5 November, 2015, 8.45am – 5.00pm

A day-long symposium presented by the Power Institute Foundation, University of Sydney, and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, with support from the Asia Art Archive.

The symposium will be followed by a keynote lecture by professor Caroline Astrid Bruzelius on Digital Thinking and Art History: Re-Imagining Teaching, Research, and the Museum.
Please click here for details and how to register.

Location: Level 6 Seminar Room, Charles Perkins Centre (D17), Johns Hopkins Drive, the University of Sydney

Contact: Ira Ferris
Email: ira.ferris@sydney.edu.au

This is a free event, open to all with online registrations required. To register please click here – http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/power-institute-recasting-the-question

Digital approaches occupy an increasingly important place in the discipline of art history today. Yet their potential remains largely untapped by many in the field. What becomes possible in terms of substantive change in art historical research and understanding? How do these tools change not only the outcomes of our research (i.e., generating new insight or perspectives) but how we think about the material we work upon? What new opportunities for engagement with cultural heritage are made possible by the digital, both within and beyond the museum? How might the digital impact pedagogy, and what careers in the arts should we be preparing our students for? Do these new methods mean leaving behind the approaches of the past, or is there room for both the digital and the analog in art history?

Recasting the Question: Digital Approaches in Art History and Museums is a day-long symposium exploring the application of digitally-based methods to the study and presentation of art and architecture in universities and museums. Bringing together international experts in digital art history and exhibition with leaders in the field in Australia, Recasting the Question offers the opportunity to explore the critical and scholarly issues that animate this emerging discipline through a series of projects focused on art and architecture from Australia and around the world.

Speakers will use current research projects as jump off points for thinking through the ideas and issues that stand behind their projects and how those ideas have evolved from (or relate to) the field as it has conventionally been known and practiced.

CONVENORS:

Stephen Whiteman, Lecturer in Asian Art History, University of Sydney
Robert Wellington, Lecturer at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, Australian National University

SPEAKERS:
Sabih Ahmed, Senior Researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA)
Mitchell Whitelaw, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
Martin Polkinghorne, Lecturer in Archaeology, Flinders University and Director of the Robert Christie Research Centre, Siem Reap
Tom Chandler, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Jaye McKenzie-Clark, Early Career Fellow in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University
John Magnussen, Visiting Professor of Radiology, Macquarie University
Andrew Yip, iGLAM Research Fellow, Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, UNSW
Simon Ives, Paintings Conservator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Ross Harley, Dean, UNSW Australia Art & Design
Tim Sherratt, Assistant Director of Trove, National Library of Australia and Associate Professor of Digital Heritage, University of Canberra
Niall Atkinson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Lisa Beaven, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions, Melbourne University
Darren Jorgensen, Senior Lecturer and Chair of Art History, University of Western Australia
Hussein Keshani, Associate Professor in Art History & Visual Culture, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Glenn Roe, Lecturer in Digital Humanities, ANU Centre for Digital http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/power-institute-recasting-the-question Humanities Research
Caroline Astrid Bruzelius, A. M. Cogan Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University and co-founder of Visualizing Venice and Wired!
DETAILED PROGRAM (please be advised that this program is still subject to change – see the symposium website for any changes)

8.45. | Registration

9.00. | Welcome and Opening Remarks

9.25-10.30 | PANEL 1: New Histories

Digital Archives, Aboriginal Art and Art History
Presenter: Darren Jorgensen, University of Western Australia

24 hours in the life of Angkor Wat
Presenter: Tom Chandler, Monash University
With Martin Polkinghorne, Flinders University

10.30 | Morning Tea
11.00-12.30 | PANEL 2: Digital Approaches to Early Modern Culture

Digital Roman Campagna Mapping Project
Presenter: Lisa Beaven, University of Melbourne

Mapping Florentine Soundscapes: Seeing Sound and Space
Presenter: Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago

Painted Space: 3D modelling Early Modern paintings from Awadh, India
Presenter: Hussein Keshani, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Performing Transdisciplinarity: Image, Music, and Text in Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
Presenters: Glenn Roe, Robert Wellington, and Erin Helyard, Australian National University

Mapping Spatial Narratives at the Mountain Estate to Escape the Summer Heat
Presenter: Stephen Whiteman, University of Sydney

12.30 | Lunch
13.30-14.35 | PANEL 3: New Materialities

Mapping Henry: experimental conservation imaging and art historical attribution
Presenter: Simon Ives, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Andrew Yip, iGLAM Labs, UNSW

Who is Streaming Our Cultural Heritage?
Presenters: Jaye McKenzie-Clark and John Magnussen, Macquarie University

14.35-15.40 | PANEL 4: New Structures

Integrating Open Access Frameworks
Presenter: Ross Harley, University of New South Wales

Visualising a Multilingual Bibliography of Indian Art
Presenters: Sabih Ahmed, Asia Art Archive, and Mitchell Whitelaw, University of Canberra
With Hammad Nasar and David Smith, Asia Art Archive

15.40 | Afternoon Tea

16.10-17.20 | Response & Roundtable Discussion: Perspective and Scale
Chair: Tim Sherratt, National Library of Australia and University of Canberra
Participants: TBC

17.20-17.30 | Concluding Remarks
Stephen Whiteman, University of Sydney

17.30 | Break

18.00-19.30 | Keynote Address
The symposium will be followed by a keynote lecture by professor Caroline Astrid Bruzelius on Digital Thinking and Art History: Re-Imagining Teaching, Research, and the Museum.
Please click here for details and how to register.

Location: Level 6 Seminar Room, Charles Perkins Centre (D17), Johns Hopkins Drive, the University of Sydney

Contact: Ira Ferris
Email: ira.ferris@sydney.edu.au