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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 29 March 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)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Carmin Karasic, Assistant Director of Boston Cyberarts, (Boston, USA) and of
MAD Emergent Art Center (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

* 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 (new date): 29 March 2010
- Notification to Authors (new date): 30 April 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 24
May 2010
- Late Registration (new date): After 24 May 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: [log in to unmask]
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