Kunstakademiet i Trondheim
Image as Vortex: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Question of what an Image is by examining what it does.
University of Oxford, 18th June 2016, 09:30 AM -16:00 PM
Headley Lecture Theatre, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2PH
Programme:
https://conferenceimageasvortex.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/image-as-vortex-program-0519.pdf
09:00-09:30 Poster display preparation
09:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:15 Opening remarks by organising team
10:15-10:45 Keynote speech “Iconic Presence” by Prof. Dr. Hans Belting
Panel 1: Image in/as Art, or Art as Image
10:45-11:00 ‘Images have an almost Nomadic existence’. On three Motivs of Migration in W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz, PD. Dr. Angela Breidbach (Art historian, HfbK Hamburg)
11:00-11:15 Imaginary Property, Prof. Dr. Florian Schneider (Filmmaker and writer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
11:15-11:30 The Metric Basis of Form: Reconceiving Formalist Theories through Perception Analysis, Eugene Han (Ph.D. candidate Art History, Yale University)
11:30-11:45 Panel Discussion moderated by Prof. Dr. John Hyman, Aesthetics, Oxford University
Panel 2: Mental Image and Time Image, or Image in Flux
11:45-12:00 Imagery from Ancient to Modern, and Back, Dr. Matthew MacKisack (Artist and Neuroscientist, Exeter University)
12:00-12:15 The Body as Time Image, Je Yun Moon (Ph.D. candidate and Curator, Goldsmiths College)
12:15-12:30 Drawing out (of) the Image, Dr. Lynn Imperatore (Artist and Art theorist, Independent scholar)
12:30-12:45 Panel Discussion moderated by Prof. Dr. Christopher Morton, Visual and Material Anthropology, Oxford University
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:00 Poster presentations
14:00-14:30 Keynote speech “From an Image to a Binary Black Hole: the History of the First Detected Gravitational Wave” by Dr. Marco Drago
Panel 3: Image in Use, or Non-cortical Image
14:30-14:45 Science or Art? How Numbers and Observations Become Figures, MdL Sousa Fialho (D.Phil. candidate in Cardiovascular Science, Oxford University)
14:45-15:00 Machine Vision: an Artistic Research into Imaging Technologies, Dr. Elke E. Reinhuber and collective (Artists, Nanyang Technological University)
15:00-15:15 Functional Brain Scans and the New Image of Hysteria, Paula Muhr (Ph.D. candidate Art History and Image Theory, Humboldt University)
15:15-15:30 Panel Discussion moderated by Prof. Dr. Damian Tyler, Biomedical Science, Oxford University and Prof. Dr. Anthony Gardner, Contemporary Art History and Theory, Oxford University
15:30-15:45 closing remarks by organising team.
* This conference is co-funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Linacre College Common Room, the Department of History of Art, and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics.