Theme session: One afternoon at VisCom 26 will be devoted to the theme of “Signs of Occupation.” The theme can be visualized in a variety of ways and from multiple perspectives. For example, many things can be “occupied” — Wall Street; any place, space, culture, country; even a mind. “Occupation” can be work, vocation, a [...]
VisCom 26 Conference Call for Papers & Presentations
November 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Hosted by the University of Utah, Department of Communication With support from Weber State University and Westminster College June 20-24, 2012 At The Homestead Resort in Midway, Utah (Approximately 50 minutes southeast of Salt Lake City) Deadline for proposals: Monday, March 5, 2012 PAPER/ABSTRACT CALL The organizers of the 26th Annual Visual Communication Conference invite [...]
Announcing new book from Viscommers
October 4, 2011 Leave a Comment
“Visualizing the Web: Evaluating Online Design from a Visual Communication Perspective” Edited volume by Sheree Josephson, Susan B. Barnes and Mark Lipton is available from Peter Lang Press. This book includes an introduction and eight essays by visual communication scholars. It also includes an insightful interview with Hillman Curtis, one of the foremost Web page designers [...]
Call for Themed Panels – deadline 10/21/11
October 4, 2011 Leave a Comment
VisComm Conference Devotees, During the Town Hall meeting at VisComm 25 at Taos, the group suggested we devote ONE AFTERNOON SESSION to presentations focusing on a theme. Besides offering a direction to the next conference, and thereby providing everyone something to think about before arrival, theme sessions would INVITE COLLABORATION. For instance, a visual rhetorician [...]
Update on VisCom 26
September 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
Folks, just a quick note to alert you that VisCom 26 will be held June 20-24, 2012 at the Homestead Resort in Midway, Utah. Put it on your calendars. As many of you know, this was the site of VisCom 20. The place got rave reviews, and The Homestead is delighted to have us back. [...]
CBIG: Doing Backpack Journalism in Migratory Hot Spots
July 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
The attached PowerPoint presentation describes the visual research, news gathering and safety techniques that have been tried by the four-year-old informal Cross-Border Issues Group / Grupo Fronterizo (CBIG). As an informal group, much like Viscom, CBIG enables small bi-national groups of journalism students and faculty to gather information in migration hot spots in the Southwestern [...]
The continuum of control
June 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
Many asked me for a link to the video, “The Continuum of Control and its Manipulations: Pseudo-algorithmic techniques and the ‘realness’ of film.” (Whew! Next year a shorter title.) Here is the link: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/mjodonnell/controlx/ The 15-minute limitation caused some important images to whiz by. You can study them at your leisure in this post.
Photo Album from Viscom20, Midway UT
June 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Someone (and I do not remember who, but if it was you, please comment!) pulled together images from all our cameras on the last day of Viscom 20. For those of you who were there, it’s a nice reminder of what a great conference it was… for those who weren’t there, you get a sense [...]
Location for VisCom 26!
June 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
VisCom 26 will be in near Salt Lake City, Utah. Craig Denton is leading the effort there and Sheree Josephson is heading up the Program. Lots of great ideas came up to help us manage having enough slots for all accepted speakers while at the same time reclaiming some of the social/down time we used [...]
Links to Browser Poems by xtine, 2011-12
June 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Powerpoint is probably unnecessary. These are still in-progress, and they take forever to download right now. I will need to implement a preloader soon. Those interested can view the code on the website (see the CSS file as well as the HTML file). On the Web O Browser, My Browser Waiting for You at [...]
