2D/3D. producing illusion will be held at mala voadora (Porto, Portugal), between the 27th and 28th of May 2021. This conference is an initiative of mala voadora, and the research units of the University of Minho Lab2Pt (Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory) and NIEP (Research Center in Performative Studies).
We can consider the invention of perspective as a defining feature of “European art”. This Cartesian device for space representation and consideration was crucial for the development of the continent's art, architecture and scenography for several centuries, and its products were one of the cultural marks of European expansionist policy. The construction of mimetic images has undergone considerable changes with the invention of photography, film and digital tools. The illusionist suggestion of three-dimensionality seems to have taken on a new meaning now, when most of us spend the day looking at monitors and screens, in a curiously similar situation to the public who, following the invention of perspective, has seen theatre through a big window called "proscenium”. On the other hand, within the scope of artistic practices, the modalities of representation have deviated from mimicry in favour of admittedly “wrong” games, or meta-representation. The tools of representation have changed, the nature of images has changed, but the will to illusion is maintained, thickened, or countered with calculated ingenuity. In this sense, the 2D / 3D congress is not limited to perspective (between its invention in fifteenth-century Italy and what it entails in new technologies), aiming to include a wide variety of representation systems that somehow compete with the production of illusion. Around this thematic core, and extending its scope to all areas of image and space production, we intend to consider the following themes:
perspective and epistemology/ontology
uses of Perspective Illusion
perspective and set design
illusion and delusion through the techniques of representation
illusion and new technologies
calculated disobedience to the rules of representation
the analogue after the digital
illusion and its cultural contexts
conference chairs
João Cabeleira
José Capela
João cabeleira
Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade do Minho, Lab2PT
João Cabeleira is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho (EAUM), being responsible for the courses of Geometry and Seminar 1C (History and Ucronia). Currently he is the Vice-president of the School of Architecture, coordinator of the group SpaceR_Lab2PT and member of the EAUM scientific council. Holding a degree in Architecture (2002), with the presentation of the dissertation "Architecture of the underground", and a Master degree in Methodologies of Intervention on Architectural Heritage (2006), with the thesis "Versatility and changing at public space of the historic city. Methods of intervention", both granted by the Architecture Faculty of the University of Porto (FAUP), he concluded his PhD, at EAUM (2015), with the research entitled “Imaginary Architecture: Real and illusory space in Portuguese baroque”, looking into architecture and perspective treatises searching for the intersections between science and the architectural design processes of imaginary architectures. His current research looks into architectural, geometry and perspective treatises searching for the intersections between the optical and geometrical science and architectural design, as well as theory and practice of spatial representation from a planetary scale to an architectural project scale.
José capela
Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade do Minho, Lab2PT
José Capela, architect (FAUP, 1995), PhD earned with the dissertation Operating conceptually in art. Operating conceptually in architecture. He works as a teacher at Universidade do Minho since 2000, where he currently lectures in architecture and theatre. He is also a researcher at Lab2PT. Together with Cláudia Taborda, he curated the international conference Architecture [in] ]out[ Politica for the 2010 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. He is the author of the chapter ‘Uma garrafa de Coca-Cola e duas estufas: política interna nas artes e na arquitetura’ (A bottle of Coca-Cola and two greenhouses: internal politics in the arts and architecture) of the book Estética e Política entre as Artes’ (Aesthetics and Politics in the Arts) (Edições 70) and publishes regularly in several magazines specialised in architecture and performing arts. With Jorge Andrade, he is co-founder (2003) and co-artistic director of mala voadora. He is responsible for the company’s stage designs. In 2013, José Capela published the stage design catalogue ways of doing nothing. He was the chairman of the board of the Portuguese Association of Scenography from 2016 to 2018. He is the author of the installation Windows, which represented Portugal at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, and its respective catalogue, W: JC + JCD. Over the last few years, he also collaborated with Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Teatro Nacional São Carlos and Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro; he designed the permanent exhibition of Porto's new Port Wine Museum, designed a set/installation for the public spaces of Teatro do Bairro Alto. A two-time nominee to the Prémio Autores as ‘best scenographic work’ in 2012 and 2017, he received this award in 2016 for mala voadora’s Pirandello.
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Keynote speakers
Hanneke Grootenboer
Jacob Gaboury
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Hanneke Grootenboer
Department of History, Art History & Classics Radboud University
Prof. dr. Hanneke Grootenboer is Professor and Chair of the History of Art Department at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Prior to this appointment, she taught at the University of Oxford, where from 2014 to 2016 she served as the Head of the Ruskin School of Art. She also taught at Columbia University and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting (2005); Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Eighteenth-Century British Eye Miniatures (2013); and The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking (2021), all published by Chicago UP. A co-edited volume on Conchophilia: Shells, Art and Curiosity in the Early Modern Period is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Grootenboer is a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Art Journal.
Grootenboer’s research is transhistorical. She approaches early modern visual culture through the lens of contemporary theory and art practice. Focussing on art as a form of thinking, her research critically engages with philosophy, theory, literature, and material culture. She published articles the semiotics of still life, intimate vision in miniatures, the phenomenology of portraiture, moving paintings and shells as things to think with. Grootenboer is the recipient of numerous awards including from the Leverhulme Trust, the Getty Institute and the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study. She has been invited to deliver the Erasmus Lectures at Harvard University in the Fall 2021.
Jacob Gaboury
Department of Film & Media UC Berkeley
Jacob Gaboury is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. His work engages the history and theory of digital media, with a focus on digital image technologies. From 2015-2016 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and in 2016 was a Research Fellow at the Bauhaus University's International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM). He has previously held fellowships from the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Lemelson Center of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History, the Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), and the Social Science Research Council. His work has appeared in a range of popular and academic publications, including Grey Room, Women & Performance, the Journal of Visual Culture, Camera Obscura, Debates in the Digital Humanities, Rhizome, continent., and Art Papers. Gaboury holds a PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University.
Call for Presentation Proposals
SELECTION PROCESS
Speakers at the 2D/3D . producing illusion conference will be selected by the Scientific Committee (Hanneke Grootenboer, Jacob Gaboury, João Cabeleira and José Capela) on the basis of abstracts submitted in response to the present call for proposals. Acceptance will be based on the appropriateness for the event; originality of topic; whether the topic is accessibly only to specialists or can be appreciated by a wider audience; how developed the research appears to be. All accepted abstracts will be collected in a book published by Lab2PT that will be distributed later on.
THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS APPLY
Submission of an abstract is not a guarantee of acceptance at the conference.
The author submitting an abstract automatically grants permission for that abstract to circulate among members of the Scientific Committee. The conference chairs guarantee that the abstract will not be used for any purpose other than review and selection.
Authors of accepted abstracts must guarantee their participation at the conference.
After acceptance authors will be expected to re-format their abstracts for publication as instructed.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
Cover sheet with the following information:
— full name and surname;
— title or profession (Professor, Doctor, Architect, Independent Scholar, etc.);
— affiliation (if applicable);
— physical and e-mail address;
— title of proposed presentation;
— category of research (see below);
— 5 keywords;
— abstracts must be in English, no more than 500 words and 1 image.
— curriculum vitae: brief biographical note, no more than 200 words.
WHEN TO SUBMIT
Submissions will be accepted from 2nd of November 2020 until the 31st of January 2021. No abstracts will be acknowledged before 2nd of November 20 or accepted after 1st of February 2021, unless an extension of the deadline is specifically announced.
CATEGORIES OF RESEARCH
The following categories of research are intended to facilitate the review work of the Scientific Committee. Please indicate the category that you believe best describes your research:
— perspective and epistemology / ontology
— uses of Perspective Illusion
— perspective and set design
— illusion and delusion through the techniques of representation
— illusion and new technologies
— calculated disobedience to the rules of representation
— the analogue after the digital
— illusion and its cultural contexts
— other (please provide 2 keywords).
Registration
Notice of acceptance 1st of March 2021
CONFERENCE FEE
For presenting authors there are no registration or publication fees. Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to cover their own travel expenses to the conference venue.
The early registration period for the conference runs from 1st until 30th of April 2021. Registration fee 70.00€.
The late registration period runs from 1st until 27th of May 2021. Registration fee 90.00€.
The registration fee indicated does not include lunches. IT includes access to conferences, coffee breaks and certificate of participation. Registration is completed through the following email address andreiabento@malavoadora.pt providing name, nationality, email, along with a copy of the bank transfer invoice to the bank account
IBAN: PT50 0035 0250 00006975230 85.
VENUE
mala voadora
Rua do Almada, 277-283
4050-038 Porto, Portugal
CONTACTS
SECRETARY
Lab2PT / Escola de arquitectura da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800–058 Guimarães, Portugal
t +351 253 510 526
t +351 253 601 756
