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Subject: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 54, Issue 17
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:49:54 +0200
From: "Oliver Grau" <oliver.grau la donau-uni.ac.at>
Subject: [spectre] CALL FOR PAPERS : GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY
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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

The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE (DIS) at DANUBE UNIVERSITY is pleased
to announce the second international Goettweig conference on Image Science.

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
andrea.kaufmann la donau-uni.ac.at. 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 Database of the
Graphic Print Collection, 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)

*  *  *
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis/bildtage

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