Sixteenth International Conference on The Image, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France + Online

Sixteenth International Conference on The Image, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France + Online

11th to 12th September 2025 Paris, France

CALL FOR PAPERS

https://ontheimage.com/2025-conference
Place: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France + Online
Format: In-Person (Location) and Online (Asynchronous Content)
Dates: 11-12 September 2025
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PLENARY SPEAKERS

Sha Xin Wei, Professor in the School of Arts, Media + Engineering (AME) at Arizona State University, USA
Sandra Laugier, Professor, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
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SPECIAL FOCUS: From Democratic Aesthetics to Digital Culture

The special focus of this conference explores Photography and the Photographic Image and the relationship these forms have with language. Photography began by bringing together two descriptive forms, writing and light, and through language we describe its process and the value placed on its creation.

Now that new forms of image emerge through generative AI and computational photography
prompted language, the conference asks the question, does the relationship between light, photography and language need to be re-examined? The words photography and
photograph(er) may also need to be redefined as the scope of these terms expands beyond
their original boundaries.

These terms are important in establishing the transactional value of their product and the value placed on the skillset of each discrete professional area of production and its pedagogy. The future of image production through conventional analogue or digital means requires that the language that describes each area is more exacting and less fluid than is now the case.

Language has also undergone such a transformation establishing differences between its
function and as communication and a creative medium.
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CONFERENCE THEMES

Theme 1: The Form of the Image
Theme 2: Image Work
Theme 3: The Image in Society
Theme 4: Creative and Cultural Technologies
Theme 5: Ordinary Practice and Collective Behavior
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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE IMAGE

The International Journal of the Image is a cross-disciplinary forum for interrogating the nature of the image and the processes of image-making in all their empirical, normative, and imaginative dimensions. Reflecting on our status as the “symbolic species,” this journal explores how images represent, reframe, and potentially transform the world we inhabit. From architecture to cognitive science, media studies to religious studies, contributors investigate how images are fashioned, interpreted, and deployed within diverse cultural, technological, and political contexts. The journal fosters critical scholarship that examines the power of images to reflect real-world perspectives and evoke imaginative possibilities, shaping agendas for practice, education, and civic life.

In this era of multimodality – where text, sound, and image are ever more intertwined – The International Journal of the Image stands as a convergent space for dialogue, pushing the boundaries of how we perceive, produce, critique, and understand the visual in all its complexity.

Founded: 2011
ISSN: 2154-8560 (Print) 
ISSN: 2154-8579 (Online)
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/2010200191
DOI: http://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8560/CGP
Frequency: Biannual
Language: English
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ABOUT US

Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
https://ontheimage.com/about
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RELATED CONFERENCES

We also offer related thematic events in our other Research Networks that you might be able to attend in-person. This way we build for our Research Network Members flexible, and at the same time resilient, spaces for communication, engagement, and participation.

View other Common Ground Research Networks conferences:
https://cgnetworks.org/conferences/conference-calendar

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