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- From: MARCHESF@PACEVM.BITNET ("Dr. Francis T. Marchese")
- Subject: Call for Participation
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:25:28 GMT
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- *** Call For Participation ***
-
- Conference on Understanding Images
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- Spons
- ored By
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- NYC ACM/SIGGRAPH
- and
- Pace University's
- School of Computer S
- cience and Information Systems
-
- To Be Held at:
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- Pace University
- New York Ci
- ty, New York
- May 21-22,1993
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- Artists, designers, scientists, engineers an
- d educators share the problem
- of moving information from one mind to another.
- Traditionally, they have
- used pictures, words, demonstrations, music and dance
- to communicate
- imagery. However, expressing complex notions such as God and in
- finity
- or a seeminglywell defined concept such as a flower can present
- challen
- ges which far exceed their technical skills.
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- The explosive use of computers a
- s visualization and expression tools has
- compounded this problem. In hypermedi
- a, 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: Wha
- t does
- it all mean?
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- Since image construction, transmission, reception, decip
- herment and
- ultimate understanding are complex tasks strongly influenced by
- ph
- ysiology, education and culture; and since electronic media radically
- amplify e
- ach processing step, then we, as electronic communicators, must
- determine the f
- undamental paradigms for composing imagery for
- understanding.
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- Therefore, the
- purpose of this conference is to bring together a breadth
- of disciplines, incl
- uding, 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 graphic
- s context. To this end we seek
- proposals for individual presentations, panel d
- iscussions, static displays,
- interactive environments, performances and beyond.
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-
- Submissions:
- Contributors are requested to submit a one page proposal by Ja
- nuary 15,
- 1993. Accepted presentations
- will be included in the proceedings.
-
-
- Direct all inquires and submissions to:
- Professor Francis T. Marchese
- Phone: 212 346-1803
- Department of Computer Science
- Fax: 212 346-1933
- Pace University Email:
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- MARCHESF@PACEVM.Bitnet
- New York, NY 10038 USA
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