Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS : GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY

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From: Oliver Grau <[email protected]>
Date: Aug 16, 2007 7:51 AM
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS : GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY
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CALL FOR PAPERS

GAZING INTO THE 21st CENTURY : CONFRONTING IMAGE NAIVETE
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 [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 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. Polten), 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 KRAMER (Bern),
Machiko KUSAHARA (Tokyo), Jorge LAFERLA (Buenos Aires), Timothy LENIOR
(Duke), Gunalan NADARAJAN (Penn State), Christiane PAUL (New York),
Gotz 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