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[caption id="attachment_4422" align="aligncenter" width="408"] Frans Hals, Portrait de René Descartes (1596 - 1650), vers 1649 - 1700, huile sur toile, 77,5 x 68,5 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre.[/caption]Type : ConférenceDate : 19 - 20 mai 2017Lieu : Mendrisio, C3.89 Palazzo Canavée, Accademia di architettura, USI, Viale Canvée 5.The Swiss Society for Cultural Theory and Semiotics (SSCS) together with the Institute for the History and Theory of Art and Architecture (ISA) at the Academy of Architecture is is pleased to announce its annual conference (conception: Prof. Dr. Sonja Hildebrand, ISA/SSCS).The conference will investigate the manifold reflections of modern mathematics found since the 18th century in the literary, artistic, and architectural theory and practice. The displacement of euclidean geometry by algebra as a leading discipline of mathematics has posed fundamental questions about the “ontological status” of the number. For the arts, this presented a conceptual challenge, and simultaneously generated new creative potential, which will be explored on this occasion. Furthermore, the conference will also address the aesthetic dimensions of mathematical concepts. Speakers with the background in art and architectural history, as well as literary studies and history of mathematics will come together to reflect the interdisciplinary approach of the event. The conference is generously supported by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.19 May 2017 – Palazzo Canavée, Viale Canavée 5, aula C3.8914:00BOAS EREZ (Università della Svizzera italiana, Chancellor), MARIE THERES STAUFFER (Université de Genève, President SSCS), Welcome14:15SONJA HILDEBRAND (USI, Mendrisio), IntroductionMathematics and Knowledge : chair: Elena Chestnova (USI, Mendrisio)14:30MICHAEL GNEHM (USI, Mendrisio/ETH Zurich), Descartes and Architecture15:15HANS NIELS JAHNKE (Universität Duisburg-Essen), How Form Generates Meaning: Algebra 1700 to 190016:00Coffee break16:30ANDREA ALBRECHT (Universität Stuttgart)LUTZ DANNEBERG (HU Berlin), Beauty = Truth? On Aesthetic Criteria for Scientific Validity17:45FRANZISKA BOMSKI (Klassik Stiftung Weimar), Creating the Unity of Knowledge: Novalis and Mathematics18:30 SSCS General Assembly20 May 2017Mathematics and Aesthetics in the 19th Century : chair: Marie Theres Stauffer (Université de Genève)9:30CÉLINE TRAUTMANN-WALLER (Université Paris 3), Johann Friedrich Herbart and his Heritage in Aesthetics10:15ELENA CHESTNOVA (USI, Mendrisio), Popular Mathematics in the 19th Century11:00Coffee break11:30SONJA HILDEBRAND (USI, Mendrisio), Mathematical Curves in Architectural Theory around 185012:15ESTELLE THIBAULT (ENSA Paris-Belleville), Order, Permutations and Intuitive Geometry: Jules Bourgoin’s Theory of Ornament13:00Lunch breakMathematics and 20th-Century Architecture, Visual Arts and Music : chair: Michael Gnehm (USI, Mendrisio/ETH Zurich)14:30UTE POERSCHKE (Pennsylvania State University), A Source of Inspiration: Mathematical Functions in Architectural Theory15:15HANS FREI (Zurich)‚ Space, Time, and Everything Else‘: Shinohara Reconsidering the Spatial Concept of the Modern Avant-garde16:00Coffee break16:30LYNN GAMWELL (School of Visual Arts, New York), Formalist Aesthetics in Göttingen and Moscow: from Hilbert’s Grundlagen (1899) to Rodchenko’s Red (1921)17:15PETER KOCH GEHLSHØJ (University of Copenhagen), Messiaen’s Musical ConvergenceFinal DiscussionOrganisation: Prof. Dr. Sonja Hildebrand : sonja.hildebrand@usi.chContact: Dr. Elena Chestnova : elena.chestnova@usi.ch