Registration is available on this page for participants who require access to the live presentations and/or recordings for the WHOLE CONFERENCE. Three levels of registration are publicly available:
1. WHOLE CONFERENCE - Nonmembers – $100.00
2. WHOLE CONFERENCE - Current CSA members – $90.00
3. WHOLE CONFERENCE - Full-time student/pensioner concession – $50.00
Registration for the whole conference entitles you to FREE membership of the Colour Society of Australia from the end of the conference to June 2022 (normally $88 full/ $47 concession annually). Benefits of membership include access to video recordings and other resources from previous and new events in the Members' Area of the CSA website. Registrants will be given the opportunity to opt out of their free upgrade to CSA membership when this is implemented at the end of the conference.
Registration for single days (Friday, Saturday or Sunday) is also available. Registration for single days does not include free CSA membership for 2021-2022. Three levels of single-day registration are available:
1. SINGLE DAY - Nonmembers – $50.00
2. SINGLE DAY - Current CSA members – $45.00
3. SINGLE DAY - Full-time student/pensioner concession – $25.00
To register for a single day please follow these links:
FRIDAY ONLY
https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4160481
SATURDAY ONLY
https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4160498
SUNDAY ONLY
https://coloursociety.org.au/event-4160511
All prices are in Australian dollars.
INVITATION
On behalf of the Colour Society of Australia, the Organising Committee of the CSA National Conference Sydney 2021 would like to invite you to attend our conference on the theme COLOUR CONNECTIONS.
Our conference is timed to conclude on AIC International Colour Day on March 21, and will be our celebration of this event for 2021. The adoption of an international day of colour was proposed in 2008 by the Portuguese Color Association, whose president, Maria João Durão, presented the idea to our parent organization the International Colour Association for approval in 2009 at the 11th AIC Congress in Sydney. We are honoured to have Maria João Durão presenting a history of AIC International Colour Day at our conference.
Important dates
| First circular and call for abstracts |
04 June 2020 |
| Submission deadline for abstracts |
25 September 2020 |
| Notification of oral/poster presentation |
02 November 2020 |
| Registration opens |
08 February 2021 |
| Conference dates |
19-21 March 2021 |
About the conference theme
The theme Colour Connections acknowledges the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to colour in this era of ever-narrowing specialization. Speakers were 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 encouraged 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. We thank our speakers for their overwhelmingly generous response which has allowed us to present such a large and diverse program.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Please note that our provisional schedule of speakers set out below may be subject to change without notice due to circumstances beyond our control. For more information on our individual speakers please see our daily posts on Facebook or Instagram! A pdf compilation of speakers' biographies and abstracts will be available here prior to the conference.
Friday March 19
9.45 am Conference Committee Welcome
History of Colour Theory and Practice
10.00 am Renzo Shamey (USA), Colour Pioneers of the Islamic Golden Age
10.30 am Patrick Baty (UK), Nature’s Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World
11.00 am QUESTIONS/BREAK
11.30 am Liz Coats (ACT), An Early Modernist Experiment with Colour Perception
12.00 pm Michael Lech (NSW), At Home with Colour: an Introduction to the Colour Resources at the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
12.30 pm QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
1.00 pm LUNCH BREAK
Colour Science and Lighting Technology
2.00 pm Stephen Dain (NSW), Blue Light: Nasty or Nice?
2.30 pm Wendy Davis (NSW), Leveraging Colour to Reduce the Energy Consumed by Lighting
3.00 pm QUESTIONS/BREAK
Philosophy of Colour
3.30 pm Derek Brown (UK), The Reality of Colour Illusion and Nearby Misperceptions
4.00 pm Barry Maund (WA), The Richness of Illusions of Colour
4.30 pm QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
Colour in Light Art
5.00 pm Aly Indermühle (NSW), Luminous Colour - the Enchantment of Light Art
5.30 pm QUESTIONS and CLOSE
Renzo Shamey (USA),, Colour Pioneers of the Islamic Golden Age
Patrick Baty (UK), Nature's Palette
Liz Coats (NSW, An early Modernist Experiment with Colour Perception
Michael Lech (NSW), At Home with Colour: an Introduction to the Colour Resources at the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
Stephen Dain (NSW), Blue Light: Nasty or Nice?
Wendy Davis (NSW), Leveraging Colour to Reduce the Energy Consumed by Lighting
Derek Brown (UK), The Reality of Colour Illusion and Nearby Misperceptions
Barry Maund (WA), The Richness of Illusions of Colour
Aly Indermühle (NSW), Luminous Colour - the Enchantment of Light Art
Saturday March 20
Colour in Painting
10.00 am David Briggs (NSW), Addressing Nine Common Misconceptions about Colour
10.30 am Andrew Werth (USA), Using Color Effects in Service of an Artistic Vision
11.00 am QUESTIONS/BREAK
11.30 am Ron Francis (TAS), Calculating Colour in Imaginative Realist Painting
12.00 pm Andrew Bonneau (QLD), Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Colour in Realist Painting
12.30 pm QUESTIONS/ DISCUSSION
1.00 pm LUNCH BREAK
Colour in Digital Imaging
2.00 pm Chelsea Lehmann (NSW), The Aesthetics of the Technological Image
2.30 pm Simon Ives (NSW), Streeton’s Lost Landscape
3.00 pm QUESTIONS/BREAK
3.30 pm Tony Vladusich (QLD), Colours - One: A Photo Editing App Based on Human Colour Vision
Painting Materials
4.00 pm David Coles (VIC), Response to Demand - Colour Makers’ Ongoing Dialogue with Artists
4.30 pm QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
Phenomenology of Colour
5.00 pm Joaquim Santos (Portugal), Phenomenology of Colour. Towards an Extensive Cultural Paradigm - paradeigma
5.30 pm QUESTIONS and CLOSE
David Briggs (NSW), Addressing Nine Common Misconceptions about Colour
Andrew Werth (USA), Using Color Effects in Service of an Artistic Vision
Ron Francis (TAS), Calculating Colour for Imaginative Realist Painting
Andrew Bonneau (QLD), Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Colour in Realist Painting
Chelsea Lehmann (NSW), The Aesthetics of the Technological Image
Simon Ives (NSW), Streeton’s Lost Landscape
Tony Vladusich (QLD), Colours - One: A Photo Editing App Based on Human Colour Vision
David Coles (VIC), Response to Demand - Colour Makers’ Ongoing Dialogue with Artists
Joaquim Santos (Portugal), Phenomenology of Colour. Towards an Extensive Cultural Paradigm - paradeigma
Sunday March 21
Colour Education
10.00 am Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic (Italy), Observation, Reflection and Collaboration - Colour Design Training Itinerary
10.30 am Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic (Italy), The Colour Education website
11.00 am QUESTIONS/BREAK
11.30 am Craig Kirkwood (UK), We don’t know Jack about Hue – the Colour Knowledge Survey
12.00 pm Maggie Maggio (USA) and Robert Hirschler (Hungary), Update on the ISCC/AIC Joint Color Literacy Project
12.30 pm QUESTIONS/ DISCUSSION
1.00 pm LUNCH BREAK
2.00 pm Juliet Albany (WA), Seeing the Colours of Home - A Primary School Resource Tool for Teachers
2.30 pm Paul Green-Armytage (WA), Colour Clues - A Colour Communication Game (long session),
3.15 pm QUESTIONS/BREAK
3.45 pm Eva Fay (NSW), Colour Education from the Shillito Design School, Sydney
4.15 pm Maria João Durão (Portugal), Celebrating the Harmony of Our Identities on the 'International Colour Day'
4.45 pm QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION and CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic (Chile), Observation, Reflection and Collaboration - Colour Design Training Itinerary and The Colour Education Website
Craig Kirkwood (UK), We don’t know Jack about Hue – the Colour Knowledge Survey
Maggie Maggio (USA) and Robert Hirschler (Hungary), Colour Literacy Project Stage 2
Juliet Albany (WA), Seeing the Colours of Home
Paul Green-Armytage (WA), Colour Clues - A Colour Communication Game
Eva Fay (NSW), Colour Education from the Shillito Design School, Sydney
Maria João Durão (Portugal), Celebrating the Harmony of Our Identities on the 'International Colour Day'
Video Recordings
Presentations at the conference will be recorded and will be made available to attendees and other members of the Colour Society of Australia via links in the members area of our website.
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 him/herself.
