Preliminary program
This program is preliminary and aims to give an overall impression of what to expect. We may shuffle a bit before we cast to schedule into its final form.
Wednesday 4 February
13:00 Registration opens
13:30 Introduction
13:45 The aesthetic gaze (in context)
- Christopher Linden – Eye Tracking Perception of Traditional, Impressionist, and Cubist Still Life Paintings at the Manchester Art Gallery
- Rajat Ravi Rao – Who Appreciates Ambiguity in Art?
- Xingyu Long – Visions of Veins: Eye-Tracking the Irregular Symmetries of Book-Matched Marble
- David Romand – Enlivening Beautiful Forms. New Insights into Empathy and the Aesthetics of the Visual Arts
15:00 Coffee
15:20 Keynotes
- Liselore Tissen
- Antye Guenther - Spilling the Tea Ceremony: On Becoming DATA DIVA
16:40 Break
16:55 Knowing through making
- Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukacs – Novi Mundi, A Journey of Discovery Through Uncharted Human Realms
- Ilaria Paolucci – In the artist’s eye: manuals on painting techniques, written by artists for artists as a tool for understanding the creative process
- Dejan Grba – Study 7/0: Locus Erroneum
- Catelijne van Middelkoop – From Seeing to Unseeing: Expanding the Vision & Depiction Framework Through Making
18:10 Reception
Thursday 5 February
9:00 Medium and Motif
- Flip Phillips – This is not an AI generated title
- Piera Riccio – Iconography of the Digital Self: From Beauty Filters to AI Portraits
- Arthur Crucq – The agency of form and material: from bubble wrap to art
- Hanna Brinkmann – One Motif, Four Media: What Happens to Art Experience Across Medialities?
10:15 Coffee
10:35 Keynotes
- Joris van Gastel
- Jean-Baptiste Maitre and Dina Danish – Synthetic Egyptian Blue & the Evil Eye: Reconstructing a lost pigment in Egypt and tracing its protective aura.
12:05 Posters and lunch
Not your regular poster session: demo’s, artworks and, indeed, posters!
- Ana Domingues - Reconstructing the Imagetic Brain: Speculative Design and Visual Image Reconstruction of Closed-Eye Visualisations
- Chao-Shan Hsu, Xingyu Long, Raphael Rosenberg - Cultural Differences in Gaze Patterns over Paintings and Photographs
- Leone Burridge - Illusory Colours in monocular rivalry, new paintings.
- [Francesco Walker] - Seeing art like a child: Visual attention and the role of labels in museum engagement
- [Eftychia Stamkou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eftychia-stamkou-79651980/?originalSubdomain=nl, Selina Khan, Matteo Tafuro, Nanne van Noord - The Shape of Gender: How Context Becomes Form in Artistic Representation
- Sylvia Pont, Katja Doerschner - Likin art; Light induced kinetics on art
- Dantong Qin, Alessandro Bozzon, Qinlin Liu, Yike Guo, Pan Wang - Process-Aware Robotic Painting: A Closed-Loop Framework for Human–AI Collaborative Creation
- Celine Aubuchon, Roland W Fleming - Cloth between the wrinkles: exploring information propagation in surface perception
- Bade Kilic, Zsofia Pilz, Francesco Walker, Mariska Kret - Through a Child’s Eyes: Exploring Gaze Patterns on Albers’ Homage to the Square
- Jean Basset, Pierre Bénard, Pascal Barla - How smear frames improve fast motion legibility
- Yuexi (Betty) Zhu, Zsofia Pilz, Maarten Wijntjes - The Influence of Iconographic and Formalistic Instruction on Art Viewing Behavior
- Océane Tilman , Selin Isik, Zsofia Pilz, Francesco Walker - Investigating the Effect of Child-Written Descriptions Using Eye-Tracking at the Groninger Museum
- Karl R. Gegenfurtner, Andrea van Doorn, Doris Braun, Jan Koenderink - A metric of color space for science, industry and art
- Doris Braun, Vanessa Kremer, Katja Dörschner - Being Malevich II: Color, Balance, Dynamic and Liking in Suprematist Compositions
- Cathalijne Postma, Debbie van Berkel, Jojanneke Postma - Latent Space, Through the eyes of the algorithm
- Mark Sypesteyn - Depicting human figures in line: comparing expert vs. beginner decision making in tracing a figure from photo reference
- Omer van Soldt - Apparent Motion, Perceived Stillness: The Self at 50Hz
- Yannis Michos - Aliased Geometries: Towards a nonviolent Trance 1.0
- Yujin Jo - Connection Justice Map Patterns Knowledge Data Grid Context By-product Absolute exist
14:45 Colour and Light
- Jeroen Stumpel - Seurat’s dots and the myth of optical mixing
- Li Shiwen – The colour of iridescent samples at every moment of a bumblebee’s flight
- Nikola Zmijarević – Gold, Reflection and Glare: The Paintings of Lovro Artuković and The Logic of Paradox in Mimesis
- Jiri Filip – Measuring Directional Appearance of Shiny Fabrics Using an Extended Flop Index
- Stefanie De Winter – Presenting IRECONA: An Interdisciplinary Method for Appearance-Based Reconstruction of Degraded Color Field Paintings
16:15 Coffee
16:35 Keynote
- Eleftheria Pistolas – Inside-out dynamics of art perception through a multi-method lens
17:10 - 18:25 Pictorial space and movement
- Maarten Coëgnarts – How Rhythms Shape Meanings in Cinema: A Videographic Gestalt Approach
- Valentine Bernasconi – Pictorial forms in movement
- Marvin de Jong – Controlled Instability: Graphic Design as Embodied Interaction in Real-Time Systems
- Doroteja Ivanec – Diego Velázquez: Image within an Image
Conference dinner
Friday 6 February
9:00 Materials and Materiality
- Filipp Schmidt – Material perception in context
- Beatrice Sartori – The Softness of Screens: Liquid Visual Culture in Contemporary Displays
- Marte Sophie Meessen – Natural and unnatural representation of gravity in art: an eye-tracking study
- Pierre Billaud – Material appearance in stylized representations: the case of design sketches
10:15 Coffee
10:35 Keynote
- Pascal Barla – Specular Flow Structure for Vision and Depiction
- Sam Hirst – Perception and Ice Age art: applying visual psychology to the study of palaeolithic female figurines
11:55 Lunch
12:50 Workshop
14:50 Process & (human vs computational) processing
- Tomas Vandecasteele – Making Sense of Meaning-Making: Applying the Predictive Processing Framework to Art Photography
- Anna Miscenà – Style Needs Time: Temporal Dynamics in the Recognition of Stylistic Differences in Painting
- Darío Negueruela del Castillo – From Formal Features to Discursive Vision: Distinguishing and Articulating Human and Machine Perception of Art
- Karel Kuipers – Technics, Individuation, and the Limits of Categorisation: A Stieglerian Intervention in Palaeolithic Archaeology
- Ryan Pescatore Frisk – Interrogating Design as a Cultural Metatool