Past Conferences > Visual Communication and Social Change: Rhetorics and Technologies
(April 3-6, 2003)

Visual Communication: Rhetoric and Technology April 3-April 6, 2003, featured a Friday Keynote Address: “Envisioning Science: A Science Photographer's Perspective" by Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Master Panel, “Siggraph Group Round Table: Neuroscience, Visual Cognition and Communication” with Ann Marie Barry, Boston College, Rick Williams, Lane Community College, Oregon, and Julie Newton, University of Oregon.

Saturday’s Keynote address, “Ritualizing Modernity’s Gamble: Representing Disaster in the Iconic Photograph of the Explosion of the Challenger,” was presented by John Louis Lucaites, Indiana University and Robert Hariman, Northwestern University. Saturday’s Master panel, “Rhetoric, Visual Culture, and Politics: Exploring Key Terms in the Study of Visual Rhetoric” featured papers by Cara Finnegan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Anne Demo, Syracuse University and Lester Olson, University of Pittsburg and a response by Kevin M. DeLuca, University of Georgia.