COLOUR TURN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

www.colourturn.net

Editors

Prof. Dr. Susanne Marschall Institute for Media Studies University of Tübingen, Germany susanne.marschall@uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Dr. Robert Horres Japanese Studies University of Tübingen, Germany horres@uni-tuebingen.de Prof. Dr. Axel Buether Faculty of Design and Art University of Wuppertal, Germany buether@uni-wuppertal.de

Dr. Annette Werner Institute for Ophthalmic Research University of Tübingen, Germany annette.werner@uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger Department of Film Studies University of Zürich, Switzerland baflueckiger@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Anna Franklin School of Psychology University of Sussex, UK Anna.Franklin@sussex.ac.uk

Prof. Dr. Johannes Grebe-Ellis Department of Physics University of Wuppertal, Germany grebe-ellis@uni-wuppertal.de

Prof. Dr. Anya Hurlbert Institute of Neuroscience Newcastle University, UK anya.hurlbert@newcastle.ac.uk

Prof. Dr. Almut Kelber Department of Biology Lund University, Sweden almut.kelber@biol.lu.se

Prof. Dr. Priscilla Layne African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina, USA playne@email.unc.edu

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Lensch Institute for Computer Science University of Tübingen, Germany hendrik.lensch@uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag Chinese Studies University of Tübingen, Germany achim.mittag@uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Dr. Yoko Mizokami Department of Imaging Science Chiba University, Japan mizokami@faculty.chiba-u.jp

Dr. Elena Mucciarelli Indian Studies University of Tübingen, Germany elena.mucciarelli@indo.uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Dr. Daniel Colaco Osorio Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Sussex University, UK D.Osorio@sussex.ac.uk

Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Rall School of Art, Design and Media Nanyang Technological University, Singapore rall@ntu.edu.sg

Prof. Katja Schmid Faculty of Electronic Media Stuttgart Media University, Germany hofmann@hdm-stuttgart.de

Prof. Dr. Kayo Tajima Department of Economics Rikkyo University, Japan ktajima@rikkyo.ac.jp

Shiyanthi Thavapalan Department of Egyptology and Assyriology Brown University, USA shiyanthi.thavapalan@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Thompson Film Studies Seattle University, USA thompski@seattleu.edu

Prof. Dr. David Alan Warburton Excellence Cluster Topoi, Germany warburton@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Prof. Dr. Kazuhiko Yokosawa Department of Psychology University of Tokyo, Japan yokosawa@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Advisory Board

Contents Journal Scheme 5

Journal Overview 6

Scope of the Journal 7

A Note to Authors 9

Journal Key Areas 10

1 Colour and the Mind 10

2 Colour and Nature 11

3 Colour and Technology 12

4 Colour and Communication 13

5 Colour in Art and Media 14

6 Colour in Culture and Society 16

Conceptual Cloud of the Journal 18

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Journal Scheme

Colour and the Mind

Colour and Nature Colour and Technology Colour and Communication Colour in Art and Media Colour in Culture and Society

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Journal Overview The Colour Turn is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to promote and advance

interdisciplinary research into Colour Studies. Colour is a multi-faceted topic that

lends itself to inquiry from a wide range of fields within the natural sciences,

technological studies and the humanities. As a natural phenomenon, colour is an

important feature of the visible and sensible world upon which human beings and

animals alike depend for various cognitive processes such as orientation, detection,

identification, and communication. Present in every stratum of human activity—from

fashion, art, media and literature, to religion, politics and earliest science—colour is

a significant material and conceptual element of day-to-day life, both in the past and

in modern times.

Now at the cusp of a new era that is marked by a new order of information as

power, digitization, globalization, the expansion of virtual worlds and technological

advancements of historic proportions, it is necessary to re-embrace the magic of

colours and delve into a novel level of research. As its name figuratively and literally

suggests, the aim of the interdisciplinary and international journal Colour Turn is to

turn over a new leaf in colour research. The journal invites high-quality research

articles and papers that implement innovative approaches—including scientific

methodologies, historical re-construction, collection and close reading of old and

new materials, empirical experiments, digital humanities, analytical, comparative and

critical reviews—that open up new horizons in colour sciences and colour studies.

The journal promises a collaborative effort of high-profile editorial and review

expertise from all around the world in the field of colour research.

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Scope of the Journal As an internationally operating peer-reviewed journal, the Colour Turn wishes to

bring together scholars from diverse fields from around the globe and cultivate a

collaborative digital platform for their research. Accessible in print and electronic

format, the journal is meant for researchers, professionals, students and general

readers alike. The journal publishes high-quality research papers, academic reviews

and articles in six key investigative domains: Colour and the Mind, Colour and

Nature, Colour and Technology, Colour and Communication, Colour in Art and

Media, and Colour in Culture and Society.

The mission of Colour Turn is to serve the community of researchers at large

and to provide opportunities for young and talented researchers to publish and

access the digital database of colour research worldwide. To this end, the Colour

Turn offers editorial and advisory boards composed of established experts in the

field of colour research and at the same time fosters an all-inclusive publishing

environment. The tasks of the editors are to contribute to the conceptual, theoretical

and methodological development of the Colour Turn and likewise to perform

administrative duties. The advisory board provides scientific recommendations on

specific contributions to the journal and it will evaluate them based on areas of

expertise.

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Editorial Structure

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Editors

Susanne Marschall Robert Horres Axel Buether

Annette Werner

Advisory Board Colour & the Mind

Anna Franklin Anya Hurlbert

Kazuhiko Yokosawa

Advisory Board Colour & Nature

Johannes Grebe-Ellis Almut Kelber

Daniel C. Osorio

Advisory Board Colour & Technology

Hendrik Lensch Yoko Mizokami Hans-Martin Rall

Advisory Board Colour &

Communication Kayo Tajima

Achim Mittag Elena Mucciarelli

Advisory Board

Colour in Art & Media Barbara Flückiger

Katja Schmid Kirsten Thompson

Advisory Board Colour in Culture &

Society David A. Warburton

Priscilla Layne Shiyanthi Thavapalan

A Note to Authors The Colour Turn journal invites high-quality papers and articles from various

perspectives in the field of colour studies and encourages junior as well as senior

researchers to submit their work. A broad spectrum of approaches, from empirical,

analytical, descriptive-comparative, conceptual, theoretical, methodological,

epistemological, ontological, behavioural, anthropological, and historical

approaches to colour research are welcome.

At the initial stage, the journal will be published electronically via the Open

Journal System of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. The

submission deadline for the first issue is the 1st of September 2017. The language of

the Colour Turn journal is standard British English.

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1 Colour and the Mind The research arena on Colour and the Mind covers scientific inquiries addressing

colour and perception. Issues that fall within this purview range from colour in the

brain, colour perception, colour recognition, colour associations, colour memory,

colour preferences, colour and emotions to colour and language. Possible topics

may include but are not restricted to:

o Colour in the brain: The construction and representation

of colour in the visual system o Recognizing things by colour o Colour and language o Goethe’s legacy: Colour and emotions o Crossmodality: Colour, taste and smell—The

phenomena of synaesthesia o Colour associations o Internal colours: Colour memory, dreams, drugs and

trips o Changing colour perception—In the early childhood and

old age o Colour aesthetics o Colour as a medium of imagination and understanding o Colour preferences o Perceptual phenomena, e.g. colour contrast, colour

constancy, etc.

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2 Colour and Nature The research arena on Colour and Nature encompasses a broad spectrum of topics

related to colour in the natural environment and essential character and/or qualities

of colours. Topics of interest include colour vision, colour codes, colour displays,

colour evolutions, colouration on the one hand, and physics of colour, colour

mixture, colour metrics, natural pigments and structural colours on the other. A

tentative outline of possible topics is given here:

Part 1: Colour in Nature

o Animal colour vision o Colour codes o Animal eyes and visual pigments o Colour for camouflage o Colour display in courtship o Signalling and communication o Co-evolution of animal colour vision and plants o Evolution of human and animal colour vision o Colouration of animals and plants

Part 2: Nature of Colour

o Newton’s legacy: The physics behind colour o Natural pigments o Structural colours o Colour metrics o Colour mixture

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3 Colour and Technology

The Colour and Technology arena addresses the ever-expanding and far-reaching

concern of the technological development and the vibrant nature of colour. The

topics in this area can be categorized into three broad chronological divisions:

colour in the pre-modern era, the modern era, and the post-modern era. Issues to

be addressed range from techniques of colour (re)production, and colour display, to

colour trades, and colour in industries—e.g. automobile, fashion, textile, food,

furniture, information, and creative industry. In the following, a tentative outline is

proposed.

Part 1: Colours in Pre-Modern Era

o Techniques of colour reproduction: From early antiquity to the modern era

o The exchange of colourful materials in ancient civilizations

o The Silk Road: Continental colour travels

Part 2: Colours in Modern Era o Colours in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,

industrialization and massification o New synthetic colours as a chemical invention of the 19th

Century o Colour and (post)colonisation o Advertisement: Colour and consumption—First

generations of (old) media, e.g. TV

Part 3: Colours in Post-Modern Era o New Pixel Systems—OLED, LED and Micro LED o Resolution in 2, 4, 6, 8 K and so on—The impact of high

definition on moving images o The new wave of food design and the unhealthy effects

of artificial colours o Advertisement: Colour and consumption – Second

generation of media, e.g. Networked and digital (new) media

o Colourful outfits for everybody—The change of fashion industry

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4 Colour and Communication The Colour and Communication arena considers matters relating to communication

design and human communication in general, ranging from material and industrial

design, spatial design, information design, to colour and educations, colours for

orientations, colour and body language, inter alia. A tentative outline is presented in

the following.

Part 1: Colour and Language

o Colour terminologies, concepts, naming o Colour in ancient cultures o Colour categorization

Part 2: Colour and Visual Communication

o Colour as didactic tool o Colour systems as tools for orientation, e.g. traffic o Fashion and body language o Colour as a tool in science o Colour as tool in diagnostics o Colour discriminations: Sexism, feminism, racism o Colour shock: Colour communication among cultures o Effective communication: Inter-cultural challenges

Part 3: Colour in Communication Design

o Material design o Industrial design o Spatial design and architectural design o Information design o Web Design

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5 Colour in Art and Media The Colour in Art and Media arena addresses the complex and central issue of

colour in media spheres. A tentative outline of possible topics is suggested below.

Part 1: Colour in Art

o Self-reflection and the first human paintings o Colour and creativity o Colour compositions in realistic paintings o Creating light and shadow with pigments and dyestuffs o History of colour materials o Ways of experimentation: De-constructing the “normal”

perception o Literary imaginations—The stimulation of inner visions in

poems and lyrics o Theme and mood—Colour in cinema o Set them free: The liberation of colours in animation o Virtual colours: Creating and changing moods with light

and colour

Part 2: Colour in Analogue Media o Re-creating history in black and white o Auto chromes: The great ideas of the Lumière brothers o The journey of colour photography all over the world o Hand-paintings—From daguerreotype to early movies o The complicated colour-struggle of the movie industry o Kodak chrome o Glorious Technicolor o Agfa colour: Colour and propaganda o The breakthrough of multi-layer film after the second

world war o Eastman colour, Fuji and others o The red button and the start of the new era of colourful

TV-entertainment o The sprawling archive—The private life in Agfa and

Kodak-colour o The ephemeral colours of multi-layer films

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Part 3: Digital Colours o The colours of electronic media systems o Non-controllable colours in hybrid media and media

transformation o The colour palette of the World Wide Web o Colour in 3D and other immersive media o Lucid and deep—The aesthetic of wide gamut monitor

systems

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6 Colour in Culture and Society The Colour in Culture and Society arena encompasses a broad spectrum of topics

addressing colours and normativity, colours and counter-cultures, colouring Inter-

cultur(es), and the functions and values of colours. A tentative outline of topics is

suggested in the following.

Part 1: Colour and Normativity

o Written and unwritten colour codes o Colour and political power o Mainstream: Colour and fashion o Clergy colours and the hierarchy in religious institutions o Colour and racism—The construction of whiteness o Colour tools of gender-constructions o Colour and social distinction o Colour production and the development of the

international market

Part 2: Colour and Counter-Cultures o Avant-garde: Colour and fashion o Female revolts: Pink panties and red lips as symbols of

protest cultures o Colour and colourlessness in youth movements o Rainbow-communities: Empowering marginalized people

through colours o Black is more than beautiful: Re-creating the symbolism of

darkness o Neither black nor white: Grey signifies difference o Queering colours and the visual de-construction of gender

roles o Colour events and happenings—Visual overload as

experience

Part 3: Colouring Inter-Cultur(es) o Colour preferences and cultural identities o Colour phobia in western societies o Colour consciousness in Asian cultures o Colour landscapes: Scripted spaces in multi-cultural

urbanity o Fusion of colours—The migration of visual cultures

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o Colours pushing business—Signature for global brands and commercials

o Tourism and fashion trends: Import of new colours o Colouring the future—The design of life and work spaces in

trans-cultural societies o Colour aesthetics and globalization

Part 4: Functions and Values

o Human colours in the pre-history—e.g. health practices, funerals

o Holy colours: Rituals and religions o The colours of mourning and the colours of joy o Colour and colonisation

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Conceptual Cloud of the Journal

Colour in Mind

Colour & Nature

Colour & Technology

Colour & Communication

Colour in Art and Media

Colour in Culture & Society

Colour Research

Colour in Brain Colour Constancy

Colour Memory Colour & Emotion

Colour & Language

Colour Associations Colour Aesthetics

Colour Perceptions

Colour Associations Colour Codes

Physics behind Colours

Colour Evolution

Colour reproduction Colour & Modernism

Colour in Virtual World

Nature of Colours

Colour & Design

Colour & Body Language Colour & Fashion

Colour in Paintings

Colour in Analogue Media

Colour in Digital Media

Colour Norms Colour Values

Colour & Religion

Colour Vision

Colour & Screens

Colour & Religion

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Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen,

2017

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