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THE ANNUAL COMPANY OF IDEAS FORUMS<\/p>\n
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Since 2008, Company of Ideas Forums have explored the biggest issues in art. Each annual event tackles a major philosophical question about the meaning, function and value of visual art in a debate format. Speakers are drawn from all corners of intellectual and creative life. Art historians, philosophers, political and literary theorists, novelists, musicians, artists and environmentalists are asked to deliver intelligent and accessible papers that present clear positions. Students and other delegates are given formal space to engage with these big ideas, leading to interdisciplinary and inter-generational debate about matters of profound and enduring importance.<\/p>\n
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On Art and Music<\/p>\n
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The arts have been compared for thousands of years. From Horace\u2019s notion of \u2018ut pictura poesis\u2019 and the paragone debates of the Renaissance, theorists and practitioners have long been fascinated by the similarities and differences between painting and sculpture, poetry and music. Some, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, believed these disciplines were fundamentally different: the former being \u2018spatial\u2019 while the latter being \u2018temporal\u2019. Others instead stressed their affinities: at the end of the nineteenth century, Walter Pater famously claimed that \u2018all art constantly aspires to the condition of music\u2019.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Rubinoff was himself profoundly influenced by music. He aimed to give his sculpture \u2018rhythm\u2019, \u2018harmony\u2019, \u2018melody\u2019 and \u2018syncopation\u2019, and even nicknamed one series his \u2018Brandenburg Concertos\u2019. In many respects he worked like a classical composer: creating motifs then developing and recapitulating them sequentially. Above all, he drew on the musical notion of counterpoint. Just as a composer combines multiple voices in one work, so he attempted to create a conversation of visual polyphonies, within and between sculptures, and with the spectacular landscape that surrounds them.<\/p>\n
Over the last hundred years, old distinctions between the arts have become increasingly blurred. From Luigi Russolo and Marcel Duchamp onwards, a number of modern and postmodern artists experimented with sound and music. Contemporary practitioners now move freely between disciplines, artforms and media, combining visual, aural and textual dimensions. Many no longer even use categories such as painting, sculpture, poetry or music, but speak of \u2018sound art\u2019, \u2018audio art\u2019, \u2018sonic art\u2019 and \u2018transmedia\u2019 or \u2018multi-media\u2019 practices.<\/p>\n
At this year\u2019s Forum, we\u2019ll explore the complex and fascinating relationship between visual art and music. Over two days, delegates will interrogate a cluster of related questions. These include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n
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Speakers at the 2023 Company of Ideas on Art and Music<\/p>\n
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PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Vanessa Brassey<\/strong><\/p>\n Time for Beauty<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We typically think that a sculpture\u2019s beauty (or other aesthetic qualities) depends solely on its existence in space: a curve here, a line there. In comparison, we say music\u2019s beauty depends on its existence in time namely, rhythm, melody, and cadence. How the score is played not how it looks scored onto a page is what counts. In slogan form, sculpture is spatial and music is temporal. Yet here\u2019s something puzzling. Sculptures can be nostalgic. Nostalgia points to the past. Hence, the aesthetic qualities of at least some sculptures are interestingly time based. Despite this, philosophical interest in the role of time in sculpture, architecture and pictures has been relatively overlooked in the philosophy of art. Even the basic question, \u2018in what sense can a painting be \u2018temporal\u2019 rather than \u2018spatial\u2019?\u2019, seems to fall into an investigative vacuum. In what follows, we are going to unpack the sense in which paintings and sculptures are \u2018time-machines\u2019. Do they have rhythm? Do they generate virtual time zones? Is past and future strange symmetrical in pictures? What light does this shed on the way memory works\u2026and our emotions? Films clips may include drone footage of the Rubinoff Sculptures, clips from the National Gallery films, and can finish with a \u2018time-altering\u2019 60-second guided visual meditation by expert Michelle Langer.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Samantha Chang<\/strong><\/p>\n Listening to Painting: Music Inside the Painter\u2019s Studio<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The notion that music is an art of the ear and painting an art of the eye has long been recognized in the writings of Plato and Aristotle. The assignment of individual senses to the arts contributed to the\u00a0paragone<\/em>\u00a0debate of the sixteenth century. Leonardo\u2019s examination of the comparative merits of painting, music, and poetry, and the hierarchy of the senses in his posthumously assembled\u00a0Trattato della pittura\u00a0<\/em>(Codex Vaticanus Urbinas Latinus 1270) champions painting and the sense of vision, whilst relegating music and the sense of hearing. If Leonardo was correct in his determination of the visual arts as the pre-eminent form, what accounts for the abundance of musical elements in paintings of the early modern period?<\/p>\n \u00a0Ten to twelve percent of all seventeenth-century Dutch paintings include musical elements; for some artists, this figure can be as high as thirty percent (Kyrova, 1994). The myriad of depictions of instruments and musicians elicited earlier studies of music iconography and performance practice (Brown and Lascelle, 1972; Winternitz, 1979); however, in recent years, the trend has shifted towards a study of the conceptual analogies between painting and music, specifically those of intersensoriality, synaesthesia, performativity, temporality, and identity (McIver, 2002; Lingo, 2013; Shephard and Leonard, 2014; Coleman, 2015).<\/p>\n \u00a0In \u201cListening to Painting: Music Inside the Painter\u2019s Studio,\u201d we will consider the possibility of viewing painting as a performed art, a concept that appears in various early modern texts. In Baldassarre Castiglione\u2019s discussion on music, musicians, like painters, have distinctive styles in the act of performance (Sohm, 2001). Paolo Pino describes the parallel between painters and musical performers in his\u00a0Dialogo della pittura<\/em>\u00a0of 1548 and states that artistic inventions can only be manifested through performance (Barocchi, 1960). The story of Federico Barocci in Giovan Pietro Bellori\u2019s\u00a0Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti moderni<\/em>\u00a0of 1672 recounts the painter referring to his work as \u201cpainting music\u201d (sto accordando questa musica<\/em>) (Bellori, 2005). Drawing upon the works of Philippe Junod (2000), Fran\u00e7ois Quiviger (2010), Simon Shaw-Miller (2013), Herman Roodenburg (2014), and David Howes and Constance Classen (2014), we will (re)examine the interrelationship between visual arts and music and explore the many roles of music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Michelle Liu<\/strong><\/p>\n Abstract Art & Music<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Paintings that\u00a0imitate\u00a0music are a significant\u00a0presence of modern\u00a0art. Such paintings come in a spectrum, with paintings that are aimed at\u00a0representing\u00a0music on one end and paintings that draw inspiration from music\u2019s special characteristics on the other. The influence of music on painting was arguably\u00a0a major factor in the development of abstract art. But just how can a painting, often an abstract one, imitate music? In my talk, I will look at two important ways in which this is possible: structural resemblance\u00a0and cross-modal correspondences. Along the way, I will discuss the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and others, as well as psychological research on the associations between colours and musical sounds.\u00a0I end the talk with a short reflection on abstract art more generally.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Seth Kim-Cohen<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019re Trying To Get A Light On Him Now <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n When the Stooges performed at the 1970 Cincinnati Pop Festival, WLWT television\u2019s evening news crew was there to film it for broadcast. As Iggy Pop descends into the audience the camera loses sight of him. The frame fills with a teeming mass of bodies, deprived of a focal point. Host Jack Lescoulie comes to the rescue, promising the TV audience that order will soon be restored, \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get a light on him now.\u201d Enlightenment aesthetics reaches a kind of apotheosis in postwar American culture: on supermarket shelves, on television, and in the celebration of Modernist painting in the influential art criticism of Clement Greenberg and his acolyte, Michael Fried. Fried\u2019s epochal 1967 essay \u201cArt and Objecthood\u201d issues a set of demands that are surprisingly in synch with those of television, but at rather severe odds with the experience of rock and roll performance. Examining these opposing aesthetic programs reveals a great deal about the world views and ideologies which underpin them and about the world-in-the-making of the 1960s.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paul Walde<\/strong><\/p>\n Notating Nature: Reflections on Scoring Techniques<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Though Paul originally trained as a painter, his artistic practice has been dominated by music and sound compositions for more than 20 years. He is perhaps best known for his interdisciplinary performance works staged in the natural environment, and documentation of these events is frequently used as the basis of his sound and video installations. In this conversation, with James Fox, he will reflect on the role played by scoring in his practice \u2013 instructional scores, graphic notation and standard music notation \u2013 and how visual information (or a translation of it) can be used as directions for performance. Paul will also delve into the origins of these techniques in twentieth-century music and intermedia practices such as Sound Art.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniela O\u2019Fee<\/strong><\/p>\n Transmissions: Sonic Improvisations on the Sculptures of Jeffrey Rubinoff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Daniela will share examples of her practice around nature scores, graphic sonification and soundwalking as experimental approaches between visual and sonic culture. Relating music theory ideas of atonality and silence to visual concepts of abstraction and negative space will address intermedia possibilities for lateral modes of social dialogue. Presenting the process of using extended instrumental techniques to create her new audio work Transmissions: Sonic Improvisations on the Sculptures of Jeffrey Rubinoff <\/em>will pose how the exercise of remote interpretation can shift the sensory experience across time and space.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Jess Conn-Potegal<\/strong><\/p>\n Sculpture in Elastic Space<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Musician and sound art creator Jess Conn-Potegal proposed to investigate how live, informal interpretation of Jeffrey Rubinoff\u2019s sculpture might directly and indirectly influence sounds, moods, tonal qualities, and structures in improvised music. Together with JRSP Curator Karun Koernig, they explored real time musical interaction and response to Rubinoff\u2019s work. The resulting project was planned as a first step in creating a unique soundtrack for the park that would \u2018evoke the experience of the sublime\u2019 and function as an initial experiment toward intuitively interpreting the park experience in aural form.<\/p>\n \u00a0The methodology involved capturing live improvisations of musicians interacting with the sculptures, and then arranging and remixing the recordings in an in-situ temporary studio. A central idea was to explore the harmonics of the sculptures and their materials literally by using mallets and contact microphones to capture the sounds of \u2018playing\u2019 the forms. The artists also examined various creative decisions through a rubric influenced by the sculpture and park including elements like tempo, silence, singularity, relationality, materiality, monumentality, analogy, timbre, tension, pitch, repetition, and expectation. Through experimentation and improvisation, the artists aimed to convey the awe of the setting and the scale of Jeffrey\u2019s vision while respecting the complexity of the sculptures and the park experience overall.<\/p>\n \u00a0The resulting experimental composition embraced a soundscape approach, using recordings of the sculptures and metal-based instruments to relate to the materials along with field recordings that reflect the natural environment. The abstract nature of the piece allowed for a perceptual exploration of the sculpture’s qualities, resulting in an experimental proof-of-concept compositional flow that largely echoed the artists’ initial experiences and intentions, and opening the door to further exploration.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Vaughn Neville<\/strong><\/p>\n Making Paintings & Making Music<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Vaughn Neville makes paintings as well as music. For him, the two artforms complement and inspire each other. He uses both to explore the limits and possibilities of creativity, expression and improvisation. This session will begin with the screening of a short video that consists of a time-lapse of Vaughn\u2019s unveiling of canvas after canvas in his outdoor studio on Hornby Island. The sequence is accompanied by a soundtrack of his own music, improvised together with a number of internationally renowned musicians. The following conversation, with James Fox, will explore the connections between art and music in Vaughn\u2019s work. Delegates are invited to look at Vaughan\u2019s work in the flesh, which will be on temporary display in the Barn.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Vanessa Brassey <\/strong><\/p>\n King\u2019s College London<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Brassey is an academic philosopher (King\u2019s College London) and figurative painter. These are surprisingly sympathetic activities which allow her to investigate a number of unsolved puzzles using a wide variety of tools. Mostly, these puzzles are about emotions, pictures, and perception. Brassey completed her PhD in Philosophy at King’s College London, and continues to lecture and teach graduate students. Her research focusses on the malleability and adeptness of our imaginative perspective-taking. This may involve spatial changes (imagine you are looking down on yourself) and temporal changes (imagine you are sat exactly where you are but 10 years in the future). She uses these gateway cases to get to grips with empathic shifts. Understanding these shifts, she argues, contributes to our understanding of art. Because these kinds of shifts enable us, as competent appreciators. In her picture making, she aims to capture the transient emotions that make up the quicksilver of our lives. She is also the British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023, writing and making films about \u2018Time for Beauty\u2019.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Samantha Chang <\/strong><\/p>\n University of Toronto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Samantha Chang (she\/her)\u00a0is an art historian by day and a classical musician by night. She is \u200bthe Faculty Liaison, Anti-Racist Pedagogies at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, University of Toronto and a Certified Advanced Flute, Piano, and Theory Specialist at the Royal Conservatory. Samantha is a PhD Candidate from the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award, a Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship, and a Mary H. Beatty Fellowship. A professional flutist and conductor, Samantha graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and is a fellow of the Trinity College London and the London College of Music. Samantha\u2019s research explores the conceptual relationships between visual arts and music in the early modern period, specifically those of artistic identity, temporality, synaesthesia, and performativity. Her current research project examines the representation of music in the painter\u2019s studio. In 2021, Samantha received the Course Instructor Teaching Excellence Award from the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, University of Toronto.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Michelle Liu <\/strong><\/p>\n Monash University<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Michelle Liu completed her DPhil in philosophy in Oxford in 2019. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire and will be a lecturer at Monash University in Australia from July 2023. Michelle has published on various topics in philosophy, including on consciousness and pain in philosophy of mind, polysemy and language processing in philosophy of language, and abstract paintings and poetry in aesthetics.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Seth Kim-Cohen<\/strong><\/p>\n Art Institute of Chicago<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Seth Kim-Cohen is a writer, musician, and artist. He is author of Rock and Roll vs, Modern Life <\/em>(forthcoming), Against Ambience<\/em> (2016), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art<\/em> (2009), and One Reason to Live<\/em> (2006). He has released more than a dozen albums of experimental, rock-based music and toured extensively in North America, the U.K., and Europe. Seth is Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paul Walde<\/strong><\/p>\n University of Victoria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Walde is an award-winning artist, composer and curator who lives in Victoria, Canadian l\u0259k\u0313\u02b7\u0259\u014b\u0259n territory. Originally trained as a painter, Walde\u2019s music and sound compositions have been a prominent feature in his artwork for over 20 years. He is best known for his interdisciplinary performance works staged in the natural environment, often involving music and choreography. The documentation of these events is frequently used as the basis of Walde\u2019s sound and video installations which have been the subject of exhibitions nationally and internationally. Current and recent exhibitions include: Alaska Variations at Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA (2022); HYPER-POSSIBLE: The 3rd Coventry Biennial at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK (2021-2022); Ecologies: Song for the Earthat Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al(2021);Weeks Feel Like Days, Months Feel Like Years at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska and One Mile Gallery, Kingston NY (2020); Tom Thomson Centennial Swim at Touchstones Museum in Nelson, BC (2020); and Summer Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London(2020). Walde\u2019s work can be found in public and private collections in the Canada and the US including the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al, The Anchorage Museum, and Museum London. Walde is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (BFA) and New York University (MA). In addition to current grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council, he is the winner of The Prescott Fund Award from the National Arts Club in New York City and the Kenny Doren Award from ED Video in Guelph. He is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria where he was also the recipient of the University\u2019s REACH Award for Creativity and Artistic Expression. Walde is also a founding member of Audio Lodge, a Canadian sound art collective and Experimental Music Unit a Victoria-based sound and music ensemble.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniela O\u2019Fee <\/strong><\/p>\n Seeking relevant approaches to democratic public art engagement motivates Daniela to retune her practice of music performance towards the amphitheater of the outdoors. Investigating the flux between acoustic and visual realms, she uses field recording, graphic scores, soundwalking, wood bending, deconstructed instruments, obsolete media and extended piano techniques to address resource extraction, settler colonialism, culture dynamics, ecology, immigration, and diversity. While maintaining her indoor performances at the piano with Chamber Musicians of Kamloops and the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, Daniela has been spending more time in the field discovering shifted sounds, assessing atmospheric conditions, and resonating with the environment approaching the limitless, land-based immersion of alternative listening theories. Her intermedia work has been presented by Vancouver New Music, Kamloops Art Gallery, UBC CiTR Radio, Salmon Arm Art Centre, Republic Gallery, TRU Gallery, Jelly Fish Outdoor Film Festival in Minneapolis and internationally at the Walking Festival of Sound. During late-career visual art studies, her sculptural soundscape composition Tuning in, Tuning out for Solo Listener<\/em> was selected into the Thompson Rivers University permanent art collection. Awarded BC Culture Days Ambassador in 2015, Daniela has since curated frequent Culture Days events in the form of free public soundscape experiences in Kamloops and has been nominated for the City of Kamloops Mayor\u2019s Performing Artist of the Year. She has received coaching in conducting through Tapestry Opera\u2019s Women in Musical Leadership program and has recently directed a performance Paul Walde\u2019s Alaska Variations<\/em>.\u00a0 Daniela holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria where she was the winner of the school\u2019s concerto competition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jess Conn-Potegal<\/strong><\/p>\n Jess Conn-Potegal is a Montreal based musician, DJ, audio storyteller, and playlist curator. Since coming up in the early Pacific Northwest electronic music scene, Jess has focused on percussion, live improvisation, and intuitive collaboration to explore new sounds. As a drummer and sound art creator, Jess founded groundbreaking bands and experimental music collectives, performing across Canada including at The Vancouver International Jazz Festival and the Festival International de Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville among many others. As a music consultant and sonic branding strategist Jess works with companies around the world to design artful custom playlists that bring their spaces to life. Creative partnerships include renowned chefs, notorious Vegas hotels, iconic fashion houses, global hospitality and retail brands, and institutions like Jazz at Lincoln Centre and the AT&T Discovery District. Jess is interested in how music subjectively affects our experience of environments and vice versa. His work focuses on informal, instinct-driven processes, investigating how embodied interaction with spaces influences rhythm, tonal qualities, structure, and valence in improvised music. Recently Jess has moved towards collaboration at the nexus where emerging forms of visual art, music, and analog\/digital media are cross pollinating; bringing the power of sound together with technology to create immersive, emotionally resonant experiences.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Vaughn Neville<\/strong><\/p>\n Vaughn Neville is a renowned Canadian artist concerned with spontaneous expression in art as is manifested in his paintings, drawings, reliefs, sculpture and music, which all explore combinations of color, motion and sound. Vaughn was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1948, and has lived on Hornby Island, British Columbia since 1970. Vaughn\u2019s interest in painting began early on as an art student and later flourished under the mentorship of iconic Canadian abstract painter Jack Shadbolt. Vaughn\u2019s early abstractions of the natural landscape have in the last decade developed into complete abstraction, forging a determined and rigorous exploration of the possibilities of paint and canvas. From 1986 to 1995 Vaughn exhibited his work with the Bau-xi gallery in Vancouver and Toronto and has since shown his work independently in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Vaughn has been dedicated to his full-time painting practice for the past 40 years, and his work is in private and corporate collections throughout the world. 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They also participate in the entire Forum and it was very important to Jeffrey Rubinoff that young and senior scholars regard eachother as colleagues.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb title=” 2023 Forum Information” url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”4.23″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#64696d” body_font=”|300|||||||” background_color=”#d7dde0″ custom_margin=”||45px” custom_padding=”15px|20px|15px|20px|true|true” custom_padding_tablet=”30px||30px” custom_padding_phone=”” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” link_option_url_new_window=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ border_width_left=”7px” border_color_left=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 2023 COI Forum on Art and Music<\/a><\/p>\n 2023 Forum Proceedings on You Tube\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=” Proceedings of past Forums” url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#64696d” body_font=”|300|||||||” background_color=”#d7dde0″ custom_margin=”||45px” custom_padding=”15px|20px|15px|20px|true|true” custom_padding_tablet=”30px||30px” custom_padding_phone=”” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” link_option_url_new_window=”on” border_width_left=”7px” border_color_left=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\nSPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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