Ways of Seeing
17 July 2015 – National Maritime Museum
Draft Programme
9.00 Registration, coffee and viewing Unseen: The Lives of Looking [Queen’s House]
10.00 Welcome and Introduction – Katy Barrett
10.10 Keynote Lecture – Dryden Goodwin
11.00 Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Session 1 – Seeing from afar
Luci Eldridge – A Glimpse of Mars through fractured illusion: The Materiality of the stereo image
Emily Casey – Seeing Empire in J.F.W. des Barre’s Atlantic Neptune
William Nelson – Learning to see from above: Eye-witnessing, disorientation, and the aerial view
13.00 Lunch and free time to visit exhibition
14.00 – 15.30 Session 2 – Seeing with the body
Angela Breidbach – Cut and Connect: Some parallels between anatomical section, image montage and the theatre of memory
Maria Hayes – Cubist Ways of Seeing
Quoc Vuong – Are sketches good visual representations of the world?
15.30 Coffee
16.00 – 17.30 Session 3 – Seeing at the surface
Sarah Chapman – The Body which throbs: Photography and graphic intervention
Rahma Khazam – Eluding the All-Seeing Eye
Jacqui Knight – The Contact Sheet in Close Up
17.30 Wrap up and discussion – led by Damian Smith
18.00 – 19.00 Drinks reception