BRONAC FERRAN
Bronac Ferran moderated the morning Symposium session introducing keynote speakers Alan Bleakley and Steve Kurtz and chaired a discussion with the presenters and the audience following the talks.

 

Bronac Ferran is Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England (ACE) where she leads a team responsible for areas of practice which connect the arts to other disciplines including art, science and technology. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied English Language and Literature before helping set up an experimental theatre company in her home town, Belfast. Key projects at ACE have included organising the CODE conference at Cambridge University in 2001; commissioning a DVD series Pioneers in Art & Science, a CD ROM Ways of Working about artists working in business contexts and forthcoming programmes of research into art and shopping, and art and the brain, with academic partners in England and abroad. Bronac was also involved in setting up the Art & Science Fellowships initiative which ACE runs jointly with the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is on the UK's Government's Creative Industries and Higher Education Forum; also a board member of Creative Commons UK; a reviewer for Leonardo Electronic Almanac and has been a Visiting Associate at Darwin College, Cambridge.

 

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