PANELS
Please click on the title of each panel to view it in its entirety and on the names to read the bios
Re-imagining Panel
A critical position towards Momentum itself, the art fair and other existing institutional structures with a view to moving established practices forward.
Tim Gruchy
Artist, Sydney and NZ
John Kaldor
Founding Director, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney
Jay Levenson
Director, International Programs, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Djon Mundine
Artist and Indigenous Curator of Contemporary Art, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney
James Putnam
Independent Curator, London
Stanislav Roudavski
Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, University of Melbourne, Australia
Pier Luigi Tazzi
Independent Curator, Italy
Moving Forward Panel
In keeping with the aim of Momentum, a consideration of major developments in contemporary art, globally and locally, with a concentration on non-object-based practices.
Philippe Codognet
Co-director, Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI), University of Tokyo
Barbara Flynn
Contemporary Art Expert and Curator, Sydney
Mark Nash
Professor, Head of Department, Curating and Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London
Serge Spitzer
Artist, New York
Anita Taylor
Director, National Art School, Sydney
Paul Thomas
Assoc. Prof., Head of Painting, CFA, University of NSW, Founding Director of Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia
Tim Marlow
Director of Exhibitions, White Cube, London
China Focus Panel
The first of a series of regional focuses, in which artists and specialists examine the condition and direction of non-object-based practices in contemporary China.
Thomas Berghuis
Lecturer in Asian Art, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney
John Clark
FAHA, CIHA, PhD, Professor of Asian Art, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney
Ian Howard
Dean of College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Zhang Lansheng
Artist, Professor, RMIT University School of Art Melbourne / East China Normal University School of Art, Shanghai
Wang Qingsong
Artist, Beijing
Aaron Seeto
Director, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Charles Merewether
Director, ICA Singapore
Collectors Panel
Institutions, private collectors and corporate collectors talk about their different perspectives on collecting non-object-based art.
Anthony Bond
Assistant Director, Head Curator of International Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Geoffrey Cassidy
Director, Artbank, Sydney
Rhana Devenport
Director, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
Stuart Evans
Director and Curator of the Lodeavans Collection, Curator of the Simmons & Simmons collection, London
Dick Quan
Collector and Physician, Sydney
Joni Waka
Director, A.R.T. Tokyo, Japan
Mark Waugh
Executive Director, A Foundation, London and Liverpool
Anna Waldmann
Art Advisor, former Director of Visual Arts, Australia Council
Molecular Art Discussion
Addressing the interpenetration of art and science, the viral spread of ideas and the parallel beauty between form an function which equally underly science and art.
Oron Catts
Director, SymbioticA, university of Western Australia
Janet Laurence
Artist, Sydney
Serge Spitzer
Artist, New York
Vladimir Volloch
Molecular Biologist, Harvard University, Boston