2018 Interstices Under Construction Symposium + Colloquium: Presence

Symposium Friday 13th July Colloquium Saturday 14th July

09:00am —09:30am Registration (Design Theatre)

09:30am —10:00am Symposium Welcome an Mihi (Design Theatre) Colloquium Welcome: Matariki Performance  

Performed here by mezzo-soprano Claire Scholes and 
dancer Cathy Livermore

Session A: Design Theatre (423-348) Session B: Architecture Lecture Theatre 1 (ALR1) (421-201)

10:00am  —11:00am Site + Presence
Chair: Ross Jenner

Drawing canyon: Asymptotic presences in scale, material 
and sense.
Simon Twose and Jules Moloney

in-time and in-place
Marian Macken and Fiona Harrisson

Discussion

Keynote: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
New dimensions of presence

11:00am—11:30am TEA + COFFEE TEA + COFFEE TEA + COFFEE

11:30am—01:00pm Ritual + Presence
Chair: Julia Gatley

Monumentality and ‘light’ in the Sydney Opera House
Kamila Soh

Heritage & persistence: The case of the Kaiapoi fragment
Andrew Douglas and Nicola Short

Between presence and absence: Phenomenal interstitiality 
in Eisenman’s Guardiola house
Adrian Lo

Discussion

Music + Machine + Performance
Chair: Harold Marshall

Notations: Drawing as idea and process between the 
intersection of music and architecture in relation to 
presence (SKYPE)
Charlotte Greub

Troubled bridges: absence and memory in the 
architectural machines of Eadweard Muybridge
Michael Chapman

Ex Uno Lapide: a making present of absence (SKYPE)
Guillaume Dreyfuss, Konrad Buhagiar, Ephraim Joris

Discussion

History / Culture / Theology

Presences across worlds
Anne Salmond

Place of presence and absence in Maori philosophising
Carl Mika

On Holy Ground: A church as a place of Presence
Merv Duffy

Round table

01:00pm—02:00pm LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH



02:00pm—03:30pm Landscape + Presence
Chair: Marian Macken

A reorientation towards aesthetics: Landscape architec-
ture and the operationalisation of the sublime
Shaun Rosier

Aalto’s foyers: Landscape presences
John Roberts

What landscape design aesthetics might offer to the ques-
tion of the designer’s relation to the real?
Peter Connolly

Discussion

Absence + Vacancy + Urban
Chair: Andrew Douglas

Vacant Geelong
Mirjana Lozanovska and Akari Nakai Kidd

Presence—between walk and play and beyond 
Jan Smitheram

Lines from the past: evoking the presence of un-built archi-
tecture in virtual reality
Jules Moloney, Simon Twose, Anastasia Globa and Ross 
Jenner

Discussion

Visual Arts / Media Studies / Artificial Intelligence

Spectrum to Spectre
Dane Mitchell

Architectures of virtual absence: Digital media and infor-
mation environmentalism
Ethan R. Plaut

Artificial intelligence,intensity, and presence
Sam Ginn

Round table

03:30pm—04:00pm TEA + COFFEE TEA + COFFEE TEA + COFFEE

04:00pm—05:30pm Presence of Absence (Design Theatre)

Making silence: some modes of emptiness
Ross Jenner

Discussion

Composition / Music / Acoustics

Aesthetic immurement, the schock of the new, and my 
imperfect body (of work)
David Chisholm

Matariki and more
Gillian Whitehead

The oblique imperative: the acoustical dimensions of 
presence
Harold Marshall

Round table

07:30pm Dinner with Ross
Interstices Symposium

Open to symposium and colloquium attendees
Venue: ‘Vivace’ 50 High St, Auckland, 1010