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Time for Beauty Virtual Conference


The Virtual Conference ‘Time for Beauty’ generously sponsored by the British Society for Aesthetics is now live.

About the virtual conference

While we typically associate beauty in pictures with spatial qualities, such as curves and lines, and beauty in music with temporal qualities like rhythm and melody, nostalgia challenges this dichotomy. Pictures can represent nostalgia (or other emotions) and thus demonstrate a time-indexed aesthetic quality.

Despite this, the temporal aspect of static pictures has been relatively neglected in the philosophy of art. In this workshop, we bring together researchers from a broad spectrum of philosophical disciplines, art critics, and artists to illuminate the aesthetic temporal qualities of static paintings and photographs. 

The conference has been curated into three 30 minute episodes:

Time for Depiction

Time for Musical Pictures

Time for Expressiveness

Speakers (each 10 minutes):

  • Dr Emily T. Thomas (Durham)

  • Professor Robert Hopkins (NYU)

  • Martin Gayford (art critic)

  • Dr Jenny Judge (NYU)

  • Dr. Victor Dura-Vila (Leeds)

  • Dr. Caitlin Dolan (UCB)

  • Dr. Dawn Wilson (Hull)

  • Dr. Vanessa Brassey (KCL)

Commentary contributions (each 2 minutes):

  • Dr Alex Franklin (KCL)

  • Artist, David Hockney 

  • Artist, Noah Saterstrom (Mississippi)

  • Expert Meditation Coach,  Michelle Langer 

  • Dr. David Collins (Oxford)

  • Professor Matt Soteriou (KCL)

  • Artist Nicola Durvasula

  • Violinist & Composter Anna Phoebe.

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Later Event: 20 May
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