10 Questions: What is Knowledge

Kristy Edmunds, artist, curator, and executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA

Executive and Artistic Director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA

Kristy Edmunds is regarded internationally for her innovation and depth in the presentation of contemporary performing arts. She has also served as the Founding Executive and Artistic Director of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon (1995–2005); Artistic Director for the Melbourne International Arts Festival (2005–2008); Deputy Dean for the College the School of Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne; and Consulting Artistic Director for the Park Avenue Armory in New York (2009–2012).

Victoria Marks, choreographer

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor in the Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance

Victoria Marks, an Alpert Award winner, Guggenheim and Rauschenberg Fellow, and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, has been practicing knowing and unknowing, making dances for stage and film, for the past 37 years. Her work continues to consider citizenship, as well as the representation of disability. Marks’ creative work migrates between choreo-portraits and action conversations for individuals who don’t identify as dancers, and dances for dancers that fuel her inquiries into movement. Upcoming, Marks and Dan Hurlin re-envision Appalachian Spring.  A recipient of numerous grants, fellowships and awards for her work, Marks has also received the Grand Prix in the Video Danse Festival, the Golden Antenae Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for best screen choreography and the Best of Show in the Dance Film Association’s Dance and the Camera Festival along with director Margaret Williams. In addition to teaching in WACD, Victoria serves as Associate Dean in UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture, and as the Chair of UCLA’s Disability Studies minor.

Todd Presner, digital humanist and cultural critic

Associate Dean of Digital Innovation; Adviser to the Vice Chancellor of Research for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Chair of the UCLA Digital Humanities Program; Ross Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages; and Professor of Comparative Literature

Todd Presner's research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography. He is the author or co-author of five books on the topics of urban and digital humanities and Jewish and European history. From 2005-2015, Presner was director of HyperCities, a collaborative, digital mapping platform that explores the layered histories of city spaces. Presner is the project director for “Mapping Jewish Los Angeles,” a digital anthology of 12 interactive exhibitions focused on the history of Jewish L.A., told through archival collections, mapping and data visualizations.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, psychological anthropologist 

Dean and Professor of Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco previously taught globalization and Education at New York University and human development and psychology at Harvard University. As a fellow at Princeton University, Suárez-Orozco worked on issues of education, globalization, and immigration. He is currently co-director of the Harvard Immigration Projects and Immigration Studies at NYU. He blogs for The Huffington Post and has written several books, including Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents and Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue. Arts at the University of Melbourne;and Consulting Artistic Director for the Park Avenue Armory in New York (2009–2012). His areas of expertise include immigration, immigration reform, education, culture, psychology, anthropology, migration, globalization and Latinos in the United States.