Lorne Falk CV - 1

Lorne Falk CV - 1 LORNE FALK Curriculum Vitae Contents Professional History.........................................................2 Employment Summary ....................................................11 Education .........................................................................11 Teaching School of Design......................................................12 Art Studio, The Banff Centre...................................13 Art History, Concordia University...........................15 Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre ..............15 Professional Service Boards .......................................................................16 Selected Activities ....................................................17 Juries .........................................................................18 Research and Scholarly Activities Publications – Books.................................................19 Publications – Edited Books .....................................19 Publications – Chapters, Essays, Articles.................20 Exhibitions ................................................................24 Presentations .............................................................26 Consulting ................................................................30 Grants and Awards...........................................................32 Addendum: Art Studio Residency Participants ...............34 2 Gooseberry Lane Hadley, MA 01035 Tel: (413) 549-1341 Email: [email protected] Languages: English, French Revised November 2004 Lorne Falk CV - 2 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY I have worked for 31 years in the fields of art and education as a dean of faculty, director, curator, teacher, writer, critic, and consultant. My leadership, institutional management and administration, teaching, curating, research, scholarly activities and professional service have always focused on the creation of learning environments for communities of interest. The aim of these learning environments, such as the residency program I conceived and ran at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), has been to help individuals, groups and communities turn their dreams and visions into realities. My expertise includes the contemporary visual and media arts, digital culture, cultural theory and criticism, curatorial practice, arts administration and management (strategic thinker and resource provider). My background and experience is international, interdisciplinary and transcultural. I have been active in the development of the visual and media arts since the 1970s and the creative use of digital technology since the early 1980s. I have written and published more than 60 critical essays and produced (authored or edited) 19 catalogues and books. I have curated and organized more than 150 exhibitions, including 8 major projects. My work as a consultant has included organizations such as The Getty Trust (Los Angeles), the Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Xerox Corporation (Palo Alto). 2001 - SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Boston, Massachusetts, USA Dean of Faculty Appointed Dean of Faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in July 2001. Founded in 1877, Museum School now provides an interdisciplinary arts education to more than 1600 students through 9 degree and non-degree programs; 165 faculty members working in 17 studio areas teach 470 courses each year. I have oversight responsibility for faculty and curriculum development; faculty hiring, development, and evaluation; and development and control of the academic budget. My mandate is to encourage an environment conducive to excellence in teaching, learning, art making and creative and scholarly achievement. I oversee the Office of Academic Affairs, academic and studio advising, Continuing Education, and the Artists' Resource Center, and maintain lines of communication with the Registrar, Admissions Office and Student Affairs. Reporting to the Lorne Falk CV - 3 Provost, the Dean of Faculty is an advocate for faculty and a member of the senior administration serving on the Museum School’s executive and senior staff committees. I manage the academic budget, including all faculty salaries, the operational budget for 17 studio areas, and related capital and facilities needs. I coordinate all faculty committees that deal with the curriculum, faculty affairs, planning, budget, technology, the graduate program, admissions, continuing education, the library, exhibitions, and safety. There are also regular meetings of the faculty and area representatives. I serve as a liaison and advocate for faculty and programs in the School’s longstanding partnerships with Tufts University and the Museum of Fine Arts. I work with staff in other departments to assure effective community relations among students, faculty and staff, especially in terms of curriculum, review boards, advising, work study, graduate and post graduate teaching fellows, registration processes, admissions processes, and student affairs. I also work with financial aid, buildings and grounds, the business office, development, alumni affairs, the gallery, library, marketing, information services, human resources and security on matters which impact the faculty and/or the programs. I supervise a team of studio managers who manage space, equipment, inventories and processes in service of students and faculty, their art making and the curriculum. 1997 - 2000 SCHOOL OF DESIGN Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China Associate Professor Appointed Associate Professor at the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The School was in transition from a British-based, master-atelier system to an American, credit-based, learner-centered program and curriculum with new emphases on research and information technology. My mandate was to develop and to work on processes, projects and activities that would serve the development and consolidation of the School's vision and new curriculum, as well as the adjustment of the School's faculty to (this) change. My workload involved academic management, support and leadership, as well as teaching and research initiatives that encouraged more emphasis on conceptual and critical design discourse, multimedia in design, and a research-minded project-based pedagogy. Essentially, my role was to be a catalyst and content provider. I coordinated and wrote the School of Design's Business Plan for 1999-2000 and 1998- 1999. This document was a blueprint of the School’s strategic objectives and actions for Lorne Falk CV - 4 academic programs, research, outreach and administration in the coming year – the core reference document for the School’s realization of its mission. Other documents I authored: Towards Vision 2007: PolyU’s Strategy for a Post Digital Culture of Education, the 1997-98 Quality Assurance Report, Brief for a Higher Diploma in Applied Design Technologies, School of Design – General Description, an IT Strategy Brief (revalidation document), and a Staff Development Strategy (revalidation document). Committees I served on: the Strategic Planning Group, the Departmental Research Committee, the IT Champion’s Group, the Quality Assurance Committee, the Global Virtual Design Studio Committee, and the Marketing Group. I also advised the Planning Group for the Multimedia Higher Diploma and the Departmental Learning and Teaching Development Committee. I was a member of the Planning Committee for an additional multimedia stream provisionally titled Interactive Communication Design. My research focused on how to design sustainable cultural spaces on the Internet. I received a grant (US$23,000) to investigate virtual design studios. My goals were a) to provide a network environment for VR-related interests and needs of the global design community, b) to contribute to digital design theory and culture, and c) to support the development of the School's new Global Virtual Design Studio. Another thread of my research studied the Educational Object Economy (EOE), a Apple Research project designed to model three particular aspects of virtual communities for education: community realization, shared production, and economic viability. I developed the syllabus and was subject leader for BA(Hons) Design Study 4: Information & Global Contexts. Using a teaching and learning grant, this was the first subject in the School of Design to use a customized interactive website. The goal was to teach students how to navigate as a professional in a world of increasing complexity – a world driven primarily but not exclusively by digital technology. Students learned how to work in teams and the importance of flexibility not only in communicating and negotiating with others, but in the design process as well. I taught new BA(Hons) subjects in design criticism and theory, focusing on the Internet as a tool, a medium and a cultural space. My goal was to have students appreciate cultural theory and critical thinking as useful tools in their design. I was a member of the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) Arts Committee, which advised senior management and staff on programming and policy. I also completed a consultancy for the HKAC which resulted in an executive report titled "Towards an Academy for the Visual Arts" (1999). The HKAC has now restructured and launched a school of art. I was an external expert and strategist for an internal review in a newly formed School of Art and Culture at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. (See "Professional Service - Activities for more.) Lorne Falk CV - 5 1997-98 Visiting Fellow, Design Criticism

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