We are delighted to announce that AoMO2018 will host an immersive orchestral experience at the Brighton Pavilion on Friday 31st August.

World leading conductors Gloria and John Burgess will lead an inspiring immersive event which will see delegates experience up close and personal the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra!

Mike Reinstein: Song writing

Mike Reinstein will be running a song writing workshop on Thursday 30^th September at 3pm and will be encouraging impromptu musical performances throughout the conference! Please bring along your musical instruments to join Mike.

Sam Warren: Artisan Techno

Sam Warren is Professor of Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management at Portsmouth Business School, UK. Her research interests lie at the intersection of aesthetics and capitalist economy, and she is best known for her foundational work on visual and sensory methodologies in the business and management fields. At this year’s conference she will play a live, audio-visual DJ set showcasing ‘artisan techno’ alongside findings from her research into the ‘grass roots creative labour’ of DJs in underground electronic music scenes. A life-long fan of electronic music, Sam finally felt brave enough to start teaching herself to DJ four years ago, and is now beginning to produce her own tracks. She is using this process to generate auto-ethnographic data on the transgressive experience of being a female electronic music producer in an overwhelmingly male dominated industry. Ongoing commentary on this project can be read at www.samwarren.net and you can hear more of Sam’s mixes at https://soundcloud.com/wammycat

To showcase data from a project exploring the challenges and opportunities facing ‘grassroots’ creative workers in a digital age and in the spirit of the conference theme of ‘performance’ Sam Warren will play a DJ set of approximately 30 minutes accompanied by a visual presentation. Sam will only play tracks released by small independent producers, (many of whom are informants of the study) in order to bring the data ‘sensually alive’ through music and dance. It is also offered as a fun social event, and the music style will be funky, melodic and groovy techno.

Prof Sam Warren will perform ‘Artisan Techno’ DJ set on Friday 31^st August at 9pm

“We’ve had 30 years of Arts in Management and the World is getting worse…”

Richard Olivier will speak about his journey – from being born in Brighton the son of leading actors, to a Theatre Director, to a Leadership Consultant, outlining some of the key inspirations and frustrations along the way. He will share recent explorations into the application of Archetypal Psychology and Archetypal Cosmology for Personal and Professional development. The talk will highlight the need for both leaders and those utilising arts in organisations to learn how to become ‘evolutionary field generators’ – capable of creating space where the future can be imagined, ‘pre-sensed’ and ‘acted in’ at a crucial time in human history.

Awarded Thought Leader 2013 by the Best Practice Institute, Richard Olivier is Artistic Director and founder of Olivier Mythodrama and works internationally as a leadership development consultant. He is the founding voice within Mythodrama – a new form of experiential learning which combines great stories with archetypal psychology, creative exercises and breakthrough coaching techniques to explore the complex issues faced by modern leaders.  From 1998-2003 he was the Master of Mythodrama at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and is an Associate Fellow of Said Business School, University of Oxford. He is the author of “Inspirational Leadership – Henry V and the Muse of Fire” & co-author of “Peak Performance Presentations – How to Present with Passion and Purpose”. He recently co-founded the C21st Leadership Lab and is writing a new book to be published in 2019 with Laurence Hillman, working title; “Archetypes at Work – evolving our stories…”

Richard will present his keynote address on the 30^th August 2018 at 5.30pm in the Sallis Benney Theatre

Once again, as we gather to explore our work as AoMO creatives, we invite you to join in and be creative in an interactive art piece situated at the heart of the conference. This artistic project; a sculptural experience based on the theme “Cultural identity and sense of space”, will be kick started at the formal opening of the conference and run throughout the days we spend together.  We encourage you to please bring a rock which symbolizes your home (however you conceptualize “home”), as these rocks will ground us and support our evolving sculpture.
The intention of the project is to give participants space for individual creative expression as well as a longitudinal experience of how creative processes evolve. This will be facilitated through a space where you can create and reflect; a place where the use of different materials can express and embrace your experiences from the conference.

The project will be located in the heart of the conference, both physically and emotionally.  This will provide you with the opportunity to modify the “self-sculpture” as the conference strengthens responses evolving among you as AoMO participants.

An introduction to the ‘Sculptural Experience’ will take place on Thursday as part of the formal opening of the conference. You will have the opportunity to collect your self-sculpture materials and then contribute to the community art building experience throughout the conference programme. Please visit and re-visit us and your sculpture. On Sunday morning, we will hold a debrief providing you with an opportunity to see, feel and share in each other’s experiences and understand a little more about the evolution of the community installation.

With just 63 days to go until AoMO2018 begins …

• You can access the latest version of the conference programme below. Please note there have been substantial changes made to the previous version. If you spot any problems please email jenna.aomo@gmail.com asap

                   AoMO Draft Programme 280618

• Earlybird registration closes on July 1st. You can register at https://artofmanagement.org/2018/02/22/registration-now-open-for-aomo2018/

• Remember to sign up to any of the pre-conference masterclasses you need to email aomo2018@gmail.com and/or arrive at the School of Art, Grand Parade, Brighton prior to the session start time.

• If you are exhibiting at the conference you will be able to set up on Wednesday 29th (pm) or Thursday 30th (am).

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