event announcement

Blue Alchemy: Colour Group soiree and film screening

A soiree with a special screening of the new feature length film by Mary Lance. Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo is a feature-length documentary about indigo, a blue dye that has captured the human imagination for millennia. It is also about remarkable people around the globe who are reviving indigo in projects that are intended to improve life in their communities, preserve cultural integrity, improve the environment, and bring beauty to the world.

Dates 07 March 2012 | Read more at http://www.colour.org.uk/meetingMarchA12.html

call for papers

Call for papers: 8th Conferenza del Colore

September 13-14, 2012, Bologna, Italy. Abstract deadline submission February 6, 2012. More information is also available on the GdC website:
www.gruppodelcolore.it. The aim of the conference is to encourage multi and interdisciplinary aggregation of the research centres and people that deal with color and light from a professional and scientific point of view.

Dates September 2012 | Read more at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Call-papers-8th-Conferenza

symposium announcement

Blue - the world's favourite colour

The Colour Group of Great Britain in partnership with The Textile Institute, SE and London Region, will be hosting a symposium on the world’s favourite colour. An expert line up of speakers (including Carinna Parraman and Julie Caves) weave important and fascinating aspects of the history of blue colour chemistry, printing, art, culture and indigo. Fashion denim, design and new technology products that support quality standards which today represents a multi billion industry.

Dates Autumn 2011 | Read more at http://www.colour.org.uk/meetingNovemberB11.html

book publication

Colour Coded - NEW book on colour research

We are delighted to announce the publication of the CREATE Colour Coded book - edited by Carinna Parraman. This book offers a selection of research and aims to address increasingly complex questions through an interdisciplinary perspective... Download a free copy and read more on the CFPR website.

Dates Spring 2011 | Read more on the CFPR Publications page

symposium

Night vision: lighting for residential roads

A one day symposium to explore current issues in street illumination, with emphasis
on mesopic enhancement of residential street illumination, so as to understand better
the needs of pedestrians and other street users, and to formulate research needs.
Full programme and registration form are available via our website (see link below).

Dates 30 June 2011, London | Read more at http://www.colour.org.uk/meetingMesopicstreetlighting.html.

call for papers

21st Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society

The International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) is an international group of visual scientists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, psychologists, physiologists, geneticists, physicists, engineers and others who have a research interest in the many aspects of colour vision and colour-vision deficiencies.

Dates 1-5 July, 2011, Norway | Read more at icvs2011

conference registration open

EVA London 2011 - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Registration open: Catch the Early Bird rates until 27th May 2011. EVA London 2011 will debate the issues, discuss the trends and demonstrate the digital possibilities in culture, heritage and the arts. If you are interested in new technologies in the cultural sector - if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, or educator - then this conference is for you.

Dates 6-8 July 2011 | Read more at www.eva-london.org

call for papers

AVANCA | CINEMA 2011 - International Conference

An invitation to submit papers for the 2011 international conference on Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication.

Dates 20-24 July, 2011, Portugal | Read more at www.avanca.org

conference programme

InterFace 2011

The committee for the 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology, InterFace 2011, is pleased to announce that all the speakers and workshop leaders have now been confirmed.

Dates 27th-29th July, UK | Read more at www.interface2011.org.uk

call for papers

'Significance of Color in the Humanities and Social Sciences'

The Biannual North Georgia Arts and Letters Conference welcome contributors on a wide range of topics related to color from all disciplines. Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words and a brief biography to Dr. Sung Shin Kim at sskim@northgeorgia.edu by Sept. 1, 2011.

Dates 1 September 2011 | Read more at northgeorgia.edu

conference announcement

VII Conferenza Nazionale del Colore

Aim of the conference is to encourage multi and interdisciplinary aggregation of the research centres and people that deal with color and light from a professional and scientific point of view. Conference will be opened (in early morning) by a series of tutorials about different color related topic.

Dates 15-16 September 2011, Rome Italy | Read more at www.gruppodelcolore.it

call for papers

Xth Seminar in Graphic Arts

The international Seminar in Graphic Arts brings together university members and industry specialists to share knowledge in printing technologies, materials, methods and processes.The authors are invited to submit technical or scientific papers for presentation in all areas of graphic arts and printing"

Dates 19-21 September 2011 | Read more at http://sga.upce.cz/

invitation to apply

Lux Craft - Origin Contemporary Craft Fair

Enabled through the support of Nokia Design, the Crafts Council invites applications from new and established makers working in all disciplines, to submit proposals for installations which capture the beauty of light. Application deadline 7th June 2011.

Dates 22-28 September 2011, London UK | Read more at http://www.originuk.org/

call for papers

Eurodisplay 2011 - 31st international display research conference

We are pleased to announce that EuroDisplay 2011 will be held in Bordeaux-Arcachon, France, from September 19 to 22nd, hosted by the "Palais de Congres" of Arcachon.
Call for papers - deadline 29 May.

Dates 22-28 September 2011, London UK | Read more at www.colloques-adera.fr/eurodisplay2011

conference invitation

IMPACT7 | International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference

IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints will focus on the multiple identity of the print, exploring the cross-disciplinary nature of printmedia.

Dates 27-30 September 2011, Australia | Read more at www.impact7.org.au

Call for papers

The Desire Conference

The conference theme is theory and practice of creative processes in design. Deadline for long/short papers is 17th May. They're also looking for posters and workshops.

Dates 19-21 October 2011 Eindhoven|Read more at desireconference.wordpress.com

call for speaker proposals

Future of Pigments - part of Colour and Pigments Week

IntertechPira is currently accepting speaker proposals for the Future of Pigments, which will take place Oct. 24-26, 2011, at the Maritim Hotel Berlin in Berlin, Germany. To submit a topic for consideration, or to request more details, please contact conference director Christine Groff at christine.groff@pira-international.com or +1 207 781 9617. Abstracts are due by Friday, May 20.

Dates 24-28 October 2011, France | Read more at www.intertechpira.com/color-and-pigments-week

call for paper

Digital Futures 2011 - Stereoscopic Imaging

The Imaging Science Group of the Royal Photographic Society would be delighted to receive contributions from you and/or your research staff/colleagues/students. Submissions of abstracts should be made as soon as possible and not later than the 22nd of August 2011, to do so log in to www.rps-isg.org.

Dates 1 November, 2011, London UK | Read more at www.rps-isg.org

call for papers

ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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Dates 3-6 November 2011, Atlanta, Georgia USA | Read more at http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc

call for papers

IS&T/SID’s 19th Color and Imaging Conference (CIC19)

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for IS&T/SID’s 19th Color and Imaging Conference (CIC19) has been released - deadline April 10 2011.

Dates 7-11 November, 2011, USA | Read more at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences

conference announcement

The 2011 2nd International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science

CACS 2010 aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in computer applications and computational science.

Dates 15-17 November 2011, Bali, Indonesia | Read more at http://irast.net/conferences/CACS/2011

call for papers

Progress in Colour Studies 2012 (PICS12)

The third Progress in Colour Studies conference will take place from Tuesday 10 July to Friday 13 July 2012 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. As with previous conferences in the series, the aim is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussion of recent and ongoing research, presented so as to be accessible to scholars in other disciplines. We therefore welcome proposals for papers from any area of interest, including but not limited to anthropology, archaeology, art history, biology, cartography, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology, vision science and zoology.

Dates 10-13 July 2012, Glasgow, Scotland | Read more at http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments