29th Annual Visual Impetus Conference: It's Only a Matter of Time
Schedule
Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Sat, 31 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Fine Arts Building | Victoria, BC
About this Event
Art crosses chronological boundaries, bridging the perceived divisions between “now” and “then.” A record of the past, reinterpreted and revived in our present, goes on to become a part of the future. This year’s conference theme: It’s Only a Matter of Time: Art, and Temporality explores how artists, audiences, and scholars alike take on the role of time traveller.
Presented by the University of Victoria's Art History and Visual Studies department, graduate association and the graduate students' society, Visual Impetus is an Art History & Visual Studies Graduate Conference & Poster Fair for Graduate Students & Early Career Researchers.
This year's Visual Impetus Committee is made up of AHVS MA students: Jessica Huang, Alexander Wolffe, and dean fercho wilmoth.
Visual Impetus 2026 poster designed & created by Alexander Wolffe
Friday
🕑: 04:00 PM
(Friday) Opening Remarks
Host: Jessica Huang
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:10 PM
(Friday) Panel 1
Host: Ann Edelstien
Info: Ann Edelstien: Timeless Tails: Ocean Aesthetics and Merfolk in Visual Culture; Farzaneh Moallef-Akbari: Material Time: Temporality in Contemporary Art and Fashion
🕑: 05:10 PM - 05:25 PM
(Friday) Panel 1 Q&A
Host: Ann Edelstien
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:05 PM
(Friday) Panel 2
Host: Zoë Kolodnicki
Info: Zoë Kolodnicki: Aesthetic Artefacts: The Retroactive Analysis of Culture and Nation-building; Vithória Konzen Dill: Re-examining Elisabetta Sirani’s Allegory of Painting (1658)
🕑: 06:10 PM - 06:25 PM
(Friday) Panel 2 Q&A
Host: Zoë Kolodnicki
🕑: 06:00 PM
(Friday) Pizza Dinner
Info: Gluten free & vegetarian options available!
Saturday
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:00 AM
(Saturday) Pastry & Coffee Reception
Info: Gluten free options available
🕑: 10:00 AM
(Saturday) Opening Remarks
Host: Jessica Huang
🕑: 10:10 AM - 10:45 AM
(Saturday) Panel 3
Host: Emma LaBonte
Info: Emma LaBonte: Virtual: Taking a Closer Look at Environment in Canada: Exploring our Understanding of Ecological Consciousness and Awarenes; Noah Pacina: Balancing the Scales of Time and History: Exploring Cultural Amnesia and Temporal Perspectives in Heritage Sites
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:05 AM
(Saturday) Panel 3 Q&A
Host: Emma LaBonte
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
(Saturday) Keynote Speaker
Host: Chrystal Phan
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
(Saturday) Keynote Speaker Q&A
Host: Chrystal Phan
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
(Saturday) Lunch
Info: Gluten free and vegetarian options available
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:40 PM
(Saturday) Panel 4
Host: Sarah Roberts
Info: Sarah Roberts: Haunted Childhoods: Gothic Memory and Allegorical Trauma in El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo Del Toro) and Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017, Issa Lopez); Amy Anderson: Cinema in Pieces: A Fragmentary Temporal Ontology; Florence Plathan: Photography and Affective Connections with the Trans Feminine Past
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
(Saturday) Panel 4 Q&A
Host: Sarah Roberts
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:50 PM
(Saturday) Panel 5
Host: Pascalle Ricards
Info: Pascalle Ricards: Memory, Ritual & Mezuzot: connecting with ancestral remembrance through historical material cultural; Lesley Marshall: AI ethics and Media Art as a feedback loop of oppression
🕑: 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM
(Saturday) Second Panel Q&A
Host: Pascalle Ricards
🕑: 04:30 PM
(Saturday) Closing Remarks
Host: Jessica Huang
Where is it happening?
Fine Arts Building, 3800 Ring Road, Victoria, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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