Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut
Diasporic Doubles and Double Sightings: René Magritte and the Filipino Security Guards at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A two-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, and a Faculty Learning Community Participant through the NEH Humanities Initiative Grant, Baluyut is co-editor of Confrontations, Crossings, and Convergence: Photographs of the Philippines and the United States, 1898-1998 and author of Institutions and Icons of Patronage: Arts and Culture in the Philippines during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986. She served as Arts Advisor at the National Museum of the Philippines, Project Manager/Curator of the Philippines at the Venice Biennale through a Department of Foreign Affairs appointment, and Chair of the College Art Association International Committee. Baluyut has taught art history, critical theory, and museum studies at ten institutions in the United States, France, and the Philippines, and is currently Assistant Professor of Art History and Coordinator of the Visual Culture Track in the Art Department and Affiliate Faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) Oneonta.
Sara Gevurtz
Endangered Species, Endangered Environment, Endangered Response?
Sara Gevurtz is an Assistant Professor of Animation at Auburn University. Gevurtz graduated from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Media Art. She received her bachelor’s degree in Evolution, Behavior and Ecology Biology from the University of California, San Diego. During her time at UC San Diego, she also minored in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts and Studio Art. Due to her interdisciplinary background, her artistic research focuses on ecological and environmental issues. Gevurtz has been published nationally and internationally. She works collaboratively to develop a project using a rig and camera, with the goal to create a series of photographs that are both data and art. This project has been presented at both nationally and internationally, including at ISEA2017 in Manizales, Columbia, Balance Unbalance 2017 in Plymouth UK, and ISEA2018 in Durban, South Africa.
Haeun
Haeun is a mixed-media artist based in Seoul. She is interested in topics of human rights of minorities, and self-love.
Louise Liwanag
Graffiti for Growth: Street Art and Singapore’s Economy of Spectacle
Louise Liwanag obtained her B.A. in History of Art with Material Studies at University College London and M.Sc. in Local Economic Development at London School of Economics and Political Science. Through work experience in the public and nonprofit arts sphere, she developed research interests in how the creative industries and cultural economy shape and are shaped by social and economic development policy, as well as visual culture.
Carlos Torres Machado
Data Centers: the thin line between art, tech, and money
Carlos Torres Machado is a visual artist and a cultural leader from Latin America working and living in New York. He received his BA in Contemporary Arts and Communication, with minors in Photography and Psychology, from Universidad de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador. He is an artist who develops critical and documentary processes on his various bodies of work. He inhabits the extremes of rigorous geometry and lyrical abstraction. At both ends, his notion of the art market, society, and public participation are present. His work has been recently exhibited at The Clemente, Microsoft, MetLife, The Harlem School of Arts, The Versace Mansion, Museo El Cuartel, Museo de Arte Moderno, and Bienal Nómade. Torres Machado is the founder and director of ArteLatAm, an arts organization dedicated to the support LatinX artists.
Santiago Robles
We all cook, we all eat. Collaborative art projects from Mexico City.
Master in Visual Arts from the College of Arts and Design of UNAM. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, UABJO-La Curtiduría Cultural Center. He has received various awards such as the Jury Prize in the category of Posters of Cultural Themes of the 11th International Poster Biennial in Mexico (2010); the Unique Prize in the category of Artist Book at the 1st University Biennial of Art and Design of UNAM (2014); as well as an honorable mention in the 1st Biennial of the Volcanoes of the Noval Foundation in the graphics category (2015) and in the XXIII Catalog of Illustrators of Children’s and Youth Publications of Conaculta. Among his most recent exhibitions are: Zapata alive through contemporary graphics (Museo Nacional de la Estampa, 2019); In the shade of the tree (Casa del Virrey de Mendoza, 2019-2020); Santiago Robles (Cerrada del arte, 2019); Camp for young naturalists (Museum of the City of Querétaro, 2019-2020) and Mondo Dernier Cri. Une internationale Sérigrafike (Musée International des Arts Modestes, 2020-2021). His work is represented by Diderot Art and Saisho Art.
Matthew Sansom
Participation, awareness and the mediated self
Matthew Sansom is an artist working across a variety of media and contexts including sound, video, sculpture, installation, performance and musical composition. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including the National Theatre of Prague, Victoria & Albert Museum, ICA (London), CCA (Glasgow), t-u-b-e galerie (Munich), Korean Institute of Culture, Ely Cathedral (UK). Commissions have included sound-based works for Liverpool City Council, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Four Seasons Hotel, Shanghai. He holds a doctorate in musicology/music psychology. After teaching at the Universities of Newcastle and Surrey, UK, he is now Professor of Music at Sunway University, KL, Malaysia.
Patrick Scorese + Zach Trebino
Patrick Scorese is a writer, historiographer, and performance-based artist working in New York City. Zach Trebino, based in LA by way of Philadelphia, populates the world with absurdly grotesque performances and texts. Together, they create performances that emerge from the madhouse of their minds with the hope of rousing witnesses from the nightmare of history.
Catalin Soreanu & Lavinia German
Teaching as artistic (contextual) practice
Catalin Soreanu (b.1976) lives, teaches, and practices visual art in Iasi, Romania. He studied graphics arts the “George Enescu” National Art University in Iasi, Romania, with a Ph.D in Visual Arts on the topic of “Arts and Advertising – Mediums of Expression in Contemporary Advertising”. He is currently teaching visual image and multimedia classes at the Foto-Video department of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, within “George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iasi (UNAGE), where he also acts as deputy-editor of the publication “Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal”. Catalin is a founding member of the Center for Contemporary Photography in Iasi, Romania, which organizes the “CAMERA PLUS – biennial of contemporary photography and dynamic image”. His artistic approach investigates the contemporary mediums of artistic expression of photography, moving image or performance art, and his interest resides in using the internal mechanics of the processes of artistic communication as conceptual structures, in order to create relations between the meaning and the content. He exhibits photography, graphics, and video at events in Romania, Spain, USA, and Korea.
Lavinia German (b. 1983) is a visual artist from Romania (Europe). Her practice focuses on the medium of photography and film. Her artistic interests are the research of visual strategies of photographic practices and contemporary forms of the photographic image as means of communication and its installative nature. In the past she presented her work in local and national art galleries, like WASP-Working Art Space and Production (Bucharest), Aparte Gallery (Iasi) or Calina Gallery (Timisoara). In the past decade, Lavinia German teaches artistic photography, visual communication and experimental film in the Photography & Video department of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, within the ”George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iasi (UNAGE). She is founding member of the Center for Contemporary Photography in Iasi, Romania.