SGCI INTERNATIONAL PANEL

SHIFTING SANDS: EMERGING FRONTIERS IN THE GLOBALIZED LANDSCAPE

Panel Chair: Rhys Himsworth

Panelists: TBA

For centuries, landscapes have shaped identities and operated as signifiers of culture and connection; they are profoundly influenced by the meanings we attach to them. All over the world, however, our definitions of landscape and place are being redefined as never before - by post-industrial shifts, evolving technology, global economic forces, and the new world order - leading to the worldwide emergence of non-places, appropriated vernacular, and manufactured landscapes. The SGC International panel, with its diverse range of practitioners, endeavors to dissect the inter-relationship between landscape and human impact and unravel the vital role that landscape plays in the modern political and social movements in the wake of a global world.

ABOUT RHYS HIMSWORTH

Rhys Himsworth serves as Director of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University's branch campus in Doha, Qatar. Here he heads up the first fine art program in the country's history and has founded Fanoon: Center For Printmedia Research, a printmaking publishing program that works with international artists in the realization of new projects that engage with print media. Himsworth has presented at The Royal Computer Society in London, served as a panel member for ‘Fast Media/Slow Knowledge’ at SGC Philigrafika, in Philadelphia, 2010, and in 2014 presented at the Arab Museum of Modern Art as part of their symposium on Art: Past, Present and Future in the city of Doha.  He is a regular panel member to art, design and education conferences including The Spectres of Evaluation in Melbourne, Australia, Design Principles and Practices, Vancouver, Canada, and the Arts and Society in Rome Italy. He has also served on panels at the College Art Association in Washington D.C. Himsworth has been a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, The University of Sao Paulo, Brazil  and The Art Institute of Chicago in the US. Rhys is the current International Representative to the SGC International Board.

 

ABOUT THE PANEL

TBA.