We’re delighted to announce the programme for our Technologies of Romance symposium joint with Central Saint Martins School of Art and eedo publishing.

PROGRAMME

10:00 - 10:30 Registration & Coffee

10:30 - 10:45 Welcome by Katy Barrett & Laura Humphreys with Bada Song & Paul O’Kane

Session One: Ecstatic communications Part I
Chair: Matthew Howles, Science Museum

10:45 - 11:05 Elizabeth Bruton - The romance novel and electric telegraphy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
11:10 - 11:25 Catherine Dixon - Technologies of printing type and fonts of Romanticism
11:30 - 11:45 CSM BA Fine Art Students
11:45 - 11:55 Chair Fields Questions

11:55 - 12:05 BREAK

Session Two: Ecstatic communications Part II
Chair: Martha Clewlow, Science Museum

12:05 - 12:25 Fred Lamb - The long exposure - mercury, machines, and messages (performance lecture)
12:30 - 12:40 Bada Song - SEND-IT (video screening)
12:40 - 12:50 Abigail MacKinnon - The BepiColombo ‘model’: looking beyond the ‘original’
12:50 - 13:00 Chair Fields Questions

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK (n.b. lunch is not provided)
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Session Three: Amorous machines
Chair: Shaz Hussain, Science Museum

14:00 - 14:20 Ben Russell - The pursuit of beauty in machine design, 1800-1840
14:25 - 14:30 Rosie Carr - The photocopier who fell in love with me (video screening)
14:45 - 14:55 Chair Fields Questions

14:55 - 15:10 TEA BREAK

Session Four: Romancing the past
Chair: Kendra Bean, National Museum of Science & Media

15:10 - 15:25 Paul O’Kane - The popular past in the work of Elizabeth Price (with screening of a documentation of ‘K’)
15:25 - 15:45 Craig Staff - Something about worlds no longer present: notes on Taus Makhacheva’s Tightrope
15:50 - 16:05 CSM MA Art & Science Students
16:05 - 16:15 Chair Fields Questions

Session Five: The body’s politics
Chair: Jack Davies, Science Museum

16:15 - 16:35 Lee Mackinnon - Repeat after me: the automatic labours of love
17:00 - 17:20 Jon Cairns - Critical closeness, intimate distance: encounters in the love art laboratory
17:20 - 17:30 Chair Fields Questions

Session Five: PLENARY
Chair: Paul O’Kane, Central Saint Martins & eeodo
17:30 - 18:00

Drinks & Book Signing
18:00 - 18:30

Note: Images based on museum objects, made by John Whapham, and used as illustrations in the book Technologies of Romance - Part II, are displayed in the space during the symposium.

18:45 Science Museum’s ‘LATES’ session begins

The programme and abstracts and registration can be found on the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technologies-of-romance-symposium-tickets-51287600594