Eye and Mind: Interdisciplinary Research Forum

Eye and Mind is an interdisciplinary research forum involving those working in different departments at University College Cork, as well as artists, curators, poets and independent scholars from outside the university community. It is focused upon the subject of art, vision and visual culture, broadly described. Those participating include scholars working in Fine Art, Art History, Philosophy, History, Literature, Film Studies, German, Italian, French, Architecture, Theatre, and Applied Psychology. The forum offers a space for rigorous and imaginative intellectual interchange, as well as for the development of connections between individuals involved in the intellectual and cultural life of Cork. It is co-ordinated by Dr. Ed Krčma and the sessions take place on the third Thursday of the month at 6.30pm in the River Room of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery (check site for changes). To contribute to the online forum please visit Eye and Mind Space.

• 18 Nov 2009: Roundtable on Locality with Stephen Brandes (artist), Maureen Considine (artist), and Kieran Keohane (Sociology, UCC).
• 22 Oct 2009: Julia Jansen (Philosophy, UCC), 'Relational and Participatory Practices: Committed Art or Art for Art's Sake?'.
• 17 Sep 2009: Róisín O’Gorman (Drama & Theatre Studies, UCC), 'Casting Shadows in Mud, Myth and Memory'. 
• 20 Aug 2009: Matt Packer (Glucksman Gallery), 'British photography in the Thatcher years'.
• 25 June 2009: Roundtable on Skill with Prof. Graham Parkes (Philosophy, UCC), Matt Packer (Glucksman Gallery), Dobz O’Brien (National Sculpture Factory), Ed Krčma (Art History, UCC).
• 21 May 2009: Gert Hofmann (German, UCC), 'Synopsis of Redemption and Abjection: On the Literary History of Raphael’s Transfiguration'.
• 30 April 2009: James Cronin (CACE & Art History, UCC), 'Towards new understandings of silence'.
• 19 Mar 2009: David Brancaleone (Limerick School of Art), 'Badiou and Deleuze: Multiplicity and Event and the Art of Bacon and Rauschenberg'.
• 19 Feb 2009: Liam Lenihan (English, UCC), 'Blake's Four Zoas and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: Unfinished "Ends" to Unending Narratives'.
• 15 Jan 2009: Ed Krčma (Art History, UCC), '"The Mind as a Running Transformer": Affect and Diagram in Robert Rauschenberg’s Small Rebus'.