The Future of Asian Art Symposium

NYU hosts a symposium that will investigate the increasingly transnational nature of Asian art and the circulation of artists and art production in multiple global markets.

Keynote: Dean Chan
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

This symposium investigates the increasingly transnational nature of Asian art and the circulation of artists and art production in multiple global markets. The focus on Asian diasporic visual culture will include panels with scholars from the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research and the Diasporic Asian Art Network.

About the Keynote:
Dean Chan is a professor in the postgraduate programmes at the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Australia. He is the founding convenor of the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research (INDAAR), and an executive member of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and convenor of its Visual Arts and New Media cluster. Chan is a chief investigator in an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project entitled "Being Asian in Australia and the United States" and a guest editor of a special issue of Amerasia Journal (2010) titled "Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections." He has most recently been appointed as Editor of the Diasporic Asia section in Asian Studies Review, a scholarly journal published by Routledge.