To be held at the Centre for Fine Art Research, School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham, 27 June 2014
Conference: Twice Upon a Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses, 27th June
10.00-10.50 Keynote: Rosa Rubea Homuncula
Professor Jivan Astfalck: Director of Centre for Creative Making, Birmingham School of Jewellery
10.50-12.05 PANEL 4: Producing, Defending & Working the Talisman
1. Liminal Rites as Molecular Revolutions
Ana Belloch, Ralph Dorey & Stuart Tait: AAS
2. Mobilising mob mentality in fifteenth-century Italy: the miracle-working of the relic of Saint Andrew’s head
Dr. Sue May: CFAR-BIAD
3. Jewellery & Wellbeing – From Superstition to Placebo
Dr. Sandra Wilson: University of Dundee
12.05-13.20 Lunch [AAS Performance “The Emerald Tao” from 12:30 in “The Cauldron”]
“Drawn” – Development & Mark making in B.21
13.20 -14.55 PANEL 5: Sensual // Audible // Exposure
1. “The Frog”
Luke Deane: Conservatoire, BCU
2. The Thickness of Shadows
John Sutcliffe: CFAR-BIAD
3. Sound, Audio, Music // Physics, Imaginaries, intentions
Micah Silver: Artist
4. The Latent Image: Hidden, Non-transparent and Untheorised
Dr. Daniel Rubinstein: Central Saint Martins
14.55-15.45 Keynote: Who Will Go Mad With Me
Professor David Toop: University of the Arts London, Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation
15.45-16.00 Break: Coffee, Tea, Biscuits, Fruit [Fatima III]
16.00-17.35 PANEL 6: Transformation/Transmutation
1. Drawn: From Capital to Culture
Sian Hindle & Toni Mayner: Birmingham School of Jewellery, BIAD
2. Edward Richard Taylor’s ART-Power
Stuart Mugridge: CFAR-BIAD
3. Generating/Transforming
Helen Dilkes: RMIT University, Melbourne
4. The Power of 2, Squaring the System: (n2), ⇌, and the “very fact that…”
Mattia Paganelli: CFAR-BIAD
17.35-18.30 Keynote: Wobbly Interfaces, Uncommon Coding, and Mindreading Birds
Stuart Nolan: Research Magician
18.30-19.00 PLENARY
Chair: Professor Johnny Golding with all keynotes