Jon Bywater

lives and works in Auckland / New Zealand

Jon Bywater is Programme Leader for Critical Studies and Programme Leader for Studio One at the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. He is also active as a curator, and as a writer on art, music, and theory.

Previously, he has worked as Head of Theory at the UNITEC School of Design, where he collaborated on extensive curriculum design in the Theory area; as a Critical Studies lecturer at Wintec and at the New Zealand College of Art and Design; and as a tutor in Philosophy at the University of Canterbury....

His publications cover contemporary visual art, music, poetry, theory, and education for creative practice, and he has delivered presentations at international events in these fields [...].

[Source: http://www.jonbywater.net/]