GESTURE AT LARGE:
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gesture
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gesture
Gesture at Large Program
All sessions in Wexner Center Film/Video Theater unless indicated otherwise.
Lunches on Friday and Saturday for Speakers and Moderators will be served in the lobby of the Mershon Auditorium, access either from High Street or hopefully through the Wexner bookstore. All other refreshments in Wexner cafe area.
* A copy of the conference program can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. (updated 2-19-10)
THURSDAY
3.30
Welcome
Sebastian Knowles
3.40
Prolog
Brian Rotman
4.00
Keynote speaker
Paul BouissacGestures for the senses: an evolutionary perspective on the multimodality of gesture
Note:
Venue change to Hopkins Hall
(for remainder of today only) 5.15 Opening of exhibition
Gesture (inclusive) Prudence Gill
Opening remarks
Reception
7.00 - 7.30
Mark Harris
The Undead Gesture:contemporary art’s malignancy
162 Hopkins Hall
Moderator- Prudence Gill
3.30
Welcome
Sebastian Knowles
3.40
Prolog
Brian Rotman
4.00
Keynote speaker
Paul BouissacGestures for the senses: an evolutionary perspective on the multimodality of gesture
Note:
Venue change to Hopkins Hall
(for remainder of today only) 5.15 Opening of exhibition
Gesture (inclusive) Prudence Gill
Opening remarks
Reception
7.00 - 7.30
Mark Harris
The Undead Gesture:contemporary art’s malignancy
162 Hopkins Hall
Moderator- Prudence Gill
FRIDAY
9.00 – 10.00
Gesture and Inscriptional Practices
David Horn
Chevreul's Pendulum: Automatism, Attention, and the Unconscious
Andrea Bachner
Inscription-Gesture-Script:
Some thoughts on a Sinographic Model
Moderator: Ruby Tapia
10.00 – 11.00
Gesture Re-Mediated
Maria Palazzi
What else might physical thinking look like?
Carrie Noland
Captured Body Movements: The Digital Choreography of Merce Cunningham
Moderator: Susan van Pelt Petry
11.00 - 11.15
BREAK
11.15 – 12.45
Gesture and the Aesthetic
Aron Vinegar
Wittgenstein, Architecture, Gesture
Tim McNiven
Interpreting pictures of gesture in Greek Art: Pit falls and Potentials
Moderator: Tanya Erzen
12.45 - 1.45
LUNCH: for speakers and moderators provided at Wexner
1.45 – 3.15
Rhetoric, Metaphor, Silence
Brenda Brueggermann
The Open Hand, the Closed Fist:
A Rhetoric of Gesture in American Sign Language
Tom Kasulis
Kūkai and the Cosmos as Gesture
Michael Mercil
Gesture and the Animal
Moderator: Philip Armstong
3.15 – 3.30
Break
3.30 – 4.45
Graduate Student Panel
Ricky Crano
From Gesture to Image and Back Again: Agamben and the Cinematization of Thought
Josh Penrose
Mapping Anything to Anything: Gestural Mapping in Digital Media Performance
Pam Decker
Plato and Mirror Neurons
Moderator: Brian Rotman
Note:
venue change - Sullivant Hall
(for reminder of Friday only)
5.00 - 6.15
Performing Gesture
Jeanine Thompson
Solo Movement Performance
J. Briggs Cormier
Viewpoints: a Movement Vocabulary
Moderator - Lesley Ferris
9.00 – 10.00
Gesture and Inscriptional Practices
David Horn
Chevreul's Pendulum: Automatism, Attention, and the Unconscious
Andrea Bachner
Inscription-Gesture-Script:
Some thoughts on a Sinographic Model
Moderator: Ruby Tapia
10.00 – 11.00
Gesture Re-Mediated
Maria Palazzi
What else might physical thinking look like?
Carrie Noland
Captured Body Movements: The Digital Choreography of Merce Cunningham
Moderator: Susan van Pelt Petry
11.00 - 11.15
BREAK
11.15 – 12.45
Gesture and the Aesthetic
Aron Vinegar
Wittgenstein, Architecture, Gesture
Tim McNiven
Interpreting pictures of gesture in Greek Art: Pit falls and Potentials
Moderator: Tanya Erzen
12.45 - 1.45
LUNCH: for speakers and moderators provided at Wexner
1.45 – 3.15
Rhetoric, Metaphor, Silence
Brenda Brueggermann
The Open Hand, the Closed Fist:
A Rhetoric of Gesture in American Sign Language
Tom Kasulis
Kūkai and the Cosmos as Gesture
Michael Mercil
Gesture and the Animal
Moderator: Philip Armstong
3.15 – 3.30
Break
3.30 – 4.45
Graduate Student Panel
Ricky Crano
From Gesture to Image and Back Again: Agamben and the Cinematization of Thought
Josh Penrose
Mapping Anything to Anything: Gestural Mapping in Digital Media Performance
Pam Decker
Plato and Mirror Neurons
Moderator: Brian Rotman
Note:
venue change - Sullivant Hall
(for reminder of Friday only)
5.00 - 6.15
Performing Gesture
Jeanine Thompson
Solo Movement Performance
J. Briggs Cormier
Viewpoints: a Movement Vocabulary
Moderator - Lesley Ferris
SATURDAY
9.00
Breakfast
9.30 – 11.00
Technologizing Gesture
Marc Ainger
Animating Electronic and Computer Music
Matt Lewis
Evolving Gesture Technology
Vita Berezina-Blackburn
Translating gesture with Motion Capture
Moderator: Mark Harris
11.00 - 11.15
BREAK
11.15 – 12.45
Gesture, Thought, Action
John Davidson
Brecht’s Gestus
Dorry Noyes
Making a Gesture: French Outsider Politicians Between Classicism and Transgression
Moderator: Dan Reff
12.45
LUNCH: for speakers and moderators provided at Wexner
Peformance: Lion Dance
2.00
Open Session:
Concluding Remarks
9.00
Breakfast
9.30 – 11.00
Technologizing Gesture
Marc Ainger
Animating Electronic and Computer Music
Matt Lewis
Evolving Gesture Technology
Vita Berezina-Blackburn
Translating gesture with Motion Capture
Moderator: Mark Harris
11.00 - 11.15
BREAK
11.15 – 12.45
Gesture, Thought, Action
John Davidson
Brecht’s Gestus
Dorry Noyes
Making a Gesture: French Outsider Politicians Between Classicism and Transgression
Moderator: Dan Reff
12.45
LUNCH: for speakers and moderators provided at Wexner
Peformance: Lion Dance
2.00
Open Session:
Concluding Remarks
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