Past Conferences > Visual Communication: Rhetoric and Technologies
(April 20-23, 2006)

The 3rd bi-annual conference on Visual Communication: Rhetorics and Technology, April 20-23, 2006, was held in the center of Rochester’s cultural district, at the Strathallan Hotel.

The interdisciplinary conference theme focused on resources for visual research and future directions for visual communication and rhetoric.

The Keynote speaker was Dr. Nancy Mowll Mathews, the Eugenie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art. She recently completed a major book and exhibition, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film (1890-1910) which explores the interconnections between the new technology of film and the visual arts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Mathews is the author of a number of books on Mary Cassatt, Maurice and Charles Prendergast, and the critically acclaimed book, Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life (2001).

Plenary Master Session I:  Visual Communication And The Creative Mind: Theory And Practice featured presentations by Ann Marie Barry, Boston College; Julianne Newton, University Of Oregon; Rick Williams, Lane Community College, Oregon; Susan B. Barnes, Rochester Institute Of Technology; Patti Ambrogi, Rochester Institute Of Technology; and Holland Wilde, University of Calgary.

Plenary Master Session II: Future Directions In Visual Rhetoric: Cases and Challenges featured papers by Janis L. Edwards, Alabama University; James J. Kimble, Seton Hall University and Lester C. Olson, University of Pittsburgh; Cara Finnegan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Hariman, Northwestern University and John Lucaites, Indiana University; and Diane S. Hope, Rochester Institute of Technology.