{"id":161,"date":"2007-10-18T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.diffusion.org.uk\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-09-19T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:02:44","slug":"author-biogs-case-study-residencies-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Author Biogs: Case Study Residencies 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bev Carter<\/strong> has been\u00a0developing an arts and communication project with students in Umologho village, Nigeria since December 2006. “I’m excited that\u00a0there are\u00a0many\u00a0ways that the eBook can be used explore how people feel about and interpret the environment around them, using pictures and words. I like the idea that thoughts, on the run, can be captured.” Bev is finding ways to\u00a0share this information between young people in\u00a0Nigeria and England. Contact bevalittlesomething@hotmail.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Goodwin<\/strong> is a writer, curator and urban researcher. He is director of the Re-Visioning Black Urbanism<\/a> Project based the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London. The project explores new modes of inhabiting, imagining and making cities from progressive black and culturally diverse perspectives by organising exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars and publications. Paul is also a creative consultant for IniVA<\/a>‘s (Institute for International Visual Arts) Mapping Project and a member of the Franco-British Council for whom he co-organised (with Bonnie Greer) an international symposium on the “Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the UK and France” in November, 2006. Paul is currently in the process of setting up a new strategic urban intervention office and think tank with the architect John Oduroe that will launch in London in 2008.<\/p>\n

Andrew Hunter<\/strong> is the Director\/Curator of RENDER, an interdisciplinary art based research, teaching, production and presentation centre at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Hunter also works as an independent artist, writer, and curator and has produced exhibitions, writings and publications for art galleries and museums across Canada, in the United States and Europe. He was a contributor to the Proboscis project Navigating History. For his Generator Case Study, Hunter will visit London in November of this year to develop a poetic, illustrated guidebook in collaboration with his 11 year old daughter Maggie.<\/p>\n

Michelle Kasprzak <\/strong>is a curator, writer, and artist. Since winning the InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre Emerging Electronic Artist award early in her career, she has exhibited her work throughout North America and Europe, and has been featured in numerous publications and on radio and television broadcasts syndicated worldwide. She completed her MA in Visual and Media Arts from the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al in spring of 2006, and later that year was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) in Finland. She has published essays on art in CV Photo, Spacing, and Mute, and her most recent curatorial project was Otherworldly, a video programme that is currently touring urban screens around the globe. Michelle is currently based in Edinburgh, and is the Programmes Director of New Media Scotland. michelle.kasprzak.ca<\/a>, www.mediascot.org<\/a>, www.curating.info<\/a><\/p>\n

Tony White<\/strong> is a writer. He is the author of novels including Foxy-T<\/em> (Faber and Faber), and the non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans<\/em> (Cadogan). Editor and co-editor of the fiction anthologies Britpulp<\/em> (Sceptre) and Croatian Nights<\/em> (Serpent’s Tail\/VBZ). Tony White has edited and published the artists’ book imprint Piece of Paper Press since 1994 and contributed to numerous magazines and journals \u2013 he is also literary editor of the Idler magazine. Tony is currently working on another novel and undertaking research into creative writing in interdisciplinary and research contexts which is supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.<\/p>\n

As part of the Case Study Residencies, Proboscis ran a writing workshop for 4 teenagers \u2013 Ayalouwa<\/strong>, Georgia<\/strong>, Eloise<\/strong> and Vanda<\/strong> \u2013 over 4 days in July and August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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