ADVISORY BOARD & SUPPORTERS
International Advisory Board
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| Artist: Bill Allen, from "Transit Series" 2000-2006 |
- Tressa Berman, Executive Director, BorderZone Arts, Inc., San Francisco and Melbourne. Visiting Faculty, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia and San Francisco Art Institute, USA.
- Peter Sellars, Opera Director, World Cultures Program, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- Jennifer Herd, Artist, Curator, and Founding Faculty, Bachelor of Visual Arts in Contemporary Indigenous Arts, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
- Fred Ho, Composer, Writer, Producer. New York, USA.
- Andrew Jacubowicz, Faculty of Humanities, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
- Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
- Fred Myers, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, New York University, USA.
- Tonel (Antonio Eligio), Artist, Art Critic, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Havana, Cuba.
- Gerald McMaster, Curator of Canadian Art, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.
- Darcy Nicholas, Contemporary Maori Artist. General Manager, Porirua City Council, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
- Cima Sedigh, President, Global Education and Health Alliance, Faculty of Education, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- Arthur Sabatini, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Arizona State University, USA.
- Robyn Archer, Performer, Festival Director, Australia.
- Mario Minichiello, Academic Director and Chair, Loughborough University School of Art and Design, UK.
- Bill Cope, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Director, Common Ground.
- Judy Spokes, Policy Officer, Arts Victoria, Australia.
- James Early, Director of Cultural Heritage Policy, Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and Acting-Interim Director, Anacostia Museum Center for African American History, USA.
- Judy Chicago, Artist and Author, New Mexico, USA.
- Mehdi Faridzadeh, President, International Society for Iranian Culture (ISIC), New York and Tehran, Iran.
- Marianne Wagner-Simon, Independent Curator and Producer, Berlin, Germany.
Supporters
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The Department of Art & Public Policy,
Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
The Department of Art & Public Policy, established by the faculty and the Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, is an interdisciplinary initiative that includes faculty and students from the 13 departments of Tisch. The Department embodies the School's recognition that young artists and scholars need an opportunity to incubate their ideas outside of the safe haven of the academy, in a dialectic with real-world problems. The courses offered by the Department investigate the social, ethical and political issues facing contemporary artists and scholars, and examine public policy issues that affect their ability to make and distribute their work. The courses are interdisciplinary and may be team taught and may include a practicum as well as theoretical and historical investigations.
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BorderZone Arts, Inc., San Francisco and Melbourne.
BorderZone Arts is an international community-based arts and cultural organization that facilitates collaborations among historically under-represented and emerging artists and arts organizations. BZA’s programs foster artistic exchanges across international, cultural, geographic and political boundaries through the creation of exhibitions, performances, publications and public programs.
- The Globalism Institute,
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
The Globalism Institute is the public face of a university-wide research strength in globalisation and cultural diversity at RMIT University. The Institute undertakes
engaged research into globalisation, transnationalism, nationalism and cultural diversity. It seeks to understand and critically evaluate current directions of global
change, with an emphasis on the cultural implications of political and economic transformation. The role of the Institute is to initiate and manage research and
community projects involving consortia of academics, researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds. These collaborative projects draw on expertise
from across the university and beyond, in fields such as global politics, international relations, community studies, cross-cultural communication, international
education, international trade, productive diversity, global English and media studies.
Conference Organisers
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Common Ground
