Philosophy and Art conference
Stony Brook Manhattan
March 28-29, 2008
Friday, March 28th
(use the entrance located at 401 Park Ave. South, between 27th and 28th)
9:00-10:00am – Breakfast, served at Stony Brook Manhattan in the main conference room
10:00-11:00am – Welcome and Opening remarks
Welcome, Prof. Eduardo Mendieta, Director of MA program in Philosophy and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook
Opening Remarks, Prof. Megan Craig, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook
11:00-1:00pm – First Panel: Aesthetics and Photographic Vision
“Barnett Newman and the Aesthetics of Totality” Clay Matlin, School of Visual Arts, New York City
“The Question Concerning Bernd and Hilla Becher” David Smucker, Stony Brook Department of Philosophy
“Al-Adhan” Michael Knierim, MFA Candidate, Northern Illinois University
1:00-2:00pm – lunch (off campus)
2:00-4:00pm – Second Panel: Identity and Seeing Others
“A New Narcissism”: Refracting the Self in Contemporary Video” Max Razdow, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University
“Baudrillard's Butterfly Athleticism” Ryland Johnson, Stony Brook Department of Philosophy
“You & I” Clare Samuel, Montreal, Quebec
4:00-5:00pm – coffee break
5:00-6:30pm – Keynote Address by Dr. Rosalind Krauss, University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University,
“The Parergon’s Veil”
6:30-7:30pm – Reception with “com(Ə)pass40n75w” and “symchronaut” Constantina Zavitsanos, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, March 29th
(use the entrance at 110 East 28th Street, between Park Ave. South and Lexington Ave.)
9:00-10:00am – Breakfast, served at Stony Brook Manhattan in the main conference room
10:00-12:00pm – Third Panel: Feeling and Interaction
“Unveiling the Life of Feeling” Nikolay Tugushev, Stony Brook Department of Philosophy
“Veils Proposal” Karen Joan Topping, Washington, D.C.
“Centre-Lumière-Bleu” Sophie Lavaud-Forest, University of Paris 1 Panthèon-Sorbonne
12:00-1:00 - lunch (off campus)
1:00-3:00pm — Fourth Panel: New Perspectives for Architecture
“Curtains” – Simona M. Josan
“Reversing and Folding the Language of Architecture” – Bryan Norwood and Aaron Speaks, Mississippi State University School of Architecture and Department of Philosophy
“A One Thousand Square Meter Veil: Truth's Double Concealment” – Mussetta Durkee, Pittsburgh, PA
3:00-3:30pm — coffee break
3:30-5:30pm — Fifth Panel: Imagery and Consumption
“The Abject and the Ugly: Modern Art in Kristeva and Adorno” Surti Singh, Graduate Student in Philosophy, Depaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
“Piercing the Veil of Law: A Schizoanalytic Critique of the Obscene Aesthetics of Control” Kyle J. McGee, Villanova University School of Law
“Affirmative Fashion” – Marijke Bouchier, New Zealand
5:30-6:30pm — Closing Remarks, Prof. Edward S. Casey, Founding Director of MA program in Philosophy at Stony Brook Manhattan
6:30-8:30pm – Reception with performance of “The Brown Study” by eldritch Priest, Carleton University
