Drawing the Global - Marcelo Guimaraes Lima

"The Global Drawing project, linking young artists in the globalized space of communications today,  rather than a simple inventory of current practices, it is such a cartography: it maps new developments here and now,  and the simultaneous openings of new routes resulting from the larger view of the territories of the present. To draw is to situate oneself in space and time. Art gives form to experience, and in doing so it allows artists and viewers to establish a dialogue with time itself, a dialogue made of both memory and anticipation. It allows us to expand our understanding of the many dimensions of our times and spaces, and to locate ourselves within the territories of the past, the present and the future. " READ MORE

Marcelo Guimaraes Lima

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CROSSING THE LINE 3 at SACI, Florence, 2015

SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL DRAWING

 CROSSING THE LINE 3 at SACI, Florence, 2015

Friday, November 6, 9:30 am-5:00 pm ~ Symposium in SACI’s Clayton Hubbs Lecture Hall (Palazzo dei Cartelloni): Crossing the Line: Global Drawing: Intersections in Firenze.
Speakers at the international conference will include keynote speaker Dr. Janet McKenzie (University of Dundee, Scotland), Dr. Irene Barberis (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), Dr. Marcelo Guimarães Lima (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), Dr. Elvira Sousa Lima (CEPAOS Research Center, São Paulo, Brazil), Dr. Joe Graham (Loughborough University, United Kingdom), Prof. Stefan Messam (Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Artist and Professor Julia Townsend (American University in Dubai), and Artist and Educator Carole Robb (New York, London, Rome). All SACI students and faculty members are invited to participate.

 CLICK HERE to download the Symposium Schedule.

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.

Crossing the Line 3: Global Drawing: Intersections in Firenze

A contemporary Drawing Symposium (1 day) with Masterclass and open artists lab
( following day)

 November 6 -7,  2015

A one day symposium in tandem with the exhibition Contemporary Australian Drawing #5.

Companion to the exhibition:

"Contemporary Australian Drawing #5 : Facsimilies",  Curator Dr Irene Barberis;

 RMIT Gallery, RMIT University Melbourne, Wimbledon Gallery, University of the Arts London, Gallery Langford120, Melbourne, New York Studio School Gallery, New York City, SACI Institute Gallery, Firenze

Organisational Structure

Host Chair: Professor David Davidson
International Chair: Dr Irene Barberis
Middle East Chair: Professor Julia Townsend
Chair of Publications: Dr Marcelo Guimarães Lima
Keynote Speaker – Dr Janet McKenzie; International Author, Artist and Historian

Main Partners

•Contemporary Australian Drawing travelling exhibition travelled by The Metasenta Foundation, Australia
•SACI Florence [Host organization]
•Global Centre for Drawing, Dr Irene Barberis, Australia, GCfD Crossing the Line Series of International Drawing Conferences ©]]
•CEPAOS Arts and Culture [Professor Marcelo Guimarães Lima, University of Sao Paulo]
•American University in Dubai [Professor Julia Townsend]
•Sponsors, and in-kind Sponsorship
SACI Institute, Florence,
Global Centre for Drawing,
The Metasenta Foundation, ,
The American University in Dubai,
CEPAOS, Brazil

Symposium themes:

Drawing as a transdisciplinary practice
Drawing as an intersection
Crossing the Line: hand and technology in a changing world
Drawing: a portrait and landscape-notations of our time.

“Crossing the Line: Drawing in Florence- intersections of transdisciplinary practice and understanding will bring together specialists from various fields of research and practices to examine the role of drawing in contemporary global intersections between Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Drawing as medium, as a tool, as notation, performance, and as a specific mode of thinking and imagining in the processes of invention, production, reproduction and communication within and across fields and disciplines: from art to science, from technology to ideology and cultural practices.

The trans-disciplinary approach of the conference will highlight the specificities, as well
as the commonalities of the various dimensions, fields, forms and uses of drawing, broadly defined as the production and extension of lines in space, as the creation of meaning by marking surfaces, as the creation and fixation of visible paths that record and communicate patterns of temporal-spatial experiences. In this sense, drawing is the activity and product that makes explicit the interrelationships of flow and form in mental life. It mediates the flux of internal processes and allows the objectification of mental constructs and operations into practical-material as well as perceptual-symbolic entities.

The central notion of Crossing the Line emphasizes the act and the idea of drawing as, on one hand, the setting of clear boundaries defining symbolic and material entities within a representational field and representational practices, while at the same time stressing the relational nature of all formalizing processes and constructs, of meaning making and communicative processes in general. In this sense, to draw is at the same time to establish a limit and to surpass it, it is to define the interrelated positive and negative components of any configuration. To draw is to create a boundary that is also an interface between domains, territories, modes of thinking and corresponding modes of being. To create a line is to produce a vector of thought and action, and in this sense, to mark a boundary is already to cross it, that is: drawing is a trans-formative process; it is the creation of new paths, new relationships, new configurations of knowledge.”

Dr. Marcelo Guimarães Lima, Dr. Irene Barberis

http://crossingthelineconference2.blogspot.com.au/


Crossing the Line#3 will create a  lively and contemporary dialogue around Drawing in Florence based on the themes set forth in the Crossing the Line Series of Drawing Conferences. The aim of the symposium conference is to create a pathway for global artists and researchers.

Structure of the Crossing the Line#3 symposium

Symposium:
One day,
*Friday, November 6th, 8.30 am – 8.30 pm

•keynote address
•1 paper
•lunch
•2 papers
•afternoon tea

•break
•Plenary Session, – 3 speakers / 1. Chair
•CAD#6 exhibition opening /evening drinks and light refreshment.

•Saturday November 7th, 1pm – 5.00pm
•Master Drawing Workshop, Dr Irene Barberis with open Artists Lab.

There will also be an emerging and student exhibition, “Global Drawings” of  works collated by Dr Irene Barberis from Institutions in Australia, China/Hong Kong, Dubai – Middle East, UK and USA.

There is no Fee for the day at the Symposium, however there will be a donation box raised for the Global Centre for Drawing and subsequent Drawing Conferences/Symposia and Projects.

There will be potential for guided tours to be arranged from SACI Institute to Museums and Galleries

On line epublication 2015, and a Metasenta Small Book Publication 2016

Irene Barberis

Publications for sale
A table of a range of publications from SACI, Metasenta and any of the Drawing Centres and Universities involved in the CTL#3 Drawing Conference

*Crossing the Line# team:

Irene Barberis (Australia),
Marcelo Guimaraes Lima (Brazil),
Julia Townsend (UAE)

*Crossing the Line 2 : Drawing in in the Middle East, Review, Studio International October 2014
http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/crossing-the-line-2-drawing-in-the- middle-east-dubai


© Dr. Irene Barberis
Director: Global Centre for Drawing
Chair and Executive CEO: The Metasenta Foundation
CI. TOL Research Project, Design Research Institute, RMIT University Co Director: Gallery Langford120
Founding Director: Metasenta Publications