[ecrea] CFP IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2008: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture

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>-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 31 March 2008 --
>
>IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL 
>COMMUNICATION 2008: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture
>Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008
>(http://www.vc-conf.org/)
>part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
>(MCCSIS 2008)
>Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
>(http://www.mccsis.org)
>
>* Keynote Speakers
>Teun Velders, Saxion Universities of Applied Science, USA
>Michael Hann, Director of ULITA, Univeristy of Leeds, UK
>
>* Conference background and goals
>The IADIS Visual Communication (VC) 2008 
>conference aims to address the main issues on 
>Visual Communication, Photography and Technology.
>
>* Format of the Conference
>The conference will comprise of invited talks 
>and oral presentations. The proceedings of the 
>conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM
>with ISBN, and will be available also in the 
>IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line). The 
>best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
>their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer 
>Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).
>
>* Types of submissions
>Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, 
>Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and 
>Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
>
>* Topics related to Visual Communication: 
>Creative Industries, Photography and Culture are 
>of interest. These include, but are not limited 
>to the following areas and topics:
>
>- Visual Communication (main area)
>  - Visual Language / -Literacy / -Rhetoric
>  - Persuasive Communication
>  - Semiotics
>  - Genres
>  - Epistemic, episodic and the conceptual
>  - Storyline and Hyperstructure
>
>- Psychology (Main Area)
>  - Visual / Subliminal Perception
>  - Gestalt, Cognitive Style
>  - Etnographic / Historical Themes
>  - Galleries
>  - Imagery Software
>
>- Photography (main area)
>  - 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
>
>* Important Dates:
>- Submission deadline (new date): 31 March 2008
>- Notification to Authors: 18 April 2008
>- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 9 May 2008
>- Late Registration: After 9 May 2008
>- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008
>
>* Conference Location
>The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
>
>* Secretariat
>IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2008
>Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
>1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
>E-mail: (secretariat /at/ vc-conf.org)
>Web site: http://www.vc-conf.org/
>
>* Program Committee
>Visual Communication 2008 Conference Program Chair:
>Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
>
>General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
>Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
>Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
>Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
>
>Committee Members: *
>* for committee list please refer to http://www.vc-conf.org/committees.asp
>
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