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• ISCC Annual Meeting

  • When
    19 Oct 2024
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    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    virtual

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  Join us for our 2024 Annual Meeting. This is your chance to directly interact with the Board of Directors and hear important reports about the state of the council. This year, we will also be awarding the Macbeth Award to Leslie Harrington and Anat Lechner for their work on HueData - a state-of-the-art color data platform for industry consultants. After a brief citation for the recipients, they will give a short presentation about their work.

  Other reports will include:

  • Treasurer and Membership
  • Colour Literacy Project Update
  • Visual Identity Project Feedback Session

  Join us on October 19 using this link:
  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84955380197?pwd=774qanGXsANb5Qa1JmCeYRaKHXFjBU.1
  
  Meeting ID: 849 5538 0197
  Passcode: 275911
  

  If you are a member you will also receive the link in email.
  
  Pre-Meeting Member Survey Please take a few moments to complete our Member Survey prior to the meeting. Results will be shared during the meeting. 

  Following the formal proceedings, everyone is invited to stay online for our monthly Colorful Connections. This is an informal and fun discussion time that is usually open to members only. More info here.
  

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• October Colorful Connections

  • When
    19 Oct 2024
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    4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    virtual
  • Spaces left
    40

  

  Join us for a special edition of Colorful Connections immediately following our Annual General Meeting. Open to all, members and non-members, get to know your color colleagues in a lively online gathering. Registration is not required -- just stick around after the meeting. Hope to see you there!
  
  Colorful Connections is an opportunity to gather informally with other members of ISCC for a little socializing, networking and learning from each other. Discussions are wide-ranging and depend on attendees, their current interests and past experience. Consider this the online version of coffee breaks and happy hours at a color conference. BYO coffee or beverage and join in the conversation! 

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• ISCC Webinar: Julia Hartling "Chasing Colors: Evolutionary Insights into Why We See Red (and Everything Else)"

  • When
    03 Dec 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    virtual

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  "Chasing Colors: Evolutionary Insights into Why We See Red (and Everything Else)"
  

  Julia Hartling, Ph.D.
  

  Abstract
  

  Why do humans have color vision? The absence of color perception does not seem to impact our comprehension of the world - we don't need it to see motion, recognize faces, distinguish depth, and we enjoy watching black and white movies. Yet color vision and its associated vast neural circuitry has been maintained in humans and many other animals. There are two main hypotheses as to why our ancestors evolved trichromatic color vision. One theory is that it boosted our ability to find ripened food, and the other is that color vision enhanced our discrimination of emotional states, improving our ability to choose mates. Either way, here we are, animals with trichromatic color vision, maybe even moving into tetrachromacy. Most of us see hundreds of colors, but why do we each have our own preferences? There is a theory that favoring an object of a certain color translates into a general preference for that color, e.g. if you like red apples, you will like the color red. Colors carry complex meanings, can streamline our ability to make complex decisions, and therefore are adopted by virtually all human cultures to be powerful societal symbols. To what extent are color preferences universal or individual, and how do they vary with age, sex, and culture? We shall explore these questions and more as we consider our relationship to color.

   

  Bio

   

  Julia Hartling was born in the Soviet Union, and came to the USA in 1994. She has a Ph.D. In Evolutionary Biology from Yale University. For her dissertation she studied the evolution of protein structures and sequences. Julia is also an artist and published illustrator, and she has participated in many personal and group exhibitions, as well as producing various illustrations by commission.

   

  
  

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