VC 20093

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 27 April 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2009: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture Algarve, Portugal, 19 to 21 June 2009 (http://www.vc-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2009) Algarve, Portugal, 17 to 23 June 2009 (http://www.mccsis.org)

Dr Roberto Muffoletto, Coordinator New Media & Global Education, College of Education Appalachian State University, USA
 * Keynote Speaker (confirmed):

The IADIS Visual Communication (VC) 2009 conference aims to address the main issues on Visual Communication, Photography and Technology.
 * Conference background and goals

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).
 * Format of the Conference

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.
 * Best Papers

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
 * Types of submissions


 * 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

- Submission Deadline (2nd call): 27 April 2009 - Notification to Authors (2nd call): 15 May 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 25 May 2009 - Late Registration (2nd call): After 25 May 2009 - Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 19 to 21 JuNE 2009
 * Important Dates:

The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal.
 * Conference Location

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2009 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat@vc-conf.org Web site: http://www.vc-conf.org/
 * Secretariat

Visual Communication 2009 Conference Program Chair: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 * Program Committee

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs: Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan