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2010 UAAC ANNUAL CONFERENCE SESSIONSUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Co-chairs: Sarah Parsons, York University & Sarah Bassnett, The University of Western Ontario
Part One:
1. Dot Tuer, OCAD, "Trauma and the Eye of the Camera: Reflections on the violence of state terror and the photographic image"
2. Heather Diack, University of Toronto, "Epistemological Checkmate: The Role of Humour in the History of Photoconceptualism"
3. Linda M Steer, Brock University, "Photography and the Beat Generation"
Part Two:
4. Sharon Sliwinski, The University of Western Ontario, "Profane Illumination: The Politics of Aesthetics in Lee Miller’s Blitz Photographs"
5. Jennifer Orpana, Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Western Ontario, "“Truth” Trifecta: Examining Three Qualities That Contribute to the Power of Youth Photovoice"
6. Karen Stanworth, York University, "We’re Not Just What We Seem: Paradoxical Identities at a Young Ladies School, Montreal, 1873"
Panel: Medieval Art and Architecture Chair: Malcolm Thurlby, York University & Dominic Marner, University of Guelph.
Part One:
1. Candice Bogdanski, Ph.D Candidate, York University, “Ambulatories, Crypts and Apses: How to Make Saints’ Shrines More Accessible and Extravagant in Thirteenth Century Scottish Architecture”
2. Candace Iron, PhD Candidate, York University, “Medieval Ontario: William Hay, Henry Langley and the changing face of Ontario Architecture in the 19 th century”
3. Ronny Lvovski, PhD Candidate, York University, “The frescoes in the church of San Julian de los Prados, Oviedo (c. 812-42)”
Part Two:
4. Janice Mann, Bucknell University, “Eternity and the passage time in Floor Mosaic Otranto Cathedral ”
5. Malcolm Thurlby, York University, “Architectural polychrome in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman churches and some evidence for stucco sculpture”
6. Michael F. Reed, Post-Doctoral Student, York University, “Late Saxon art-production in the Fens: Ely and Medeshamstede (Peterborough)”
Panel: Canadian Print Culture
Chairs: Loren Lerner, Concordia University, & Zoë Tousignant, Ph.D. candidate, Concordia University.
Part One:
1. Susan Butlin, Independent Scholar “Good Wits, Ink and Paper: Tarot, an Illustrated Arts Magazine in Victorian Toronto”
2. Zoë Tousignant, Ph.D. Candidate, Concordia University “‘Canadian from Cover to Cover’: Photography, Canadianism and The Canadian Magazine”
3. Jaleen Grove, Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY Stony Brook“Chatelaine’s Early Women Illustrators and the Invention of the Modern Canadian Woman”
4. Debra Antoncic, Ph.D. Candidate, Queen’s University “The Body of the Sculptor: Masculinity and Nationalism in Québec”
Part Two:
1. Kathryn Harvey, Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library “Print Culture of 19th Century Ontario from the University of Guelph’s Archival and Special Collections”
2. Loren Lerner, Concordia University “William Notman’s Home Library: The Place of Reading in Late Nineteenth Century Canadian Print Culture”
3. France St-Jean, University of Ottawa “Charles William Jefferys, Illustrator of Canadian Nationhood and Initiator of a National Art: His Role inthe Evolution of the Historical Print”
4. Dominic Hardy, Université du Québec à Montréal “The Songs of the By-Town Coons: Music and Satiric Visual Identity in Late 19th Century Montreal Print Culture”
Panel: Economy, Community and Self-expression- Craft and Social Development Co-chairs: Gloria Hickey, Independent scholar & curator, & Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Concordia University.
Part One:
1. Mireille Perron, Alberta College of Art and Design “Atelier du Cep: A Case Study for writing material history, mapping networking, and rethinking politicallineage”
2. Nicole Burish, Concordia University “Craft Off: Performance, Competition, and Anti-Social Crafting”
3. Julia Krueger, The University of Western Ontario “Let’s go Fishing...A Trip to the Hansen-Ross Pottery: Tourist Ware or Something Else?”
Part Two:
1. Karina Estrada, Concordia University“The Use of Arts and Crafts in Community Art Projects in Colombia”
2. Gloria Hickey, Independent writer and curator, St. John's “Knit Together: Poverty and Newfoundland”
3. Alla Myzelev, Guelph University “Subversive Hobby: Queer Culture, Community, and Knitting in the Early Twenty-First Century”
Panel: Fashioning the Past Co- chairs: Kimberly Wahl, Ryerson University, & Christine Sprengler, The University of Western Ontario
1. Riva Symko & Amanda Morhart, PhD Candidates, Queen’s University “There are no Rules”: Alexander McQueen’s Fall/Winter 2010 Collection as Pastiche”
2. Susan Ingram, Department of Humanities, York University “Franz and Frieda Lipperheide as Historians of Fashion”
3. Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Western Ontario “Flashlight Glimpses: Autobiographical Art as Self-Fashioning”
Panel: New Ways of Seeing: Art, Visuality, and Surveillance Co-chairs: Sarah E. K. Smith & Susan Cahill, PhD Candidates, Queen’s University
Part One:
1. Martin Zeilinger, University of Toronto “Towards an informatics of surveillance art – myths of transparency and the problem of visualizing invisible surveillance”
2. Jeff Barbeau, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University “What You See Is What You Get: Thinking Through Aesthetics and the Biopolitical with Foucault and Ranciere”
3. James Coupe, University of Washington, Seattle “Surveillance Art as Panacea”
Part Two:
4. Amber Dean, McMaster University and Phanuel Antwi, PhD Candidate, McMaster University “Surveillance, Art and the Politics of Gentrification”
5. Jonathan Finn, Wilfred Laurier University “Surveillance and Visuality in Jill Majid’s Evidence Locker”
6. Kirsty Robertson, The University of Western Ontario “Surveillance, Bodies, and Aftermaths”
Panel: Excess, Decadence and Luxury in Art and Visual Culture Chair: Julia Skelly, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University.
1. Christina Smylitopoulos, McGill University “‘Miseries of the First of the Month’: Drink, Debt and Idleness and the Embodied Identity of the Nabob”
2. John Potvin, University of Guelph “‘Long Live the Queen(s)’: Restraint and decadence in the homes of some notable Victorian homosexual men”
3. Dirk Gindt, Stockholm University“The aesthetics of babbling: Speech, censorship and the control of the female body in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer”
Panel: “No Place Like Home.” Chair: Erin Campbell, University of Victoria
Part One:
1. Alena Buis, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University. “Homeliness and Worldliness: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Homes”
2. Dennine Dudley, University of Victoria “Imagining the Home, Imagining the Self: An Idealized Residence of the Eighteenth Century”
3. Samantha Burton, PhD Candidate, McGill University “Inside out/outside in: looking at Frances Jones Bannerman’s In the Conservatory.”
Part Two: 1. Anna House, MFA Candidate, University of Alberta “Dialogue of the Domestic.” 2. Claudette Lauzon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University “Precarious Occupations: The Fragile Figure of Home in Contemporary Art.” 3. Kristin Patterson, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2008, Independent scholar. “Isabelle Hayeur: Bringing Identity Home.” 9.
Panel: Capturing the Change: Photography, Landscape, Ideology. Co-chairs: Elizabeth Cavaliere, Concordia University & Karla McManus, PhD Candidate, Concordia University.
1. Scott Marsden, Curator, Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford BC “Exploring the Canadian Landscape through two Exhibitions: From Different Perspectives: Photographs from the Agricultural Landscape and Three Rivers/Wild Waters, Scared Places”
2. Suzanne Paquet, Université de Montréal “Langage universel, monnaie universelle: de quelques formes d’utopies” 3. Jonathan Lachance, PhD Candidate in Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal “George Hunter in Canadian Resource Cities: Beautifying the Industrial Landscapes”
Panel: Teaching Art History to Non Art History Students Chair: Alena Robin, The University of Western Ontario
1. John Luna, Victoria “Teaching art history to adult non-academics and studio art students”
2. Ted Hiebert, University of Washington Bothell “How To Not Teach Art: Creative Practice for Non-Art Majors” Round-table discussion of teaching methods 11.
Panel: The Neoliberal Undead: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Co-Chairs: Bruce Barber, NSCAD University & Marc James Léger, Independent Scholar.
Part One:
1. Marc James Léger, Independent Scholar, Montreal “Zombie Culture: Excellence, Exodus, and Ideology”
2. Leah Modigliani, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn“From Island-Hippy Artists to Vertical Cities: Conceptual Art in Vancouver”
3. Bruce Barber, NSCAD University “A Critique of Critical Critique: Tendenzkunst and Critical Attention”
Part Two:
4. Michelle Veitch, Mount Royal University “Creative Communities and Cultural Policy Reform in Urban Capitalist Economies”
5. John Stocking, University of Calgary “Art Tokenism and the Hyper-Liberal Paradigm”
Panel: Latin America Made in Canada Chair: Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas, Brock University
Part One:
1. Madeleine de Trenqualye, MA* student, McGill University “Depictions of Tradition, Modernity and Authenticity in Canadian Tourism Brochures to Latin America.”
2. Sarah E. K. Smith, PhD Candidate, Queen's University “Exhibiting Mexican Art in Canada: Diplomacy, Modern Art, and North American Integration.”
3. Susan Douglas, University of Guelph “Art from Latin America in Canadian Museums in the 1990s: Two Contrasting Paradigms.”
Part Two:
4. Sarah Rangaratnam, MA student, Brock University “Finding Latin America in Canada: The Effects of a Digitization Lag on Research.”
5. Lesley Bell, Brock University “Building Up a Digital Collection of Latin American Art and Visual Culture.”
6. Tamara Toledo and Rodrigo Barreda, LACAP “Latin American Canadians and LACAP: Working for Change.”
*Please note that MA students have been allowed to speak in this session because of the newness of this field in Canadian art history 13.
Panel: Diagrams, Maps and Plans in Visual Art. Chair: Jakub Zdebik, University of Guelph
Part One:
1. Martin Pearce, University of Guelph “Kuitca’s ‘Tablada Suite’.”
2. Derek Knight, Brock University “Re-Mapping the City and the Ecology of Space in the Art of N.E. Thing Co.”
3. Randy Innes, Carleton University\Trent University “The Book as Diagram.”
Part Two:
4. David Sume, PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal “Using structural diagrams to analyze Iliazd’s conception of the illustrated deluxe edition.”
5. Jakub Zdebik, University of Guelph “Schematic Aesthetics: Lombardi’s Diagrams of Power.”
Panel: Postcards from the Edge Co-Chairs: Joan Coutu, University of Waterloo, Bojana Videkanic, Ph.D Candidate, & Lora Senechal Carney, University of Toronto. Part One:
1. Joan Coutu, University of Waterloo “If you go out in the woods today….”
2. Ananda Shankar Chakrabarty, Ontario College of Art and Design“The Spectacle of Vision and Ruins: Soulages, Viallat, Hantaï, and Barceló”
3. Corina Ilea, Ph.D. candidate, “Matei Bejenaru: The Illegal Immigrants”
Part Two:
4. Lora Senechal Carney. University of Toronto “At the Edge of the World as We Know It”
5. Soyang Park, Ontario College of Art and Design “New modernity: the postcolonial art of Choi Jeonghwa”
6. Bojana Videkanic, Ph.D. student “Marginalia: socialist modernism”
Panel: Critically Canadian: Critical investigations of Historical Canadian Art and Visual Culture, pre-WWII Co-Chairs, Karen Stanworth & Anna Hudson, York University
Part One:
1. Anne Whitelaw, University of Alberta, “A Keen Propagandist for Canadian Art in the West”: the National Gallery and Western Canadian art museums, 1920-1945.”
2. Gabrielle Moser, PhD Candidate, York University “Visualizing Geography, Imagining Empire: the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee’s images of Canada, 1902-1945”
3. Amy Furness, Art Gallery of Ontario Archives and Special Collections, and Ph.D. candidate, “Primary but not simple sources: a closer look at artists’ archives”
Part Two:
4. Sarah Bassnett, The University of Western Ontario, “Camera Clubs and City Work: Constructions of Identity in Arthur Goss’ Portrait Photographs, 1911-1940.”
5. Georgiana Uhlyarik, Art Gallery of Ontario, Assistant Curator, “Modern Passion: Kathleen Munn’s Passion Series, 1928-1939.”
6. “Critically Canadian: Archives, Collections and Art Historical Research in Canada: developing a research network”, Speakers' Roundtable , with speakers from both.
Sessions including a presentation on the research databases of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, Kristina Huneault, Dr., Concordia University. Panel: The Visual Realm of Science and Medicine Co-chairs: Allister Neher, Dawson College & Cindy Stelmackowich, Carleton University.
Part One:
1. Inhye Kang, Ph.D. candidate, McGill University, “Re-contextalizing Asian Empire: Visual Practices of Scientific Anthropology in Japan during the early Twentieth Century.”
2. Jasmina Karabeg, Ph.D. candidate, University of British Columbia,“Footprints – Jacques Andre Boiffard’s Photographs and the Babinsky Sign.’
3. Sara Kowalski, Ph.D. candidate, McGill University, “Imag(in)ing the Cancerous Body: Cancer, Abjection, and the Exchange of Flesh.”
Part Two:
4. Allister Neher, Dawson College, “Robert Knox and the Anatomy of Beauty.”
5. Cindy Stelmackowich, Carleton University, “Perfectly Diseased and Pathologically Real: Pathological Atlases, 1830s.”
Panel: Art History and the Internet Chair: Denis Longchamps, Concordia University, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University
Part One:
1. Felicity Tayler, PhD Candidate, Concordia University“The Betweeness of Things : Gallery as Open Interface”
2. Wendy Thomas, Senior Heritage Information Analyst, Canadian Heritage Information Network “Canada’s got Treasures Project”
3. Christopher Moore, MFA, Concordia University, Department of Design & Computation Arts “Wrong Browser: Collecting, Exhibiting and Conserving Media Art” 4. Jean Bélisle, Concordia University, Department of Art History “How to teach online” Part Two: 5. Dina Vescio, Programming and .dpi Magazine Coordinator, Studio XX “. .dpi online magazine” 6. Denis Longchamps, Concordia University “Canadian art and the Internet” 18.
Panel: The Influence of Early Modern Spanish Art in Europe Chair: Cody Barteet, The University of Western Ontario.
1. Heather Muckart, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, “The Toledos of El Greco: A View on Landscape.”
2. Rosanna Mortillaro, The University of Western Ontario, “The Lateran Palace Frescoes: Tracing the Origins of Sixtine Landscapes.”
3. Devin Therien, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University, “Secular Power and Spanish Politics in Vice-Regal Naples: the Duke of Maddaloni, the 1647 Revolution, and Mattia Preti's Paintings of Temptation and Devotion.” 19.
Panel: L’Idée dans l’art/The Idea in Art Responsables Co-chairs: Gwendolyn Trottein, Emerita, Bishop’s University & Adele M. Ernstrom, Emerita, Bishop’s University
1. Serge Trottein, Chargé de recherche, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Villejuif, France ‘L’Idée des artistes et la théorie de l’art ‘
2. Adele M. Ernstrom, Emerita, Bishop’s University “Elizabeth Eastlake v. John Ruskin: Idea content and the claims of art”
3. Mitchell Frank, School for Studies in Art and Culture: Art History, Carleton University“The Conceptual and the Perceptual in German Art and Artwriting, 1871-1918”
4. Nicole Dubreuil, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal “ ‘But conception alone is decisive’ (Clement Greenberg)”
Panel: Trading Up: Merchant Culture and the Visual before the Modern Period Chair: Dr. Catherine Harding, University of Victoria
Part One:
1. Sara Ellis, *Master’s student, Queen’s University, “The late Trecento fresco decoration of the Palazzo Datini in Prato”
2. Brian Pollick, *Master’s student, University of Victoria, “Merchant Culture in Fourteenth-Century Italy: The Building of a Methodological Paradigm”
3. Catherine Harding, University of Victoria ‘The Visual World of Merchants in Orvieto, before and after the Black Death’
Part Two:
4. Alena Robin, The University of Western Ontario, “Merchants and the Way of the Cross of Mexico City”
5. Daniela Viggiani, Ph.D Candidate, Université de Montréal ‘Pietro Maria Guarienti (1678-1753): marchand, artiste, connaisseur’ Round-table discussion
*Please note that Master’s students have been included in this session after consultation between the two supervisors who will bein attendance at the conference
Panel: Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Joseph Polzer Chair: Sharon Gregory, St Francis Xavier University
Part One:
1. Gerard Curtis, Memorial University "Recalling Joe Polzer’s “The Bitch in Heat": A Self-Reflective Art-History Educational Practice"
2. Pierre du Prey, Queen's University “Virtual Reconstructions of Three Tuscan Renaissance Villas”
3. Cammie McAtee, Harvard University “Philip Johnson's Roofless Church and the Geometry of Pure Form”
Part Two:
4. Cathleen Hoeniger, Queen's University“Placing the Napoleonic Desire to Detach Raphael’s Stanze Frescoes in Context”
5. Sharon Gregory, St Francis Xavier University “Michelangelo and St. Bartholomew: Sources Reconsidered”
6. Joe Polzer, retired Professor, formerly of University of Calgary “Buffalmacco's murals in the Campo Santo of Pisa”
Panel: The New War Photography: War and Photography in the late 20 th and early 21 st Centuries Co-Chairs: Carol Payne, Carleton University, and Laura Brandon, Canadian War Museum
1. Blake Fitzpatrick, Documentary Media Program (MFA) and Director of Research and Publications, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University“War in Fragments: Photographs and Sound”
2. Vytas Narusevicius, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia “The Archival Itch: Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group Project, 1989-2004”
3. Laura Brandon, Historian, Art and War, Canadian War Museum “An Absent Presence: Recent Reconsiderations of Atrocity in Canada’s First World War Photographs”
4. Carol Payne, Carleton University, “Portraits of War Loss: Recent Photographic Commemorations”
Panel: Open Session Chair: Susan Douglas, University of Guelph 1. Eric Weichel, PhD candidate, Queens University “‘Most horribly done, and so unfortunately like’: Émigré Artists at the Court of St. James, 1714 – 1745”
2. Maggie Atkinson, Memorial University “Evolution and Exegesis: ‘The Spirit of Freedom’ through Visual Narrative”
3. Susan Jarosi, University of Louisville “The Toothpaste and the Tube: Brushing Up on the Myth of Rudolf Schwarzkogler’s Self-Castration” 4. Katie Cholette, PhD Candidate, Carleton University“The Beleaguered Biennials”
Panel: Indigenous Art: Decolonizing Practices Co-chairs: Heather Igloliorte, PhD Candidate, Carleton University, and Carla Taunton, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University
Part One:
1. Sherry Farrell Rasette, University of Manitoba “You Can’t Avoid Me: Aboriginal Artists’ Interventions into Public Space”
2. Daina Warren, Montana Cree Nation / Aboriginal Contemporary Curator National Gallery of Canada“Cree Cultural Cosmologies in Contemporary Arts – The Placement of Self in Time and Space”
3. Carolyn Butler Palmer, PhD, University of Victoria “Strategies of Subversion: Ellen Neel (Kwagiutl) and the Newsmedia”
Part Two:
4. Dylan A.T. Miner, PhD (Métis), Michigan State University “Halfbreed Theory: Theorizing Métis Visualities“
5. Michelle Bauldic, PhD Candidate,Carleton University“Imag(in)ing Riel: the Selected Deployment of Louis Riel’s Photographic Image in Canadian Visual Culture”
6. Heather Igloliorte, PhD Candidate, Carleton University, and Carla Taunton, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University “Indigenous Art Histories: Decolonization and Sovereignty”
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