Wednesday PROGRaM SESSIONS All sessions will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) unless otherwise noted. Wednesday, February 22 The Materiality of Art: Evidence, Interpretation, Theory, part I 9:30 AM–12:00 PM Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2 Chairs: Francesco Lucchini, University of Warwick; Kathryn B. Gerry, redefining Mediterranean Aesthetics University of Kansas Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2 Memory and Materiality in Ancient Maya Monuments Chairs: John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth; Megan E. O’Neil, College of William and Mary Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus Rupestrian Paintings: On the Vibrant Ontology of Picture Making Christoforos Savva’s Ifasmatografies (1959–1968): Avant-Garde on in the Early Modern Period the Periphery, as a Manifestation of “Mediterranean Aesthetics”? Christopher J. Nygren, University of Pennsylvania Antonis Danos, Cyprus University of Technology Shimmer: The Materiality of Domestic Objects in Early Modern Wanted! Dead or Alive: The Influence of Politics on Archaeology and England and America Contemporary Art on the Island of Cyprus Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison Yiannis Toumazis, Frederick University and Pierides Foundation; Sophia Antoniadou, Pierides Foundation Ephemeral Materiality: Toward an Understanding of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Ultra-Thin Facture Art in the Balkans: The Condition of Contemporary Art in Croatia Gülru Çakmak, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amy Vena, Rochester Institute of Technology Discussant: Francesco Lucchini, University of Warwick Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing the Mediterranean in Contemporary Greek Art: Kostas Tsoklis, Jannis Kounellis, Dimitris Alithinos Deconstructing Costume Histories: rereading Identities Anna Tahinci, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis in fashion Collections and Exhibitions College of Art and Design Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2 Chairs: Ian McDermott, ARTstor; Consuelo Gutierrez, Digital Representations of Interstitial Spaces between Seas, Lands, independent scholar and Skies: Artists’ Existences and Aesthetics in the Mediterranean Lanfranco Aceti, Sabanci University Inventing Arabian Nights: Twentieth-Century Qatari Dress Christina Lindholm, Virginia Commonwealth University Sharing the Paradox: How “Mediterranean” Is Mediterranean Aesthetics? “That Continual Vanishing Away”: Aesthetic Dress and Its Absences John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth Sally-Anne Huxtable, Northumbria University In Their Shoes: Telling the Histories of the Makers, Sellers, and Happenings: Transnational, Transdisciplinary Wearers of Dress Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2 Elizabeth Semmelhack, The Bata Shoe Museum Chairs: Laurel Fredrickson, Duke University and North Carolina Locating Fashion’s Everyday State University; Erin Hanas, Duke University Cheryl Buckley, Northumbria University Destruction as Avant-Garde Creation and Critique: Marta Minujín’s Contemporary Fashion History in Museums: A Case Study of MoMu, First Happening the Fashion Museum of the Province of Antwerp Michaela de Lacaze, Columbia University Marco Pecorari, Stockholm University Guerrilla Tactics and International Happenings: An Expanded View of Brazilian Art of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s Historians of Islamic Art Association Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Institute of Fine Arts, The Interconnected Tenth Century New York University Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2 Happening as Anti-Institutional Strategy: AWC and GAAG Events Chairs: Melanie D. Michailidis, Washington University in St. Louis as Happenings, 1969–1970 and St. Louis Art Museum; Glaire D. Anderson, University of Caroline Wallace, University of Melbourne North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yayoi Kusama’s Psychedelic Happenings: Sexual Revolution China among Equals: Recontextualizing the China-Abbasid Trade and Brain Change Connection in the Long Tenth Century Midori Yamamura, The Graduate Center, City University of Hsueh-man Shen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University New York Samanid Silver and Trade along the Fur Route Another Dimension of Happenings in 1960s Japan: The Play’s Melanie Michailidis, Washington University in St. Louis and Voyages into Landscape St. Louis Art Museum Reiko Tomii, independent scholar February 22 –25, 2012 33 Wednesday Islamicizing Ornament in Middle Byzantine Lead Seals: A Tenth- The Ethics of Picturing Suffering Fractured Atlas A Holistic Approach to Design Pedagogy Century Phenomenon Nora Jones, University of Pennsylvania fundraising in a box: Crowdsourcing Microgrants Christopher Moore, Concordia University Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2 Do the Ends Justify the Means? Examining the Ethics of The Making of an Artist: The Mockumentary as a Chair: Dianne Debicella, Fractured Atlas Concealed Faith: The Architectural Realignment of the Progressive Art Production Collaborative Assignment for Engaging Diverse Learning Styles Fatimid Empire, ca. 1010 Alexandra Phillips, Emily Carr University of Art and Design Brian Meece, RocketHub and Disciplinary Motivations Jennifer Pruitt, Smith College Annika Marie, Columbia College Chicago Stephanie Pereira, Kickstarter Cordoban al-Mulk Wares and Caliphal Rivalry urbanization and Contemporary Art in Asia “Who Are You and How Do You Learn?” An Emergent Ethics of Jesse Chorng, independent artist Glaire D. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2 Pedagogy within Graduate Art Education Chair: Meiqin Wang, California State University, Northridge Nadine M. Kalin, University of North Texas Association of Art Museum Curators Where the bodies Lie: Landscapes of Mourning, City of Inscription: Phone Numbers and Contemporary Art as Mapping Cultural Authority: revisionism, Memory, and Concealment Tactics of Inscription ARTspace provincialism, Marginalization West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2 Elizabeth Parke, University of Toronto CAA Services to Artists Committee Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2 Chairs: Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum, [Meta] Mentors: Creating Community-Taking Control Intersections of the Public and the Private: Contemporary Chair: Carol S. Eliel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art emeritus; Kate C. Lemay, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum of your Career Art in Mumbai Research Center Christa Clark, The Newark Museum West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2 Margaret Richardson, Virginia Commonwealth University Chairs: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University; Civilizing Cemeteries: Portrait Gravestones in Colonial Charleston Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Museum of Latin American Art To Demolish: Thinking about Urbanization in Rural China through Sharon Louden, independent artist Jennifer Van Horn, Towson University a Collaborative Art Project Guerrilla Girls Using Social Networking to Make Connections One Micron at a Time The Corpse Revealed: The Gisant and Modern Memorials at the Meiqin Wang, California State University, Northridge Georgiana Uhlyarik, Art Gallery of Ontario (Twitter, Tumblr, Flicker, Facebook, Delicious, Youtube, Vimeo) Fin de Siècle Black and White and Red all Over: Spaces of Urban Intervention Peter Baldes, Virginia Commonwealth University Caterina Y. Pierre, Kingsborough Community College, in Beijing Youth Daily’s 1994 Art Interior Design Series City University of New York CAA International Committee The Art of Self Publishing (Blogs, Online Exhibitions Peggy Wang, Denison University Internationalizing the field: A Discussion of Global and Catalogs, Zines) In Flanders Fields: Collection Cemeteries for the German Dead Materiality in the City: Vivan Sundaram’s Work with Trash Networks for Art Historians Sharon Butler, Eastern Connecticut State University; Sharon Karen Shelby, Baruch College, City University of New York Karin Zitzewitz, Michigan State University West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2 Louden, independent artist Remembering the Irish Famine: Commemorating the Famine Chair: Gwen Farrelly, The Graduate Center, City University Discussants: Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University; DIY/Alternative Venues (Pop-Up Shows, Satellite Art Fairs, Art Labs) Graveyard and Workhouse, 1990–2011 of New York and the Museum of Modern Art Poyin Auyeung, Manhattan College Adrienne Outlaw, Seed Space Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, University College Dublin Kathryn Brown, Tilburg University Alternative Funding (Kickstarters, Indiegogo, Artist Shares) Until Death Do Us Part: National Politics, Modern Love, and Leonardo Education and Art Forum Asia Art Archive Melissa Potter, Columbia College Chicago Memorial to a Marriage Headlines! Environmental News, Artist presenters, Patricia Cronin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Townhouse Gallery Archive Map Project Audience respondents Clare Davies, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Discussant: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2 An Element of risk: Curatorial Experiments in Chair: Linda Weintraub, Artnow Publications College Art Spaces Midwest Art History Society ARTspace Chip Lord, University of California, Santa Cruz Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2 Icons of the Midwest: Henry fuseli’s Nightmare Citizen Designer: Authoring a Definition Chair: Carin Jacobs, Doug Adams Gallery, Center for the Arts, Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2 West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2 Religion, and Education Chairs: Laura D. Gelfand, Utah State University; Judith W. Mann,