[Air-L] Panel on Climate Change Images - AI vs Human Translations - AISV/IAVS 2026 São Paulo

[Giglietto, Fabio]

Dear AoIR colleagues,

I'm forwarding this call for papers for a panel at the 14th Regional
Conference of the Association for Visual Semiotics (AISV/IAVS), which may
be of interest to those working on AI, visual culture, and climate
communication.

For those of us still feeling saudade after AoIR 2025 in Brazil, here's a
perfect excuse to return to São Paulo in February 2026!

*Panel Title:* Climate Change Images: Comparing Human Intersemiotic
Translations with AI-Generated Ones

*Organizers:* Tiziana Migliore (Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo
Bo') & Luigi Arminio (IT University of Copenhagen)

*Conference:* 14th AISV/IAVS Conference - "Intersemiotic Translation before
and after the Emergence of Generative AI" *Dates:* February 9-11, 2026
*Location:* São Paulo, Brazil (Escola de Comunicação e Artes, University of
São Paulo)

This panel explores the differences between AI-generated and human
descriptions of climate-related images, examining how each approach
contributes to meaning-making and creativity. The panel builds on a
workshop held in Urbino that analyzed a corpus of 60 climate-related images
using both human experts and AI models (GPT-4 with vision). The analysis
includes similarity measures, linguistic metrics, and semiotic analysis to
understand what AI and humans capture or omit in their interpretations.

The panel seeks contributions that compare AI-generated image descriptions
with expert human interpretations, particularly focusing on questions of
enrichment vs. impoverishment in intersemiotic translation processes.

*Key Dates:*

   - Panel proposals deadline: *August 15, 2025* (2,000 characters)
   - Individual paper abstracts deadline: *October 31, 2025* (1,500-1,800
   characters)
   - Notification of acceptance: November 20, 2025
   - Conference program: December 20, 2025

*Conference website:* https://aisviavs2026.sciencesconf.org/ *Contact:*
aisv.iavs at gmail.com

Please feel free to share with interested colleagues.

Best regards, Fabio Giglietto
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Fabio Giglietto
Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo
Website: fabiogiglietto.github.io