<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=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Dear Colleagues, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">From <b class="">15 to 19 March 2021</b> we will organise the second edition of <a href="https://theskinofthings2021.github.io" class="">The Skin of Things</a> - a multidisciplinary gathering centred around the <i class="">perception and depiction of materials</i>. The subject may sound narrow but the speakers are an eclectic group of scientists, scholars and artists that you rarely meet in one (virtual) room. Therefore, we happily invite you to join the talks and discussions over a series of 5 evenings/nights (Asia/Oceania), afternoons (Europe/Africa) and mornings (Americas). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Registration</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Registration is free of charge and can be via <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-skin-of-things-ii-tickets-136721115537" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1955a9" class="">EventBrite</span></a>. After you registered you will receive access to a Slack channel that we will use to communicate Zoom links etc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Programme</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Each day between 15 to 19 March we will have meetings between 15:00 and 18:00 Central European Time (CET). Luckily, Daylight Saving Time in the US starts earlier than Europe, so there will be a time difference of 5 (east coast) to 7 hours (west coast).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In the three hours we will have plenty of time for discussions, improvisations and perhaps some surprises.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Monday 15 March - General</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Keynote:</b> <a href="https://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1955a9" class="">Donald Hoffman</span></a> - <i class="">Colors and Chromatures: An Evolutionary View of Perception</i> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Karl Gegenfurtner - <i class="">Perception disentangles different causes of saturation in natural objects</i> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Kavin Bray </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regural: Frits Scholten - <i class="">Skins of sculpture</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tuesday 16 March - Food</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Theme speaker:</b> John Hutchings - <i class="">Specification of Total Appearance - ‘measuring’ what we see</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Carlos Arce Lopera - <i class="">Color distribution of fresh and ripe fruits</i> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Francesca Di Cicco - <i class="">A taste of art</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Helen Sarin - <i class="">The Art of #veGAN</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Wednesday 17 March - Art making</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Theme speaker:</b> <a href="https://studioviolet.org/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1955a9" class="">Viola Eickmeier</span></a> - <i class="">Material Properties</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Lisa Wiersma </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Johanna Delanoy - <i class="">Perception of material appearance: a comparison between painted and rendered images</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Indra Kneepkens - <i class="">Remarkable simplicity and dazzling skill: the role of oils and additives in Van Eyck’s rendering of materials</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Appetizer: Maša Tomšič - <i class="">Strokes and Brushes, Cuts and Wounds</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thursday 18 March - Style And Appearance</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Theme speaker:</b> <a href="https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~hertzman/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1955a9" class="">Aaron Hertzmann</span></a> - <i class="">Why Do Line Drawings Work?</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Li Shiwen - <i class="">Perception of iridescence</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Yuguang Zhao - <i class="">The Appearance of Apple Depictions</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Appetizer: Chenxi Liao - <i class="">Individual Differences in Classification of Translucent Materials Using Photos of Real-world Objects</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Appetizer: Robert Ennis - <i class="">Matching the colors of materials – An experiment in web-based VR</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 77);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Friday 19 March - Digital</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Theme speaker:</b> Rob Erdmann (e.g. <a href="http://boschproject.org/#/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1955a9" class="">Bosch Project</span></a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/erdmann" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1955a9" class="">Twitter</span></a>)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Kate Storrs - <i class="">Learning about material properties by learning about images</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Manuel Lagunas - <i class="">A similarity measure for material appearance</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Regular: Mitchell van Zuijlen - <i class="">The Materials In Painting (MIP) Dataset – A large scale collection of material annotations within artworks.</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Appetizer: Pascal Barla - <i class="">Inverse material depiction</i></span></div></div></div></body></html>