Fifteenth International Conference on The Image

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

Keywords

    Visualization
    Text
    Technique
    Perception
    Technologies
    Multimodality
    Art
    Photography
    Film
    Video
    Animation
    Image Archiving
    Image Discovery

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

Keywords

    Media
    Cinema
    Television
    Internet
    Commercial Imaging
    Professional Imaging
    Amateur Imaging
    Branding

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

Keywords

    Arts
    Communities
    Galleries
    Museums
    Media
    Communications
    Information
    Architecture
    Advertising
    Propaganda
    Surveillance
    Viewers
    Education
    Interpretation