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Contributors

Artfutures: Working with Contradictions in Higher Arts Education 

In 2011, the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) was awarded an
Operating Grant through the Cultural Programme of the European Commission.
This grant supported the ongoing activities of ELIA for three years and allowed the
development of a range of new initiatives. Artfutures: Working with Contradictions in Higher Arts Education features a selection of papers – some commissioned, some presented at ELIA conferences – which have been made possible by the European Commission’s grant.

ArtFutures brings together leading arts practitioners, educators and thinkers that are key players in the current cultural paradigm because they are actively creating the future cultural landscape. They come from across 14 countries and a variety of disciplines and their contributions address the most pressing issues in higher arts education from the perspective of those operating within the field.  

Maria Aiolova
The Field of Urbaneering

Dylan Brown and Ron Burnett
Animation and its Future as a Medium

Douglas Coupland
Art Schools, Learning and Modernity
A Visual Essay

Hedy d’Ancona
Afterword

Shady El Noshokaty
ArtFutures
Voices

Terike Haapoja
At Least We Now Hear Them Talking
Art and the animal other in the era of neoliberal dogma

Evert Hoogendoorn and Willem-Jan Renger
How Would a Game Solve It?

Jiang Jun
‘Beaux-Bau’ and Beyond
On Chinese Modern Art/Architecture Education

Mantautas Krukauskas and Hugh Ward-Perkins
Sound Art, Inter-disciplinary Involvement and Community Spaces
From SACS to IICS

Frédéric Martel
Arts and Education in a Time of Digital Mutation

Yoko Ono
ArtFutures
Voices

Hito Steyerl
ArtFutures
Voices

Mike van Graan
Trading Places

Christoph Weckerle and Simon Grand
The Future of the Cultural and Creative Industries will be Designed by its Actors

Peter Weibel
When Science and Art Meet

Jin Xing
ArtFutures: Voices

Video Recordings

Artfutures: Working with Contradictions in Higher Arts Education 

Full recordings of selected content from the publication can be viewed below. Additional content will be added shortly.

12th ELIA Biennial Vienna 2012: Maria Aiolova "The Field of Urbaneering" from ELIA on Vimeo.

 

12th ELIA Biennial Vienna 2012: Shady El Noshokaty "The Foundation of Media/Art/Culture/Education in Contemporary Egypt" from ELIA on Vimeo.
 

12th ELIA Biennial Vienna 2012: Hito Steyerl "What Does Art Know" from ELIA on Vimeo.
 

12th ELIA Biennial Vienna 2012: Peter Weibel "The Other Knowledge: Towards a Renaissance 2.0" from ELIA on Vimeo.

Maria Aiolova

Maria Aiolova is an educator, architect and urban designer based in New York City. Her work focuses on the theory, science and application of ecological design. She is the founding Co-President of Terreform ONE and a Partner at Planetary ONE.

Aiolova chairs the ONE Lab NY School for Design and Science and the One Prize Design and Science Award. Prior to this, Maria was faculty at Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design and Parsons the New School for Design. She has also taught at the University of Toronto, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Boston Architectural Center and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Columbia University, Cornell University, City University of New York (CUNY), Washington University, Cooper Union and Rhode Island School of Design.

In 2011, Maria was awarded the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award, sponsored by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has won a number of competitions, including first place in the CHARLES/MGH  Station, Boston, and the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey. Maria also won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award.

Dylan Brown and Ron Burnett

Dylan Brown joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1995 to work on image compression and colour mapping for the Toy Story Animated Story Book and the Toy Story Activity Centre CD-ROM. He then moved into the animation department, where he worked on Flick and as an animator on A Bug's Life. Brown’s role expanded to Directing Animator on Toy Story 2 where he provided team leadership and support while primarily animating Buzz Lightyear. Following this, he oversaw all of the animation in Finding Nemo and, later, Ratatouille, as supervising animator with teams of over 50 people. His ability to bring characters to life and to deliver on the vision of directors such as Andrew Stanton and Brad Bird is virtually unparalleled. He has animated many other classic Pixar characters, including Sully and Boo from Monsters, Inc., Bob Parr from The Incredibles and characters from the short films, Presto and Partly Cloudy. From 2009 to 2013, Dylan was Creative Director for Pixar Canada.

Ron Burnett, PhD, CM (Order of Canada) RCA, is President and Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. In 2002, he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and in 2012 the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2010, he received the ‘Chevalier de l’ordre des Art et des Lettres’, a knighthood from the French Government. In 2013, Burnett received the Order of Canada. He is on the board of BCNet, The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), The Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) and the Learning Development Institute, and former Chair of the Knowledge Network. He is also former Director of the Graduate Programme in Communications at McGill University, Designer at the New Media Innovation Centre, author of 150 articles and book chapters, Educator of the Year in Canada and recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award from the International Digital Media Arts Association. He was the editor-in-chief and founder of Ciné-Tracts, a film and cultural studies journal that was among the first to appear in Canada. Burnett has published three books, Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, Explorations in Film Theory and How Images Think. He is a photographer, videomaker and filmmaker and was one of the first people in Canada to receive a Masters degree for a film production

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a 21st century Renaissance man, an artist, designer, writer, speaker and thinker extraordinaire. Coupland combines the rare qualities of profound cultural insight with futurist thinking about everything from popular notions of technology and its impact, through to the role of theorists, like  McLuhan, for whom technology is both liberating and a profound constraint on the future. Coupland is as comfortable with fiction as he is with examining the cultural phenomena and artefacts that surround everyday life. His various works bridge the differences between language, expression and artefact. He creates public art, while also commenting on the future of technology and the very notion of what a public is. His sculptures, paintings, stories and books together constitute an encyclopaedia of contemporary thought and creative practices. He is at the heart of Vancouver’s vibrant and innovative cultural scene.

Hedy d'Ancona

Hedy d’Ancona was Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Employment in the Netherlands for issues concerning women’s liberation between 1981 and 1982 and Minister of Health, Welfare and Culture between 1989 and 1994. She also served in the European Parliament and in the first chamber of the Dutch Parliament, for the Labour Party. Outside of government, she is known for starting the feminist monthly, Opzij, as well as the special interest lobbying group, Man-Vrouw-Maatschappij [Man-Woman-Society], which she co-founded with Joke Kool-Smit. In 1992, D’Ancona was awarded the Harriet Freezerring, a women’s liberation prize, by Opzij. In 1994, she was named a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2002, she won the Aletta Jacobsprijs, a women’s emancipation prize awarded every two years by the University of Groningen. She has been, and remains, a board member of various Dutch cultural institutions, including the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Dutch Federation of Cultural Industries.

Shady El Noshokaty

Shady El Noshokaty is a contemporary Egyptian visual artist whose projects have been featured in the biggest museums and exhibitions around the world. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo. Over the past decade, El Noshokaty has also played an undeniable role in the field of art education in Egypt. At the 2011 Venice Biennale, he was executive curator for Ahmed Basiony’s art project, 30 Days of Running in the Place, in the Egyptian pavilion. In 2010, he established ASCII, a foundation for contemporary art education, which aims to educate and develop young thinkers in new and alternative media practices.

Terike Haapoja

Terike Haapoja is a visual artist, living and working in Helsinki. Her work consists of installations and collaborative projects, characterised by the use of new media and new technology. In her projects, Haapoja investigates our relationship to the non-human world from scientific, existential and political viewpoints. Her projects are mostly large-scale and built around thematic framing, often including collaborations with professionals from other fields of study. Haapoja’s work has been shown widely in solo and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally. Haapoja represented Finland at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She is currently working on a practice-based PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki.

Evert Hoogendoorn and Willem-Jan Renger

Evert Hoogendoorn has worked at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht since 1999. Initially a lecturer in storytelling, he became Dean of the School for Design for Virtual Theatre and Games in 2002. He is Programme Leader of New Literacy at HKU Centre of Expertise in Arts Education and Senior Lecturer of Arts Education in the Master of Education in Arts. Hoogendoorn is the designer of abcdeSIM and a strategist and game designer at IJsfontein games company. In 2013, he was awarded the Smarter learning E-learning award.

Willem-Jan Renger has worked at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht since 1997.
Initially a curriculum developer, he became Dean of the European Media Masters of Arts programme and vice-chair of the Faculty Board from 2006. Renger is head of StudioLab, an applied research and design lab, part of the Games and Interaction department at HKU. StudioLab focuses on research and design, applying game design principles in contexts broader than entertainment, such as education and cultural heritage, government and citizenship, and healthcare, wellbeing and sports. Renger is a didactic expert and winner of the Dutch Award for the Best Idea for Teachers, 2010.

Jiang Jun

Jiang Jun is a research architect, archive editor and freelance writer. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine (2005–2010), which featured articles with such titles as ‘We Make Cities’, ‘Made in China’, ‘Socialist New Village’, ‘Chinese Family’, ‘Chinatown’, ‘Collective Movement’, etc. Jiang Jun has served as a project director at Strelka School of Architecture, Design and Media in Moscow (2010–2011), a visiting fellow at the ESRC Centre on Migration Policy and Society of Oxford University (2011–2012) and an associate professor at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He is the founder of Underline Office.

Jiang has been working on urban research and experimental study, exploring the inter-relationship between design phenomena and urban dynamics with fieldtrips in more than 200 Chinese cities and around 50 countries. His work has been presented in exhibitions such as Get It Louder (2005, 2007), Guangzhou Triennale (2005), Shenzhen Biennale (2005, 2007, 2011), China Contemporary (2006) and Documenta 12 (2007).

He acted as the curator of the international exhibition The Street Belongs to…All of Us! in China (2008). He has been invited to lecture in universities such as The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard University, University College London, Tokyo University, Seoul University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Toronto and the University of Sao Paulo. Since 2009, Urban China Magazine has been exhibited in three museums in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago as the first Chinese magazine being exhibited overseas in solo exhibitions. Jiang is working as curator of the Chinese Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014.

Mantautas Krukauskas and Hugh Ward-Perkins

Mantautas Krukauskas has Masters degrees in piano and composition and is currently teaching electronic and computer music and sound art disciplines in the Department of Composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2012, he has been head of the composition study programme committee. His compositions – including chamber music, audio-visual works and music for theatre productions – have been performed in Lithuania, Austria, Germany, the US and other countries. As a composer, Krukauskas has been the winner of two international competitions, both of which took place in Austria. He has been actively involved in various organisational activities, including project coordination and event organising, as well as international research and education programmes. His interests embrace creativity, inter-disciplinarity, music and media technologies and a synergy of different aesthetic and cultural approaches.

Hugh Ward-Perkins was born in Rome, graduated in medieval history and Italian literature at the University of Oxford and obtained diplomas in organ and harpsichord at the conservatoires of Bolzano and Ferrara respectively. He has performed (mainly as a harpsichordist in early music ensembles) and undertaken research in the field of Renaissance and Baroque music. For many years, he has taught the history of music and been responsible for Erasmus activities at the Conservatoire of Verona. In 2008, he was elected director of this institution, a post he will hold until October 2014.

Frédéric Martel

Frédéric Martel, a senior researcher and journalist, has a PhD in Sociology and four Masters degrees in law, political science, philosophy and sociology. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and teaches at Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of eight books, including On Culture in America (2006) and the best-seller, Mainstream (2010), which was translated in 20 countries. As a journalist, Martel is the anchor of the weekly radio programme, Soft Power, on French National Public Radio (France Culture/Radio France) in addition to acting as the editor of the book review site, nonfiction.fr. Martel is also a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations (IRIS) in Paris.

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music, which prefigured New Wave music, and she is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programmes.

Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl has produced a variety of works as a filmmaker in the field of essayist documentary video. Her principal topics of interest are media and the global circulation of images. In 2004, she participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. She also exhibited in Documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007, the Shanghai Biennale in 2008, the Gwangju Biennale and the Taipeh Biennial both in 2010 and was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe. She works at the Berlin University of the Arts as Professor for New Media Art.

Mike van Graan

Mike van Graan is Executive Director of the African Arts Institute (AFAI), a South African NGO based in Cape Town, the two-fold mission of which is to help develop leadership for the African creative sector and build regional markets for African artists and their creative works. He also served as the Secretary General of Arterial Network, a pan-African network of artists, cultural activists, creative enterprises and others engaged in the African creative sector and its contribution to human rights, democracy and development on the African continent. After South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, he was appointed as a Special Adviser to the first minister responsible for arts and culture, and played an influential role in shaping post-apartheid cultural policies. In 2011, he was appointed by UNESCO as a Technical Adviser to assist governments in the global south in developing cultural policies aligned to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. He was appointed as Artscape’s Associate Playwright and is considered one of South Africa’s leading contemporary playwrights, having garnered numerous nominations and awards for his plays interrogating the condition of post-apartheid South Africa. At the 2012 National Arts Festival, he received the Standing Ovation award for his sustained contribution to the festival as a writer and activist.

Christoph Weckerle and Simon Grand

Christoph Weckerle, head of the Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts has been researching and publishing on the cultural and creative industries for many
years.

Simon Grand is a Strategy Designer, Knowledge Entrepreneur and Management Researcher, Academic Director of the RISE Management Innovation Lab at the University of St. Gallen and Research Fellow at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Peter Weibel

Peter Weibel follows his artistic aims using a wide variety of materials, methods and media, including text, sculpture, installation, film and video. In the mid 1980s, he explored the possibilities of computer-aided video processing. In the early 1990s, he created interactive, computer-based installations, again addressing the relationship between media and the construction of reality. In his books, lectures and articles, Weibel comments on contemporary art, media history and theory, film, video art and philosophy. As a theoretician and curator, he advocates a form of art and art history that includes a history of technology and a history of science. In his function as a Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Director of institutions such as Ars Electronica, The Institute for New Media and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, he influences the European scene of media art through conferences, exhibitions and publications.

Jin Xing

Jin Xing, as an artist and opinion-former in today’s Chinese society, is a true icon. Trained as a dancer and being a highly decorated officer in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at an early age, Jin Xing pursued further studies in the US and Europe for several years before returning to her home country in 1995. She founded Jin Xing Dance Theatre, the country’s first independent dance company, and led it to international acclaim. In addition to her prestigious dance career, Jin demonstrated her versatile talent in films and theatre plays. Her achievements in the cultural field have received manifold recognition, including an honorary doctorate in the UK and the French Government’s ‘Chevalier de l’ordre des Art et des Lettres’ to name but two. Since 2012, Jin Xing has commanded a highly influential public voice through her television presence, not least as host of her own talk show and through her fan base which reaches nearly a million followers in the Chinese blogosphere. Jin Xing not only represents a new generation in China; her name has become a synonym for courage, freedom, self-responsibility and the endless power of a creative spirit.