Deadline for Abstracts: March 31, 2023
Deadline for Articles: August 31, 2023

The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting abstracts from researchers, artists, designers, technical developers, graphic artists, computer scientists, game designers and film makers for the eighth issue »Volumetric Images: The Corporeality of Digital Images« that will address the aesthetics, cognition, and technological structure of »Volumetric Images«. YoMIS will be enriched by disciplines like media theory, film studies and philosophy, art and design, artistic research, image science, semiotics, phenomenology, art history, game studies, visual culture studies, computer graphics and other research areas related to moving, dynamic, virtual, augmented, mixed reality or volumetric images in general.

The specific design and engineering of digital image technologies has evolved in the last years within the context of a so-called »haptic or tactile turn«, which addresses a more complex interaction with the digital images under the condition of an extended haptic or tactile sensory perception of the user. This specific trend is not only connected with developments in the design of virtual or augmented reality technologies but in very specific ways within the construction of novel volumetric display technologies. Volumetric images seem to be primary connected with the specific holographic or 3D image tradition (or traditions) in the context of light wavefront manipulation (emission, scattering, centring in space etc.), and only in a subordinate way with the developments in virtual or augmented image conditions. Volumetric images are structuring 3D images that are perceived in an embodied and corporeal way – the image as a body or the image as a quasi-object –, and they can be manipulated and controlled depending on the used display technology. A specific classification or taxonomy of volumetric images, in a technological or aesthetic point of view, is still missing and therefore the editors would like to address some research directions:

1) How do volumetric images relate to the complex tradition of holographic image representations?
2) What are the specific technological elements and roots of volumetric displays or screens?
3) What are the communication effects and contexts of use of volumetric images; compared to 3D images in stereoscopic cinema, VR, AR or holograms based on photography, laser technology or projected images?
4) What are the aesthetic principles, levels or aesthetic layers of volumetric images in the context of art, design, and computer graphics?
5) Are there specific sensory or perceptual conditions that are different from VR, AR or holograms?
6) Is it possible to categorize volumetric images in a phenomenological, semiotic, philosophical, media theoretical or anthropological perspective?

Consequently, »Volumetric Images: The Corporeality of Digital Images« will address the technological possibilities and media routes of volumetric images that are already affecting media communication in different social and technological areas. Thus, contributions for this issue of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies can concentrate on the specific variety of the pictorial aspects of volumetric images, the specific technological conditions and situations, and the development of graphic representations regarding the different interfaces of volumetric image communication. Topics should focus on (but are not limited to) volumetric images as perceptual artefacts, volumetric artifacts as 3D-real-world-simulation, the specific volumetric or holographic performance of embodied volumetric technologies that are enabling a haptic or tactile physical-world-digital-world-feedback, and the specific volumetric modes of user interaction, the different aspects of volumetric aesthetics, installation art, design, and communication in volumetric image conditions, the new forms of psychological and perceptual interaction and narration in volumetric media ecologies, the processual dynamic of volumetric and holographic images, embodied interaction and cognition, the effects and characteristics of volumetric illusions, the phenomenology or semiotics of user interaction in volumetric conditions, the coupling of digital volumetric images with the operating technology, the image volumetrics as a multimodal framework, and the historical, cultural or philosophical evolution of volumetric and holographic image representation.

The official deadline for abstracts is March 31, 2023. The anonymous review feedback will be given in April 2023. Long abstracts should include 600 to 900 words in length. Please send a short biography, contact details and your abstract to Prof. Dr. Lars C. Grabbe, Prof. Dr. Patrick Rupert-Kruse and Prof. Dr. Norbert M. Schmitz via: contactmovingimagescience.com. The official deadline for articles is August 31, 2023. The articles should include 5.000 to 7.000 words in length. If you are interested in contributing an abstract and article you will find a specific style sheet of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies here: www.movingimagescience.com.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the managing editors via mail.