17th and 18th September 2019
PROGRAMME
Tuesday September 17th
9:00 Coffee
9:15 – 10:30 Introductory part
Welcome
Helmuth Trischler
HOMO TEXTOR:
An Introduction
Ellen Harlizius-Klück
Archaeology of Textile Production and Consumption in Archaic Greece:
State of the Art and Future Direction
Margarita Gleba
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Weaving as Order in Ancient Greece – Part 1
Modular patterns:
A Survey on the Textile Origin of Neolithic Design
Kalliope Sarri
Temple Dressing:
Sacred Architecture and Textile Design
Deborah Steiner
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Weaving as Order in Ancient Greece – Part 2
Poikilia, Geometry and the Patterns of Nature in Greek Archaic Mind
Adeline Grand-Clément
How Poetry appropriates (Textile) Technology:
One Methodological Point in the Investigation of the Vocabulary of Ancient Weaving
Giovanni Fanfani
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:45 The Textile Production of Weaving and Song
Touch, Memory and Song:
Knowledge in the Socio-Technical Ensemble of Weaving
Annapurna Mamidipudi
Woven witness:
Mnemonics, Textiles, and the Myth of Philomela
Anthony Tuck
Reflections on References to Textile Technology in the Diction of Archaic Greek Lyric and Epic
Gregory Nagy
Wednesday September 18th
9:00 Coffee
9:15 – 10:45 The Textile Production of Knowledge and Science – Part 1
The Rapport of Weaving and Geometry in Archaic Greece
Ellen Harlizius-Klück
The Textile Expression Gap
Lars Hallnäs
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 The Textile Production of Knowledge and Science – Part 2
Comparative Reflections on Andean Weaving as Science
Denise Arnold
Braiding and Dancing:
Embodied Rhythm and the Matter of Pattern
Victoria Mitchell
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Pattern machines: Alternative histories – Part 1
The Machinery – Challenging the Automaton:
Creative Resistance and the Nineteenth Century Cotton Worker
Caroline Radcliffe
Rewiring Women and Electronics:
Textiles as Radical Tech-Art
Ebru Kurbak
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45 Pattern Machines: Alternative Histories – Part 2
Merge, Weave, Trap. Programming and the Paläoanthropology of Concepts
Julian Rohrhuber
Closing the Loop between Live Coding and Ancient Greek Technology
Alex McLean and Dave Griffiths
16:45 Sum-up and Prospects
