Interdisciplinary Workshop

 




















Capturing Metamorphosis: Reconsidering Ancient Media in a Post-Medium Condition

Allard Pierson Museum, Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam

Open event | Entrance free | Reservations: capturing.metamorphosis@gmail.com

24 September, Nina van Leerzaal, Oude Turfmarkt, 127-129 

Programme

09:30 - 10:00 Welcome 

10:00 – 12:30 Panel One           

10:00 – 10:25 Karen Sonik, University of Pennsylvania - Betwixt and Between: Hybridizing the Human in Mesopotamia and Its Minor Arts

10:25 – 10:50 Maria José A. de Abreu, University of Lisbon/Concordia University - Identity, Substitution and the Problem of Origins within Portuguese Modernism

10:50 – 11:05 Break

11:05 – 11:30 Basia Sliwinska, Loughborough University - Metamorphosis of the Sculptured Venus in the ‘Looking-glass’ Reality, Where Everything Seems the Same, Just ‘the the things go the other way’

11:30 – 11:55 Brian Willems, University of Split - Metamorphosis Everyday  

11:55 – 12:30 Discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:15 Panel Two

13:30 -  13:55 Maria Teresa Cruz, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - The Cinematic Synthesis (Before and After Cinema). Media History (Before and After Media)

13:55 – 14:20 Winfred van de Put, University of Gent/University of Amsterdam - Time, Clay and Silver

14:20 – 14:45 Sabina Dorneanu, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Photography and the Mirror of Nature: Medium Metamorphosis as a Platform for a New Conceptual Flexibility

14:45  - 15:15 Discussion

15:15 – 15:35  Break

15:35 – 17:35 Panel Three

15:35 – 16:00 Mark Titmarsh, University of Technology Sydney - Thinking Morphe and Phusis through the Aesthetics of Expanded Painting

16:00 – 16:25 Babette Hellemans, Utrecht University/Université de Lyon - A Fragmented Memory: Experiences of Time in the Thirteenth-Century Bibles Moralisées

16:25 – 16:40 Break

16:40 – 17:05 Esra Sakir, independent artist - Art History in Artwork

17:05 – 17:35  Discussion

17:35 – 17:55 Closing discussion