PROGRAM
Thursday 19th September
16:00
Welcome addresses
16:30
Introduction
Marzia Faietti and Gerhard Wolf
Chair: Gerhard Wolf
17:00
Katsumi Onishi
Morphological Transformation of Kanji. Mechanism and Causes
17:40
Moritoshi Sasaki
"Inbutsu" as the print and "inbutsu" by the imagination
Friday 20th September
Chair: Marzia Faietti
09:30
Vera-Simone Schulz
From Letter to Line. Artistic Experiments with Pseudo-Script, c. 1300
10:10
Akira Akyama
The Sacred Footprint, Examined from Comparative Perspectives
10:50
Coffee break
11:15
Ingrid Baumgärtner and Alessandro Nova
Kartographische Ordnungsstrukturen: Unsichtbare Phänomene und sichtbare Linien
11:55
Adam Herring
Structure of Experience: Line in Inka Architecture
12:35
Cara Rachele
Lines of Numbers: Measured Drawings in the Circle of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
13:15
Lunch break
Chair: Alessandro Nova
15:30
Martin Søberg
Lines in Space. Image - Construction - Architecture
16:10
Melissa Lo
Delineating Mechanical Philosophy: On Two Pictures in Descartes' "Principia philosophiae" (1644)
16:50
Ching-Ling Wang
"Living on the Fingers": Gao Qipei and his Finger Painting
17:30
Jan von Brevern
"Nature's Penciling". Ruskin and the Reality of the Line
Saturday 21st September
Chair: Maria Grazia Messina
09:30
Eugenia Bogdanova
Line as Identification Tool: Avant-Garde Calligraphy Vs. Abstract Painting
10:10
Tetsuya Oshima
Jackson Pollock: Art of Line as Non-Line
10:50
Coffee break
11:15
Giuseppe Di Natale
Calligraphic/Abstract Lines. Three different interpretations: Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Degottex and Giulio Turcato
11:55
Judith Bihr
Subversive Patterns - Ambivalent Lines. (Re)Considering Calligraphical Structures in Post-Revolutionary Egyptian Art
12:35
Carolin Höfler
Architectural Calligrams of Zaha Hadid
13.15
Lunch break
Chair: Gerhard Wolf
15:30
Sybille Krämer
Graphism and Flatness: The Line as Mediator Between Time and Space, Between Intuition and Concept
16:10
Conclusions
Marzia Faietti, Maria Grazia Messina and Gerhard Wolf