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- From: MARCHESF%PACEVM.BITNET@uwavm.u.washington.edu (Dr. Francis T. Marchese)
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- Subject: CONF CFP: Conference on Understanding Images
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:47:51 GMT
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- *** Call For Participation ***
- Conference on Understanding Images
- Sponsored By NYC ACM/SIGGRAPH
- and
- Pace University's School of Computer Science and Information Systems
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- To Be Held At Pace University New York City, New York
- May 21-22,1993
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- Artists, designers, scientists, engineers and educator s share the
- problem of moving information from one mind to another. Traditiona
- lly, they have used pictures, words, demonstrations, music and dance
- to communi cate imagery. However, expressing complex notions such as
- God and infinity or a seemingly well defined concept such as a flower
- can present challenges which far exceed their technical skills. The
- explosive use of computers as visualization and expression tools has
- compounded this problem. In hypermedia, multimedia and virtual
- reality systems vast amounts of information confront the observer or
- participant. Wading through a multitude of simultaneous images and
- sounds in possibly unfamiliar representations, a confounded user asks:
- What does it all mean? Since image construction, transmission,
- reception, decipherment and ultimate understanding are complex tasks
- strongly influenced by physiology, ed ucation and culture; and since
- electronic media radically amplify each process ing step, then we, as
- electronic communicators, must determine the fundamental paradigms for
- composing imagery for understanding. Therefore, the purpose of this
- conference is to bring together a breadth of disciplines, including,
- but not limited to, the physical, biological and computational
- sciences, technology, art, psychology, philosophy and education, in
- order to define and discuss the issues essential to image
- understanding within the computer graphics context.
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- To this end we seek proposals for individual presentations, panel
- discussions, static displays, interactive environments, performances
- and beyond. Submissions: Contributors are requested to submit a one
- page proposal by February 1993. Accepted presentations will be
- included in the proceedings.
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- Direct all inquires and submissions to:
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- Professor Francis T. Marchese
- Department of Computer Science
- Pace University
- New York, NY 10038 USA
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- Phone: 212 346-1803
- Fax: 212 346-1933
- Email: MARCHESF@PACEVM.Bitnet
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