[rohrpost] Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust, European Science Foundation Research Conferences, Scandic Linköping Vast, Sweden, 17.-21. September 2012

[Ingeborg Reichle]

Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust

17-21 September 2012

European Science Foundation Research Conferences, Scandic Linköping
Vast, Sweden, 17.-21. September 2012

Preliminary Programme

Both Leonardo da Vinci and John Constable claimed that painting is a
science. This science has been explored extensively in traditional
aesthetics and art history. Given recent advances in science and
visual engineering, creating images for science, of science and for
the translation (interpretation) of science has become at one and the
same time commonplace, even easy, and even more scientific. To
understand the social, ethical and aesthetic challenges posed by the
creation, use and appeal of such images, we need more than traditional
art history and more than insights from traditional aesthetics. We
need to understand these images in the context of modern science,
technology and society and we need ways of engaging those who produce
them (scientists, engineers, artists, photographers, journalists,
advertisers) with those who study them and those who use them. The aim
of this workshop is to bring together experts from across the
sciences, both natural and social, with curators, artists, producers
and users of images based on advanced visual engineering. By exploring
emerging challenges at the interface between advanced visualisation
technologies, truth and trust we want to stimulate talk, interaction
and collaboration between the arts, humanities and (natural, medical,
engineering, computer) sciences and most importantly between these
sciences, in a context where both science and (visual) art and the
various sciences themselves are increasingly converging, but where, at
the same time, disciplinary boundaries still separate those working
across them.


Preliminary Schedule

Monday, 17 September

Late afternoon/early evening: Arrival and registration

19.00: Welcome Drink

19.30: Supper

Tuesday, 18 September

Theme of the day: How images shape technology and technology shapes images

0.8.45-9.00: Welcome

9.00-10.00: Opening plenary

Martin Kemp, Oxford Unviersity, UK
Leonardo da Vinci: Modes of Visualisation

Session 1: Morning Presentation Session: Images and Scale
10.00-10.30: Phil Moriarty, University of Nottingham, UK

10.30-11.00: Zoltan Levay, Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, US

11.00-11.30: Coffee break

11.30-12.30: Short papers by participants

12.30-13.00: General discussion led by Rasmus Slaattelid, University
of Oslo, Norway

13.00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: Afternoon plenary
Kelly Krause, Nature, UK
Science, Nature and Art

Session 2: Afternoon Presentation Session: The Ethics of Images and
Visualisation

15.00-15.30: Anne Beaulieu, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts, The
Netherlands

15.30-16.00: Lars Lindberg Christensen,  European Southern
Observatory, Germany

16.00-16.30: Short papers by participants

16.30: Coffee Break

17.00-19.00: Session 3: Networking
Poster Session for early career scholars

19.00: Dinner

20.30: Celebration of Conference Exhibition
Mette Høst, Niels Bohr institute, Denmark
Wednesday, 19 September

Theme of the day: How accuracy and aesthetics interact in designing
understanding

9.00-10.00: Morning plenary

Maura C. Flannery, St John's University, US
The herbarium: A link between science and art

Session 3: Morning Presentation Session: Aesthetics and Realism
10.00-10.30: Matthias Bruhn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

10.30-11.00: Aud Sissel Hoel, NTNU, Norway

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-12.00: Short papers by participants

12.00-12.30: General discussion led by Chris Toumey, University of
South Carolina, US

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-14.30: Afternoon Plenary
Ingeborg Reichle, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Germany
Constructing Life

Session 4: Afternoon Panel Discussion: Science Art Interactions
14.30-15.00: Chris Robinson, University of South Carolina, US

15.00-15.30: Chiara Ambrosio, UCL, UK

15.30-18.30: EXCURSION

19.00: Conference Dinner
Thursday, 20 September

Theme of the day: Trust and Responsibility: The visual construction of
science and society

9.00-10.00: Morning Plenary
Annamaria Carusi, University of Oxford, UK
Visualisation and aesthetic grounds for trust

Session 5: Morning Presentation Session: Visualisations, Publics and
Policy
10.00-10.30: Liv Hausken, University of Oslo, Norway

10.30-11.00: Edwin Horlings, Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-12.30: Short papers by participants

12.30-13.00: General discussion led by Sarah de Rijcke, Leiden
University, The Netherlands

13.00-14.00: Lunch

Session 6: Afternoon Panel Discussion: Visualisations and Society
14.00-15.00: Panellists: Martin Döring, Hamburg University, Germany
and Emma Frow, Harvard Kennedy School, US

15.00-15.30: Coffee

15:30-17.00: Reflection papers and discussions
Led by Andrew Balmer, University of Manchester, UK

Session 8: Based on these: Plenary Discussion: Future Directions in
Visualisations Research
17.00-18.00: Chair - Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK

19.00: Dinner
Friday, 21 September

Breakfast and Departure

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