The inaugural edition of the SAW Art Symposium brings together local and international cultural leaders, policymakers, as well as industry movers and shakers in a series of curated talks and panel discussions. They will discuss topics relevant to the arts ecosystem in Singapore and its global partners in light of the prevailing global pandemic, as well as its implications for the future. Unfolding over a series of seven sessions, the Symposium’s speakers reflect on issues regarding space and placemaking, arts programming, technology and the art market. The Symposium is produced by Plural Art Mag and supported by the National Arts Council. 

The Symposium will be streamed on Sistic Live for audiences tuning in remotely. Recordings of talks and panel discussions from the Symposium will also be made available after the event. Register here for the physical symposium or tune in to the livestreams and VOD here.

Speakers include:
 

	Daniel Birnbaum, Artistic Director, Acute Art Most recently Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Daniel Birnbaum joined Acute Art in January 2019. Acute Art brings together renowned international artists, new media and technology to produce and exhibit compelling, cutting-edge visual artworks in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). Works produced include those by Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons and others.
	Emily Sullivan, Curator, Kaldor Public Art Projects Emily Sullivan is a Sydney-based curator, writer and producer. Major projects include works by prominent Australian and international artists; Agatha Gothe-Snape, Alicia Frankovich, Anri Sala, Asad Raza, Ian Milliss, Michael Landy and Miralda. Most recently, in her role as Curator, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Emily co-curated do it (australia) with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London, commissioning new work by 18 Australian artists and creative practitioners for the organisation’s first digital art project.
Photo credit: Mao Yamamoto	Fram Kitagawa, General Director, Echigo-Triennale Fram Kitagawa is the founder of Art Front Gallery, Co. Ltd, and has served as the General Director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale since 2000. Amongs others, he has also served as the General Director of the Setouchi Triennale, the Boso Satoyama Art Festival: Ichihara Art x Mix, Northern Alps Art Festival as well as the Oku-Noto Triennale. His book on Echigo-Tsumari Triennale has been translated and published in USA, China, Taiwan, and Korea. His co-authored book on Setouchi Triennale (with Soichiro Fukutake) has been translated and published in China and Taiwan.
	Shubigi Rao, Artistic Director, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2021 Artist and writer Shubigi Rao’s interests include libraries, archival systems, histories and lies, literature and violence, ecologies, and natural history. Her art, texts, films, and photographs look at current and historical flashpoints as perspectival shifts to examining contemporary crises of displacement, whether of people, languages, cultures, or knowledge bodies. Her current decade-long project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book is about the history of book destruction and the future of knowledge.
	Takashi Kudo, Communications Director, teamLab After Takashi graduated from Waseda University, he started working as an editor. He worked at a publisher IDG Sweden in Stockholm for 4 years as Editor in Chief for a video game magazine. After returning to Japan, he started out his career as Branding Manager / Communications Director at teamLab. Takashi now manages teamLab’s entire branding aspects while committing himself to specific projects that need growth hacking.

Image courtesy of Singapore Art Week.