The IZMF/IMAREAL Conference 2023 is dedicated to the relationship between materiality and virtuality in the pre-modern era.
Materiality and virtuality do not form an irreconcilable binary opposition, but in their productive interplay create the texture of meanings from which “realities” are made. Based on the assumption that people produce culture in ever new processes of negotiation in the interplay of virtuality and materiality, the contributions are particularly interested in the extent to which people generate virtuality and the extent to which they require sensual points of reference and connection in and with the material world.
The potential associated with the virtualisation of research data and the various stages of modelling and analysis will also be reflected upon, in particular the challenges associated with the digital transformation of material objects.
The contributions to the interdisciplinary conference will discuss the following topics: Materiality and Virtuality in the History of Knowledge | Visualisation of Materiality and Virtuality | Perception of Materiality and Virtuality | Materiality and Virtuality in Space | Manuscripts Between Materiality and Virtuality.
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Conference Programme
19 September
15.00
Opening of the Conference
Christina Antenhofer/Elisabeth Gruber/Alexander Zerfaß, Salzburg
15.15–16.45
Materiality and Virtuality in the History of Knowledge
Chair: Alexander Zerfaß, Salzburg
Virtual Materialities in the History of Substances: Understanding the Emergence of “Modern” Raw Materials between the 18th and 19th Centuries
Sebastian Haumann, Salzburg
Materialität als Potenzialität zur Aufnahme von Form. Die Rolle der Materie im Platonismus der Spätantike
Christian Pietsch, Münster
16.45–17.15 Coffee
17.15–18.45
Visualizing Materiality and Virtuality
Chair: Barbara Denicolò, Salzburg
Virtuality through Materiality. Grave Monuments as a Medial Strategy of Visualizing the Dead on the Example of Klosterneuburg Abbey
Edith Kapeller | Julia Anna Schön, Vienna
Museum Materialities in-between Virtual Objects and Digital Materials
Chiara Zuanni, Graz
19.00
Keynote
Chair: Christina Antenhofer, Salzburg
Cadavers, Dead Bodies, and Human Biomaterials – The Sliding Scale of Human Remains in Mortuary Ritual, Cultural Heritage, and Research Ethics
Liv Nilsson Stutz, Växjö/Sweden
Response
Karin Harrasser, Linz
20 September
9.00–10.30
Sensing Materiality and Virtuality I
Chair: Matthias Däumer, Krems
Virtual Insanity Is What We Are Living in. Attempt at a Systematic Concept of Virtuality (on the Basis of Medieval Afterlife Journeys)
Matthias Däumer, Krems
Durch auflegung des wunter detigen gnaten stein ist mir geholfen worten. Physical Contact as a Practice of Mediating Salvation Using the Example of the so-called ›Fraisensteine‹ from the Pilgrimage Destination Sonntagberg (Lower Austria)
Thomas Kühtreiber/Sabine Miesgang, Krems
10.30–11.00 Coffee
11.00–12.30
Sensing Materiality and Virtuality II
Chair: Matthias Däumer, Krems
Insights into the Mechanisms of Materiality and Virtuality. Using the Example of the Lucerne Weinmarkt Plays
Heidy Greco-Kaufmann, Bern
Apple Variation. Case Studies from the Latin Middle Ages
Katja Weidner, Vienna
12.30–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.30
Materiality and Virtuality in Space
Chair: Thomas Kühtreiber, Krems
Built Space and Virtual Space: Remodeling the Historical Rooms of Hohensalzburg from Material and Written Sources
Christina Antenhofer/Walter Brandstätter | Stefan Zedlacher, Salzburg
Inventing a Medieval Liberty in the Landscape: Materiality, Virtuality, and the Liberty of Whitby Strand
Thomas Pickles, Chester
Representing the Absent King? Material Dimensions of Royal Presence in Late Medieval France
Michael Brauer, Salzburg
18.00
Keynote
Chair: Elisabeth Gruber, Krems
Materiality and Virtuality, Reconstructing and Exploring the Past Through Objects: Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000–1700
Katherine Wilson, Chester
Reception
21 September
9.00–11.30
Manuscripts between Materiality and Virtuality
Chair: Manfred Kern, Salzburg
The Codex Manesse in TEI format. Towards a Transcription Database for Manuscript C (Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift, cpg 848)
Claudia Maria Kraml | Dominik Nießl, Augsburg
New Imaging Technologies and the Invisible Materiality of the Book
Sean Winslow, Graz
The Fascination for Materiality and the Hiatus between Editorial Practice and Literary Criticism. Some Remarks on the Omnipresence of Virtual Manuscripts
Florian Kragl, Erlangen
11.30–12.30
Conclusion
Christina Antenhofer | Elisabeth Gruber | Alexander Zerfaß, Salzburg