FYI - looks interesting, wish I could go!
THE ARTWORK BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE 21-22 January 2010 National Gallery of Denmark Web site: www.ant.au.dk/en Aarhus University and the national art museum in Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, are organizing an international conference entitled "The Artwork between Technology and Nature". The conference will take place at the museum in Copenhagen on 21-23 January 2010 and aims to raise questions and debate focused on art history and theory in continuation of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, COP15. The museum will simultaneously be showing two exhibitions that are interesting in this context: Nature strikes back, which deals with concepts of nature in art from the Antiquity until today, and Re:think: Living in the age of climate change, in which contemporary artists comment on global climate changes. The present climate crisis foregrounds the observation that during the last century human technology has come to play a crucial role in the overall behaviour of nature, both as a disturber of ecological balances and as a potential healer of them. Parallel to this development, art seems to have become more closely involved with both nature and technology, challenging, on the one hand, conceptions of art contemplating nature as a distant landscape and, on the other, art as being foreign to the social interaction and physical dynamics of technology. These approaches often highlight art?s critical and reflective function, and yet in art?s very interchange with nature and technology there are certain reminiscences of the ancient and medieval periods in which art and technology were aspects of a common area of cultivated products and their methods ? the Latin ars and the Greek technè ? and in which this area was thought to function according to principles imitating nature. The conference is primarily aimed at the international circles of art historians and other scholars and students interested in the history of ideas, culture, technology and science. The conference is also relevant to all professionals interested in climate issues and conceptions of nature. Interested museum visitors will also find that the conference elaborates on the issues raised by the exhibitions at Statens Museum for Kunst. In addition, the conference is aimed at people interested in contemporary art, current affairs like the climate crisis, and the historical approach to the field of art, nature and technology. Organizers: Aarhus University: Ass. Professor Maria Fabricius Hansen, dr. phil. Professor Jacob Wamberg, dr. phil. PhD student Lisbet Tarp National Gallery of Denmark: Senior research curator Hanne Kolind Poulsen Curator Henrik Holm, PhD See further information and registration at www.ant.au.dk/en PROGRAMME: Thursday January 21 ATMOSPHERES Chair Henrik Holm 09.00 Registration 09.30-10: Welcome /Maria Fabricius Hansen and Introduction/Hanne Kolind and Jacob Wamberg 10.00-10.50: Keynote speaker: James Elkins Unresolved Questions in the Scholarly Representation of Landscape 10.50-11.20: Coffee 11.20-11.50: Kristine Nielsen A Perfectly Nebulous Experiment: The Making of C.T.R. Wilson?s Cloud Chamber 11.50-11.20: Hanna Johansson Rain, Technologies of Observations/Representations and (Landscape) Art 12.20-13.20: Lunch INVENTING NATURE Chair Jacob Wamberg 13.20-14.10: Søren Pold How to Experience Climate Change? Notes towards the Aesthetics and Poetics of Digital Climate Crisis Art 14.10-14.40: Ulrik Ekman Blurred: Mixed Context-Awareness 14.40-15: Coffee 15.-15.20: Henrik Holm: The Order of Things. Matching Artworks with Foucault?s Epistemes 15.20-16.50: Tours with the curators Henrik Holm, Hanne Kolind, and Marianne Torp in the two exhibitions, Nature Strikes Back and Rethink 17-19: Reception Friday January 22 MARVELS AND SYSTEMS Chair Lisbet Tarp 10.15-11.05: Keynote speaker: Lorraine Daston The Passions of the Unnatural 11.05-11.35: Coffee 11.35-12.05: Bjørn Okholm Skaarup Science for the Artist: Artistic Anatomy and Mathematics in the Renaissance Academies of Art, 1563-1609 12.05-12.35: Alisa Luxenberg Botanical Art or (Al)chemical Magic? Nature Printing in 18th-century Spain 12.35-13.35: Lunch HYBRIDS Chair Maria Fabricius Hansen 13.35-14.05: Lisbet Tarp Midas Touch: Nature in the Hands of the Artist and the Alchemist 14.05-14.35: Pernille Leth-Espensen Representations of Science in Art 14.35-15.05: Coffee 15.05-15.35: Michael Dürfeld Artistic Ornamentation between Natural and Artificial Evolution 15.35-16.35: Linda Weintraub Bio Art ? An Ethical Dilemma Panel Discussion Saturday January 23 ENVIRONMENTS Chair Birgitte Anderberg 10.15-10.45: Shannon McMullen The Machine is the Garden: IBA Emscher Park and the Post-Steel Convergence of Art, Nature and Technology 10.45-11.15: Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian Land Art Generator Initiative: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Clean Energy 11.15-11.45: Coffee 11.45-12.40: Keynote speaker: Olafur Eliasson Reflections on my own work 12.40-13.00: Concluding remarks Maria Fabricius Hansen, Henrik Holm, Hanne Kolind, and Jacob Wamberg -- Lauren A Wright 83a Kimberley Gardens London N4 1LD +44 (0)79 8129 2734 laurenawri...@gmail.com
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