Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Eighth International Conference on the Arts in Society.
Countries represented.
The Eighth International Conference on the Arts in Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Reader, University of Sunderlan, UK
"Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media"
Senior Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada; Associate Adjunct Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Senior Fellow, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest; Member, Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board; Research Fellow, Intercreate.org, New Zealand; Contributing Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
"Hybrid Collaborations: Art, Science & Technology"
Member, CAA Committee on Intellectual Property, New York; Founder and Director, PhD2Published
Author; Arts-Based Researcher
"Arts-Based Research and Technology: New Possibilities for Reaching the Public"
Independent Curator; Lecturer, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
"The Media Lab Highway / Multiple Effects of Media Labs"
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2013 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Oxford, UK
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
State University of New York, US
University of Liverpool, UK
University of Technology, UK
Curtin University, Australia
New York University, US
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Flagstaff Cultural Partners, US