About me
Jessica White studied at the school of Music, Media and Performance, University of Salford, Manchester where she received BA (Hons) in Media Performance by adapting screenplay based on Clouzot’s French Film Les Diaboliques and with her dissertation: The changing 'national' identity of France through the Fourth and Fifth republic represented through film. During this time she won three awards for writing: Sony Film Reviewer Award (Sight and Sound competition); a week of master class workshops at the Guardian International Television Festival and an internship at BBC. During her studies, she became centrally concerned with issues of translation of culture and representation. She became increasingly interested in the phenomenon of representations of Orientalism in visual culture. This central theme, led her to continue reporting for the student paper whilst teaching multi-culturalism. In Tokyo, Japan, she researched into the use and creation of visual systems within societies and the translation of these systems with artists and filmmakers in Tokyo. At the University of Oxford she took an M.Sc in Visual Anthropology at The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Pitt Rivers Museum. Here she explored issues of ritual, symbolism, representation, language and concepts of ethnicity, gender and nationalism in relation to Japan, France and the Middle East. She curated and edited film for the Seeing Lhasa Exhibition. During this time she undertook a period as Researcher in Residence at Camac Centre D’Art, Paris. Here she employed Visual Research methods. She continued curating Summer ‘06 exhibition of Leonard Lehrer, an American artist addressing themes of time, religion, memory and intercultural history. She has been involved in curriculum implementation in Japan and continued to implement an interdisciplinary curriculum at ICCM- for the International MBA of Leadership in Culture. In Vienna, she developed and funded her own education projects in association with EDUCULT in Museums Quartier. This project won an award to continue with school in Budapest and Romania with Erste Foundation here he position required developing partnerships with Art Education departments of Cultural institutions, Museums and Schools. She researched, procured artists and art education professionals, developed sponsorship concepts, researched learning strategies and development in Art Education departments of Cultural institutions, developed Art Education materials and methods. Her most recent work has been developing a new strategy, and extensive research on the Waldzell topics and social artistry enterprise field. Jessica White studied at the school of Music, Media and Performance, University of Salford, Manchester where she received BA (Hons) in Media Performance by adapting screenplay based on Clouzot’s French Film Les Diaboliques and with her... (more)