Institute for Art History, University of Vienna, November 12-13, 2009
The fourth »material sample« concentrates on the material reality of construction processes, that is, on the concrete act of construction in the arts and sciences of the Modern Age. Constructive processes were and are frequently bound to graphic interfaces, on which draftsmen draw, and things are made visible or are supposed to be created. This material reality characterizes a dynamics of goal orientation that introduces potentiality before it exists. The goal of intending to make something known and bring it into existence thus includes from the very outset a constructive desire, which introduces an incalculable creative and/or imaginative factor and generates a performance of the course of action.
The bandwidth of the aspects addressed here cover such different phenomena as the methods of descriptive geometry, the various diagrammatic and perspectivistic methods in the technical, scientific or artistic processes of design or reconstruction, and the use of writing in construction – for instance in preparing word lists or plans. All of the graphical resources used in construction are by no means arbitrary, but proceed from existing knowledge, apparatus and artistry. But despite the fact that such practices are guided by rules, and the conventionalization or standardization so often observed, an immemorial and latent factor of constructing remains. If »techné« is understood as not subordinated to knowledge, but as an essential part of knowledge production, then the two central functions of graphical construction come to the fore: on the one hand the segregation of all of the knowledge not (or no longer) relevant for the specific implementation; on the other, the anticipation of new quantities, forms or spatial structures.
Speakers: Friedrich Teja Bach, Steffen Bogen, Doris Krystof, Cornelia Ortlieb, Wolfgang Pircher, Bernhard Siegert, Stephan Trüby, Jutta Voorhoeve
Contact: Jutta Voorhoeve, voorhoeve|at|khi.fi.it
Venue: Institute for Art History, University of Vienna, Seminarraum 1, Spitalgasse 2, A-1090 Alsergrund, Vienna.
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