-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 31 March 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2008: Creative
Industries, Photography and Culture
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008
(http://www.vc-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems
(MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers
Teun Velders, Saxion Universities of Applied Science, USA
Michael Hann, Director of ULITA, Univeristy of Leeds, UK

* Conference background and goals
The IADIS Visual Communication (VC) 2008 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). The best paper authors will be invited to publish
extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information
Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

* 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): 31 March 2008
- Notification to Authors: 18 April 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 9 May 2008
- Late Registration: After 9 May 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@vc-conf.org
Web site: http://www.vc-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Visual Communication 2008 Conference Program Chair:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.vc-conf.org/committees.asp