From: Anna Dezeuze <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 14 February 2005 16:46
Subject: experimentalism
Experiment-Experimentalism
An international interdisciplinary conference on science and the avant-garde
Manchester Museum, Manchester, 11-12 March 2005
Artistic practices are often described 'experimental,' but what exactly
is the nature of relations between art and the notion of experimentation
in science?
The conference Experiment-Experimentalism aims to explore this question
by bringing out rigorous, parodic and poetic connections between
experimentalism in the sciences and in the visual arts from the early
twentieth century to this day. Bringing together historians, art
historians, historians of science and technology, artists and
philosophers, this conference will seek to track the migration of such
terms as 'research' and 'experiment' from science to cultural spheres,
and to address different issues and themes such as the emphasis on
process over results, as well as notions of chance and risk in the
avant-garde and science.
Speakers will include art historians Stephen Bann, Anna Dezeuze,
Caroline Jones, David Lomas, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Astrid Ruffa and
Aris Sarafianos; historians of science Cornelius Borck, Robert Brain,
Ilana Löwy, John Pickstone, George Rousseau and Joseph Wachelder;
philosophers Peter Osborne and Elie During; literature historian Jeremy
Stubbs, and artist Mark Dion.
Conference fee (including lunch and coffee): Stlg 40 (Stlg 20 students).
For the provisional programme and registration form, please visit our website at
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/news/events.htm
To book a place, or find out more, please contact Ann Kirkham at
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The conference is organised by the AHRB Research Centre for Studies of
Surrealism and its Legacies in collaboration with the Centre for the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of
Manchester.
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Anna Dezeuze,
Research Fellow,
AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies,
School of Art History and Archeology,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
UK
tel. +44 161 275 0303
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