Experimental Cultures:
Mergers of Art and Science
6th Annual Graduate Symposium,
Department of Art,
University of Toronto
January 27, 2012
Location:
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle,
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
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Schedule:
∙ 9:00 – 9:15 Coffee and Registration
∙ 9:15 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
Nina Amstutz, Symposium Chair
∙ 9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Vision
Moderated by Professor Jordan Bear
Justina Spencer, “Peeping into Perspective: Cigoli's Perspectograph and Early Modern Perspectival Technology”
Nicole Jeri Bass, “Hitting the Mark: The Photographs of Horatio Ross”
Sarah Dillon, “Relics on View: The Optical and Spiritual Implications of Transparent Glass in Trecento Reliquaries”
∙ 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and cookies
∙ 11:30 – 1:00 Panel 2: Mind and Body
Moderated by Professor Alison Syme
Tessa Hawkins, “(Ab)normal Figures: Anatomical Plastination in BODY WORLDS”
Sally McKay, “Art and Agency: An Neuroaesthetic Analysis of ‘Talk Show’ by Omer Fast”
Stephanie O'Rouke, “Between Text and Image: The Physiognomic Pursuit of Knowledge”
∙ 1:00-2:00 Lunch
∙ 2:00 – 3:30 Panel 3: Technology
Moderated by Professor Mark Cheetham
Charlene Lau, “Artist-Engineer: Arcangelo Sassolino's Robotic Art”
Helen Gregory, “Transgenesis and the Chimaera in Contemporary Art”
Tina Rivers, “ ‘Lights in Orbit’: Tech Art and the Two Cultures”
∙ 3:30 – 4:00 Coffee and cookies
∙ 4:00 – 5:00 Keynote address
Professor Cathleen Hoeniger, Queens University, “Napoleon, Science and the Art of Modern Rome”
∙ 5:00 – 6:30 Reception
Fine Art Common Room, 6th floor, Sidney Smith, 100 St. George St.
For more information, please contact us at: gusta.symposium@gmail.com
Organized by the Graduate Union of the Students of Art, University of Toronto
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