Team

Laura Miotto is Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media (NTU) where she co-directs the Master Programme in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices. With 20 years of experience in the design field, both as creative director and architectural designer, Miotto has worked on permanent and temporary exhibitions, focusing on heritage interpretation and sensorial design strategies in the context of museums, galleries, and public spaces. Among her recent exhibitions: The Posthuman City at the NTU CCA (2020), Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Couture at the Asian Civilisations Museum (2019) and the LKC Natural History Museum (2015). In 2010 she received the President Design Award in Singapore for the exhibition Quest for Immortality: The World of Ancient Egypt.

In addition to her role in ADM she is Design Director at GSM Project in Singapore, an international firm specialised in exhibition design originated in Montréal, Canada.

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Paul Michael Taylor, a research anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is director of the museum’s Asian Cultural History Program, and serves as Curator of Asian, European, and Middle Eastern Ethnology. He is the author of numerous books, scholarly articles, and online works about the ethnobiology, ethnography, art and material culture of Asia, and about the history of museums and anthropology. He is the curator of twenty-one museum exhibitions (including five online virtual exhibitions) and anthropologist consultant for ethnographic films.

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Marc Glöde is a curator, critic and film scholar. His work focuses on the relationship between images, technology, space, the body, and the dynamics between art, architecture and film. From 2008 to 2014 Gloede was senior curator of Art Film, Art Basel’s film programme. Other film curatorial projects were the A+ Online Festival of Video Art (2020), the film programme for the exhibition “Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public. Spaces for Democracy,” at NTU CCA, Singapore, or his guest curation for the Experimenta Festival 2007 in Mumbai/Bangalore. Furthermore he has curated numerous exhibitions including “STILL/MOVING/STILL – The History of Slide Projection in the Arts” (Knokke/Belgium) or more recently “Progressive Disintegraions” at Objectifs and “Suzann Victor: Of Waters” at the STPI in Singapore. 

Gloede authored the book Farbige Lichträume/Colored Space of Light (2014), and was co-editor of Umwidmungen (2005) and Synästhesie-Effekte (2011). His writing has been published in The Impossibility of Mapping [Urban Asia] (2020), The State of Motion 2019: A Fear of Monsters, and publications such as Fantom, Texte zur Kunst, OSMOS, Parkett, and Art in America, among others.

He received his PhD at the Free University of Berlin and since 2017 is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices at NTU/ADM.

Hera is a multidisciplinary practitioner in the expanded field of art and design. She graduated from MA (Research) in the School of Art, Design and Media, Spaces of the Curatorial, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she received the NTU-NHB grant from the National Heritage Board Singapore for her research on the history of art exhibitions in Singapore. Hera engages with the arts through a combination of research, curatorial and studio practices. Recently she received the Southeast of Now Emerging Writers Fellowship to develop her research on an 18th century colonial geological prints, Java Album by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. Currently, she works as a design researcher in Humankind Design, developing a knowledge base in a bid to encourage positive change within the design ecosystem.

Saeed Husain is an anthropologist working at the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Cultural History Program (ACHP), as part of the office of the Curator of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Husain earned his BA in anthropology from the College of Wooster, Ohio. Interested in migration and diaspora material culture, he wrote his undergraduate thesis on “Collecting as Seva and Decolonizing Display: Art Collectors in the Sikh American Diaspora” on which he received Honors. The thesis focused on the networks and rationales of Sikh Art collecting in the United States. Prior to working at the ACHP, Husain interned at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the State Bank of Pakistan Museum.

Lim Shu Min is a graphic designer working across print, screen-based media and exhibitions. She received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, with a concentration in History of Art and Visual Culture. Shu Min previously worked at GSM Project, creating exhibitions for the National Museum of Singapore, the Indian Heritage Center, the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Singapore Botanic Gardens and the Sarawak Museum. Recent projects include the Singapore Writers Festival Literary Pioneer Exhibition (2020) and Vel Vel: A Sonic Walk (2021), where she collaborated with a diverse group of other creators – writers, sound designers, technologists – to design rich, multimedia stories for the web.