[rohrpost] conference: ART AND METAPHYSICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND

[Ingeborg Reichle]

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ART AND METAPHYSICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University 
Bremen May 18-21, 2006

Organised by Profs. Dres. Isabel Wünsche, Paul Crowther, Ursula Frohne


PROGRAM

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Registration
Dinner
Introductory Address: Paul Crowther, “The Intrinsic significance of the 
Image”
Discussion


Friday, May 19, 2006
9:30 - 13:00 three parallel sessions (A) with coffee break

Session A1: Metaphysics and Artistic Meaning I
Clive Cazeau: The end of art: an inadequate metaphysics
Rob van Gerwen: Art and the Metaphysics of Experience
Nicholas Davey: Hermeneutics and Twentieth-Century Art
Jinhee Choi: Formalism and the ‘Metaphysical Hypothesis’

Session A2: Biologistic Ideas in Modern Art and its Critical Discourse
Nicole C. Karafyllis: Nature as artist or engineer? Living entities,
media and reproduction, 1850-1920
Mark Antliff: Framing Intuition: Bergson and the Art of Henri Matisse
Christa Lichtenstern: Henry Moore and Goethe: Some Morphological Aspects
Oliver Botar: Biologism and Modernism: The Case of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Session A3: The Sublime
Cliff McMahon: Diebenkorn, Wallace Stevens, and Ultimate Order
Ian Greig: The Aesthetics of the Sublime in David Bohm's Philosophy
of Physics
Susanne Ackers: Technologies of the Sublime: Immersive Installations
Regine Prange: The American Sublime: Landscape in der Western Film

Lunch


14:30 - 18:00 three parallel sessions (B) with coffee break

Session B1: Metaphysics and Artistic Meaning II
Katerina Reed-Tsocha: Mechanical Reproduction and Twentieth-Century Art
Graham McFee: The Metaphysics of Artistic Meaning
Matthew Rampley: The Beginning of Art
Andrea Rehberg,: tba

Session B2: Organicism in Modern Art and its Critical Discourse
Annika Waennerberg: The History of the Organic: Transformations of a 
Concept
Clemena Antonova: The Organic Art History Writing of Pavel Florensky
Barbara Wittmann: Organicist Concepts in Art Education
Elke Sohn: Building the city as an organism – Organicist concepts in 
German planning after the Second World War

Session B3: Science in Art (and Vice Versa)
Ursula Frohne: Science of the Image
Karen Lang: “Erwin Panofsky, Rosalind Krauss, and the Illusions of a 
Scientific Art History”
Ingeborg Reichle: Is Science the New Art?


Dinner
Keynote Address: Linda Dalrymple Henderson: “Recovering the 
Meta-realities of Modernism -- from Science and Geometry to 
Mysticism/Occultism”
Discussion


Saturday, May 20, 2006
9:30 - 13:00 three parallel sessions (C) with coffee break

Session C1: Metaphysics, Architecture, and the Enclosure of Space
Jale Erzen: Metaphysical Meaning in Late Ottoman Architecture
Alexandra Stara: The Metaphysics of Modernist Architecture
Eliana Perotti: Architecture as a metaphysical metaphor: the 
prefigurative aesthetics of architectural and urban images in Giorgio de 
Chirico’s pittura metafisica
Scott Koterbay: Deconstruction and Architecture

Session C2: Abstract Art, Spiritual Reality, and Infinity
Michael White: Afterimages: Mondrian and Dialectics
Christina Lodder: Kazimir Malevich and Nikolai Fedorov
Isabel Wünsche: The Heritage of the Avant-Garde: Vladimir Sterligov
and his School
Jane Sharp: Abstraction in Central Asia: The Amaravella Group


Session C3: Ontology and Meaning in New Media
Christoph Kluetsch: The Concepts of Information and Aesthetic in Early 
Computer Art Anna Munster: Embodied Ontologies: From Concept to Affect 
and Back Again in New Media
Maria Walsh: Two Thinks at One Time: The Immersive Spectator
Nils Röller: Intensity as a Category in Digital Aesthetics

Lunch

14:30 - 18:00 Discussions with Coffee Break
Round-Table Discussion 1: Metaphysics and Artistic Meaning
Round-Table Discussion 2: Abstract Art
Round-Table Discussion 3: Ontology of New Media

Reception


Sunday, May 21, 2006
9:30 - 12:00 Congress Wrap-Up Sessions



For registration please visit:
http://artmeta.iu-bremen.de
For further information, please contact:
Prof. Paul Crowther, p.crowther at iu-bremen.de <https://webmailer.hosteurope.de/src/compose.php?send_to=p.crowther%40iu-bremen.de>, +49 421 200 3341



Teilnehmer

- Dr. Susanne Ackers, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Mark Antliff, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Clemena Antonova, Oxford University, UK
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Dr. Clive Cazeau, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
- Jinhee Choi, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK
- Prof. Dr. Paul Crowther, International University Bremen, Germany
- Dr. Nicholas Davey, University of Dundee, UK
- Prof. Dr. Jale Erzen, Middle-Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, University Cologne
- Dr. Ian Greig, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- Prof. Dr. Linda Henderson Dalrymple, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Dr. Nicole C. Karafyllis, University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Dr. Christoph Kluetsch, University Bremen, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Scott Koterbay, East Tennessee State University, Johnson TN, USA
- Prof. Dr. Karen Lang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Prof. Dr. Christa Lichtenstern, University of Saarbrücken, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Christina Lodder, University of St. Andrew, UK
- Prof. Dr. Graham McFee, University of Brighton, UK
- Prof. Dr. Cliff McMahon, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, 
Odessa, TX, USA
- Dr. Anna Munster, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Dr. Eliana Perotti, Departement Architektur, Institut gta, ETH 
Hönggerberg, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Regine Prange, University Frankfurt Main, Germany
- Dr. Matthew Rampley, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
- Dr. Katerina Reed-Tsocha, Trinity College, Oxford, UK
- Dr. Andrea Rehberg
- Dr. Ingeborg Reichle, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der 
Wissenschaften, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Nils Röller, Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Jane Sharp, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New 
Brunswick, NJ,  USA
- Dr. des Elke Sohn, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany
- Dr. Alexandra Stara, University of Kingston, UK
- Dr. Rob van Gerwen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
- Prof. Dr. Annika Waennerberg, University of Joensuu, Finland
- Dr. Maria Walsh, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the 
Arts London, UK
- Prof. Dr. Michael White, University of York, UK
- Dr. Barbara Wittmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 
Berlin, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche, International University Bremen, Germany