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SEEING... VISION AND PERCEPTION IN A DIGITAL CULTURE
CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2008 Conference
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 November 2008 (central London venue to be confirmed)
This year's CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the
associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility,
blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital
culture in which our eyes are assaulted by eve r greater amounts of
visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a
continual basis.
What does it mean to see and be seen nowadays? How have advances in
neuroscience or developments in technology altered our understanding of
vision and perception? What kind of visual spaces do we now inhabit?
What new kinds of visual experiences are now available? And what are now
lost or no longer possible? How does the increasing digitalisation of
media affect the experience of seeing? What and who might be rendered
invisible by the processes of digital culture? What are our current
digital culture's blindspots? What are its politics of seeing?
For the twenty-forth CHArt conference we are looking for papers that
reflect upon these issues. We welcome contributions from all sections
of the CHArt community: art historians, artists, architects and
architectural theorists and historians, curators, museum professionals,
scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists,
software developers, educationalists, philosophers and any others who
have a stake in the question of seeing in a digital culture.
Please email a three to four hundred word synopsis of the proposed paper
with brief CV of presenter/s by 30 May 2008 to Hazel Gardiner
([log in to unmask]).
CHArt (www.chart.ac.uk)
c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Kings College, University of London
26 – 29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
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Visual Resources and Music Curator
University of Michigan-Dearborn
313-593-5463
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