Mr. YEUNG Wai Fung (楊懷俸) Mr Yeung is a retired school art teacher and art administrator. He has worked for more than 35 years in the areas of art teaching, school inspection, teacher training, curriculum development, art assessment and examination and art education administration.
Dr. WONG Kwok Choi, Kacey (黃國才) Academic Committee Member, Hong Kong Art School Wong Kwok Choi, Kacey’s experimental art projects investigate the poetics of space between men and their living environment. Kacey was born in Hong Kong in 1970. He was the winner of Best Artist Award (2010) and Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award (2003) presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Kacey studied architecture in Cornell University, received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Chelsea School of Art,…
Mr. PAK Tak Wan, Christopher (白得雲) Head of Academic Studies in Music, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Pak Tak Wan, Christopher is currently Head of Academic Studies in Music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Chairman of the Teaching and Learning Committee of the School of Music. He had been appointed as guest lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and member of the Committee on Arts…
Prof. Frank VIGNERON (韋一空) Head, Graduate Division of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Director, M.A. Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Frank Vigneron received a PhD in Chinese Art History from the Paris VII University, a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Paris IV Sorbonne University and a Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He joined the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, teaching courses on the history of Western art, the…
Mr. Fumio NANJO (南條史生) Art Education International Director, Hong Kong Art School Fumio Nanjo has been the Director of the Mori Art Museum, Japan, since 2006. He has been an art critic, a lecturer at the Art Centre of the Keio University for a substantial period of time, as well as a curator. Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1949, Nanjo received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Aesthetics in 1976 from Keio University. In his long career associated with art and culture,…
Prof. Gunalan NADARAJAN Dean, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design Professor, University of Michigan Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science and technology, is Dean and Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His publications include Ambulations (2000), Construction Site (edited; 2004) and Contemporary Art in Singapore (co-authored; 2007), Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and Migration of Knowledge (co-edited; 2009), The Handbook of Visual Culture (co-edited; 2012) and…
Dr. Roger MCDONALD Deputy Director and Founding Member of Arts Initiative Tokyo Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) is a non-profit arts organisation established in Tokyo in 2001 for a general public to come together and learn about art. Dr. McDonald is one of its founding members, and the Programme Director of Making Art Different (MAD), the educational component of AIT. Based in Nagano, Dr. McDonald has worked as an independent curator since 1989 (working with Fumio Nanjo on several exhibitions), and is the Director of the Fenberger House that opened…
Dr. MA Kwai Shun (馬桂順) Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Education Museum Honorary Adviser of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department Ma Kwai Shun graduated with a B.A. and an M.Phil. in Fine Arts in 1976 and 1991 respectively from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a D.F.A. (Doctor of Fine Arts) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in 2002. He was Senior Lecturer in the Grantham College of Education/Hong Kong…
Mr. KOK Heng Leun (郭慶亮) Artistic Director, Drama Box Kok Heng Leun is the Artistic Director of Singaporean theatre company Drama Box, and a prominent figure in both the English and Chinese-language theatres in Singapore. Thus far, he has directed over 80 plays, including Kuo Pao Kun’s Spirit Play, Forum Theatre Trick or Threat!, HERstory (Singapore Arts Festival 2011), Drift (Singapore Season 2008), and It Won’t Be Too Long (Singapore International Arts Festival, 2015) Heng Leun strongly believes in engaging the community in his works to promote critical dialogues about the…