ICAPAS Webinar 2020

"We wish for ICAPAS to become a driving force on the emergence of academic atmosphere and the raising of intellectual passions especially among (students of) art studies, which will lead towards passions on research and academic writing.", said Dr. Fortunata Tyasrinestu, M. Si. as Director of the Postgraduate Program at ISI Yogyakarta, opening the event. International Conference for Asia Pacific Arts Studies (ICAPAS), an annual international conference, via Zoom on Wednesday (14/10/2020).

The webinar, which carries the theme "Arts in Our Changing Environment", took place for two days on October 14-15, 2020. ICAPAS 2020 presents keynote speaker from two different countries and are speakers who are competent in their fields, namely Dr. Danny Butt from University of MelbourneAustralia and Dr. Phakharawatt Sittiprapaporn, Ph.D. who is from Brain Science and Engineering Innovation, Mae Fah Luang UniversityThailand. Beginning with Keynote Speech titled "Deinstitutionalizing the Archipelagos of Artistic Research" by Dr. Danny Butt and followed by keynote speech from Dr. Phakharawatt Sittiprapaporn entitled "Neuroscience of the Arts: Challenging the New Normal Education Program".

The ICAPAS 2020 webinar was attended by 12 selected presenters and witnessed by 114 participants. The twelve selected panelists with different backgrounds (fine arts, dance, design) presented their interesting and unique concepts and research results, coupled with direct feedback from the audience. keynote speaker to the presenters regarding their presentations and article topics, making this webinar interesting to watch. Participants who followed actively asked questions, both to keynote speaker as well as to the presenter. ICAPAS Webinar 2020 control center

On the second day of ICAPAS, after all the presenters presented and discussed with the participants about their concepts and research results, the program continued with workshop titled "Gamification: Remediating Cognitive Skills for Students with learning Disabilities" by Dr. Phakharawatt Sittiprapaporn and followed by speakers workshop The second is Mr. Hendrik Ronald with the title "DC Psychology: Where Arts and Sciences are Matched". Enthusiastic participants will workshop This was evident in the many questions the participants asked the speakers.

ICAPAS 2020 was closed by the Chief Organizer, Kurniawan Adi Saputro, Ph. D. with thanks to all parties involved, keynote speakers, workshop speakers, panelists, and participants who faithfully followed ICAPAS 2020 for two consecutive days. Not to forget, Mr. Kurniawan also read out the theme of ICAPAS 2021, "Making Sense of Post-COVID19 World" and was enthusiastically welcomed by keynote speaker and the participants.ICAPAS 2020 closing ceremonial session