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Shadow and Scale in The KYOPO Project - Julian Stallabrass, Professor, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer. He lectures in modern and contemporary art, including political aspects of the globalised contemporary art world, postwar British art, the history of photography and new media art. He is the author of Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, Verso, London 1996; the co-editor of Ground Control: Technology and Utopia, Black Dog Publishing, London 1997, Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1998, and Locus Solus, a book about the Newcastle-based artist-led curatorial organisation Locus+; Paris Pictured, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002; Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce, Tate Gallery Publishing, London 2003; and Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 2004, republished as Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction in 2006. He also writes art criticism for many publications including Tate, Photoworks, Art Monthly, and the New Statesman. In 2001 he curated an exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Art and Money Online. He curated the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial.

KYOPO Foreword - Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Professor, Brown University, USA

Marie Myung-Ok Lee was born and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, and graduated from Brown University. She is in residence at the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown University, where she also teaches. She is a founder and former board president of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City. She was one of the first recipients of a creative Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea, where she did the research for her novel, Somebody’s Daughter. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Witness, The American Voice, TriQuarterly, Guernica, and has won fellowships from the MacColl Johnson Foundation (one of the largest no-strings-attached arts grants in the U.S.), the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and has receive honorable mention for the O. Henry Awards. Essays and reporting have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and she is a regular contributor to Slate. She won the Richard Margolis Award for social justice reporting and has been a judge for the National Book Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. She has won fellowship residencies to Yaddo and MacDowell.

Picturing The "Global" Family: CYJO's Mixed Blood - David Ferrière, Author & Teacher, France
David Ferrière is an author and teacher in Nantes, France. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence. A lecturer in the fields of intellectual history, he focuses on the history of political thought and the political aspects of contemporary literature. He currently teaches advanced placement classes at Groupe Acadomia Prépa.
David's Essay is found in his book, La Mondialisation, published in French.
David's video on his publication (in French) can be found here.

Mixed Blood Foreword - Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, Internationally known Educator, Professor, USA

Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng has a long and rich background in multicultural and peace education. An internationally known educator, multiracial-identity researcher and sister of President Barack Obama, she has taught at a wide variety of public and private high schools in Honolulu, HI and New York City. Currently, Dr. Soetoro-Ng teaches at the Institute for Teacher Education at the University of Hawaii’s College of Education. In addition to her work at the University, she serves on a number of educational nonprofit boards and facilitates workshops in peace education. She also is the author of the children's book, Ladder to the Moon.

The Integrated Families of Mixed Blood: More “At Home” Than Ever Before - Nik Apostolides, Curator, USA

Nik Apostolides is an arts manager, educator, and independent curator who lives and works in Washington, D.C. He is Associate Director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, where he conceived and curated an inter-disciplinary program series, Portraits After 5, featuring contemporary artists. He teaches at George Washington University, and serves on a number of nonprofit boards like React to Film, which leverages the best documentary filmmaking to promote social responsibility and spark civic engagement in schools and colleges across the country. He is a graduate of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute.

Visualizing the "Mixed Body" in the History of Art - Ashley Bruckbauer, Art History Academic, USA
Ashley Bruckbauer is a PhD student in the Department of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art, particularly works related to the cultural contact between France and Asia during the period. She is especially interested in issues of gender, race, and identity formation, as well as
contemporaneous notions and constructions of Otherness. Her current work examines the themes of liminality and masquerade in French paintings and prints, specifically portraits, created within the context of diplomatic exchange between France, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeast Asia.

KYOPO & Mixed Blood - "Visualizing Global Asias" (from Verge: Studies of Global Asias, Volume 1, No.1, Published by University of Minnesota Press) - Alexandra Chang, Writer, Curator, USA
Alexandra Chang is Associate Professor of Practice at Rutgers University, Newark's Art,Culture and Media Department and Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. Chang is also director of the Virtual Asian American Art Museum and Co-Founding Editor of the journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA), Brill (Leiden). She is the co-founder of the College Art Association’s affiliated society the Diasporic Asian Art Network (DAAN). She is the author of Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie, to the Barnstormers (2008 Timezone 8) and editor of Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art (Duke University Press, 2018).

Substructure - Sean Mooney, Curator, Designer, Educator, USA
Sean Mooney has worked as an educator, designer, curator, museum administrator and visual artist. In 2000 he co-founded SMAK Projects, a New York-based exhibitions consultancy that organizes and produces museum exhibitions worldwide. He is formerly Director of Exhibition Design at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, with responsibility to oversee the planning and implementation of exhibitions in Bilbao, Berlin and other international venues. Sean was previously Assistant Chairman of the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Assistant Gallery Manager at the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has designed, managed or consulted on over 200 exhibitions internationally. In 2010, Sean designed and oversaw the construction and installation of two new museum buildings for the state of Qatar, successfully opening four exhibitions covering 10,000 square meters of galleries, creating the first museum of modern Arabic art in the Middle East. Sean also engaged in developing a new museum building and exhibition programs in the Bering Peninsula of Alaska, bringing exhibitions of ancient and modern Arctic culture to twenty native villages, and fostering cultural sustainability projects throughout the region.