VSAC 2017

The Visual Science of Art Conference


The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) was established in 2012 by Professor Baingio Pinna in Alghero, Italy. Its main focus is to better connect the communities of visual scientists and artists in order to deepen our understanding of aesthetic phenomena. The VSAC is an ideal venue to debate and collaborate on all topics associated with the perception and evaluation of artworks.

Typically, VSAC is organized as a satellite conference to the European Conference on Visual Perception and is taking place on an annual basis.

VSAC 2024 will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland on 22th-24th August 2024.

Upcoming meetings


VSAC 2024 will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland on 22th-24th August 2024. Visit VSAC 2024 website for more information.

History of VSAC


From its beginnings the VSAC has been organized as a satellite conference of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), the leading European conference on visual science.

VSAC and its sister conference ECVP have been hosted each year in different, vibrant cities all over Europe. Starting in 2012 in Alghero (Italy), subsequent meetings were organized in Belgrade (Serbia), Liverpool (UK), Barcelona (Spain), Berlin (Germany), Trieste (Italy), Leuven (Belgium), and Amsterdam (Netherlands).


2023

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Held in Nicosia, Cyprus on Aug 24-26, 2023.
Organized by Aenne Brielmann, Alessandro Soranzo, Anna Miscenà, Anne Kleindienst, Ben van Buren, Claus-Christian Carbon, Heike Kiesewetter, Ian Verstegen, Itay Goetz, Kyriaki Mikellidou, Lena Kristina Pieper, Maarten Wijntjes, Marius Raab, Qasim Zaidi, Rebecca Chamberlain, Alexander (Sasha) Pastukhov, Uwe Fischer (U Bamberg), and Vera Hesslinger (U Bamberg).

2022

open_in_new

Held in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Aug 24-27, 2022.
Organized by Maarten Wijntjes, Arjan de Koomen, Nim Goede, Catelijne van Middelkoop, Yuguang Zhao, Jeroen Stumpel, Cehao Yu, Margit Lukacs, Mitchell van Zuijlen, David Tiemstra, and Rob van Lier.

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2021

Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2020

Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2019

Held in Leuven, Belgium on Aug 21-24, 2019.
Organized by Johan Wagemans.
Keynote lectures:
Opposites attract: The marriage of art and science by Robert Pepperell (Cardiff Metropolitan University, U.K.)
Colour, Light and Time in Paintings by Anya Hurlbert (Newcastle University, U.K.)

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2018

Held in Trieste, Italy on Aug 24-26, 2018.
Organized by Rossana Actis-Grosso and Daniele Zavagno.
Keynote lectures:
The place of contemplation in a world of arts by Michael Kubovy (University of Virginia)
Macchie, passages and edges lost and found by Jan Koenderink (KU Leuven, Belgium)

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2017

open_in_new

Held in Berlin, Germany on Aug 25–27, 2017.
Organized by Claus-Christian Carbon and Joerg Fingerhut.
Keynote lectures:
Art and Wonder by Jesse Prinz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York)
Aesthetics and the Brains by Irving Biederman (University of Southern California)

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2016

Held in Barcelona, Spain on Aug 26-28, 2016.
Organized by C. Alejandro Parraga.
Keynote lectures:
Realizing Fechner’s Fantasy by Anjan Chatterjee (Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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2015

Held in Liverpool, UK on Aug 22-23, 2015.
Organized by Marco Bertamini.
Keynote lectures:
Aesthetic Science: An Ecological Approach. by Steve Palmer (UC Berkeley)

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2014

Held in Belgrade, Serbia on Aug 23-24, 2014.
Organized by Slobodan Marković, Oliver Tošković, Ian Thornton, Dejan Todorović, and Sunčica Zdravković.
Keynote lectures:
What is missing for a proper visual science of art? by Johan Wagemans (KU Leuven, Belgium)

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2012

Held in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy on Sep 1-2, 2012.
Organized by Baingio Pinna.
Keynote lectures:
Experimental Phenomenology: Art & Science by Jan Koenderink (KU Leuven, Belgium)

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Albrecht Dürer's "The Painter's Manual"


The background drawing is from Albrecht Dürer's "The Painter's Manual", published in 1525. The image nicely illustrates the scientific technique of accurately depicting perspective, so can be seen as a good example of the joint and powerful forces of art & science illustrating one of the VSAC's main aims: to bring together artists and scientists - and artists who follow a scientific path in their arts.