[Air-L] CFP: Debating Visual Knowledge - 2014 Symposium, University of Pittsburgh

[Jocelyn Monahan]

Debating Visual Knowledge


A symposium organized by graduate students in Information Science and
History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh

October 3 - 5, 2014

Call for Participants



Visual knowledge and visual literacy have become pressing concerns across a
variety of academic disciplines and areas of creative production. These
concerns are shaped by the fluid definitions of "visual knowledge" and the
multiple ways in which it manifests. Many forms of visual knowledge have
capabilities that are not shared by language. This knowledge is produced,
mediated, and distributed by a number of different objects, tools, media,
and technologies. This symposium seeks to broaden understandings of
intellectual and creative work by interrogating the theorization,
production, use, and historicization of visual knowledge. We envision the
event as an exploratory lab, comprising scholarly and creative projects
that engage with these questions.



Presentations might relate to (but are not limited to) topics such as:

-- Digital humanities

-- Cognition, intellectual history, interpretation

-- Photography, printmaking, engraving

-- "The spatial turn," GIS, maps, mapping

-- The body, performance

-- Data visualizations, modeling, categories and groups

-- Law and policy

-- Media theory, historiography, ecology

-- Exhibition design, curating

-- Network analysis, grids, graphs, timelines

-- Interfaces, constructed/built environments, design

-- Astronomy, physics, mathematics, botany, medicine

The symposium will include traditional academic papers, posters, and
keynote sessions, as well as presentations of creative works, roundtables,
praxis sessions, screenings, and performances. Participants may be invited
to take part in curated roundtables, seminars or workshops. We also welcome
submissions of projects that could be workshopped or collaborated on in the
context of the symposium.


Submission Guidelines:

-- For a paper, please submit a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute talk, and
a CV.

-- For a poster, please submit a 300-word abstract and a CV.  A sketch of
your poster is optional. If selected, posters must be printed and provided
by the participants, and can be up to 30" x 40".

-- For a creative work, please submit up to 10 images and/or a 2-minute
video or sound clip, a 300-word project description, and a CV.

-- For a pre-constituted panel of up to four papers, please submit a
300-word abstract describing the panel topic, and a 150-word abstract and
author's CV for each proposed paper.

-- To propose to lead a roundtable, seminar, or praxis session, please
submit a 300-word description of the topic and CVs for all proposed
participants.  You may also propose a topic without having chosen
participants.


If you have any questions about possible submissions or formats for
submissions, please contact us at debatingvisualknowledge at gmail.com.


Send submissions to debatingvisualknowledge at gmail.com by April 11, 2014.
Selected participants will be notified by mid-May.



Information Studies www.ischool.pitt.edu

History of Art and Architecture www.haa.pitt.edu