Present Encounters : Papers from the conference of the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1996

Doug HALL Doug Hall has been Director of the Queensland Art Gal lery since 1 987. He is currently Chair of the Visual Arts/Craft Fund of the Australia Council; a Director of Art Exhibitions Australia Limited ; Deputy Chair of Visions Austra l i a , and Chaired the National Advisory Committee for the First and Second APTs. Oscar HO HING KAY Oscar Ho Hing Kay has been the Exh ibition Director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre since 1 988. I n addition to cu rating exhibitions both in Hong Kong and overseas, he also writes regularly for local and i nternational newspapers and magazines. Oscar Ho H i ng Kay is cu rrently President of the Hong Kong branch of the I nternational Art Critics Association. From 1 993 to 1 995, he was a member of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and was responsible for writing the Council's first Five Year Strategic Plan. Oscar Ho Hing Kay was co-curator for Hong Kong and a catalogue writer for the Second APT. Pat HOFFIE Associate Professor Pat Hoffie is an artist, writer and Senior Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art at Griffith University, Brisbane. Her work is shown in Australia and internationally, she is a regu lar contributor to publications such as Eyeline Magazine and Art/ink, a nd she lectures both in Australia and The Philippines. For the Second APT, Pat Hoffie was the cu ratorial co-ordinator for Hong Kong and a catalogue writer. HOU Hanru Hou Hanru is a freelance critic and cu rator who has been based in Paris since 1 990. He was born in Gu angzhou and obtained h is MA from the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing . His many i nternational exhi bitions incl ude 'Parisien (ne)s' (London, 1 997) , 'Looking Awry, Video I n Projection ' (Paris, 1 996) , 'Out o f t he Centre - Chinese Contemporary Art' (Finland, 1 994) and 'Gaze - !'impossible transparence' (Paris, 1 994) . He is a contributor to international journals including Flash Art, Third Text and ART AsiaPacific, and to catalogues and books published in China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands and the USA. He is a regu lar speaker at lectures and symposi ums organised by international art institutions. Ian HOWARD Professor I an Howard is Provost and Director of the Queensland Col lege of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane and a practisi ng artist, concentrating on the theme of military, industrial and civilian populations and their material and symbolic products. Professor Howard exhibits nationa lly and i nternationally - his most recent show, 'Prisoners of Reason , Slaves to the Heart' was held this year at Watters Gallery, Sydney. He is a regular visitor to Vietnam , where he has co-ordinated exchange student, staff and exhibition programs. He has also served on the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Arts Queensland Advisory Board. For the Second APT, he was a member of the National Advisory Committee and cu ratoria l co-ordinator for Vietnam. N icholas JOSE Dr Nicholas Jose was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford Un iversity. From 1 987 to 1 990 he served as Cultura l Counsellor at the Australian Embassy, Beijing. He has a continu ing involvement with contemporary Chinese art and worked on the exhi bitions 'Mao Goes Pop: China Post-1 989' (1 993) , 'ARTTAIWAN: The Contemporary Art of Taiwan' (1 995) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and ' Identities: Art from Australia' (1 992) at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. With Yang Wen-i , he co-edited ARITA/WAN. H is work also i ncl udes four novels, two collections of short stories, translations, drama, essays, criticism and reviews. H is latest book is Chinese Whispers, Cultural Essays (Wakefield Press, 1 995) and h is most recent novel is The Rose Crossing (1 994) . Dr Jose lives i n Sydney. 1 47