Roshini Kempadoo, State of Play: Technologies, Diaspora and Caribbean visual culture  Kempadoo’s contribution will explore ways in which Caribbean diasporic artists (as first/second generation British Caribbean/Canadian artists) engage and respond to the work by emergent Caribbean artists practising in the Caribbean.

On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’. This is part of a two-year international research project led by Dr Leon Wainwright (The Open University, UK), with Co-Investigator Professor Dr Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden University), funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).