TEXTURE MATTERS
The Haptical and Optical in Media

Internationale Konferenz in Zusammenarbeit von tfm der Universität Wien, The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University und mit MAK Wien

2. / 3. Juni 2014 im MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst

Vortragssaal/Teppichsammlung/MAK-Forum

10-19 Uhr

Weiskirchnerstraße 3, 1010 Wien (Map)

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JUNE 2

10:15  – 10:45 OPENING

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (MAK)

Klemens Gruber (Vienna University)

Antonia Lant (New York University)

10:45 – 12:00 PANEL 1: TAXONOMIES OF TOUCH

Mădălina Diaconu (Vienna University) Archi-textures

Bernhard Siegert (IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Topologies of Textile Transitions: Self-reflections of the Illuminated Book Page of the 15th and 16th Centuries

14:00 – 16:00 PANEL 2: POLITICS OF TEXTURE

Alexandra Seibel (Texture Matters, FWF) Textural Transfers: Joseph Urban and Hapsburg Kitsch in Modernist America

Emma Widdis (Cambridge University) Socialist Sensations: Texture and the Soviet Avant-garde

Tobias Wilke (Columbia University)  Tactile/Tactical: Benjamin’s “Regrouping of Apperception” between Psychotechnics and the Avant-garde

16:00 KAFFEEPAUSE

16:30 - 17:30 PATTERNS UNDERFOOT:

Perspectives on ornament and Riegl's carpets from Barbara Karl (MAK) and   Rainald Franz (MAK) in the newly installed CARPET ROOM

JUNE 3

10:00 – 12:00 PANEL 3: MEDIA TOUCH

Bruna Petreca (Royal College of Art) Towards Experiencing Digital Textiles: Design Research, Embodied Experience, and a Glimpse of Future Technologies

Jana Herwig (Texture Matters, FWF) Mediations of Touch: Gloves, Sticks, and Switches

David Parisi (College of Charleston) A Technics of Media Touch: Kinesthetic Displays and the Quest to Engineer Computer Haptics

14:00 - 14:45 DER TASTSINN IM KINO

Revisiting "HAPTICAL CINEMA" on the occasion of its translation into German

Joachim Schätz in conversation with Antonia Lant (NYU)

14:45 - 15:45  PLASTIC UTOPIAS: SEATS FROM THE SIXTIES

Sebastian Hackenschmidt (MAK), followed by a guided tour of the FURNITURE COLLECTIONS 

16:00 KAFFEEPAUSE

16:30 - 17:30 ROUNDTABLE: TIDES OF TOUCH

with the participants, moderated by Klemens Gruber and Jana Herwig

17:30 - 18:00 Brod und Wein

18:00 - 19:00 ALOIS RIEGL IN VIENNA. 1875-1905

author Diana Reynolds Cordileone (PLNU San Diego) in discussion with  Georg Vasold (FU Berlin)