Professor Srey Bandaul
Visual Artist, Co-founder
Phare Ponleu Selpak (PPSA)
Cambodia

Born in 1973 in Battambang Province, Cambodia, Srey Bandaul studied with the French artist Veronique Decrop from 1987 until 1991 in an art school, which she founded in refugee camp (Site two), Phare is the name of the association and also the school name that she founded at Thai border, the school is not a professional art school but more on therapy and melted students study in the huts and some time under the shadow of trees, The school moved to Battambang in 1994 after the peace agreement in Paris to stop the civil war in Cambodia in the year 1991.

In between year 1991 to 1993 Bandaul works and study at the soldier hospital in Phnom Penh and from 1994 with supported by his teacher Veronique Decrop and his 8 friends who is the formers arts students from Site Two, have found the art association Phare Ponleu Selpak (PPSA) a community-based, visual arts, apply art and performing arts school that provides educational and social support based in Battambang Cambodia with the mission to providing the good quality of arts vocational training, community contribution in safe environment with the vision PPSA Strongly believe in artistic power can change people and give the value on new creative and collaboration in professionalism.

Since 1994 Bandaul is a visual artist, arts teacher, and co-founder of (PPSA) Bandaul has extensively exhibited his works locally and internationally including Norway, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, New York, London, Istanbul, and Myanmar. He also has published two books: Looking at Angkor and The Land of the Elephants and 20 books illustration for wildlife. Moreover, Bandaul is now working on a memoir based on his life as a child refugee and advocated to the social un-justice through his arts.

Professor Liu Weidong
President
Nanjing University of the Arts
China

Professor Liu Weidong, is a Professor and doctoral supervisor of art history, the cheif editor of Art and Design, the standing deputy director of academic board and associate director of academic degrees committee of Nanjing University of the Arts. He is also the academic leader of fine arts (first-grade subject) of NUA.

Professor Liu Weidong is now the President and standing deputy decretary of Party committee of NUA.

His major research area includes: European art history, comparative study of fine arts between East and West, methodology of art history.

His major social appointments: vice chairman of the National Art Theory Teaching Advisory Board under the Ministry Of Education, committee member of China National Committee for MFA Education; member of Theory Committee of China Artists Association, director of Theory Commission of Jiangsu Artist’s Association; vice chairman of Jiangsu Critics Association; member of Jiangsu Steering Committee on Quality-Oriented Education of Higher Education Institutions; vice director of Jiangsu Pedagogy Sub-commission of Higher Education Teaching Research Institute.

Professor Liu Weidong’s major academic achievements: he published dozens of academic thesis on national art core journals and provincial academic journals, among which National image in art works is published in People’s Daily as an important theory. He also published more than ten monographs, including The Significance of Image, Kandinsky, Red Gallery (three books), East and West Art Talk, Between Drawing and Words, Foreign Art History, Bright StarsFine——Art in the Renaissance Period, Preface and Postscript, etc. , among which The Significance of Image won the second prize in Jiangsu province Eleventh Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Science, Bright StarsFine——Art in the Renaissance Period won the second prize in the Fifth Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Science of Universities in Jiangsu province; in 2012, Iconography and Research on China Art History won artistic key project of National Social Sciense Fund.

Assistant Professor Dr. Antonello Alici
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Ancona
Italy

Antonello Alici, architect, Ph.D., is the Chair in History of Architecture at Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, where he coordinates the International curriculum at the Doctorade School in Engineering Architecture. In 2016/2017 he has been Visiting Scholar at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies at University of Cambridge, UK, and Visiting Professor at the International Doctoral Programme in Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2012-2014 he has been the President of the Italian association of Architectural Archives, AAA Italia.

He is the Program Director of the summer school ‘The Culture of City. Understanding the Urban Landscape” that hold workshops in Matera (2012), Berlin (2013) and Ancona – Urbino (2014-2016), and will have a new series in Amandola, Marche region, with the topic “Living with Earthquakes. A strategic plan for earthquake prone regons”, july 2018.

His main research fields are the architecture and city in 19th and 20th century in Italy and the Nordic countries. He has been scientific coordinator of the research programme on the architectural archives in Marche region which has succeeded in protecting and studying more than 20 archives, relevant for the Italian architectural history of 20th century.

He is member of the ‘National Observatory for the Quality of the Landscape’ of the National Board of Culture in Italy. He was member of the jury of the ‘Bruno Zevi Prize’ 2013 for essays in Architecture and Theory.

In 2007-2010 he has been General Secretary of Italia Nostra, the national association for the protection of the cultural heritage, coordinating national campaigns on the landscape, historical towns, museums and archives.

His current research programmes are on the relations between Italian and British architects in the Post-war, on Aino and Alvar Aalto travels to Italy, on the Travels to the North of Italian architects in the post-war.

His main research interests are on the architecture and city in Italy and the Nordic countries in 19th and 20th Century. He has been scientific responsible for the research program “Social Housing in the second Post War: Sweden and Italy” with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Cooperlink 2009). He has promoted International seminars and conferences on the mutual influences between Italy and the Nordic Countries in Ancona, Roma and Stockholm.

At Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona he is responsible for the exchange programs with the Nordic countries and the research programs on the architectural archives and the studies on the contemporary city. He is member of the Research Center on the Landscape (CIRP). Since 2012 he is member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Ca’ Romanino aimed to study and promote the work of Giancarlo De Carlo. The Fondazione has promoted symposia and study workshops in Urbino, Italy.

Professor Shiro Matsui
Department of Sculpture
Kyoto City University of Arts
Japan

Shiro Matsui is an international artist and educator who was born in 1960 in Nara, Japan.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1983, he has employed a diverse range of materials and techniques to capture his unique sense of humor and intellect. His projects play with our polarized ideas of interior versus exterior, what it means to be here, rather than there, and how space can be both full and empty at the same time. He invites visitors to directly experience his “spatial inversions” visually, and even to explore them physically.

Shiro Matsui has taught in the sculpture department at Kyoto City University of Arts (KCUA) since 1995, and in 1996 became involved in a joint research project between the university and the Japanese and American space agencies, JAXA and NASA. His first project “Dewy’s forest” in 2009, involved growing an ornate floating garden in zero gravity, and this was followed by his “Message in Bottle” missions in 2011 and 2013, carried out with the help of JAXA and NASA astronauts.

Professor Dr. D’zul Haimi Md. Zain
Faculty of Art & Design
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Malaysia

Dzul Haimi joined the University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in 1979. He was appointed twice as the Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, in 1990-92 and 2015-June 2018.Currently is the Professor in the field of Art History. He graduated from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1996) under the tutelage of Professor Robert Hillenbrand. He had graduated seven PhDs and several master students and currently supervising four PhDs. Author and co-author of several articles and books on the subject of Islamic Art and Contemporary Malaysian Art. Chief Editor for the 7 volume books on Malaysian Crafts and had curate many art exhibitions both local as well at international. The most prestigious exhibition was for the Malaysia Art Laureate – Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal and was graced by His Highness DYMM Yang DiPertuan Agung of Malaysia. He is actively engaged in many consultancy jobs, research and member in the national art and design curriculum committee.

Dr Fauzi Naeim Mohamed
Head of Animation
Universiti Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Dr Fauzi Naeim Mohamed holds a PhD in Film Studies. He currently serves as Head of Animation Section at Universiti Kuala Lumpur–Malaysian Institute of Information Technology. Previous academic background include MA in Art and Design and BA in Fine Art. He is actively researching on the relationship between phenomenology and art, and has published in various periodicals with topics on art, animation, cinema, philosophy and religion. His recently completed project was a MARA-funded initiative of developing local youth in becoming creative entrepreneur byway of 3D animation. He has also published a children illustration book entitled Siti, co-authored with Nurul Lina.

Dr. Fawzia Gilani-Williams
English Medium Teacher
MBK Cycle 1 School
Department for Education and Knowledge, Ministry of Education
United Arab Emirates

Dr. Fawzia Gilani-Williams serves as a global representative for the International Positive Education Network. She is a research fellow for the Eid Stories Institute for Literary Studies and Peace Research in the UK and works for the Department of Knowledge and Education in the UAE. Born and raised in the UK, Fawzia earned a Ph.D in Children’s Literature and Character Education from the University of Worcester. She is an internationally experienced principal, teacher and researcher. Fawzia’s areas of specialization include primary education, Islamic children’s literature, and creative writing. Her research interests are child identity and empowerment, character development, and Islamic literary theory. She has written a number of ‘mirror books’ and ‘window books’ to promote intercultural literacy, emotional development and social flourishing. She is the author of the Islamic fairy tale series produced by Kube, UK. Her titles include Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, which together underscore moral power, quiet heroism and multicultural cognizance. Fawzia’s recent book, Yaffa and Fatima Shalom Salaam, illustrated by Chiara Fedele was awarded a silver medal by the Sydney Taylor Book Award.

Professor James S. Moy
Dean
College of The Arts
University of South Florida
United States of America

James Moy, PhD, is dean of the College of The Arts at the University of South Florida. A graduate of the University of Illinois – Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in art and a master’s degree in theatre, Dean Moy earned his PhD in cultural studies at the University of Illinois – Urbana. Prior to his tenure at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Dr Moy was dean and professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and earlier served as dean and chair professor with the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He also served as dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, and chair & professor in the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. Dr Moy has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern University, and the University of Oregon.