Design space 2011 November Residency
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2011/schedule.htm
All Welcome!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT THE BOSTON OMNI PARKER HOUSE HOTEL:
The Trans Cultural Exhange Conference
4:15 – 6:00 pm
Studio as Factory. Ways to Acquire New Skills and Expertise in Exchange for Engaging Others in the Process, Location: Press.
A look at practice-based frameworks for artists and designers who choose to work within industrial and technological communities. How can artists create opportunities for their work within an industrial factory or technological complex? How can artists structure their practice in a way that is conducive to making a contribution to the culture (and/or products) of those industries?
Moderator: Dana Moser, Artist and Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Mike Ogilvie, Arts/Industry Coordinator, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
The Arts/Industry is undoubtedly the most unusual on-going collaboration between art and industry in the United States. Artists-in-residence may work in the Kohler Co. Pottery, Iron and Brass Foundries, and Enamel Shop to develop a wide variety of work in clay, enameled cast iron and brass.
Jane Gavan, Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia; PhD candidate in Design at the University of Technology, Sydney (Thesis: ‘Factory as Studio: Developing a practice-based framework for artists and designers who choose to work within industrial communities).
The Sydney College of the Arts Residency program provides professional artists, scholars and curators access totheir world-class facilities in generous spaces, which overlook Sydney Harbor.
George Fifield, Curator, Director and Founder of Boston Cyberarts Festival.
The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the first and largest collaboration of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual arts, dance, music, electronic literature, web art and public art.
Maggie Stark, Boston-based artist and former artist-in-resident at the Corning Museum of Glass and Haslla Art World Park & Exhibition Center.
