Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013 MPIWG Berlin

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce our upcoming conference: Laboratories of Art, March 7/8 2013

Main Conference Room, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Organisers: Sven Dupré Max Planck Research Group Director, MPIWG/Freie Universität Berlin

Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf

Common components of art and alchemy were materials, instruments, apparatus as well as processes and experiments. Laboratories of Art investigates ways in which artists' workshops could be said to be sites of alchemy. Exploring the relationship between art, knowledge, and technology, speakers discuss various visual and decorative arts: glassmaking, metallurgy, sculpture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and painting.

Participants:

Marco Beretta, Università di Bologna

Andrea Bernardoni, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Museo Galileo)

David Brafman, Getty Institute

Marjolijn Bol, University of Amsterdam

Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge

Henrike Haug, Technische Universität Berlin

Mathew C. Hunter, McGill University

Stephen Johnston, MHS, University of OxfordDidier Kahn, CNRS

Fanny Kieffer, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours 

Ursula Klein, MPIWG/University Konstanz

Matteo Martelli, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 

William Newman, University of Indiana

Sylvie Neven, University of Liege, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 

Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University

Anke Timmermann, Medizinsiche Universität Wien

Morgan Wesley, Sotheby’s Institute of Art/University of Oxford 

Steve Wharton, University of Sussex

Alan Williams, Conservation Dept.,The Wallace Collection, London.

Would you be so kind as to circulate this information? 

Observers are welcome but space is limited, to register please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Best regards

Gina Grzimek

Sekretariat Dupré

Max Planck Research Group

Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Boltzmannstraße 22

14195 BERLIN