Begin forwarded message: > From: "Oliver Grau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: August 23, 2007 12:06:28 PM CDT > To: "Oliver Grau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS : GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY : GOETTWEIG > 2008 > > Dear colleagues, dear friends, > > the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE (DIS) at DANUBE UNIVERSITY is pleased > to announce the second international Goettweig conference on Image > Science. > > With best regards > > Oliver Grau > > Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau > Head Department for Image Science > -------------------------------- > www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis > www.virtualart.at > -------------------------------- > > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY : CONFRONTING IMAGE NAIVETÉ > Second international conference on Image Science in Goettweig > April 24th - 26th 2008 > www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis > > Never before has the world of images changed so fast, have we been > exposed to so many different image forms and never before has the > way images are produced transformed so drastically. Images are > advancing into new domains: Television became a global zapping > field of thousands of channels; projection screens enter our > cities, and cell phones transmit micromovies in real time. We are > witnessing the rise of the image into a virtual spatial image. > Science, politics and entertainment profit from new dimensions in > the creation of images and their emotive effects. Since the 60s, > arts and sciences are connected in the fundamental research media > art undertakes, whose roots lie in partially unknown traditions. > > A multitude of new possibilities in producing, projecting and > distributing individual images has led to the formation of new > image genres. The spiral movement of image history from innovation, > understanding and iconoclasm results in the 21st Century in a > global interweaving. These major transformations have hit society > to a large extent unprepared and as we gradually start to recognize > the demand to address the current knowledge explosion > appropriately, we face the challenge to expand our forms of > visualization, our “orders and systems of visibility”, and to > reflect critically and scientifically on them. While our written > culture has produced a differentiated and dedicated paedagogy, our > society still lacks a conscious education concerning images - up to > a degree that we can speak of visual illiteracy. > > A central problem of current cultural policy, aside from poor > knowledge on image procedures, stems from serious lack of knowledge > about the origins of the audiovisual media. This stands in complete > contradistinction to current demands for more media and image > competence. The conference therefore explores the thinking space > and the utopias, which were initiated by artists again and again - > now on the expanded terrain of image science - and searches for the > inspirations these new worlds receive from the arts. What influence > does the medium have on the iconic character of the image? What > chances and challenges do museums and image dealers face with the > “liquidity” of the image? > > The interdisciplinary conference aims to step up to the challenge > of building a “visual inventory”. One goal of the Conference > therefore is to build cross disciplinary exchange between the > Humanities AND the Natural Sciences. > > > PROPOSALS are welcome to the following topics and fields: > > * NEW IMAGE FORMS AND TECHNIQUES > (New visualization techniques in Nano-, Bio-, Neurosciences, > Architecture, Photography, Digital Collections Management, etc.) > > * NEW STRATEGIES IN VISUAL ARGUMENTATION > (in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Politics, Advertising, > Comics, Diagrams & Models, Visual Music, etc.) > > * NEW PRACTICES OF IMAGE TRANSFER > (Global economy, Tagging, Micromovies, Flickr, Second Life, You > Tube, Google Earth etc.) > > > DEADLINE PROPOSALS : October 21st 2007 > Conference Languages: German/English. > > > PAPERS > One-page abstract or complete paper must be submitted by email. > Upon acceptance, complete papers must be submitted by March 21, > 2008 as PDF to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All rights will > remain with the author. Papers will be selected for presentations. > Proposals for panel discussions are encouraged and individual > papers may be grouped by the Department for Image Science in panel > discussion format. Panel proposals should include names of > prospective panelists and topics, which should address the general > themes of the symposium. > > The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE is situated near Vienna in the > UNESCO World Heritage Wachau, in the Goettweig Monastery. The DIS > is housed in part of the fourteenth century castle. It is the > platform for the international projects: Database of Virtual Art, > Goettweig Print Collection Database, MediaArtHistory.org > > > ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT > FOR IMAGE SCIENCE (DIS) AND ITS PROJECTS > > * DIS * VirtualArt.at * MediaArtHistory.org * > > Carl AIGNER (St. Pölten), Roy ASCOTT (Plymouth), Sean CUBITT > (Melbourne), Brigitte FELDERER (Wien), Felice FRANKEL (Boston), > Beryl GRAHAM (Newcastle), Erkki HUHTAMO (Los Angeles), Douglas KAHN > (Davis/California), Martin KEMP (Oxford), Harald KRÄMER (Bern), > Machiko KUSAHARA (Tokyo), Jorge LAFERLA (Buenos Aires), Timothy > LENIOR (Duke), Gunalan NADARAJAN (Penn State), Christiane PAUL (New > York), Götz POCHAT (Graz), Martin ROTH (Dresden), Wolf SINGER > (Frankfurt), Christa SOMMERER (Linz), Paul THOMAS (Western > Australia), Wolfgang WELSCH (Jena), STEVE WILSON (San Francisco) > > * * * > www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis/bildtage > > > > >
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