Philosophy and the Arts Conference Stony Brook Manhattan March 28-29, 2008 Friday, March 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 at Stony Brook Manhattan Opening Remarks, Prof. Megan Craig, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University   11:00 -1:00pm – First Panel: Aesthetics and Photographic Vision Faculty Chair: James DiGiovanni Respondent: Isaac Fer “Barnett Newman and the Aesthetics of Totality” Clay Matlin, School of Visual Arts “The Question Concerning Bernd and Hilla Becher” David Smucker, Philosophy Department, Stony Brook University “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 Faculty Chair: Eva Kittay Respondent: Heather White “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, Philosophy Department, Stony Brook University “You & I” Clare Samuel, MFA Studio Arts, Concordia University   4:00:-5:00pm – coffee break   5:00-6:30pm – Keynote Address by Rosalind Krauss, University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University “The Parergon’s Veil”   6:30pm-7:30pm – Reception with “com(Ə)pass40n75w” and “symchronaut” Constantina Zavitsanos, Independent             Artist, Philadelphia, PA     Saturday, March 29th 9:00-10:00am – Breakfast, served at Stony Brook Manhattan in the main conference room   10:00-12:00pm – Third Panel: Feeling and Interaction Faculty Chair: David Humphrey Respondent: Marlene Clark “Unveiling the Life of Feeling” Nikolay Tugushev, Philosophy Department, Stony Brook University “Veils Proposal” Karen Joan Topping, Masters of Fine Arts Program, University of the Arts “Centre-Lumière-Bleu” Sophie Lavaud-Forest, University of Paris I Panthèon-Sorbonne   12:00-1:00 lunch (off campus)   1:00-3:00pm— Fourth Panel: New Perspectives for Architecture Faculty Chair: Martin Woessner Respondent: Amir Jaima “Curtains” Simona M. Josan, MFA Candidate at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts “Reversing and Folding the Language of Architecture” Bryan Norwood, School of Architecture and Department of Philosophy, and Aaron Speaks, School of Architecture, Mississippi State University “A One Thousand Square Meter Veil: Truth's Double Concealment” Mussetta Durkee, Independent Scholar and Artist, Pittsburgh, PA   3:00-3:30pm— Coffee Break   3:30-5:30pm— Fifth Panel: Imagery and Consumption Faculty Chair: Harvey Cormier            Respondent: Inna Osipova “The Abject and the Ugly: Modern Art in Kristeva and Adorno” Surti Singh, Philosophy Department, DePaul University “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, Open Media Department, Concordia University   5:30-6:30pm— Closing Remarks, Distinguished Professor Edward S. Casey, Founding Director of MA program in Philosophy at Stony Brook Manhattan   6:30pm-8:30pm – Reception with performance of “The Brown Study” by eldritch Priest, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University 2008 Conference Home         2008 Call for Papers and Works         Downloads Page