2011-06-15
06:30 PM – 08:30 PM
- Reception & Gathering of Friends:
Greeting, meetings, and general good cheer accompanied by convivial consumption of liquids and dessert treats
07:30 Announcements & self introductions – Glenda Balas, University of New Mexico
08:30 PM – 09:30 PM
- Evening Session: Precious Western Water:
Chair: Richard Schaefer
- Hidden Water: Craig Denton, University of Utah
- Acequia: A work in progress: T. J. Martinez, University of New Mexico
- El Agua: The Water Culture of Chihuahua, Mexico: Uriel Lapcevic, University of New Mexico
2011-06-16
07:30 AM – 08:30 AM • Breakfast buffet
08:45 AM – 10:05 AM
- Session 1: Visual Pedagogies:
Chair: Glenda Balas
- “The Third Teacher”: Children’s Responses to Visual-spatial Aspects of the Learning Environment: Georgette Comuntzis Page, Millikin University; Gigi Schroeder Yu, University of Illinois
- The Design Technologies Lab: An Effective Pedagogical Supplement?: Eva R Brumberger, Virginia Tech
- VisComm Forum: Technology, Flat World, Money and our Future: Karla Berry, National University
- Digital Ethnography and the Academic Record: Glenda Balas, University of New Mexico
10:05 AM – 10:15 AM • Break
10:15 AM – 11:50 AM
- Session 2: Emerging and Enduring Technologies:
Chair: Pete Seel
- Pixel Pretty: Do better graphics make better virtual environment experiences: Daniela Castillo, Colorado State University
- Visualization: Functionality in Second Life Virtual Education: Zeenath Haniff, Lawrence Mullen, University of Nevada
- Video Mobile Phones and Self Producing Images: Jacques Ibanez Bueno, University of Savoie; Tania Khalaf, Melinda Levin, Susan Squires, Jenny Vogel, University of North Texas
- Seeing into the Future of TV: Research and Design Issues for the Second Screen: Michael E. Holmes, Ball State University; Sheree Josephson, Weber State University
- The Evolution of 3-D Imagery: From the Stereoscope to Avatar: Pete Seel, Colorado State University
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM • Break
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
- Session 3: Visual Culture:
Chair: Eric Wiltse
- Symbols of England: The archetypal images of British football club crests: Eric Wiltse, University of Wyoming
- Barack the Barbarian meets Time Lincoln: Comic Books and the Iconic President: Bob Britten,West Virginia University
01:00 PM – 02:15 PM • Cookout lunch: at Snakedance (weather permitting)
02:30 PM – 04:00 PM
- Session 4: Historic Glimpses:
Chair: Roxanne O’Connell
- Defining “Irishness”: Visual tropes of the “golden age of Irish music”: Roxanne M OConnell, Roger Williams University
- Turning Back the Calendar: An Analysis of Main Street USA’s use of Nostalgia: Travis Cox, Oregon State University
- California History Visualized: A proof of concept for engaging students virtually with historical locations: Don Barth, Art Institute – California San Diego
- Browser Poems: xtine burrough, California State University
04:00 PM – 04:10 PM • Break
04:10 PM – 05:30 PM
- Session 5: Analyzing Documentary and More:
Chair: Hans Rosenwinkel
- Recognizing and Analyzing Bias in Documentary Film: Scot Campbell, National University
- Reproduction in America: An Analysis of PBS: Erin Potts, University of Utah
- The continuum of control and its manipulation: Pseudo-algorithmic techniques and the “realness” of film: Michael O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas St. Paul
- Real Characters: documentary or sensationalism? The making of a paranormal reality TV series: Hans Rosenwinkel, University of Colorado
06:30 PM – 08:20 PM • Buffet Dinner: at Snakedance
08:30 PM – 10:05 PM
- Session 6: Perfecting the Presentation:
Chair: Susan Balter-Reitz
- Fair Use Activists, Scholars and Goons: Digital Image Archives and Copyright Issues: Susan Balter-Reitz, Montana State University
- The Power of Presentation?: A semiotic analysis of visuals in presentation: Matt Joseph Haught, University of South Carolina
- Playing With Prezi: Pump Some Pomp Into Presentations: Marjorie L. Yambor, Western Kentucky University
- Visual Persuasive ACTS Model of News Images Based on Arnheim’s Theory of Visual Perception Form Dynamics: Hailin Ning, China Jiliang University
- Whither the large-scale tradeshow? Challenges in transforming the visual spectacle of “Five seconds to impact” from physical to virtual contexts: Julian Kilker, Univ of Nevada
2011-06-17
07:30 AM – 08:30 AM • Breakfast buffet
08:45 AM – 10:20 AM
- Session 1: Visual Persuasions:
Chair: Lorna Roth
- Visual Literacy and Visual Politics: Conventions of Presidential Debate Imaging: Janis L Edwards, University of Alabama
- Culturally Neutral Visual Communication Strategy in Integrated Marketing Communication: Some case studies: Lingjing Bao,
- No Dads in Ads?: A Comparison of Fathers in Women’s, Men’s, and Parenting Magazines: Jessica Troilo, West Virginia University
- Mannequins on the Move: Common Display Forms Revisited: Lorna Frances Roth, Concordia University
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM • Break
10:30 AM – 11:50 AM
- Session 2: Artistic Extensions:
Chair: Stuart Kaplan
- Manet’s Bar: Make Sure You Have Enough Bass Ale: Paul Lester, California State University
- SSBxSF: Extending the Psychedelic Art Movement: Louis E Rumpf, National University
- Aerial Photography as a Means for Human Liberation and Development: A reading of Le Corbusier’s Aircraft: Brent Allen Saindon, University of Pittsburgh
- Metaphor Persistence at Ground Zero: Stuart Jay Kaplan, Lewis & Clark College
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM • Box Lunch
01:15 PM • Leave for Taos Pueblo tour
02:00 PM – 03:30 PM • Taos Pueblo tour ($8 fee at the Pueblo)
04:00 PM • Vans leave Pueblo for evening dining on your own in downtown Taos
09:00 PM & 10:00 PM • Vans depart from downtown Taos for Taos Ski Valley
2011-06-18
07:30 AM – 08:30 AM • Breakfast buffet
08:45 AM – 10:05 AM
- Session 1: Alien, Immigrant, Indigene Panel:
Panel Chair: Melisssa Johnson
- Alien, Immigrant, Indigene: Visualizing the Other in Film, Television, & Digital Media: Seth Mulliken, Tabitha Moreno, Kate McKinney Maddalena, William Sink, NC State University
10:05 AM – 10:15 AM • Break
10:15 AM – 11:50 AM
- Session 2: Journalism: from Classrooms to the World:
Chair: Carolyn Gonzales
- News websites vs newspapers: Which does a better job presenting nation/world news?: Philip Loubere, Middle Tennessee State University
- Student Photojournalists’ photo blogs: The state of current student journalists’ visual journalism interests and concerns regarding media coverage of news: Susan Zavoina, University of North Texas
- Really revolutionary? Analysis of THE DAILY for the iPad: Joanna Larez, Colorado State University
- Cross-Border Issues Group: Doing backpack journalism in international hot spots: Richard J. Schaefer, Carolyn Gonzales, University of New Mexico
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM • Buffet lunch: at Snakedance
01:30 PM – 02:50 PM
- Session 3: Media Misrepresentations:
Chair: Christine Miller
- Gender and Racial Representations of Key Political Figures in Non-Mainstream Media: Julie Snyder-Yuly, Megan Fiddelke, Iowa State University
- “From Hillbilllyland to Ozark Noir”: Jan Peterson Roddy, Southern Illinois University
- Grace under fire: A cross-examination of the next generation of court television shows: Marilyn Terzic, McGill University
- ‘The CSI Effect’: Implications of the Use of Advanced Visual Techniques in the Courtroom: Christine Miller, David Wagner, California State University; Conference Participants
02:50 PM – 03:00 PM • Break
03:00 PM – 04:35 PM
- Session 4: Enduring and Vanishing Imagery:
Chair: John Starrett
- Psycho Is a Battleground: Storyboards, Gus Van Sant, and a Student Movie Trailer: Kent Nicholson Lowry, Texas Tech University
- Vanishing Art of Visual Assessment in Medical Diagnosis: Marilyn K Starrett, Metropolitan State College of Denver
- Scientific Image Processing for Enhanced Visualization of Hidden Features: John Starrett, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- Greek Roots of Visual Communication Terminology: John Neal, Brookhaven College
- No one’s ever seen one, but everyone knows what they look like: dinosaurs, artists, and truth: Kathryn Northcut, Missouri University of Science & Technology
- Revolution Revisited: Kim Komenich, San Jose State University
04:35 PM – 06:30 PM • Long Break
06:30 PM – 08:20 PM
- Hosted Dinner: Univ. of New Mexico sitdown dinner at Snakedance
08:30 PM – 10:05 PM
- Session 5: Roller Derby Delights:
Evening Screening
- Public and Private Identities in Women’s Roller Derby: Alan Hantz, University of North Carolina
- Roller Derby Queens Documentary Presentation: Blis R. DeVault, Xavier University
2011-06-19
08:00 AM – 09:00 AM • Breakfast buffet
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM
- Town Hall Meeting
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