Program

Participants

Tate Modern

Alain Ayers - Educator
Academic Team Leader for Visual Arts in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University
Secretary of the National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE) in the UK
On the Representative Board for ELIA, the European League of the Institutes for the Arts, Amsterdam
Organized the NAFAE annual meetings at Tate Britain

John Baldessari - Artist
Faculty member of California Institute of the Arts and at the University of California, Los Angeles

Aaron Betsky - Curator, writer
Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute
Visiting professor in studio teaching at Columbia University and Rice University
Contributing Editor of Architecture, Metropolitan Home, Blueprint, and ID magazines

Daniel Birnbaum - Art critic, writer, curator
Rector of the Stadelschule Art Academy, Frankfurt am Main
Director of Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt am Main,
Art critic and contributing editor at Artforum magazine

Thierry de Duve - Historian, theorist of contemporary art
Professor at the University of Lille 3: Lille University of Human Sciences and the Arts, France

Guadalupe Echevarria - Curator
Director of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France

Peter Halley - Artist (painter), art critic
Adjunct professor at Yale University
Director of graduate studies in painting/printmaking, Yale University
Publisher of Index magazine

Sheena Wagstaff - Curator
Chief Curator at Tate Modern
Advisory Board of the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh,
Board member of CIMAM (the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art)

Louise Wilson - Artist

Architecture

Vito Acconci - Artist
Started Acconci Studio, a theoretical-design and building workshop

Taymoore Balbaa - Architect

Deborah Berke - Architect
Founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects LLP, New York
Professor, Yale University
Trustee of the National Building Museum; Conway & Pratt; Design Trust for Public Space

Zaha Hadid - Architect
The winner of the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria
The Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and a Commander of the British Empire

Bernard Khoury - Architect
Independent practice with office in Beirut, Bernard Khoury/DW5

Mark Rakatansky - Multimedia designer, writer
Principal of Mark Rakatansky Studio
Teaches design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Charles Renfro - Principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Terence Riley - Curator (architecture), writer
Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Michael Sorkin - Architecture critic and writer
Principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio (design practice) in New York City,
Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York
Contributing editor at Architectural Record and Metropolis

Lebbeus Woods - Architect
Co-founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA)
Editor of RIEA’s book series published by Springer Verlag Wien/New York
Professor of Architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York

Text

Reza Aslan - Author
Doctoral candidate in History of Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Heidi Julavits - Author: fiction, essays and non-fiction
Founding editor of the monthly books and culture magazine, The Believer

Ann Lauterbach - Poet
David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College
Director of the writing program of Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

Eduardo Machado - Author (plays, translations)
Artistic director of INTAR, a Latino theater in New York City
Associate professor in the Theatre Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts

Ben Marcus - Author (fiction)
Associate professor in the Writing Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts

Robert Polito - Poet, biographer, and critic
Director of the Graduate Writing Program at the New School University, New York

Francine Prose - Author (novels, children’s books, reviews and essays)
Contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and Bomb
Writer on art for The Wall Street Journal

Alice Quinn - Poet
Poetry editor at The New Yorker
Executive director of the Poetry Society of America
Adjunct professor in the Writing Division of Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts

Frederic Tuten - Author (novels) critic for art, film, and literature
Founder and previous director of the Graduate Program in Literature and Creative Writing, at the City College of New York, where he is currently Professor Emeritus

Technology

Robbie McClintock - Robbie McClintock
Historian (education / digital technology)
Founded Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT), at Teachers College, Columbia University

Frank Moretti - Historian (education)
Executive Director of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Columbia University
Professor of Communications at Teachers College, Columbia University
Founded the software company Learn Technologies Interactive/Voyager

Heather Schatz - Artist (collaborative couple with Eric Chan: ChanSchatz)
ChanSchatz faculty members in the School of the Arts, Columbia University
live and work in New York City.

John Weber - Curator, educator
Dayton Director of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York
Professor of Liberal Studies and a member of the teaching faculty of Skidmore College, New York

Preparing the Artist

Janet Abrams - Director of the University of Minnesota Design Institute

Bruce Altshuler - Curator, writer
Director of the Program in Museum Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University.

Liam Gillick - Artist, writer
Adjunct faculty, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York

Paul Ramirez Jonas - Artist

Pierre Keller - Artist
Member of the Foundation Board of the Montreux Jazz Festival
Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government
Titular professor at the Federal Institute of Technology (EPF Lausanne)

Ellen Lupton - Writer, curator and graphic designer
Director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore
Curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City
Pursuing Doctorate in Communications Design at the University of Baltimore

Antonia Payne - Curator, writer and researcher
Director of Research at Dartington in Devon, England

Ellen Phelan - Artist (painter)
Previously held positions as Professor of the Practice of Studio Art, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (1995 – 2001)

Ernesto Pujol - Artist
Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute, New York

David A. Ross - Curator and writer (organizer)
Served nearly 20 years as Director at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

President of the Artist Pension Trust
Principal in the consulting group 5IVE.
Boards of the Anaphiel Foundation, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the media arts site Rhizome, American Anti-Slavery Group

Mark Tribe - Artist, curator, educator
Director of Art and Technology at the Columbia University School of the Arts
Founder Rhizome.org
Board member: New Museum of Contemporary Art and ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts)

Image and Object

Jeremy Blake - Artist

William Cordova - Artist

Dara Friedman - Artist

Jon Kessler - Artist
Faculty member, Columbia University's School of the Arts, Division of Visual Arts
Founder of Bozart Int'l: toy and gift company

Ken Lum - Artist, writer, curator
Founding editor of Yishu Journal Of Contemporary Chinese Art.
Head of the MFA program in visual art, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver
Co-curator of the upcoming Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Board member of the Annie Wong Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Arts Initiative, Tokyo; and Centre A: Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver.

Rita McBride - Artist
Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

Jorge Pardo - Artist

Stephen Prina - Artist
Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge

Hani Rashid - Architect
Co-founder of Asymptote, architectural design and research practice, New York
Professor of architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning

Dana Schutz - Artist (painter)

Jeff Speck - Architect, writer
Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts
Director of two NEA leadership initiatives, the Mayors Institute for City Design and Your Town
While at the Endowment, Speck is on a leave of absence from Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., Architects and Town Planners (DPZ), where he was Director of Town Planning.

Jennifer Steinkamp - Artist

Rirkrit Tiravanija - Artist

Richard Wentworth - Artist (sculpture)
Previously taught at Goldsmith's College
Lives and works in London

Performance

Marina Abramovic - Artist (performance)

Tania Bruguera - Artist
Founder/director of Arte de Conducta, hosted by Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana
Faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

RoseLee Goldberg - Art historian, critic, curator, and author
Lectured extensively at The Architectural Association in London, California Institute of the Arts, Yale University, Princeton University and Tate Modern, and taught at New York University since 1987

Tom Kalin - Filmmaker
Associate Professor in Columbia University's School of the Arts, Film division
Founding member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, which received The Brendan Gill Prize (1989) and was included in the 1991 Venice Biennale

Janet Kraynak - Art historian and critic
Previously taught at: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; School of Visual Arts, New York; SUNY Purchase.

Kristin Linklater - Lecturer, writer, and actor
Cofounder of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts
Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Theatre division.

Elizabeth Streb - Choreographer
Recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award, honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from S.U.N.Y. Brockport, and honorary doctorate from Rhode Island College.