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