Expertise conf plan

‫אוניברסיטת תל–אביב‬ SUNDAY, 31 MAY 09 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY YOLANDA AND DAVID KATZ FACULTY OF THE ARTS 15:00-18:00 FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION 16:00-17:30 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY CAMPUS TOUR Meeting Point: Entrance to Mexico Building (including Louis Kahn’s Faculty of Engineering building, Mario Botta’s Cymbalista Synagogue, Webb Building, Brutalist Architecture and sculptures). M SP ED IN E IA DI TE CIF SC R- IC IT IP Y LI AN NA D RI TY EX ER P SE TI 18:00-18:30 WELCOME NOTES Prof. Dany Leviatan, Tel Aviv University Rector Prof. Ehud Gazit, Dean, Vice President for Research and Development Prof. Hannah Naveh, Dean, Faculty of the Arts Dr. Nissim Gal, Conference Co-Chair Dr. Eran Neuman, Conference Co-Chair 18:30-19:30 PLENARY SESSION 1: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING Chair: Dr. Eran Neuman, Tel Aviv University Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Opposing the Expert FO R FU AT TH E YO LA ND A M AY 31 − AN M RT EX D IC DA ww HE O VI w. R D BU D ar ET I KA LD ts AI TZ .ta LS IN G u. , FA ac PL AN CU .il EA T D /e S UN TH EL LTY xp E IV E AV OF er SE ER GE IV tis E SI NI U THE e/ TY A NI A AR SCH VER RT S S T GA REI ITY , B LL ER ER Y JU N 20 E 4 09 CONFERENCE PLAN FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING MONDAY, 1 JUNE 09 10:00-11:00 PLENARY SESSION 2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 Chair: Prof. Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University Judith Rodenbeck, Sarah Lawrence College and Art Journal Working to Learn Together: The Case of Manifesta 6 11:00-12:30 SESSION 1.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 RE: POST CRITICALITY Chair: Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, Chicago University / Gabriela Switek, Warsaw University Lost in Intertextuality: Olympia in the Garden / Shaked Nizan, California State University, Long Beach The Subject of Political Art: the Art History and Cultural Studies Debate at the 1993 Whitney Biennial / Michal Popowsky, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim New Cultural Understandings of the Signifier “Corporeality” SESSION 1.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 2 16:00-16:30 OTHER AUTONOMY COFFEE BREAK: UNIVERSITY GALLERY Chair: Prof. Daniel B. Monk, Colgate University 16:30-18:00 / Idit Alphandary, Tel Aviv University Autonomy and Signification in Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Quintet / Chava Brownfield Stein, Beit Berel Academic College “Can Photographs of IDF Women Soldiers Speak?” / Yehotal Shapira and Rachel Kallus, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Expertise Encounters Trauma: Testimony as Architectural Knowledge 12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK 13:30-14:30 PLENARY SESSION 3: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 Chair: Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, Chicago University Daniel B. Monk, Colgate University, NY The Jew and the Tank: Habit and Habitus in the Historiography of Israel’s Era of Euphoria 14:30-16:00 SESSION 2.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 SCIENCE AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY Chair: Dr. Raz Chen-Morris, Bar Ilan University / Lucien Benguigui, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Is Interdisciplinarity Possible? / Aaron Sprecher, McGill University Energetic Formation / Alexis Meier, l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris Malaquais Computation and Alienation - towards a New Logocentrism in Architecture? SESSION 2.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 2 INTERDISCIPLINARITY AS METHOD Chair: Prof. Shannon Jackson, University of California, Berkeley / Sandra Umathum, Freie Universität Berlin In Reality the Situation is Far More Complex: Pleading for a New Dialogue between Art History and Performance Studies / Daphna Ben-Shaul, Tel Aviv University Reflections on Expertise as a Disciplinary Reflex of Artistic Reflexivity / Inbal Gitler Ben-Asher, Tel Aviv University and Sapir Academic College Architecture in Israel/Palestine and Postcolonial Theories: A Critical Reassessment SESSION 3.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 RELOCATING AESTHETICS Chair: Prof. Christopher Balme, University of Munich / David Salomon, Cornell University Aesthetic Expertise / Sharon Aaronson-Lehavi, Bar Ilan University Re: Location / Chaim Noy, Sapir Academic College Tracing Ethnography: A Performance SESSION 3.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 2 INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESSION Chair: Prof. Tracy Davis, Northwestern University / Ruthie Ginsburg, Bar Ilan University Picture that Speaks: Visual Documentation of the Israeli Human Rights Organization B’Tzelem / Yael Allweil, University of California, Berkeley The Expertise of Methodological Eclecticism: Inter-Disciplinarity and Para-Architectures / Carmella Jacoby Volk and Anat Manoff, Colman Academic Studies Division, Rishom Lezion and Tel Aviv University Blind Spot: A Critical Mechanism via Performative Acts 18:00-18:30 COFFEE BREAK: MEXICO BUILDING 18:30-19:30 PLENARY SESSION 4: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING Chair: Dr. Shulamith Lev-Aladgem, Tel Aviv University Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University Nineteenth-Century Repertoire 19:30-21:00 EVENING EVENT 1: ROOM 206, MEXICO BUILDING LOCAL TALES 4 Segments performed by the Ruth Kanner Theater Group See brochure for additional information TUESDAY, 2 JUNE 09 WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE 09 10:00-11:00 10:00-11:00 PLENARY SESSION 5: UNIVERSITY GALLERY PLENARY SESSION 7: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 Chair: Prof. Hana Taragan, Tel Aviv University Mark Linder, Syracuse University Transdisciplinary Modernism Chair: Prof. Hannah Naveh, Tel Aviv University Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University The Art of Acting: Some Epistemological and Ideological Foundations 11:00-13:00 SESSION 4.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 11:00-12:30 AUTONOMY AND THE AVANTGARDES SESSION 5.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 Chair: Prof. Mark Linder, Syracuse University BODY AFFECTS Chair: Prof. Judith Rodenbeck, Sarah Lawrence College, Art Journal / Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa, Cooper Union, NYC Towards a New Autonomy: Enfolding Contemporary Canons / Yoav Shiber, Tel Aviv University Digital Architecture and the Question of Expertise / Nadav Hochman, Tel Aviv University Retro Avantgarde. Net Utopia: Avantgarde Utopias in Early net.art / Andreas Wolfsteiner, Freie Universität Berlin A ‘Sur-ficial’ Specificity of Knowledge: Epistemological Transfer and Aesthetic Exchange 1700/1900 by the Example of the Historical Avant-garde / Matias Del Campo and Sandra Manninger, SPAN Artifact & Affect / Ifat Finkelman and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology An Anatomy of Space & Body / Eyal Fried, Id-Lab I See Architecture Everyware SESSION 5.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 DISLOCATING THE OBJECT SESSION 4.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 2 THEORY AND PRACTICE Chair: Dr. Alona Nitzan Shiftan, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Chair: Prof. Nitzan Ben Shaul, Tel Aviv University / Adi Efal, Tel Aviv University Art History as [Figural] Philology: Panofsky with Auerbach / Amos Bar Eli and Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Non-complete Architecture, Innovative Critic or Media-specific Expertise / Hava Aldouby, Hebrew University Art History Meets the Moving Pictures: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Fellini’s Cinematic Discourse / Cesare Griffa, Politecnico di Torino Politically Digital 13:00-14:00 12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK 14:00-15:00 13:30-14:30 PLENARY SESSION 6: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING PLENARY SESSION 8: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 Chair: Prof. Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University Shannon Jackson, University of California, Berkeley Theatrical Specificity in the Cross-Medium Encounter Chair: Prof. Gad Kaynar, Tel Aviv University Christopher Balme, University of Munich Distributed Aesthetics: Performance, Media, and the Public Sphere / Shai Biderman, Boston University Philosofilm: Towards a Cinematic Philosophy / Rivka Oxman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Digital Media in Design in Theory and Practice / Gilad Padva, Tel Aviv University and Beit Berel Academic College Critically Queer: Sexsual Transgression and the Multidisciplinary Discourse in Michael Moore’s The Sodomobile 15:00-18:00 MOVIE SCREENING: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING See brochure for additional information 18:00-18:30 COFFEE BREAK: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING 19:30-21:00 EVENING EVENT 2: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING ROUND TABLE ON CINEMA AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY See brochure for additional information 14:30-16:00 SESSION 7.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 SESSION 6.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 SPECIFICITIES OF NEW MEDIA NEGOTIATING KNOWLEDGE Chair: Prof. Pamela M. Lee, Stanford University Chair: Prof. Esther Levinger, University of Haifa / Agnes Manier, Freie Universität Berlin How to Surprise Yourself: Notes on Contradictory Concepts of Improvisation / Yaniv Ophir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology On Knowledge, Expertise and Martial Arts / Vered Heruti, Tel Aviv University Visible Negation – Use of Negative Texts in Visual Art / John Thompson Steven, Clemson University Recursive/ Relaxative/Redemptive: Poesis of Fractal Art in Techne of New Media / Amit Pinchevski and Paul Frosh, Hebrew University Media Witnessing and Shared Humanity / Yasha J. Grobman, Harvard University Architecture as Expertise – A Shift from Modes of Representation to Modes of Simulation SESSION 6.2: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 2 18:00-18:30 RECODING REPRESENTATION COFFEE BREAK: UNIVERSITY GALLERY Chair: Prof. Iris Aravot, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 18:30-19:30 PLENARY SESSION 9: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING / Yehuda Mendelson, University center of Ariel and Bar Ilan University What is the connection between “Let us make ourselves a name” and “To call upon the name” (of the Lord). The relationship between language and space in Maurice Blanchot’s essay “To be a Jew” / Maria del C. Vera and Shai Yeshayahu, Southern Illinois University Infidelities and Expertise: A trajectory of Intellect / Dalia Gavriely-Nuri and Tiki Balas, Hadassah College, Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University Wounded Soldiers on Israeli Television: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Chair: Dr. Nissim Gal, University of Haifa Pamela M. Lee, Stanford University New Games 19:30-21:00 EVENING EVENT 3: FASTLICHT AUDITORIUM, MEXICO BUILDING Chair: Prof. Hannah Naveh, Dean, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University The Artist and the Mirror: A Panel See brochure for additional information 16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK: UNIVERSITY GALLERY 16:30-18:00 SESSION 7.1: UNIVERSITY GALLERY, HALL 1 THURSDAY, 4 JUNE 09 ETHICS OF THE SUBJECT Chair: Prof. Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Roy Kozlovsky, Northeastern University The Peckham Experiment; Architecture as a Technology of Subjectivity / Iris Aravot, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Phenomenological research, Beauty and Architecture / Sigal Barkai, Tel Aviv University Masculinity, Occupation, Censorship, Ethics and Aesthetics: The Case of the Play Efrayim Returns to the Army 17:00-19:00 PLENARY SESSION 10: TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART Chair: Prof. Mordechai Omer, Tel Aviv University and Director of Tel Aviv Museum of Art W.J.T. Mitchell, Chicago University Idolatry and Expertise: Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART ‫מוזיאון תל–אביב לאמנות‬ THE NORBERT CYMBALISTA FOUNDATION TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AZRIELI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE THE BUCHMANN-MEHTA SCHOOL OF MUSIC DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS MUSEOLOGY STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF FILM AND TELEVISION EMANUEL HERZIKOWITZ CHAIR FOR 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART