VSAC

The Visual Science of Art Conference Barcelona 26-28th of August 2016

From its beginnings, VSAC was a satellite to its big sister ECVP (the European Conference on Visual Perception). The first VSAC was held in Alghero, the Catalan city of Sardinia in 2012, and subsequent meetings were held at Belgrade (2014), Liverpool (2015) and now Barcelona.The study and production of Art has always fascinated both artists and scholars in equal measure throughout history. Nevertheless, in the 20th century, there has been little encouragement for artists and scientists to meet and collaborate. Fortunately, this state of affairs is currently changing as demonstrated by the number of publications, meetings and collaborations between both communities.  The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) emerged in 2012 to accompany this shift, gathering together a community of researchers, scholars and artists with the aim of cooperating, discussing, and developing new multidisciplinary scientific perspectives.

Venue

This year VSAC will take place at the CosmoCaixa (Science Museum) located in one of the smartest Barcelona neighbourhoods.  

• Address: Carrer d'Isaac Newton, 26, 08022 Barcelona.
• Metro: Line 7, Av. Tibidabo. Line 3, Vallcarca
• Bus: Lines V15, 22, 58, 73, 75, 60 and 196.
• Click here to see the venue location in Google maps
• Download the Conference Venue (CosmoCaixa Science Museum) Booklet:  welcome.pdf
• Download the Site Map:  Mapa general def.pdf

VSAC Content

• VSAC Poster instructions
• VSAC Programme (online) 
• VSAC programme Booklet (pdf).
• VSAC Talks (online)
• VSAC Posters (online)
• VSAC How to prepare your poster

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Coordinator: C. Alejandro Parraga (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Contact email: vsac2016@gmail.com

Invited Speaker

This year, our invited speaker will be Prof. Anjan Chatterjee from the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Special Events

• The Art & Perception Exhibition with works of art that challenge our perceptual and aesthetics ideas. This exhibition will be located in the Agora room of the main CosmoCaixa Venue from 12:30hs on Friday the 26^th of August until 18:00hs on the 28^th of August. Submissions are now CLOSED (VSAC16_Art Exhibition_Submission_Guidelines.pdf)

• The Illusions Night (co-organized with ECVP) which is now a traditional evening event that will take place on the 30th of August at the nearby ‘Poblenou Communication Campus of the UPF’. The idea is to mix illusions with science and art, including contributions from both the scientific and arts community. Submissions are now CLOSED (ECVP16_Illusion's Night_Submission _Guidelines.pdf)

Attractions

IMPORTANT: VSAC assistants have FREE access to the Science Museum for the duration of the meeting (26^th-28^th of August)
There ia also a 50% discunt to visits to the Museum of Illusions (Everyday from 10:00 to 22:00 hs. Carrer del Pintor Fortuny, 17 – Barcelona)

Coordination with other relevant meetings

This year, the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) will celebrate its XXIV Conference from the 29th of August to the 1st of September 2016 in Vienna. Since VSAC2016 ends on the 27th of August, there is plenty of time to 'grab the two conferences' for the price of an extra flight. There are plenty of cheap flights available for the 28th of August to reach Vienna on time.