Hi Everyone,
A colleague posted this on a professional conservation list and I
thought it might be of interest to some in the broader museum
community.
Cheers!
Dave
David Harvey
Conservator
Los Angeles, Calinfornia USA
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Spatial Vision - Call for Papers
Special Issue on Vision Science and Art
Although there are strong interactions between Science and Art their mutual
influences are rarely studied. The main concern of the scientific community
has been with vision and the brain mechanisms underlying perception with
applications to art being peripheral to the main discourse. The scientific
study of objects of Art has not been systematically approached by Vision
Science and the Neurosciences. Similarly, the few artists that have
exploited the potential of the biology of seeing in their creations did so
within the context of Art without addressing aspects of Vision Science.
A bridge between Vision Science and Art is beginning to be constructed;
recent scientific discoveries contribute to the understanding of Art, and
Art seems to incorporate knowledge generated by science. Thus we believe the
time has come to further stimulate and speed up this construction and
possibly to start creating a Vision Science of Art. This special issue is
aimed at a deeper understanding of vision, art, and their relationship,
basing on the observation that both visual science and visual arts (i)
explore visual perception through its main properties -- color, spatial
vision, shape, visual organization, depth and (nowadays) motion --, (ii)
analyze and create a large variety of phenomena that involve a range of
objects, from the simplest possible to the most complex ones which involve
integration across different sensory modalities; and (iii) answer different
but related questions about how and why we see the way we do.
We invite submissions that explore both Vision Science and Art and the link
between the science of perception and visual arts. We particularly welcome
articles that might suggest new ideas and new findings useful for the
experimental foundation of a Vision Science of Art.
Manuscripts for this special issue should be submitted before June 15 2006.
We expect the reviewing process to be completed within 3 months, with
publication in early to mid 2007.
Manuscripts should be emailed directly to the guest editor, following the
Instructions for Authors in <http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-ia-SV.html>
http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-ia-SV.html. Color prints are expected to
be of high quality and low cost (100 Euros per page). Authors are encouraged
to contact the guest editor of this issue, Dr Baingio Pinna, if uncertain
about the relevance of their work to the issue.
Guest Editor:
Baingio Pinna
Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Dipartimento di Scienze dei Linguaggi
Università di Sassari
via Roma 151, I-07100, Sassari, Italy
office: +39-079-2831401 or +39-079-2831402
fax: +39-079-229645
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Editors-in-chief: Adam Reeves and Dov Sagi
Spatial Vision: http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-SpaVis.html
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