Sessions
All papers within each session are listed in the order in which they expect to be presented. This list and the order of presentation are subject to change.
ALL | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY
Redefining Mediterranean Aesthetics
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth; Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus
Christoforos Savva’s "Ifasmatografies" (1959-1968): Avant-Garde on the Periphery, as a Manifestation of "Mediterranean Aesthetics"?
Antonis Danos, Cyprus University of Technology
Wanted! Dead or Alive: The Influence of Politics on Archaeology and Contemporary Art on the Island of Cyprus
Yiannis Toumazis, Frederick University and Pierides Foundation, and
Sophia Antoniadou, Pierides Foundation
Art in the Balkans: The Condition of Contemporary Art in Croatia
Amy Vena, Rochester Institute of Technology
Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing the Mediterranean in Contemporary Greek Art: Kostas Tsoklis, Jannis Kounellis, Dimitris Alithinos
Anna Tahinci, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Digital Representations of Interstitial Spaces between Seas, Lands, and Skies: Artists’ Existences and Aesthetics in the Mediterranean
Lanfranco Aceti, Sabanci University
Sharing the Paradox: How "Mediterranean" Is Mediterranean Aesthetics?
John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth
Happenings: Transnational, Transdisciplinary
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Laurel Fredrickson, Duke University and North Carolina State University; Erin Hanas, Duke University
Destruction as Avant-Garde Creation and Critique: Marta Minujín’s First Happening
Michaela de Lacaze, Columbia University
Guerrilla Tactics and International Happenings: An Expanded View of Brazilian Art of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Happening as Anti-Institutional Strategy: AWC and GAAG Events as Happenings, 1969–1970
Caroline Wallace, University of Melbourne
Yayoi Kusama’s Psychedelic Happenings: Sexual Revolution and Brain Change
Midori Yamamura, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Another Dimension of Happenings in 1960s Japan: The Play’s Voyages into Landscape
Reiko Tomii, independent scholar
The Materiality of Art: Evidence, Interpretation, Theory, Part I
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Francesco Lucchini, University of Warwick; Kathryn B. Gerry, University of Kansas
Memory and Materiality in Ancient Maya Monuments
Megan E. O'Neil, College of William and Mary
Rupestrian Paintings: On the Vibrant Ontology of Picture Making in the Early Modern Period
Christopher J. Nygren, University of Pennsylvania
Shimmer: The Materiality of Domestic Objects in Early Modern England and America
Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ephemeral Materiality: Toward an Understanding of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Ultra-Thin Facture
Gülru Çakmak, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Discussant:Francesco Lucchini, University of Warwick
Deconstructing Costume Histories: Rereading Identities in Fashion Collections and Exhibitions
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Ian McDermott, ARTstor; Consuelo Gutierrez, independent scholar
Inventing Arabian Nights: Twentieth-Century Qatari Dress
Christina Lindholm, Virginia Commonwealth University
“That Continual Vanishing Away”: Aesthetic Dress and Its Absences
Sally-Anne Huxtable, Northumbria University
In Their Shoes: Telling the Histories of the Makers, Sellers, and Wearers of Dress
Elizabeth Semmelhack, The Bata Shoe Museum
Locating Fashion’s Everyday
Cheryl Buckley, Northumbria University
Contemporary Fashion History in Museums: A Case Study of MoMu, the Fashion Museum of the Province of Antwerp
Marco Pecorari, Stockholm University
Historians of Islamic Art Association
The Interconnected Tenth Century
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Melanie D. Michailidis, Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Art Museum; Glaire D. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
China among Equals: Recontextualizing the China-Abbasid Trade Connection in the Long Tenth Century
Hsueh-man Shen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Samanid Silver and Trade along the Fur Route
Melanie Michailidis, Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Art Museum
Islamicizing Ornament in Middle Byzantine Lead Seals: A Tenth-Century Phenomenon
Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
Concealed Faith: The Architectural Realignment of the Fatimid Empire, ca. 1010
Jennifer Pruitt, Smith College
Cordoban "al-Mulk" Wares and Caliphal Rivalry
Glaire D. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Where the Bodies Lie: Landscapes of Mourning, Memory, and Concealment
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum, emeritus; Kate C. Lemay, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center
Civilizing Cemeteries: Portrait Gravestones in Colonial Charleston
Jennifer Van Horn, Towson University
The Corpse Revealed: The Gisant and Modern Memorials at the Fin de Siècle
Caterina Y. Pierre, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
In Flanders Fields: Collection Cemeteries for the German Dead
Karen Shelby, Baruch College, City University of New York
Remembering the Irish Famine: Commemorating the Famine Graveyard and Workhouse, 1990-2011
Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, University College Dublin
Until Death Do Us Part: National Politics, Modern Love, and "Memorial to a Marriage"
Patricia Cronin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Discussant:Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University
ARTspace
Citizen Designer: Authoring a Definition
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Gary Rozanc, Columbia College Chicago; Alyson Beaton, Columbia College Chicago
Patrick Hebert, Art Center College of Design
Ed Akins
Beyond Censorship: Art and Ethics
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Gerald Silk, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Blending Art and Ethics: Marco Evaristti’s "Helena" and the Killing Aesthetic
Jonathan Wallis, Moore College of Art and Design
The Influence of Social Media on Controversy and Censorship in the Work of Guillermo Vargas and Nuno Ramos
Donna Moran, Pratt Institute
Art that Pushes the Envelope: What Does It Achieve?
Joe Zammit-Lucia, WOLFoundation.org
The Ethics of Picturing Suffering
Nora Jones, University of Pennsylvania
Do the Ends Justify the Means? Examining the Ethics of Progressive Art Production
Alexandra Phillips, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Urbanization and Contemporary Art in Asia
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Meiqin Wang, California State University, Northridge
City of Inscription: Phone Numbers and Contemporary Art as Tactics of Inscription
Elizabeth Parke, University of Toronto
Intersections of the Public and the Private: Contemporary Art in Mumbai
Margaret Richardson, Virginia Commonwealth University
To Demolish: Thinking about Urbanization in Rural China through a Collaborative Art Project
Meiqin Wang, California State University Northridge
Black and White and Red all Over: Spaces of Urban Intervention in Beijing "Youth Daily"’s 1994 "Art Interior Design" Series
Peggy Wang, Denison University
Materiality in the City: Vivan Sundaram’s Work with Trash
Karin Zitzewitz, Michigan State University
Discussant:Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University, and
Poyin Auyeung, Manhattan College
Leonardo Education and Art Forum
Headlines! Environmental News, Artist Presenters, Audience Respondents
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Linda Weintraub, Artnow Publications
Chip Lord, University of California, Santa Cruz
Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University
Bright Ugochukwo Eke, independent artist
Fernando Garcia-Lory, independent artist
New York Foundation for the Arts
The Arts and Entrepreneurship: Catalyzing Careers and Communities
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Susan Ball, New York Foundation for the Arts
Peter Cobb, New York Foundation for the Arts
Eleanor Whitney, New York Foundation for the Arts
Fractured Atlas
Fundraising in a Box: Crowdsourcing Microgrants
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Dianne Debicella, Fractured Atlas
This panel focuses on ways that artists can use new and unique web-based tools along with traditional philanthropic incentives to bring in non-traditional funding. Crowdfunding, combined with fiscal sponsorship, is a powerful and effective way to use online social networks to cultivate new donors. The panel will focus on how to successfully use crowdfunding in conjunction with fiscal sponsorship. The panelists will bring their own experiences to contextualize how crowdfunding can amp up a fundraising campaign in a short time frame. Find out how you can make crowdfunding work for you.
Brian Meece, RocketHub
Stephanie Pereira, Kickstarter
Jesse Chorng, independent artist
Association of Art Museum Curators
Mapping Cultural Authority: Revisionism, Provincialism, Marginalization
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Carol S. Eliel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Christa Clark, The Newark Museum
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Museum of Latin American Art
Guerrilla Girls
Georgiana Uhlyarik, Art Gallery of Ontario
CAA International Committee
Internationalizing the Field: A Discussion of Global Networks for Art Historians
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Gwen Farrelly, The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Museum of Modern Art
Kathryn Brown, Tilburg University
Asia Art Archive
Townhouse Gallery "Archive Map" Project
Clare Davies, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Midwest Art History Society
Icons of the Midwest: Henry Fuseli's "Nightmare"
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Laura D. Gelfand, Utah State University; Judith W. Mann, Saint Louis Art Museum
Living with Fuseli's "Nightmare"
Salvador Salort-Pons, Detroit Institute of the Arts
"As I Was Perpetually Haunted by These Ideas": Fuseli's Influence on Mary Shelley's "Mathilda" and "Frankenstein"
Beth S. Wright, University of Texas at Arlington
Dreams, Fiends, and Dream Screens
Scott Bukatman, Stanford University
CAA Education Committee
Who Do We Teach? Challenges and Strategies in Recognizing Our Students, and Developing and Supporting Curriculum for Multiple Constituencies
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Joan Giroux, Columbia College Chicago; Cindy Maguire, Adelphi University
A Foundational Experience
Tera Galanti, California Polytechnic State University
A Holistic Approach to Design Pedagogy
Christopher Moore, Concordia University
The Making of an Artist: The Mockumentary as a Collaborative Assignment for Engaging Diverse Learning Styles and Disciplinary Motivations
Annika Marie, Columbia College Chicago
“Who Are You and How Do You Learn?” An Emergent Ethics of Pedagogy within Graduate Art Education
Nadine M. Kalin, University of North Texas
CAA Services to Artists Committee
[Meta] Mentors: Creating Community-Taking Control of Your Career
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University; Sharon Louden, independent artist
Using Social Networking to Make Connections One Micron at a Time (Twitter, Tumblr, Flicker, Facebook, Delicious, Youtube, Vimeo)
Peter Baldes, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Art of Self Publishing (Blogs, Online Exhibitions and Catalogs, Zines)
Sharon Butler, Eastern Connecticut State University, and
Sharon Louden, independent artist
DIY/Alternative Venues (Pop-Up Shows, Satellite Art Fairs, Art Labs)
Adrienne Outlaw, Seed Space
Alternative Funding (Kickstarters, Indiegogo, Artist Shares)
Melissa Potter, Columbia College Chicago
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
An Element of Risk: Curatorial Experiments in College Art Spaces
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Carin Jacobs, Doug Adams Gallery, Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education
James Harper, University of Oregon
Allison Agsten, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Rinder, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
CAA Committee on Women in the Arts
Ten Years Postdegree: Professional Success of Women Artists and Art Scholars in the Critical Decade Postgraduation
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Donna L. Moran, Pratt Institute; Claudia Sbrissa, St. John's University
Christine Kuan, ARTstor
Jocelyn Foye, El Camino College
Claudia Sbrissa, St. John's University
Katherine Rohrbacher, independent artist
Yao-Fen You, Detroit Institute of Arts
Ali Smith, independent artist
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Feminism and Early Modern Art
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Andrea Pearson, American University
Shaping Feminine Conduct in Renaissance Florence
Jane C. Long, Roanoke College
The Word of God on Women's Shoulders? Pulpits in the Beguine Churches of the Southern Low Countries, ca. 1650-1725
Sarah Joan Moran, Universität Bern
From Early Modern to Postmodern, from Female to Feminisms to Feminizing: Where Do We Find Our Subjects and Ourselves after 100 Years in the College Art Association?
Corine Schleif, Arizona State University
Discussant:Mary D. Garrard, American University
Getty Research Institute
Pacific Standard Time
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Andrew Perchuk, Getty Research Institute
Lucy Bradnock, Getty Research Institute
Jennifer Sorkin, University of Houston
Richard Meyer, University of Southern California
International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Convergent Practices: The Artist as Writer in Latino-America
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Mari Carmen Ramírez, International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; María C. Gaztambide, International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Olga Herrera, University of Notre Dame
Cristina Rossi, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pilar García de Germenos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Radical Art Caucus
Administrative Abuses and Faculty Resistance in the Fine Arts: Case Studies in Academic Labor
Wednesday, February 22, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kaylee Spencer, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Branded and Betrayed: Art Programs and Administrative Actions in Academia
Linnea Wren, Gustavus Adolphus College
The Peacock University: "Thinking Ahead" or "Falling Behind"?
Kelly W. Knox, independent critic
Creators: Those Who Can
Annette Schiebout, independent artist
Discussant:John L. Machado, Chaffey College
About Time in the Ancient Americas
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: William Landon Barnes, University of St. Thomas; Bryan R. Just, Princeton University Art Museum
Expressing Time before the Mesoamerican Calendars
Carolyn Tate, Texas Tech University
History and Time in the Aztec "Codex Borbonicus"
Catherine DiCesare, Colorado State University
Perpetual Histories: Myth Making in the Ancient Andes
George Lau, University of East Anglia
Inka Control of Time
Jessica Christie, East Carolina University
Discussant:Emily Umberger, University of Arizona
National Alliance of Artists from Historical Black Colleges and Universities
Perceptions and Assumptions: Whiteness
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Peggy Blood, National Alliance of Artists from Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Zelana Davis, Savannah State University
Visual Media
Zelana Davis, Savannah State University
Otherness
Deborah Elaine Roberts, independent artist
The Politics of Otherness
Zoë Charlton, American University
Art History Open Session: Renaissance Art
Form and Function: Art and Design?
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Antonia Madeleine Boström, J. Paul Getty Museum
The Separation of Form and Function: Challenging the Historiography of Renaissance Pilgrim Flasks
Annette LeZotte, Wichita State University
Function, Ritual, and Sculpture: Holy-Water Stoups in Early Modern Tuscany
Francesco Freddolini, Getty Research Institute
Treillage in Sixteenth-Century Italy and France: Between Art and Craft
Natsumi Nonaka, University of Texas at Austin
"Modern in an Antique Way": Giulio Romano’s Designs for Living
Valerie Taylor, independent scholar
Winds, Farts, and Bellows: The Airy Imagery of Early Modern Ornament Prints
Madeleine C. Viljoen, New York Public Library
CAA Committee on Women in the Arts
“Necessary Positions”: Intergenerational Collaboration in Feminist Art and Activism
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver
(RE)PRESENT: An Ongoing Intergenerational Collaboration
Nancy Azara, independent artist, and
Katie Cercone, School of the Visual Arts
Still Partying: A Collective Response to Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party"
Margaret Cuonzo and Liz Rudey, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Losing the Mother/Daughter Plot? Bridging the Generational Divide in Feminist Art Practice, Theory, and History
Joanne Heath, University of Leeds
Paradise in Her Hands: Blasts of Inspiration, the Activation of Creative Flow, and the Discovery of the Wonder-Worlds of Fiber
Xenobia Bailey, independent artist
"Necessary Positions:" A Dialogue
Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design, and Andrea Bowers, independent artist
ARTspace
Contemporary Collaboratives and Collectives
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Sharon L. Butler, Eastern Connecticut State University; Micol Hebron, Chapman University
An Xiao, independent artist
Ed Giardina, Finishing School
Nicole Cohen, Berlin Collective
Stephanie Allespach, LA Art Girls
Aaron Koblin, independent artist
The League of Imaginary Scientists
Centennial Session
Performance Evaluations
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Malik Gaines, Hunter College, City University of New York
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Andrea Fraser, University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Kersels, California Institute of the Arts
Tavia Nyong'o, New York University
Re-Viewing Fluxus
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Donna Gustafson, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Jacquelynn Baas, independent scholar
Fluxus 2.0: On the Future Prospects of a Now Historic Nonmovement
Martin Patrick, Massey University
The Fluxus Virtual, Actually
Natilee Harren, University of California, Los Angeles
Re-Collecting Fluxus: Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive
Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute
Go with the Flow: The Impact of Fluxus on a Teaching Museum
Juliette M. Bianco, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Fluxus Re-Viewed
Peter Frank, Riverside Art Museum
Design, from "California Dreamin'" to "Designed in California," ca. 1965-2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: James Housefield, University of California, Davis; Stuart Kendall, California College of the Arts
Simulating Spatial Experience in the People’s Berkeley: The Urban Design Experiments of Donald Appleyard and Kenneth Craik
Anthony Raynsford, San Jose State University
April Greiman and California’s Technology of Enchantment
Elizabeth Guffey, Purchase College, State University of New York
Steve Jobs, Architect
Simon Sadler, University of California, Davis
California Design: What Are We Talking About?
Bobbye Tigerman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making, Part I
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Hana Iverson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Mimi Sheller, Drexel University
In a Network of Lines that Intersect: Placing Mobile Interaction
Teri Rueb, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Situated Mobile Audio
Siobhan O'Flynn, Canadian Film Centre Media Lab
Sounding Cartographies and Navigation Art: In Search of the Sublime
Ksenia Fedorova, University of California, Davis
Indeterminate Hikes
Leila Nadir, Wellesley College
"En Route" and "Past City Future": Making Places, Here and There, Now and When
Ian Woodcock, University of Melbourne
An Open Forum for Liberation Aesthetics
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Timothy Allen Jackson, Savannah College of Art and Design
Activating History, Activating Asia: East Asian Art Practice
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Yong Soon Min, University of California, Irvine
Dappled China: Making Untamed Histories around the China Brand
Meiling Cheng, University of Southern California
June 4 to July 1: Counter-Hegemonic Practices in Hong Kong
Steven Lam, Cooper Union
Debates on “The Political”: A Case Study in South Korea
Young Min Moon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Gendered Politics of Representation: The Rise and Fall of Young Women’s Photography in Nineties Japan
Thomas O'Leary, University of California
The Activism, Dialogical Art, and Minjung Legacy in South Korea after the 1980s: A Case Study of the Daechuri Artists and Deulsaramdeul 2003-2007
Soyang Park, Ontario College of Art and Design
PhD for Artists: Sense or Non-Sense? Part I
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: John S. Powers, Cleveland Institute of Art; Bruce A. Barber, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
A New Horizon: What Is on Offer for the Artist with a PhD?
Brad Buckley, University of Sydney
The Theory and Practice Dyad: A UK Perspective
Liam Kelly, University of Ulster
Artistic Research Formalized into Doctoral Programs
Jan Kaila, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Arts-Based Research as a Glass Box: Has It Been Practiced all Along?
Rebecca Hackemann, University of the Arts London
A Proactive Approach to Establishing a Studio Doctorate in Fine Art
Virginia Maksymowicz, Franklin and Marshall College, and
Blaise Tobia, Drexel University
The Challenge of Nazi Art
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: James A. van Dyke, University of Missouri, Columbia; Christian Fuhrmeister, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
The Banality of Nazi Art: Vernacular Buildings, Conventional Images, and the Necessity of Art Historical Analysis
Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University
What Is a German Home? Interior Domestic Design and National Identity in the Third Reich
Despina Stratigakos, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Beyond Modernism's Other: Nazi Art International
Keith Holz, Western Illinois University
The German War Art Collection as a Challenge to Traditional Art History
Gregory Maertz, St. Johns University
Discussant:Karen A. Fiss, California College of the Arts
The "Man" in Mannequin: Humankind on Display
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jennifer Wagelie, Indiana University Art Museum; Bridget Cooks, University of California, Irvine
The Mannequin in Print: Private Interiors, Industrial Design, and Commercial Displays in Late-Nineteenth-Century France
Anca I. Lasc, University of Southern California
From Life: Histories of Modeling Mankind at the Smithsonian
Gwyneira Isaac, Smithsonian Institution
Fragmented Bodies: Nostalgia and the South African Museum “Bushmen” Mannequins
Jessica Stephenson, Emory University and Kennesaw State University
Encounters in Wax: Presence, Lifelikeness, and Colonial Representation in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Minou Schraven, Leiden University
From Camp to Visual Culture: Accounting for "Bad" Art since the 1960s
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Sandra Zalman, University of Houston; Rachel Middleman, Utah State University
Good Ideas Done Bad: Neil Jenney’s Bad Paintings
Matthew Levy, Fashion Institute of Techonology and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Partial Rehabilitation of Popular Art
Michael Clapper, Franklin and Marshall College
“Abject Bankruptcy” and “Academic Painting”: Photorealism as Critical Scapegoat
Bridget Gilman, University of Michigan
Women Artists and the Vulgarity of the Middle
Susan Richmond, Georgia State University
Selling Bad Art: Jeff Koons at Public Auctions
Katya Kudriavtseva, Stetson University
SPEAKOUT! CAA’s Strategic Plan for the Annual Conference and You
Thursday, February 23, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair:
This session begins at 8:00 AM.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
Theorizing the Body
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jean M. Borgatti, Clark University
Medusa as "Seduction of Excess"
Basia Sliwinska, independent scholar
Body of Work: Stylization and Ambiguity in the Benin Plaque Corpus
Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, New York University
Body Networks: Corporeality in Luba Art and Politics
Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles
H(ai)rmeneutics
Shir Aloni Yaari, Courtauld Institute
Humorous Transformations into Abstraction: Layering Images of Identity in the Art of Shahzia Sikander
Anneke Schulenberg, Radboud University, Nijmegen
The Other Histories of Photography: The First One Hundred Years
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Melody D. Davis, Sage College of Albany
Seeing through Photography: Antoine Claudet's "2, 4, 8, 12" and the Development of Binocular Vision
Karen Hellman, J. Paul Getty Museum
Studio Sample Book as Equalizer: Commercial Photography in the Indian Metropolis
Deborah Hutton, The College of New Jersey
Parvenu or Print Connoisseur: A Case Study for the Consumption and Reception of Early Photographic Fine Art Reproductions
Margaretta S. Frederick, Delaware Art Museum
On the Matronage of Stereography and Its Ideological Exclusion from the History of Photography
Melody Davis, Sage College of Albany
Radical Photo Spaces: The "Building Workers' Unions" Exhibition (Berlin 1931)
Vanessa M. Rocco, Pratt Institute
Mobile Spectatorship in Video/Film Installations
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Ursula Anna Frohne, University of Cologne; Eric C. H. de Bruyn, University of Leiden
Video Environments and the Subjects of Modern Architecture
Larry Busbea, University of Arizona
Spectators in Brackets: Joëlle Tuerlinckx's “Aqui Havia Historia-Cultura Agora 0” (2002)
Beatrice von Bismarck, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
Multitude on Screen
Annette Urban, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Performing Spectatorship
Sven Luettiken, University of Amsterdam
New Media at a Crossroads: Platform and Place at "Documenta 11"
Kevin Hatch, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Centennial Session
Seeing Is Doing, Doing Is Teaching
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Michael Ned Holte
Andrea Bowers, independent artist
Charles Gaines, California Institute of the Arts
Simon Leung, University of California, Irvine
Doing Art/Criticism after Representation
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: renée carine hoogland, Wayne State University
The Mirror and the Magic Lantern: Nan Goldin's Challenge to the Authority of Representation
Sarah Ruddy, Wayne State University
Affect and Appropriation: Deleuze, Guattari, and "Sensation Reproducible to Infinity"
Christopher Tradowsky, St. Olaf College
Experiencing Seeing: Knowledge and Affect in Contemporary American Art Criticism
Christa Noel Robbins, Cornell College
On the Existential Road: New Ontologies for Conceptual Art and the Embodied Experience of Technology
Charissa N. Terranova, University of Texas at Dallas
Association for Latin American Art
Photographic Practices in Latin America
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Anna Indych-López, City College of New York and The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Mercedes Trelles-Hernandez, University of Puerto Rico
Between Drawing and Photography: Ramón Frade’s Construction of Puerto Rican Identity
Mercedes Trelles-Hernandez, University of Puerto Rico
Mathias Goeritz's Photographic Operations: El Eco and Midcentury Mexican Modernism in "Le Musée Imaginaire"
Jennifer Josten, Yale University
Proof Positive: The Photographs of Argentina's Disappeared as Objects of Subversion
Marisa Lerer, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
José Angel Toirac: Revolutionary Redux
Stephanie Jill Schwartz, University College London
Nostalgic Photography as Critique in Contemporary Latin American Art
Esther Gabara, Duke University
Accumulation
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Nana Danielle Last, University of Virginia; Mark Cameron Boyd, Corcoran College of Art and Design
Contemporary Art and the Persistence of Plastic
Amanda Boetzkes, Ohio State University
Performing Labor
Elise Richman, University of Puget Sound
Tainted Goods: Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison
Dan Adler, York University
The Accumulative Atlas
Kate Palmer Albers, University of Arizona
Who Is Afraid of Accumulation? Thomas Hirschhorn’s Exhibition "Swiss-Swiss Democracy"
Philip Ursprung, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Punk Rock and Contemporary Art on the West Coast
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Adam Lerner, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Steven Wolf, independent curator
The Alternative to the Alternative: Attitude-Driven Art
Tony Labat, San Francisco Art Institute
Glittery and Costumed: Glitter Rock and the Performance of Identity in Los Angeles ca. 1973
Kirsten Olds, University of Tulsa
Watch Out for the Furniture: Bruce Conner Loves the Mutants
Cinthea Fiss, independent artist
"A Free-Form Climate": Dadazines and Punk Zines in 1970s San Francisco
Emily Hage, Saint Joseph's University
What Makes a Man Start Fires? Southern California Punk and Politics of Immigration in Juan Capistran's "Minutemen Project"
Rose Salseda, University of Texas at Austin
Stories between the Lines: Liminal Space in Precolumbian and Colonial Latin American Images
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Renee A. McGarry, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Ananda Cohen Suarez, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Smith College
Family Ties and the Aztec Royal House: A Genealogy from the "Codex Mexicanus"
Lori Boornazian Diel, Texas Christian University
Reading the Ancient Maya Body: How Deep Is Skin Deep?
Catherine E. Burdick, independent scholar
Rites of Passage: Caves, Conversion, and Open Chapels of Early Colonial New Spain
Rhonda Taube, Riverside City College
Art between Two Caves: Cognition, Culture, and Caribbean Speleothem Sculpture
Reinaldo Morales, University of Central Arkansas
Liminal Objects and Spiritual Transition: Altar Cloths in Early Colonial Peru
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, University of Florida
Narrative in Gothic Art
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum
Toward a Cultural Geography of Gothic Narrative Art
Gerald Guest, John Carroll University
Narrative and Translation in New York Public Library Spencer Collection "MS 22" and Related Manuscripts
Julia Finch, University of Pittsburgh
Visual Narrative and Penitential Prayer in the "Tickhill Psalter"
Anne Rudloff Stanton, University of Missouri, Columbia
Space and Narrative in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Scenes of the Life of Saint Nicholas"
Andrea Begel, Adelphi University
Visual Narrative in the "Livre d'Eracles": Did a Formidable Gothic Tradition Shape Illuminations of Late-Medieval Examples?
Erin Donovan, University of Illinois and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Visual Culture Caucus
Ephemeral Visual Culture and the Making of Urban Space, Part I
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Kevin D. Murphy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Sally O'Driscoll, Fairfield University
Rewriting the Battles of Algiers: Ephemeral Tactics in the City at War
Sheila Crane, University of Virginia
Westernization, Ephemerality, and Postwar Egyptian Movie Posters
Kerr Houston, Maryland Institute College of Art
Read the Writing on the Wall: Murals, Newspapers, and the Public Discourse of William Walker
Kymberly N. Pinder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Let the Record Show: Queer Ephemera, Art, and Activism in New York City, 1987-1995
Tara Burk, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Native American Surrealisms
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: W. Jackson Rushing, University of Oklahoma; Claudia Mesch, Arizona State University
A Modernist Moment: Native Art and Surrealism at the University of Oklahoma
Mark Andrew White, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
"My World Is Surreal"
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, University of British Columbia
The Opposite of Snake
Mary Modeen, University of Dundee, Scotland
Complexity and Contradiction in Native American Surrealism
Robert Silberman, University of Minnesota
ARTspace
Restaging the Readymade
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Nathaniel Stern, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Restaging the Readymade
Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
alwaysalreadymade
Jon Cates, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Readymade Biomatter: Art and Synthetic Biology
Jennifer Johung, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Tout fait": Bergson, Time, and Choreographic Being-Made
Noyale Colin, Middlesex University
Rendezvous at the Unreadymade: Thing, Intent, Human
Kennan Ferguson
Pop and Politics, Part I
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Allison Unruh, independent scholar; Kalliopi Minioudaki, independent scholar
"Magic Art Reproducer": Class and Reproduction in Warhol's "Superman"
Anthony E. Grudin, University of Vermont
Tokyo as a Cold War Site: Jasper Johns’s Visit in 1964
Hiroko Ikegami, Kobe University
Pop Art in Dark Times: Masculinities and Mass Subjectivity in the Age of McCarthyism
Seth McCormick, Western Carolina University
Souvenirs for a Riot: Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art, and Chicago '68
Tom Williams, Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film
Political Pop or Anti-Pop? Axell, Chryssa Romanos, and Niki de Saint Phalle
Kalliopi Minioudaki, independent scholar
Art History Open Session
Deep Time: New Approaches to the Study of Ancient Art
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Gregory Warden, Southern Methodist University
Object-Generated Methodologies for Exploring Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Terracotta Figurines of Hellenistic Babylonia
Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Bowling Green State University
Race and Beauty in Ancient Greece: Aesthetics of Interpretation
Ada Cohen, Dartmouth College
Ritual Theory and the Interpretation of Ancient Greek Religious Art
Katie Rask, Ohio State University
The Spatial Rhetoric of the Naples Philosopher Mosaic
Tamara Durn, Case Western Reserve University
Flights of Perception: Aerial Vision, Art, and Modernity
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside
Synoptic Views: Constructing Orthogonal Plans of Paris
Min Kyung Lee, Northwestern University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
American Photography and the Russian Avant-Garde: The View from Above
Myroslava M. Mudrak, Ohio State University
David Smith, the Aerial View, and Sculptural Abstraction
Sarah Hamill, Oberlin College
"Beyond Direct Visual Experience": Aerial Vision and the Emergence of Conceptual Art in the Work of Douglas Huebler
Larisa Dryansky, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
Andreas Gefeller's "Supervisions" and the Fantasy of Aerial Vision
Isabel Taube, School of Visual Arts
Presentation of CAA Awards of Distinction
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair:
Welcome and Introduction, Barbara Nesin, CAA President
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Future Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art History
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Scott Allan, J. Paul Getty Museum
Michelangelo as Model: Xavier Sigalon's Copy of the "Last Judgment"
Allan Doyle, Princeton University
Ruskin's Botticelli: Labyrinth and Grave
Jeremy Melius, Johns Hopkins University
Reading from the Book of Gustave Doré: Religious Media and the Shaping of Modernity
Sarah C. Schaefer, Columbia University
Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
Emerging Scholars
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Timothy O. Benson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Viva Durero! Albrecht Dürer and German Art in Nueva España
Jennifer A. Morris, Princeton University
“Opium Rush”: Hans Makart, Richard Wagner, and the Aesthetic Environment in Ringstrasse Vienna
Eric Anderson, Kendall College of Art and Design
Architecture on Moscow Standard Time
Richard Anderson, Columbia University
Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
Classicism, Idealism, and the Symbolist Avant-Garde
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Brendan Cole, Eton College; Rosina Neginsky, University of Illinois, Springfield
Odilon Redon’s Profiles of Light: Fifteenth-Century Florence, Mallarmé, and Symbolist Idealism in fin-de-siècle France
Cassandra Sciortino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Merging the Fork in the Road: Gustave Moreau’s Quest for Modernity via the Language of the Past
Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan, Flint
Principles of Classical Formal Balance in the Compositions of Fernand Khnopff and Piet Mondrian
Andrew Marvick, Southern Utah University
Southeastern College Art Conference
Historicizing "the Local" in Contemporary Art
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jessica Dallow, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Lucy Curzon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Regional Eccentricities: "The Ordinary" in Contemporary Photography
Holly Markovitz Goldstein, Savannah College of Art and Design
Represented by Earth: On Santiago Sierra’s "Anthropometric Modules Made from Human Faeces" (2007)
Craig Smith, University of Florida
An American Expat Making Art in Sana’a, Yemen
Karla Freiheit, independent artist
Discussant:Lucy Curzon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Exhibitor Session
What Do You Want from an Ebook?
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Patricia Fidler, Yale University Press; Michelle Komie, Yale University Press
Elizabeth Childs, Washington University in St. Louis
Aden Kumler, University of Chicago
Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum of American Art
Joshua Shannon, University of Maryland
Kristina Wilson, Clark University
Independent Curators International
Curating and Education
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Chelsea Haines, Independent Curators International; Sofia Olascoaga, Independent Curators International
Allison Agsten, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Jessica Gogan, University of Pittsburgh
Queer Caucus for Art: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus for Art, Artists, and Historians
Conversations on Affect and Archives
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Tirza True Latimer, California College of the Arts; Virginia Solomon, University of Southern California
Julia Bryan-Wilson, University of California, Berkeley
Jeannine Tang, Courtauld Institute of Art
Catherine Lord, University of California, Irvine
Northern California Art Historians
Jewish Art: Reevaluation, Recovery, Reclamation, Respect
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Andrea Pappas, Santa Clara University
Sitting Pretty: The Rabbinical Subject and the Female Artist
Maya Katz, Touro College
Homelessness, Hope, and "Homefulness" in Post-Postmodern Israeli Performance, Video, and Installation Arts
S. I. Salamensky, University of California, Los Angeles
An Unprejudiced Stratum of Art History: Situating Jewish Art in Early-Twentieth-Century German Discourses and Scholarship Today
Celka Straughn, Spencer Museum of Art
Discussant:Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University
Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology
Technology in the Art History Classroom: A Hands-On Learning Workshop
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Sarah Jarmer Scott, Wagner College
Using PREZI
Susan Healy, Metropolitan Community College
VOICETHREAD
Janice Lynn Robertson, Pratt Institute
Getting Started Teaching Art History Online
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas
Association for Latin American Art
Emerging Scholars of Latin American Art
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Elena Shtromberg, University of Utah; Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute
Moche Marks of Distinction: Accessing Regionality and Interaction through Moche Fine Line Painted Pottery
Ethan M. Cole, University of California, Los Angeles
The Lost "Book of Paintings" of José Antonio Aponte
Linda Rodriguez, Harvard University
Remaking the Home: Media, Myth, and Maternity in Polvo de Gallina Negra’s "Mother for a Day"
Jamie L. Ratliff, University of Louisville
CAA Committee on Diversity Practices
Transcending Compliance Models: Diversity in Theory and Practice
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jacqueline Taylor, University of Virginia
Camara Holloway, University of Delaware
Tina Takemoto, California College of the Arts
Tobias Wofford, Johns Hopkins University
David Serlin, University of California, San Diego
T'ai Smith, Maryland Institute College of Art
Beyond the Oil Spill: Art and Ecology in the Americas
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Florencia Bazzano-Nelson, Tulane University; Santiago Rueda Fajardo, independent scholar, Bogotá, Colombia
Landscape Seen through the Eyes of Contemporary Art and Science
Hugo Fortes, Universidade de São Paulo
The Land, the Road, and the Freedom to Move On: Allegory vs. Documentary in "Iracema, uma transa amazônica"
Erin Aldana, independent scholar, San Diego
Environmental Crisis and Creative Response: Ala Plástica’s "Magdalena Project"
Lisa Crossman, Tulane University
The Invisible Beginning: Imagining Trees in the Contemporary Urban Environment
Gesche Würfel, Goldsmiths, University of London
CAA Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Rosalind Krauss
The Theoretical Turn
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study
Harry Cooper, National Gallery of Art
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Harvard University
Hal Foster, Princeton University
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
Briony Fer, University College London
New Media Caucus
Magic and Media
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art; Lisa Paul Streitfeld, independent curator
Endopsychic Genealogy in Dark City
Laurence A. Rickels, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
The Masked Magician: Enacting Archaic Desires
Sue Taylor, Portland State University
The Freak Show and Transformation in Michael Jackson’s Life and Work
Rita Alves, independent artist
Trauma and the Internet Oracle
Evan Malater, independent scholar
Society of Architectural Historians
World Architecture and "Nonwestern" Stories
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Madhuri Desai, Pennsylvania State University
The Elephanta Caves and the Romantic Imagination
Niharika Dinkar, Boise State University
Building Imperial Ethnographies in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Isabelle Flour, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Renaissance Architecture in Turkey: Rereading James Fergusson
Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci, Middle East Technical University
The Other Prison: Writing a Spatial History of Prisons in British India
Mira Lynn Rai, University of California, Santa Barbara
Water, Water, Everywhere: Charting New Courses for Architectural History
Wayne Charney, Kansas State University
Discussant:Stephen Tobriner, University of California, Berkeley
Centennial Session
LA RAW: Conversations on Art, Life, and Practice in Los Angeles
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Michael Duncan, independent curator
Carole Caroompas, Otis College of Art and Design
Frohawk Two Feathers, independent artist
Llyn Foulkes, independent artist
Stas Orlovski, Long Beach City College
Charles Garabedian, independent artist
John Sonsini, independent artist
Exceeding the Limits of Ancient Rome: New Studies in Early and Late Roman Art
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: John North Hopkins, Rice University; Ashley Elizabeth Jones, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Reconsidering the History of the Roman Arch: L. Stertinius and the Monuments of the Middle Republic
Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta, Pratt Institute
Concepts of Materiality in the Early Use (and Reuse) of Marble in Mid- Republican Rome and Italy
Seth Bernard, University of Pennsylvania
Bigger Is Better? Late Roman Painting and the Megalographic Tradition
Susanna McFadden, Fordham University
"Third Space": Reconceptualizing Syncretism in the Late Roman Near East
Karen Christina Britt, University of Louisville
Emblems of Power and the Changing Function of Art in the Eastern Roman Empire
Stephen D. Snyder, Fatih University
Towards a Rock and Roll History of Contemporary Art
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago; Robert Slifkin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Sense of an Ending: Spiral Jetty and the Stones at Altamont
William Smith, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"I Can’t Stand You": The No Wave Makes the Art World Fractious
Sarah Evans, Northern Illinois University
New Wavy Gravy: Raymond Pettibon and Hardcore Punk
Cary Levine, University of North Carolina
Thus Spoke Hendrix: Hélio Oiticica's Rock and Roll Turn
Sergio Martins, University of London
The Musician in the Garden: New Models of Display
Prudence Peiffer, Columbia University
The Engagement of Art and Architecture in Ritual Performance
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Carolyn M. Malone, University of Southern California
Liturgy and the Five Senses in the Illustrations of the "Cartulary of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou"
Eric Palazzo, Université de Poitiers
Cross and Book: Manuscript Space and the Material Cross in the Late Eighth Century
Beatrice Kitzinger, Harvard University
Procession as Pilgrimage: The Ritual Topography of Tivoli’s “Inchinata” and Transforming Conceptions of Urban Liturgical Performance in Late Medieval Italy
Rebekah Perry, University of Pittsburgh
Art and Architecture in Haitian Vodou Practice
Lisa Farrington, John Jay College, City University of New York
Exorcism by Brush: Ritualizing Tomb Space in Middle-Period China
Jeehee Hong, Syracuse University
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Speaking Out: A Public Forum for Artist Manifestos
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Julia M. Morrisroe, University of Florida
Fallen Fruit/Collaborative Understanding/Two Kinds of Public
David Burns, independent artist
Strategies: Moving Beyond the Confines of the Art World
Kim Abeles, independent artist
inside/outside/upside down/backwards
Buzz Spector, Washington University in St. Louis
S.U.R.D.: A Manifesto for Abstract Painting, beyond the Death of Empathy
Jeremy Diggle, University College Falmouth
Why Touch Is Necessary in Real Time (or) Touch Me in Real Time
Holly Hanessian, Florida State University
The End/Exhaustion of Modernism
Ron Janowich, University of Florida
The Nature of "My Doggerel"
Ulysses Jenkins, University of California, Irvine
Manifesto as Paradigm Production
Iain Kerr
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Civilization and Its Others in Nineteenth-Century Art, Part I
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: David Joseph O'Brien, University of Illinois
Theism and the Civilizing Process in James Barry’s Society of Arts Murals
Daniel Guernsey, Florida International University
Civilizing Rome: Anglo-American Artists and the Colonial Encounter
Melissa Dabakis, Kenyon College
Going Native: Victorian Portraits of Civilized Barbarity
Julie Codell, Arizona State University
Second Rome or Seat of Savagery? The Case of Byzantium in Nineteenth-Century European Imaginaries
Maria Taroutina, Yale University
Franz Kugler’s "Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte": A Prussian View of Civilization and Its Others in 1842
Jeanne-Marie Musto, Fordham University
Momentum: Women/Art/Technology
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Ferris Olin, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University
Women/Art/Technology: Escalating the Dialogue
Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University
Redefining Health through a Postcybernetic Aesthetic
Jennifer Hall, Massachusetts College of Art
Cao-Fei: Empowering in Virtual Reality
Aileen June Wang, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Digital Archives: Protecting the Future through the Past
Lynn Hershman
Queer Technologies, Viral Aesthetics, and Hypertrophic Transformation
Zach Blas, Duke University
Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Judith K. Brodsky, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
Picturing Urban Space in Central Europe since 1839
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Miriam Paeslack, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
The Invisible City: Architectural Imagination and Cultural Identity Represented in Competition Drawings from Sibiu 1880-1930
Timo Hagen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Picturing the Nation: The Multifaceted Image of Hungary at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest
Miklós Székely, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Architecture, Monuments, and the Politics of Space in Kolozsvár/Cluj
Paul Stirton, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Urban Space as a Visual-Haptic Experience: Stereoscopic Views of German Cities, 1880-1910
Douglas Klahr, University of Texas at Arlington
Picturing Contested Space and Subjectivity in the Urban Milieus of Budapest and Vienna
Dorothy Barenscott, Simon Fraser University
Crossing Disciplines: The Role of Precolumbian Art History and the Pursuit of Culture
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Ruth Anne Phillips, St. Mary's College of Maryland; Laura Amrhein, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Living Architecture at Chichen Itza: Using GIS, Urban Studies, and Phenomenology
Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Auburn University
Divining Order: Collecting and Classifying the Aztec Gods
Molly H. Bassett, Georgia State University
Mixing Art with Science: Ancient American Art Illuminated by Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry
Rebecca R. Stone, Emory University
Finding the Middle Ground within Loro Ceramics
Deborah Spivak, University of California, Santa Barbara
Unity in Diversity: Should Precolumbianists Cross Disciplines?
Laura Amrhein, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Art History's New Coat: Trying It on for Size in Precolumbian Studies
Ruth Anne Phillips, St. Mary's College of Maryland
PhD for Artists: Sense or Nonsense? Part II
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: John S. Powers, Cleveland Institute of Art; Bruce A. Barber, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
How to Qualify for This World, and Why?
Hubertus von Ameluxen, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
Practice as Research: The Concentration in Art Practice at UCSD
Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego
Research and Dissertation vs. Practice and Scholarship
Mathew Reichertz, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
Do We Need What the Doctor Offers?
Morgan T. Paine, Florida Gulf Coast University
Approaching Terminus: Education as Capital
Tony Schwensen, School of Museum of Fine Arts Boston
No Talking Allowed: Making a Visual Argument about Art History
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jean Robertson, Indiana University; Craig McDaniel, Indiana University
Degas and Italy: A Pictorial Exegesis
Claire L. Kovacs, Coe College
Dubai Referents
Julia Townsend, American University in Dubai
The Political Ecology of Energy Consumption: An Official Guide
Matthew Friday, State University of New York at New Paltz
Overlooked Sites of Neoconcretism: The Newsroom, the Dance Floor, and the Flooded Underground
Simone Osthoff, Pennsylvania State University
Superdutch: Photography, Process, and the Internet-Polder
Jordan Tate, University of Cincinnati
Who Was Thomas Waterman Wood? Finding the Artist in the Art
Jo-Ann Morgan, Western Illinois University
The History of Mystery: Human Representation "Sub Specie Aeternitatis"
Carol Ciarniello, independent artist
Historicizing Somaesthetics: Body-Mind Connections in the Medieval and Early Modern Viewer
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Allie Terry-Fritsch, Bowling Green State University
Sensing Devotion: Late Medieval and Early Modern Materializations of the Crucified Christ
Geraldine A. Johnson, University of Oxford
The Body and the Book: Reading the "Carrara Herbal"
Sarah R. Kyle, University of Central Oklahoma
"Rush to the Embrace": The "Maulbronn Altarpiece" and the Corporeal Limits of Vision
David S. Areford, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Low Painting, Court Culture, and Bodily Pleasure in Renaissance Trent
Chriscinda Henry, Oberlin College
Historians of British Art
Future Directions in the History of British Art
Thursday, February 23, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Peter Trippi, "Fine Art Connoisseur" and Projects in 19th-Century Art, Inc.
Reconsidering John Gibson, Remolding British Sculpture
Roberto C. Ferrari, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Legal Thinking: The Rise of Eighteenth-Century British Art
Cristina S. Martinez, University of Toronto
Doing the Thing and the Thing Done: The Social World of the British Sporting Print, 1750-1850
Corey Piper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
From the "Well-Laid Table" to the "Market Place": The Architectural Association Unit System
Irene Sunwoo, Princeton University
Art within Reach: The Popular Origins of Art History in Victorian Britain
Amy M. Von Lintel, West Texas A&M University
Discussant:Kimberly Rhodes, Drew University
Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization
Asian American Women Artists: A Postmodern Perspective
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Kyra Belán, Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization; Linda Inson Choy, independent curator
R(Evolution)
Kay Kang, independent artist
The Art of Being Asian: Art and Politics of Asian American Women Artists Now
Linda Inson Choy, independent curator
Cultural Surrealism as a Platform for Feminist Activism
Cynthia Tom, independent artist
Mid America College Art Association
What Is Conceptual Thinking?
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Steven Bleicher, Coastal Carolina University
Applying Relevancy
Barbara Bergstrom, University of Arizona
Crisis to Concept: Developing Conceptual Thinking
Jane Venes, Iowa State University
Why Figure Painting?
Margi Weir, Wayne State University
Creative Capital Foundation
Embedded: A Social Practice in the Neighborhood
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Sean Elwood, Creative Capital Foundation
Cesar Cornejo
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell
International Association of Art Critics
Art Criticism and Small Independent Magazines
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Josephine Gear, New York University
Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail
Shana Lutker, X-TRA
Robby Herbst, Llano del Rio Collective and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Association for Critical Race Art History
Writing Art Histories of Los Angeles
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kellie Jones, Columbia University
Naima Keith, Studio Museum in Harlem
Karin Higa, Japanese American National Museum
C. Ian White, independent artist
Roberto Tejada, Southern Methodist University
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
Public Art Dialogue
Public Art in the Virtual Sphere
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Mary M. Tinti, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; John Craig Freeman, Emerson College
John Craig Freeman, Emerson College
Christiane Paul, The New School
Ben Rubin, EAR Studio
SPEAKOUT! CAA’s Strategic Plan and Retirement Planning
Friday, February 24, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair:
This session begins at 8:00 AM.
Getty Research Institute
A Portal for Digitized Art-Historical Texts: Unified Access to the Early Literature of Art History
Friday, February 24, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Kathleen Salomon, Getty Research Institute; Joseph Shubitowiski, Getty Research Institute
Continental breakfast will be provided.
Murtha Baca, Getty Research Institute
CAA International Committee
Confrontation in Global Art History: Past/Present; Pride/Prejudice Surrounding Art and Artists
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Richmond Teye Ackam, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Unintentional Categorization of Marginalized Artists in an Effort to Increase Public Awareness
Ayako Yoshida, independent curator
The Marginalized Art under the Brazilian Dictatorship
Tatiane de Oliveira Elias, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Epistemological Possibilities of American Art History: Modern and Contemporary Korean American Art
Eun Jung Park, University of California, San Diego
The Writing on the Wall: A Contemporary Art Project between the Middle East and Australia
Darryn Ansted, Curtin University
Trying to See Eye-to-Eye, from Ethiopia to California
Michel Oren, independent curator
Confrontations in Projecting African Art and Artists in the Art World
Richmond Teye Ackam, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period, Part I
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, independent scholar, Freiburg
Artful Arithmetic: Barthel Beham’s "Rechner" and the Dilemma of Accuracy
Jessica Buskirk, Technical University Dresden
The Intellectual Dimensions of Perfect, Semiperfect, Toroidal Polyhedra in the Renaissance
Renzo Baldasso, Southern Illinois University
"A Line is Produc’d by the Motion of a Point": Euclid’s "Elements" in the Seventeenth Century
Caroline O. Fowler, Princeton University
The Geometric Spirit in the Artist’s Studio: Bosse, Pascal, and the Question of Theory in the "Académie de Peinture et Sculpture" in the 1650s
Tatiana Senkevitch, Cornell University
Women's Caucus for Art
Multiplicities in Dialogue: From Political Caucus to Engaged Community
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Tanya Augsburg, San Francisco State University; Deborah Thomas, Glendale College
Forty Years of WCA: Celebrating History, Introducing the Session Dialogists
Tanya Augsburg, San Francisco State University
Elizabeth Stephens, University of California, Santa Cruz
Annie Sprinkle, independent artist and scholar
Karen Frostig, Lesley University
Yueh-mei Cheng, Finlandia University
Judith Baca, University of California, Los Angeles
Cathy Salser, A Window Between Worlds
Jenny Yoo, DIY Grad School
Dena Muller, ArtTable
Carol Wells, Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Julie Orser, University of California, Los Angeles
Deborah Thomas, Glendale College and Pasadena City College
Priscilla Otani, independent artist
The Modern Gesamtkunstwerk
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Juliet Bellow, American University; Jenny Anger, Grinnell College
From Art to Artlessness: Richard Riemerschmid's Transformation of "Gesamtkunstwerk" to "Alltagskunst"
Freyja Hartzell, Yale University
"Métachorie" as "Gesamtkunstwerk": Valentine de Saint-Point and Futurist Dance
Alison W. Chang, University of Pennsylvania
Matisse's Decoration as Total Artwork
John Klein, Washington University in St. Louis
The Global "Gesamtkunstwerk"
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Discussant:Juliet Koss, Scripps College
Breaking Laws in the Name of Art: New Perspectives on Contemporary Latin American Art
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Estrellita B. Brodsky, independent scholar and curator
Brazilian Art in the 1960s and 1970s: An “Aesthetics of the Margins”?
Claudia Calirman, John Jay College, City University of New York
Something Old, Something New, Something "Borrowed": William Cordova's "Laberintos (after Octavio Paz)" and the Machu Picchu Artifacts at Yale
Jennifer King, Princeton University
Censored: Tania Bruguera's Radical Political Artistic Practice
Beth Rosenblum, University of California, Los Angeles
A-153167 and Regina Galindo: Radical Performance Art in Guatemala
Idurre Alonso, Museum of Latin American Art
Discussant:Coco Fusco, Parsons The New School for Design
Ephemeral Cinema: Film and the Other Arts
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kaira Cabañas, Columbia University
Fractured Film: Wallace Berman’s Disappearing Movie
Lucy Bradnock, Getty Research Institute
“What Doesn’t Exist Is Important”: Jack Smith’s Aesthetic of Deferral
Jacob Proctor, Aspen Art Museum
"Invisible Adversaries" and the Remediation of Ephemeral Cinema
Jennifer Stob, Colgate University
Film as Model: On Superstudio’s "Supersurface"
Craig Buckley, Columbia University
Queer Caucus for Art: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus for Art, Artists, and Historians
Flagging: Aesthetic Tactics and Queer Signification
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Anna Campbell, Grand Valley State University
Impersonating History: David Wojnarowicz’s "Arthur Rimbaud in New York", 1978-1979
Jenevive Nykolak, University of Rochester
FLAWED + FEMME + IN + (VISIBLE) = Abstracting Queerness
Syniva Whitney, independent artist
Homo Home: Queer Identity and the Domestic Sphere
Garth Amundson, Western Washington University
Pierre Gour, independent artist
Leave Them Unconnected
Andrew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin
A Critical Embodiment of Queer Substitutes
Jane Chin Davidson, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Tourism (and) Culture, Part I
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin
Reciprocal Views: Community-Based Art, Tourism, and the Globalization of Rio de Janeiro’s Informal Housing Settlements
Melissa Geppert, Southern Oregon University
Seeing Patzcuaro, Imagining Mexico: Art, Tourism, and the Reintegration of Postrevolutionary Mexico
Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College
Cultural Capital: Selling Havana as a Tourist Destination in the 1950s
Erica Morawski, University of Illinois, Chicago
Mapping a Landscape of African American Travel, 1944-1964: Invisibility, Mobility, and Autonomy
Jennifer Reut, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institute
Art, Tourism, and the Spectacle of the Southwest: Visually Enchanting the Land of Enchantment
Joy Sperling, Denison University
Discussant:Michael Peterson, University of Wisconsin
Association of Art Museum Curators
“Your Labels Make Me Feel Stupid": Museum Labels as Art-Historical Practice
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Cody Hartley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kevin M. Murphy, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Space, Seam, Scenario: The Many Operations of the Museum Label
Laura H. Hollengreen, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Countercheck Your Crude Impressions": Interpretive Texts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1872-1912
Kim Beil, University of California, Irvine
Nazi Wall Text: The 1937 "Degenerate Art Show"
Kate Green, University of Texas at Austin
"Holy Rollers" and the Dual Nature of Labeling
Leo G. Mazow, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Warning: Explicit Display in Museums
Jennifer Tyburczy, Rice University
Centennial Session
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: CAA Town Hall Meeting
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Margaret Lazzari, University of Southern California
Finish Fetish Sculpture from Los Angeles 1960s-1970s: Conservation Dilemmas
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Tom Learner, Getty Conservation Institute
Light, Space, Surface: Poetics and Practicalities in the Display of Finish Fetish Works of the 1960s and 1970s
Robin Clark, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Light and Space: Specialty Shop and Hi-Tech
Andrew Perchuk, Getty Research Institute
The Real and Reflected Self: Finish Fetish and the Alter Ego
Monica Steinberg, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Intersection of Art, Industry, and Craftsmanship: Exploring Criteria for the Conservation of Finish Fetish Works of Art
Rachel Rivenc, Getty Conservation Institute
The Lens of Authenticity: Strategies for Retaining Evidence of Original Fabrication While Conserving Finish Fetish Objects
John Griswold, Griswold Conservation Associates, LLC
Design Education 2.0: Teaching in a Techno-Cultural Reality
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Ashley John Pigford, University of Delaware
Coding for Interaction: A Survey of Current Tools for Designers and Makers
Gwyan Rhabyt, California State University East Bay
A Case Study on Interactive and Time-Based Design from Doha, Qatar: Exploring New Methods for Teaching Technology-Centric Courses in Graphic Design
Michael Hersrud and Levi Hammet, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
[R]evolution of a Program: Repositioning the Graphic and Media Design Program at the Sage College of Albany
Sean Hovendick, Sage College of Albany
Collaborative Design Experience with Kinetic Sculpture
Paul Stout and Erik Brunvand, University of Utah
Sigmar Polke: (Art) History of Everything?
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Marcelle Polednik, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville; Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College
"We Petty Bourgeois!" The Post-Pop of Polke and Co.
Petra Lange-Berndt, University College London
Sigmar Polke’s Hot Cold War Dots
Rachel Jans, University of Chicago
Sigmar Polke’s "Bernstein/Amber" Series
Faya Causey, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Polke as Public Figure
Gregory H. Williams, Boston University
History in the Making: The "Watchtower" Series and Photography
Marcelle Polednik, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville
Discussant:Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College
Centennial Session
Women, Surrealism, California, and Beyond
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Terrace Room, 5th Floor, LACMA West, LACMA
Chair: Martica Sawin, independent scholar
Shuttle buses will be available at 8:30 AM from the West Hall of the Convention Center. They will return to the Convention Center at 12:30 PM.
A World Made from Magic: Esoteric Lineages in the Works of Women Surrealists in Mexico
Tere Arcq, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Hybridity and Space: Leonora Carrington's Kitchen
Katherine Conley, Dartmouth College
California—NY—Mexico City: Connections and Contrasts
Ilene Susan Fort, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Discussant:Michael Taylor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Live Forever: Performance Art in the Changing Museum Culture
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Sandra Skurvida, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York; Jovana Stokic, independent scholar
Variations on an Audience
Pablo Helguera, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Immigrant Movement International: The Artist Is Working
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International
Immortality as Aesthetics: Cryonic Suspension in a Performative Mode
Abou Farman, Purchase College, State University of New York
Kathy Battista, Sotheby's Institute of Art
ARTspace
Out of Rubble
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Susanne Slavick, Carnegie Mellon University; elin o'Hara slavick, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sorting through Rubble: Collage for the Subject of War
Lisa Wainwright, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"And Now, over Germany, the Derelict Day Is Resumed": British and German Experiences 1945-1950
Veronica Davies, The Open University and University of East London
Representing the Unrepresentable: The Photography of Nuclear Affliction in Postwar Japan
Claude Baillargeon, Oakland University
War Culture
Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
Keeping the Wound Open: The Paradox of Whitewashing Ruins
Kira van Lil, University of Colorado, Boulder
How Many Billboards? Contemporary Art and the Public Sphere
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University; Nizan Shaked, California State University, Long Beach
I-140 and Methods of Escape
Dee Hibbert-Jones, University of California, Santa Cruz
Artangel and the Changing Mediascape of Public Art in the UK: From Billboards to Broadcast Media and Beyond
Maeve Connolly, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Speech in the City
Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Sereno
Christina Fernandez, Cerritos College
Discussant:Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College
Radical Art Caucus
Politics of the Panoramic: Spectacle, Surveillance, Resistance
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Alan Wallach, The College of William and Mary
The Distant Present: Panoramas, Benjamin, and History
Frederick Bohrer, Hood College
"A Complete Illusion": Nineteenth-Century Battle Panoramas and Technologies of Totalizing Vision
Katie Hornstein, University of Michigan
Character Witnessing and Urban Surveillance: “Weegee the Famous” in the Naked City
Catherine Zuromskis, University of New Mexico
Virtual Panopticons: The Ethics of Observation in the Digital Age
Johanna Gosse, Bryn Mawr College
Panoramas, Visual Persuasion, and Video Games
Annabel Wharton, Duke University
Black Venus: They Called Her “Hottentot”
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Deborah Willis, New York University
The Baartman Diaries
Fo Wilson, Columbia College Chicago
Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of Truth
Lisa Gail Collins, Vassar College
Playing with Venus: Black Women Artists and the Venus Trope in Contemporary Visual Art
Kianga Ford, The New School
Cinderella Tours Europe
Cheryl Finley, Cornell University
Virtual Baartman: Visualizing Saartjie Baartman in Second Life
Kalia Brooks, Museum of the African Diaspora
The Hottentot Venus in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality
Charmaine Nelson, McGill University
Sarah Baartman in Context
Carla Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology
Women's Caucus for Art
Irregular Experiences: Multigenerational Stories of Feminists in Art, Forty Years of the Women's Caucus for Art
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Diane Burko, independent artist, Philadelphia
Judy Brodsky, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dail Chambers, Yeyo Arts Collective
Ann Sutherland Harris, University of Pittsburgh
Anu Sud Hittle, Washington University in St. Louis
Niku Kashef, California State University, Northridge
Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University
American Council for Southern Asian Art
Intersecting Technologies and Publics: Circulation, Viewership, and Access in South Asian Photography
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Gianna Michele Carotenuto, University of Washington
Photography of Desire: Politics of Representation and Circulation in Abbas Ali’s Nineteenth-Century Colonial Albums
Zainab Cheema, University of California, Irvine
Opium Subjects: Photography and the Visual Public Sphere in Late-Nineteenth-Century India
Hope Childers, Alfred University
The People of India: Beyond the Binding
Jessa Farquhar, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant:Gianna Michele Carotenuto, University of Washington
Exhibitor Session
New Media and the Revival of Traditional Media
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Mark Gottsegen, Art Materials Information and Education Network
Beth Bergman, National Art Materials Trade Association
George O'Hanlon, Natural Pigments
Richard Frumess, R&F Handmade Prints
Scott Gellatly, Gamblin Artists Colors
CAA Services to Artists Committee
[Meta] Mentors: Artists and Industry
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University; Vesna Pavlovic, Vanderbilt University
Sculptural Effects and Fabrication for the Motion Picture Industry
Kirk Starbird, independent artist
John Michael Kohler Art Center: Arts/Industry Residency
Sue Johnson, St. Mary's College of Maryland
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House Residence Program
Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
Interactive Web for Digital Agencies
Andre Yi, independent artist
Documentary Photography/Online Book Production
Dan Milnor, independent artist
CAA Publications Committee
Art Criticism
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Randall C. Griffin, Southern Methodist University; Anthony Elms, independent curator
Saul Ostrow, Cleveland Institute of Art
Michael Corris, Southern Methodist University
Amanda Beech, University of Kent
CAA Museum Committee
Curators in the Spotlight: Dealing with Controversy and the Unexpected in Developing and Presenting Recent Exhibitions
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Holly Rachel Harrison, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art
Art, Politics, and Hitler's Early Years in Vienna: Thoughts on a Controversy
Deborah M. Rothschild, Williams College Museum of Art
Croatia Rising: Repackaging Cultural Patrimony
Laurel Reed Pavic, Oregon College of Art and Craft
From Local to Global: How a Small College Art Gallery Landed on the World Stage
Leonie Bradbury, Montserrat College of Art
Association of Historians of American Art
Ideology, Industry, and Instinct: The Art of Labor
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Wendy Katz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Brandon K. Ruud, Sheldon Museum of Art
Graphic Consciousness: The Visual Culture and Institutions of the Industrial Labor Movement at Midcentury
John Ott, James Madison University
Ad Reinhardt: Mystic or Materialist? Priest or Proletariat?
Annika Marie, Columbia College Chicago
Local and Collective: Sharon Lockhart's "Lunch Break" in Maine
Beth Finch, Colby College Museum of Art
Italian Art Society
Urbanism in Italy: From the Roman City to the Modern Age
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Areli Marina, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Phillip Earenfight, Dickinson College
Off the Grid: Urban Armatures and Traffic Jams in Ancient Rome
Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles
Brick Architecture and Political Strategy in Early Modern Siena
Max Grossman, University of Texas at El Paso
Monumental Transformations: Architecture and the Eternal City in Flux
Guendalina Ajello Mahler, independent scholar
The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Inc.
Windgate Fellowship Program: A Case for Funding Professional Development Opportunities for Graduating Seniors
Friday, February 24, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Stephanie Moore, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Inc.
Aaron McIntosh
Jeremy Holmes
Elizabeth Staiger
Historians of Netherlandish Art
Affect and Agency: The Netherlandish Portrait (1400-1750)
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Ann Jensen Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara
Facing North: Theory and Practice of Portraiture in Holland around 1600
Ricardo de Mambro Santos, Willamette University
Display of Faith: The Religious “Professional” Portrait in the Netherlands and the Question of Collective Identity in Troubled Times
Edward Wouk, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
After-Images of Erasmus: The Humanist Portrait in Early Sixteenth-Century Netherlands
Marisa Anne Bass, Columbia University
“A Rather Engaging Gaucherie”: Gerrit van Honthorst’s Portrait Historié of "King Charles I and His Wife Queen Henrietta Maria as Apollo and Diana"
Sheila D. Muller, University of Utah
The Cuyp Workshop and the Construction of Social Identity in Dordrecht
John Loughman, University College Dublin
Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky’s Radical Work at 100
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Susan J. Baker, University of Houston, Downtown; Valerie Hedquist, University of Montana
Wassily Kandinsky and the Ether of Space as the Meta-Reality and Medium of Modernism
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, University of Texas at Austin
The Politics of "the Spiritual in Art" in Russia
Sarah Warren, Purchase College, State University of New York
Wassily Kandinsky's Affective Formalism
Todd Cronan, Emory University
The Problem of Life and the Problem of Positivism: Kandinsky, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein on Art and Science
Michael R. Smith, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
Discussant:Riccardo Marchi, University of South Florida
Centennial Session
"The Eye, the Hand, the Mind": Revelations
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Susan Ball, New York Foundation for the Arts
Judith K. Brodsky, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Craig Houser, City College of New York, City University of New York
Karen J. Leader, Florida Atlantic University
Ferris Olin, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Julia Sienkewicz, Duquesne University
Christine L. Sundt, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation
Holland Cotter, The New York Times
Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
Avant '68: France and the Transnational Flow of Culture in the Global "Long Sixties"
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Noit Banai, Tufts University and School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University
Making Awful Music Together: The Jam Sessions of Asger Jorn and Jean Dubuffet
Sarah K. Rich, Pennsylvania State University
"There Really Is No Substitute for Participation!" The Techno-Geographies of GRAV
Ágnes Berecz, Pratt Institute
"Les Orgues de Flandre" and the Limits of Architecture
Sean Weiss, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Été ‘70": The Plein-Air Exhibitions of Supports-Surfaces
Rosemary O'Neill, Parsons, The New School for Design
"Elles Voient Rouge": Women's Art in France Before and After '68
Rakhee Balaram, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Is It Time to Question the "Privileging" of Visual Art?
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Greta Berman, The Juilliard School; Ellen K. Levy, independent artist, New York
What Has Happened to the "Peak Shift" Theory and Other Related Ideas about Art? A Conversation with Elizabeth Laura Seckel
Greta Berman, The Juilliard School, and
Elizabeth Laura Seckel, University of California, San Diego
A Conversation about Ocular Centricity
Ellen K. Levy, independent artist, New York, and
Anjan Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania
An Interview with John Onians
Carl Schoonover, Columbia University, and John Onians, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Brain Music
David Rosenboom, California Institute of the Arts
Sniffing Booth
Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Columbia University
Flying Solo: The Opportunities and Challenges Presented to the Solitary Art Historian in a Small College
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Laura J. Crary, Presbyterian College; William Ganis, Wells College
Curricular and Pedagogical Strategies for Solo Flyers in Studio Departments
Lisa DeBoer, Westmont College
No Art Historian Is an Island
Amy Von Lintel, West Texas A&M University
Between Scylla and Charybdis: One Educator’s Personal Odyssey from Classicist to Generalist in Three Years
Kimberly Busby, Angelo State University
The Solitary Art Historian in a Liberal Arts College: Strategies for Aligning Faculty and Student Research
Gregory Gilbert, Knox College
Conceptual Art as Comedic Practice
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Heather Diack, Keene State College; Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto
Ontological Indifference: On Comedy, Photography, and Conceptual Art
Aron Vinegar, Ohio State University
Conceptual Work and Domestic Play
Emily Liebert, Columbia University
In Soviet Russia, the Joke Tells You: Humor in the Work of Komar and Melamid
Ksenya Gurshtein, National Gallery of Art
Ludic Conceptualism: Bas Jan Ader, a Dutchman Playing Abroad
Janna Schoenberger, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Comedy as Conceptual Art Strategy
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Suffolk County Community College
Tracking the Movement of Investigatory Art
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Martin Gantman, independent artist; Gina Dabrowski, independent artist
Investigatory Art 1969-2010: Technological Innovation, Sociability, and Immediate Experience
Edward A. Shanken, University of Amsterdam
Asking Questions: The Interview as Artistic Form
Ruth Erickson, University of Pennsylvania
Visualizing Global Resources: An Experiment in Critical-Aesthetic Research
Emily Eliza Scott, Zurich University of the Arts
The Disquieting Image: Tracing the Visual Essay
Luisa Greenfield, independent artist
A Sebaldian Method of Art
Lise Patt, Institute of Cultural Inquiry
Keywords Project: Historicizing the Concept as Action in Investigatory Art Practice
Orianna Cacchione, University of California, San Diego
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Pictures in Place: Depicting Location and the Siting of Representation in the Eighteenth Century
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Craig Ashley Hanson, Calvin College
Place as a Thing: Chinese Screens in Dutch Colonial Contexts
Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College
From "Salon" to Altar: Relocating Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Hannah Williams, University of Oxford
A Surplus of Frames: Allegorizing Collecting in the 1720 Stallburg Installation
Julie M. Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio
Paintings in Country Houses and the Development of British Cultural Heritage
Jocelyn Anderson, Courtauld Institute of Art
Branding Shakespeare: Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and the Politics of Display
Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Information Visualization as a Research Method in Art History
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute; Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego
Visualizing the Ecology of Complex Networks in Art History
Maximilian Schich, Northeastern University
Geoinformatics and Art History: Visualizing the Reception of American Art in Western Europe, 1948-1968
Catherine Dossin, Purdue University
Interactive Mapping of the Agents of the Art Market in Europe (1550-1800)
Sophie Raux, Université Lille Nord de France
Visualizing Art, Law, and Markets
Victoria Szabo, Duke University
Lithics Visualization Project for Analysis of Patterns and Aesthetic Presentation
Georgia Gene Berryhill, University of Maryland
Information Visualization and Museum Practice
Piotr Adamczyk, Google and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Art History Open Session
Theory, Method, and the Future of Precolumbian Art History
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Cecelia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles
The Ethos of Conflict and Naturalistic Representation
Esther Pasztory, Columbia University
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Ancient American Art and the Museum
Mary Miller, Yale University
What Do You Say When There Are No Words?
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tulane University
Looking Back at the Future of the History of Precolumbian Art
Thomas Bitting Foster Cummins, Harvard University
Discussant:Carolyn Dean, University of California, Santa Cruz, and
Claudia Brittenham, University of Michigan
International Center of Medieval Art
"Res et significatio": The Material Sense of Things in the Middle Ages
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Aden Kumler, University of Chicago; Christopher Lakey, Johns Hopkins University
The Matter of Ornament: Translation and Making in the Eleventh Century
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center
The Nef of St. Ursula: An Object Adrift
Christina Normore, Northwestern University
Blood Matters: Making Sense of Traces of Blood
Beate Fricke, University of California, Berkeley
Kinks in the Fabric of Early Netherlandish Painting
Amy Powell, University of California, Irvine
Ambas Americas: Both Americas
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kathie Manthorne, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Mary-Kate O'Hare, Newark Museum
Elizabeth Glassman, Terra Foundation for American Art
Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Coleccion Cisneros
Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Sheldon Museum of Art
Anne Whitelaw, Concordia University
Architecture and Race
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Brian L. McLaren, University of Washington
Chinks in the Works: Race, Labor, and the Production of Modern Siamese Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century
Lawrence Chua, Cornell University
"Hawaiianness" and the Fiftieth State Capitol
Kelema Lee Moses, Pennsylvania State University
Ernst Neufert, National Socialism, and the Humanist Tradition in Architecture
Nader Vossoughian, New York Institute of Technology
Tropical Architecture: Comfort and the Tropical Body
Vandana Baweja, University of Florida
Urban Renewal and Its Discontents: Oswald Mathias Ungers’s "Asihaus" for IBA 1984-1987
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Berlin Institute for Advanced Study
Intersections between Art and Dance in the Twentieth Century
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Robert R. Shane, College of Saint Rose
Tango Magic City
Tara Ward, Boston University
Sophie Taeuber’s Visceral Abstraction
Nell Andrew, University of Georgia
"I'd Like to Dance Like a Madman": Flamenco and Surrealism
Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, DePaul University
Modern Shenanigans at a Filling Station Designed by Paul Cadmus
Jane Dini, Detroit Institute of Arts
Collaboration, Movement, Projection: The Interdisciplinary Structure of Lucinda Childs's "Dance", 1979
Jennie Goldstein, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Centennial Session
Connections: Architecture and Design in Los Angeles at Midcentury
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Bing Theater, Plaza Level, Bing Center, Los Angeles Time Central Court entrance, LACMA East
Chair: Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern California
Shuttle buses will be available at 1:30 PM from the West Hall of the Convention Center. They will return to the Convention Center at 5:30 PM.
Wim de Wit, Getty Research Institute
Wendy Kaplan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louis Danziger, graphic designer
Ray Kappe, architect
Gere Kavanaugh, designer
Bobbye Tigerman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Writes Itself: LA Art Journals from the 1960s to the Present
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Damon Willick, Loyola Marymount University; Kristina Newhouse, independent critic and curator
Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design and High Performance Magazine
Ellen Birrell, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly
Thomas Lawson, East of Borneo and California Institute of the Arts
Robert Smith, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
CAA Annual Business Meeting and Reception
Friday, February 24, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair:
Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Digging Where You Stand
Friday, February 24, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Suzanne Hudson, University of Illinois; Richard Meyer, University of Southern California
Kellie Jones, Columbia University
Michelle Kuo, Artforum
Frank Smigiel, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Southern Graphics Council International
COACTION: Innovative Printmaking Collaborations
Friday, February 24, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Candace Marie Nicol, Southern Graphics Council International
“PLATFORM”: A Collaboration with Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin
Francesca G. Samsel, independent artist
Multiplicity in Collaboration and Community
Sang-Mi Yoo, Texas Tech University
“We Have a Dream": An Ohio University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Collaborative Project
Althea Murphy-Price, University of Tennessee, and
Haylee Ebersole, Ohio University
New Media Caucus
Code as Craft: Programming in the Art and Design Curriculum
Friday, February 24, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Michael Salmond, Florida Gulf Coast University
Artists’ Machines: Postdigital Design Education for the Real World
Ashley John Pigford, University of Delaware
Code: Intellectual Property, Fair Use, and Plagiarism
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, University of San Francisco, and
Joel Swanson, University of Colorado, Boulder
The New Programme: Computational Thinking in Graphic Design Practice and Pedagogy
Keon Pettiway, East Carolina University
Fostering Play and Rewarding Failure in the Pedagogy of Programming
Jason Bernagozzi, Alfred State College, State University of New York
"Metabellum": Teaching Code through Collaborative Interdisciplinary Performance
Victoria Bradbury, Ball State University
Art Libraries Society of North America
Collaboration, Access, Sustainability: The Future of Image Research Collections
Friday, February 24, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Tony White, Indiana University Bloomington; Laura Graveline, Dartmouth College
Picturing the Future: Private Collections and Public Institutions
Inge Reist, Frick Art Reference Library
Digital Humanities and New Emerging Paradigms for Librarians
Ann Whiteside, Harvard University
The Evolution of Corporate-Personal-Public Image Collections: Implications for Research and Preservation
Andrea Copeland, Indiana University
Yours, Mine, and Our Common Cultural Heritage: Losing Control of Digital Visual Information
Joane Beaudoin, Wayne State University
Pacific Arts Association
The Body Politic: The Role of Body Art and Anthropomorphic Depictions in Oceanic Societies
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Anne E. Guernsey Allen, Indiana University Southeast
Bodily Transformations: The Sociopolitics and Symbolic Inversions of Men as Pigs and Pigs as Men in a Pacific Island Chieftainship
Nancy Lutkehaus, University of Southern California
Body Ornaments and Tattooing; Canoes, Shields, Images: Ornamental Equivalences and Translations as Social Markers in Western and Nggela Provinces, Solomon Islands
Deborah Waite, University of Hawai'i
Hawaiian Bodyscape: Hair Rituals ca. 1800
Teri Sowell, University of California, San Diego
Moko as Politics, Politics as Moko 1813-1840
Ngarino Ellis, University of Auckland
Tiki Kitsch, American Appropriation, and the Disappearance of the Pacific Islander Body
Dan Taulapapa McMullin
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
New Research in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Michael A. Brown, Denver Art Museum; Sofia Sanabrais, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Old Meets New: Classicizing Visions in Diego de Valadés’s "Rhetorica Christiana"
Laura Leaper, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Soldier Ecclesiasticus: Images of the Archangel Michael in New Spain
Niria Leyva-Gutiérrez, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Dovetailed Cultures
Sylvia Shorto, American University of Beirut
“A Palace for the Maize”: The Granary of Granaditas in Guanajuato and the Neoclassical Civic Architecture in Colonial Mexico
Luis Gordo-Peláez, University of Texas at Austin
Visible Empire: Science, Imperial Knowledge, and Visual Evidence in the Hispanic World
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
Tourism (and) Culture, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin
Negotiating the Visual Culture of Antarctica in the Artwork of Anne Noble
Lisa Bloom, University of California, San Diego
Max among Some of His Favorite Dolls: Max Ernst’s Tourist Aesthetic
Carolyn Butler Palmer, University of Victoria
The Journey West: Seeing and Selling America in Beijing
Dan Wang, Columbia College Chicago, and
Stephanie Rothenberg, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Rubbernecking from the White Cube: The Art of Disaster Tourism and Post-Katrina New Orleans
Megan Koza Young, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
Discussant:Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Agents of Social Change: Women Artists and Women Patrons in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Gina Costa, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
"For Liberation and for Life”: Elizabeth Catlett as an Agent of Social Change at the Taller de Gráfica Popular, 1946-1966
Melanie Herzog, Edgewood College
Rina Lazo: Beyond Diego Rivera and the Taller de Gráfica Popular
Linda Williams, University of Puget Sound, and
John Lear, University of Puget Sound
Emmy Lou Packard and the Promotion of Postrevolutionary Mexico in San Francisco, California
Amy Galpin, San Diego Museum of Art
Lola Cueto and the Teatro Nahual
Terri Geis, Pomona College Museum of Art
Intersections: Emily Edwards’s 1932 "Map of Mexico City and Its Surroundings", Today and Yesterday
Delia Cosentino, DePaul University
Pacific Standard Time and Chicano Art: A New Los Angeles Art History
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University
"MEX/LA: 'Mexican' Modernism(s) in Los Angeles"
Rubén Ortiz-Torres, University of California, San Diego
X Marks the Spot: LA Xicano and Art History
Chon A. Noriega, University of California, Los Angeles
Curating in the Chicano Art Rearview Mirror: The Mexican American Generation
Terezita Romo, San Francisco Foundation
"Mural Remix": An Artist's Intervention into the Discourse of Chicano Muralism
Sandra de la Loza, independent artist
What Does Inclusion Look Like? New American Art Histories
Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University
“Disrupt this Session”: Rebellion in Art Practices Today
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Wendy DesChene, Auburn University
WTF: It's Only a Sticker
Catherine Tedford, St. Lawrence University
Strategies of Resistance in Contemporary Art
Selene Preciado, Museum of Latin American Art
Unauthorized Autonomy, Invisible Venue
Christian L. Frock, Invisible Venue
Monsantra: A New Agricultural Revolution
Jeff Schmuki, Plantbot Genetics
Discussant:Owen Mundy, Florida State University
Chewing on Words: Reconsidering Text in Its Materiality
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Carol Emmons, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; Paul F. Emmons, Virginia Tech, Washington-Alexandria Center
Hidden Texts and the Self: Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) Epitaph Stones as Literary Identity for the Deceased
Chao-Hui Jenny Liu, New York University
Text and Textures: The Material Nature of Words in Early Medieval Manuscripts
Benjamin C. Tilghman, George Washington University
Written in the Sky or Reduced to Pulp: The Stuff that Words Are Made Of
Barbara Balfour, York University
Still Texts: The (Im)Materiality of Language in Jenny Holzer’s Work
Navjotika Kumar, Kent State University
What It Means to Wonder: The Use of Text in Time-Based and Interactive Sculpture
Alicia Eggert, Bowdoin College
Gendering the Posthuman
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Christine Filippone, Millersville University; Julie Wosk, State University of New York, Maritime College
Lee Bontecou: Animals, Bodies, Machines
Mona Hadler, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
1968/2004: From the Portapak to Web 2.0
Cadence Kinsey, University College London
Feminist Bio-Art and Posthuman (Re)Generation
Irina Aristarkhova, Pennsylvania State University
Beautiful Vision for the Twenty-First Century: Mariko Mori’s Capsule Aesthetic
Kate Mondloch, University of Oregon
The Materiality of Art: Evidence, Interpretation, Theory, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Kathryn Gerry, University of Kansas; Francesco Lucchini, University of Warwick
Assemblage and the Materiality of Goldsmiths' Work
Francesco Lucchini, University of Warwick
From Wood to Canvas: Leonardo da Vinci’s Drapery Studies on "Tela di Lino" and His Venetian Contemporaries
Hanna Baro, Heidelberg University
Patterns and Preferences in the Consumption of Paintings on Paper, Cloth, and Panel in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Robert Mayhew, Duke University
Specific Materiality and Intention
Michael Schreyach, Trinity University
Discussant:Kathryn Gerry, University of Kansas
Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Hana Iverson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Mimi Sheller, Drexel University
I-5_Passing/52 Food Marts Project
Christiane Robbins, Jetztzeit
Narration in Hybrid Mobile Environments
Martha Ladly, Ontario College of Art and Design
Silver (Gateways): Being Here and Everywhere Now
Jenny Marketou, independent artist
Mechanics of Place: Textures of Tophane
Sarah Drury, Temple University
ManifestAR: An Augmented Reality Manifesto
John Craig Freeman, Emerson College
Tracing the Index in Art History and Media Theory, Part I
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jeanette Kohl, University of California, Riverside; Mirjam Wittmann, Freie Universität Berlin
Towards an Archaeology of the Index
Claire Joan Farago, University of Colorado, Boulder, and University of York
St. Veronica Iconography and the Indexicality Paradigm 1350-1650
Noa Turel, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
The Monochrome and the Blank Photograph
Brendan Fay, University of Michigan
Negotiating Indexicality in Chinese Moving-Image Installations
Birgit Hopfener, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Discussant:Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College
The 1930s
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jordana Mendelson, New York University
Brassäi's "Paris de nuit" and the Social Fantastic
Kim Sichel, Boston University
Spatiality as a Modernist Strategy in Late 1930s Britain
Jutta Vinzent, University of Birmingham
David Smith and the Avant-Gardes of Europe
Paula Wisotzki, Loyola University
Isamu Noguchi, Social Activism, and the Reinvention of Sculptural Practice
Amy Lyford, Occidental College
Activism in Exile: Gisèle Freund Photographs the Avant-Garde
Pepper Stetler, Miami University
Luminous Currents: Homo Sapiens Technologica and the Return of Postpainterly Abstraction
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Andrea Pappas, Santa Clara University; JoAnne Northrup, Nevada Museum of Art
“And Love Comes in at the Eye”
Karen Wilkin, independent scholar
Modernizing Mediums Today
Lane Relyea, Northwestern University
Cycles of No Return: A Post-Avant-Garde Investigation of Postpainterly Abstraction
Paul Hertz, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Beauty and the Digital Black Swan
Richard Rinehart, Bucknell University
Discussant:Jennifer Steinkamp, University of California, Los Angeles, and
Frances Colpitt, Texas Christian University
The Body as a Site of Political Intervention in Contemporary Middle Eastern Art
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University, Stanislaus; Pamela Karimi, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
The Body as a Trigger
Wafaa Bilal, New York University
Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography
Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, University of Ottawa
Striptease at the Checkpoint: Sharif Waked’s “Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints”
Alma Mikulinsky, University of Hong Kong
Veil as Text/Text as Veil: The Inscribed Bodies of Shirin Neshat, Mona Hatoum, and Lalla Essaydi
Stacy Schultz, University of Texas at El Paso
Association of Historians of American Art
American Symbolism
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Erika Schneider, Framingham State University
A Two-Step Waltz between Realism and Symbolism: Winslow Homer’s "Summer Night" (1890)
Hélène Valance, Université Paris Diderot
A Dreamer and Painter: Symbolism, Mysticism, and the Psychology of Dreaming in the Art of Arthur B. Davies
Emily W. Gephart, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Symbolist Resonance between an American Photographer and a Belgian Writer: Steichen and Maeterlinck (1901-1903)
Lucy L. Bowditch, College of Saint Rose
Discussant:Michelle Facos, Indiana University
Art History Open Session
Art and Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: John Beldon Scott, University of Iowa
A New Samson: Scipione Borghese and the Representation of Nepotism in the Vatican Palace
Karen J. Lloyd, Tulane University
Rhetoric and Narrative in the Architecture of Carlo Rainaldi
Jason Ciejka, Agnes Scott College
Artistic Practices and Raw Materials for the Collaborative Art Form of the Festino in Baroque Palermo (1625-1750)
Sabina de Cavi, Getty Research Institute
The Bourbon Theater of State: Decorating the Royal Palace at Portici (1744-1745)
Robin L. Thomas, Pennsylvania State University
Revealing the Crossroads of Paris at the Cusp of the Revolution: The Works of Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau at the Clos Saint-Lazare
Simone Zurawski, DePaul University
Pop and Politics, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Allison Unruh, independent scholar; Kalliopi Minioudaki, independent scholar
Life against Death: Claes Oldenburg's Politics of the Provisional
Nadja Rottner, University of Michigan, Dearborn
The Omission of Poverty and Paranoia: Spectators and Effects in Warhol’s Films
William McManus, Rhode Island School of Design
Warhol’s "Race Riots" and Civil Rights
Martin A. Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz
Pop Iconography on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: Alina Szapocznikow and Roman Cieślewicz
Agata Jakubowska, Adam Mickiewicz University
All-American Political Pop from North of the Border to Way South
Robert Storr, Yale University
ARTspace
Un-Space Ground: The Unvisited, Unnamed, and Uninhabited Empty Areas beneath the Normally-Used Parts of the Urban Landscape
Saturday, February 25, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Location to come, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Art in Odd Places and Performance Exchange
Curated by Ed Woodham and Deborah Oliver.
Design Studies Forum
Design, Thing Theory, and the Lives of Objects
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Leslie Atzmon, Eastern Michigan University
The Thingness of Making: Attending to Production and the Appropriation of the Handmade in Contemporary Design Practice
Catharine Rossi, Edinburgh College of Art
Distributing Stresses: A Consideration of the Lives of Human and Nonhuman Things in the Eames DCM Chair
Michael Golec, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Neo-Animism and Design: A New Paradigm in Object Theory
Betti Marenko, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Art Spaces Archives Project
What Is Alternative Today about "Alternative Art Spaces"?
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Ann Butler, Bard College
Ronni Kimm, ART2102 and Dispatches and Directions: Artists-Run Organizations in LA
Angie Keefer, The Serving Library
Caitlin Jones, Western Front
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
New Scholars Session
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kevin Chua, Texas Tech University
The Garden Landscape and the French Interior
Lauren Cannady, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“Last Visit from the Doctors Assistant”: Thomas Rowlandson’s Tribute to the "Dying Nabob" and the Birth of the British Body Abroad
Christina Smylitopoulos, University of McGill
Hogarth among the Moderns
Abigail Zitin, Trinity University
Asian American Women Artists Association
Challenging Societal Assumptions and Creating Community: Asian American Women Artists
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, California College of the Arts
What Is at Stake? Women Artists, Activism, and Communities-in-Formation
Margo Machida, University of Connecticut
Cultural Activism: How to Reclaim Asian American Art History Using the Case Studies of Bernice Bing and Lenore Chinn
Jennifer Banta, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
Confronting the Confinement: “Sultana’s Dream” and “A Place of Her Own"
Pallavi Sharma, Asian American Women Artists Association
Feminism and Women's Movements
Susette Min, University of California, Davis
Shizue Seigel, Asian American Women Artists Association
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
“Useful to the Public and Agreeable to the King”: Academies and Their Products in Spain and New Spain
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kelly Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas
Shifting Attitudes toward Cultural Patrimony in the Madrid Royal Academy of San Fernando, 1755-1808
Andrew Schulz, University of Oregon
Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Formation of a Director General
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas
“Open the Door so that Misery Can Leave”: The Rhetoric of Public Utility of the Royal Academy of San Carlos and Public Responses in Late Colonial Mexico
Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas at Austin
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Myth, Magic, and Metamorphosis
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Nidhi Jalan, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Society for Photographic Education
Reinvesting Collective Creativity and the Collaborative Community
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: John Mann, Florida State University
Brian Ulrich, Virginia Commonwealth University
Kelli Connell, Columbia College Chicago
Matthew Gamber, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Justin James Reed, Virginia Intermont College
Art History Meets the Digital Humanities
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
Katherine Behar, Baruch College, City University of New York
Charlotte Frost, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Paul Jaskot, DePaul University
Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University
A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester
Visual Culture Caucus
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Outsider Theories of the Visual
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Scott Selberg, New York University; Katherine Brideau, New York University
From Ganzfeld to Gizmos: Telepathic Aesthetics and Belief
Kristen Gallerneaux Brooks, University of California, San Diego
From Art Studios to Science Labs: A Portuguese Experience
Rosana Horio Monteiro, Federal University of Goiás
Blind Optics
Gabriel Menotti, Goldsmiths, University of London
Discussant:Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego
Japan Art History Forum
Commensurable Distinctions: Japanese Art History and Its Others
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine
Pictorial Photography and the “Japanese Aesthetic"
Karen Fraser, Santa Clara University
Collage Modernity: Women, Machines, and Surrealism in the Paintings of Koga Harue
Chinghsin Wu, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Picasso as the Other: First “Global” Polemics of a Postwar Ceramic/Painting Dichotomy
Yasuko Tsuchikane, Parsons The New School for Design
The Struggle for a Page in Art History: The Global and National Ambitions of Japanese Contemporary Artists from the 1990s
Adrian Favell, Sciences Po
Discussant:Miya Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California
ARTspace
Art in the Public Realm: The Global Environment
Saturday, February 25, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design; Tim Nolan, independent artist, and Conrad Gleber, LaSalle University
Sam Bower, greenmuseum.org
Holger Nickisch, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen
Jenny Brown, University of Sydney
Miranda Wright, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
Oliver Hess, Materials and Applications and Didier Hess
Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, independent scholar, Freiburg
Design Method and Mathematics in Francesco di Giorgio's "Trattati"
Angeliki Pollali, DEREE-The American College of Greece
Mathematics and Proportion Theories among Artist/Engineers at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century
Matthew Landrus, Rhode Island School of Design
The Meaningful Use of Φ and Π in the Paintings of Piero della Francesca
Perry Brooks, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Discussant:Alexander Marr, University of Southern California
(Re)Writing the Local in Latin American Art
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Mariola V. Alvarez, University of California, San Diego; Bill Kelley Jr., independent scholar
The BAW/TAF’s Maclovio Rojas Project: Intervention, Art, or Other?
Ila N. Sheren, University of Toronto
"Un Espacio Abierto": Metaphors of Space and Community in Mexico City's "Temístocles 44"
Emily Sessions, New York University
(Re)Considering Contemporary Maya Visual Practices
Diana Rose, University of California, Santa Cruz
Education, Theology, Art, and Liberation
Maria Fernanda Cartagena, Red Conceptualismos del Sur
Discussant:Lucia Sanroman, independent curator
Making Up a Historiography: Contemporary Arts of the Middle East
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Sussan Babaie, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich; Abdallah Kahil, Lebanese American University
An Archive of One’s Own: Constructing a History of Photography in the Middle East
Mitra Abbaspour, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Closeted Historiography: “Boxes Are Fine, since You Can Hide (in) Them”
Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University
Translations of Islamic Art into Modern and Contemporary Art of Turkey
Wendy Shaw, University of Bern
Transient Histories: Art in Lebanon through Gallery Politics before and after the Civil War
Abdallah Kahil, Lebanese American University
Slavs and Tatars: Régions d'être
Payam Sharifi, Slavs and Tatars
Italian Art Society
Territory and Border: Geographic Considerations of Italian Art and Architecture
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Nicola Camerlenghi, University of Oregon; Catherine Carver McCurrach, University of Michigan
Forging a National Audience for Regional Monuments: Giuseppe Fiorelli and the Superintendency for Excavations and Museums
John Nicholas Napoli, Pratt Institute
Defining Territories and Borders in Italian Romanesque Architecture: Regions, Subregions, Meta-Regions
Michele Luigi Vescovi, Universita degli Studi di Parma
Tracing Renaissance Geographic Imagination in the "Chronicle" of Benedetto Dei
Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago
Geography, Hegemony, and Expansive Examples from the Veneto
Diana Gisolfi, Pratt Institute and Pratt in Venice
For an Italian Landscape: Regionalism in the Postwar
Karen Pinkus, Cornell University
Tracing the Index in Art History and Media Theory, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jeanette Kohl, University of California, Riverside; Mirjam Wittmann, Freie Universität Berlin
The Grammar of Autobiographical Indication: Cy Twombly’s Practice as a Painter and Photographer
Evan Neely, Columbia University
Antiform, Active Matter, and the Formation of Art History’s Ontological Index
James Nisbet, Cornell University
The Mistaken Index in the Agentive Image
Nathaniel B. Jones, Yale University and Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Indexicality and Extending the Artistic Mind into the Workshop: The Case of the Baroque "Bozzetto"
Joris van Gastel, Humboldt Universität Berlin
The Human Voice as Uncanny Index: Notes on "The Last Silent Movie" (2007)
Alexandra Kokoli, Robert Gordon University
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Trading Zones: Strategies for the Study of Artists and Their Art-Making Practices
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jan Marontate, Simon Fraser University; Francesca G. Bewer, Harvard Art Museums
The Cinematic Materiality of Creative Labor: Jackson Pollock (USA, 1951) and Henry Moore (UK, 1951)
Katerina Loukopoulou, University College London
Lucio Fontana's Process: Invention, Documentation, Understanding
Sharon Hecker, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, and
Austin Nevin, Politecnico di Milano
Technical Study and Tacit Knowledge
Richard Mulholland, Victoria and Albert Museum
Technical Exchanges: The Art Materials Information and Education Network (AMIEN)
Mark Gottsegen, Art Materials Information and Education Network
Processing History, Forming Transactions: Preservation and Exchange in the Work of Allison Smith
Rebecca K. Uchill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visual Culture Caucus
Ephemeral Visual Culture and the Making of Urban Space, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Kevin D. Murphy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Sally O'Driscoll, Fairfield University
“De par le Roy”: Police Ordinances and the Making of Ancien Régime Paris
Cesare Birignani, Columbia University
“Masterpieces for Rag-Pickers”: Working-Class Crowds, Collective Spectatorship, and the Censorship of Posters in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris
Karen L. Carter, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University
German Expressionism and the Archive of Ephemera
Kathleen Chapman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Legible Surfaces: Käthe Kollwitz’s Early Poster Designs in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin
Claire Whitner, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Civilization and Its Others in Nineteenth-Century Art, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: David Joseph O'Brien, University of Illinois
Chinese Civilization and Imperial Ambivalence in Britain
Greg M. Thomas, University of Hong Kong
Portable Culture: The Japanese Album as a Model for Civilization in 1860s France
Emily Brink, Stanford University
Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Metals and World Civilizations in Nineteenth-Century France
Ting Chang, independent scholar
Envisioning a Civilized Nation: The Claims of Photography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japanese Geo-Encyclopedias
Gyewon Kim, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture
The "Crisis of History": Precolumbian Civilization as Cultural Patrimony in US and Mexican Anthropological Exhibits at World’s Fairs
Matt Johnston, Lewis and Clark College
Performing Space
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Nancy Popp, independent artist
Sara Daleiden, Otis College of Art and Design
Owens Driggs, independent artists
Marie Shurkus, Pomona College
Manuscripts without Moorings, Objects and Their Origins: Stylistic Analysis or Stylistic Attribution?
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Eric Matthew Ramírez-Weaver, University of Virginia
Tracking Their Training: Questions of Style for Carolingian Astronomical Manuscripts
Eric Matthew Ramírez-Weaver, University of Virginia
Three Steps Removed: Stylistic Difficulties in the "Garden of Delights"
Danielle Joyner, University of Notre Dame
Medieval Spanish Painting at the Crossroads: Stylistic Pluralism in the "Liber Feudorum Maior" of Barcelona
Shannon Wearing, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Tracing Twelfth-Century French Builders
Sarah Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Apocalypses in Late Medieval London
Kathryn McKinley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Public Art Dialogue
In the Public Space of Life: Perspectives on Relational Art
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Eli Robb, Lake Forest College
The Peace Tower as Commonplace: Relational Art's "Lieux de mémoire"
John Tain, Getty Research Institute
The Prospects of "Freed" Time
Lauren Rotenberg, University College London
How the East Saw the East in 1992: The NSK Embassy Moscow Project and Relationality in Eastern Europe
Gediminas Gasparavicius, College of the Holy Cross
Interperformance: Reciprocity and "Strangeness" in South Africa
Ruth Simbao, Rhodes University
Exploring Social Connectedness, Affect, and Political Feeling through Social Practice
Dee Hibbert-Jones, University of California, Santa Cruz
Classicizing the Other
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Race, Ethnicity, and Difference in Seventeenth-Century French Classicism: Models for a Later Style?
Luke Nicholson, University of British Columbia
Rodin, Bourdelle, Maillol, and the Cultural Politics of Classicism and Colonialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Marco Deyasi, University of Idaho
"Classical African Art" and the New Negro Artist: Alain Locke's History of Art
John Bowles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Whiteness, Blackness, and the Classical Body in the Work of Emma Amos, Robert Colescott, and Fred Wilson
Phoebe Wolfskill, Indiana University
Classical Disruption and Declassicizing Practices: Artists and the Discursive Tradition
Julie McGee, University of Memphis, and
Jefferson Pinder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
American Council for Southern Asian Art
Out of the Museum and into the Field: Display and the Temple in Southern Asia and the Diaspora
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Deborah L. Stein, independent scholar
Stella Kramrisch, the Hindu Temple, and the Cultural Parables of Architecture
Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University
Comic Relief: Recent Stone Panels in a Ganesh Temple in Urban Hyderabad
Natalie R. Marsh, Kenyon College
Creating Abodes for Gods Abroad: Jain Temples in England
Anisha Saxena, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Designing a New Hoysala Temple near Bangalore
Adam Hardy,
Cardiff University
Discussant:Deborah L. Stein, independent scholar
New Approaches to Post-Renaissance Florence, ca. 1600–1743
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, The Art Institute of Chicago; Eva Struhal, Université Laval
Ariosto’s Florentine Fortune
Morten Steen Hansen, Stanford University
Manipulating the Miniscule: The Case of Jacques Callot
Nina E. Serebrennikov, Davidson College
Florentine Paintings for a Spanish Queen: The Medici Gift in the Convento de las Descalzas Reales, Valladolid
Rebecca J. Long, Indianapolis Museum of Art
"Ne Posteri Ignorent Quid Factum Sit": Anna Maria Luisa de’Medici at San Lorenzo
Elena Ciletti, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Florence, the Medici, and Bianca Cappello through the Eyes of Horace Walpole
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College
Situating Expanded Cinema in Postwar Art Practice
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Andrew Uroskie, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
“We Must Build Our Theaters in the Air”: Jaime Davidovich and Public-Access Cable Television
Sarah Johnson Montross, New York University
“Shoot Films but not Films!” The Actions of the Austrian Filmmakers' Cooperative
Andrew Weiner, University of California, Berkeley
Promiscuous Sites: Otto Piene's Roving Practice
Melissa Ragona, Carnegie Mellon University
Better Books, the Arts Lab, and the Dairy: The Shifting Countercultural Situations of British Expanded Cinema
Lucy Reynolds, independent scholar
"Selma Last Year" (1966): Expanded Cinema, Site Specificity, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation
Andrew V. Uroskie, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Centennial Session
“Reclaiming” the Studio as a Site of Production
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Patty Wickman, University of California, Los Angeles
Michele Grabner, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Karen Kleinfelder, California State University, Long Beach
Amanda Ross-Ho, independent artist
Doug Harvey, independent artist and writer
ARTspace
Onsite Performance Entre'actes
Saturday, February 25, 3:00 PM–3:30 PM
Location to come, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Art in Odd Places and Performance Exchange
ARTspace
Art in the Public Realm: Creating New Paradigms
Saturday, February 25, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design; Tim Nolan, independent artist, and Conrad Gleber, LaSalle University
Jack Becker, Forecast Public Art and Web Resources for Art in Public
Maureen Connor, The Institute for Wishful Thinking and Queens College, City University of New York
Marisa Jahn, REV and People's Production House
Ed Woodham, Art in Odd Places
Jenny Brown, University of Sydney
Sam Bower, greenmuseum.org
Holger Nickisch, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen
Miranda Wright, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
Oliver Hess, Materials and Applications and Didier Hess
Helen Lessick and Deborah Boudewyns, University of Minnesota Libraries
Deborah Oliver, Performance Exchange and University of California, Irvine
