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Download the Final Program Monday 08:00-09:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPEN 09:00-09:30 CONFERENCE OPENING - Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Publishing, USA 09:30-10:05 PLENARY SESSION - Sarah Cook, Writer, co-editor of CRUMB, and Reader at the University of Sunderland, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK "Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media" 10:05-10:40 PLENARY SESSION - Patricia Leavy, Author and Arts-Based Researcher, USA "Arts-Based Research and Technology: New Possibilities for Reaching the Public" 10:40-11:15 GARDEN SESSION & COFFEE BREAK - Featuring Sarah Cook and Patricia Leavy 11:25-12:10 TALKING CIRCLES (Themes Listed Below) Room 1: Arts Education Room 2: Arts Theory and History Room 3: New Media, Technology and the Arts Room 4: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts 12:10-13:10 LUNCH 1 (Monday) 13:20-15:00 YOURS, MINE, AND OURS: PUBLIC ART Room 1 An Analysis of "Signs of Imperfection" Exhibition at the Istanbul Design Biennial Halime Fisenk, Baskent University, Turkey The graphic solutions of "Imperfect Signs" at the İstanbul Design Biennial exhibition will be analyzed in terms of cultural aspects. Living the Pseudo-event: Tourism and Economic Development of Place Anna Gogh, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK This proposal regards places that are transformed into forms of spatial art in the sense that they are designed to evocate a heightened sense of locality, culture and identity. Taking It to the Streets: Finding Funds for Neighborhood Sponsored Public Art Geraldine Macsai, City of Evanston, Illinois, United States — Lyn Delliquadri, United States When residents were presented with a framework that could bring Public Art into their own neighborhoods, they identified five locations and became proud owners of their art projects. A Visual Renegotiation of Urban Space: Utilising New Media to Gain an Understanding of a Virtual Landscape Dr. Jennifer Kamp, Victoria University, Australia My presentation describes my experience of the impact of technological change on the urban landscape. Through my art practice, I research new media to explore and visualize new spaces. EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION: CHANGING VIEWS Room 2 Artscience: Venturing beyond the Two Cultures Paradigm Prof. Marta del Pozo Ortea, New York University, United States This presentation will therefore introduce Artscience to the audience and also some of its most interesting practitioners. Technology, the Participant, and the Passer-by: Being Convival and its Relationship to Forming Opinion Mel Jordan, Loughborough, Antoinette Burchill, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, Derby, UK What is the process of converting a digital ‘passer-by’ into a potential member of the ‘public’? Is this a series of strategies and opportunities and a range of technologies? 2 (Continued - Monday, 13:20-15:00) Multidimensional Learning: Education in a World that is not Flat Prof. Leslie Tamarra Yarmo, Salisbury University, United States Given our multidimensional world, a new method of learning uses the iPad in tandem with multisensory, onsite performance to examine students’ perceptions and expand their minds and imaginations. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Room 3 Banned to Beloved: Retrospective of Harold Stevenson, American Contemporary Artist Dian Jordan-Werhane, Texas Woman's University, United States In 1962, The New Adam by Harold Stevenson was a male nude deemed “distracting”. A proffered gallery invitation was withdrawn. Fifty years hence, it is among the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. Bourdieu and the Beach Boys: Educating the Artistic Eye Prof. Michael Grenfell, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland This paper uses the work of the ideas of philosopher Bourdieu to investigate the way art is presented within a national gallery context in the aesthetic education of students. Pathways from Aesthetic Experience to Personal Meanings of Pieces of Music Dennis Foster, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, Australia Music’s meaning and musical meaning-making processes remain vibrant areas of scholarly discussion. A recent qualitative inquiry highlights embodied responses as the foundations of aesthetic experiences and personal meanings of music. A Study about the Extraordinary Adventures of Abdulcanbaz Dr. Tolga Erkan, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey Turhan Selçuk created Abdulcanbaz. His adventures are beyond time and place. The core of the stories is always based on fighting against injustice, protecting people’s rights, uncovering tricks of exploiters. ART AS CHANGE AGENT Room 4 Activism by Design: A Case Study of the Activist Book as Sellable Artwork in Contemporary Micropublishing Dan Christie, The Rag and Bone Man Press, Australia This paper is a reflection on the relationship between activism, graphic design, readership and the book market in a successful case study of contemporary micropubishing. 3 (Continued - Monday, 13:20-15:00) Collaboration for the Improvement of Tolerance: Artistic Practice in a Societal Context Ulrika Florin, Mälardalen University, Sweden — Prof. Inger Orre, Malardalen University, Sweden — Prof. Yvonne Eriksson, The purpose of this study is to look into artists’ ability to reflect on and mediate perspectives and messages in a collaborative process. Cultural Policy and the Australian Suburb Penelope Stannard, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia This discusses the evolution of cultural policy direction in Australia’s suburbs and tensions, ambiguities and contradictions emerging when physical and imagined dimensions of suburbia intersect with the cultural policy discussion. A Window to Discover: A Socially Engaged Art Project on Social Isolation Dr. Pierre Leichner, Canada — Eve Lagarde, EPSM, Lille Metropole, France — Christelle Lemaire, EPSM, Lille, France A sculpture/installation was created by artists, mental health consumers and professionals to explore the theme of social isolation in the community in the course of 3 month artist residency. THE APPRENTICE ARTIST Room 5 Visual Literacy Plus Reading Strategies Equals Multi-literacy? Georina Westradt, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa Pre-service students who are registered for module Art Education are assisted through the implementation of metacognitive strategies to improve their visual literacy in an art appreciation assignment. Education Composers in and for the Community: The Development of Artistic Connections between Conservatory Music Students and Primary School Children Anne-Marie O'Farrell, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Ireland — Dr. Lorraine OConnell, DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama, Ireland This paper reports on a project in which conservatory students lead children's composition workshops and compose works appropriate for children, promoting the connection between composers’ artistry and community contexts. Mixed-Media Arts for Children: Open-scores and the Development of Creative Contexts within the Educational Process Sapfo Pantzaki, University of Exeter, Sociology and Philosophy Department, United Kingdom Open-scores and mixed-media arts as explored and developed during the 1950s offer stimulus for the examination of and experimentation with various issues concerning the educational process and artistic creation 4 (Continued - Monday, 13:20-15:00) Transforming Learning Outcomes into Learning Foci Dr So-lan Wong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China This research project focused on how student-teachers differentiated learning outcomes and learning foci and what challenges they faced in teaching art making. GENDER ISSUES IN ART Room 6 Aesthetic Transformation and the Independent Lives of Artworks Dr. Frances Alter, University of New England, Australia Iconic consciousness theory and the field of new sociology in art will be discussed. The Body Politic: Visuality and the Fabrication of Identity Ken Hassell, Elon University, United States The body and identity are inextricably intertwined in Western modernism. This presentation examines the visuality of the female body and fashion as ideological sites of both colonialism and liberation. Female Authorship and the Authenticity of the Feminine Voice as Exemplified by Bibliotheque Pascal Katalin Kis, Central European University, Hungary I will focus on the ambiguous vision of de-authenticating the feminine author as speaking the truth, offered by a contemporary Hungarian movie that features a female prostitute character. Queering the Point: Shame and Representation in Mainstream Media Caryn Brissey, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States Examining the relationship of pride and shame within queer individuals and culture, this provides a platform for discussion pertaining to inappropriate queer representation in mainstream media. HISTORY AND ART Room 7 The Innovation of the Traditional Chinese Art of Paper Cutting Yu Chun Huang, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom — Briony Thomas, The university of Leeds, United Kingdom Paper cutting is a recognizable folk art in Chinese society, reflecting the meaning of life through symbolic imagery. The thesis explores stories behind the design, including customs and aesthetic demand. 5 (Continued - Monday, 13:20-15:00) Opera as Activism: Social Justice and African American Opera Singers in the White House Dr. Maurice B. Wheeler, University of North Texas, United States Using the White House’s history as musical venue, this presentation chronicles the political, cultural and social issues that affected American society from the Civil War to
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