Kunstakademiet i Trondheim
Boston University
TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGE'S CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ARTS: ENGAGING MINDS
October 10–13, 2013
Opening: October 10, 10am
Venue:
Boston University
George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
TransCultural Exchange
516 E. 2nd Street, Suite #30
Boston, MA 02127 USA
Among the speakers are Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas and Regina Möller
Friday, October 11
The Art of Fashion/The Fashion of Art
Moderator: Alicia Kennedy, author “Fashion Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the History, Language, and Practice of Fashion”
Regina Möller, is a Berlin based artist, founding editor of the magazine regina and creator of the label embodiment. She is also Professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, University of Science and Technology (KiT / NTNU), Norway
Carla Fernandez, founder of Taller Flora, a fashion label and mobile design laboratory that travels throughout Mexico
Azra Aksamija, artist, architectural historian, Assistant Professor in MIT's Art, Culture and Technology Program
Raymundo Fraga, Arquetopia Foundation, Mexico
Discussant: Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Saturday October 12
Food as an Art Form
Moderator: Silvia Bottinelli, faculty in the Visual and Critical Studies Department at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lisa Cherkasky, food stylist, Washington D.C.
Cindy Banker, a full time private practician in Five Element Shiatsu, faculty member of the New England School of Acupuncture and scholar of classical Chinese medical texts and Chinese herbal medicine
Chris Muller, cofounder, European Food Service Summit, Europe’s leading conference for international restaurant, supply, and food service executives; Professor and former Dean of Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration
Dirk Drijbooms, Director, Apothiki Foundation, Athens/Paros-Cyclades, Greece
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas are artists and educators. They will discuss the aesthetics of techno-ecologies, radical gardens and cheese making as a response to crisis. Gediminas also is associate professor at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT); Nomeda is a PhD researcher at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology and fellow at ACT, MITFood as an Art Form
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