PROGRAMME 2012-2013
SEANCE 1 : 5 December 2012 9 :00 - 17 :00, Room Mondrian 646A (6th floor)*
: : Electricity and imagination
09 :00 - 9 :30
Koen Vermeir (SPHERE), Christian Carletti (SPHERE)
Electrical machines and imagination
09 :30 - 11 :00
Paolo Brenni (National Research Council - CNR, Florence)
Fairies, Lightnings and Dynamos : Symbols and Allegories in the History of Electricity
Ulf Otto (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim)
‘Pandora oder Götter-Funken’. Electricity as Pantomime
11 :00 – 11 :30 break
11:30 – 1:00
Christine Blondel (Centre Koyré, Paris)
Which Representations for Electrical "Healing Machines" in Late 19th Century France : Between Scientific Precision, Consecration and Nightmare
Baptiste Brun (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
Art brut and electricity : an anti-modern iconography ?
13 :00 – 14 :30 lunch
14 :30 – 16 :00
Remko Scha (University of Amsterdam)
Electric Power and the Human Body
Sam Halliday (Queen Mary, University of London)
Bipolarity and Sexuality
16 :00 – 16 :15 break
16 :15 – 17 :00
Laura Ludtke (University of Oxford)
Electric Lights, New Mesmerism, and the Spectacle of Science in Richard Marsh’s ’The Beetle’ (1897)
SEANCE 2 : March 15 and 16 2013 session at Academia Belgica, Roma
: : Deus in Machina : Machines, Theatre and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Organized in collaboration with the project "La société du spectacle : La fête baroque entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas (1585-1685)"
This seminar session consists of a double workshop, in two days, with each day covering a distinct research question. The talks of the first day will consist of historical studies of the technical artifacts involved in religious theatres and feasts. The second day will consist of a reflection on the possibility, challenges and problems of reconstructing the technical aspects of such a spectacle, and what can be learned from such reconstructions. On the second day, there will also be a few brief student presentations on the architectural, artistic and theatrical stakes involved in reconstructing baroque spectacles. The workshop is situated in a series of events, organized by the project "La société du spectacle : La fête baroque entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas (1585-1685)", which also sponsors the financing of this double workshop.
Confirmed speakers are :
Giuseppe Adami (Archivio Compagnoni Floriani, Macerata) ; Stijn Bussels (Leiden) ; Maarten Delbeke (Gent/Leiden) ; Philine Helas (Rome) ; Alexandre Neuwahl (Florence) ; Davide Russo (Vinci) ; Viktoria Tkaczyk (Amsterdam/Berlin) ; Bram van Oostveldt (Amsterdam) ; Koen Vermeir (SPHERE) ; Stefan Weinzierl (Berlin).
Monday 10 June 2013 9 :00 - 17 :00, Room 437A (4th floor)*
: : La machine et les 5 sens
10 :00
Matt Jordan (PennState)
All is quiet in the machine : Noise cancellation technology and the new quietism.
11 :00 – 11 :15 break
11:15 – 12:15
Sylvie Allouche (Bristol)
Imaginer l’extension technologique de la perception.
14 :00 – 15 :00
Uta Kornmeier (ZFL, Berlin)
Seeing through. Sculpture and x-rays.
15 :00 – 15 :15 break
15 :15 – 16 :15
Charles Lenay (UT Compiègne)
Substitution sensorielle ou suppléance perceptive. Approche minimaliste
