The Art of Influencing Change: engage/enquire International Conference
Booking now open:
Broadway, Nottingham Media Centre
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Nottingham Contemporary
...and venues across Nottingham during the British Art Show 7
Book by 10 September for a discount!
e-flyer: http://www.engage.org/conference/10/engage_conf_10.pdf
booking form: http://www.engage.org/conference/10/Conf_10_booking_form.doc
Rapid developments in the 21st century are creating opportunities and challenges for arts and education professionals. We are confronted by environmental issues, developing technology, globalisation and changes to political agendas and policies.
This year’s engage/enquire International Conference will consider how those working in the visual arts and education can be best equipped to influence change now and in the future.
How do artists and arts organisations respond to global and national changes? What are the opportunities and responsibilities for arts educators resulting from these changes?
Can the sector influence political agendas and environmental issues, and does it have a responsibility to influence what is going on in the wider world?
How might the arts, audiences and resources reshape in response to environmental and technological as well as financial changes, and how can the arts be resilient and sustainable?
A lively programme of talks and breakout sessions will take place, and there’ll be plenty of opportunities to catch up with colleagues and see the British Art Show 7.
Speakers and contributors include:
* Sam Bower, Co-Founder and Executive Director of greenmuseum.org on how greenmuseum.org uses new forms of art education, leveraging technology to create an online museum to serve the emerging global environmental art movement
* Ruth Catlow, Co-Founder and Co-Director of furtherfield.org on arts and technology, activism, education and the Zero Dollar Laptop Project- part of furtherfield.org's media art ecologies programme
* Deborah Dean, Visual Arts and Exhibitions Manager, and Rachael Evans, Audience Engagement Officer, from Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and future arts professionals Nottingham’s young ambassadors showcase interpretation material for the British Art Show 7
* Roanne Dods, co-founder, Mission Models Money on artists, people, meaning and money in changing times
* Lisa Edgar, Head of Education at ffotogallery (Cardiff) discusses Vision On - a holistic programme of digital media art, learning and participation, which developed new audiences through creative technology.
* Patrick Fox, Programme Manager of FACT’s Foundation of Creative Arts and Technology) tenantspin and Freehand- two community projects for very different age groups- talks about the influence of Web 2.0 on the Cultural Sector
* Johnny Gailey, Children and Young People's Programme Manager, Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh) and Director of Air Iomlaid – a visual arts project linking children in Skye and Edinburgh using new technology
* Phyllida Hancock, Leadership Facilitator from Contender Charlie on the art of influencing change
* Paula Marie Hildebrandt, curator of Überlebenskunst, a project by the Federal Cultural Foundation and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), which aims to identify alternative approaches and groundbreaking new models towards ecologically sustainable living
* Jonnet Middleton, Artist, on Unitypanda, a Web 2.0 experiment with online and offline communities in ‘peer panda production’ which unites 500 people from different age groups and cultural backgrounds to knit 100 pandas.
* Hannah Rudman, Director of Envirodigital on The Digital Planet: the potential of online spaces for greener, more environmentally sustainable performance, audience engagement and participation
* Shelley Sacks, Reader in Art and Principal Lecturer and Director of the Social Sculpture Research Unit at Oxford Brooks University on Social Sculpture: the connection between inner and outer work in the shaping of a humane and ecologically just society
* Laura Sillars, Programmes Director, FACT, discusses the development of new international education/collaboration programmes.
* Jane Trowell, Educator, PLATFORM, and artist Rebecca Beinart discuss the impacts of PLATFORM's 2009 artist-activist exhibition and season of events, ‘C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture’
For more information and updates, go to http://www.engage.org/conference
Fees
Including evening reception on 3 November, lunches and refreshments on 4 & 5 November
engage personal members £115 (£99*)
engage organisational members £220 (£195*)
Non-members of engage ** £330 (£294*)
engage bursary place*** £55
* Discounted rate for places booked by 10 September 2010
** engage membership starts from £29.50, go to http://www.engage.org/join for more information
***A limited number of bursary places will be available for students, artists and freelancers. Go to http://engage.org/conference/index.aspx#booking for details.
To book: complete the booking form and email it to info@engage.org, fax it to +44(0)20 7739 3688 or post it to engage, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA.
If you would like this information in another format, please call 020 7729 5858 or email info@engage.org.
