BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251102T013247EST-2596kSXju9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251102T063247Z DESCRIPTION: AHCS Departmental Symposium 2014 Michael Cowan: 1:00pm to 1:50pm Mary Hunter: 1:55pm – 2:45pm Break: 2:45pm – 3:00pm Chriscind a Henry: 3:00pm to 3:50pm Carrie Rentschler: 3:55pm to 4:45pm 17:00 - Re ception ---------------------------------------------------- Mary H unter Bored of Prostitution?: Time and Gynecology in Toulouse-Lautrec’s R ue des Moulins (1894) Abstract: Over the past hundred years\, Toulouse -Lautrec’s painting of two prostitutes awaiting a gynecological inspection in a Parisian brothel has been understood as exemplary of the artist’s in nate understanding of the lives of the sick and downtrodden or as represen tative of the perverse fantasies of a crippled\, heterosexual aristocrat a t the fin de siècle. In both cases\, Lautrec’s biography as the ‘deformed bohemian of Montmartre’ predominates. In order to move away from biographi cally driven readings\, this paper will examine Rue des Moulins through a discussion of the phenomenology of waiting and historical accounts of gyne cological procedures. By analyzing the compressed space of the brothel int erior\, this paper will explore the troubled ties between bodily threshold s\, medical penetration and artistic encounters\, as well as the tensions between the “slow time” of waiting and the desire for speed and efficiency in modern gynecology. Michael Cowan “Living Posters” – Animate d Environments of Advertising in the Early 20th Century Abstract: In the recent research on animation history\, surprisingly little attention has been paid to early advertising. In Europe\, advertising film constituted o ne of the single most important arenas for animation practice and experime ntation in the early 20th century\, but “animated” advertising also extend ed far beyond the confines of the cinema. This presentation considers the broader context of animation in early advertising\, its media technologies \, its epistemological underpinnings and its ramifications for thinking ab out advertising today. Chriscinda Henry Leonardo da Vinci\, Parody\ , and Pictorial Magic Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how Leona rdo’s comic istorie (narrative drawings) parody social and pictorial conve ntions and disrupt conventional patterns of thought and seeing. It asks th e further question whether his virtuosic\, quick-fingered graphic experime nts—considered here as magic tricks akin to pictorial sleight of hand—shou ld challenge our understanding of Renaissance art more broadly\, as schola rs have claimed Caravaggio’s painting does over one hundred years later. N amely\, Leonardo’s narratives force us to reconsider playfulness\, humor\, theatricality\, and deception as claims for the status of the autonomous artwork around 1500\, revealing the role of comic invention within the bro ader experimental development of painting at that pivotal moment\, a proce ss Alexander Nagel has recently reframed as a series of complex inter-pict orial “controversions.” This intervention not only recovers the idiom of L eonardo’s comic controversions\, but also argues for his—and indeed the Re naissance artist’s more broadly—status as trickster and master magician. Carrie Rentschler What Does It Look Like to Take Responsibilit y? Abstract: This talk offers an analysis of how surveillance and mobile phone bystander videos construct the look and performance of bystanding. I seek to trouble the distinctions that have been drawn between witnessing as an act of taking of responsibility and bystanding as the failure to do so. Today video documentation serves as a key technology of bystanding. In video recordings\, one sees bystanders in at least two distinct ways: fir st\, as subjects who look and who are depicted in the embodied process of looking\, and second\, as subjects who are part of a scene in which bystan ding appears as a process\, as a form of agency in situ through which judg ment is formed. While bystander videos show us what taking responsibility should and should not look or sound like\, they also draw attention to the situation in which bystanding occurs\, emphasizing bystanding as a proces s. I conclude the talk by proposing a performance theory of bystanding tha t shifts our attention from the apathetic onlooker to that of the proximat e and embodied witness. DTSTART:20140416T170000Z DTEND:20140416T230000Z LOCATION:Thomson House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3650 rue McTavish SUMMARY:2014 AHCS Departmental Symposium URL:/ahcs/channels/event/2014-ahcs-departmental-sympos ium-234317 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR