Beyond Representation Symposium (Day Three)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
Saturday 29 September, 2012
9:30 - 1:15pm, $0/Rsvp
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
The past two decades have been marked by a renewed concern with the agency, presence, and ontological status of crafted things, witnessed in a shift of interest across several fields from questions of iconography and meaning to questions of affect and efficacy. These developments call into question some of the binary oppositions that are foundational to the epistemologies and ontologies of Enlightenment (and post-Enlightenment) thought: animate-inanimate, subject-object, material-meaning, and so forth. They raise significant questions about the nature and operation of things in the world, their materiality, their ability to act or inspire action, and their relation to speech, texts, and words. Acknowledging the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the profound questions raised by these developments, the conference aims to examine the historical antecedents for these 'new' ways of thinking about the material world, to consider their implications, and to imagine the ways in which they might help us develop novel approaches to images, things, and words.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9:30am-1:15pm
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lecture Hall, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Saturday’s morning session at the Institute of Fine Arts is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this session, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-beyond.htm or email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Beyond Representation" in the subject line.
9:30am
Coffee
10:00am
Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)
Animist (Re)turns: Shifts in Approaches to Objects in Turn-of-the-Century Histories of Art
10:45am
Caroline Walker Bynum (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
The Paradox of Aniconic/Iconic Materiality in the Middle Ages
11:30am
Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
The Hand Axe and the Anthropology of Picture Act
12:15pm
Christopher Wood (Yale University)
Closing Remarks
12:45pm
Discussion
Please note: seating in the Institute of Fine Arts' Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. Due to restricted capacity regulations, we will provide a simulcast of the lecture in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow from the Lecture Hall.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9:30am-1:15pm
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lecture Hall, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Saturday’s morning session at the Institute of Fine Arts is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this session, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-beyond.htm or email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Beyond Representation" in the subject line.
9:30am
Coffee
10:00am
Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)
Animist (Re)turns: Shifts in Approaches to Objects in Turn-of-the-Century Histories of Art
10:45am
Caroline Walker Bynum (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
The Paradox of Aniconic/Iconic Materiality in the Middle Ages
11:30am
Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
The Hand Axe and the Anthropology of Picture Act
12:15pm
Christopher Wood (Yale University)
Closing Remarks
12:45pm
Discussion
Please note: seating in the Institute of Fine Arts' Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. Due to restricted capacity regulations, we will provide a simulcast of the lecture in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow from the Lecture Hall.