[visionlist] Visual Science of Art Conference | 1-2 September 2012, Alghero, Italy

[BAINGIO Pinna]

The 1st VSAC - Visual Science of Art Conference
1-2 September 2012, Alghero, Italy



The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC - http://www.ecvp2012.uniss.it/index.php/eng/VSAC/) is the first edition of a worldwide academic conference aimed at studying scientific interactions between vision science and art. VSAC in 2012 will be held in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy from Saturday the 1st of September to Sunday the 2nd of September 2012 at the Conference Centre, situated in front of the beach, a few minutes from the town centre. In 2012 VSAC will be twinned to the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2-6 September - http://www.ecvp2012.uniss.it/).

In the last decade there has been a growing interest by scientists in studying interactions between art and vision. A strongly increasing number of publications (articles, books, special issues) and meetings (workshops, symposia) encouraged researchers, scholars and students to gather together in a unitary community that can cooperate, discuss and develop new scientific perspectives in this complex and intriguing new field.
A bridge between Vision Science and Art has already been constructed. Recent scientific discoveries contribute to the understanding of Art, and Art incorporates knowledge generated by science. The VSAC 2012 further stimulates and speeds up this construction to organize a Visual Science of Art community. For detailed information about VSAC please visit the following website: http://www.ecvp2012.uniss.it/index.php/eng/VSAC/

This year VSAC is being organized by Baingio Pinna assisted by his group of Form & Perception Lab, as well as by the Dept. of Architecture, Design & Planning at Alghero.

Alghero lies on the northwest “Coral Coast” of Sardinia, one of the most beautiful and well-known places in Sardinia and an ancient Catalan fortress on the sea, with its great bastion walls, cobbled streets of its historic centre, ancient houses and churches in little piazzas. Alghero, with its wonderful beaches and their emerald water, is a real pearl on the Mediterranean Sea.
We hope that there will be many of you who would be interested in attending the VSAC.

We are honored to have a prestigious speaker for our plenary session:

Sunday morning 2nd September 2012, Jan Koenderink (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Early registration has to be confirmed and paid before 1st July 2012

Abstract submission open: 11th January 2012
Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2012
Proposals for Symposia: 1st April 2012

In addition, VSAC and ECVP 2012 will hold a special exhibition called “IllusoriaMente” (in English both illusorily and the illusory mind) dedicated to the memory of the late Prof. Richard Gregory and Prof. Tom Troscianko and celebrating the ingenuity and creativity of both VSAC and ECVP attenders in producing attractive scientific/artistic products ranging from visual illusions to all kinds of experimental tools/procedures to applications/implementations of theories, mechanisms and principles ruling the visual system.

For scientific questions and symposium suggestions,
please contact Baingio Pinna at this address:
baingio at uniss.it

For conference registration, administrative or technical questions, please contact:
vsac2012 at uniss.it

For sponsorship and exhibition, please contact:
vsac2012 at uniss.it

Looking forward to seeing you in Alghero,

Baingio



BAINGIO PINNA
Dept. Architecture, Design & Planning
Palazzo del Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6
University of Sassari, I-07041, Alghero, Italy

Ph. office: +39-079-9720443; cell. 3926315770
Fax: +39-079-9720420
e-mail 1: baingio at uniss.it
e-mail 2: baingio.pinna at gmail.com

http://www.architettura.uniss.it/index.php/eng/Persone/Docenti/Baingio_Pinna
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Pinna_illusion
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Watercolor_illusion








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