<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From 15 to 19 March 2021 we will organise the second edition of The Skin of Things - a multidisciplinary gathering centred around the perception and depiction of materials. Just like many other conferences we will go on-line, with some regret as the previous Skin of Things was such a nice social event in and around the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.<br class=""><br class="">To accommodate this melancholia, we thought of something to make up. Besides being a stage to share (almost) finished work we also invite to share preliminary ideas and work. If you are willing to join and contribute to these ‘Appetizers’, we promise to organize a ‘Grande Bouffe’ when the time comes to meet physically.<br class=""><br class="">Besides looking back and looking forward, we also look sideways by programming exciting contributions from different perspectives. We aim to create a program that includes many different disciplines and views.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Visit the website <a href="https://theskinofthings2021.github.io" class="">https://theskinofthings2021.github.io</a> for more info. Be aware that the <b class="">submission deadline is rather soon (15 januari).</b> Feel free to contact me if you have questions of any kind. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class="">Maarten Wijntjes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>