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April 22–24, 2004 Location: Nevada Museum of Art 160 West Liberty Street Reno, Nevada |
Conference Presenters and Topics: Jon Azua Mendia – "Guggenheim Bilbao: Competitive Strategies for the New Culture-Economy Spaces” Jon Azua is Chairman of Enovatinglab, a Bilbao think-tank organization, focused on strategy, competitiveness and regional development. He has served for the Basque Government as Deputy Prime Minister (1991–95), Minister of Industry and Energy (1991–95), Minister Secretary of Presidency (1987–89), and Minister of Health & Labor (1985–87). He is a former member of the Basque Parliament and former CEO of the Bilbao Stock Exchange. He was a recipient of the Eisenhower Fellowship in 1998. He is on the Board of Directors of various companies, and senior advisor to Bearingpoint as well as various cities, governments and corporations. Azua is the author of numerous scholarly publications. He has been a visiting professor for strategy, business and government and industrial policy at several universities, including Monterrey Technical Institute, Deusto University, and Harvard. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation since 1997. His last two published books are Alianzas Competitivas para la nueva economia: Empresas-Gobiernos-Regiones Innovadoras (2001) andNetting Competitive Strategies (2002). Manuel Borja-Villel – “On Poetics and Publics” Art historian and critic Manuel J. Borja-Villel was the first director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (1990), and has been directing the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) since 1998. He has organized the collective shows The Limits of the Museum (Tàpies), The City of the People (Tàpies), Campos de fuerza (MACBA) and Antagonismes (MACBA), as well as individual exhibitions on Louise Bourgeois (Tàpies), Marcel Broodthaers (Tàpies), Martha Rosler (MACBA), and Richard Hamilton (MACBA), among others. His main field of interest is the analysis of the public and political dimensions of culture. Norman Bryson – “The Museum and Vagabond Vision” Norman Bryson is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and has been editor of Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press). His recent publications include Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (1990 ) and Gender and Power in Recent Japanese Visual Fields (2003). He is co-author of Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations (1994) and Looking In: The Art of Viewing (2001) with Mieke Bal. He is currently working on two books: The Pathos of Signs and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Since his Vision and Painting (1983), which produced a silent revolution in the so-called New Art History, Norman Bryson has been involved in the rise of interdisciplinarity, the use of critical theory, and the challenge to the canon and its institutional scaffolding. Will Bruder – Artist/Architect [participant] Will Bruder earned a B.F.A. degree in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and is self-trained as an architect. He apprenticed under Paolo Soleri and Gunnar Birkerts and has field experience in carpentry, masonry, and metal work. He was registered as an architect and opened his studio in New River, Arizona in 1974. His 400-plus commissions include the Phoenix Central Library, the Gerald L. Cafesjian Pavilion of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, and the New School for the Arts in Tempe, Arizona. He has received numerous awards including the Record Home award in 1977, 1994, and 1999, the international Benedictus Award for the innovative use of glass in1996, a Rome Prize from the American Academy to study in Rome in 1987, the 2000 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2000 WATS: ON Transdisciplinary Achievement in the Arts Award from Carnegie Mellon University, the 2000 Chrysler Design Award, and 2000 National Design Award finalist from the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Museum. Ery Camara – “The Museum Franchise—An Instrument of Cultural Colonization?” Ery Camara is one of the main specialists in museology in Mexico. He has been vice-director of the National Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of Popular Culture, and the Virreinato National Museum and member of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of the National Council for Culture and the Arts. He has organized many exhibits, both artistic and ethnographic: “El xoloiztcuintle en la historia de México,” “Xichitécatl, Museo de Sitio,” “Tepito, Mito Mágico Albur del Tiempo,” “Danzas y espejos del arco iris,” “Arte contemporáneo senegalés,” y “Ecos de Reflejos.” His publications include “The language that we share,” “Mirando al Xoloitzuintle,” Africa Hoy, Arte Animista, and Senegal, nuestro país, Tradiciones culturales de las etnias. Beatriz Colomina – “Media Architect” Beatriz Colomina teaches in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994) and the editor of Sexuality and Space (1992), both of which won the International Book Award given by the American Institute of Architects. She is co-editor of Dan Graham (2001) and Frank O. Gerhy. The Art of Architecture (2003). Colomina is Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at CASVA—Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts—at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where she is working on a book about the relationships between war and modern architecture. Diane Deming – Curator, Nevada Museum of Art [participant] Diane Deming received a B.A. from the University of California, Davis and has her M.A. and Ph.D. (A.B.D.) in Art History from the University of Delaware. She has lectured in Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Delaware. She is the recipient of an NEA Arts Management Fellowship; served on the State of Nevada Board of Museums and Libraries from 1995–2001, and is on the Board of Viva el Arte Nevada. Selected exhibits curated include Ed and Nancy Kienholz: The Horengracht; From Exploration to Conservation: Picturing the Sierra Nevada; The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection; John LaGatta: Illustrator of the Fashionable Life; Edward Borein: On the Range; Locked in Paradise: Enrique Chagoya; Dennis Oppenheim: Galloping Through the West. Deming has received numerous grants and awards including an Artslink grant 2001: Central and Eastern Europe, and an International Partnership Among Museums Curatorial Exchange Grant with the Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil (2000). Andrea Fraser – “Isn’t This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao)” The work of Andrea Fraser has been identified as Institutional Critique. Since the mid-80s she has produced site-specific performances, videos, installations and publications for museums, foundations, and temporary exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She has taught at the Tyler School of Art, Cooper Union, UCLA, the Staedelschule, and at the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies. Her performance scripts and essays have appeared in Afterimage, Art in America, October, Texte zur Kunst and Social Text. A survey of her work to date appeared at the Kunstverein in Hamburg in the fall of 2003 and her collected writings will be published by MIT Press in late 2004. > To next page |
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