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Editors
Prof. Dr. Susanne Marschall Institute for Media Studies University of Tübingen, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Robert Horres Japanese Studies University of Tübingen, Germany [email protected] Prof. Dr. Axel Buether Faculty of Design and Art University of Wuppertal, Germany [email protected]
Dr. Annette Werner Institute for Ophthalmic Research University of Tübingen, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger Department of Film Studies University of Zürich, Switzerland [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Anna Franklin School of Psychology University of Sussex, UK [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Johannes Grebe-Ellis Department of Physics University of Wuppertal, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Anya Hurlbert Institute of Neuroscience Newcastle University, UK [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Almut Kelber Department of Biology Lund University, Sweden [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Priscilla Layne African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina, USA [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Lensch Institute for Computer Science University of Tübingen, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag Chinese Studies University of Tübingen, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Yoko Mizokami Department of Imaging Science Chiba University, Japan [email protected]
Dr. Elena Mucciarelli Indian Studies University of Tübingen, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Daniel Colaco Osorio Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Sussex University, UK [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Rall School of Art, Design and Media Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [email protected]
Prof. Katja Schmid Faculty of Electronic Media Stuttgart Media University, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Kayo Tajima Department of Economics Rikkyo University, Japan [email protected]
Shiyanthi Thavapalan Department of Egyptology and Assyriology Brown University, USA [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Thompson Film Studies Seattle University, USA [email protected]
Prof. Dr. David Alan Warburton Excellence Cluster Topoi, Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Kazuhiko Yokosawa Department of Psychology University of Tokyo, Japan [email protected]
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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