STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation

Call for proposals deadline: 1 December 2010

Conference: 25-26 March 2011, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) is
organising a two-day conference on 25-26 March 2011 at Saïd Business
School, University of Oxford, with support from the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology and the Oxford e-Social Science
project.

Speakers include:
Peter Galison, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Michael Lynch, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell
University
Barbara Maria Stafford, Distinguished University Professor, Georgia Tech
Steve Woolgar, InSIS, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Summarising discussants:
Anne Beaulieu, Virtual Knowledge Studio (TBC)
Paolo Quattrone, IE Business School and Fulbright New Century Scholar

Topic:
Visualisations abound in all forms and phases of research and
knowledge production and communication. From the graphical user
interface of our computers, to equipment and instrument displays, to
the screens of our smart phones, knowledge communication of all kinds
is increasingly visual. In design, engineering, science, education,
medicine, the humanities and social sciences, the increasing
pervasiveness of visual images is due largely to computational
techniques. To be sure, computers have been in common use in science
and related domains since the advent of the desktop computer. Over the
past decade, however, plain text commands, programming languages and
numerical engagement have given way to the visual form, from the
reproduction, modification and synthesis of images to the visual
representation of that which formerly could not be seen.

There has been an unprecedented rate of innovation in computational
imaging and visualising techniques to render physical and non-physical
data in visual form, including techniques for multi-dimensionality,
the development of algorithmic techniques for image processing, the
production of hybrid visual objects and an apparent photo-realism for
non-existent entities and objects. The emergence of the Internet-as-
database, with complex and massive quantities of data mined from
online social and spatial processes given visual form, has gone hand-
in-hand with these advances in making new phenomena and data visible.

Call for papers:
We welcome abstracts of 500-1000 words for papers on these topics. We
also invite proposals for less conventional forums, such as
conversations, performance pieces or installation works.

Submission Deadline:
1 December 2010 to visualisation@sbs.ox.ac.uk

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/news/Pages/visualisation.aspx

Dr Annamaria Carusi
Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford
7 Keble Road
Oxford, OX1 3QG
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1865 610618
Fax +44 (0)1865 610612
annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk