Crossing the Line 3: Global Drawing Symposium, Florence, Italy, 2015, Program

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Firenze, Italia

photo by Florian Hirzinger-2013, source: Wikimedia Commons

Crossing the Line 3: Global Drawing Symposium

The third iteration of the Crossing the Line Conferences engages with ideas of ‘global’ drawing and mobility, highlighting shifts of meaning and consequences in different contexts.

Program November 6 2015,

SACI Institute
Via Sant'Antonino, 11, 50123 Firenze, Italy
Phone:+39 055 289948
Lecture Theatre

MORNING
8.45 Coffee and seating

9.00 Introductory Address by SACI Dean David Davidson.

9.10 /9.45   Introduction to the symposium and exhibitions paper: Dr Irene Barberis (Aust/UK)
Paper title: Global Drawing

9.50 Introduction of Keynote speaker, Dr Irene Barberis
9.55 Key note Address Dr Janet McKenzie (UK/Aust)
Paper title: To Travel Hopefully: The Road to Ardnamurchan.
10.55 Questions to keynote speaker

 11.10 Morning tea

11.25   Dr Joe Graham (UK)
Paper title: ANCHOR: a drawing research project on the phenomenology of the 'outline'
 11.55 Questions to Joe

12.00 /1.30 Lunch

1.30 Dr Elvira Souza Lima (Brazil)
Paper title: Drawing and Human Development
2.00 Questions to Elvira

20.10 Artists Lab Talk 1: Dr Marcelo Guimarães Lima (Brazil)
Presentation title: UMBRA: Shadow Drawings –  read by Juliana Lima Dehne

2.45 Afternoon tea

3.00 Artists Lab Talk 2: Carole Robb (UK/USA)
Presentation title: The land of lost Intent

3.40 Associate Professor Julia Townsend (USA/AUD) to speak for ten minutes on the Middle Eastern team and students introducing the ‘Zincir’ workshop on the 7th November and introduces Stefan and Catja


3.50 Artists Lab Talk 3: Stefan Messam (USA/UAE)
Title: Resurrection Lands: Art Book meets Graphic Novel

4.10 Artists/Architect Lab Talk 4: Dr Catja de Haas (UK)
Presentation title: The Drawing of an Architect: Different Ways of Communication

4.30 Questions to Carole Robb, Stefan Messam and Catja de Haas and Julia Townsend

Symposium 6th November closes 4.45

5 .15/ 7pm   Opening of the Contemporary Australian Drawing#5: Facsimiles, exhibition and the Metasenta Project’s inaugural Global Drawing Audit: Drawing Everywhere.

5.30 pm Introduction Curator: Dr Irene Barberis, exhibition opened by Dr Janet McKenzie

**For everyone interested in eating together after the opening, announcement on the day.



Nov 7.10.2015    SACI, the Drawing Room, 11 Via Saint Antonia
Artist Lab talks/ Masterclass /Specialised Workshop
all welcome

Drawing Masterclass given by Dr Irene Barberis:  “ before we start…and then”        

Specialised Workshop given by Associate Professor Julia Townsend
The logic of Zincir: the traditional border chain design of Islamic illumination

Artist Lab Talks: Hedy Ritterman & Liiliana Barbieri


1.00pm Gather in the SACI Drawing Room – Introduction to the afternoon by Irene Barberis
Artists Lab talks – 15 mins each led by Irene Barberis & Julia Townsend

1.10 Artist Lab Talk 5: Hedy Riterman (Aust)

1.30 Artist Lab Talk 6: Liliana Barbieri (Aust/Italy)

1.45 set up for Drawing Masterclass –
  1.50 1 hour Drawing Master Class – “ before we start…and then”
Materials:  drawing materials, drawing books, paper charcoal or pencils etc.

2.55 Break –

3.00 pm Introduction and CTL#3 specialised workshop from the Middle East
presented by Associate Professor Julia Townsend (USA/UAE)

“The logic of Zincir: the traditional border chain design of Islamic illumination”

This workshop will begin with points and lines on graph paper and a small ruler to create a ‘zincir,’ meaning ‘chain’ in Turkish. Following a few basic rules, participants will make single and double row versions, with variations, and figure out how to round corners with this commonly used ornament found in the illuminated pages of the Koran. In the last part of the class, students will see examples of zincir as used in ‘tezhip’--the general term for the Islamic manuscript decoration with gold paint and fine lines -- followed by the origins of this ‘knot’ tradition in Roman mosaics, including an example from the Crypt of Santa Reparata in Florence. A brief historical survey will show the broad range of ‘interlace’ through Scandinavian runestones, Celtic knots, Persian ceramics, Sapi carving, the floor of the Baptistry in Florence, and Chinese sculpture. Possible meanings will be discussed, and, time permitting, more variations pursued.



5,00 pm finish workshop and Crossing the Line #3 Global Drawing Symposium

SACI Florence (click the image to enlarge)
 Via Sant'Antonino, 11, 50123 Firenze, Italy
Phone:+39 055 289948

"Crossing Lines: Global Drawing"

"Drawing is a continuum; a multi-faceted, transdisciplinary global practice. It is something that almost every person encounters and partakes in at some period during their lives; from the early childhood marks of notations, writings and texts, to open-ended contemporary processes. Drawing is akin to a visionary process; it has an origin, a point of inception, and from here ones ideas travel and are, in most cases, open ended – there are no rules; drawing can be as minimal as a breath and as complex as the wave structures and recordings of the ocean. Drawing is a kinesthetic; a movement between points, a connection a recognition and gesture of any idea, mark, trace, line, symbol, shape, medium, space or surface - everyone has their own ‘language of the mark."

Dr.  Irene Barberis[i]
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[i] Barberis, I 2011, Keynote as a Drawing, Drawing as a Keynote, ‘Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East’ Conference, American 

If we were to take a 'global audit' of drawings now from all countries, what would we see?

"Crossing Lines: Global Drawing" launches the new world wide Metasenta® Project for young and emerging artists, including work from two curating artists per venue. The first venue for six of the participating art schools/Universities is the SACI Institute, in Florence, Italy from the 6th November 2015

The Metasenta® Project, A Global Audit : Drawing Everywhere ©, commenced in 2007 in conversations and plans between Professor Stephen Farthing RA, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing at the University of Arts London, and Dr Irene Barberis of RMIT University, and Founding Director of the Metasenta® International Research Satellite, and the Global Centre for Drawing. An ‘audit’ was made of most Art Schools and Universities in the world, and a list drawn up.  Now seven years later all locations are in the process participate in the Metasenta® Global Drawing Audit, 2015 – 2020 ©’. The first groups are being exhibited at the SACI Institute, Florence Italy from 6.11.2015 till 22.12.2015 ©

‘‘Crossing Lines: Global Drawings’, Exhibition #1
A Global Audit: Drawing Everywhere ©’

 Every day most of us traverse the world via the web. Our lines of demarcation have transformed particularly over the past ten years from domestic inhabitants in real space, to virtual ‘world travellers’; even in the remotest parts of all our countries the mobile phone and internet opens the doors of new realities for us. At some point all our senses have been used for accessing peculiarities of our location, (…light, touch, smell, taste, sound…), but at this time we have an enhanced sensory experience only of the visual and audible, a full experience of virtual reality is still limited. On saying this we are however are able to zoom so far into a site that one can, for instance see the reflection on a dewdrop on a giant lizard’s scale, or zoom out into the cosmos to an array of deep space fields, or even watch the REM movements of the human eye and the burst of neurons in the brain which follows them. We can project our rooms and environment into another’s location, draw in real space or virtual space with the ease and fluidity reserved a couple of years ago to si-fi realities; we cross boundaries. For students and emerging artists informed thinking, process and unlimited possibility of drawing everything everywhere in any context is a reality, only constrained by one’s political and economic conditions.

Inaugural participating art schools: RMIT University (Australia), The American University in Dubai (UAE), UNICAMP, Universidade de Campinas  (Brazil), SACI Institute (Italy)

Itineraries - artworks for the Global Drawing Project

https://archive.org/details/ITINERARIESCrossingTheLine2015M.GuimaraesLima

 

Presentation of artworks for the Global Drawing Project and Exhibition
at the Crossing The Line Conference - 3, Intersections in
Florence, November 6-7, 2015, hosted by the Studio Art
Center International, Florence, Italy.