Nicole Y. S. Lee, independent researcher
Resisting Erasure: Art Education Stories from a Chinese Canadian Perspective
Nicole Y. S. Lee completed her PhD in Curriculum Studies, specializing in Art Education, at The University of British Columbia. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts (studio), BEd, and MEd from York University. Layering concept, making, and embodied practices, her a/r/tographic, curricular, and philosophical research develops curricula for artful, purposeful, and meaningful living. Nicole edits anthologies in the fields of a/r/tography, arts-based educational research, and curriculum studies.
Yi Meng, PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University | Lecturer, Zhengzhou University
Beyond In-Outsiders: Fostering a Creative Third Space in Art Education
Yi Meng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Arts Education program at Simon Fraser University and a lecturer in the School of Fine Arts at Zhengzhou University, China. She maintains a BA and MA in Visual Communication from Northwest University and an MEd from Queensland University of Technology. Since 2016, she has been teaching art and design courses at LaSalle College Vancouver. Her research interests include art and design, visual culture, multimodality, social semiotics, virtual worlds, Asian art and identity, and multicultural art education. Yi’s articles have been published in Chinese and English journals.
Kevin T. Day, Sessional Lecturer, UBC School of Information
Playing the Race Card: “Asian Art” within Discussions of Contemporary Art
Kevin T. Day is a Taiwanese-Canadian media artist, art educator, and media theorist. His practice and research, encompassing sound, video, graph, web, and interactive installations, examine contemporary art’s pedagogical capacity in response to the current socio-political issues of digital culture. Day received his PhD in Curriculum Studies from the University of British Columbia. He has presented at numerous conferences such as InSEA, ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), and UAAC (Universities Arts Association of Canada). He has published in the top international journals for art and technology such as PACMCGIT and Leonardo. His work had been generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and SSHRC. Currently, he teaches digital art in the UBC Bachelor of Media Studies program and the politics of media and information at the UBC School of Information.