Beyond the Future: Papers from the Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

BIOGRAPHIES SOYEON AHN ( p.40) Soyeon Ahn is Sen ior Curator at the Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul, Korea. She holds a BA in French Literature and an MA in H istory of Art from Ewha Women's University, Seoul and trained at l' E cole Nationale du Patrimoine, Paris and Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint E tienne. Whilst a curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul in 1 995 she curated 'The Tiger's Tail: 1 5 Korean Contemporary Artists for Ven ice'. Soyeon Ahn has been a pivotal member of the Curatorial Team for South Korea for the First, Second and Third Triennials, and was a catalogue writer for the Second and Third Triennials. DR GEREM IE R. BARM E (p.25) Dr Geremie R. Barme is a Sen ior Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Austral ian National University. H is most recent books are An Artistic Exile : a Life of Feng Zikai, Berkeley, Un iversity of Cal ifornia Press (in press), In the Red , On Contemporary Chinese Culture, New York, Columbia University Press, 1 999, and Shades of Mao: the Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader, Armonk, N .Y . , M . E . Sharpe, 1 996. He was also an associate director and co-writer with John Crowley of the three-hour documentary on the events of 1 989 in Beijing , The Gate of Heavenly Peace, directed by Richard Gordon and Carma H inton, Boston , Long Bow Group, 1 995, and is presently engaged in other film projects. For APT3, he collaborated with writer Sang Ye on the installation Hua Biao, Totems That Are Poles Apart. DR LAINE BERMAN (p.1 37) Dr Laine Berman has a strong background in field research, social development, advocacy and training in Indonesia, where she has worked on the streets of Java for over ten years . She is a lingu istic anthropologist whose research interests include Indonesian and Javanese languages, and specifically, how relations of power and inequal ity are constructed and reflected in social interaction. She has recently published her first book which examines the social consequences of oppression and violence on working class women in Indonesia. Her recent projects explore various types of 'dialogues' and the consequences they hold for the broader population, as they have emerged during and after Suharto's reign. SANTIAGO BOSE (p.1 31 ) Filipino artist Santiago Bose trained at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines and exhibits widely both in the Philippines and internationally. He is a co-founder of the Baguio Arts Guild, an energetic focus for cultural activity in the northern Cordillera region . The Guild has contributed significantly to Phil ippine culture by emphasizing regional tribal traditions and the importance of using ind igenous materials. Santiago Bose's practice addresses the inter-relationships of personal, social and political realms of life in the postmodern era and the ways these register on (and are shaped by) the subjectivity of the individual . He was an artist in the First Asia-Pacific Triennia l . PROFESSOR PAUL BROWN (p.1 38) Professor Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has been specialising in art & technology for 30 years. He began using the I nternet in 1 984 and since 1 992 he has edited FineArt Forum, one of the internet's longest established art 'zines. He returned to Australia in 1 994 after a two-year appointment as Professor of Art and Technology at Mississippi State Un iversity to head Griffith University's Multimedia Unit. In 1 996 he was the founding Adjunct Professor of Communication Design at QUT where he currently teaches part-time. Since 1 997 he has been Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network for Art Technology. H is computer generated artwork has been exhibited internationally since 1 967 and is currently on show in Europe, Russia, Canada, the USA and Australia. Paul is currently artist-in-residence at the Queensland Sciencentre, a position that is supported by the New Media Arts fund of the Australia Council wh ich also recently awarded him an Fellowship for 2000/200 1 . DR REX BUTLER ( p.1 26) Dr Rex Butler lectures in the Department of Art H istory at the University of Queensland . He is the editor the publication on Australian Art What is Appropriation? (IMA/Power Publishing) and is author of An Uncertain Smile (Artspace). He has recently published a book on the 1 70