Jury
Dr. Nada Shabout
Nada Shabout is an Associate Professor of Art History and the
Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Institute
(CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas, USA. Her teaching
and writing interests are in the area of Arab and Islamic visual
culture, theory and history, imperialism, Orientalism and
globalization. She is the author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of
Arab Aesthetics, University of Florida Press, 2007; co-editor of
New Vision: Arab Art in the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson,
2009; and the founding president of the Association for Modern
and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey
(AMCA). She has curated several exhibitions of Iraqi art, and
published numerous articles on the subject. Current project:
documentation and digitization of modern Iraqi heritage,
particularly the collection previously held at the Iraqi Museum of
Modern Art, which will soon be available on The Open Modern
Art Collection of Iraq website, supported by a National
Endowment for the Humanities-Digital Humanities Start-Up
Grants. Her awards include: TAARII fellow 2006, 2007; MIT
visiting Assistant Professor, spring 2008, and Fulbright Senior
Scholar Program, 2008 Lecture/Research fellowship to Jordan.
She is a board member of the Cultural Development Committee of
the Qatar Foundation.
Love Jönsson
Love Jönsson is a craft and design critic and curator and a
lecturer at the School of Design and Crafts at University of
Gothenburg. He is chairman of Paletten, Sweden’s longest-
running art magazine, and a founding member of the network
Think Tank: a European Initiative for the Applied Arts. He edited
the anthology Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice in
Change (Stockholm: Iaspis 2005) and has contributed to books
such as NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts (Halifax: NSCAD
Press 2007) and Vrije Vormgeving: Mapping Dutch Conceptual
Crafts (Amsterdam: BNO 2009). His writings on jewellery
include catalogue essays on Suska Mackert, Karl Fritsch, Marc
Monzó, Katja Prins, and Babette Boucher.
Prof' Vered Kaminski
Studied jewelry making and design at the Bezalel Academy,
Jerusalem with postgraduate studies at the Rietveld Academy,
Amsterdam and the University of Paris VIII (M.A.). Professor at
the Bezalel Academy. Winner of various prizes and grants,
including the French Government M.A. Grant and the Israeli
Ministry of Culture Prize for Design. Exhibitions in Israel and
throughout the world, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem,
Galerie Ra, Amsterdam and Galerie V & V, Viena. Works in the
permanent collections of various museums, including the Israel
Museum, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris and the Pinakothek der
Moderne, Munich.
Shari Pierce
Munich based American Jewelry artist, Shari work has a strong
conceptual side and a social approach. Shari opens up spaces for
encounters and dialogues, as she strives ,in her work, to grab the
viewers attention and reaction to complicated and sensitive social
themes. Shari holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of
Fine Arts Munich under Prof. Otto Künzli and a Bachelor of Fine
Arts from the East Carolina University, USA. She participated in
dozens of group and solo exhibitions around the world and was
the winner of "So Fresh" European Jewellery Award in Vienna,
2007. Her work is shown in galleries such as Galerie Koudijs and
Galerie Marzee as well as in published books, catalogues and
magazines as in New Directions in Jewellery II, Schmuck 2008,
2005, 2004, Wahnsinn Fette Beute Book.
Dr. Otto von Busch
Otto has a Phd in critical fashion design at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden. In his research he explores the emergence
"hacktivist" designer role in fashion. He is also an artist, activist,
fashion theorist and a designer. Otto recent works includes a
design co-location, applied socio-geography and social art work,
as well as >self_passage< which is a long term research project
in an attempt to create a field of democratic-productive
consciousness and empowerment within design. He is also the
author of the books "Becoming Fashion-able", about engaged
fashion design, and "Abstract Hacktivism" (with Karl Palmas)
about the shift to networked models of economics and politics and
how this has affected business and activism.