VC 2009 - IADIS International Conference Visual Communication 2009: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture VC 2009

IADIS International Conference Visual Communication 2009: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture VC 2009


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The functionality of visual communication has been underestimated as photography and cartoons claimed artistic autonomy rather than being submissive to the explicit message to be conveyed. Commercials and pervasive messages in ideological campaigns are early adopters of visuals. Since 3D image spaces in Virtual Reality have been introduced it is a must to meet between scientific researchers, art directors, photographers and illustrators.

¡°Creative industries¡± is the epitome for critical applications like social software, gaming and cultural documentaries. This conference will open the landscape for those who bring overlooked messages from theory and practice and those who have the intuition that the visual languages prevail in attitudinal and affective communication. Multi cultural projects demand a high of sophistication in semiotic awareness.
Especially this aspect is a fast-growing domain for communication specialists.

Not at least we welcome media technologists who extent the conventions of images on the surface of the screen and are thrilled by 3D, tactile, haptic and immersive image ¡°spaces¡±. The conference offers you a wide overview, exclusive demos and in-depth reflections. Besides Communication, the application domains are Educational, Corporate, Governmental, Medical, Military, Engineering, Commercials and Leisure.



Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:



Visual Communication
- Visual Language / -Literacy / -Rhetoric

- Persuasive Communication

- Semiotics

- Genres

- Epistemic, episodic and the conceptual

- Storyline and Hyperstructure


Psychology
- Visual / Subliminal Perception

- Gestalt, Cognitive Style

- Etnographic / Historical Themes

- Galleries

- Imagery Software




Photography
- Journalism, Documentary and Autonomous

- Graphics, Art and Design

- Spatial Composition

- Daylight Studio

- Autobiographic

- Portrait, landscape, fashion, architecture

- Creative Imagery

- New Generation Cameras

- Didactic Careers

- International Consortia for EU Projects




Technology

- Light, colour, lenses, 3D scanning and printing

- WWW-based Image Spaces

- Flickr, MySpace,

- Archiving