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. in the automotive, fashion, textile, food, furniture, information and creative industries) to the connection between colour and artificial intelligence. In the following, a tentative outline is proposed.

Part 1: Colours in Pre-Modern Era

• Techniques of colour reproduction: From early antiquity to the modern era
• The exchange of colourful materials in ancient civilizations
• The Silk Road: Continental colour travels 

Part 2: Colours in Modern Era

• Colours in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, industrialization and massification
• New synthetic colours as a chemical invention of the 19^th Century
• Colour and (post)colonisation
• Advertisement: Colour and consumption—First generations of (old) media, e.g. TV

Part 3: Colours in Post-Modern Era

• New Pixel Systems—OLED, LED and Micro LED
• Resolution in 2, 4, 6, 8 K and so on—The impact of high definition on moving images
• The new wave of food design and the unhealthy effects of artificial colours
• Advertisement: Colour and consumption—Second generation of media, e.g. Networked and digital (new) media
• Colourful outfits for everybody—The change of fashion industry
• Aspects of colour recognition in the development and use of artificial intelligence