Financial Exsanguination track panel session at the 4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference, THE SOCIAL, at Boston University. She also has taken part in The Renewable Futures Conference in Eindhoven, led by The Centre for New Media Culture RIXC (Latvia), which was supported by the EU program Creative Europe.

Dominique Boileau has held the position of Executive Director of East-North-East, résidence d'artistes since 2015. Previously, she served as a manager, development officer and communications director for various cultural organizations, including participating in the organization of the 2012 and 2014 editions of La Biennale de sculpture of Saint-Jean-Port- Joli. At Groupe Molior, she managed national and international exhibition projects and developed partnerships between museums and a science center.

Émilie Boudrias is Co-Director of OBORO, an artist-run center with an artist residency program. At OBORO, she is tasked with developing strategic partnerships and extending the center's outreach within the community. Since 2002, she has been active in the field of project management, communication and research. Her experience covers the fields of digital arts and contemporary dance (Sylvain Émard Danse). Previously, she held a research assistant position for Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM); and, for over seven years, she worked for the Association for Electroacoustic Research and Creation (ACREQ). She also was a Development Officer for the Elektra Festival (2003-2007) and Project Manager for the International Biennial of Digital Art (BIAN 2010-2014).

Esther Bourdages is an art historian and author. She holds a master’s degree in Art History from the Université de Montréal. Her interests lie in sculpture in the broadest sense of the word, including sound art and digital art. She organizes improvised music concerts and regularly performs internationally, notably in the US and France. Employing improvisation, she plays the turntable, manipulates vinyl records and records sound samples to create rough, non-linear sound works, punctuated by adulterated aural quotations and abstract sounds. Since 2002 she has organized A Microphone in a Noize Storm, a concert series dedicated to new music. She has been actively involved in artist-run-centers and independent structures for many years, such as Quartier Ephemere / Darling Foundry (since 1996), Agence Topo, Eastern Bloc and CKUT radio.

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John Boylan is a writer, producer and activist living in Seattle. In October 2016 he produced 9e2, a festival of art, science and technology that commemorated a half century since 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering was held in New York, and explored the interplay between art science, and technology in the 21st century. For 20 years he has produced a roundtable conversation series about art, politics, science and culture at large. The series has featured more than 400 guests, including some of Seattle’s most fascinating artists, scientists, poets, engineers, writers, activists, musicians, architects and theater workers.

Steven Bridges is Assistant Curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Most recently, Bridges organized the project Beyond Streaming: A Sound Mural for Flint with artist Jan Tichy in response to the Flint water crisis, and assisted Director Marc- Olivier Wahler on his exhibition The Transported Man. Prior to his appointment at the MSU Broad, Bridges was Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. There, he curated solo exhibitions of the work of Faheem Majeed and Jason Lazarus and assisted numerous other solo and group exhibitions, including the major retrospective exhibition of the work of Doris Salcedo, which traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. From 2011–15, he co-curated the annual Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival in Chicago.

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Pau Cata has been working in the cultural field as facilitator and curator for more than 10 years. After his studies on Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona, he moved to London, where he worked at The British Museum and the White Cube Gallery while completing a Diploma in Arts Management from Birkbeck College. He has an MA in Critical Arts Management by LSBU for which he was awarded a Distinction and the Course Director Prize for Outstanding Achievement. Since 2009 he is the founder director of CeRCCa (Center for Research and Creativity Casamarles) and coordinator of the platform NACMM (North Africa Cultural Mobility Map.) Rethinking Epistemologies: Mobility, Hospitality and Cultural Exchange in North Africa is the provisional title of his doctoral research at University of Edinburgh.

Emilio Chapela is Co-director of Torschlusspanik, an artists-run production studio and print-shop in Mexico City. He is also an artist, currently working on developing a transdisciplinary filmmaking practice. He has had solo exhibitions in Mexico City, São Paolo, New York, Ottawa and Berlin, and has participated in collective exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH), NGKB in Berlin, Bass Museum in Miami and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. Additionally, he has been an artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, at the Rosa-Luxemburg Kuntsverein in Berlin and at Kansas University. Additionally, he is the author of Die K. F Gödel Bibliothek (published by Sicomoro Ediciones, 2014).

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Roger Colombik navigates a diverse artistic practice that embraces a passion for both sculptural objects and socially engaged projects. As a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia in 2003, his work focused on the relationship between cultural identity and the transition towards civil society. CEC Artslink later supported his community-based projects in Armenia and the Republic of Georgia. He has also collaborated with young artists on public art projects in Burma and Romania. Additionally, he has worked with his wife Jerolyn on several outdoor commissioned sculptures in Texas. One of their recent community projects was developed in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee-Abilene, working with resettled families from Congo, Burundi and Nepal. He also teaches sculpture at Texas State University.

Luc Courchesne is a pioneer in media art and design. From interactive portraiture to immersive experience systems, he has developed innovative approaches that have earned him such prestigious awards as the Grand Prix of the ICC Biennale 1997 in Tokyo, an Award of Distinction and several Honorary Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and participations in Wired’s Next Fest. His work is part of major public and private collections in North America, Europe and Asia, including the ZKM (Karlsruhe), the ICC (Tokyo) and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). He is also a founding member and current Co-Director of research at the Society for Art and Technology (SAT) and Honorary Professor at Université de Montréal.

Jeanne Criscola is an artist, designer and educator. Her artworks take the form of books, drawings, photography, motion, installations, generative art and performances. She collaborates with international and community organizations on projects that feature arts and culture initiatives and social justice issues. Her most high-profile publications and exhibitions are the award-winning projects she has created for the Soros Foundations, one of which is in the Franklin Furnace collection of MOMA. She also is the co-founder Else Foundation, a global consortium of artists, scholars and institutions, which publishes a peer-review journal of its creative research and experimental/alternative projects that work with and in the space of in-between. In 2016, she became a steward of Grace Ely’s legacy, founding the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Her new initiative, Useless Press, was conceived to publish and print the works of artists, authors and children on-demand. She teaches design at Central Connecticut State University.

Ajtony Csaba is Director of the University of Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Sonic Lab and Assistant Professor for conducting. He serves as Music Director of the Mitteleuropäisches Kammerorchester (Vienna), Co-Director of Tsilumos Ensemble and SALT New Music Festival. Earlier appointments include Neue Studiobühne Wien and Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau, Dresden. He regularly conducts concerts and opera, new compositions and explores alternate forms of music performance. His recent research-creations focused on trans-modality on stage, anthropology of non-normative conducting gestures and the interaction between historical and current performance practices. Past engagements include the Vienna Radio-Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber-Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic and Symphonic Orchestras, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra,

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Ensemble Nikel, Ensemble Ascolta, UMZE, Festival Wien Modern, Tage der Neuen Musik Dresden and Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Brandy Dahrouge is the Program Manager for Visual + Digital Arts Creative Residencies at The Banff Centre. As such, she works with over 250 international artists and faculty each year, supporting a diversity of practices and research through the Visual + Digital Arts programs. She holds a decade of experience as an arts educator, artist and musician. She is the recipient of numerous awards for arts and community leadership.

Alexandre David is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. His work in sculpture often relates to architecture and has been shown in museums and galleries across Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Croatia, Austria and China. He is represented by the Parisian Laundry Gallery in Montreal.

Deborah Davidson is a curator, artist and educator. She is Founder and Director of Catalyst Conversations, which is devoted to the dialogue between art and science, and is also the director of the Suffolk University Gallery. Her own artwork is in many private and public collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, the Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Harvard University’s Houghton Library. Her most recent independent projects include Cannot Be Described In Words: Drawing/Daring at The Art Complex Museum. She also has had solo exhibitions at the Danforth Museum of Art, Kingston Gallery and upcoming at the Oresman Gallery at Smith College. Awards include Finalist, Brother Thomas Fellowship; Artist in Residence, Northeastern University; and a Berkshire Taconic A.R.T. grant.

Fiona Davies is an artist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney. Davies’ works are multimedia installations encompassing both the real and virtual. She exhibits in both formal institutions and non-traditional spaces nationally and internationally. Her current theoretical practice examines ICU medicalized dying, intertwining the emotional landscape with contemporary medical practices – specifically, definitions of death, the materiality of blood and processes of surveillance. Her ongoing project Blood on Silk (2009 - ) included working in collaboration with the late physicist Dr. Domachuk.

Tanya de Paor is a PhD candidate in the Burren College of Art and National University of Ireland; and an artist, researcher and lecturer based in Visual Art Education, MIC, University of Limerick, Ireland. She has won several awards, and funding grants, including an Arts Council and a Cork City Council Art Project Grant for Theatre of Trading, a multi disciplinary participatory project exploring urban spaces for encountering art and engaging with artists. Her current work is concerned with exploring the emerging field of the Anthopocene and the potentiality of contemporary arts practice, speculative fiction and fabulation to visualize new horizons for humanity in the emerging Anthropocene era.

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Anthony De Ritis is Professor and former Chair of the Music Department at Northeastern University with courtesy appointments in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, and Asian Studies (with a focus on China). From 2002-2011, De Ritis led the development of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Online Conservatory, a series of online master classes about composers and compositions, presented in support of BSO concerts, which was described as a best practice in "left-brained" integrated marketing by Forrester Research. In 2006, De Ritis was appointed to the Faculty Advisory Board of Northeastern's School of Technological Entrepreneurship, where he led the University's commitment to Global Entrepreneurship Week, singled out by the Kauffman Foundation for its effectiveness in creating activities to train aspiring entrepreneurs. Previously, he was a research affiliate at Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, where his responsibilities included teaching and applied research related to human-computer interaction and interactive real-time performance. \

Daniel Djamo is a Romanian artist, interested in personal and group histories and stories, and in national identity. His work has been widely exhibited internationally; his awards include the 2013 ESSl award, Incinerator Art Award, 2013 Henkel Art Award, 2011 Startpoint Prize Romina and Premio Combat’s Video Award, among others. He also has served as an artist-in-residence at numerous residencies, including the Styria Artist-in-Residence Program, Art OMI International Artist Residency program and Schloss Plüschow Artist-in-Residency.

Marie-Pierre Dolbec has been involved in developing international exchanges and showcasing Québec’s creativity for the last 20 years. She has served as the Program Manager in the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) since 2005. As a funding governmental body, CALQ supports creation, experimentation, production and dissemination in the realms of visual arts, arts and crafts, literature, performing arts, cinema and video, digital arts and architectural research throughout Québec. CALQ also seeks to broaden the influence of artists, writers, arts organizations and their works in Québec, Canada and abroad. Since 1994, CALQ has played a key role in fostering Québec’s artistic excellence in more than 65 countries yearly, by supporting international mobility and developing its extensive network of Studios, exchanges and workshops/residencies which offer Québec artists nearly 40 opportunities to boost their professional careers worldwide, including in New York, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome, Berlin, London, Mumbai, Seoul and Tokyo.

Florian Dombois is an artist whose work focuses on time, models, landforms, labilities and scientific and technical fictions. From 2003 to 2011, he was a professor at the Bern University of the Arts where he founded Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity). In 2010 he received the German Sound Art Award and Kunsthalle Bern edited the monograph of his work Florian Dombois: What Are the Places of Danger. Works 1999-2009. Currently, he is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts. His latest books are The Wind Tunnel Model. Transdisciplinary Encounters and Too Big To Scale. On Scaling Space, Number, Time and Energy (the 2nd co-edited with Julie Harboe, both Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017). In 2017, he will have a solo show in the Research Pavilion in Venice (Florian Dombois: Galleria del Vento).

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Laura Donkers is an environmental artist based in Outer Hebrides, Scotland and a Doctoral candidate at the University of Dundee. Her work is framed by the interconnectedness of art, ecology, site and politics, combining socially based artistic practice with the intention to raise community awareness of environmental issues (including food, CO2e reduction and sustainable action) and, through this, to effect real change in life behavior patterns. She explores the ‘act of dwelling’ intensively through a creative research praxis that begins as a documenter in films, drawings, sound recordings and observational fieldwork. As a creative respondent, she makes interventions in the landscape and performative/collaborative actions with communities. She sees the role of the artist as catalyst – someone who makes things happen more effectively through inspiring and facilitating efforts, moving from individual investigation to the most far-reaching, international level of artistic agency to affect environmental change.

Michelle Drapeau is an author and assistant curator for Manif d'art 9. She specializes in contemporary art practices and is writing her thesis on the photographic worlds of New York artist Ryan McGinley. She also volunteers for several art events in Québec and has been hosting the radio show on visual arts À l'est de vos empires for more than two years on CHYZ 94,3. Additionally, she has been a tour guide for the Musée national des beaux- arts du Québec, the Public Art course at Laval University, the Maison de la littérature and other art organizations; teaching assistant in Art History at Laval University; coordinator of the Symposium international d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul; and assistant curator of contemporary art at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She currently is curating the permanent group exhibition in New- Brunswick Images Rémanentes.

Isabelle Duchesneau is the Executive Director of Le Monastere des Augustines. Set within North America’s first hospital north of Mexico, Le Monastere des Augustines is a non-profit organization, which opened August 1, 2015. It integrates revenue-generating components, which align with the mission and the history of the Augustinian Sisters, into its social, cultural, and heritage mandate with the aim of being financially independent. In keeping with the work of the Augustinian Sisters, who laid the foundations and developed Quebec’s healthcare system more than 377 years ago, Duchesneau wishes to continue to lead Le Monastere forward with a commitment to innovative social initiatives in sustainable health. She has extensive management experience for internationally renowned companies in the tourism industry and has taught college-level hotel management courses for several years.

Edgar Endress teaches new media and social practice at George Mason University. Born in Chile, Endress has exhibited extensively throughout the world, most recently at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) in 2015, Land Art Biennial in Mongolia in 2016 and The Getty Pacific Standard Time in 2017. In association with Provisions Library, he initiated the Floating Lab Collective, a team of interdisciplinary artists who deploy innovative art projects in collaboration with urban communities. His work focuses on syncretism in the Andes, displacement in the Caribbean, and mobile art-making practices. He has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Creative Capital Fund.

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Rachel Epp Buller maintains a dual critical and creative practice as an art historian and printmaker/book artist. Much of her writing addresses intersections of art and the maternal, including her book Reconciling Art and Mothering and an in-progress book Inappropriate Bodies. In her recent creative work at Transart Institute, she investigates fictional narratives of imagined family histories and practices of letter-writing and fine handwork. She privileges collaborative projects, both within the visual arts and across disciplines. She is a board member of the National Women's Caucus for Art (US), a Fulbright Scholar, a regional coordinator of The Feminist Art Project and current Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College (US).

Dorothea Fleiss is a visual artist, the Founder and Director of the d. fleiss & east west artists association (DFEWA), based in Stuttgart, and professor at the Beijing Institute for Technology, School of Design and Arts in Beijing China. The purpose of the association is to establish a working basis for the cooperation between artists from eastern and western countries and to encourage and improve the cultural and artistic exchange between outstanding artists of different backgrounds. She is also the Curator of the DFEWA's two-week residencies in Carei, Ardud, Mallnitz, Marrakesh, Valparaiso, New York City, Przeworsk, Budapest, Stuttgart, Paraza, Totovo Selo and Qinhuangdao. Additionally, she is the curator of the EIBAB - European International Book Art Biennale. As an artist, she has taken part in the Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale in South Korea, DakÁrt Biennale Senegal, Biennale Cuenca Ecuador, Biennale of Cairo and Biennale 3000 in San Paulo.

Marie Fol is the Program Manager of TransArtists at DutchCulture, Centre for International Cooperation in Amsterdam. TransArtists is the international platform for artist mobility, offering expertise and services about artist-in-residence programs as well as other cultural opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere. She joined the TransArtists team in December 2010; and since then, she has been actively involved in European cooperation projects surrounding supporting artists’ mobility (ON-AiR, 2010-2012) and art and sustainability (Green Art Lab Alliance, 2013- 2015). She is also the main editor of TransArtists.org, the information platform for artists on artist- in-residence opportunities worldwide. In addition she regularly collaborates with several international cultural networks focusing on residencies, artists’ mobility and related topics. Over the past 4 years, she has contributed to the cultural mobility information network On the Move, including working on the research dossier Move On! Cultural mobility for beginners (which was first released in 2012).

Melanie Franke is an art historian, university lecturer and curator living in Berlin and Basel. Since 2009, she has been professor for art history and artistic research at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel, where she is member of the European Center of Art, Design and Media based Research. Previously, she served as a curator at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin. She also has taught at the Technische University, Universität Erfurt, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil; University of Arts, Berlin and at the Swiss Institut for Art Research, Zürich. Currently she is working on the research project History(s) in the Arts after the End of the Cold War. Additionally, as an art critic, she contributes to magazines and has been an author for various publications.

Caroline Gagné is an artist and the Artistic Director of the artist-run center Avatar. Avatar produces projects, invites artists, reflects on practices, and fosters new collaborations via a local and international network. In North America, Avatar is a pioneer in the research of audio and electronic arts. The center is dedicated to the research, creation, circulation and dissemination of audio and

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electronic artworks and artists. Gagné is also an active artist who works in variety of media, including drawing, media art, installation and sound.

Irène Gaouda Lyoum is a Cameroonian journalist, writer and photojournalist who lives in Dakar and works throughout Africa. She also is a Founding Member and Vice-President of OSMOSE, the African Cultural Association that initiated the project Scènes Experimentales, a multi-disciplinary residency and production program in Cameroon. Along with exhibiting her work, in 2016, she published the book La chèvre de ma grand-mère (My Grand-Mother’s Goat), a collection of stories that both portray the permanent struggle between men and animals and addresses the preservation of African customs. Additionally, she is an Alumni of the Raw Material Company, Center for Arts and Knowledge of Senegal and a graduate from the Center for Information Science and Technology Studies (CESTI) of Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD).

Since 2001, Bastien Gilbert has served as the Executive Director of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ), which he helped found in 1986. RCAAQ is a service organization for artist-run centres hosted on the visual arts information portal Réseau Art Actuel. For networking and cooperation, Gilbert also represents the RCAAQ within the Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres (MAL), an advocacy group for arts and letters in Québec. In addition, he co-founded the Canadian Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference/Conférence des collectifs et des centres d’artistes autogérés (ARCCC/CCCAA) in February 2004, in Vancouver, and the Canadian Arts Coalition in 2005. He also serves on the board of directors and committees of several cultural organizations, including, from 2003 to 2007, the board of directors of Culture Montréal and, from 2004 to 2007, the board of the Canadian Conference of the Arts.

Rosie Gordon-Wallace is the Founder, Curator, and Director of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, based in Miami. Since 1996, she has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that redefine concepts of “diaspora,” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads Series, an artist-in-residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program and numerous community-based outreach projects. Diaspora Vibe specializes in Caribbean and Latin American Art with an emphasis on emerging artists. The gallery supports the development of new work by resident artists by offering exhibition opportunities, artist talks, workshops and other skill-building core values for emerging artists. She is dynamic and unstoppable and continues to create international cultural experiences for Miami artists that add value to our cultural aesthetic and economy with activities that bind us to “here and there. «

Gaétan Gosselin is the General Manager of Productions Recto-Verso and Mois Multi, festival international d’arts multidisciplinaires et électroniques. He has worked as an artist and manager for thirty years, including at the Council of arts and letters of Québec and the Center VU. He notably worked for the creation of the Méduse cooperative in Québec City and participated in the founding of Sodart, a collective copyright management collective in the visual arts. He has also been President of the Regroupement des arts multidisciplinaires du Québec (RAIQ), President of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV), President of the Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ) and a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Conference of the Arts. In addition, he is a professional artist who works in photography. He has received numerous scholarships and mentions of recognition. His works have been shown in Quebec, Canada and abroad, and he has directed several exhibition and publishing projects on contemporary photography.

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Benoit Granier is a composer, (ethno) musicologist, visual and sonic artist, philosopher and life- long believer in artistic collaboration across the arts. For the past eight years, he also has served as a professor at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music; and, currently, he is a composer in residence with the “Wienn concertina” (Vienna chamber orchestra) and Dulwich International College (Beijing). Additionally, he has been invited to give master classes in composition, computer music and music philosophy at many institutions worldwide, including the Juilliard School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, Manhattan School of Music, Berklee College of Music, Northeastern University and the New England Conservatory among others

Luisa Greenfield is a Berlin-based artist researcher working with text, video and film. A keen interest in film history informs her projects and has led her to create visual essays that analyse the material and function of the moving image. She is also a Fulbright scholarship recipient in filmmaking and coordinated the Nordic Summer University Artistic Research (NSU) study circle from 2012-2015. Currently, she is a board member with the NSU. The NSU is a dynamic migratory body where international artist researchers, academics and non-academic scholars meet throughout the Nordic and Baltic region to share and test out their ideas. It is a forum where narrow academic disciplines are replaced by thematic topics, creating an interdisciplinary environment where artists and scholars from various backgrounds can interact.

Florian Grond is an affiliate member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary in Music Media and Technology at McGill University in Montreal and a Ph.D. candidate in the Ambient Intelligence research group at the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence at Bielefeld University in Germany. Previously he worked at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (2003-2007). In 2010 he was a research trainee at the shared reality lab in the Center for Intelligent Machines and a guest researcher at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory in 2008, both at McGill University. In his artistic and his academic work he focuses on the intersection between art and science, with a special but not exclusive interest in sound. He has published about these topics in various journal articles, book chapters and conference papers; he has exhibited his work in venues across Japan, Europe and North America.

David Grozinsky is an artist, educator and arts administrator. Inspired by his time at Centro de Arte e Communição Visual in Lisbon, Portugal, David Grozinsky has spent the past twenty-two years serving artist communities, working to create opportunities for others. He has held the role of Admissions Manager at the Vermont Studio Center for the past eleven years. Previously, he spent eight years working at Ox-Bow School of Art as an arborist, auctioneer and glassblowing instructor. He also has served on the Advisory Board of Burlington City Arts since 2008.

Emmanuel Guy is both an artist and a professor of maritime transportation at Université du Québec à Rimouski. As an artist, he began as a woodworker, working with restored antique hand tools to produce furniture pieces with a modern aesthetic. He is gradually transforming his work towards installation using traditional woodworking techniques to produce wearable, kinetic or interactive sculptures. He also is currently an artist-in-residence with the Art of Management and Organization conference and with the Caravansérail artist center in Rimouski, Canada. As an academic, he has a transdisciplinary training in navigation, anthropology, management and geography. His contributions explore the influence of immaterial dimensions, such as discourse and institutional culture, in the evolution of shipping policies. His latest work proposes to view policymaking and institutional change as spaces for individual

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stakeholders to (re)appropriate the strong paradoxes embedded in their industrial or sectorial identity. Photo credit: Sebastien Rabouin

Timothy Haerens is an artist whose artistic practice includes painting and sculpture. He also is an original member of the core team that produced a ten-week class in Whole Brain Training techniques as a credited course for students at California State University San Bernardino. Previously, he worked as the director of purchasing for a packaging company in Southern California, where he was trained to facilitate Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People seminar to his business colleagues and was a Coach and Head Coach for the Self Expression and Leadership Program at Landmark Worldwide.

Jan Hanvik is the Co-Founder and Principal of Cross the Bridge LLC, and CEO of PAMAR - Pan American Art Research Inc., both based in New York City. Cross the Bridge is an agency dedicated to promoting Creative Tourism, including artist residencies, throughout IberoAmerica. PAMAR was founded in 1986 by Uruguayan pianist Polly Ferman to promote the little-known classical and contemporary composers of Latin America, and has since expanded to include promotions and exchanges of composers, choreographers, theater and visual artists. From 2008 - 2016 he was Executive Director of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center in Manhattan, an intentionally multi-cultural artist residency program with 43 visual art studios, 11 not-for- profit performing arts organizations, 4 theaters, and 3 galleries. From 2002 - 2008 he was Executive Director of the Columbia County Council on the Arts, an upstate New York service organization organizing year-round arts education and public art events, among other activities. From 1986 - 2001 he was Executive Director of PAMAR, organizing performing arts exchanges among the countries and cultures of the Americas. He has twice been an awardee of Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, in El Salvador (1990-91) and in Uruguay (1999) and Argentina (2001). He also has served as a site visitor and panelist for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the Chicago Cultural Center, among others. Photo (©) Bill Massey.

Irène Hediger is Director of the Swiss artists-in-labs program at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS), Zurich University of the Arts and a curator. In 2009 she initiated the intercultural Art-Science Residency Exchange with China and India, extending the artists-in- labs concept to an international level. After her studies in business administration, she got a degree in organizational development and group dynamics (DAGG) and a Master of Advanced Studies in Cultural Management at the University of Basel. She has curated numerous exhibitions and cultural events in Switzerland and internationally, including Lucid Fields at ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) in Singapore in 2008 and the traveling exhibition Think Art – Act Science in Barcelona, San Francisco, Lucerne and Salt Lake City, 2010-2012. In 2013 she curated the experimenta1 3: Natur Stadt Kunst, an exhibition in the public space of Basel. She specializes in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary creative processes and practices and in the development of inclusive and participatory outreach concepts.

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Lisa Hoffman is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Artists Communities, an international association of 400+ artist residency programs and artist-centered organizations. She is the former Associate Director of the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, where she oversaw programs and strategic initiatives, community engagement and the flagship Environmental Program. Prior to McColl Center, she served as Director of Charlotte Nature Museum, and held positions as a science educator and mentor with the District of Columbia and Prince George's County Maryland Public Schools. She has served on the boards of North Carolina Association of Environmental Education Centers, North Carolina Play Alliance, Jazz Arts Initiative and Lakewood Trolley. In the summer of 2015, she was appointed by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board. She is dedicated to social practice and the convergence of art and science as a vehicle to improve lives and effect systemic change.

Sebastien Hudon is an author, independent curator, film programmer and, since 2011 the Artistic director at La Bande Video. He has worked in various local and national museums. As a curator, he presented two exhibitions at the Hamel-Bruneau House Concerto en Bleu Majeur and Photographes Rebelles à l'époque de la Grande Noirceur (1937- 1961). He also presented other pop-up and travelling exhibitions, includng Jean Soucy, Peintre Clandestin, Quelques moments d'Utopie and NYX/1993*2013, among others. As a film programmer – with the support of Antitube – he produced 3 film cycles: Cinéastes Rebelles à l'époque de la Grande Noirceur (1937- 1961), In suburbia: cinéchroniques de la banlieue and Du mythe à l'abstraction, images défrichées du cinéma québécois (1898 - 1950).

Jaime Humphreys is an artist, the artist-in-residency coordinator at the Youkobo Art Space (Japan) and a committee member of the Microresidence Network. In addition he teaches painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts, the Musashino Art University and a seminar class at the Joshibi University of Art and Design. Established in 1989, Youkobo Art Space has positively sought to develop artist exchanges with AiR programs in other countries. In 2011, the director of Youkobo Art Space, Tatushiko Murata and his team coined the term “microresidence” to refer to micro-scale residencies whose infinite flexibility can be seen on a macro level. In 2012 they initiated a network of artist-run and micro-scale residency programs – a so-called “Microresidence Network” - throughout the globe with the aim of increasing recognition and visibility of artist-in- residence programs and to bring greater recognition of the important role they play in society

Ping-Chi Hung (Iris) is the executive director of the Taiwan Art Space Alliance and Managing Director of Taiwan’s artist-in-residency program Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS). BCS is an established, privately owned international residency program in Taiwan, focusing on environmental art actions. BCS promotes cross-cultural exchanges by lifting barriers and providing a creative environment for needed time, space and facilities for production. BCS provides residencies on site, help for artists’ research and testing of their products and services. In addition, Hung has been actively involved in supporting art and sustainability. Over the past 4 years, she has contributed to

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promoting the idea of artists in residency and facilitating artists mobility. She is a key leader in creating a platform for like-minded organizations in Asia to promote their work to wider audiences.

Diego Irigoyen graduated from California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in 2016 with a degree in Art History and a dual major in Art Education. After struggling with his academics, he began to implement the program Whole Brain Power under his coach and mentor Michael J. Lavery in 2012. Having experienced great scholastic success through Lavery’s program, he then created the Creative Brain Training curricula in 2014. This program received financial support from the University and continues as a free workshop to students and the surrounding community. His art practice is greatly influenced by his unique educational topic and primarily focuses on the conceptual themes of ambidextrous involvement, social engagement and educational inception.

Caleb Jones is Curator-in-Chief at Jones Gallery + Studio, a business based in Saint John, New Brunswick, which he owns with his sister Sarah Jones. He manages the day-to-day operation of the gallery, and his interests lie in curating exhibitions, staging pop-up galleries, enticing new collectors and first-time buyers into the art world and pinning down the intersection of art and business.

Sarah Jones is an artist and lecturer at galleries and universities across Atlantic Canada. Her studio practice focuses on urban and industrial culture. She has had solo exhibitions in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario, and has participated in group exhibitions in France and elsewhere. Her academic research and studio work have received numerous citations and awards, including several prestigious Creation Grants from the New Brunswick Arts Board (ArtsNB). Additionally, she and her brother Caleb own and operate Jones Gallery + Studio in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Elaine A. King is a freelance art critic and curator as well as a professor of Art History/Theory, Critical Studies and Museum Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She has an interest in how technology is affecting shifts in social values, ethics and art as well as art criticism criteria. In September 2006, Allworth Press published Ethics and the Visual Arts, which she and Gail Levin co- edited. She is currently writing a book titled The Misunderstood Patron: The National Endowment for the Arts. In 2002, she was awarded New York University’s Certificate of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts Appraisal. She has written for several publications including Sculpture, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Grapheion, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Washington Post. She has curated several exhibitions, including the Hungarian Graphic Arts Biennial in Gyór, the Maria Mater O’Neill exhibition at Museo of Art Puerto Rico in 2007 and the “Mattress Factory-Likeness: After Warhol’s Legacy” in 2009. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and has given talks and papers at venues internationally.

Serge Lacasse is a full Professor in musicology at the Faculty of Music at Laval University and Co-director of the Interdisciplinary Music Creation and Research Observatory (OICRM). He is also the director of the Digital Audio Research and Creation Laboratory (LARC). Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach, his research tackles several aspects of the aesthetics of popular recorded music and the adaptation of models from other disciplines to better understand popular singing, including intertextuality and music, narratology and recorded voice,, paralinguistic and phonostylistics of the popular singing voice. He has also published or co-published several books, articles and chapters, and has lectured extensively as 27

a guest speaker at various universities, congresses and colloquia worldwide. As a musician, songwriter and director, Lacasse also directed numerous research-creation projects, including: soundtracks for the exhibition Riff: When Africa makes the Americas vibrate at the Musée de la civilization.

Sylvie Lacerte was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul for a three-year mandate starting in 2018. First trained as an artist and as a set designer, she is an art and museum historian and theorist, an independent curator and an art critic. Her book La médiation de l’art contemporain (2007), drawn from her Ph. D. dissertation, was a contender for the Prix de l’essai Spirale Eva-Le Grand. She also has taught at McGill (Montréal) and Laval (Québec City) universities as well as at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. She was awarded grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Fonds de recherche québécois Société et Culture, as well as by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She was also artistic director of the cultural magazine Spirale. In 2016-2017, she was co-curator, at the Montréal Museum of Fine arts, for the exhibition Balade pour la Paix – an Open Air Museum, as part of Montreal’s 375th Anniversary Celebrations. She has contributed numerous articles for art magazines. scholarly journals, monographs, anthologies and exhibition catalogues in Canada, the US and Europe. Additionally, she has presented several lectures at various conferences and colloquia, notably in Seoul, Istanbul, Maastricht, Paris as well as in many cities across Canada. Photo credit: Jules Cloutier Lacerte

Anne-Josée Lacombe is in charge of the digital outreach at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, located in Québec City. An art historian by training, her keen interest in pedagogy and cultural mediation gradually lead her to new technologies. She is continuously looking for new innovative approaches in order to showcase the Musée’s contents and has already completed many successful interactive projects.

Carly Lake is a visual artist, freelance illustrator, and drawing and ceramics teacher. She also has taught several workshops on the practices of cultural sustainability at AILOTT (American Indian Leaders of Today and Tomorrow). Additionally, she has created illustrations ranging from botanical drawings to coloring pages for the Creative Brain Training program and, currently, is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Jeanne Landry-Belleau is an artist, a freelance worker, humanist and, currently, the Social Media Manager for La Commune Web. In this role, she provides artistic and technological oversight in creating expressions of human networking modes. Her own artworks, which are also web-based, deal with the living network (Réseau vivant), values and cultural differences and have been presented widely in Quebec, South Korea, Japan and France.

Siglinde Lang is a curator, lecturer and Senior Scientist in the program area Contemporary Art & Cultural Production at the focus area Wissenschaft & Kunst/Humanities & Art at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria). Prior to her academic career, Lang was an arts manager and consultant for several years. These experiences sparked her interest in research questions that combine artistic and cultural practices with theories of cultural meaning production. In 2014 she was visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences Calw (Germany). Recent publications include 28

Participatory Arts Management (Transcript, 2015), Artists as Entrepreneurs (Mandelbaum, 2015), and Arts in Rural Areas (Mandelbaum, forthcoming 2016). Additionally, Lang is co-editor of the E-Journal www.p-art- icipate.net.

Tara Lapointe is the Director of Outreach and Business Development at the Canada Council for the Arts with 20 years’ experience as a marketing communications strategist in the arts and entertainment industries. In her current position, she oversees three programs: the Art Bank, a collection of 17,000 works of Canadian contemporary art available to the public through its rental, loan and outreach programs; the Canada Council’s suite of 39 prizes, which celebrate achievement and innovation; and the Public Lending Right program, which compensates authors for the access to their books in Canadian libraries. She is an active volunteer and mentor, an in-demand speaker and a recipient of the "40 Under 40" Award.

Catherine Lee is the Director of the Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village. Previously, she served as the project manager on community museums in the National Development Initiative Institute (2003-2004, Taipei), the executive secretary in the National Science and Technology Museum (2004-2011, Kaohsiung), and the residency manager and associate director of the Bamboo Curtain Studio (2011-2017, Taipei). Additionally, while at the Bamboo Curtain Studio, she participated in the project Art as Environment: A Cultural Action at Plum Tree Creek, as the education coordinator in the program of There is a river in front of my school. Since then, she has collaborated with curators, artists, designers, researchers, historians, scientists, ecological experts, environmental activists and community groups who are dedicated to environmental issues through cultural actions.

Seung Lee is a Korean-American contemporary artist and Professor of Art at Long Island University, Post Campus, where he is a director of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies. He also is a representative of Haslla Art World, where, for four years, he served as an artist-in-residence. Haslla Art World is located at northeast of South Korea in Gangneung providence, where this year's Winter Olympic will take place. The art complex consists of an art park, art classes and a residency program. Lee's own paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations have been exhibited extensively in the US as well as internationally. He has received many awards, including, in 2011, the "Best International Korean Artist" award from Korean Art Association. He also has served as a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts, Decentralization Grants for New York Artists, the Heckscher Art Museum's International Documentary Film Festival, Long Island Biennial and Islip Art Museum's Cottage House Project.

Marie Le Sourd is the Secretary General of On the Move - the cultural mobility information network active in Europe and worldwide since 2012. Born as a website in 2002 (as a project of IETM- the international network of contemporary performing arts), On the Move has evolved into an independent dynamic network of 40+ member-organizations. Beyond signposting and sharing news and tools on cultural mobility funding opportunities, On the Move facilitates workshops/meetings/training on cultural mobility issues and tackles (through its member- organizations) issues such as visas, taxation and social protection. On the Move has also recently started to coordinate evaluations and study impacts on artists' mobility. Prior to this position, Marie Le Sourd

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coordinated the cultural program of the Asia-Europe Foundation (1999-2006) and directed the French Cultural Centre in Yogyakarta-Indonesia (2006-2011).

Annie Lévesque is the owner of Galerie Ni Vu Ni Cornu, an art business dedicated to the diffusion, promotion and marketing of professional artists' creations in visual arts or arts and crafts. A recipient of numerous awards in Québec, Lévesque is also a professional painter. In addition, she is Co-founder and President of the Regroupement des intervenants culturels de la Côte-de-Beaupré (RICCB) – and Co-Founder of the Circuit des créateurs de la Côte-de-Beaupré. She describes herself as an artist and a business-woman whose goal is to develop new markets. In 2016, her passion for the distribution, promotion and marketing of artists’ creations led her to be selected for the second cohort of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Mentoring (IME) of Quebec (CCIQ).

Simon Lewandowski has had a long and varied experience in the arts. From 1984 to 1996 he developed and managed the Ormond Road Print Workshop in North London as a center for artists’ editioning, small publication and art-based social activism. Since then, he has worked as an artist, teacher and curator; and his own work has been shown extensively in the UK and in Italy, Germany, Sweden and Brazil. He has worked with his partner, the architect Jane Howson, on a number of art/architecture educational workshops and the design and fabrication of the WPP Portable Reading Room in 2011. In 2009 he set up and programmed the temporary project space Basement43 in London and was recently appointed Chair of Pavilion Arts in Leeds. With Co- Director Chris Taylor he has produced and edited publications for Wild Pansy Press, curated the WPP Project Space and teaches at the School of Fine Art in Leeds.

Jan Lhormer is an artist and arts writer for Provincetown Arts Magazine. Over the past ten years, she also has contributed articles to Art New England magazine and the Cape Arts Review. Additionally, she is an artist and has exhibited her abstract paintings in many galleries including The 808 Gallery at Boston University, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Lyman Eyer Gallery in Provincetown (Massachusetts), The Reynolds Ryan Gallery in New Orleans, The De Cordova Museum Corporate Loan Program in Lincoln (Massachusetts) and will have a forthcoming show at The Painting Center in New York City. Her work has been reviewed by The Boston Globe and featured in Cape Cod Life Arts Edition and the Cape Arts Review Magazine. Additionally, she is an adjunct faculty member in the art department at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts.

Linda Lighton is the founder of the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program, an artist and member of the International Academy of Ceramics. She has had the opportunity to represent the United States at numerous symposiums and residencies. She also has worked on many boards in her community, helping to instigate the One Percent for Arts Program in Kansas City and, currently, serving on the National Committee at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Jingjing Lin is a contemporary Chinese artist. She explores issues of modern society using widely different mediums and often mixes them in order to create her own narrative path and dialogue with her audience. She questions the logic of restlessness and our sense of loss, the brutality of life and the crisis of relationships, always arguing for the absurdity and paradoxes that we experience every day. Her works have been exhibited in major public museums, including the National Art Museum of Chile, IVAM in Spain, the Kunstraum in Austria, Galeria Herold in Germany, Saint Mart's University Art Museum in Canada, Tikanoja Art Museum in Finland and several national museums in China.

Janna Longacre is a Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Janna was also the curator for MassArt In Cuba, which included artwork and projects based on and inspired by Cuba from invited faculty and alumni who have been involved with the history of the island. The invited artists include Juan Pablo Cárdenas, John Cataldo, Sharon Dunn, Al Gowan, Yoav Horesh, Consuelo Issacson, Janna Longacre, Abelardo Morrell, and Adam Puryear, who showed a wide range of their personal artworks and writing from photographs and paintings to clay sculptures and excerpts from novels.

Claudia Matera is researcher, game designer, social media strategist and support professor at Link Campus University in Rome. She also has been an assistant curator for many international exhibitions in Italian museums and is the founder, game designer and social media content strategist at NutGames Srl. Additionally, she is a Creative Entrepreneur Advisor for Aspire2Create – European Framework. Her fields of interest are serious games, digital game-based learning, educational and learning methods with new technologies in museums, archaeology and urban studies, museology, contemporary art history and creative and cultural entrepreneurship.

Marie-Christiane Mathieu's research explores, through different installations, the idea of the "envelope" or "bubble" inhabited by each individual. She is much sought after as a speaker at art and technology events, and she has accepted many invitations to travel to the United States, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Brazil. As an artist, she has served as an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), the Holocenter of New York (United States) and the Academy of Media Arts of Cologne (Germany). She has been awarded many prizes and scholarships, including the 2001 Holography Award from the Shearwater Foundation (New York, United States). Since 2008, she has taught at the Université Laval School of Visual Art.

Nat May is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Hewnoaks Artist Colony, a rustic retreat located in Western Maine that encourages emerging and mid-career artists by offering time and space to work on their practice. From 2004-2016, he was the Executive Director of SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, a nonprofit art space, studio building and grantmaking organization. He was a co-founder of the Bakery

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Photo Collective, a not-for-profit darkroom and digital photo lab, and is also a co-founder and Board member of Common Field.

Ashley Molese is a Baltimore based curator, creative producer and festival manager. Currently, she works with the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts to produce Light City, an annual public art light festival anchored in Baltimore's waterfront and city neighborhoods. She has worked in a variety of non-profit arts organizations, including Arts Access Victoria, Arts Victoria, The Overload Poetry Festival, The Melbourne Writers Festival and the Creative Alliance. She also works independently with partners like Arts Nexus, Art Basel, and most recently Look On Media, with whom she is producing an immersive VR engagement launching in Spring 2018.

Edward Monovich is an artist and professor at the Massachusetts College of Art +Design. His art has been exhibited in Switzerland, Colombia, England, Belgium, Austria, Italy and the US. Currently, he is also working with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zürich on a series of artworks that investigate Alpine ibex genetic fitness, reintroduction history and cultural relevance.

Carmen Moreira is a dancer and founder of SQx Dance Company SQx’s mission is to use contemporary dance to promote kinship, collaboration and teamwork. The company specializes in working with remote and rural communities, special needs students, minority ethnic groups and indigenous peoples—as well as with refugees and other newcomers to Canada. SQx has toured extensively throughout Canada and and Europe, supported by the Government of Canada, Government of Azores, Province of British Columbia, Canada Council BC Arts Council, Telus, Canadian Tire, Columbia Basin Trust and Boeing. In 2017, Moreira was awarded the BC Social Innovation Youth Award as well as Shaw’s Canada 150 Award. She was also a panel presenter at the Surrey Social Innovation Summit for Youth Leading for Change: Ideas and Approaches from a New Generation.

Jamie Morra is an art historian based in New York, with a focus on interwar European art and architecture. She is also the director of Residency 108, based in Germantown, NY. Residency 108 invites emerging and established artists, writers and thinkers of all disciplines to immerse themselves in their creative practice. The residency particularly welcomes those who work with nature, ecology and the installation of temporary outdoor land-art works. The program is located in a remote area of the Hudson Valley, on 108 acres of pastoral land, which was used as a horse farm. The property features rolling hills, mowed paths, meadows, densely wooded forests, wetlands with ponds of varying size and a seasonal stream. In addition to these ecosystems, a variety of native plant species host habitats for birds, reptiles and amphibians. The program is ideal for artists who wish to engage with the landscape and prefer isolation to interaction.

David Naylor is a visual artist who teaches sculpture, open studio and art theory at Université Laval’s School of Art, where he was the Head from 1991 to 1995 and again in 2014 to 2015. His work has been presented in

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Québec, Canada, the United States and Europe. He has been a member of the board of directors of the artist- run center Est-Nord-Est, résidence d’artistes in Saint-Jean- Port-Joli since 1996.

Delphin Néo Nana is a Cameroonian writer, painter and cultural promoter who lives and works in Africa. He also heads OSMOSE, an Africa Cultural Association and Scènes Experimentales, an international biennial, founded in 2009. Additionally, in 2012, he started paleontological explorations focusing on the Toumaï [the ‘missing link’ cranium, discovered in 2001] in the Djourab Desert to help explain the role of ecology in artistic practices. In 2017, he will prepare an excursion to Senegal to preform some preliminary work for approaching the Gore people and slave descendants to further his art and ecologic practice.

Anne-Sophie Ohmer is in charge of communications and broadcasting at the Engramme artist center. Her work is devoted to the promotion of printmaking and the updating of the medium as a privileged area of creation in contemporary arts. Passionate about art, her career in communication has gone through the fine arts, the event Nuit-Blanche in France and the l’Œil de Poisson program in Québec City. She also regularly hosts chronicles on a radio show about the visual arts in Québec City.

Lea O’Loughlin manages Acme Studios International Residencies Programme in London and is Vice-President of the Board of Res Arts, the worldwide professional membership body for artist residencies. She is also a member of Independent Curators International Network and Women on Boards, and was previously co-chair of the Advance London Arts Network. As a curator and gallery director she has been responsible for numerous exhibitions; and as a residencies manager, she has delivered over 250 individual artist residencies. She regularly addresses delegates at international workshops, conferences and symposia around issues of artist mobility, professional development, organizational sustainability and best practice. She has extensive experience working with contemporary artists and arts organizations, contributing to policy discussions. Additionally, she pursues various writing, curatorial, arts management and consultancy projects.

Michèle Oshima is an independent creative consultant with a background in international business. From 1995-2002, she coordinated the Women’s Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2002-2010, she served as the Director of Student and Artist- in-Residence (AiR) Programs at MIT’s Office of the Arts While the Director of the AiR Programs, she connected such innovative artists as Cary Fukunaga, Constanza Macras, Zanele Muholi and Abderrahmane Sissako with students, inventors and researchers and worked with Michel Gondry and Noam Chomsky on the film Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? She is also a veteran trumpeter, who was honored to play with the Super Rail Band at Mali’s national party in Bamako in celebration of Malick Sidibé’s win of the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion.

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Bojana Panevska is artist, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam. For the past ten years, she has been developing the interdisciplinary project entitled 12 steps towards enlightenment. Segments of it have been exhibited and published widely. In addition, since 2009, she has served as a project manager for international collaborations and a workshop facilitator at TransArtists, a leading web resource for artists around the world.

Julie C. Paradis has been the Executive Director of Avatar, a centre for research and dissemination in audio and electronic art, since December 2015. She also has served on various boards of directors and work committees, which have given her a solid knowledge of organizational structures and the challenges of the cultural sector, from both a local and a national perspective, in media and the visual arts. Additionally, her work experience in the fields of music and circus has contributed to her great understanding of cultural industry. Further, she is a very passionate artistic career management teacher.

Bernard Paquet is Full Professor at Université Laval, in Quebéc City, where he teaches painting and drawing. His practice focuses on painting with the concept of layers and the painted image of the post human body. His work has been shown widely in Canada, France, Brazil, Monaco and Tunisia and held in many public and private collections in Canada, France, the United States, Argentina, Chile and Monaco. He has received grants and funding from governments in Québec, Canada, Brazil and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Additionally, he has been included in many publications and participated in conferences in Brazil, Canada, France, England, Martinique, Monaco, Switzerland and Tunisia.

Pierlucio Pellissier is an architect, curator and restorer of artistic works. He is a member of Comité Consultatif en Urbanisme (CCU) of the borough of Outremont of the City of Montréal; Member International Institute for Conservation (IIC), London; and Member des Amis de l’ICCROM (Rome). Previously, he served as the chief restorer and director of restoration work for Notre Dame de la Défense in Montreal and the restorer at the Saint-Ambroise Church in Montreal, Castle of Castellamonte in Torino (Italy), Chapel of Saint-Pierre in Morgex (Italy) and the Great St. Bernard Hospice between the Swiss Valais and the Italian Valle d'Aosta, among others. His work also includes the supervision, integration and consideration of all aspects of a conservation project, including air conditioning, lighting, soundproofing, restoration of church organs and the monitoring and protection of works during conservation.

Anastasiia Piletckaia is a Russian art historian and curator specializing in contemporary art with a focus on Turkish art. She is particularly interested in the manifestation of religious subjects in the works of young Turkish artists, in the context of their interaction with the rich historical and cultural heritage of the country. In 2010, she opened her first exhibition project in Paris in 2010

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in Flateurville Gallery; and from 2010-2013 she worked as an Assistant Curator in Metenkov House Museum of Photography.

Ariane Plante is an artist and freelancer in the field of culture and art. Since 2007, she has worked with several organizations as a curator, writer, editor, coordinator and project manager. As a self-taught artist, she works in media and the visual arts. She has received funding from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (in visual and digital arts) and from Première Ovation (for her work as an artist and curator and, in the field of literary arts, for her work on a film script). Since 2015, she has served as the curator of Mois Multi, an international multidisciplinary and electronic arts festival in Québec City.

Émilie Poracchia is the Director of Communications and Marketing at Manif d'art. Previously, she worked in the field of philanthropy, wildlife habitat conservation and, for several years, as an assistant for communications and audience development and, then, as a communications manager at the Théâtre Périscope.

Anne-Marie Proulx is Co-Director of VU, centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie, an artist-run center whose mission is to promote and support the research and creation of contemporary artists working with photography, and to disseminate their work and ideas. VU offers to artists specialized support in photography in its digital and analog production spaces, and welcomes artists for short-term residencies to stimulate the development of photographic thinking and practices. Also an artist, Proulx is interested in the role that art plays in questioning our ways of thinking and seeing the world. Photo credit: Jacinthe Robillard.

Rudi Punzo creates artworks that combine sculpture, sound, video projections and performance into multi-sensory experiences. Animating recycled and discarded materials with renewable energy sources – most notably, solar energy - the sculptural elements in his works are transformed through his interactions with them, their own kinetic movements and the amplification and sampling of the sounds these elements create. He has exhibited his works in numerous galleries and museums, including the Haslla Museum in South Korea and the Kuandu Museum in Taiwan; and he has performed his works at such venues as Electro-Mechanica in Russia and FAD in Brazil. He also has presented his compositions and artworks at experimental music festivals and artist-in-residency programs through Europe, Russia, North and South America and Asia; and since 2009 he has collaborated with TransCultural Exchange as the master of its website.

Davide Quadrio is a China based producer and curator. He founded and, for a decade, directed the first not-for-profit independent creative lab in Shanghai, Bizart Art Center, as a platform to foster the local contemporary art scene. Bizart was also featured in New York's Guggenheim Museum's Art and China after 1989 Theater of the World, as a milestone organization in the development of contemporary art in China. In 2007, Quadrio created Arthub Asia, a production and curatorial proxy active in Asia and worldwide. Hosted by the Shanghai Visual Art Institute until 2017, he worked from 2012-2016 as curator of contemporary art for the Aurora Museum, Shanghai as well as the Director of International Development for Scene 44 in Marseille. Since December 2016, he is honorary member of the International Cultural Association, Shanghai. He now resides in Milan after over 25 years of working in Asia.

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Mousse Magazine will publish the first of his trilogy of books in March 2018 – Shanghai 1998-2012, contemporary art archival project.

Andrzei Raszyk is a concept writer, producer and consultant in the cultural and creative sector. He started his career as a cultural manager by developing the artist-in-residence program culturia, which focused on the documentation of artistic process through the practice of notation and video interviews. Currently he is a director of the Berlinerpool Arts Network and Archive, a connection of 250 artists, curators and project spaces. In the years 2009-14, he also was a publisher of the weekly online platform mondaynews, where, as an editor and copy- writer, he provided information on international open calls for cultural workers. Additionally, he is a founder of Berlin Sessions, an artist-in-residence program that proposes a personalized approach for rooting the residents in Berlin’s art landscape. In addition, he is working on his PhD thesis on the Influence of Online Platforms with Opportunities in the Creative Sector on Mobility and Employability

Don Ritter is a Canadian artist and writer who has been active internationally in the field of digital media art since 1986. His interdisciplinary artworks and writings integrate fine art, digital media and ethics. Within his video-sound installations and media façades, video is controlled by sound, music or the voices and physical action of audiences. His prints and animations since 2015 have portrayed issues of morality and sustainability, and his recent writings examine the relationships between aesthetics, ethics and digital media. His work has been presented at festivals, museums and galleries throughout North America, Europe and Asia. In addition, he has held full-time professorships in art and design at Concordia University in Montreal, Pratt Institute in New York City, Hanyang University in Seoul and at City University of Hong Kong in the School of Creative Media

Émilie Roi is the Director of l’Œil de Poisson, an artist-run center dedicated to the production and exhibition of contemporary and multidisciplinary art. The center offers a three-month research and production residency, followed by an exhibition in one of its galleries. The centre also contributes to other projects through its production support program Millionnaire en folie, which offers a one- month production residency. In addition, since 2008, Roi has devoted herself to the arts, through organizing numerous exhibitions and events, a curatorial practice in both Europe and Canada, working in various Québec organizations (such as Folie/Culture and Manif d'art) and serving on of the board of directors of both the RCAAQ and the Méduse cooperative. In addition, for three years – along with the Belgian artist François Martig – she directed the Zone Rouge project, which was a laboratory about landscape that was open to sound practices, based on the battlefields of Verdun (France).

Mitch Ryerson is a woodworker and artist. Over the past decade, his work has focused on seating and play structures in parks and playgrounds. He also continues to build custom furniture for residential use. He recently completed a set of benches for the new Beltline Park in Atlanta and a new playground at the Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work has been exhibited extensively and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Fuller Craft Museum, the Mint Museum, the Boston Public Library and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. He also has served as an instructor at the Haystack Mountain School and the Penland School of Crafts, among others, and, currently, is an adjunct professor of furniture design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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Rob Santaguida is a film-maker, whose films and videos have been shown at more than 250 international festivals around the world, including the CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil), transmediale (Germany) and the Festival international du film Entrevues Belfort (France). He also has taken part in artist residencies in numerous countries, including the United States, Romania, Germany, Norway and Australia and is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.

Mary Sherman is an artist and Director of TransCultural Exchange. She also serves as the grants writer for TransCultural Exchange, which has received support from UNESCO, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Asian Cultural Council, among others. Additionally, she teaches at Boston College and Northeastern University and, in 2010, served as the interim Associate Director of MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology. For her own work, she has received numerous grants and awards, including two Fulbright Senior Specialist Grants, and been an artist-in- residence at such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Taipei Artist Village. She is a frequent guest lecturer on funding for artists, has served on juries for such organizations as the NEA and has lectured widely on her own work, including at Goldsmith University, MIT and Harvard University

Michael Schonhoff is a recipient of the 2008 Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) award. LIAEP an initiative that provides support for visual artists and arts professionals to travel to international residencies and artist communities, and for foreign visual artists to travel to and work in the United States. He also is the Assistant Curator, Community Outreach and Exhibition Management at the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute; Exhibition Director at LIAEP; and Co-Founder of Kunstraum KC, an artists’ studio initiative located in Kansas City, Missouri that was inspired by his 2008 studio residency at takt kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany. As an artist, his work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections.

Margaret Shiu's vision is to promote art and culture as vital components for global understanding and local sustainability by sharing, connecting and co-creating new practices. She is the Founder of Taiwan's Bamboo Curtain Studio. Bamboo Curtain Studio promotes public and private support for international exchange. It is both a residency program and an international cultural exchange research and facilitation hub. The Studio focuses on serving talents by providing artists with time and space for creative incubation. Its mission is "Local Action: Global Connection" and she believes in the power of creative crossover collaborations for sustainable change to society.

Aline Shkurovich is an artist and the founder and director of LILHA. Her own work has been exhibited in Found in Translation at the International Center of Photography, NY; The show is on… the other foot at ICP-Bard Gallery, Long Island City, New York; Alive at Art Basel Miami; Look Closer at the Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Travesías Contextuales at Galería 23 y 12 del ICAIC, Havana, Cuba; and South of North at the Fototeka Gallery, Los Angeles CA. She also curated Foreshock at La Fabrica Gallery in 2014 and Urban Perspective in Washington D.C. Additionally, in 2013, she organized the symposium Building a New Art World: Rethinking Unconventional Practices.

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Kira Simon-Kennedy is the Co-Founder and Director of China Residencies, a nonprofit directory and regional network of residencies in China. She is also a board member of Res Artis, the worldwide network of artist residencies, and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator for art, technology and design, working on res, a search tool for creative opportunities. Additionally, she is an independent documentary film producer, working on projects centered around culture and social justice in China, Iceland, Mexico, Mali and Mississippi

Doris Sommer is the Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is widely published and also Director of the Cultural Agents, whose mission is to promote the arts and humanities as social resources. Cultural Agents fosters creativity and scholarship that measurably contribute to the education and development of communities worldwide. Identifying creative agents of change, reflecting on best practices and inspiring their replication, Cultural Agents show that creativity sustains healthy democracies by developing the moral imagination and resourcefulness in citizens.

Sophie Stévance holds the Canada Chair Research in research-creation in music and is a Professor in Musicology at the Faculty of Music, Université Laval. She is also head of Observatoire interdisciplinaire de recherche et de création at Université Laval (OICRM-UL), Laboratoire de recherche-création en musique et multimedia (LARCEM) and Groupe de recherche-création en musique. She also is the author of several books, includingLes Enjeux de la recherche-création en musique (with Serge Lacasse); Musique actuelle; Duchamp, compositeur; Composer au XXIe siècle; and L’Itinéraire du timbre. She has received two Awards from The Académie Charles- Cros and research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Quebec Research Funds and Canada Foundation for Innovation's Leaders. Her field of study is research-creation in music around different projects with artists, particularly about the modernization of Inuit throat-singing (with Tanya Tagaq) and the genetic analysis of creative process in music.

Stefan St-Laurent is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, adjunct professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa and director of the artist-run center AXENÉO7. As a curator, he worked for the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, the 28th and 29th Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011 and, from 2002 to 2011, at Galerie SAW. In addition, he has served as a curator and programmer for such organizations and festivals as the Lux Centre in London, the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal, the Festival international du cinéma francophone in Acadie, the Rencontres internationales Vidéo Arts Plastiques in Basse-Normandie, the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie in Moncton and Pleasure Dome, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video and Vtape in Toronto. His own work has been presented in numerous galleries and institutions, including Paris’ Centre national de la photographie, Sweden’s Edsvik Konst och Kultur and Toronto’s YYZ.

Caitlin Strokosch is the President & CEO of the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network -- an international nonprofit supporting the development, touring, and exhibition of new work throughout the U.S., Latin America, and Japan by visual and performing artists; and advocating for greater equity and resources for artists and arts organizations at the forefront of social justice. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the Alliance of Artists Communities, working with the organization from 2002 to 2016. A frequent public speaker and recognized advocate for artists of all disciplines, she has presented at conferences and events around the U.S., Europe, Brazil and Taiwan. Her articles and publications range in topics from the intersections of art and science, the need for more support of research-and- development in dance, and the long-term organizational sustainability of artist residency

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centers. She has served as a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Joyce Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the Rasmuson Foundation and Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. As a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in the Arts, she serves on the Racial Equity committee and Support for Individual Artists steering committee; she is an Advisory Board member of Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology; and she is a former Board Chair of Girls Rock! Rhode Island.

Victoria Surliuga is Associate Professor of Italian at Texas Tech University. A poet, translator and scholar of modern and contemporary Italian poetry, cinema and art, she has written on the relationship between poetry and painting in Giambattista Marino, Federico Fellini and the poetry of Loi, Majorino, Neri and Zanzotto. She also published Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism (New York-London: Glitterati, 2016), curated the exhibition Ezio Gribaudo’s Theaters of Memory at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock (on a $42,000 CH Foundation grant), and is the recipient of The 1905 Fellowship from the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association. Additionally, she presented her work on Gribaudo at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University Arts Initiative, Rizzoli Bookstore in New York City and Brazos Bookstore in Houston.

Sarah Tanguy is a curator for Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, as well as an independent curator and arts writer, based in Washington, DC. Since 2004, Tanguy has curated over 100 exhibitions and four permanent collections for US diplomatic facilities overseas. Recent independent exhibitions include the Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art and the 20th anniversary exhibition for The Kreeger Museum as well as an ongoing exhibition program for the American Center for Physics, College Park, Maryland. In addition to exhibition-related essays, she contributes to Sculpture and Metalsmith, among other publications.

Tamar Tembeck is an art historian and media studies scholar. Her current research focuses on visual cultures of illness and medicine, hospital art practices, as well as performance and media studies. She also maintains a practice as a performer and exhibition curator. Currently, she is leading a research project on contemporary art practices in healthcare spaces, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She holds an academic appointment within Media@McGill, an interdisciplinary hub of research on media, technology and culture at McGill University.

Alain Thibault is a curator and artistic director in the fields of digital arts, electronic music and sound art. He also is the founder of two major events in Montreal, ELEKTRA – an annual festival showcasing performances in the digital arts, and the BIAN, International Digital Arts Biennial, oriented towards exhibitions, installations and public art. Also an electronic music composer, his work is largely disseminated throughout the local and international scene.

Odele Tseng is a coordinator for the Artist-in-Residence program of the Taipei Artist Village and also the Project Manager of the Annual Conference for the Artist Village Alliance of Taiwan. Previously, she served as the Art Administrator of the alternative spaces Shin Leh Yuan Art Space and Freedom Men Art Apartments.

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Makiko Tsuji is an artist-in-residence program coordinator at Youkobo Art Space and also a web editor of the Microresidence Network. Since its establishment in 1989, Youkobo Art Space has worked to promote art through the running of a dynamic artist residency program that has – to date – welcomed over 280 foreign artists from 40 countries, and has also created opportunities to hold exhibitions and join international residency programs for over 150 local artists. Youkobo has positively sought to develop artist exchanges with artist-in-residence programs in other countries, and is involved in the implementation and development of the Y- AIR concept, an ongoing initiative launched in 2014, which aims to give young artists opportunities to experience AIR through collaborations between Youkobo and international art universities.

Joe Upham is one of the original founders of the New York Experimental Glass Workshop (now Urban Glass) and, currently, a member of the advisory board. He founded the NYEGW Neon program in 1979. His interest in both technology and art has led to fuel-efficient melting equipment, unusual Neon applications and many large architectural installations. He also has been a consultant for creative lighting applications at Litelab, EGL and Focus Lighting. He received a Lumen Award for his development of "Confetti Crackle" neon. He also developed "Multi Flow" neon and wearable neon and has installed projects in the US, Greece, Aruba, Saudi Arabia, Italy and the Netherlands in addition to lecturing and giving workshops at numerous institutions both in the US and Europe. His works are held in private collections as well as the Corning Museum.

Matej Vakula is a multimedia artist, educator, curator, theorist, programmer and DIY enthusiast with a specialty in data visualization, biology and urban issues. Recently he served as an artist-in-residence at the Center for Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center, a research fellow at the Public Lab and a member of community bio lab Genspace. Dedicated to the development of new methods in Artistic Research, his work explores the impact of culture, technology, location and politics on personal experience, social interrelationships, body and nature. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica Art and Science Network and the 6th Prague Biennial. He also is the co-founder of CLAKULA Gallery (NYC) and has been profiled in Flash Art Magazine, among others.

Helmi Vent is Professor emerita at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria. She is also the Director of LIA – Lab Inter Arts, an international platform for crossover-projects in various artistic and cultural fields. Guest activities (lectures, seminars, performances, and artistic and transcultural projects) have led her through various universities as well as artistic and cultural institutions in Europe, the US, Japan, Australia, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Mongolia. She also has undertaken study trips to indigenous cultures in Northern Australia, New Zealand, Central Asia, Hawaii, Western and Southwestern Africa. In 2013, she received the “Ars docendi-Staatspreis” (state award) for excellent teaching in the category “Innovative Teaching Concepts” at the public Austrian universities.

Cécile Vulliemin is currently working as a project leader for the art/science programs for swissnex Boston. She has worked in multiple Swiss cultural institutions, including contemporary art centers, performing arts festivals and film festivals. She also has experience volunteering as a Communications Manager for various organizations, including Swisselectronicmusic, an association that promotes connections among the Swiss electronic culture scene. Currently she continues to volunteer as Exhibition Coordinator for Hors Pistes, an association that initiates

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creative residences that encourage the transmission of handicrafts between designers and craftsmen by proposing a reworking of traditional production's methods.

Clea T. Waite is an inter-media artist, scholar, and experimental filmmaker, combining a background in physics and computer graphics with her current doctoral research in cinema, media art and critical theory. She investigates the poetics of artifacts emerging at the intersection of art with science. She creates somatic, cinematic works that engage with climate change, astronomy, particle physics and popular culture via immersion, sensual interfaces and even inter-species collaboration. Her artworks have been exhibited at such institutions as the Miraikan Museum and the Open Sky Project for ICC Hong Kong; and she has received several international awards – most notably, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative and IBM Innovation Prize in Art and Technology and served as a Humboldt Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow and a fellow at KHM, Cologne. Previously she was Associate Professor of Montage at the HFF Babelsberg.

Courtney Wasson is currently Director of Marketing and Design for the Weinberger Fine Art gallery in Kansas City, MO. Since 2010 she has also worked with the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and is now the acting Executive Vice President and Director for the Leedy Foundation. Additionally, in 2016, she began working with Linda Lighton as the Program Coordinator of the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program.

Claire Anna Watson is a curator, artist and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She is also on the Board of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria and is the Curator at the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Previously, she was the Visual Arts Program Coordinator at Asialink, managing their visual arts residency program. Additionally, she has developed major curatorial projects including the Asialink/BLINDSIDE exhibition Vertigo, which traveled to Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan and the award-winning project (Museums Australia National Award) Home—Reframing Craft and Domesticity.

Crispin B. Weinberg is President of Biomedical Modeling Inc. (BMI), an anatomical engineering and 3D modeling service bureau located in Boston, MA. BMI makes 3D printed and digital models of human anatomy, primarily from CT scans. He primarily works with surgeons, hospitals and medical device companies, but enjoys collaborating with artists such as Kiki Smith and institutions such as the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. Previously he was Chief Scientific Officer of Angio-Oncology Sciences Inc, and a co-founder of Organogenesis Inc. one the earliest tissue engineering companies. Organogenesis grew in part from a fellowship he held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Deanna Witman is an artist-educator, exhibiting nationally and internationally, including at Revela_T in Barcelona. For more than a decade, she has been making photographs without a lens for which she has received numerous grants, including from The John Anson Kittredge Fund and The Kindling Fund (a re-grantor for The Warhol Foundation). She also has served as an artist-in-residence as part of PhotoIreland. Additionally, she is an Assistant Professor at Unity College and an instructor at Maine Media Workshops, and a managing editor of Hawk & Handsaw-The Journal of Creative Sustainability, Unity College’s literary and visual arts journal.

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is the Director of the Center for Arts and Culture, NLI Research Institute, Japan. He began his career as an architect in 1981, after studying urban planning at the Graduate School of Waseda University. In 1985, he became a culture consultant and researcher. Since then, he has been engaged in international studies on cultural policy, research on a variety of cultural projects, master planning for cultural institutions and consulting for public art projects. In 2012, commissioned by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, he conducted comprehensive research on artist-in-residency programs, which included site visits to 37 major artist-in-residencies in 11 countries. He is currently a member of the National Cultural Policy Committee and Board Member of the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Japan. In 2014, Mr. Yoshimoto was appointed to be a member of Tokyo Council for the Arts and Culture as well as Chairman of the Council’s Committee for Cultural Program of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons February 22nd – 24th, 2018 SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 22nd – 24th, 2018 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration and Check-in Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Lobby

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Note: The Portfolio Reviews will take place in the Auberge Internationale de Québec’s Portfolio Room. For more information on these, please see [Portfolio Reviews] in the left-hand navigation.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2018 MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 – 11:45 am

International Exchange: Building Reciprocity Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: Caitlin Strokosch, National Performance Network & Visual Artists Network Irène Hediger, Director, Swiss artists-in-labs program at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS), Zurich University of the Arts Irène Hediger's presentation is sponsored by swissnex Boston and the ZHdK – the Zurich University of the Arts. Jean-Baptiste Joly, Founding and Artistic Director, Akademie Schloss Solitude Jean-Baptiste Joly’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Marlene Ghormley. Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Founder, President and Curator of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. Rosie Gordon-Wallace's presentation is supported in part by Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Travel Consultant Mini-Grant

Teaching for the Future: New Models for Supporting Creativity Today Location: Maison de la littérature Moderator: Sylvie Lacerte, Artistic Director, Symposium de Baie-Saint-Paul Manon Barbeau, Artist and Co-Founder of Wapikoni Mobile Janna Longacre, Artist and Professor, Massachusetts College of Art + Design Marie-Christiane Mathieu, Artist and Professor, Université Laval

Opportunities for Artists Pecha Kucha: Session 1 Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Please see [here] for the list of the Session’s Speakers Moderator: Thad Beal, Artist and TransCultural Exchange Board of Trustee

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2018 LUNCH TIME ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS and WORKSHOPS 12:15 – 1:15 pm

Round-Table Discussion: Working with Children to Ensure a Peaceful Tomorrow Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Eslam Abusarah, Artist and Educator Eslam Abusarah's presentation is supported, in part, by Royal Jordanian airlines.

How to Find Suitable Open Calls, Structure an Application Calendar and Save Time Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Andrzej Raszyk, Cultural Producer and Consultant

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2018 EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 – 3:15 pm

Artistic Research: Art, Research or None of the Above Location: Maison de la littérature | L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire Moderator: Irène Hediger, Director, Swiss artists-in- labs program Alexandre David, Artist and Professor, Université Laval Florian Dombois, Artist, 2017 Research Pavilion, Venice; and Professor, Zurich University of the Arts Melanie Franke, Professor, art history and artistic research, Academy of Art and Design, Basel Elaine A. King, Professor of the History of Art/Theory/Museum Studies, Carnegie Mellon University This panel is sponsored by swissnex Boston and the ZHdK – the Zurich University of the Arts.

Art Works: The Art of Management and Organization Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: John Boylan, Artist and Organizer of 9e2 Camilla Boemio, Writer, Theorist and Curator Camilla Boemio’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Marlene Ghormley. Anthony De Ritis, Professor and former Chair of the Music Department, Northeastern University Emmanuel Guy, Artist and Professor at Université du Québec à Rimouski

Mapping Mobility: Resources for Artists Looking to Find Opportunities in the Americas Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: David Naylor, Artist and Professor, Université Laval Bastien Gilbert, Executive Director of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ) Jan Hanvik, Co-Founder and Principal of Cross the Bridge LLC, and CEO of PAMAR and Pan American Art Research Inc. Lisa Hoffman, Executive Director, the Alliance of Artists Communities

Round-Table Discussion: Medical Modeling for Artists Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 1:30 - 2:30 pm Edward Monovich, Artist and Professor, Massachusetts College of Art + Design Crispin Weinberg, President, Biomedical Modeling, Inc.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2018 LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:30 – 5:15 pm Note: The first Round-Table Discussion will begin at 3:15.

English, s’il vous plait: Coping with Language Barriers Location: Maison de la littérature | L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire Moderator: Jeanne Landry-Belleau, Artist and free-lance Cultural Programmer, Québec City Antoine Abi Aad, Designer, Professor and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture, Lebanese 44

University Benoit Granier, Composer and Independent Cultural Producer Benoit Granier's presentation is sponsored by the Québec City Business Destination. Serge Lacasse, Professor, Faculty of Music, Université Laval

Mapping Mobility: Resources for Artists Looking to Find Opportunities in Europe and Beyond Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: Marie Fol, Director, TransArtists Pau Cata, Curator and Researcher for The North Africa Cultural Mobility Map Jaime Humphreys, artist, artist-in-residency coordinator at the Youkobo Art Space (Japan) and committee member of the Microresidence Network Marie Le Sourd, Secretary general, on the move.org Margaret Shiu Tan, Taiwan Art Space Association Kira Simon-Kennedy, China Residencies

A Sampling of North American Residencies with Tips for Preparing a Successful Application Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: Nat May, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Hewnoaks Artist Colony Courtney Bethel, Director of Admissions, MacDowell Colony, NH Marie-Pierre Dolbec, Chargée de programmes pour Evénements et diffusion internationale, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec | Program Officer for Events and International Broadcasts, Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec David Grozinsky, Artist, Educator and Arts Administrator, Vermont Studio Center Jamie Morra, Director, Residency 108, NY

Round-Table Discussion: An Overview of Opportunities in Istanbul Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 3:15 - 4:15 pm Anastasiia Piletckaia, Art Historian and Curator

Round-Table Discussion: Working with Issues of Loss and Mourning Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 4:30 - 5:30 pm Lin Jingling, Artist

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2018 OPENING NIGHT WELCOME AND KEYNOTE: ROBERT LEPAGE, EX MACHINA, LE DIAMANT, A PERFORMING ARTS COSMOGONY 6:00 – 7:30 pm Sponsored by Gouvernement du Québec with keynote by Bernard Gilbert, Managing Director, Robert Lepage's Le Diamant Location: Musée de l'Amérique francophone (Musée de la civilisation), 2, côte de la Fabrique Québec (Québec) G1R 3V6 Note: This location is a less than 10 minute walk from the Auberge Internationale de Québec and Morrin Centre. Convene at the lobby of the Auberge Internationale de Québec to walk over as a group.

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Dinner on your own.

[UP]FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018 MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 – 11:45 am

Artists and Medicine Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: Andrée-Anne Blacutt, Artist; and Doctoral Candidate, Université Laval Fiona Davies, Artist Tamar Tembeck, Art Historian and Media Studies Scholar, McGill University Crispin Weinberg, President, Biomedical Modeling Inc. (BMI)

Artists as Agents of Change Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: Roger Colombik, Artist and Professor, Texas State University Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik, Artist Carmen Moreira, Dancer and Founder of SQx Dance Company Carmen Moreira’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of the Betsy Carpenter Memorial Fund. Claire Anna Watson, Curator, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre; and Board Member, Public Galleries Association of Victoria Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Director, Center for Arts and Culture at NLI Research Institute, Japan

Workshop: Finding the Best Fit: Researching and Applying for Artist-in-Residence Programs Location: Maison de la littérature | L'Institut Canadien de Québec's Scène littéraire Bojana Panevska, Project Manager for International Collaborations and a Workshop Facilitator at TransArtists

Workshop: How to make a Documentary Film Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Portfolio Review Room Rob Santaguida, Film-maker Rob Santaguida’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Marlene Ghormley. This workshop (ending at noon) is limited to 20 people. Sign up [here].

Round Table: The Importance of Cultural Exchange in the Face of Isolationist and Populist Politics Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 10:00 - 11:00 am Courtney Wasson, Director of Marketing and Design, Weinberger Fine Art gallery, Kansas City

Round-Table Discussion: Updating Traditional Media Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 11:15 - 12:15 am Deanna Witman, Photographer and Assistant Professor, Unity College

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018 FRIDAY LUNCHEON KEYNOTE 12:15 – 1:15 pm

Residencies: Serving the Needs of Artists Today Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director of the NTU CCA Singapore Ute Meta Bauer's presentation is supported, in part, by the Goethe-Institut Montreal. Jean-Baptiste Joly, Founding Director and Artistic Director of the Akademie

Round Table Discussion: Nomadaptation, Considering the Integration of Migration-Related Topics in Contemporary Art Practices, Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note: this Round-Table will run from 1:15 – 2:15 pm. Daniel Nicolae Djamo, artist and film-maker, Romania Daniel Nicolae Djamo's presentation is sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018 EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 – 3:15 pm

Making Public Art Now Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: Sarah Tanguy, Curator for the Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of States, Independent Curator and Arts Writer Tom Ashcraft, Artist and Founding Member of the Workingman Collective Edgar Endress, Artist and Professsor, George Mason University Tara Lapointe, Director of Outreach and Business Development, Canada Council for the Arts Ashley Molese, Curator, Creative Producer and Festival Manager

Funding Resources for Artists Location: Maison de la littérature | L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire Moderator: Mary Sherman, Artist and Director of TransCultural Exchange Anthony De Ritis, Fulbright Grantee, Professor and former Chair of the Music Department, Northeastern University Benoit Granier, Composer and Independent Cultural Producer Benoit Granier's presentation is sponsored by the Québec City Business Destination. Linda Lighton, Director of the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program

A Look at Residencies in Academia Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: Michéle Oshima, Former Director, Student and Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Programs at MIT Steven Bridges, Assistant Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University Brandy Dahrouge, Program Manager for Visual + Digital Arts Creative Residencies, The Banff Centre

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Bernard Paquet, Professor, Université Laval Michael Schonhoff, Director, Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) Crossroads Gallery

Round-Table Discussion: Raising Ecological Awareness Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 1:30 - 2:30 pm Karmela Berg, Artist Karmela Berg's presentation is sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel in Montreal.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018 LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:30 – 5:15 pm

NOTE TIME: 3:30 – 4:15 pm Private Tour of the Monastère des Augustines Limited to 25 people. Sign up [here]. Tour registrants kindly convene at 3:10 at the entrance of the Auberge Internationale de Québec.

Opportunities for Artists Pecha Kucha: Session 2 Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Please see [here] for the list of the Session’s Speakers Moderator: Thad Beal, Artist and TransCultural Exchange Board of Trustee

Reconsidering the Native: What Indigenous Artists can Offer Contemporary Art Location: Morrin Centre's College Hall Moderator: Jan Hanvik, Co-Founder and Principal of Cross the Bridge LLC, and CEO of PAMAR and Pan American Art Research Inc. Cardiela Amezcua Luna, Dancer, Choreographer, Director, Stage Producer, Promoter, Cultural Manager and Environmental Educator Irène Gaouda Lyoum, Founding Member and Vice-President, OSMOSE, Cameroon Sophie Stévance, Professor, Université Laval Cécile Vulliemin, Project Leader for Art/Sciences Programs, swissnex Boston and Exhibition Coordinator, Hors Pistes Association Cécile Vulliemin'spresentation is sponsored by swissnex Boston.

Workshop: Cultural Mobility's Impacts Location: Maison de la littérature | L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire Marie Le Sourd, Secretary General of On the Move – the Cultural Mobility Information Network

Round-Table Discussion: The Experimental Memoir: A Source of Boundary-Blurring Inspiration Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 3:30 - 4:30 pm Rachel Epp Buller, Art Historian and Printmaker/Book Artist

Round-Table Discussion: Participatory Art: Soup Socials as Vehicles for Social Transformation Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round-Table will run from 4:45 – 5:45 pm Rachela Abbate, Multimedia Artist, Cultural Producer and Curator

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Workshop: Creative Brain Training Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Portfolio Review Room Diego Irigoyen, Artist and Creator of Creative Brain Training

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018 GALA 7:00 – 11:00 pm Sponsored by Université Laval's l'École d'art de la Faculté d'aménagement, d'architecture, d'art et de design and swissnex Boston with presentations by Georges Azzaria, the Director of Université Laval's l'École d'art de la Faculté d'aménagement, d'architecture, d'art et de design; and Cécile Vuillemin, Project leader for the art/science programs for swissnex Boston Location: Séminaire de Québec, 1 Rue des Remparts, Ville de Québec, QC G1R 4R7, Canada Sign up [here].

[UP]SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2018 MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 – 11:45 am Note Time: Guided Museum Tour meets at 10:30. (See below.)

Revealing the Hidden: Unveiling New Horizons Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: Serge Lacasse, Professor, Faculty of Music, Université Laval Ajtony Csaba Szakacs, Director, the University of Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Sonic Lab and Assistant Professor for Conducting Florian Grond, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University and Researcher in the MetaLab, Societé des Arts Technologiques Helmi Vent, Professor Emerita, Mozarteum University Salzburg (Austria); and Director of LIA – Lab Inter Arts Helmi Vent's presentation is supported, in part, by a grant from LIA - Lab Inter Arts, Salzburg.

Sustainable Visions (and How to Achieve Them) Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: Deborah Davidson, Artist, Curator and Director, Catalyst Conversations Maria Rebecca Ballestra, Artist, Founder and Chief Organizer of the Festival for the Earth Tanya de Paor, Artist Delphin Néo Nana, Writer, Painter and Cultural Promoter, Cameroon Doris Sommer, Harvard Professor, Author and Founder and Director, Cultural Agents

Alternatives to Teaching to Support your Artistic Freedom Location: Maison de la littérature | L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire Moderator: Don Ritter, Artist, Aesthetic Machinery, Montreal Caleb and Sarah Jones, Co-owners of Jones Gallery + Studio Jan Lhormer, Artist and Art Critic Claudia Matera, Researcher, Game Designer, Social Media Strategist and Support Professor, Link Campus

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University, Rome Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian, Texas Tech University

10:30 - noon Guided Tour of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Location: Meet at the Auberge International de Québec's lobby at 10:30 to go together to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Limited to 15 people. Sign up [here].

Workshop: How to Create a Stunning Website Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Portfolio Review Room Rudi Punzo, Artist, Web Designer and TransCultural Exchange Webmaster Rudi Punzo’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Marlene Ghormley.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2018 LUNCH TIME ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS and WORKSHOPS 12:15 – 1:15 pm Note: The first Round-Table Discussion will begin at noon.

Round-Table Discussion: Art in the Playground Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note this Round Table starts at noon and runs until 1:00 pm. (Sandwiches provided.) Mitch Ryerson, Woodworker and Artist

Presentation: New Technologies and Possibilities for Print-on-Demand Projects Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Jeanne Criscola, Interdisciplinary Artist, Designer and Educator

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2018 EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 – 3:15 Note: The first Round-Table Discussion will begin at 1:15.

Architectural Interventions: Artistic Preservation of the Past for the Future Location: Maison de la littérature | L’Institut Canadien de Québec’s Scène littéraire Moderator: Alberto Balestrieri, Writer, Documentation Consultant and former Program Officer for the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Isabelle Duchesneau, Executive Director, Le Monastère des Augustines Pierlucio Pellissier, Architect, Curator and Restorer of Artistic Works Michelle Drapeau, Tour Guide, Maison de la littérature | L'Institut Canadien de Québec's Scène littéraire

Beyond Time and Space Location: Morrin Centre’s College Hall Moderator: Anne-Josée Lacombe, Head of Digital Mediation, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec 50

Luc Courchesne, Artist, Founding Member and current Co-Director of Research, the Society for Art and Technology (SAT) and Honorary Professor, Université de Montréal Don Ritter, Artist, Aesthetic Machinery, Montreal Matej Vakula, Multimedia Artist, Educator, Curator, Theorist, Programmer and DIY Enthusiast Matej Vakula’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of the Betsy Carpenter Memorial Fund. Clea T. Waite, Inter-media Artist, Scholar and Experimental Filmmaker

Shifting Contexts: Artists Changing Cultural Landscapes Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: Janna Longacre, Artist and Professor, Massachusetts College of Art + Design Catherine Bernard, Curator, Writer and Associate Professor of Art History, State University of New York (SUNY) Sylvie Lacerte, Artistic Director, Symposium de Baie-Saint- Paul Davide Quadrio, Founding Director, Art Hub Asia; Curator, Aurora Museum, Shanghai

Workshop: “In a few moments time I will count down from 10 to 1 and we might all understand a bit more about things.” Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Portfolio Review Room Simon Lewandowski, Artist (who has been working with Hypnosis as a medium since 2007) This 2- hour workshop (ending at 3:30) is limited to 15 people. Sign up [here].

Workshop: Investigating the Role of Interpretation in Research Practices Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Room C Note: This workshop will run from 2:30-3:30 Laura Donkers, Environmental Artist and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Dundee Laura Donkers’ presentation is sponsored by the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) Research Committee at University of Dundee.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2018 CLOSING PLENARY: BIENNALES AND FESTIVALS: THE INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF QUÉBEC 3:30 – 5:00 Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater Moderator: Mary Sherman, Director, TransCultural Exchange Alain Thiebault, Artistic Director, ELEKTRA and the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN), Montreal Claude Bélanger, founder and Artistic Director, Manif d'art Michelle Drapeau, Assistant Curator, Manif d'art Gaëtan Gosselin, Director, Mois Multi, Québec City Ariane Plante, Curator, Mois Multi, Québec City

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2018 CLOSING RECEPTION 5:30 – 7:15 Location: Mois Multi/Méduse 541, rue de Saint-Vallier Est Québec (Québec) G1K 3P9

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PECHA KUCHA SESSION 1 Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater The timing of these presentations is available [here]. Dorothea Fleiss' presentation is sponsored by the Québec City Business Destination.

Dominique Boileau, East-North-East, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Emilio Chapela, Torschlusspanik, Mexico City Brandy Dahrouge, Banff, Canada Dorothea Fleiss, d. fleiss & east west artists association Luisa Greenfield, Nordic Summer Institute Lea O’Loughlin, Acme, London Annie Lévesque, Ni Vu Ni Cornu Atelier & Galerie, Québec City Anne-Sophie Ohmer, Engramme, Québec City Émilie Boudrias, Co-Director, Oboro, Montreal Anne-Marie Proulx, Co-Director of VU, Québec City Émilie Roi, Director of l'Œil de Poisson, Québec City Joe Upham, Founder, Urban Glass, New York Julie C. Paradis, Executive Director, Avatar, Québec City

PECHA KUCHA SESSION 2 Location: Auberge Internationale de Québec, Theater The timing of these presentations is available [here].

Seung Lee, Haslla Art World, South Korea Stefan St-Laurent, Director of the artist-run center AXENÉO7 Iris Hung, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan Odele Tseng, Coordinator, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taiwan Makiko Tsuji, Youkobo Art Space, Japan Aline Shkurovich, LILHA, Mexico Catherine Lee, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan Sébastien Hudon, La Bande Vidéo, Québec City Claire Anna Watson, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Australia Gaetän Goesslin and Mélanie Bédard, Mois Multi, Recto-Verso, Québec City Émilie Poracchia, Manif d'art, Québec City Esther Bourdages, Eastern Bloc, Montreal

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Photo Credit: Daryl Luk

VOLUNTEERS

TransCultural Exchange thanks the following volunteers for helping us welcome everyone to the 2018 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons:

Valérie Arsenault Sylvi Belleau Juliane Charbonneau Madelieine Cutrona Audrée Demers-Roberge Isaabelle Desroches Sarah-Jeanne Desrochers Marilyn Forgues Suzie Houde Iris Lindsay Lortie Marie-Pierre Maryse Mareau France McNeil Gabrielle Ouelle Morneau Emilie Pare Anne Plourde 53

Émile Suzan Reigneau Thomas Tremblay Charles Turcote and from the Bilingual Tourism Program at Cégep Limoiloi: Béatrice Audet Alexanne Demers Aryane Frenette Marie-Soleil Gagon Alexane Carpentier-Lalancette Angers Molly Sophie Pascal Catherine Pelletier

PRESS and ONLINE CITATIONS

Allevents. In Quebec, "TransCultural Exchange's 2018 International Conference". andrezejraszyk.net, “In Quebec with a Workshop,” by Andrzej Raszyk, March 2018.

CISION, "2018 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons, February 1, 2018.

L’initiative, Journal économique, social & culturel, “Conférence de la commissaire Ute Meta Bauer le 20 février, February 8, 2018.

Radio Canada, "Un forum américain pour les créateurs dêbarque â Québec," February 7, 2018.

Romanian Cultural Institute in New York website," Nomadaptation by Daniel Djamo,"January 2018.

TransArtists, "TransCultural Exchange Conference 2018".

Université Laval, Ecole D’art, “TransCultural Exchange’s 2018 – International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons, February, 2018, by Jeanne Landry.

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