Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Oliver Grau" <oliver.grau@donau-uni.ac.at>
> Date: August 23, 2007 12:06:28 PM CDT
> To: "Oliver Grau" <oliver.grau@donau-uni.ac.at>
> 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
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> www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
> www.virtualart.at
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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
>
> 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