With the exception of the Opening Session which is being held in the Edinburgh College of Art, all the conference sessions will take place in Old College, South Bridge. Access to the Playfair Library, the Raeburn Room and the conference reception desk is through the Main Reception on the south side of the quadrangle; all the other meeting rooms are in the Law School on the north side of Old College.

 

PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday, 17 September

5 p.m. onwards

Registration at Edinburgh College of Art (enter by Lady Lawson Street)

6 p.m.

OPENING SESSION in Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lady Lawson Street, followed by reception
John Bender and Michael Marrinan: The Culture of Diagram
Chair: John Frow

 

Thursday, 18 September

9 a.m.

SESSION 1: PLENARY SESSION:
Jonathan Crary: Vision between Spectacle and Community

Playfair Library
Chair: John Frow
10.30 a.m. Coffee Raeburn Room
11 a.m. SESSION 2  
  Diagrams and visual communication
Christelle Rabier: Constructing the Surgical Gaze: Visual knowledge in operative surgery (1760-1830)
Bronwen Wilson: Learning How to Read: Print, physiognomy, and recognition at the end of the Renaissance
Moot Court Room
  Microscopes and Macroscopes
Angela Fischel: Microscopic evidence: prints and the reproduction of knowledge in early Microscopy
Jennifer Downes: The astronomer as artist: Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and the problem of accurate representation in seventeenth-century telescopic astronomy
Janet Vertesi: Picturing the Moon: Hevelius' and Riccioli's Visual Debate
Lecture Theatre 183
  Cultures of Mapping
Kathryn Yusoff: The visual mapping of Antarctica as a place in time; from the geological sublime to 'real time'
John Crowley: The Creation of a Global Landscape in British Visual Culture c. 1750-1820
Lorimer Room
  Visual technology and artistic practice
Lyle Massey: Corpus Anamorphosis: The Embodied Space of Renaissance Perspective
Francis Halsall: The Limits to Art History's Perspective

Lecture Theatre 175
Chair: Genevieve Warwick

  Vision and Illusion
Frances Robertson: Vision and Illusion: Photography, the moon landscape and SFX model-making
Vinzenz Hediger: Extending the Realm of the Visible into Prehistoric Times: Natural History and Animal Visibility in the Age of Digital Imaging Technologies
Lecture Theatre 270
  Exhibition and display
Jill Fernie-Clarke: Hierarchy and Display in Painting and Print: Exhibiting Images of the Lower Orders in Late Eighteenth-Century London
Judith Green: Exhibiting Imperial Knowledges: Curious Specimens of China in the 1870s

Playfair Library
Chair: Stacy Boldrick

 

12.30 p.m. Lunch Talbot Rice Gallery
1.45 p.m. SESSION 3  
  Visual geographies
Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh: Visualizing Englishness through the Taiwanese Camera's Eye
Michael Pesek: The boma and the peripatetic ruler. Mapping colonial rule in German East Africa, 1889-1903
Playfair Library
 

The camera's eye
Andrea Nelson: Reading Montage: German and American Photo-Books and the Construction of Historical Memory
Bernhard Malkmus: Photography as suspension of oblivion in the work of W.G. Sebald
Angi Buettner: Haunted Images: The Aesthetics of Catastrophe in a post-Holocaust World

Lecture Theatre 183
  Medicine and technologies of viewing
Katherine Boulay: Perfecting the Match: The Visual Economy of the Fertility Industry
Jennifer Shaw: Alien Life: Ultrasound as Extension of and Challenge to the Medical Gaze
Shannon Lowe: Neurotracing the Brainchild
Lorimer Room
  A social history of viewing - Chair: John Frow
Richard Rushton: Mosaic time of the image
Cheryce Kramer Tight Sight - Liberal Arts in the Service of the Visual Content Industry
René Bruckner: Bergson's Duration and the Disappearance of Ordinary Thought
Lecture Theatre 270
Chair: John Frow
  Image and text in the new media: thinking on screen
Janet Harbord: Diffusion and its discontents: the computer/cinema interface
Orit Halpern and Tal Halpern: Dreams for Our Perceptual Present: Archives, Interfaces, and Networks in Cybernetics
Moot Court Room
  Visual Pedagogies
Judith de Luce: Digital Technology and Seeing the Ancient World Better
Laura Mandell: Critical Mapping, or Spreading out: Meeting the Country House, the Author, and Postmodernity in the MOO
Carlos Monroy, Richard Furuta, Eduardo Urbina and Enrique Mallen: Texts, Images, Knowledge: Visualizing Cervantes and Picasso
Lecture Theatre 175
3.15 p.m. Tea Raeburn Room
3.45 p.m. SESSION 4  
  Diagrams and visual communication
Mary Greig: The Aberdeen Beastiary, Television Soapies and God's Imaginary
Chris Werry: Ocularcentrism, Inscription & the Figure of the Computer in Cognitive Theories of Language
Moot Court Room
  Visual technology and artistic practice
Karl Hansson: The Figural and the Moving Image - Jean Epstein vs. Bill Viola
David Lomas: "Modest 'Recording Instruments'": Science, Surrealism and the Medium of Visuality
Lecture Theatre 270
  The Camera's Eye
Sudeshna Guha: The Camera and the Spade: Photography in the making of archaeological knowledge
Paula Summerly: Anonymising the Patient: Clinical Photography in the late Nineteenth Century
Josh Ellenbogen: Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: Alphonse Bertillon at the Paris Prefecture of Police
Lorimer Room
  Vision and Illusion
Koen Vermeir: The Magic of the Magic Lantern
Uta Kornmeier: 'Embedded' in the French Revolution - Waxworks as reality reports around 1800
Lecture Theatre 175
  Exhibition and display
Cinzia Sicca: "A Warehouse filled with statuary that sent its goods principally to the English and American markets" (J.F. Cooper 1838). The Micali emporium in Leghorn, 1760-1868
Julia Noordegraaf: The Emergence of the Museum in the 'Spectacular' Nineteenth Century
Lecture Theatre 183
Chair: Genevieve Warwick
5.15 p.m. Video Screening: "Standards (A Salute to the 20th Century)"
Luis Valdovino
Lecture Theatre 183
6.00 p.m. Conclusion  
6.30 p.m. Buffet Supper Raeburn Room
8.00 p.m. SESSION 5: CONCURRENT PLENARY SESSIONS:
 
  Martin Kemp: Modelling Set-Ups in Paintings: the cases of Campin and Caravaggio Playfair Library
Chair: Genevieve Warwick
  John Gillies: "Our vacant room", body and space in the early modern world picture Lecture Theatre 175
Chair: John Frow
9.30 p.m. Conclusion  

Friday, 19 September

9.00 a.m. SESSION 6  
  Microscopes and macroscopes
Jutta Schickore: Investigating vision: Thomas Young, Michael Faraday, and David Brewster on microscopical deceptions
Ohad Parnes: The appropriation of the microscopical
Playfair Library
Chair: Genevieve Warwick
  Visual geographies
Beatrice Kümin: From Expedition Drawing to Ethnographic Photography: The Portraits of Brazilian Indians in the 19th Century
Daniela Bleichmar: Viewing as possessing: the visual culture of natural history and the locality of colonial science, 1750-1800
Lecture Theatre 183
Chair: Mark Dorrian
  The camera's eye - Chair: John Frow
Barbie Zelizer: Journalism and the Voice of the Visual
Pia Sivenius: Photography and Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Lorimer Room
Chair: John Frow
  A social history of viewing
Haidee Wasson: Moving Images, Film Libraries, and the Cosmopolitan Home - 16mm in the 1920s
Niamh McCole: The Cinematographe in Rural Ireland 1896-1905
David Hulks: Impermanence and Ephemerality: artistic and critical responses to the emergence of the Electronic Age
Lecture Theatre 270
  Architecture and urban planning in the digital age
Yannis Zavoleas: New Technologies and Identity: new modes of representation in cyberspace
Joanna Weddell: Cybervisuality and Architecture
Jennifer Gabrys: Cité Multimédia: Noise and Contamination in the Information City
Lecture Theatre 175
  Visual pedagogies
Peter McKinney: The visual text. The experiences of collaborative creation of hypertext fiction
John Bonnett: Changing the Aesthetics of History: The 3D Virtual Buildings Project
Moot Court Room
10.30 a.m. Coffee Raeburn Room
11 a.m. SESSION 7  
  Diagrams and visual communication
Elaine Yakura: Visual Presentations as Feature in Information Technology Consulting
Lorimer Room
  Visual technology and artistic practice
Ted Wayland: Turntablism
Miriam van Rijsingen: LabWork: artistic in-sights in medical and microbiological visualisation technologies
Gerhard Lang: How do discoverers discover?
Lecture Theatre 270
  Medicine and technologies of viewing
Heather Delday: Genescapes: visualization and value finding
Meegan Kennedy: The Magic of Figures: Visual Narratives in the Nineteenth-century Case History
Moot Court Room
Chair: Mark Dorrian
  Exhibition and display - Chair: Andrew Patrizio
Samuel Alberti: Viewing pathology in nineteenth-century medical museums
Elizabeth Carlson: Luminous Labyrinths: Mirrored Palaces at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Playfair Library
Chair: Andrew Patrizio
  Cultures of virtual interaction
Stephanie Polsky: Previewing Digital Visual Knowledge
Greg Elmer: Profiling Machines
Michele White: Screen Differences by Design: Rendering Liveness, Presence, and Lived Space through the Internet, Webcams, and Television
Lecture Theatre 183
  Visual Pedagogies
Lindsay Fitzclarence: Dirty Dancing meets Watson's and Crick's theory of DNA: The use of rock musical presentations to promote science and technology in schools
Yvonne Eriksson: The use of pictures in teaching and its relation to scientific illustrations
Maria Teresa di Palma: Vision: Illusion vs Knowledge. Geographical teaching and movies: a new approach
Lecture Theatre 175
12.30 p.m. Lunch Talbot Rice Gallery
1.45 p.m. SESSION 8  
  Microscopes and macroscopes
Mieneke te Hennepe: A view inside the skin: Microscopy and the illustration of diseased skin
Roberta McGrath: Looking for Life: Microscopy and Modernity
Lecture Theatre 175
  The camera's eye
Jeffrey Bleam: Performing Technology: Photography and the Actor's Body in Nineteenth Century France
Rolf Nohr: Picture-it!: "One dime - one minute - one picture"
Damian Sutton: Rustling Leaves and Blimp-shots: CGI, Lumières, and perception after photography
Lecture Theatre 183
Chair: Mark Dorrian
  Image and text in the new media: thinking on screen
Susan Currell: Screening Words: Rapid Reading and Visual Knowledge in America from 1879 to 1940
Charles R. Acland: The Swift View: Tachistoscopes and the Residual Modern
Lecture Theatre 270
 

Logo and brand: advertising and global space
Andreas Kitzmann: The Creativity Age: thinking differently in the Age of Networked Capitalism
Ella Chmielewska: 'Logos' or the Resonance of Branding: close reading of the visual landscape of Warsaw

Lorimer Room
3.15 p.m. Tea Raeburn Room
3.45 p.m. SESSION 9: CONCURRENT PLENARY SESSIONS:
 
  Mark Wigley: Back to Black: Color in the Age of Digital Architecture Lecture Theatre 175
Chair: Stephen Cairns
  Simon During: Miltonic shows: literature, magic and the origins of modern spectacle
Playfair Library
Chair: Genevieve Warwick
5.15 p.m. Conclusion  
7.30 p.m. Conference Dinner - admission by ticket only George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place

Saturday, 20 September

9.00 a.m. SESSION 10  
  Diagrams and visual communication
Alex Purves: Re-viewing the Muse: Cartography and Visual Enquiry in Early Greek Thought
Janina Wellmann: On the pictorial origins of modern biology: Pictorial instructions and developmental thinking
Lorimer Room
  The camera's eye
Susanne Ramsenthaler: Playing at Distance: Photographic Perception and the Aspect of Touch
Joy James: Becoming photographs: imag(in)ing selves
Kelley Wilder: Seeing the Negative
Lecture Theatre 183
Chair: Mark Dorrian
  Vision and illusion
Joseph Wachelder: The origins of rhythm in visual aesthetics
Sudeep Dasgupta: Between the Retina and the Body: Regimes of Visuality and the Truths of Modernity
Rob Shields: Perspective, Remembrance and Techniques of the Virtual
Lecture Theatre 270
  A social history of viewing
Phillippa Plock: Regarding painting through the eyes of a woman. A social technology of gendered viewing in seventeenth-century Rome
Amanda Macdonald: The character of bande dessinée's historical knowledge: technological lag and epistemological anticipation
Michèle Martin: When the illustrated press was a new media: Confrontation between image and text
Moot Court Room
  Exhibition and display - Chair: Andrew Patrizio
Susan Hazan: The Musesphere and the E-Museum
Lecture Theatre 175
Chair: Andrew Patrizio
10.30 a.m. Coffee Moot Court Room
11.00 a.m. SESSION 11: CONCLUDING SESSION
Celia Lury: The brand as a new media object
Tony Bennett: Slow modernism: seeing, evolution and the constitution of society
Lecture Theatre 175
Chair: John Frow
12.30 p.m. Buffet Lunch Talbot Rice Gallery

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