[Commlist] CFP IVLA 2022 Conference (visual literacy)

CFP: "Connecting & Sharing – Envisioning the Futures of Visual Literacy" 
- 54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy 
Association (IVLA), 10-12 August 2022, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 
(onsite and online) - Submission deadline: 28 February 2022

Conference theme
The past two years of ongoing restrictions caused by the worldwide 
pandemic have shown the importance of the visual in the everyday. Our 
lives have become more visual than ever before – from intense 
visual-sharing practices with relatives and friends, video conferencing 
and online education, to the visual presence of pandemic contexts in 
cityscapes, artistic practices in local communities, media feeds 
including charts and graphs, and creation of remixed images as a 
commentary to the crises. It has become clear that we increasingly need 
visual literacy in terms of image creation, reception and visual 
thinking. Therefore, in these current unpredictable (visual) times, we 
aim for the impossible – to envision the futures of visual literacy.
We invite scholars, educators, students, and practitioners from all over 
the world to discuss theoretical insights and to share research, 
artistic, and educational practices around the concept of visual 
literacy and/or in dialogue with multimodality, multi-sensory 
experiences and multiliteracies. The concept of visual literacy has been 
used for over five decades in education, art, museum studies, 
information design, photography, and new literacies research, but 
currently we have reached the point when we need to (re)build and 
(re)discover the (new) connections between the variety of theories, 
disciplinary traditions and educational practices in visual literacy and 
beyond.

Presentation types

Paper presentation (onsite and online)

Presentations (20 min + 10 min discussion) by one or more speakers are 
meant to  introduce ongoing or completed projects related to visual 
literacy in any discipline or area of practice. Theoretical 
contributions are also welcome. For this format participants can choose 
to present online if they are not able to travel to the conference site. 
There will be an online session stream in addition to the onsite 
parallel sessions.

Multimedia paper presentation

The Multimedia Paper Session (60 min) will have a dedicated slot in the 
program without any parallel sessions. Each presenter will have a 
separate spot to display any materials through which they want to 
present their work, e.g., poster(s), photographs, drawings, multimedia, 
etc. This format is a less formal opportunity to discuss 
work-in-progress, educational experiments, pedagogical practices, or 
introduce completed projects to the audience in a more interactive way. 
Presenters will have about one minute for a pitch talk, after which they 
will have the possibility to discuss their work with the members of the 
audience, supported by the multimedia artifacts of their choice.

Workshop (60-90 min)

Workshop proposals should briefly describe the topic and the plan for 
the workshop. We encourage interactive formats that engage the workshop 
participants into either creation or sharing of ideas and experiences. 
Conference organizers can provide basic office supplies, if needed.

Online Juried Art Exhibition

There is a possibility to submit art work of any kind in a digital 
format for the curated Online Art Exhibition that will be introduced 
during the conference. In addition, artists will have a possibility to 
introduce their work during the conference in a roundtable discussion. 
For more details, see the separate Call for Artists.

Proposal submission and deadline

Proposals for the paper presentations, multimedia papers and workshops 
should be submitted online as 300-500 -word abstracts with the title 
(using this form: 
https://registration.contio.fi/jyu/Registration/Login?id=2475-KONG_KIVI-1604 
<https://registration.contio.fi/jyu/Registration/Login?id=2475-KONG_KIVI-1604>).Submissions 
for the Virtual Art Exhibition should be made using this form: 
https://forms.gle/xrCTZ1F9yr6eLYez5 
<https://forms.gle/xrCTZ1F9yr6eLYez5>. We will not consider any 
submissions sent by email.

Submission deadline: 28 February 2022 (note: no deadline extension!)
For more information on the conference, visit the conference website: 
https://ivlaconference.org <https://ivlaconference.org> and: 
https://ivla.org/ivlaconference2022/ <https://ivla.org/ivlaconference2022/>

Important dates:
Abstract submission opens: 10 January 2022
Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2022
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022
Conference dates: 10-12 August 2022

About IVLA and annual conferences

The International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) was founded by John 
Debes of Kodak and Clarence Williams of the University of Rochester. 
Lida Cochrane, an early and long-time member, recalled that Debes was 
writing programs at Kodak expounding the ideas that “visuals are a 
language … in order to use and create pictures … you are using a 
language and…visual literacy then came into being.” In 1968, Debes and 
Williams, along with a selected group of people interested in various 
aspects of visuals in education and communication met to plan a 
conference on visual literacy. This group initiated IVLA with the first 
conference in March 1969, when about 350 people from many disciplines 
gathered in Rochester to present papers and discuss their theories and 
applications of visuals. Since then, the association members and 
participants have travelled the world. Symposia and then conferences 
have been held each year and starting in 2001, the annual conference 
became truly international when it began to travel outside the US every 
third year. Conferences have been hosted in England, Sweden, South 
Africa, Cyprus, Brazil, Canada, among others, and many states in the 
U.S. Connecting & Sharing – Envisioning the Futures of Visual Literacy 
is our 54th conference, hosting the third online art exhibit.

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