Visual literacy workshop: Who saw what in ancient Egypt?

Date & Venue

September 29-30 2022
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Maria-Theresien-Platz
(Small Lecture Hall on the 2nd floor)


Program

Thursday 29 September 2022

10:30
Opening: Lonneke Delpeut (Universität Wien) & Regina Hölzl (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
10:45-11:15
Lonneke Delpeut (Universität Wien): An image is worth a thousand words: A study into the transfer of visual information

11:30-12:00
Huw Twiston Davies (University of Manchester) How long is a scene?

Lunch break

14:00-14.30
Dimitri Laboury (Université de Liège, FRS-FNRS): Visual literacy in the context of ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphic culture. On the ancient Egyptian artist’s viewpoint(s)
14:45-15:15
Inmaculada Vivas Sainz (UNED Madrid): A tomb within a tomb: Visual perception of tombs and landscape in Theban painting

Coffee break

16:00-16:30
Uta Siffert, Lubica Hudáková (Universität Wien): Another nail in my, your... someone’s coffin? Some thoughts on the decoration of Middle Kingdom coffins from Beni Hassan

Friday 30 September 2022

10:30-11:00
Frederik Rogner (Université de Genève, SNSF): Texts framing figures and figures touching texts: Layout as a meaningful factor in the creation of multimodal compositions in Ancient Egypt
11:15-11:45
Whitney Davis (University of California at Berkeley)
The anxiety of influence in the reliefs of Hesy-Re

Lunch break

14:00-14:30
Raphael Rosenberg (Universität Wien): Does culture affect ways of seeing? An eye-tracking study
14:45-15:15
Alexis Den Doncker (Universität Basel): Community, identity. Knowledge, expectations, opportunities. Towards the productive reception of iconographic environments

Coffee break

16:00-16:30
Gabriele Pieke (Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim): “Wandmalerei ist die Kunst, die sich im Raum entfaltet” Further Remarks on Concept and Composition of Rekhmire's Cult Chapel (TT 100)
16:45-17:15
Gerald Moers (Universität Wien): The rhetoric of objects 
17:30
Closing Remarks


Organization

Lonneke Delpeut in collaboration with the Kunsthistorische Museum Wien