Artist Residencies international conference, Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies / Res Artis General Meeting 2012 TOKYO will be held from October 26 to October 28. Bringing together speakers from around the globe to offer their perspectives, Res Artis 2012 Tokyo will consider how we can contribute to this vital interchange, assist the trans-national flow of ideas, further the mission and goals of art centers and support residency programs.

Registration from here:

http://www.resartis2012tokyo.com/en/registration/index.html 

This year, two Israeli artists will be joining in this conference.

Nirith Nelson (Art director, JCVA (Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts) residency, Israel)
Nirith Nelson is an independent curator and lecturer. She has curated many exhibitions in the fields of contemporary art and design both in Israel and abroad. Since 2002 she is the Art Director of the JCVA residency program, where international artists and curators are invited for an uninterrupted period of creative work.
Since 2000, Ms. Nelson is a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design focusing on contemporary art and curatorial issues. In the past 13 years she has been the art advisor for the Jerusalem Foundation. In this capacity she has curated Jerusalem’s urban space outdoor sculpture installations as well as initiated, curated, and art directed many groundbreaking activities including: two not-for-profit contemporary art galleries, the “Moonlight Cinema” multi-disciplinary festival and a photography-art collection which became a key collection for Israeli artists’ art-photography. At the debut of her career, Ms. Nelson spent 9 years at the Israel Museum where she curated and lectured.

Anat Litwin (Home base BUILD, Germany)
Anat Litwin is an Israeli American Artist and Curator, working in the medium of paper cut-outs, installation, text, public art and social sculpture. She is the recipient of several awards and her work has been exhibited internationally. She is the founder and artistic director of the HomeBase Project - a nomadic site-specific public art project exploring the meaning of home. HomeBase was founded in 2006 as a artist run nonprofit organization which aims to foster interconnectedness through contemporary art, and over the past seven years it took place in changing neighborhoods in NYC and in Berlin. Currently Anat is co-creating together with theHomeBase team the HomeBase LAB in Berlin as a year round research and residency center, and is building the next HomeBase Project planned to take place in an historic lepers Hospital in Jerusalem.
www.homebaseproject.org