
Technologies of Romance Symposium
Event Information
Description
To mark publication of Technologies of Romance – Part II (the new book by Paul O’Kane), the Science Museum, eeodo artists’ publishers, and Central Saint Martins College, UAL, welcome you to attend a free, day-long symposium. Seat numbers will be limited so pre-book with a free ticket.
A diverse and dynamic range of artists, lecturers, historians, students and curators from various institutions will exchange ideas and contribute artworks, performances, videos and academic papers on the symposium’s title and theme.
The event will conclude with a plenary session followed by drinks and book signing, then at 6.45 pm the museum opens its ‘LATES’ session, with drinks, DJs etc. which all our participants and audience are also welcome to attend.
ITINERARY
10:00-10:30 Registration & Coffee
10:30-10:45 Welcome by Katy Barrett & Laura Humphreys with Bada Song & Paul O’Kane
Session One: Ecstatic communications Part I
Chair: Matthew Howles, Science Museum
10:45‐11:05 Elizabeth Bruton - The romance novel and electric telegraphy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
11:10‐11:25 Catherine Dixon - Technologies of printing type and fonts of Romanticism
11:30 ‐ 11:45 CSM BA Fine Art Students
11:45 ‐ 11:55 Chair Fields Questions
11:55 ‐ 12:05 BREAK
Session Two: Ecstatic communications Part II
Chair: Martha Clewlow, Science Museum
12:05 ‐ 12:25 Fred Lamb ‐ The long exposure ‐ mercury, machines, and messages (performance lecture)
12:30 ‐ 12:40 Bada Song ‐ SEND-IT (video screening)
12:40 ‐ 12:50 Abigail MacKinnon ‐ The BepiColombo ‘model’: looking beyond the ‘original’
12:50 ‐ 13:00 Chair Fields Questions
13:00 ‐ 14:00 LUNCH BREAK (n.b. lunch is not provided)
Session Three: Amorous machines
Chair: Shaz Hussain, Science Museum
14:00 ‐ 14:20 Ben Russell ‐ The pursuit of beauty in machine design, 1800-‐1840
14:25 ‐ 14:30 Rosie Carr ‐ The photocopier who fell in love with me (video screening)
14:35 ‐ 14:45 Donata Miller ‐ Double happiness: technologies of the Chinese powdered incense clock
14:45 ‐ 14:55 Chair Fields Questions
14:55 ‐ 15:10 TEA BREAK
Session Four: Romancing the past
Chair: Kendra Bean, National Museum of Science & Media
15:10 ‐ 15:25 Paul O’Kane ‐ The popular past in the work of Elizabeth Price (with screening of a documentation of ‘K’)
15:25 ‐ 15:45 Craig Staff ‐ Something about worlds no longer present: notes on Taus Makhacheva’s Tightrope
15:50 ‐ 16:05 CSM MA Art & Science Students
16:05 ‐ 16:15 Chair Fields Questions
Session Five: The body’s politics
Chair: Jack Davies, Science Museum
16:15 ‐ 16:35 Lee Mackinnon ‐ Repeat after me: the automatic labours of love
16:40 ‐ 16:50 Imogen Clarke ‐ Romantic notions of consumption: objects, arts and science
17:00 ‐ 17:20 Jon Cairns ‐ Critical closeness, intimate distance: encounters in the love art laboratory
17:20 ‐ 17:30 Chair Fields Questions
Session Five: PLENARY
Chair: Paul O’Kane, Central Saint Martins & eeodo
17:30 ‐ 18:00
Drinks & Book Signing
18:00 ‐ 18:30
Note: Images sourced from the museum by John Whapham, and used as illustrations in the book Technologies of Romance - Part II, are displayed in the space during the symposium.
18:45 Science Museum's 'LATES' session begins