PROGRAM
The schedule is subjected to changes.
FRIDAY
13 February
13 February
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MORNING |
8:30 - 9:30 |
Registration & Coffee |
9:30 - 10:00 |
Opening address |
10:00 - 12:30 |
Session 1 Embodied Processes: Reconstruction, Mediation, and Experimental Methods Emily Hirsch (Brown University) - Art history Lucas Faydherbe and the Creativity of Clay in Rubens’ Workshop Devin Jernigan (Yale University) – Architecture Unraveling the Canvas: Interdisciplinary Methods for Recovering Lost Tent-Making Knowledge Katerina Bong (University of Toronto) – Architecture Soil as Active Material in Early Modern Ferrara Anna Riley (Harvard University) - History of Science Quartz Pebbles and Plant Ash: Cinematic Salvage in Herat |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch Printmaking pop-up with Athena Press |
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AFTERNOON |
2:00 - 4:30 |
Session 2 The Chemistry of Art: Scientific Approaches to Artistic Production Victoria Pfeifer (Louisiana State University) - Art History Poisonous Pigments in Medieval Painting Olivia Massey (Cornell University) – Archaeology Pigments and Prestige: Tracing Economic and Material Networks in the Production of Roman Wall Paintings at the Vacone Villa Han-Chun (Joanna) Hsieh (National Taiwan University) - Art History Reinventing the Pink Glaze: Experiment, Knowledge, and Material Modernity in Japanese Ceramics and Its East Asian Diffusion, 1880s-1940s Jasper Montgomery (Queen’s University) - Conservation Science Searching for the Spherulite: Controlling Emerald Green Morphology using Historic Recipes |
4:30 - 5:00 |
Break Printmaking pop-up with Athena Press |
5:00 - 6:30 |
Keynote Prof. Dr. Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University) - History of Science Closing Remarks |
SATURDAY
14 February
14 February
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MORNING |
9:00 - 9:45 |
Registration & Coffee |
9:45 - 10:00 |
Welcome notes |
10:00 - 12:30 |
Session 3 Peripheral Practices and Materials: The Un(der)valued in Art History and Making Sarah Bahm (Syracuse University) - Art history Paracelsus and the Four Evangelists: Medici Porcelain and the Chemical Arts at the Casino di San Marco Ruth Bryant (Utrecht University) - Art History Transforming Baleen: Waste, Recycling, and Artistic Innovation in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands Jo Klevdal (UNC Chapel Hill) - English and Comparative Literature “One Woman’s Necessity to Make a Living”: Universal Limited Art Editions and the Poetic Print Wushuang Tong (University of Edinburgh) - Art Practice Modeling Life: Synthetic Clay between Art and the Life Sciences |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch Printmaking pop-up with Athena Press |
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AFTERNOON |
2:00 - 4:30 |
Session 4 Digital Traces: Material Programming Across New Technologies Iris Bednarski (McGill University) - Art History & Gillian Wagenaar (University of Waterloo) – History Back to the Drawing Board: Alternative Conservation and Digital Restoration of a French Book of Hours Ting-Li Fina Chu (Taipei National University of the Arts) - Museum Studies Curating the Immaterial: Evolving Approaches to Collecting New Media Art at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Hanna McNulty (Durham university) – Archaeology Mammoths and Makers: Exploring Authorship and Artistic Identity in Gönnersdorf Mammoth Engravings (Rhineland, Germany ~15,800 BP) Quanyi Zhao (University of Wisconsin) – Arts Re-Materializing Intangible Heritage: AI Mediation and the Living Craft of Lacquered Leather Trunk Making |
4:30 - 5:00 |
Break Printmaking pop-up with Athena Press |
5:00 - 6:30 |
Round table Material Matters: A Conversation with Experts across the Studio, Lab, and Field A discussion with academic and professional experts on how to engage with materiality and making of art in your own research Moderator Jackson K. Doyle (Rice University) - Art History Closing remarks |
6:30 - 8:30 |
Closing reception |
