Presenter biographies
Kim Machan is a founding member and Director of MAAP-Media Art Asia Pacific. Over the past 15 years she has been immersed in curatorial projects and research into contemporary art, specializing in media art in Asia. Kim has a passion for developing collaborative art projects in Asia and has successfully partnered with a vast array of arts organizations, museums, educational institutions, government agencies and private business throughout the region. In 2002 she was contributing curator for Media City Seoul, Co-Chief Curator MAAP in Beijing and Chief Curator for MAAP programs in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
Christine Clark works as a curator and exhibition manger. She was extensively involved in the first three Asia-Pacific Triennial projects at the Queensland Art Gallery and over the past two decades has predominately curated and managed exhibitions focusing on the Asia-Pacific region and Asian Australian visual art practice. This has included curating the Museum of Brisbane’s Echoes of Home: Memory and mobility in recent Austral-Asian art (2005 – 2008) which toured to 8 capital and regional centres across Australia and managing and conducting Arts Management Workshops in Indonesia. She is currently Manager of Exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and is the curator of Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia (2011 – 2013) a major travelling exhibition which showcases major artists from Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.
Dr Chaitanya Sambrani is an art historian and curator with special interests in modern and contemporary art in Asia. He has a first class MA (Fine) in Art Criticism from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, and a Ph.D. in Art History and Curatorship from the Australian National University. His work has been featured in major publications, exhibitions and conferences in Australia, India, China, Korea, Singapore, and the USA. His recent curatorial projects include To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art (Chennai, 15 March-10 April 2012), Place.Time.Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom (Shanghai, October-December 2010) and Edge of Desire: Recent Art In India (Perth, New York, Mexico City, Monterrey, Berkeley, New Delhi, Mumbai 2004-07).
Dr Michelle Antoinette is a researcher of modern and contemporary Asian art and has previously taught university courses on Asian and Pacific art and museums. She is currently an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at The Australian National University, researching networks of contemporary Asian art and museums as part of the project, The Rise of New Cultural Networks in Asia in the Twenty-First Century. Her forthcoming book explores contemporary Southeast Asian art on the international stage since the 1990s (Rodopi).