Glimpse Picks for 2009

Conferences (General)

Taking Sides: The Role of Visual Culture in War, Occupation and Resistance. Radical History Review 106
Winter 2009
Artists have often taken sides in ideological conflicts and in actual conflagrations. In terms of visual culture and resistance, the literature and music of the South African struggle. Approaching five years into the occupation of Iraq and with numerous groups engaged in resistance, what form does visual culture play in demarcating opposing political positions? What has been the role of visual culture in support of imperialism or colonial expansion, as well as officially ‘state sanctioned’ cultural production?
http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm

Asia ARVO
Hyderabad, India
Jan 15-18
ARVO 2009 will be a major forum for vision researchers and practitioners to explore the vast and varied efforts underway to unlock the mysteries surrounding eye diseases. The event will bring together leaders from the field of ophthalmic research.
http://www.asiaarvo2009.org

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference
San Jose, California
January 18-22
Oral and poster presentations will cover topcs including, but not be limited to, sensors, digital photography, color hardcopy, human vision, image processing and compression, stereoscopic displays, human vision, and multimedia imaging systems.
http://spie.org/electronic-imaging.xml

Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI): The International Conference on Perception and Cognition in Electronic Media
San Jose, CA
January 19-22
The goal of this conference is to explore the role of human perception and cognition in the design, analysis, and use of computer-based media systems. Visual, perceptual, and cognitive issues are explored across a wide range of topics, including displays, image compression and coding, semantic image libraries, multi-sensory systems, virtual reality, visualization, art and aesthetics.

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
Lisbon, Portugal
February 5-8

2009 Boston Brain Bee
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory MIT, Cambridge, MA USA
February 14
The Boston Area Neuroscience Group, a chapter of the Society for Neuroscience will hold its second annual brain bee competition for local high school students.
http://www.bostonbrainbee.com

VizThink North America ‘09
San Jose, California
Feb. 22-25
This year we’ll be emphasizing the roll of storytelling in visualization. We’ll have all new topics while bringing back some of your favorite facilitators and adding a whole new set as well. We’ve got lots of great new things planned, many based on your feedback.
http://www.vizthink.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&
id=190&Itemid=226

Brain Awareness Week!
March 16-22, 2009

Imaging America, a meeting of the Great Lakes American Studies Association (GLASA)
University of Notre Dame
March 19-21
Imaging America evokes themes that are both fundamental to the development of American Studies as a discipline, and representative of some of the most current research in the field. We hope that Imaging America will provide an opportunity for scholars to enter a discussion about the boundaries, both literal and cultural, of America, as well as about the role of images in our analysis of America.
http://www.theasa.net/caucus_material/item/
cfp_imaging_america_
glasa_meeting_15_october_2008/

Sprawl: Society for Photographic Education 46th National Conference
Dallas, TX
March 26-29
Cultural depictions of sprawl have long been a mainstay in popular culture. Sprawl-suburban landscape and life-serves as both cultural inspiration and critique. Sprawl then is a physical manifestation of civic growth and population migration, housing developments and ‘big-box’ retail parks. But the concept of sprawl also prompts discussions of environmental conservation, the appropriate use of land and resources, the loss and/or renewal of city centers and close-knit neighborhood communities.
http://www.spenational.org

The Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks
Wuhan, China
May 26-29
Topics: http://isnn2009.hust.edu.cn/Topics.htm

Lenore Segan Visual Arts Awards
Hollis Taggart Galleries; 958 Madison Avenue New York City, New York 10010
June 7, 6-9pm

VISCOM: The Visual Communication Conference
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
June 17-21

IADIS International Conference Visual Communication 2009: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture
Algarve, Portugal
June 19 - 21
http://www.vc-conf.org

ICCPBS 2009 : International Conference on Cognitive, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
Paris, France
June 24-26
The International Conference on Cognitive, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (ICCPBS 2009) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Cognitive, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
http://www.waset.org/wcset09/paris/iccpbs

The 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS)
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
July 24-28
The meeting will encompass fundamental, applied, and clinical aspects of research into colour vision, ranging from the molecular to the cognitive. In addition to the keynote presentation, there will be topical symposia, along with individual contributions reflecting the diversity of interests of the members of the ICVS, who include physiologists, psychologists, physicists, engineers, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other related professionals with interests in colour vision and colour-vision deficiencies.
http://labcolour.fisica.uminho.pt/icvs/

32nd European Conference on Visual Perception
Regensburg, Germany
August 24-28
http://www.ecvp2009.org

11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC)
Sep 27 – Oct 2
http://www.aic2009.org

Books (General)

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright
Dec 31, 2008
In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices and the many images we encounter each day? Now in a new edition, Practices of Looking provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn.

Intracranial Atherosclerosis
Jong S. Kim, Louis R. Caplan, K. S. Larewnce Wong
January 9

Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design
Kathryn Moore
April 1 (available on Amazon July 30)
Connecting the theory of design to its practice, this book encourages rigorous debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that design is impossible to teach? This groundbreaking new take on design is interesting reading for professionals and advanced students in the architecture and design fields as well as public policy makers.

Introduction to Visual Culture: 2nd Edition
Nichol Mirzoeff
April 2

Perception, Hallucination and Illusion
William Fish
April 8
The idea of a disjunctive theory of visual experiences first found expression in J.M. Hinton’s pioneering 1973 book Experiences. In the first monograph in this exciting area since then, William Fish develops a comprehensive disjunctive theory, incorporating detailed accounts of the three core kinds of visual experience—perception, hallucination, and illusion—and an explanation of how perception and hallucination could be indiscriminable from one another without having anything in common.

Environmental Noise Barriers 2E: A Guide To Their Acoustic and Visual Design
Benz Kotzen
April 13

Digital Visual Culture: Theory and Practice (Intellect Books - Computers and the History of Art)
Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen, Hazel Gardiner
April 15
Interactive engagement with the creative process takes precedence over the finite piece thus affecting the roles of the artist and the viewer. The experience of arts computing in the last decades provides a sound basis for theorising this practice. Since its inception in 1985, CHArt – Computers and the History of Art – has been at the forefront of international debate on digital art practice, curation and scholarship. The authors seek to articulate methodological and theoretical perspectives on digital media, including communication and preservation of digital artworks.

Using Visual Evidence
Richard Howells and Robert Matson
May 1
Using Visual Evidence is a book about visual literacy. It both advocates and equips the scholarly use of visual images as visual evidence. Here, the visual is not mere illustration. It is the text. History is an artificial means of analyzing something which no longer exists. But it leaves its imprint through evidence, and frequently that evidence is visual.This book enables a rediscovery of the visual skills of the past in order to facilitate the investigation of history and the understanding of the present.

The Visual History of the Modern World the Visual History of the Modern World
Terry Burrows
May 1
Every major event that has had a place in molding our lives is chronicled, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day; the technological, scientific and medical advances that transformed every aspect of our lives; the people who shaped the way we think, feel and live. In unprecented and graphic detail, The Visual History of the Modern World is a concise and authoritative overview of this remarkable age: a time of war, peace, prosperity and progress.

Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work
Mary Strong
June 2009

Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America (Studies of the Americas)
Miriam Haddu, Joanna Page (Eds.)
June 9

Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology
Carla Sharp; Peter Fonagy & Ian Goodyer (Eds.)
June 30

Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
Armin Vit, Bryony Gomez Palacio
July 1
http://www.underconsideration.com/gdr

American Visual Culture
Mark Rawlinson
August 4
American Visual Culture presents both an analysis of the diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture. Thematic chapters - on American urban and rural landscapes, icons, popular culture, art and photography, as well as on crime, anxiety and sex - introduce the cultural, intellectual and historical context.

Books (China Vision)

A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse (Politics in Asia)
Rex Li
March 28

China in an Era of Transition: Understanding Contemporary State and Society Actors
Reza Hasmath, Jennifer Hsu
March 31

Synthetic Times: Media Art China
Fan Di’an, Zhang Ga
March 31

Working-class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-less in China (Information Revolution and Global Politics)
Jack Linchuan Qiu, Manuel Castells (Foreword), Carolyn Cartier (Afterword)
March 31

The Mirage of China: Anti-humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World
Xin Liu
April 2009

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Benjamin A. Elman
Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom. This coherent account of the emergence of modern science in China places that emergence in historical context for both general students of modern science and specialists of China.

From Allies to Enemies: Visions of Modernity, Identity, and U.S.-China Diplomacy
Simei Qing
From debates over Taiwan in the Truman administration to military confrontation in Korea to relations with the Soviet Union, Qing explores how policies on both sides became persistently counterproductive. Implicit moral and cultural values became woven into policy rationales for both China and the United States.This book reveals rarely examined assumptions that were entrenched in mainstream policy debates on both sides, and sheds light on the origins and development of U.S.-China confrontations that continue to resonate today.

Modernism in China: Architectural Visions and Revolutions
Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren
With nearly five millennia of architectural heritage, China boasts the longest continuous architectural lineage in history. The urban landscape of the world’s most populous country has now been transformed completely. Modernism in China acquired its own unique language forged from geographical, cultural, historical and political circumstances. This extensive study analyses, for the first time, the role of Modernism in the development of China’s architectural and urban landscapes throughout the 20th century and, consequently, offers valuable context to the country’s recent resurgence.

Old China’s New Economy: The Conquest of a Billion Paupers
T K Bhaumik
Old China’s New Economy: The Conquest of a Billion Paupers, presents a comprehensive analysis of the rise and growth of the Chinese economy since the beginning of the country’s transition to a socialist market economy, highlighting the critical role of two major change agents- the government and the people. The book analyses the key drivers of high growth, delves into the much debated and discussed issue of sustainability and the numerous challenges that high growth has thrown up for the people and the government.

Books (Color)

Books (Visions)

Film (China Vision)

Art (China Vision)