CALL FOR PAPERS
15th International Conference on The Image
SPECIAL FOCUS: Images and Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
October 24-25, 2024
Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires, Argentina + Online
https://ontheimage.com/2024-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:
- Early Proposal Deadline: March 24, 2024
- Regular Proposal Deadline: July 24, 2024
- Late Proposal Deadline: September 24, 2024
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 Fifteenth International Conference on The Image calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus.
THEME ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: 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 AND IMAGINARIES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Generative artificial intelligence has already begun to play a role in the construction of images. However, as yet it is hard to assess in what ways AI might contribute positively to the human-expressive domain of image making. It is nevertheless already clear that AI will in multiple ways play a role in the birth of new social imaginaries, extending the influence that advertising, journalistic, artistic, cinematographic and all kinds of images have today.
AI is the result of a new and revolutionary technology, but, as in so many other moments of the evolution of human culture, the implications of its use will generate unimaginable transformations. Even today and without having fully deployed all its potentials, AI is producing various polarizing perspectives variously in its favor or against its indiscriminate and uncontrolled use. The mere fact that a group of scientists, and CEOs of important technology companies requested a pause to AI indicates a high level of uncertainty and anxiety about the future applications and implications of AI.
At the Ninth International Conference on Communication and Media Studies, we invite participants to approach to this problem based on protocols of academic and scientific reflection, analyzing the implications of these developments not only for professionals, researchers and educators in the design and image-making sectors, but also for society as a whole.
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.
Proposal Deadlines:
Advance Proposal Deadline: 24 December 2023
Early Proposal Deadline: 24 March 2024
Regular Proposal Deadline: 24 July 2024
Late Proposal Deadline: 24 September 2024
Registration Deadlines:
Advance Registration Deadline: 24 January 2024
Early Registration Deadline: 24 April 2024
Regular Registration Deadline: 24 September 2024
Late Registration Deadline: 24 October 2024
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/2024-conference
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