Experimental Cultures: Mergers of Art and Science
6th Annual Graduate Symposium, Department of Art, University of Toronto
January 27, 2012, 9am-5pm
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle?Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7

9:15 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
Nina Amstutz, Symposium Chair

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Vision
Moderated by Professor Jordan Bear

Justina Spencer (Oxford University), “Peeping into Perspective: Cigoli's Perspectograph and Early Modern Perspectival Technology”

Nicole Jeri Bass (Yale University), “Hitting the Mark: The Photographs of Horatio Ross”

Sarah Dillon (The Graduate Centre, CUNY), “Relics on View: The Optical and Spiritual Implications of Transparent Glass in Trecento Reliquaries”

11:30 – 1:00 Panel 2: Mind and Body
Moderated by Professor Alison Syme

Tessa Hawkins (University of Alberta), “(Ab)normal Figures: Anatomical Plastination in BODY WORLDS”

Sally McKay (York University), “Art and Agency: An Neuroaesthetic Analysis of ‘Talk Show’ by Omer Fast”

Stephanie O'Rouke (Columbia University), “Between Text and Image: The Physiognomic Pursuit of Knowledge”

2:00 – 3:30 Panel 3: Technology
Moderated by Professor Mark Cheetham

Charlene Lau (York University), “Artist-Engineer: Arcangelo Sassolino's Robotic Art”

Helen Gregory (University of Western Ontario), “Transgenesis and the Chimaera in Contemporary Art”

Tina Rivers (Columbia University), “ ‘Lights in Orbit’: Tech Art and the Two Cultures”

4:00 – 5:00 Keynote address
Professor Cathleen Hoeniger, Queens University, “Napoleon, Science and the Art of Modern Rome”

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