
Speakers

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

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.

Dr. Anne Whitelaw
Deputy Provost and Vice-provost Planning and Positioning
Professor of Art History
Concordia University
Canada

Dr. Anne Whitelaw
Deputy Provost and Vice-provost Planning and Positioning
Professor of Art History
Concordia University
Canada
Anne Whitelaw is Deputy Provost and Vice-provost Planning and Positioning at Concordia University, where she oversees Student and Enrolment Services and leads Concordia’s Strategic Enrolment planning. A Professor in the Department of Art History, her areas of expertise include Canadian cultural policy, cultural institutions and practices of exhibition and display. She is the author of Spaces and Places for Art: Making Art Institutions in Western Canada 1912-1990 (McGill-Queens UP 2017) and co-editor with Brian Foss and Sandra Paikowsky of The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Oxford UP, 2010). Her current research includes a co-edited collection on the global circulation of material culture from Northern North America, and an examination of the work of volunteer women’s societies in North American art museums.

Professor Liu Weidong
President
Nanjing University of the Arts
China

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.

Professor Kin Wai Michael SIU
Chair Professor
Eric C. Yim Professor in Inclusive Design & Chair Professor of Public Design
School of Design
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

Professor Kin Wai Michael SIU
Eric C. Yim Professor in Inclusive Design & Chair Professor of Public Design
School of Design
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Kin Wai Michael Siu is Eric C. Yim Professor in Inclusive Design and Chair Professor of Public Design, School of Design, PolyU. He is Founder and Leader of Public Design Lab. He is fellow of numerous professional engineering and design organisations. He has been invited by a number of universities as visiting professor and scholar, including the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Fulbright Scholar), National University of Singapore (ASIA Fellow), UC Berkeley, and Tsinghua University. His research areas are in public design, user reception, inclusive design, and design education. In design education and practice, he focuses his work on problem identification. He solely owns over 50 US and international patents and design registrations, and over 50 international invention and design grand awards. He has published over 300 research papers in top-tier academic journals.

Dr. Yasraf Amir Pilian MA
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Indonesia

Professor Dr. M. Agus Burhan, M. Hum.
President
Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta
Indonesia

Professor Pankaj Panwar
Visva-Bharati University
India

Professor Claudio Rocca
Director
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Italy

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

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 Toshiya Takahama
Musashino Art University
Japan

Professor Toshiya Takahama
Musashino Art University
Japan
Professor Takahama stayed in Bangkok as an Artist in Residence of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University from 1998 to 2000 and 2005 to 2006 on grants from the Japan Foundation, the Pola Art Foundation, and the Nippon Foundation Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship. At the beginning of his careers, he produced large monochrome copperplate prints with abstract shapes, but after participating in workshops and artist-in-residence programs in Japan and overseas, his interests broadened to encompass not only art but also architecture, cities, and society. Manifesting this wider vision, at the 3rd Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, he produced “House in Koide” in collaboration with Sotaro Ide. Today he continues such site-specific activities and produce series of copperplate prints based on scenery and episodes seen around the country.

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

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 Akira Tatehata
President
Tama Art University
Japan

Associate Professor Dr. Ruslan Abdul Rahim
Dean of Faculty of Art & Design
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Malaysia

Associate Professor Dr. Ruslan Abdul Rahim
Dean of Faculty of Art & Design
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Malaysia
Upon completing his diploma, Ruslan earned his stripes in the Malaysian advertising industry during the mid 80s. A stint as the sole graphic designer at Proton’s Research & Development Department saw him finally pursuing and obtaining his Masters (MSc Communications) at the renowned Pratt Institute, New York City, United States of America. It was here that he honed his skills in New Media encompassing Computer Graphics and Animation.A shift in his academic outlook brought a deep commitment towards exploration of design in the realm of the then burgeoning World Wide Web. This led him to embark on his doctoral research on interface design for dyslexia at the University of Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom till the new millennium. He is presently the Dean at the Faculty of Art & Design, University Technology MARA (UiTM).

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

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.

Professor Dato’ Dr Ahmad Haji Zainuddin
Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive Officer
University College of Yayasan Pahang
Malaysia

Dr Fauzi Naeim Mohamed
Head of Animation
Universiti Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

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.

Professor Raymond Yap
Fine Art lecturer
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Singapore

Professor Raymond Yap
Fine Art lecturer
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Singapore
Raymond Yap (b.1966) completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in fine art at the Wimbledon School of Art and Royal Academy of Art Schools. He was awarded several major prizes and scholarships. He is interested in the nature of paint and painting, and the potential of gloss paint as a medium for fine art. He continues to explore and experiment, balancing control and serendipity to achieve work that is unusual and unique. A Fine Art lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore since 2008, he is still actively participating in exhibitions and conferences, and was recently invited to be a part of the Royal Initiative Project, held at the Bangkok Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Centre.

Assistant Professor Dr. Pei-Shan WU
Tainan National University of the Arts
Taiwan

Dr. Atthaphon Ponglawhapun
Chulalongkorn University
Thailand

Dr. Atthaphon Ponglawhapun
Chulalongkorn University
Thailand
Atthaphon Ponglawhapun awarded M.F.A. in Fashion and Textile Design from Chulalongkorn University in 2009, and B.A. in English from Mahidol University with first-class honored in 2007. With significant experiences in fashion retail, merchandise, and marketing, Atthaphon clearly has vision in fashion management especially in retail and wholesale for the middle market segment. Since 2012, with an opportunity given from M.F.A. thesis advisor, Atthaphon joined Fashion and Textile Design, Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University as a part-time lecturer and researcher in Fashion Illustration, Fashion Marketing, and Menswear Collection Development. Atthaphon is now full-time lecturer at Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University and soon to complete the Doctor of Fine and Applied Arts at the faculty.

Professor Kunjana Dumsopee
Department of Fine Arts
Faculty of Architecture
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Thailand

Dr. Naj Phonghanyudh
Applied Art Studies
Faculty of Decorative Arts
Silpakorn University
Thailand

Assistant Professor Wantanee Siripattananuntakul
Silpakorn University
Thailand

Assistant Professor Wantanee Siripattananuntakul
Silpakorn University
Thailand
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul is recognized for exploring the potential of works of art to raise many social questions and to increase awareness of social issues. In 2007, she was chosen to be the representative of Thai artists to join the 53rd Venice Biennale and she are one of 13 Thai emerging artists who were chosen by Bangkok collectors in 2016. Most of her renowned past works are in the forms of video art, sculptures, and installations based on the utilization of many new forms of media. They include Wantanocchiobot’09 (2009); (Dis)continuity (2012); Living with un Common Value (2012), displayed at Kuenstler Haus, Bremen, Germany; Dynamic convergences: sociology and art (2014); State of Ridiculous (2015), Human AlieNation (2016), Play in the Flow (2017) and The Broken Ladder (2018).

Mr Arin Rungjang
Internationally Acclaimed Artist
Silpakorn University’s Alumnus
Thailand

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
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.

Ms. Sarah Laura Nesti Willard
Instructor of Fine Arts
United Arab Emirates University
United Arab Emirates

Ms. Sarah Laura Nesti Willard
Instructor of Fine Arts
United Arab Emirates University
United Arab Emirates
Ms. Sarah Laura Nesti Willard is a specialist in Animation and Illustration from Kingston University, UK. She was granted a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art of London, where she obtained a Master in Visual Communication in 2004. She initially worked as a free-lance illustrator in the United Kingdom and thereafter moved to Spain where she gained expertise as a Muralist Artist. She received commissions in Spain and Italy where she was also invited to exhibit and sell her work in different galleries. In 2009, she undertook a postgraduate course in education. Since then, Sarah has been working full time as an art educator in higher education. In 2014, she moved to the UAE, where she was approached by IAT/ADVETI schools administration to devise a curriculum for Creative Design. One year later she was asked to develop the curriculum and instructional guide book for Digital Animation (Blender). In 2017 Sarah joined the United Arab Emirates University, where she teaches Painting, Design, Animation, Art History and Art Criticism. She continues to illustrate and create artwork for different patronages.

Professor
Norman Cherry
Professor
Former Pro-Vice Chancellor
University of Lincoln
United Kingdom

Professor Dr Maurits Van Rooijen
Group Rector, Academic CEO
Global University Systems (GUS)
United Kingdom

Professor Dr Maurits Van Rooijen
Group Rector, Academic CEO
Global University Systems (GUS)
United Kingdom
With a career spanning several decades as an international educator and pioneer in the globalisation of education, Maurits Van Rooijen started as economic historian with a doctorate in Green Urbanisation at the University of Utrecht. He has held senior positions at universities across the globe, including Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Victoria University, Melbourne. Since September 2012, he has been the CEO (academic) and Group Rector at Global University Systems (GUS) the world’s first truly global higher education system reaching from Vancouver to Singapore and online (https://www.globaluniversitysystems.com/). Prior to this appointment, Maurits was Rector Magnificus and CEO of Nyenrode University in the Netherlands. From 1993 to 2009, he was (Executive) Vice-President for International and Institutional Development at the University of Westminster.
He is recipient of several awards including the Constance Meldrum Prize for Vision and Leadership in Education (EAIE 2013) and the Golden Insignia of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (2015).

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

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.