Pseudo-scripts. (Il)legibility & Ornamentation

• José Gabriel Alegría - Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma
• Tairan An - Princeton University
• Jane Boddy - Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Francesco Caglioti - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Paolo Celi - Università degli Studi di Padova
• Mela Dávila Freire - Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
• Regine Ehleiter - Universität Münster
• Flavio Fergonzi - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Sarah Flitti - Sorbonne Université, Paris
• Nan Han - 中央美术学院 (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing)
• Michael Kiefer - Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Charlotte Langersdorf - Royal College of Art London/Düsseldorf
• Giovanni Lusi - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Gregor Meinecke - Scuola Normale Superiore / Universität Hamburg
• Jakob Moser - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Science)
• Kate Nesin - Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Luca Palozzi - Universtità di Pisa
• Isabel Ruiz Garnelo - UNED, Madrid
• Vera Simone Schulz - Leuhpana Universität Lüneburg/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
• Alex Dika Seggerman - Rutgers University-Newark
• Joanna Sikorska - Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (National Museum in Warsaw)/Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
• Marta Smolińska - Uniwersytet Artystyczny im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz (Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań)
• Pablo Violero Rodríguez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Rebecca Wrighton - University of Rhode Island
• Yuefeng Wu - Johns Hopkins University
• Rabiu Yussuf - Ahmadu Bello University

Programme

Additional Online Dates

Friday, May 9, 2025, 14:00–17:00
Online
Transcultural Echoes I: Pseudo-Scripts and Visual Communication Across Eurasia

2 pm – 2:30 pm
Yuefeng Wu - Johns Hopkins University, Writing Mongol in Medieval Assisi:  Picturing the Universal Church at the Basilica of San Francesco

2:30 pm – 3 pm
An Tairan - Princeton University, The Unnatural Brushstroke: Athanasius Kircher, Late-Ming Seal Scripts, and the Origins of Chinoiserie Pseudoscripts

3 pm – 3:30 pm              Coffee break

Letters, Marks, and Meaning: Exploring Inscriptions in Contemporary Art II
3:30 pm – 4 pm
Jane Boddy - Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Rethinking Pseudo-Scripts: Material Messages of Ink and Form in Oskar Hollweck’s Drawings

4 pm – 4:30 pm
Kate Nesin - New York City/ Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sense/Sensibility: A Typology of the Writing-Like in Cy Twombly’s Work

4:30 pm – 5 pm
Giovanni Lusi - Scuola Normale Superiore, Cy Twombly’s letters. Missives and Capitals

Saturday, May 17, 2025, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Online

Transcultural Echoes II: Pseudo-Scripts across Afro-Eurasia

2:30 pm – 3 pm
Rabiu Yussuf - Ahmadu Bello University, Arabic (Pseudo-)Scripts in Nigerian Art: Tracing Mamluk Metalwork Influence on Metalwork Objects in Northern Nigeria

3 pm – 4 pm
Round Table Discussion: Arabic and Pseudo-Arabic Script in Contemporary Art in West Africa

4 pm – 4:30 pm        Publication & Future Thoughts
 

Immagine: Abdoulaye Ndoye, Ahmed Baba, 2013,  lives and works in Dakar, Senegal (The Newark Museum of Art, © Abdoulaye Ndoye)