VSAC 2025 - Call for Submissions

Join us for the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2025 in person in Wiesbaden, Germany August 21-23, 2025.

The Visual Science of Art Conference invites talks, posters, conversations, and demonstrations connecting the arts to visual perception, including empirical, experimental, philosophical, phenomenological, art historical and computational approaches. VSAC began in 2012, when Baingio Pinna organized it as a satellite symposium for the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). This year, ECVP will be held in Mainz from Aug 24-28.

The VSAC organising committee looks forward to hearing from you about your work, and to three exciting Keynote addresses — by Michael Sandle, Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Research), and Marina Iosifian (University of St. Andrews).

Before making your submission, please Register here

You will need your order/ticket number to complete your submission

Important Dates

• Symposia submissions: until April 1, 2025
• Presentation, Conversation and Artwork/Demo submissions: until May 1, 2025
• Early-bird registration: until May 1, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2025

Symposium Proposal Guidelines

Symposia are sessions with 4-6 talks centered around a theme. Symposia are a great way to focus on a specific topic from a variety of perspectives. We particularly encourage multidisciplinary groups that include artists. Symposia proposals will be accepted until 1st of April, 2025.

To submit a proposal, please create a pdf with the information below, and send it to the email address enquiries.vsac@gmail.com. Please contact us if you have any questions, need advice, or want to briefly pitch an idea.

• Symposium title
• Synopsis (100 words for program)
• Summary (500 words for organizers)
• Info about organizers (name, institutes, etc)
• Author names and affiliations
• Talk titles
• Talk abstracts (300 words each)
• Acknowledgements

Types of Submissions

There are three types of submissions — Presentations, Conversations, and Artworks/Demos.  For these, the application deadline is May 1, 2025.

Presentations: There are two formats: Talks and Posters. If you submit a presentation, please provide a title, 300-word abstract, authors and affiliations, and detailed keywords.  Please indicate your preferred presentation format. You may submit only one presentation as first/presenting author, but you can co-author as many as you wish.

Conversations: Conversations between artists and scientists have a special place in VSAC’s program. Conversations typically report collaborative research, but could also be a dialogue between two speakers. If the 300-word abstract is too limited, you can use the supplementary material.

Artworks/Demos: Artists and scientists may also submit a 300-word abstract and supplementary pdf describing artworks or scientific demonstrations which they would like to exhibit as part of one of the poster sessions.

Please register and pay here prior to submitting an abstract: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/visual-science-of-art-conference-2025-tickets-1263798899529?aff=oddtdtcreator

Please submit all abstracts here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vsac2025

We look forward to seeing you in Wiesbaden! 

The VSAC Organizing Committee