Date: 8 - 9 of April, 2011

Venue: Vilnius, Lithuania

Image and creativity are inseparable aspects of visual culture. Any kind of creativity gains visual shapes and vice versa, images affect creative intentions. Interconnections of image and creativity imply user strategies and tactics, which, after all, affect the culture itself. The conference is dedicated for relationships of creativity and image in different cultures of the world, different historical eras, based on different categories and approaches. Purpose of the conference is to gather various researchers’ of humanitarian, social and other sciences. The interaction of creativity and image can be fruitful ground for discussion among philosophers, cultural managers, historians, literary theorists, art critics, communication specialists, psychologists, sociologists, creators of advertising, etc.

Discussion Guidelines:

• Could creativity exist without an images of the living world?
• Does the images of the world is a must for creativity?
• Image: self-creations‘cause or effect?
• Visual thinking and creativity
• Phenomenology of visual experience
• Creative media relations in different cultures and epochs
• Phenomenon of the imagination and artistic creation
• Creativity and image interaction in media
• Image as creativity and image interaction
• Image and self-creation in gender relations
• Images in popular culture: advertising industry, biographies of the stars and the cult of success
• Creativity and image in the technology