Invited Speakers & Tutors
- Published on Monday, 01 March 2021 10:16
NDS 2021 lecturers and tutors
Dr Lina Michelkevičė (Vilnius Academy of Arts) is art and culture researcher with a background in philology and semiotics. In 2014, she received her PhD from Vilnius Academy of Arts in Art History and Criticism. She is currently a researcher in the Institute of Art Research at Vilnius Academy of Arts. The edited and co-edited publications include: Mapping Lithuanian Photography: Histories and Archives (2007, together with Vytautas Michelkevičius & Agnė Narušytė); Education in, for and through Art (2017); Arts in the State – The State in Arts (2019); Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: Maps in Research, Art and Education (2019, together with Vytautas Michelkevičius). She is the author of the book Būti dalimi. Dalyvavimas ir bendradarbiavimas Lietuvos šiuolaikiniame mene (To Be Part. Participation and Collaboration in Lithuanian Contemporary Art, 2021). Her field of interests includes cultural and social participation, pedagogical tools in art, and new forms of art, communication and research.
Deimantas Narkevičius (Vilnius Academy of Arts) is an artist and Associate Professor at the Sculpture Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Narkevičius started working with film during the early nineties. His films exercise the intricate practice of memory and portray a contemporary society confronted with the painful process of history. The disjunctions between words and images in Narkevičius’s films make manifest the impossibility of an objective documentary. He has recently participated in group exhibitions including The Missing Planet: Visions & Revisions from Soviet Times at the Pecci Museum, Prato (2019), Fake News - Fake Truth at the Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (2019), and When the Present is History, at Depo, Istanbul (2019).
Dr Sarah Owens (Zurich University of the Arts) is an educator, researcher and Professor of Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts. Owens focuses on social and anthropological aspects of the history, production and circulation of visual artefacts. In particular, she is interested in marginalized or hidden epistemologies and practices, in processes of unlearning and decentering knowledge, and in educating for uncertain times. Owens has chaired several academic symposia, most recently the Swiss Design Network Research Summit 2021, and has edited and contributed to several volumes on design research, history and theory.
Dr Ines Weizman (Royal College of Arts, London), architect and theorist, developed the method “Documentary Architecture”, which studies the material history of buildings, media, and technology artefacts. Weizman is head of the PhD Programme at the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, and the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA).
Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas are a duo of spatial practitioners currently based in Vilnius. Through architectural, curatorial and research projects they aim to create new relations between societies and their environment, past and future, by seeking to rearticulate architecture across a wider ecology of practices. They curated the exhibition The Baltic Material Assemblies at AA Gallery and RIBA in London (2018), and were co-curators of The Baltic Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at Venice Biennale (2016), and co-editors of The Baltic Atlas published by Sternberg (2016). Among other projects Daubaraitė and Žukauskas are currently working on Creative Playground and Garden in Vilnius.
Dr Mika Elo (University of the Arts Helsinki) is professor of artistic research and head of the doctoral program in fine arts. His research interests include theory of photographic media, philosophical media theory, and epistemology of artistic research. He is participating in discussions in these areas in the capacity of curator, visual artist and researcher. In 2018–2019 he was leading the Research Pavilion #3 project realised in Venice and Helsinki. In 2012–2013 he co-curated the Finnish exhibition Falling Trees at the Biennale Arte 2013 in Venice. Currently he is the PI of one of the research projects in the consortium Post-digital Epistemologies of the Photographic Image. He has published widely in the areas of artistic research and philosophical media theory. His most recent publications include the book chapter "Photographic Apparatus in the Era of Tagshot Culture" in Routledge Companion to Photography Theory (2020) and the special issue Ecologies of Practice of RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research co-edited with Tero Heikkinen and Henk Slager. He is also a member of the editorial board of RUUKKU (2012– ), tiede&edistys (2010– ) and Journal for Artistic Research (2010–2019).
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius (Vilnius Academy of Arts) is a curator, writer and researcher whose focus was gradually shifting from photography in expanded field to media art & theory and lately to artistic research in academia and beyond. He is teaching art practice & theory BA, MA and DA/PhD students in Vilnius Academy of Arts and served as artistic director of Nida Art Colony (2010-2019). Since 2019 he is the head of Photography and Media Art Department and Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts in the same academy. Since 2016 he is actively working with DA/PhD students, supervising them, running courses, curating expositions and also doing research on “artistic research” (recent books “Mapping Artistic Research. Towards Diagrammatic Knowledge” (2018) and “Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination” (together with Lina Michelkevičė, 2019). He has curated numerous symposiums and exhibitions, among them Lithuanian Pavilion in Venice Biennale (Dainius Liškevičius project “Museum”). He has edited and authored more than 10 books on art, media, artistic research and residencies.
Dr Joanne Morra (University of the Arts London) is a Professor of Art and Culture, co-founder of The Doctoral Platform at CSM, and is Founding Principal Editor of Journal of Visual Culture. She has published widely on contemporary art, autobiography, gender, feminism and psychoanalysis; and has edited many volumes on visual culture and critical theory. Recent publications include: Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art (2018); ‘Being in Analysis: On the Intimate Art of Transference’, Journal of Visual Art Practice (2017); ‘On Use: Art Education and Psychoanalysis’, Journal of Visual Culture (2017). Joanne is involved in a project with Judy Willcocks entitled ‘Creative Practices, Education, and Wellbeing’; and is working on her next book which will deal with contemporary art, women’s memoirs and feminism.
Dr Sofia Pantouvaki (Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki) is a scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University, Finland. She is an awarded practising designer with over 90 design credits for theatre, opera and dance productions in major European venues and curator of international projects including the Finnish Student exhibit (Gold Medal at the Prague Quadrennial 2015). Her work has been exhibited on three continents, including World Stage Design 2017. She is Chair of Critical Costume, Vice-Head for Research of the OISTAT Costume Sub-commission, co-Convenor of the IFTR Scenography Working Group and a founding Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Studies in Costume and Performance. She led the research project “Costume Methodologies” funded by the Academy of Finland (2014-2018) and is lead editor of Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods (2021).