Ways of seeing
'The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled'
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)
10.00 Welcome and introduction - Katy Barrett | Royal Museums Greenwich
10.10 Keynote Lecture - Dryden Goodwin
11.00 Coffee and tea
11.30 Session 1 - Seeing from afar
Luci Eldridge | Royal College of Art, London
A Glimpse of Mars through fractured illusion: The Materiality of the Stereo Image
Emily Casey | University of Delaware
Seeing Empire in J.F.W. des Barre's Atlantic Neptune
William Nelson | University of Toronto
Learning to see from above: Eye-witnessing, disorientation, and the aerial view
13.00 Lunch and free time to visit exhibition
14.00 Session 2 - Seeing with the body
Angela Breidbach | Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
Cut and Connect: Some parallels between anatomical section, image
montage and the theatre of memory
Maria Hayes, visual artist
Cubist Ways of Seeing
Quoc Vuong, Gabriele Jordan, Michael Cox and Yoav Tadmore | Newcastle University
Are sketches good visual representations of the world?
15.30 Coffee and tea
16.00 Session 3 - Seeing at the surface
Sarah Chapman | University of Plymouth
The Body which throbs': Photography and graphic intervention
Dr Rahma Khazam | art critic and independent scholar
'Eluding the All-Seeing Eye'
Jacqui Knight | University of Plymouth
The Contact Sheet in Close Up
17.30
Wrap up and discussion - led by Damian Smith, RMIT University,
Melbourne
18.00 Drinks reception
Cost: £35. Concessions £25 (students and people ofver 60)
info: 020 8312 6716 or e-mail research@rmg.co.uk
