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CAA 106th Annual Conference, New York, February 21-24, 2018
LA Convention Center
February 21–24, 2018
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Wednesday
02/21/2018
8:30am
“Against Algorithms (Or the Arts of Resistance in the Age of Quantification)”
Room 409A
“Ariadne’s Thread: Understanding Eurasia Through Textiles”
Room 408B
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part I”
Room 503
“Framing the Struggle: Early Twentieth-Century Women Modernists”
Room 501C
“He, She, and the In-Between: Reassessing Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Mediterranean Art “
Room 408A
“Historicizing Loss in Early Modern Europe”
Room 404A
“International Abstraction after World War II: The US, France, Germany, and Beyond”
Room 410
“Practical Approaches and Collaborations: A Sessions to Share Ideas and Methods for the Art History Survey”
Room 402A
“Site Specific, Collaborative, and Interactive Platforms within Locative Media”
Room 402B
“Sport, Fitness, and Wellbeing in Art History”
Room 404B
“Theorizing Drawing: The Gap between Historical Accounts and Studio Practice”
Room 406A
“Viral Media and South Asia”
Room 407
10:30am
“A Public Art Primer: Expanding Form and Content”
Room 506
“Aesthetics and Control: Artists Respond to the Surveillance Apparatus”
Room 409A
“Alternative Visions: The Photograph, Self-Representation, and Fact in Contemporary Art of the United States”
Room 505
“Art/Data”
Room 402B
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part II”
Room 503
“Disability Aesthetics and Choreopolitics”
Room 404B
“Localizing History through Donor Portraits: Images of Donors and Ritual Scenes in Early Medieval South Asia”
Room 407
“Made by Hand: The Revival of Drawing from Direct Observation”
Room 406A
“No Experiments: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–89”
Room 410
“Regionalism in the Global Era”
Room 405
“Socialist Realism Reconsidered: New Readings of Russian Cultural Policy 1920–1930s”
Room 501A
“The Elements and Elementality in Art of the Premodern World”
Room 408A
“The French Fragment: Revolution to Fin-de-Siècle Part I”
Room 501B
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part I”
Room 404A
2:00PM
“Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities at a Global Level, 1600–2000, Part I”
Room 405
“Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism, Part I”
Room 501A
“Circumventing Censorship in Global Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture”
Room 501B
“Dissent and Resistance: Responses to Authoritarianism in Ancient Art”
Room 408A
“Keeping Up Appearances: Historicizing Trans and Gender Variance in and across Art History”
Room 501C
“Locating LeWitt: Issues of Site, Space, and Movement”
Room 409A
“Museums, Access, and the Ethics of Care”
Room 404B
“Performance, Voice, and Embodiment: Ventriloquism in Contemporary Art”
Room 505
“Reconsidering Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”
Room 403B
“The Call to the Virtual: Virtual Reality as Artform, Discourse, Intervention”
Room 402B
“The Right to Unmake”
Room 406A
“The Tool: Cultural Expressions, Histories, Rhetoric, and Agency”
Room 406B
“Visualizing Genocide: Retelling Native American Survival through Art”
Room 506
4:00PM
“Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities at a Global Level, 1600-2000, Part II”
Room 409A
“Breaking Down Barriers: The Visual Culture of the Border in Late Antiquity”
Room 408A
“Build It and They Will Come: How to Bring the Art World to Your Backwoods Outpost Town”
Room 506
“Cripping the Curriculum: Pedagogical Practices and Strategies when Teaching Disability in the Arts”
Room 404B
“Data Publics: Art in the Age of Platforms”
Room 402B
“Educating Hybrid Practitioners”
Room 406A
“Exhibition as Evidence and Postwar International Avant-Gardes”
Room 501C
“Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part I”
Room 407
“From the Globe to the Cosmos: Entangled Perspectives on the Question of Global Art and World Art”
Room 405
“Group Encounters: Rethinking the Social in and through Performance”
Room 505
“Imagining Constructivism’s Constellations: Alternative Histories of Cold War Cultural Production”
Room 501A
“New Approaches to Contemporary Asian Art”
Room 410
“Objects of Change? Art, Liberalism, and Reform across the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
Room 501B
“Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA — Case Studies in Teaching from Exhibitions”
Room 403B
“The Poetics and Politics of “Anonymous” Contemporary Craft”
Room 408B
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part II”
Room 503
Thursday
02/22/2018
8:30am
“Activist Art Practices in Institutions”
Room 405
“Art Historical Ecology: Asian Perspectives”
Room 501B
“Borders and Breakthroughs: The Afterlife of PST LA/LA, Part I”
Room 403B
“British Abstraction after World War II”
Room 407
“Envisioning Time in Early Modern China”
Room 501C
“Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part II”
Room 402B
“How Many Ways to Miss the Mark? Lucio Fontana between Formalism and Historicity “
Room 409A
“Italian Renaissance Art in the Age of Leonardo, Part I”
Room 404A
“Learning from Elsewhere: Critical Arts Pedagogies in the University”
Room 406A
“Projecting the Body: Beyond the Ocular”
Room 501A
“Reflective Surfaces in Medieval and Early Modern Art”
Room 505
“Rethinking the Grand Narratives of Art History in the Museum Environment” (International Committee)
Room 408A
“Woven Spaces: Building with Textile in Islamic Architecture”
Room 503
10:30am
“(Un)Common Intent: Performance Scores as Contractual Exchange”
Room 501A
“Artistic Afterlives, or Rethinking Nachleben”
Room 404A
“Beyond Model and Autonomy: Reconfiguring Drawing, ca. 1350-1500”
Room 505
“Borders and Breakthroughs: The Afterlife of PST LA/LA, Part II”
Room 403B
“Calligraphy’s Visuality in China”
Room 501C
“From Nirvana to Catastrophe: Matsuzawa Yutaka and his “Commune in Imaginary Space””
Room 501B
“International Art Exhibitions of the 1980s: The Festivals of India”
Room 402A
“International Image Interoperability Framework Use Cases for Enhanced Research and Collection Engagement”
Room 404B
“Materiality and Metaphor: The Uses of Gold in Asian Art”
Room 407
“Picturing Property: Real Estate in American Visual Culture, 1840–1920”
Room 506
“Pop Art and Class, Part I”
Room 409A
“The Aesthetics of Intervention: Federal Governments and Native Art across North America”
Room 409B
“The Postwar Environment in Global Context”
Room 406B
2:00PM
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part I”
Room 407
“Biennials of the Global South: Charting Transnational Networks of Exchange”
Room 402A
“Carlo Borromeo and the Arts”
Room 404A
“Elements of an Artist’s Legacy”
Room 406A
“Energy and Photography, Part I”
Room 410
“Imperial Islands: Vision and Experience in the American Empire after 1898 “
Room 506
“Intercontinental: Indigenous Artists of the Americas on the Contemporary Art Stage”
Room 409B
“Mural, Mural on the Wall: Successes and Setbacks among Community Mural Projects, ca. 2008–Today “
Room 405
“My Hands are (Un)tied: Craft in an Anxiety Age”
Room 408B
“Naturally Hypernatural—Debates about Nature in Contemporary Art and Theory in the Age of Metamodernism”
Room 402B
“Object – Event – Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s”
Room 501A
“Restaging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging”
Room 408A
“Restoration and the Architecture of the Global Middle Ages”
Room 505
4:00PM
“#Resistance: Performing Bodies and the State”
Room 501A
“A Room of One’s Own: National Models for Creating Artists Spaces and Artists Housing”
Room 403B
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part II”
Room 407
“Collecting, Cutting, and Collaging”
Room 406B
“Intimate Geographies”
Room 410
“Permanence/Impermanence: Materiality in the Precolumbian World”
Room 409B
“Save Our Children! That Sweet, Sweet Pie in Anita Bryant’s Face”
Room 405
“Spaces and Places for Artistic Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Science, Engineering, Arts, Technology, and Design”
Room 404A
“The Artist’s Resource: Building Documentation Systems for Artists”
Room 406A
“The Audience as Producer, 1750 – 1900”
Room 404B
“The Renaissance Contribution to the Formation of “Islamic Art” “
Room 503
6:00PM
“Medium Sensitivity and the Ingenuity of Translation”
Room 402A
“Movements in Art and Activism: Radical Practice in California and Beyond”
Room 405
“Rethinking Visual Arts Minors: Innovative Curricula for Visual Intelligence”
Room 406B
“The Craft School Experience”
Room 408B
Friday
02/23/2018
8:30am
“Alt-Aesthetics: The Alt-Right and the New Turn in Appropriation”
Room 404B
“Autonomy and the 1960s”
Room 409B
“Casts: Plaster and Pedagogy”
Room 409A
“Circuits of Belonging: Rerouting Blackness in the Imaginary”
Room 408A
“Cold War Art Archives, Collections, and Exhibitions: Starting from Los Angeles”
Room 402B
“Florence, Berlin, and Beyond: Social Network and the Late Nineteenth-Century Art Market, Part I”
Room 404A
“Global Conversations – Border Crossings: The Migration of Art, People, and Ideas” (CAA-Getty International Program and International Committee)
Room 403B
“Irrational Identities: Art, Science, and Selves”
Room 405
“Italian Renaissance Art in the Age of Leonardo, Part II “
Room 410
“Material Processes of Medieval Art and Architecture”
Room 505
“Modern Architecture and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century”
Room 503
“Pop Art and Class, Part II”
Room 501B
“Re-staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part II: Methodologies, Theories, Conceptual Practices”
Room 501A
“Remote Sensing: The American West in Modernity and After”
Room 506
“Reorganizing the Art World: Postwar and Contemporary Collectives in Asia”
Room 501C
“Speech Balloons and Thought Bubbles: Architecture and Cartoons”
Room 406A
“Warp, Weft, World: Postwar Textiles and Transcultural Form”
Room 408B
10:30am
“Art and Fiction Since the 60s”
Room 404B
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy, Part I: Politics and Museums”
Room 503
“Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism, Part II”
Room 407
“Climate Aesthetics in the Anthropocene”
Room 405
“Cultural Literacy and Ecological Crisis”
Room 410
“Decolonizing Art Histories: The Intersections of Diaspora and World Studies”
Room 406B
“Digital Craft: A Historical Perspective”
Room 408B
“Digital Surrogates: The Reproduction and (re)Presentation of Art and Cultural Heritage”
Room 409A
“Energy and Photography, Part II”
Room 403B
“Florence, Berlin, and Beyond: Social Network and the Late Nineteenth-Century Art Market, Part II”
Room 404A
“Methodologies for the Contemporary Art of Global Asias “
Room 501C
“Repair and Maintenance in Art, Architecture, and Design, Part I”
Room 406A
“Rethinking Regionalism: The Midwest in American Art History”
Room 506
“Women’s Liberation and the Persistence of Painting”
Room 409B
2:00PM
“#classroomssowhite: Strategies for Inclusive Teaching in Arts-Based Higher Education”
Room 407
“A Critical Conversation on Affect Theory, Neuroscience, and Art-Science Collaborations”
Room 405
“Art and Criticism in the Anthropocene”
Room 506
“Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s”
Room 409B
“Art on the Nature of Data about Nature”
Room 501A
“Collaboration on Paper”
Room 406A
“French North Africa and the Architecture of Counterinsurgency”
Room 501C
“Hucksters or Connoisseurs?: The Role of Intermediary Agents in Art Economies”
Room 404B
“Measuring College Learning in Art History”
Room 511A
“Race and Deleuze: Representation, Affect, Art”
Room 408A
“Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Appropriation in the History of Design”
Room 402A
“Voices to Be Heard: Art in the Face of Alienation”
Room 406B
“Working Out of Medium”
Room 409A
4:00PM
“‘Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke’ Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and ‘Negative’ Imagery”
Room 408A
“Agnotology of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art”
Room 409B
“Art and Reason: Art’s Possible Worlds”
Room 405
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy Part II: Artists”
Room 503
“Art in the Age of Global Martial Law”
Room 406B
“Decolonizing Design: Considering a Non-Western Approach to Design Pedagogy”
Room 402A
“Place and Agency in Ancient American Murals and Monuments, Part I”
Room 402B
“Provenance Research as a Method of Connoisseurship?”
Room 506
“Repair and Maintenance in Art, Architecture, and Design, Part II”
Room 406A
“Roundtable: Digital Publishing, Dissent, and Socially Engaged Art History”
Room 501C
“The French Fragment: Revolution to Fin-de-Siècle Part II”
Room 505
“The Park Place Group: Another Minimalism”
Room 410
Molds as Cultural and Material Mediators
Room 409A
6:00PM
“A System of Systems: Cybernetics and Play in Postwar Art”
Room 405
“African Americans and US Law in Visual Culture”
Room 408A
“Destabilizing the Geographic in Modern and Contemporary Art”
Room 406B
“Place and Agency in Ancient American Murals and Monuments, Part II “
Room 402B
“Situational Methods in Graphic (and Other) Design”
Room 402A
Saturday
02/24/2018
8:30am
“Decolonizing Art Museums? Part I”
Room 409B
“Eccentric Images in the Early Modern World, Part I’
Room 404B
“Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe”
Room 403B
“Evasive Articulations in the Age of ‘Fake News’: Thinking About the Relationship Between Art and Truth During the Trump Era”
Room 503
“Gender Parity and Bias in the Arts: A Demand for Change”
Room 407
“How We Practice”
Room 402B
“Inter-Arts Exchange as Modernist Method, circa 1900”
Room 501B
“Making Things Modular”
Room 402A
10:30am
“A Way/s from Home: Blackness Across Nations”
Room 409A
“Art: Creative Care”
Room 406B
“Curating Experience as a Work of Art”
Room 407
“Decolonizing Art Museums? Part II”
Room 501C
“Eccentric Images in the Early Modern World, Part II”
Room 403B
“Experiments with Technology in Latin American Art: From the 1960s to the 1980s”
Room 404B
“Interaction with Color Redux”
Room 402B
“Materials, Makers, and Commissions: Moving Objects between Asia, Europe, and the Americas during Early Modern Globalization”
Room 404A
“Palpable and Mute as a Globed Fruit and Dumb as Old Medallions to the Thumb “
Room 410
“Paper Geographies: Printing Spaces in the Colonial Americas”
Room 405
“Recuperation”
Room 406A
“What Do We Do Now? Art and Politics circa 1970 and Now”
Room 503
2:00PM
“A Second Talent: Art Historians Making Art, Part I”
Room 410
“Art Journalism and Political Crisis”
Room 408A
“Histories of Fake News”
Room 503
“Mobilities: Italy and the New World”
Room 404A
“Pop América: Contesting Freedom, 1965–75”
Room 404B
“Time, Space, Movement: Art between Perception, Imagination, and Fiction”
Room 406A
4:00PM
“A Second Talent: Art Historians Making Art, Part II”
Room 410
“Art History as Anti-Oppression Work”
Room 405
“Disappointment and Representation”
Room 406A
“New Directions in Black-British Art History”
Room 409A
“No Discipline”
Room 408A
“Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance “
Room 503
“Speculative Play”
Room 402A
“Structure, Texture, Facture in Avant-Garde Art”
Room 501A
“Surrealism’s Subversive Taxonomies”
Room 501B
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