Thursday and Friday, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) Faculty of Creative Industries will host the 6th edition of the international conference Visuality. The 2021 edition will be held exclusively online, under the title “Media and Communication”.
Visuality, both as a concept and a circumstance, plays an important role in the realm of media and communication, and being a complex phenomenon, it includes a myriad of elements, aspects, and dimensions.
Accordingly, studying and researching about visuality requires complex analysis. Once more, this international scientific gathering is an excellent opportunity to discuss methods and theories of philosophy, sociology, history and theory of arts, creativity studies, cultural and cross-cultural studies, communication science, psychology, political sciences, educational sciences, and cross-disciplinary studies.
During the first morning of the event, the participants will have the opportunity to listen to six superlative academic personalities sharing their knowledge about the links between creativity, media, or film and visuality.
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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE AND PLENARY SESSION
April 22nd, 2021, the 6th edition of the international conference Visuality will start at 10 AM EET (GMT +3), exclusively online.
The first morning of the conference is dedicated to the Plenary Session, where the keynote speakers will present their most recent and compelling research. Moderated by Aistė Ptakauskė, six international experts will share their knowledge with the conference attendees.
The first speaker will be Prof. Dr. John Howkins, from the University of Lincoln, in the United Kingdom, and the Shanghai Theater Academy, in China. Prof. Howkins is a worldwide renowned expert in creative industries, and his talk has the suggestive title Ten Links Between Creativity and Visuality.
The second expert speaking on this morning session will be Prof. Dr. Nico Carpentier, from Charles University, in Prague, and the Free University of Brussels. Prof. Carpentier is the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the most important international research community of communication sciences. This presentation will focus on a documentary film, and how audio-visual speech can be an intervention on issues like the environment.
The third speaker, Prof. Franz Fischnaller, from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, in Italy, will talk about shaping the future in the realm of media arts. Prof. Fischnaller is a designer and an artist, and a researcher at the same time. His experience goes from digital media to virtual reality, from visualization systems to immersive technology.
After a short coffee break, the conference resumes at 11:50, with Prof. Dr. Algis Mickūnas, from the Ohio University, in the United States. Prof. Mickūnas will bring to the conference a set of reflections about visuality and vision. The philosopher is a well-known researcher about communication and world cultures and has authored over 30 scientific books.
Immediately after, the speaker is Prof. Asta Zelenkauskaitė, from Drexel University, in the USA, and VILNIUS TECH, an internationally recognized researcher of media and communication. Among others, her research focuses on mass communication, social media, or digital communication. Prof. Zelenkauskaitė will speak about Social Media and its Global Relativism.
The last keynote presentation of the morning will bring a simple question with a complex answer: how do media work? The speaker is Prof. Dr. Joseph Pilotta, a sociologist from Ohio State University, in the United States, renowned worldwide for his research about social and communication phenomenology. His mentors are Hans-Georg Gadamer and Marshall McLuhan.
After the six keynote talks, a period of discussion will be opened, for all participants to be able to take part and dialogue with the speakers.
After a lunch break, the sections will begin at 3 PM, EET.
The article is written by Nuno Amaral Jerónimo, visiting Researcher at VILNIUS TECH Faculty of Creative Industries. University of Beira Interior, Portugal.
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