29th January 2026
With artists like Pindar van Arman using agentic AI while Holly Herndon and Sasha Stiles forge transmedia human / technological collaborations, is it time to move away from definitions of creativity that are rooted in the human experience? How might... Read More...29th January 2026
Between 1811 and 1947, two opposing yet simultaneous forces reshaped the global political landscape. On the one hand, centrifugal movements of imperial fragmentation unfolded in Latin America and Asia; on the other, centripetal movements of national unification emerged in Belgium,... Read More...29th January 2026
Art histories of the late medieval and early modern periods have witnessed a global turn in recent decades. This full-day session seeks to bring together case studies from a wide variety of geographies and time periods to investigate approaches to... Read More...29th January 2026
Bringing together scholars across geographic subfields, this panel seeks to develop more expansive histories and methodologies for abstract art, centred on the intersections between abstraction, nationalism, colonialism, and coloniality. We aim to probe anew the power relations, aesthetic motivations, and... Read More...29th January 2026
This session investigates how pleasure is represented in Early Modern art, examining visual cultures of enjoyment, indulgence, and sensuality across painting, print, and illustrated text. It traces motifs from the pleasure garden and decorative arabesque interior to scenes of polite... Read More...29th January 2026
Cross-pollination of contemporary artworks and museum historical collections has become standard, especially since the 1970-80s, when institutional critique was heralded by Fred Wilson, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, and others. Hybridized installations may fall into what Clare Bishop has described as... Read More...29th January 2026
This session seeks to interrogate the concept of heroism in medieval culture through the exploration and (re)evaluation of the forms and motifs associated with the heroic in medieval art. Deeply rooted in ancient and medieval literary sources and frequently enmeshed... Read More...29th January 2026
The nineteenth century has often been called the “frenzy of the visible” as new theories, technologies, and artistic practices attempted to visualize the previously unseen. Motivated by a greater interest in invisible, hidden, and out-of-reach phenomena such as the climate,... Read More...29th January 2026
The panel addresses the recent calls for a renewed research method in field of tapestry studies. As Guy Delmarcel (2012) argues, “every type of artwork has different research needs. […] the art of tapestries contains specific aspects that led to... Read More...29th January 2026
Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics was published in New York by the Heresies Collective between 1977 and 1993. This pioneering art magazine fundamentally challenged the male-dominated structures of the time by providing a platform for feminist voices... Read More...29th January 2026
Katy Deepwell (2006) argued that ‘who controls our institutions has feminist implications’. This panel will explore the impact of feminism on art institutions, including how work by women artists has been acquired and curated. While feminist politics have often been... Read More...29th January 2026
Across the histories of photography, film, and media art, moments of failure—whether mechanical, optical, chemical, or digital—have played a generative role in shaping aesthetic experimentation and critical inquiry. Blurred exposures, light leaks, scratched film stock, corrupted files, or distorted video... Read More...29th January 2026
Computational technologies falling under the umbrella term ‘artificial intelligence’ have been embraced and critiqued by art practitioners and cultural institutions around the world. This session explores the potential uses and risks of incorporating AI into the curation of art exhibitions.... Read More...29th January 2026
Ecocriticism—that is, critical approaches to understanding the interconnection of terrestrial beings, elements, forces, and systems—has become a significant dynamic in art history over the past decades. This development has progressed in different ways within various areas of art history, and... Read More...29th January 2026
If the mission of Art History is to make sense of visual and material cultures, then what can be learned from objects that resist art-historical study? This session considers objects and images that panellists find confounding, have struggled to write... Read More...29th January 2026
In an era of ecological crisis, multispecies entanglements, and heightened awareness of planetary interdependencies, we invite critical inquiries at the intersection of art history, artistic practices, blue humanities and animal studies. We seek to create a forum for reflecting on... Read More...29th January 2026
This panel explores how archival materials – formal and informal, institutional and affective – serve as catalysts for art practices that rework memory, identity, and narrative. Artists working within and beyond East Asian contexts increasingly approach the archive-as-method to fiction... Read More...29th January 2026
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how we research, analyse, and teach art history. As generative models, image synthesis tools, and data-driven analytics become increasingly embedded in educational practice, their use in disciplines traditionally grounded in human creativity, critical interpretation, and visual... Read More...29th January 2026
Founded in London in 1974, Artists for Democracy (AFD) brought together a group of international artists and activists, including Cecilia Vicuña, John Dugger, David Medalla, and Guy Brett. The collective aimed to support liberation movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin... Read More...29th January 2026
This session explores the archive as a locus of negotiation in writing the histories of women artists in the Global South, whose artistic modernity has been a colonial and post-colonial experience that is different from the Euro-American hegemonic understanding of... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved