*No expenses, just scholarly success. -- Semi-final call for abstracts:
Facing the Future, Facing the Screen*
Your gain: without paying fees or spending money on travelling, you will be
able to publish, in both an online and a printed volume, surrounded by the
company of exquisite scientists/scholars, a brief paper you can then
assuredly put on your official publications list. Your immensely greater
gain is that you will be forced to write a really good paper, getting ready
for it by necessarily reading important literature you have to date not
been acquainted with, and of course reflecting deeply on problems you have
perhaps hitherto not been aware of.
The Facing the Future, Facing the Screen physical--online blended
conference (10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference, Nov. 17, 2022,
13:00--18:00 CET) is planned as an interdisciplinary encounter of
communication and media theory, picture theory, psychology, philosophy,
pedagogy, history, political science, and other specialties. We absolutely
expect new scholarly results, aiming at an essential scientific step
forward. The central question: what image of the future can we conceive of
in a world based ever more strongly and diversely on digital devices and
online communication, what new patterns of life and in particular forms of
education should we strive to create, what possible distortions in our way
of life should we be prepared for? If on the one hand we assume that
primordial thinking emerged not as a verbal but as a pictorial one, as well
as of course do recognize the scientific value of today’s image creation
and image reproduction techniques, and in particular of visual simulation
bringing together vast amounts of data in an easily understandable
animation; but on the other hand clearly perceive the often destructive
effects of phoney images disseminated via social media: in what direction
should we then search, under such contradictory conditions, for the right
pattern of a pictorial education for the future?
*Facing the Future,** Facing the Screen -- *suggested topics:
*–* Facing the Past
*■* How the Cave-Man Saw Language
*■* Plato’s Cave: Literacy and the Human Mind
*–* Reading from Paper, Reading from Screen
*–* Postmodernism Made Easy
*■* Post-typography
*■* Letters and Fonts in Digital Environments
*–* Human–Computer Misinteraction
*■* The Sherry Turkle Miracle
<https://www.academia.edu/49105850/The_Sherry_Turkle_Miracle>
• A New Gender Future? Screening Black Matter
*■* Asocial Media?
*–* Artificial Intelligence -- bien fait or counterfeit?
■ Motor Understanding
*–* Scientific/Scholarly Research in the Online World
<https://www.academia.edu/44372821/Online_Communication_and_the_New_World_of_Scholarship>
*■* Working with Big Data
*■* Mathematics Tactile, Mathematics Visual
*■* Engineering and the Mind’s Eye
<https://books.google.hu/books/about/Engineering_and_the_Mind_s_Eye.html?id=WcqaKE_Eg1IC&redir_esc=y>
*–* Online Publishing
*■* predatory publishers
*■* author/publisher imbalance
*■* how to cite?
<https://www.academia.edu/41951747/HOW_TO_CITE_The_Glory_and_Misery_of_the_author_year_Reference_Style>
*■* dilemmas of peer-reviewing
*■* paradoxes of open access
*■* copyright in an online world
*■* books vs. extracts, long vs. short compositions, texts vs.
videos
*–* New Localism
- Being Home at Home
- Brick-and-Mortar Universities? Mass Universities?
Virtual Universities?
- Don’t Travel – Communicate!
<https://www.academia.edu/20240415/Dont_Travel_Communicate_2009_2010_>
*-* Publishing in small languages
The conference will be held physically at the wonderful venerable main
building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
<http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/FFF/site.pdf>, as well as made available via
Zoom and streamed live. The event will be opened by the President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, world-renowned neurobiologist Tamás Freund. At
the conference we aim to host some 50 to 100 papers. Obviously such a
number of talks cannot be fitted into the given time frame of a few hours.
The solution we propose is the same one we applied at the 9th Budapest
Visual Learning Conference, please look at
http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/
VLC9/graph_1.pdf <http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/VLC9/graph_1.pdf>. The papers
-- very short papers: 5000 characters main text plus footnotes, images and
image captions, as well as a 5-minutes video -- will be made available
online prior to the event. Please do not feel the limited length to be a
yoke, experience it, rather, as a liberation. Being brief is the new
normal. The conference itself will then serve mainly as a forum to discuss
all accessible papers by all participants. Also, there will be a number of
actually held 15-minutes plenary talks. Invited speakers:
Réka Benczes (Corvinus University of Budapest)
James E. Katz (Boston University)
Jean-Rémi Lapaire (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Kieron O’Hara (University of Southampton)
Irma Puškarević (Wichita State University)
Seamus Ross (University of Toronto)
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)
Stephen Turner (University of South Florida)
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Subsequent to the event, within months, we plan to publish edited
collections of a selection of the talks in journals, as well as the entire
lot of the talks in a bulky volume, with colour images, both online and
printed.
Dear All! Are you interested in participating (online or physically – fate
might decide…)? Do you have suggestions as to further topics/subtopics?
Feel free to informally write to me (Kristóf Nyíri, nyirik(a)gmail.com). Or
indeed submit an abstract to the combined three addresses:
<petra.aczel(a)uni-corvinus.hu>hu>,
<benedek.a(a)eik.bme.hu>hu>,
<nyirik(a)gmail.com>om>,
<eszter.deli(a)uni-corvinus.hu>hu>.
The abstract should not be longer than 2000 characters, with a bio
(affiliation, main research interests) of max. 500 characters added. In
the abstract please do not use the (author, year) reference style, nor do
have a list of references at the end. Just apply, if you need to, informal
references, like e.g. “as Seymour Papert wrote in his *Mindstorms*”, or
e.g. “the theory put forward by Kosslyn et al. in 2001”. We look forward to
your messages & submissions. The final aim, remember, is for us to produce
a truly important and widely disseminated volume in the classical
humanities tradition but adapted to the new online environment.
The conference is organized by the Committee for Communication and Media
Theory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by Corvinus University of
Budapest. Scientific Committee: Prof. Dr. Petra Aczél, Corvinus University
of Budapest, Prof. Dr. András Benedek, Budapest University of Technology
and Economics, Prof. Dr. Kristóf Nyíri, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Organizing Committee: Eszter Deli (coordinator) <eszter.deli(a)uni-corvinus.hu>hu>,
Judit Sebestény <judit.sebes(a)uni-corvinus.hu>hu>, Evelin Horváth <
evelin.horvath2(a)stud.uni-corvinus.hu>gt;, Márton Rétvári <
martongergely.retvari(a)uni-corvinus.hu>gt;, Lilla Szabó <
lilla.szabo(a)uni-corvinus.hu>gt;.
Following upon the present semi-final call for abstracts, in the course of
the following months many circulars and personal messages will be sent out,
but please note that the best way to inform yourself about how our
preparations proceed is to look at the
http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/FFF/
FFF.pdf <http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/FFF/FFF.pdf> page.