InterstIces 2012: ImmaterIal materIalItIes - materIalIty and InteractIvIty In art and archItecture symPOsIum PrOGram 28-30 nOvemBer 2012, hOsted By uts at aIa /tusculum 28 nOvemBer 3.00 - 3.30 IntrOductIOn – sandra Karina löschke 3.30 - 5.30 materIalIsm (moderation: steven loo) Bauhaus Exercises on the Material Imagination Matthew Mindrup Marywood University, U.S. Materiality Matters: If Only for the Look of It! Gevork Hartoonian School of Architecture, University of Canberra Spatial Relations and Materialist Ethics Adam Jasper School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney A role of historical materialism in materialising communist Yugoslavia’s architectural aspirations Dijana Alić School of Architecture, University of New South Wales 5.30 - 6.00 InterstIces JOurnal launch and Pre-lecture drInKs 6.00 KeynOte - Jonathan hill 29 nOvemBer 9.00 - 11.00 ecO systems (moderation: sandra Karina löschke) Immaterial material ‘ecologies of mind’ Peg Rawes Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, U.K. Material Waste: Considering Designed Obsolescence and Excess as a Way Out Amy Campos California College of the Arts in San Francisco, U.S. Post-parametric Architectural, Aesthetical and Sociopolitical Configurations Mina Yaney Vienna University of Technology, Austria Art(i)facts versus Fictive Factures: Alexander Dorner’s Immaterialities Rebecca Uchill Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. 11.00 - 11.30 MORNING TEA 11.30 - 1.00 medIa (moderation: suzie attiwill) Transparency in Glass: Medium, Message, Symptom Thomas Mical School of Art Architecture and Design, University of South Australia Information Material Claudia Perren School of Architecture, University of Sydney A Deceptive Surface: Photography, Materiality, and Inference Steve Harfield School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney 1.00 - 1.30 LUNCH 1.30 - 3.00 PrOcess (moderation: steve harfield) Self-organisation and Theoretical Reflection: The (im)material architecture of Venice and the Venice Hospital Sophia Psarra The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, U.K. Impersonal geometries Stephen Loo School of Architecture, University of Tasmania Field Affects: Shaping Spatial Experience Ross McLeod School of Architecture and Design, RMIT 29 nOvemBer (cont.) 3.00 - 3.30 AFTERNOON TEA 3.30 - 5.00 cOncreteness (moderation: ross Jenner) Ulrich Müther: Cast in Concrete Matthias Ludwig School of Architecture, Hochschule Wismar, Germany Beton-Préfabriqué: On the appropriation and expansion of Brutalist materiality in Australian architecture Nugroho Utomo School of Architecture, University of Canberra Faith in Steel: The Fragmented Afterlife of the World Trade Centre, Mediating Modernity after 9/11 Andrea Connor School of Design, University of Technology Sydney 6.00 KeynOte - Philip ursprung (at mca) 7.15 Panel discussion: rachel Kent (senior curator mca) and others 30 nOvemBer 9.00 - 11.00 atmOsPhere cOlOur lIGht (moderation: claudia Perren) Ambient Atmospheres Ross Jenner School of Architecture, University of Auckland, New Zealand White Table / White Aalto John Roberts School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle Striped Effects: Articulating the Material and Immaterial Ashley Paine ATCH Research Centre, School of Architecture, University of Queensland Translucency, brilliance and sparkle: an exploration of the interplay between light and materials Ruth McDermott School of Design, University of Technology Sydney 11.00 - 11.30 MORNING TEA 11.30 - 12.15 ArchItectural PractIce sessIOn (moderation: Olivia hyde/Bvn) 12.15 - 1.00 Plenum sessIOn 1.00 clOse FIlm PresentatIOns Painting Architecture: Material Modes of Projective Thinking Agnieszka Mlicka Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, U.K. Material Antagonism: Art, Law and Architecture André Bélanger, School of Law, Université Laval, Canada Anne Bordeleau, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Canada in partnership with: supported by: