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*** Call For Participation ***    
Conference on Understanding Images    
Sponsored By    NYC ACM/SIGGRAPH   
        and   
Pace University's   School of Computer Science and Information Systems    

To Be Held At    Pace University  New York City, New York  
May 21-22,1993      

Artists, designers, scientists, engineers and educator s share the
problem of moving information from one mind to another.  Traditiona
lly, they have used pictures, words, demonstrations, music and dance
to communi cate imagery.  However, expressing complex notions such as
God and infinity or a seemingly well defined concept such as a flower
can present challenges which far exceed their technical skills.  The
explosive use of computers as visualization and expression tools has
compounded this problem.  In hypermedia, multimedia and virtual
reality systems vast amounts of information confront the observer or
participant.  Wading through a multitude of simultaneous images and
sounds in possibly unfamiliar representations, a confounded user asks:
What does it all mean?  Since image construction, transmission,
reception, decipherment and ultimate understanding are complex tasks
strongly influenced by physiology, ed ucation and culture; and since
electronic media radically amplify each process ing step, then we, as
electronic communicators, must determine the fundamental paradigms for
composing imagery for understanding.  Therefore, the purpose of this
conference is to bring together a breadth of disciplines, including,
but not limited to, the physical, biological and computational
sciences, technology, art, psychology, philosophy and education, in
order to define and discuss the issues essential to image
understanding within the computer graphics context.

  To this end we seek proposals for individual presentations, panel
discussions, static displays, interactive environments, performances
and beyond.  Submissions: Contributors are requested to submit a one
page proposal by February 1993.  Accepted presentations will be
included in the proceedings.  

Direct all inquires and submissions to:

Professor Francis T. Marchese 
Department of Computer Science 
Pace University 
New York, NY 10038 USA

Phone: 212 346-1803 
Fax: 212 346-1933 
Email: MARCHESF@PACEVM.Bitnet