Annie Ivanova

Annie Ivanova
Ivanova 2013, Taipei
Born Antoaneta Ivanova
Tryavna, Bulgaria
Alma mater Monash University
Occupation Cultural Ambassador, curator
Years active 1996–present
Home town Australia Melbourne, Australia

Antoanetta "Annie" Ivanova (Bulgarian: Антоанета Иванова; Chinese Traditional: 易安妮 Yì Ānnī) is a multi-award-winning international curator and author, cultural entrepreneur[1] and one of Australia's leading authorities on cultural diplomacy.[2][3][4]

Ivanova has collaborated with some of the world's most prestigious institutions Centre Pompidou, Ars Electronica, Barbican, Smithsonian Institution, National Palace Museum, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, and has received ongoing critical acclaim.[5]

Education

Annie Ivanova holds MA qualifications in Foreign Affairs and International Trade from the high ranking Monash University, Graduate School of Business and Economics in Melbourne. She pursued interests in Global Leadership, Cultural Diplomacy, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management.

Ivanova was a team leader for an International Law Moot Court Competition, debating the issue of terrorism and human rights through a fictional dispute between two states presented to the International Court of Justice.

Ivanova's first academic degree is from the University of Tasmania, graduating with Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA Hons.) in 1998. Her Honours theses discussed the effect of mass media when reporting stories about war atrocities.

In the late 1980s Ivanova studied at the Bulgarian National College of Polygraphs and Photography. The college was one of the then most progressive professional schools in the country, preparing students for careers in film and TV. She majored in photography, specialising in photojournalism.

Career

Professionally active since 1996, Annie Ivanova has initiated and realised over 80 international exhibitions, conferences and public diplomacy projects. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Institute of International Affairs.

Ivanova has chaired and produced three major international conferences,[6][7][8] and has been a keynote speaker on wide-ranging Culture & Creative Industries topics.[9]

Global work scope spans: USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and Australia.

Ivanova co-founded and was the executive director of Australia's first media arts agency Novamedia Ltd.[10] Between 2001–2011, Novamedia represented some of Australia's most renowned media artists: Jon MacCormack, Stelarc, Drew Berry, Troy Innocent, Justine Cooper, George Khut. It also initiated and produced projects for Australia's overseas diplomatic missions.[11][12]

In 2012 Australia Unlimited, the national branding campaign promoting Australia's most inspiring achievers, featured Ivanova's blockbuster exhibition 'Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia' at MOCATaipei.[13] The piece was narrated by art historian Edmund Capon.

Ivanova is the first and only foreign curator to travel across Taiwan to work with the Taiwanese aborigines, researching artists from every tribe.[14] She has become a passionate advocate for the preservation of local indigenous heritage. In a public statement she says: "Elders are dying out without their knowledge being recorded. This common to all humankind heritage is becoming endangered and it could disappear within two generations. It needs all the international attention it could get. I'm compelled to do my part."[15] Her pioneering work was recognised in the inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards.[16]

In recognition of her cultural work in Taiwan, Ivanova received a scholarship from the Taiwanese government to undertake Chinese Language studies at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, which came to fame as the college of Australia's Chinese-speaking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Over the course of her career Ivanova has received over 55 awards from national and international institutions, becoming the most successful independent curator in Australia.

In 2016, Annie Ivanova became the first cultural representative to receive the prestigious ANZ Chamber of Commerce Business Award for "outstanding contribution the Australia-Taiwan Relationship".[17] She is also the only businesswoman awarded that year. Annie Ivanova is also the Regional President of Asia Designer Communication Platform.

Personal life

Annie Ivanova was born in Tryavna, Bulgaria to an artistic family. Her father was an industrial designer and her mother drama teacher. Her grandfather had a professional photographic studio in the 1930s. During the 1989 revolution Ivanova was working as a junior reporter, assisting Reuters photographer Oleg Popov. She was a front-line witness of the dramatic events leading to the collapse of communism in Sofia. Soon after, with the help of a colleague, she moved to London where she studied design at the London College of Fashion. In 1994 Ivanova immigrated to Australia.

Ivanova identifies herself as an Australian of Bulgarian heritage. She has commented that her international work has always been about 'persuading through culture and ideas that reach across borders'.[18] She has said the Balkan atrocities of the 1990s have left a very deep mark in her mind, becoming a motivational force to pursue a career in international relations.

Following long term interests in Asian culture, since 2010 she has been living between Melbourne and Taipei. The Chinese name given to her by a friend is 易安妮 (Yì Ānnī). Yì was taken from the character in I-Ching "Book of Changes" as an auspicious match. In Taiwan she is known by her Chinese name.[19][20][21]

Taiwan by Design

Annie Ivanova is the acclaimed author of "Taiwan by Design: 88 products for better living"[22] the first comprehensive design book from the Beautiful Island. The project took 2.5 years to complete and run a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign raising NT 1,500,000.[23] The North American release of the book featured on CNN,[24] and it was reported as breaking news by all major newspapers [25] in Taiwan.

Significant Exhibitions

DateMuseumExhibitionNotes
2017ART TAIPEI 2017GLOBAL PUBLICSInternational Exhibition[26]
2016Home HotelLiving with DesignTaiwan Design Exhibition[27][28][29]
2014Taipei 101Gifts from the Star[30]Taiwan Creative Industries Christmas Show
2013Institute of Contemporary Arts SingaporeIlluminations[31]Taiwanese Media Art
2013Taiwan Culture and Creative Platform FoundationVibrant Vision[32]1st International Curator
2012Museum of Contemporary Art TaipeiWonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia[33]"Best Art Exhibition Spring 2012 in Taiwan"
2011Ars Electronica, LinzFutureLab 2[34]Founder, Australian Art Residency
2010Taipei World Trade Centre, TaipeiEncoded1st Australian Media Art Exhibition
2009Aros Kunstmuseum, AarhusEnter Action[35]Novamedia: Mari Velonaki
2009Embassy of Australia, Washington DCImpact by Degrees[36]Key public diplomacy event prior to UN Climate Change Summit COP15
2008Alexandra Institute, DenmarkImpact: Living in the Age of Climate Change[37][38]Nordic Exhibition of the Year; Novamedia: development
2008Ars Electronica Centre, LinzFutureLab 1Founder, Australian Art Residency
2007Ars Electronica, LinzSecond Life: Havidol[39]Novamedia: Justine Cooper
2007Biennale of Electronica Art PerthStillnessInternational
2007Australia Council for the ArtsStrange Attractors[40][41]Novamedia: showcase
2006Zendai Museum of Modern Art, ShanghaiStrange Attractors: charm between Art and Science[42][43]1st Art & Science survey
2006Wood Street Galleries, PittsburghCan we fall in love with a machine?Novamedia: Mari Velonaki
2005World Art Museum, BeijingThe Millennium Dialogue[44]International
2005Australian Centre for the Moving Image, MelbourneGranular Synthesis: Modell 5[45]Australian Premiere
2005The Art Gallery of South Australia, AdelaideReactivate![46]International
2005State Library of Victoria, MelbourneThrough the looking glass: Visualising ScienceNational Science Week
2004Ars Electronica, LinzUnnatural Selection[47]1st Australian Media Art Exhibition
2004Australian Centre for the Moving Image, MelbourneGameTime[48][49]1st International Game Culture Conference
2004State Library of Victoria, MelbourneReactivate!International
2004Melbourne Art Fair, MelbourneNovamedia1st Media Art Exhibition
2003Barbican Centre, LondonoZoneAustralian Festival
2003Centre Pompidou, ParisoZone1st Australian Media Art Exhibition
2003RMITUniversity, MelbourneMelbourneDAC[50][51]1st Digital Arts & Culture Conference; Novamedia: producer
2003State Library of Victoria, Melbourne+playengines+[52][53]International
2002Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, HobartWild[54][55][56]1st International Media Art Exhibition
2000Next Wave : Wide AwakeHomoGenesis[57]Advertising intervention
1999Village Road Show Cinemas, HobartHomoGenesisAdvertising intervention
1999City of Hobart FestivalDeluge[58]Advertising intervention
1998Plimsoll GalleryExcursive sight[59]Curator: Raymond Arnold

International Curator-in-Residence

DateResidenceCountryAward
2016Home Hotel [Da.An]TaiwanHome Hotel
2011Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei[60]TaiwanAsialink
2008Alexandra InstituteDenmarkDanish Arts Council
2008UNESCO Suomenlinna ResidenceFinlandForeign Ministry of Finland
2007Ars ElectronicaAustriaAustralia Council for the Arts

References

  1. ↑ Australia-Taiwan Business Council, Ms Annie Ivanova, Cultural Ambassador
  2. ↑ Australia Unlimited global campaign http://www.australiaunlimited.com/culture/wonderland-art-experience
  3. ↑ Embassy of Australia, Vienna http://www.vienna.mission.gov.au/files/vien/AustralianEmbassyNewsletter_AUG_SEP%202011.pdf
  4. ↑ Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia-China Council https://www.dfat.gov.au/acc/corporate-information/annual-reports/acc_annual_report_05-06.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.artsdealer.net/2010aaeft/speaker_AntoanettaIvanova_en.htm
  6. ↑ International Digital Arts & Culture conference, MelbourneDAC 2003
  7. ↑ Dwyer, Michael (9 November 2004). "Serial game player". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. ↑ Strange Attractors 2006, ZendaiMOMA Shanghai, China in partnership with The University of Western Australia
  9. ↑ ‘Interplay of Perspectives: History, Art & Culture + Science’, The Smithsonian Institution Washington, 2010 Report
  10. ↑ Gye, Lisa (Aug 2004). "Novamedia: an Australian first". RealTime. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  11. ↑ Pierce, Julianne (Feb 2011). "Making it Internationally in Media Arts". RealTime. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "Impact by Degrees (Press)" (PDF). Embassy of Australia, Washington. Sep 2009.
  13. ↑ Australia Unlimited, Culture, 'Wonderland: the art of experience' 10 Apr 2012 http://www.australiaunlimited.com/culture/wonderland-art-experience
  14. ↑ "原原不斷─原民當代藝術大展". China Daily News. 7 May 2013.
  15. ↑ "Vibrant Vision exhibition introduction". Taipei. May 2013.
  16. ↑ "ANZ Chamber of Commerce, Outstanding Contribution Award 2016".
  17. ↑ "2016 ANZ Chamber of Commerce, Business Excellence Awards (Chinese)".
  18. ↑ http://www.annieivanova.com
  19. ↑ http://www.tfam.museum/Exhibition/Exhibition_page.aspx?ddlLang=zh-tw&id=507&allObj=%7B%22JJMethod%22%3A%22GetEx%22%2C%22Type%22%3A%221%22%7D
  20. ↑ http://www.chinigallery.com/index.php?lang=tw&do=comments_detail&artid=13&id=24
  21. ↑ http://www.tccpf.org.tw/media.php?gid=25da7922-1c54-11e3-b357-aa00b0533d01
  22. ↑ http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo26347476.html
  23. ↑ https://www.zeczec.com/projects/taiwan-by-design
  24. ↑ "Made in Taiwan: From mass manufacturing to high design". CNN. 7 September 2017.
  25. ↑ "台灣製造到台灣設計 老外讚美文登CNN". United Daily News. 8 September 2017.
  26. ↑ "2017台北國際藝術博覽會 四大展區「藝廊集錦」「藝術前線」「藝景無界」「新秀登場」令人驚艷". CWNTP. September 2017.
  27. ↑ "想用英文行銷台灣設計-官方卻只願贊助中文版". United Daily News. 13 August 2016.
  28. ↑ "整個房間都是台灣好設計：Home Hotel X Taiwan by Design「日常設計 Living with Design 展」". Everyday Object. 17 August 2016.
  29. ↑ "「台灣設計可以更有自信！」專訪首位成功環島、深度描繪台灣設計的國際級策展人 Annie Ivanova（易安妮）". MOT Times. 13 October 2016.
  30. ↑ http://www.annieivanova.com/creative-exports.html
  31. ↑ http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/Events/EventDetail/ILLUMINATIONS-Taiwanese-Media-Art-Exhibition
  32. ↑ "原原不斷─原民當代藝術大展". China Daily News. May 2013.
  33. ↑ Grace, Helen (June–July 2012). "The noise and feeling of thought". RealTime. p. 17. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  34. ↑ "Ars Electronica : Jon McCormack, blog".
  35. ↑ "Archive Digital Art Now". Art Tattler. 2009.
  36. ↑ "National Library of Australia Archive". September 2009.
  37. ↑ Hermansen (28 January 2008), T. Jyllands-Posten ‘Kunst pa kilmmamission’
  38. ↑ T. Jyllands-Posten ‘Kunst, der virker’, 28 January 2008
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  41. ↑ http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/32035/Australia_Council_2005-06_Annual_Report_7_GRANTS_LIST.pdf
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  43. ↑ Conner, Amanda (14 July 2006). "Weird science". China Daily. Shanghai. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  44. ↑ "The Millennium Dialogue: In the Line of Flight". V2_Institute for the Unstable Media. The Netherlands. June 2005.
  45. ↑ Keith, Gallasch (January 2005). "Gutspeak, word song". RealTime 62.
  46. ↑ Nunn, L. (23 February 2005) "The Advertiser" 'Playing the game is an art'
  47. ↑ Ivanova, A.; Cavallaro, A., eds. (2004). "Unnatural selection". Novamedia.
  48. ↑ Dwyer, Michael (9 November 2004). "Serial game player". The Age. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  49. ↑ Safe, G. (7 October 2004) The Australian, 'Festival celebrates novel visions of creativity'
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  51. ↑ Miles, A. (2003) Openline Magazine, vol. 11, no 3, 'Conference draws digital leaders', p 9
  52. ↑ Wertheim, Margaret (18 May 2003). "Science & Society: 'Melbourne were virtual reality is a virtue'". The Age. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  53. ↑ Desktop Magazine, 'Revving up for fun', May 2003, pp. 50–53
  54. ↑ Read, G. (2 February 2002) The Mercury 'Seeing art's future'
  55. ↑ Rankin-Reid, J. (10 February 2002) The Mercury, 'Wild about e-art' p. 11
  56. ↑ Read, G. (2 February 2002) The Mercury 'Artists switched on to electric display', p 6
  57. ↑ Klaosen, D. (June 2000), RealTime 'Antoanetta Ivanova: Wide Awake’, interview
  58. ↑ The Mercury ' Refugee pain bleeds from fringe image', 26 January 1999
  59. ↑ "Excursive sight: contemporary prospect/historic precedent". University of Tasmania. 1997. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  60. ↑ http://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/residency_program/past_residents/past_writing_residencies2/taiwan/antoanetta_ivanova_2011
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