Glass in the Year of Light
7th to 9th September 2015
The History & Heritage of Glass
In the right hand column is a list of accepted papers for the "History & Heritage of Glass" stream in the Glass Reflections conference. This is a one-day Seminar which takes place on Wednesday 9th September as a parallel session alongside the papers on the Science of Glass. The programmes are synchronised so delegates can if they wish attend papers presented in either of the two streams.
In this list, papers are identified by Presenting Author (in alphabetic order of surname) and paper title.
To access the abstract of interest please click on the highlighted name of the Presenting Author (if this name is not highlighted, it indicates that the abstract is not yet available).
Venue:
University of Cambridge
Murray Edwards College
article posted 28 Jan 2015
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Invited Guest Speakers:
Alfred University
GlassArtEngineering; Unique Points of View Working Together
Tom Küpper
Lincoln Cathedral
"Preparing a Poultice' - Stained Glass Conservation
John Parker
University of Sheffield
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ...
Presentations:
Experiments with Light and Glass: Art, Aesthetics and Technology
Glen Cook
New Specialty Glass Artist-in-Residence Program:
Corning Incorporated and Corning Museum of Glass
Shelley Doolan
The synthesis of waterjet cutting technology with traditional glass-making
Ferdinand Drünert
Calcium antimonates as opacifying agents in historical glass samples -
remelting experiments and in situ crystallization
Francesca Giubilei
Fragments of a Discourse on Light and Glass
A Close View on the Exhibition Within Light/ Inside Glass
Elena Granuzzo
Glass Reflection in Venice in the XVIII and XIX centuries
Elzbieta Greiner-Wronowa
Alteration of Historic Glass - Metal Objects
caused by Volatile Organic Compounds in Museum Environments
GillianHobson
Beyond the Object: interplays of the digital and the material
Barbora Holubová
Investigation on protective hybrid silica coatings on historical glass:
Comparative study and new approaches
Josef Hormes
The corrosion of stained glass:
a chemical analysis using synchrotron radiation based X-ray absorption
and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
Mel Howse
Creative Industrial Vitreous Enamels
Shelley James
Essential symmetries - crystallography and glass
Craig Kennedy
Skills and materials used in the development of Scottish window glass
Markus Kleine
Glasmalerei Peters GmbH, Paderborn
Walls of Light:
The Art of Dalle de Verre and the Current Conservation Problems
Eve Koha
Lighting a Fire in Theophilus' Kiln:
the Theophilus Glass Painting Kiln Phenomenon Today
Oksana Kondratyeva
In Search of Light: Glass! Science! Art!
Godwin Makeri
Mirror Desilvering: An Elixir to Modern Art and Visual Perception
Julia Malle
Where Neon meets Scientific glassblowing
Antonio Pires de Matos
Playing with borosilicate luminescent glasses
Maricruz Medina
Conservation and restoration of archaeological glass:
possibilities of LASER technology
Hans Meindl
Painting with light - Mouth blown glass in art and architecture
Joanne Mitchell
Contouring the Air Bubble:
Complex Air Entrapment, Clarity and Content
in Kiln-formed Glass Art
Tyra Oseng-Rees
Exploring the aesthetic potential for fused recycled glass
Serena Panighello
Investigation of glass leaching processes by laser ablation ICP-MS
A selection of case studies
Inge Panneels
Blue Marble
Wayne Strattman
Researches in Glass and Lighting Technology for Sculpture and Design