April
14 and 15, 2016
The University of Oregon Art History Association and
Department of the History of Art and Architecture solicits papers for its 12th
Annual Student Research Symposium: “Beyond Sight: Art and the Senses” on April
14-15, 2016. This conference invites a discussion across temporal and
geographic areas of study about how art and architecture can engage, manipulate,
and even disable one’s sensory reactions. In the field of art history, research
on the multisensory qualities of architecture, art, and visual culture has
given rise to new theories about how the different and entangled senses
interact with art and architecture. Since sensory art and architecture are
studied in a variety of fields, “Beyond Sight” invites students across academic
disciplines to contribute papers.
Keynote
Speaker: Dr. Bronwen Wilson, Professor of Art History at University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has recently written about Italian artistic
experiments with physiognomy, zoology, and sensation for her book The Face of Uncertainty as well as the
recreation of temporal experience in her current study “Inscription and the
Horizon in Early Modern Mediterranean Travel Imagery”.
Potential Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Five senses: hearing, taste, smell, sight, touch
- Non-traditional senses: temperature, pain, balance
- Synesthesia
- Sense deprivation
- Multisensory engagement
- Soundscapes
- Modes of seeing
- Multisensory art exhibits
- Performance art and the senses
- Art education/therapy
- Multimedia works
- Neuroscience and embodied sensation
For consideration, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and curriculum vitae as PDF attachments to uosymposium@gmail.com by February 5, 2016. All applicants will be notified by February 19, 2016 and the full paper will be due no later than March 31, 2016. We look forward to your submissions.
Department
of the History of Art and Architecture
5229
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; Phone (541) 346-3675; Fax (541)
346-3636
