2024 Forum

Art and Artificial Intelligence

VIDEO PROCEEDINGS OF 2024 Company of Ideas Forum: Art and AI

2024 Forum Web Brochure

2023 Forum

Art and Music

VIDEO PROCEEDINGS: 2023 Company of Ideas Forum: Art and Music

2023 COI Forum on Art and Music

PODCAST: Fiji Mermaid Radio Show Sept 13, 2023 episode covering the “Company of Ideas Forum on Art and Music”
Produced by Pascalle Sabine Ricard, MA Candidate, Art History & Visual Studies University of Victoria.

2022 Forum

Art and Crisis In the Shadow of the Endgame

VIDEO PROCEEDINGS: 2022 Company of Ideas Forum: In the Shadow of the Endgame – Art and Crisis

BROCHURE: 2022 Forum

2019 Forum

Art and Moral Conscience

​Introduction: Jeffrey Rubinoff and Moral Conscience By Dr. James Fox

Artist’s conscience, art’s tendency, and the “hard problem” of beauty By Dr. Vid Simoniti

Art and its Freedom to Be Political By Dr. Sarah Hegenbart

Ethics and Style By Prof. Nick Riggle

Discussion on Simoniti, Hegenbart, and Riggle presentations at the 2019 Company of Ideas Forum

Romanticism, Responsibility, Disobedience: Pacifist Aesthetics in Britain during World War Two By Prof. Mark Antliff

Politics and ‘The Decisive Moment’: Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Ethical Anarchism By Prof. Patricia Leighten

Pedagogical Subversion By Prof. Allan Antliff

Discussion on Antliff, Leighten, and Antliff presentations at the 2019 Company of Ideas Forum

Final Remarks JRSP 2019 Company of Ideas Forum on Art and Moral Conscience

2018 Forum

Art and Knowledge 1900-1950: Modernism, Spirituality, Philosophy

Knowing through Seeing: Piet Mondrian’s Visions of the Sacred by Dr Lieke Wijnia

Material Illusions: Three Seminal British Modernists and Christian Science by Dr Lucy Kent

Rewriting the Canon: Dmitry Stelletsky’s Designs for the Russian Orthodox Church by Dr Nicola Kozicharow

What the Painter Knows: Pierre Bonnard and the Experience of Time by Dr Lucy Whelan

On New Systems in Art: Karl Marx, Kazimir Malevich, and Heinrich Wölfflin by Dr Maria Mileeva

Knowledge in the Presence of Art by Amanda Balter

2017 Forum

Art and Knowledge in the 20th Century

Truth and Deformity in Modernism by Brandon Taylor

Break/Continuum: Formalism, Egoism, Anarchy by Allan Antliff

Allan Kaprow and Performance Art’s Sociological Imagination by Catherine Spencer

From modernism to postmodernism and back again by Sam Rose

The Fate of the Archive in the Age of Digital Memory by Meredith Hoy

After Autonomy: Art and Anthropology in Dialogue by Jonas Tinius

2016 Forum

Celebrating The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff

Joan Pachner speaking at the Jeffery Rubinoff 2016 Forum

James Fox speaking at Jeffery Rubinoff Sculpture Park 2016 Forum

David Lawless speaking at Jeffery Rubinoff Sculpture Park 2016 Forum

Mark Breeze speaking at Jeffery Rubinoff Sculpture Park 2016 Forum

Maria Tippett speaking at Jeffery Rubinoff Sculpture Park 2016 Forum

Peter Clarke speaking at Jeffery Rubinoff Sculpture Park 2016 Forum

2015 Forum

Paths to Understanding the Sculpture of Jeffrey Rubinoff

Dialogue Session 1 – Artists and Writers: a creative tension by Peter Clarke

Dialogue Session 2 – Sculpture and Modernism by Alistair Rider

Dialogue Session 3 – Sculpture and Music by Christopher Butterfield

Dialogue Session 4 – Sculpture and photography by Sergei Petrov

2014 Forum

Context and meaning in the work of Jeffrey Rubinoff

Dialogue 1 on: How important is the Sculpture Park to understanding the sculptures within it?

Dialogue 2 on: Is there anything particularly Canadian – or North American – about Rubinoff’s ideas and work?

Dialogue 3 on: How important is the sculpture of David Smith to understanding Rubinoff’s development as an artist?

Dialogue 4 on: Is Rubinoff a Cold War artist?

Dialogue 5 on: What are the meanings of Rubinoff’s work? If so, where do they come from?

2013 Forum

Art as a Source of Knowledge: Beyond Rationalization

Military Rank and the Origins of Agriculture by Dr. Arther Ferrill

Art of Mature Conscience by David Lawless

2012 Forum

Perspectives on art as a source of knowledge

Introduction to the 2012 Company of Ideas Forum on Art as a Source of Knowledge By Dr. James Fox

The Significance of the Relationship of Jeffrey Rubinoff’s Sculpture to its Environment By Shahana Rajani

In Advance of Resignation Stated as Defiance By Jenni Pace Presnell

On the Evolutionary Origin of Artistic Development in the Chauvet Cave Paintings By David Lawless

The Search for a Nuclear Conscience By Jeremy Kessler

Existential Realities of Post Agriculture By Jeffrey Rubinoff

2011 Yale University Forum

Art, War and Science in the 20th Century

Introduction to the 2011 Forum Dr. Jay Winter and Jeffrey Rubinoff

Through the Lens of the Endgame By Jeffrey Rubinoff

Scientists and artists between war and peace: the Blaue Reiter moment By Dr. Jay Winter

Chromophilia: Der Blaue Reiter, Walter Benjamin and the Emancipation of Color By Dr. Martin Jay

Reconfiguring the sacred: Artists, scientists and spiritualism before 1914 By Dr. Jay Winter

‘A language for humanity?’ The Blaue Reiter, and the failed search for universality BY. Dr. Annette Becker

2010 Forum

The history of the End of the Age of Agriculture

Cultivating cognizance at the End of the Age of Agriculture BY KARUN KOERNIG

The Artist and the New Humanism: an Evolutionary Model for Art History BY JENNI PACE PRESNELL

A New Pan-global Humanism Beyond the Age of Agriculture BY DR. JEFFREY FOSS

The Lost Generation of the First World War: The Suicide of the Military Caste BY DR. JAY WINTER

Nuclear Winter and the End of the Age of Agriculture BY DR. LAWRENCE BADASH

Art Beyond War BY JEFFREY RUBINOFF

2009 Forum

Explicating the context of the work of Jeffrey Rubinoff

From the Garden of Eden to Terra’s brain: A New Humanism BY JEFF FOSS PhD

Cultural Transmission, Network Architecture, and the Evolution of Human Self-awareness BY SAM YEAMAN

The Inherent Value of Art at the End of the Age of Agriculture BY KARUN KOERNIG

Interrogating The Peninsular Individual: The Dialectical Relationship Constituting Individual Minds and Group Mind BY GERALD M SWATEZ PhD

The Threat of Nuclear Winter: The Art Historical Perspective BY JENNI PACE PRESNELL