Conference Papers and Public Presentations

Conference Papers and Public Presentations

"A Frame within a Frame: The Tondo Painting in Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Man," in Interrograting Picture Frames, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Juan, March 8, 2023. 

"On the Advocation of Art Courses in Art History Curricula," in Early Modern and Premodern Studies in Undergraduate Education, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Virtual, December 2, 2022.

"The Problem of Historical Absence in a Theory of Art: New Approaches to the Byzantine Nachleben," Session: Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire: Continuities and Developnents, 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice, Italy, August 23, 2022.

"Dr. Emily L. Spratt in Conversation with Deans Evangeline Kubu and James M. Van Wyck," GradFutures, Office of the Deans of Professional Development, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Online Broadcast, August 4, 2021.

"Icons and AI: Considerations of the Future Custodianship of Art Collections with Emerging Technologies," in Collecting Orthodox Art in the West, The Museum of Russian Icons, (online broadcast) Clinton, MA, June 12, 2021.

"The Kunstwollen of the Machine-Learned Image: Ethical Considerations of Predictive Image-Based AI for Historic Preservation," in The Fragment in the Digital Age, International Symposium, Hornemann Institute, (online broadcast) Hildesheim, Germany, May 7, 2021.

"The Apostolic Embrace of Sts. Peter and Paul: Icons, Unionism, and the Council of Florence," in The Reception of Byzantine Texts and Objects in the Renaissance, 1453-1700, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, (online broadcast) April 13, 2021.

"Emily L. Spratt and Lev Manovich in conversation, moderated by Everardo Reyes,"  in La mesure des images : approches computationnelles en histoire et théorie des arts/The Measurement of Images: Computational Approaches in the History and Theory of the Arts, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Lille (MESHS), Lille, France, (online broadcast) November 20, 2020.

"Welcome Remarks for the Exhibition Opening of 'Au-delà du Terroir, Beyond AI Art,'" Global Forum on AI for Humanity, Institut de France, Quai Conti, Paris, France, October 28, 2019.

"'Exhibition Film Screening of 'Au-delà du Terroir, Beyond AI Art,' and Discussion with Curator Emily L. Spratt," École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France, October 22, 2019.

"Considerations of the History of Collections and the Formation of Museums in Approaches to Open Access Initiatives for Cultural Heritage Foundations," GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Lightning Session, Wikimania Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 17, 2019.

"Ingenium, Inventio, Vis, Facilitas: Western Influences in Post-Byzantine Art and the Question of Imitability," in Patterns-Models-Drawings, International Art Readings, The Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 6, 2019. 

"The Sensus Communis and the Eye: Reexaminations of Visual Perception and Artistic Practice," (with Laura M. Herman), in Art and Visual Perception, The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 18, 2019.

"Reflections on the Curation of 'Unhuman: Art in the Age of AI,'" in "Creating Art in the Art and AI Lab," Keynote Presentation by Ahmed Elgammal, Creative Tech Week New York, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, May 11, 2018.

"Computer Vision Technology and the Arts: New Approaches to the Digital Image in Theory and Practice," Princeton Research Day, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 10, 2018.

“Dream Formulations and Image Recognition: Algorithms for the Study of Renaissance Art,” Session: Critical Approaches to Digital Art History, Sponsor: The Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 31, 2017.

"The Art of Seeing in the Digital Age: Aesthetics and the AI Revolution," Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, a College of the University of New Haven, Old Lyme, CT, September 15, 2016.

“Beyond Hybridity, not Description: The Icons of the Serenissima and the Limits of the Post-Colonial Discourse,” Session: Beyond Hybridity: Renaissance Forms Outside Renaissance Centers, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March 26, 2015.

 “Byzantium not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire,” Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Fellows Seminar Series, PIIRS, Princeton, NJ, February 12, 2015.

“Aesthetic Judgment at the Intersection of Art and Science,” European Conference on Computer Vision, W01- Where Computer Vision Meets Art (VISART), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, September 6, 2014.

“Man versus Machine: The Aesthetics of Judgment in the Age of  Artificial Intelligence,” Theoretical Archaeological Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 23-25, 2014.

 “Defying Borders, not Definition: ‘Post-Byzantine’ Art and the Resiliency of the Networked Community,” “Post-Byzantine” Art: Orthodox Christian Art in a “Non-Byzantine” World, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, May 15-16, 2013.

"Beyond Borders and Past the Fourth Crusade: The Art of the Late Byzantine Empire," Introduction to the History of Art From Ancient to Medieval, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 18, 2012. 

 “Codification upon Innovation, The Hermeneia of Dionysios of Fourna and the Limitations of Byzantine Art in a Culture under Hegemony,” Defiant Acts: Questioning Authority in the History of Art and Architecture Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 13, 2012.

 “The Library of Gennadius Scholarius and the Manuscripts from the Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner at Mount Menoikeion in the Ivan Dujcev Center for Slavo-Byzantine Studies,” Mount Menoikeion Summer Seminar, Serres, Greece, July 1, 2012.

“Christian Art in Bulgaria: Regionalism and Universalism in the Context of Byzantium,” American Research Center in Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 30, 2012.

 “The Ecclesiastical Museum of Serres: A Critical Introduction,” Mount Menoikeion Summer Seminar, Serres, Greece, June 28, 2011. 

“Representing the Battle of Lepanto: Post-Byzantine Painting in the Venetian Colonies,” The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 24-26, 2011.

“Architecture, Symbol, and Community Identity: The Domed Belltower in Venice, Crete, and the Ionian Islands,” Italian Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 11, 2011.

“Defining ‘Post-Byzantium’: Historiographic Considerations on the Legacy of an Empire and the Role of Formalism in Description of its Art,” Mis/re/presentation- Graduate Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 13, 2010.

“Conceptualizing Byzantium,” Mount Menoikeion Summer Seminar, Serres, Greece, June 26, 2010.

“The Churches of Rhodes: The Meeting of East and West in Sacred Spaces,” Rhodes and Malta: Art, Faith, and Warfare, (Public Seminar Presentation), Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 17, 2009.

“Albania: Agia Saranda, Buthrotum, and Mesopotam,” Venice and the Mediterranean, The Island of Corfu Seminar Public Presentation, Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 18, 2008.