Prof. Gerard Vilar i Prof. Jessica Jaques: gościnne wykłady w IF UW, 24-25.05.2016

The Department of Aesthetics, Philosophy Studies in English, and Center for Inter-University Collaboration invite you for the lectures by

Prof. Gerard Vilar and Prof. Jèssica Jaques
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalunya)

Generation of Knowledge in Contemporary Art
24th May, Tuesday, room 403 at 16.45
Institute of Sociology, Karowa 18

Gustatory Aesthetics: Genealogy and Current Issues
25th May, Wednesday, room 110 at 13.15
Institute of Philosophy, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3

Coordinatior: Adam Andrzejewski (adam.epoche@gmail.com)

Gerard Vilar, born in Barcelona (1954) studied Philosophy in Barcelona, Frankfurt and Constance. He also was a DAAD and Humboldt scholarship holder. His first faculty position was in the Department of Theory and Composition of the ETS  of Architecture of Barcelona and now is  Full Professor in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Philosophy Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.  He is author of several books as El desorden estético  (The Aesthetical Disorder, 2000), Las razones del arte (The Reasons of Art, 2005), Desartización  (Deartification, 2010) and  Precariedad, arte y política (Precariousness, Art and Politics, forthcoming). He is leader of a research group (GRETA) on “Artistic Research: Cognitive Production in Contemporary Art”.

Jèssica Jaques Pi is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her main field of research is  applied aesthetics. Her preeminent publications are: La estètica del románico y el gótico (The aesthetics of Romanesque and Gothic, 2003); the Catalan translation and critical edition of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement (Ed. 62, 2004); Picasso en Gósol, 1906: un verano para la modernidad  (Picasso in Gósol, 1906: a summer for Modernity, Antonio Machado, 2007), “Food (Aesthetics of)” (Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Second Edition, 2016), “For an Applied Philosophy of Gastronomy” (CosMo  n.6, 2015). She is currently dedicated to the gustatory aesthetics  and to Picasso’s theatre plays and poetry translation and interpretation. She is assistant directorof the  Master in research in Art and Design  (EINA–UAB).