Monday, March 16, 2009

SESSION 1: Architecture and Displacement: The Body and the Object 

Entrance Gallery

Moderated by Carol Armstrong and Audrey Sands

• Maggie Taft, "Guided by Ando: Architectural Space and the Specificity of Viewing Experiences" (Watch Taft's overview. )
• Tamar Mayer, "The Suspended Look: Attention and Anticipation of Spatial Effects" (Watch Mayer's overview. )
• Sarah McGavran, "What do we expect of paintings? Lighting, display, and the judgement of quality"
• Carol Armstrong, Questions/Conclusions

SESSION 2: Framing Encounters: Institutional Practices and Museum Display

Main Gallery

Moderated by Martha Ward and Audrey Sands 

• Marika Knowles, "Between the Reproduction and the Work of Art: The Discomfort of the Real" (Watch Knowles' overview.)
• John Cooper, "Destabilizing the Eternal Image: Atmospheric Conditions and the Mobilization of the Viewer"
• Samantha Wilson, "Tabula Rasa: Wall Text and the Pedagogical Role of the Museum"
• Rachel Rossner, "Exhibition/Catalogue: The Dissemination of Text and Reproductions as Preparation/Substitute for Beholding the Work of Art"
• Martha Ward, Questions/Conclusions

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

SESSION 3: Old Masters Drawings: Between Origin and Installation

Lower Gallery

Moderated by Marjorie B. Cohn and Audrey Sands

Julia Langbein, "Chaotic Display and the Eradication of Clutter from

• Contemporary Museum Practices"
• Erin Sutherland, "Cult of the Master: Original Contexts vs. Contemporary Display"
• Ingrid Greenfield, "Recontextualization and the Transformation of Meaning: Do objects still 'speak for' the cultures in which they were created?"
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Questions/Conclusions

SESSION 4: Bridging the Divide: History and Reception

Cube Gallery

Moderated by William Wallace and Audrey Sands 

• Caroline Hillard, "What does it mean to reconstruct historical viewing?"
• Esther Chadwick, "The Fiction of the 'Pure Visual Experience'"
• Joy Jeehye Kim, "Spectatorship and Post-Cinematic Subjectivity"
• William Wallace, Questions/Conclusions 

For more photos from this symposium, please visit the Pulitzer's Flickr page.