Call for Papers

The Gruppo del Colore - Associazione Italiana Colore (www.gruppodelcolore.org) is announcing the

XX edition of the Color Conference.

 

The international conference will be held Thursday, 04 September, and Friday, 05 September 2025, at Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, in Via Ammiraglio Ferdinando Acton, 38, 80133 Napoli.

The conference aims to promote the multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary aggregation of all the realities dealing with color and light from a scientific, educational, and professional point of view.

 

The Call for Papers for the conference is open. The topics of interest of the 20th edition are the following:

  1. Color and Measurement/Instrumentation. Colorimetry, photometry, and color atlas: method, theory, and instrumentation; quality control and food coloring, dyes, organic and sustainable color.
  2. Color and Digital. Reproduction, management, digital color correction, image processing, graphics, photography, film and video production, printmaking and 3D print, artificial vision, virtual reality, multispectral imaging, and data visualization. Light field imaging. Multi-sensor fusion. Color localization, recognition, HDR imaging, ADAS systems.
  3. Color and Lighting. Metamerism, color rendering, adaptation, color constancy, appearance, illusions, color memory, and perception, color in extra-atmospheric environments, lighting design, lighting technologies, and visual comfort.
  4. Color and Physiology. Mechanisms of vision in their experimental and theoretical aspects, color vision and color appearance, deficiencies, abnormalities, clinical and biological aspects, synesthesia, health, and well-being.
  5. Color and Psychology. Phenomenology of colors, color harmonies, color & form, perceptive, emotional, aesthetic and diagnostic aspects.
  6. Color and Production. Food and beverages, agriculture, textiles, plastic materials, ceramics, paints, gemology, and color in the food industry.
  7. Color and Restoration. Archaeometry, painting materials, diagnostics, and techniques of conservation, restoration, and enhancement of cultural heritage.
  8. Color and Environment. Representation and drawing, urban planning, the project of color, architecture, interior design, landscapes & horticulture, color and architectural syntax, territorial identities, and biodiversity.
  9. Color and Design. Furniture, CMF design, fashion, textiles, textures, cosmetics, food design, museography.
  10. Color and Culture. Arts and crafts, history, philosophy, aesthetics, ethno-anthropology, graffiti, geology, sociology, lexicology, semantics, anthropology of vision, food culture and heritage, color naming.
  11. Color and Education. Pedagogy, didactics of color, aesthetic education, artistic education.
  12. Color and Communication/Marketing. Graphics, communication, packaging, lettering, exposure, advertising.
  13. SPECIAL SESSION: Color and Artificial Intelligence. The rapid spread of Generative Artificial Intelligence impacts numerous social, economic, and environmental aspects. Between fears and opportunities, will the field of Color benefit from this groundbreaking technology?

 

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts only if they intend to participate in the conference. Contributions sent by e-mail will not be accepted. To upload the contribution, use the designed website for uploading contributions, which is available at:

https://submissions.gruppodelcolore.org/

Contributions can be in English or Italian (digital proceedings will be available with English and Italian papers). To send the material (first the abstract and then the final paper), it is necessary to follow the following online procedure:

DOWNLOAD MATERIAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

Articles that do not comply with the formatting criteria laid down in the instructions may not be included in the documents.

 

IMPORTANT

  • At least one author or co-author for each paper must be registered at the Conference in order to present the work (speaker);
  • To access the conference spaces, it is necessary to be regularly registered (one registration per person);
  • An author who submits multiple contributions can pay one single registration to submit them all;
  • Articles that will not be presented at the conference will not be included in the proceedings;
  • Registration for the conference must be made within theestablished deadlines;
  • Abstracts and articles must be uploaded by the established deadlines.

 

The Book of Abstracts will be available online during the conference days.

All papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The final volumes of the proceedings will be available online by December 2025.

The best articles will be selected for publication in the Scopus-indexed scientific journal "Color Culture and Science," published by the GdC - Associazione Italiana Colore.

 
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