
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. For snippets of Bronac’s
remarks click here.
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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 a
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 Board. 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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