Tuesday, 4 October
11:00 am - 01:00 pm EST
04:00 pm - 06:00 pm BST (GMT+1)
05:00 pm - 07:00 pm CET
Join us this fall for the virtual symposium, Global Conversations: Materiality and Mediation, on October 4, 2022, organised by the Design History Society, the College Art Association, and the International Association of Word and Image Studies. You can register for free to attend this event via this link. This event is free to attend and open to the public. It will take place from 11 am to 1 pm Eastern time.
This global collaborative project brings together three intersecting constituencies—art and design, design history, word, and image studies—to examine how materiality and mediation intersect. The symposium will investigate to what extent are materiality and mediation useful foci in the study of design, word and image? What happens when we bring them together? How do materiality and mediation work in tandem as productive subjects of enquiry? What are the local, regional and international variations in the ways these foci are understood and engaged by design historians and those working in word and image studies?
Four participating scholars will present on the following topics, followed by Q&A and discussion. The event will be recorded and shared online afterwards.
The programme will be as follows:
- “Tavolino di gioie”: The Mediation of Material Techniques in Late Cinquecento Hardstone Inlaid Tables - Wenyi Qian, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Toronto, Toronto
- Mediating the Meaning of Textiles through Exhibition Displays in Israel, 1950s-1970s - Noga Bernstein, Marie-Sklodowska Curie Visiting Researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Made in Japan: Development of the Poster Medium in Japanese Commercial Art and Design - Nozomi Naoi, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College, Singapore and Erin Shoneveld, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director of Visual Studies, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
- Mine Craft: New Design Histories of Mining - Ellen Huang, Associate Professor of Art and Design History, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California and Arden Stern, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Sciences, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Registration
This event is free to attend and open to the public.
You can register for free to attend this event via this link.