Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination, Stanford University, November 5, 2016
The animation of medieval images and spaces comes to life through the agency of voice, light, incense, and movement. The confluence of such triggers can give rise to a sensually saturated phenomenon, which can in turn lead to the disintegration of the divide between real and oneiric, terrestrial and celestial.
This symposium explores three topics: first, animation as a temporal phenomenon in medieval art; second, the role of digital technology in staging an encounter with the past; and third, the role of modern performance and the aesthetic act in shaping a direction in museum display practices, cultural heritage, and historical preservation.
SPEAKERS
Gudrun Bühl, Curator and Director of the Byzantine Art Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Ivan Foletti, University of Lausanne and University of Brno
Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge
Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University
Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Eric Palazzo, University of Poitiers
Bissera Pentcheva, Stanford University
Francisco Prado-Vilar, Director of Cultural and Artistic Projects at Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
RSVP requested.