CFP VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2010: submissions until 19 February 2010

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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 19 February 2010 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2010: Creative
Industries, Photography and Culture
Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
(http://www.vc-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems
(MCCSIS 2009)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Visual Communication (VC) 2010 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).

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS
International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems -
ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* 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: 19 February 2010
- Notification to Authors: 19 March 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 12 April
2010
- Late Registration: After 12 April 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL
COMMUNICATION 2010: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secre...@vc-conf.org
Web site: http://www.vc-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Visual Communication 2010 Conference Program Chair:
Roberto Muffoletto, Appalachian State University, USA

General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.vc-conf.org/committees.asp