Conference Programme Oct 2007

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AEIMS/MAA Annual Conference

20th Annual Meeting of the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques
 58th Annual Meeting of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain

Confronting Mortality with Art and Science

18-20 October 2007, Antwerp, Belgium

Which will take place in the

HISTORICAL HALLS OF THE ANTWERP ZOO

Plantin Moretus Museum (UNESCO)

 

Day 1

 

Thursday, 18 October 2007 

Darwin Hall Antwerp ZOO

 

 

C O N F E R E N C E   &   E X H I B I T I O N

 

 

 

 

08.00

Coffee & Registration Verlat Hall and Marble Hall, Antwerp Zoo

 

10.00
Welcome
Margot Cooper, President AEIMS and Sir Barry Jackson, President MAA

 

10.30

 Keynote address
Introduction by Pascale Pollier, Chantal Pollier and Ann Van de Velde
Moderator: Frederick Daman (Honorary Director, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium)

 

10.35
Whales in the Antwerp Zoo
Rudy Van Eysendeyk (General manager, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium)

 

11.00

Art & Science
ARS SINE SCIENTIAE NIHIL EST,
SCIENTIA SINE ARTE NIHIL EST
Jacques Spee (Academy of Visual Arts, Maastricht, Postgraduate Course in Scientific Illustration, The Netherlands)

 

11.30

Lunch and  Visit to (alternating groups)

  • Antwerp Zoo
  • Exhibition "Confronting mortality with Art and Science"
  • Cabinet of Rarities
  • Museum of Diamonds
  • Troubleyn Laboratorium Jan Fabre

 

13.30

 Old Images and New Standards
Introduction: Chantal Pollier, Pascale Pollier , Ann Van de Velde
Moderator: Frederick Daman (Honorary Director, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium)

 

13.35
Peter Paul Rubens, the first modern artist?
Patrick McDonnell (Medical artist, Canada)

 

14.00
Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Beverly Ress (Independent artist&lecturer, Department of Art, The Catholic University of America,
Washington DC, USA

 

14.30
Museum Artworks in a Technological World
 Emmanuel Gilissen (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Tervuren, Belgium)

 

15.00

The West-European Illustrated Natural History Animal Book of the 16th - 19th Century
Introduction by Ann Van de Velde, Chantal pollier, Pascale Pollier
Frederick Daman (Honorary Director, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium)

 

16.00

High Tea with Sandwiches and insect bar

 

17.00

18.00

Transfer Plantin Moretus Museum (UNESCO World Heritage) ( walking 30 min )

Art and science beyond mortality: the ancient Flemish anatomists
Prof. Dr. Francis Van Glabbeek (Orthopedic Surgeon & Anatomist, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium)

Medical illustration in the sixteenth century: the integration of art and science.
Prof. Dr. Robert Van Hee (Surgeon & Prof. History of Medicine, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium)

 

20.00

Welcome Reception with Belgian Triverius Beer

 

21.00
Dinner in the Historic Town of Antwerp
De Groote Witte Arend

 


Day 2 

  

 

Friday, 19 October 2007     

Darwin Hall

 

C O N F E R E N C E   &   E X H I B I T I O N

   

08.00

Coffee & Registration (Marble Hall, Verlat Hall, Winter Garden)

 

09.00

Mortality and its importance for the Scientist
introduction: Pascale, Ann, Chantal
Moderator Margot Cooper ( UK)

 

09.05

Let my creature live: sculpting in undead matter
Eleanor Crook (Sculptor and Artist in Residence at the Gordon Museum of Pathology, Guy’s & St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK)

 

 

09.30
Unnatural death: the ‘art’ and ‘science’ of murder
Prof. Dr. Werner Jacobs (Forensic pathologist, Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium)

 
 

10.00

Anatomical dissection in reverse
Richard Neave (Medical artist, RN-DS Partnership, UK)

 

10.30

Coffee/Tea & Insect Bar

11.30

Mortality and its importance for the Artist
Introduction: Chantal , Pascale, Ann
Moderator: Margot Cooper ( UK)

 

  

11.35

Rembert Dodoens: Forensic Medicine in 16th-Century Mechelen
Dr. Wim Hüsken (Curator of the "Stedelijke Musea Mechelen", Mechelen, Belgium)

 

  

12.00

Mortality in Art Brut
Patrick Allegaert (Curator ‘Guislain museum’, Ghent, Belgium)

 

 

12.30
“Tremendum et fascinans”
Mortality and repetition as object of desire in the work of  E. A. Poe
Prof. Filip Geerardyn (Psychoanalyst, Ghent University, Belgium)

 

13.00

Lunch & Visit to

  • Antwerp Zoo
  • Exhibition "Confronting mortality with Art and Science" ( Marble Hall)
  • Cabinet of Rarities
  • Museum of Diamonds
  • Visit Troubleyn Laboratorium Jan Fabre
  • Conference Photograph

 

14.30

Pendulum Motion between Art and Science
Introduction: Pascale , Ann, Chantal
Moderator: Prof. Filip Geerardyn (Psychoanalyst, Ghent University, Belgium)

 

 

14.35
Science as Art; Art as Science
Jeff Wyckoff (Artist, New York, USA)

 

 

15.00
Nevki’s area
Bart Koubaa (Writer & Photographer, Ghent, Belgium)

 
 

15.30

Visions from the Nano-World
Mara Haseltine (Medical artist/sculptor, Calamara Productions, New York, USA)

 

16.00

Coffee/Tea

17.00

Musing
Introduction: Ann , Chantal, Pascale
Moderator: Antoine Barnaud (France)

 

 

   17.05

Somatic symmetry: the mind/body continuum in science and art
Laurie Hassold (USA)

    17.30

An anatomy of melancholy (DVD)
Jo Ann Kaplan (UK)
    18.00

 

Memento Mori: Pathological Portraits, Anatomical Visions and Medical Museums of the Western World Joanna Ebenstein (USA)

 
19:30
    

Documentary filmed at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
between Prof. E.O. Wilson & Jan Fabre

"Is the brain the sexiest part of the body"

Introduced by Jan Fabre

 

20:00

20:30

     Reception Marble Hall

Live Performance by Bryan Green and Martin uit Den Bogaard
21.00 Annual Dinner- Live Music by Frederick Croene

 


Day 3 

  

 

 

Saturday, 20 October 2007                        PRESS INVITED

Darwin Hall, Marble Hall & Verlat Hall

 

C O N F E R E N C E   &   E X H I B I T I O N

 

virtual exhibition 'CONFRONTING MORTALITY'!

 

 

8.00

Coffee ( Marble Hall, Verlat Hall)

 

09.00
Mortality and its importance for the medical artist
Introduction: Ann, Chantal, Pascale
Moderator: Giliola Gamberini (Italy)

 

09.05
Between Reality and Imagery
Elisabetta Cunsolo (Art historian, University of Bologna, Italia)

 

09.30
Pietro Castelli, an Italian case for European botany
Erika Giuliani (Art historian, Dep. of Visual Art, University of Bologna, Italia)

 

10.00
"O, Wretched mortals, open your eyes" - Leonardo da Vinci
Mortality of the Flesh & Immortality of the Spirit
What we still learn from Leonardo
Bernard Lernout (Het leerhof, centre for life long learning, Parike, Belgium)

 

10.30

Coffee/Tea

 

11.30

Musing
Introduction: Pascale , Chantal, Ann
Moderator: Rogier Trompert (The Nederlands)

 

11.35

Reflections: The role of the computer artist in communicating and visualising Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of arterial disease imagery
John McGhee (School of Medical Arts and Imaging, Dundee, UK)

 

12.00

The employers view on medical illustration, a discussion
Maartje Kunen (Medical artist, Vu University Amsterdam,The Netherlands)

 

12.30

Lunch and visit to Antwerp Zoo

  • Antwerp Zoo
  • Exhibition "Confronting mortality with Art and Science"
  • Cabinet of Rarities
  • Museum of Diamonds

 

AEIMS Annual General Meeting

 

14.00

 

 

MAEI- day - Medical Art Education Information        

In the EXHIBITION area

With champagne & Belgian beers

 

Welcome by Robert Voorhamme ( Councillor of Education, City of Antwerp)
and Rudy Van Eysendeyk (General manager, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium)


Introduction by Prof. dr. Robert Zwijnenberg, coördinator of ‘Artists in lab’,
University of Leiden, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History

Documentary ‘Art : Science = Science x Art’ filmed in the USA (March 2007)
Director: Sofie Hanegreefs, Antwerp Belgium

 

Artists
  • AEIMS (Europe)
  • Bologna: Giliola Gamberini
  • Maastricht: Rogier Trompert
  • Paris: Antoine Barnaud
  • Zurich: Christoph Goeldling
  • MAA (UK)
  • London: Jo Cameron
  • Manchester: Ray Evans
  • AMI
  • Chantal Pollier (B)
  • Donat Willenz (B)
  • Martin Uit den bogaard
  • Phil Bloom
  • Beverly Ress
  • Dries Magits
  • laurie Hassold
  • Joanna Ebbenstein
  • Eleanor Crook
  • Pascale Pollier
  • Chantal Pollier
  • Jess Rutten
  • Anne de Weissenbruch
  • Ann Van de Velde
  • Robert Quint
  • Caroline Needham


Scientists
  • Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) (B)
  • Wetenschapswinkel (B)
  • Alexander Leemans (B)
  • Eddy Waegemaekers (B)

 

Art Schools

Art Centers
  • European Art Schools
  • Antwerp Academy of Fine Art (B)
  • ExtraCity (B)

 

Universities

  • University of Antwerp (B)
  • University of Brussels (B)
  • University of Ghent (B)
  • University of Leuven
  • Manchester University

Musea
  • Guislain Museum (B)
  • Museum Plantin Moretus (B)
  • Royal Museum for Central Africa (B)
  • Museum for the History of Sciences (B)
  • Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (B)
  • Medical Museum at the University of Copenhagen (DK)

 

Publishing Companies
  • De Standaard (B)
  • Elsevier (UK)
  • Nature (UK)
  • Mc-Graw Hill Education (UK)
  • Roularta Medica (B)
  • Springer (UK)
  • Indexed Visuals (USA)
  • VUB Press
  • CMP Medica (B)
  • Saatchi Gallery

 

Pharma
Companies
  • Amgen
  • Bayer-Schering Pharmaceuticals
  • CAF-DCF
  • Jansen-Cilag
  • Pharmion
  • Roche
  • ZLBehring

 

17.00

End of the Conference