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Home > News > 6th annual Illustration Research Symposium.

6th annual Illustration Research Symposium.

by Barbara Rundback | Sep 29, 2015

6th annual Illustration Research Symposium.

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is hosting the 6th annual Illustration Research Symposium in November. The event is co-sponsored with a consortium of teachers, illustrators, and art historians through The Illustration Research Network, based in London. The symposium, entitled Illustrator as Public Intellectual, will take place from November 5th-7th, 2015 with panels in both the RISD Chace Center and the ISB Gallery. We have a rich program of presentations that were selected in a double-blind review process from over 80 submissions. (Schedule below and attached.)

To attend the conference, please follow the registration directions at: http://illustrationresearch.co.uk.

We look forward to meeting you at the Illustration Research Symposium, and to hearing your contributions to the discussion over the course of two day event. Please email us at irsymposium@risd.edu if you have questions about the program.  

Please spread the word about this important event to colleagues interested in Illustration and Visual Culture Studies.

 

The Illustrator as Public Intellectual            

6th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium
November 5-7, 2015                                      

Hosted by Rhode Island School of Design   Providence, Rhode Island  USA 
 


PROGRAM
Thursday, November 5, 2015

6:00 - 7:30 pm               Reception and Opening of Conference Exhibition
                                       Little Pieces, Big Ideas              ISB Gallery


 
Friday, November 6, 2015                                                                      CHACE AUDITORIUM

8:00 - 9:30am

Registration (RISD Museum Lobby)

9:30 - 10:30am

Welcome and Introduction

10:30am - 12:00pm

PANEL:Challenging Professional Identities and Roles

The Sabotage of Intellectualism in Illustration

Bee Hughes     Liverpool John Moores University

Inside the Outsiders: Intellectual Creativity and Social Concerns

Gary Powell     University of Brighton

“Clinging to the Masthead:" Illustrator/Author John McDermott's Intellectual Look in the Professional Mirror

Roger Reed     Illustration House, Inc. NY

Illustration: Towards an Understanding of Expertise in Practice

David Blaiklock     University of South Australia

1:30 - 2:30pm

PANEL:Visual Satirist as Public Intellectual

Picturing the Perils of Finance Capitalism: German Illustrators and the 1873 Crash

Marsha Morton     Pratt Institute

Thomas Nast’s “Appropriations”: Agency and the Mechanically-Produced Image in Nineteenth-Century America

Stephanie Delamaire     Winterthur Museum

Illustrating The Vacuum

Duncan Ross     Ulster University

3:00 - 4:00pm

PRESENTATION & ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Cartooning & Illustration as Modes of Authorship: Cousins, Siblings or Twins?

D. B. Dowd     Washington University in St. Louis

Seymour Chwast   Alliance Graphique Internationale, Co-Founder Push Pin Studio

Nora Krug     Parsons School of Design

Anita Kunz     Anita Kunz Ltd.

4:10 - 5:10pm

Multi-Option Presentations (select one)

 

Chris Glynn and Richard Parry: ‘In And Out Of The Margins: Affirming The Illustrator As Philosopher and Boundary Catalyst in the Public Realm’

Library Special Collections

RISD Museum

Edna Lawrence Nature Lab

5:10 - 6:10pm

Reception (RISD Museum Lobby)

6:15 - 7:15pm

Keynote: Rick Poynor

 
Saturday, November 7, 2015                                                                   CHACE AUDITORIUM     

Note: Panels run concurrently in Chace Auditorium and ISB Gallery, see below.

9:30 - 10:45am

PANEL:Image Reference and Authorship

Metapictures: Signposts to an Illustrated Public Space

Stuart Medley     Edith Cowan University

The Impact of Data Collection Technology on the Sophistication of Visual Thinking

Lisa French     New England School of Art & Design; Suffolk University

Evidence and Illumination

Catrin Morgan     Falmouth University

The Forgetful Act: Erasure and Forgetfulness in Illustrative Reportage

James Walker     University for the Creative Arts

11:00am - 12:45pm

PANEL:Illustrators Usurping Writers

Shifting Authorship - Defining the illustrator’s Role in Illustrated Adult Fiction

Franziska Walther  Illustrator, Weimar & Hamburg, Germany   

Subverting Authority in Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

Matthew Collins     Harvard University

Everett Shinn, The Salamander, and Illustrative Resistance

Alexis Boylan     University of Connecticut

Illustration as Theory: Finnegan’s Wake and the Illustration of Ideas

Stephen Crowe   Illustrator, Seattle

2:00 - 3:15pm

PANEL:Practitioners in Collaboration With Clients & Audiences

Urban Dissection

Nayana Gupta     Srishti Institute Of Art

Scientific Illustration as a Specific Kind of Research

Kathrin Amelung     Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The Art of Conservation

Chloe Bulpin     Creature Conserve

You Look Like The Right Type

Mark Smith     The City College of New York

3:30 - 5:30pm

PANEL:Education

Confidence, Conviction & Depth: Emboldening Illustration Students

Luise Vormittag     Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

The Power of Forms: Abstraction and Imagination, Representationalism and Power

Dushan Milic     The Ontario College of Art and Design

Pedagogy and/as Illustration: The Art School as Social Medium

Richard Miles     Leeds College of Art

Stereotypes and Paradigms: Revolutionizing Archetypes in Illustration

Robert Brinkerhoff     Rhode Island School of Design

 5:45 - 6:15pm

 Closing remarks in Chace Auditorium

   6:30 - 7:30pm

 RISD LIBRARY Closing Reception

 

Saturday, November 7, 2015 (cont.)                                                                 ISB GALLERY

Note: Panels run concurrently in ISB Gallery and Chace Auditorium; see above

9:30 - 10:45am

PANEL:Public Intellectuals of the Past

Beyond Pure Illustration: An Analysis of Reza Abbasi’s Works

Mina Rouhanian     Illustrator, Designer; Tehran, Iran

Illustrating the Empire: The Making of a Modern Technocratic Intellectual in 19th Century China

Kaijun Chen     Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Illustrator as Biographer / The Illustrator as Archivist: The Dalziel Family, 1839-1893

Bethan Stevens     University of Sussex

A History of Everyday Things in England: Illustrators of Social History in mid 20th Century Britain

Desdemona McCannon     Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

11:00am - 12:45pm

PANEL:Cultural representation and intervention in the USA

Looking the Other Way: David Hunter Strother, Race, and The Rise of Mass Visual Culture

Christopher Lukasik   Purdue University  

Diversity, Perception, and Responsibility in Illustration

Robyn Pendleton     University of Delaware

Drawing The Other: Illustration and Representation

Sabrina Scott     Illustrator, Designer;  Toronto

Un-Drawing Lines / Re-Drawing Race: Illustrating the Black Subject and the case for Critical Race Design Studies

John Jennings     University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

2:00 - 3:15pm

PANEL:Cultural representation and intervention outside the USA

Rabbi Jesus: Social Harmony in Oscar Cahén’s Illustrations for Magazine Digest, 1944-1946

Jaleen Grove     Wilfred Laurier University

Hilmi al-Tuni, Evoking Popular Arab Culture

Yasmine Taan     Lebanese American University

The Illustrator As Political Author

Jana Traboulsi     American University of Beirut

My English Textbook

Harini Kannan  Illustrator, Chennai,India  

3:30 - 5:30pm

PANEL:New Markets, New Media, and the Fine Art Arena

Illustrations: Second Class Citizens or Grassroot Workers?

Priyanka Jain   Visual Art, Stuttgart  

Move over Darling; the Reader as the Ideal Illustrator

Nanette Hoogslag     Anglia Ruskin University

The New Middle: Has the Internet Helped Shorten the Void Between Illustration and Fine Art?

Jay Taylor     Coventry University

50 Markets of Illustration: A Showcase of Contemporary Illustration

John Roman     New York Society of Renderers

  5:45 - 6:15pm

Closing remarks in Chace Auditorium

  6:30-7:30 pm

RISD LIBRARY Closing Reception 

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