CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourteenth International Conference on The Image
Special Focus: Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power
University of San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain and Online
November 15-16, 2023
https://ontheimage.com/2023-conference/call-for-papers
Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.
Submission deadlines:
- Advance Proposal Deadline: 15 January 2023
- Early Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2023
- Regular Proposal Deadline: 15 August 2023
- Late Proposal Deadline: 15 October 2023
Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Fourteenth International Conference on The Image calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
THEME 1: THE FORM OF THE IMAGE
Examining the nature and form of the image as a medium of representation
- The mass media
- The grammar of the visual
- The image as text
- The image as art
- Image techniques
- The cognitive science of perception
- Visualization
- Technologies and techniques of representation
- Multimodality: image in relation to language, space, gesture and object
- Moving images: cinema, television, video, animation
- Visual arts practices
- Photography
- The moving image
- Aspects of vision: viewpoint, perspective, interest
- Digital capture and manipulation of images
- Archiving the image
- Discovering the image: databases, social media, tagging, folksonomy, taxonomy
THEME 2: IMAGE WORK
Investigating image making processes and spaces of image representation
- The ‘new’: digital and social media
- Cinema, traditional and new
- Television, traditional and new
- Image on the internet
- Corporations in the image business
- Selling the image
- The amateur artist or photographer
- Branding, logos and advertising
- Artist or image-maker as professional
- Commercial galleries and art dealers
- Image libraries
THEME 3: THE IMAGE IN SOCIETY
Exploring the social effects of the image
- Arts and image communities
- Image galleries and museums
- The image in media and communications
- The image in architecture
- The image in advertising
- The image as commercial artifact
- The image as information
- The image as propaganda
- Images in security and surveillance
- The role of the viewer
- Learning to represent in images
- Images in the service of learning
- Reading and interpreting images
- The past, present and future of the image
SPECIAL FOCUS: IMAGES DO NOT REPRESENT US, THEY CREATE US: THE IMAGE AND ITS TRANSFORMING POWER
Images accompany us in our lives. And increasingly, images are the dominant facade with which we present ourselves to the world in digital environments. We have all learned how to create an image of ourselves in the world from digital tools. But do these “images” represent us? Can we control the “images” we generate? How do these “images” control and transform us?
At the Fourteenth International Conference on The Image, we will consider the power of the image from different points of view: from the artistic, social, and cultural, to attempt to find meaning in how images that we project into digital and non-digital spaces, particularly in an age of digital transformations and data economies, transform us as individuals as well as a society.
IMPORTANT DATES
We welcome the submission of proposals at any time of the year. The dates below serve as a guideline for proposal submission based on our corresponding registration deadlines. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.
You do not need to commit either to a place-based or virtual presentation at the time of submission. You can present both ways, or change your mode of the presentation if your preferences change.
Proposal Deadlines:
Advance Proposal Deadline: 15 January 2023
Early Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2023
Regular Proposal Deadline: 15 August 2023
Late Proposal Deadline: 15 October 2023
Registration Deadlines:
Advance Registration Deadline: 15 February 2023
Early Registration Deadline: 15 May 2023
Regular Registration Deadline: 15 October 2023
Late Registration Deadline: 15 November 2023
ABOUT US (https://ontheimage.com/about)
Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image-making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
MORE INFORMATION
Please visit the conference website:
https://ontheimage.com/2023-conference
RELATED CONFERENCES
We understand travel is difficult in the current climate. For this reason, we also offer related thematic events in our sister Research Networks that you might be able to attend in-person. This way we build for our Research Network Members flexible, and at the same time resilient, spaces for communication, engagement, and participation.
View other Common Ground Research Networks conferences:
https://cgnetworks.org/conferences/conference-calendar
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