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
22 March 2012: Robert Derr (Associate Professor of Art, Ohio State University), 'Life is a Performance'
15 March 2012: Ian Hunter (LITTORAL and The Merzbarn Project, UK), title t.b.c.
16 February 2012: Dr. Simon Knowles (History of Art, UCC), 'Authenticity, Anonymity and the Poor: Paul Maitland’s Paintings of Cheyne Walk.'
15 December 2011: Dr Paul Hegarty (French, UCC) and Dr. Ed Krčma (History of Art, UCC), Manet Fight!
10 November 2011: Dr. Daragh O'Connell (Italian, UCC), 'Furor Melancholicus: Pictorial Poetics in the Narrative of Vincenzo Consolo.'
20 October 2011: Dr. Ailbhe Ní Bhriain (Artist and Lecturer in Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design), 'Great Good Places: Location and Dislocation in My Video Work'
05 May 2011: Prof. Briony Fer (History of Art, University College London), 'Road Testing/Sight Testing: Ruscha's Royal Road'
28 April 2011: Dr. Jennifer McMahon (Philosophy, University of Adelaide), 'The Meta-Ethical Dimension of Art: Eliasson’s Art and Kant’s Sensus Communis.'
03 March 2011: Dr. Kerstin Fest (German, UCC), 'New Women – New Artists? Feminity and Art in Christa Winsloe’s A Life Begins'
09 December 2010: Catherine Harty (artist, Cork), 'Once More With Feeling'
11 November 2010: Adam Loughnane (Philosophy, UCC), 'Merleau-Ponty: Flesh, Trust and Artistic Practices as Philosophic Practices.'
26 May 2010: Dr. Sabine Kriebel (History of Art, UCC), 'Left-wing Humour, or, Heartfield’s Holy Hate'; and Dr. Ed Krčma (History of Art, UCC), 'Wols, Smallness and Creaturely Life.'
31 March 2010: JP McMahon (CACE, UCC), 'The Eye, the Mind, and the Disappearance of the Body: Vito Acconci, 1969-1973.'
25 February 2010: Dr. Sam Ladkin (English, UCC), 'figura serpentinata in Art and Poetry: A Comparative Reading of Frank O'Hara's "In Memory of My Feelings".'
28 January 2010: Chris Clarke (Glucksman Gallery), 'Memoranda for a Series of Histories: Guy Debord and Dissimulation'.
18 November 2009: Roundtable on Locality with Stephen Brandes (artist), Maureen Considine (artist), and Dr. Kieran Keohane (Sociology, UCC).
22 October 2009: Dr. Julia Jansen (Philosophy, UCC), 'Relational and Participatory Practices: Committed Art or Art for Art's Sake?'.
17 September 2009: Dr. Róisín O’Gorman (Drama & Theatre Studies, UCC), 'Casting Shadows in Mud, Myth and Memory'.
20 August 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), Dr. Ed Krčma (History of Art, UCC).
21 May 2009: Dr. Gert Hofmann (German, UCC), 'Synopsis of Redemption and Abjection: On the Literary History of Raphael’s Transfiguration'.
30 April 2009: James Cronin (CACE, UCC), 'Towards new understandings of silence'.
19 March 2009: Dr. David Brancaleone (Limerick School of Art), 'Badiou and Deleuze: Multiplicity and Event and the Art of Bacon and Rauschenberg'.
19 February 2009: Dr. Liam Lenihan (English, UCC), 'Blake's Four Zoas and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: Unfinished "Ends" to Unending Narratives'.
15 January 2009: Dr. Ed Krčma (Historyof Art, UCC), '"The Mind as a Running Transformer": Affect and Diagram in Robert Rauschenberg’s Small Rebus'.
