Date: June 19 – 23, 2006 Venue: Dresden, Germany We intend to submit a panel proposal on the above topic in the context of the ICA Visual Studies Division for the 2006 Dresden conference. Papers can address both questions relating to the visualization of emotions and/or Compared to text, images are believed to be particularly effective in eliciting emotions. Is there scientific support for this popular notion? What are really the effects of images? Which visual contents are particularly usceptible to create strong affective reactions? Which short term effects are there; what is the role of the long-term cultural/ historical context? Is it the images that elicit emotions or are sound and music more important in audiovisual media? What is the These and similar questions shall be addressed and discussed from different disciplinary view points – from media and communication studies to psychological and (art)historical approaches. All scientific contributions In brief: |