CSA National Conference - Colour Matrix Sydney 2025

The New South Wales Division of the Colour Society of Australia is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2025 CSA national conference in Sydney on October 31 to November 2. 

We invite you to apply to give a presentation at our conference by submitting an Abstract according to the instructions set out below, and to pass on our open Call for Abstracts to your colleagues and postgraduate students.

Our conference venue is the Royal Australian History Society's History House at 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney, directly across the road from The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. The conference will be hybrid with provision for both in-person and online presentations and attendance.

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About the conference theme

The theme Colour Matrix acknowledges the importance of cross disciplinary approaches to colour in this era of ever-narrowing specialization. Participants are invited to consider how their own work involving colour may be of interest and of importance in other disciplines, or to critically contrast and perhaps reconcile different specialized approaches to colour within their own discipline. We encourage participation from designers, artists and other colour practitioners whose work references scientific or philosophical understanding of colour, from colour educators whose teaching programs span the art-science divide, and from scientific, historical and other researchers who believe that their insights about colour have relevance beyond their specialized areas of interest. 

Enquiries: csa.nsw.chair@gmail.com

Call for Abstracts

Submissions on a broad range of colour-related topics are sought, including but not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence and colour | Impact of AI on colour research, colour technology, applied colour in art and design, and colour education | Limitations of language-based models given the perceptual nature of colour
• Colour Vision I Neuroscience I Phenomenology of Colour I Colour Perception and Illusions I Colorimetry | Colour Appearance Models 
• Colour and Language | Psychology of Colour I Colour Aesthetics I Colour Symbolism I Philosophy of Colour
• Colour in Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Communication Design, Product Design, Packaging Design and Marketing I Colour in Photography, Image Processing, Television and Cinema
• Colour in Architecture, Urban Environments, Landscape Design, Interior Design, Stage Design or Lighting Design and Technologies I Colour in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Environments
• Colour in Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Theatre, Dance, and Music I History of Colour Theory and Practice in the Fine and Applied Arts
• Colour Education in the Arts, Design, Science, Engineering and in Schools I History of Colour Education

To submit your abstract for consideration for a full-length/short presentation at Colour Matrix Sydney 2025, please download and fill in the Colour Matrix Abstract Template and return it to csa.nsw.chair@gmail.com by 25 April 2025.

Please indicate your preference for either full-length oral presentation (30 minutes including introduction and some questions) or a short presentation of up to 5 slides accompanied by an up to 10-minute oral summary, and also indicating if you intend to give your presentation in person or via Zoom. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and scientific submissions will be anonymously peer-reviewed. In general, outreach-style papers of broad interest would be best suited to full oral presentation, while specialized original research might be better suited to our short presentation format. All presenters may be invited to take part in panel discussions at intervals throughout the conference program.

Authors will be notified if their abstract has been accepted for full/short presentation by 06 June 2025. A pdf volume of all the accepted abstracts will be posted on the CSA website shortly before the conference.

Copyright & Legal Obligations

All information in the abstract submission, including author’s names, affiliations, authors order of listing, and the content of abstract, will be used in the conference publications. The contributor carries legal obligations of the abstract; any violation to a third party’s right will be the responsibility of the contributor themselves.