Symposium: Nov 20-21, 2008

The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art & Animal/Human Studies was a two-day  (Nov 20-21, 2008) symposium held at Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design (London Metropolitan University). Invited speakers were artists, curators, academics and art historians with a special interest in the representation of animals in art today.

Speakers included: Steve Baker, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire;
Rikke Hansen, Researcher at Tate Britain; Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, Artist Collaboration; Clive Adams, Director, Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World, Exeter; Ron Broglio, Professor of Literature, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Jo Longhurst, Artist; Matthew Poole, Programme Director, Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex; Dr Hilda Kean, Tutor in History and Acting Dean, Ruskin College, Oxford; David Wood, Centennial Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA; Emily Brady, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh; Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths; Marcus Coates, Artist; Giovanni Aloi, Lecturer in History of Art and Media Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and the Open University and Editor of Antennae, the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture; Dario Martinelli, Docent of Semiotics and Musicology, Helsinki. Rosemarie McGoldrick of London Metropolitan University chaired an hour-long session of delegate questions, and Professor Kate Soper of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University provided the concluding overview.

Click here to view abstracts of some of the presentations given.

And here to view the schedule of the symposium program as it unfolded.