International Association for Visual Semiotics

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International Association for Visual Semiotics (AISV-IAVS)

The AISV-IAVS is a worldwide group of scholars who study images and visual meaning. It aims to bring together semioticians from around the world and to consider many different approaches to visual signs without favoring any single tradition. Its official languages are French, English, and Spanish.

Formation and name
- Founded in 1989 in Blois, France, after ideas exchanged by Michel Costantini and Göran Sonesson at a 1988 congress in Perpignan.
- Original name: International Association of Semiology of the Image (AISIM). It was renamed to AISV-IAVS in 1992.

Congress history
- 1990: First international congress, Blois, France.
- 1992: Bilbao, Spain.
- 1994: Berkeley, USA (joint with the International Association for Semiotic Studies, AIS-IASS).
- 1996: São Paulo, Brazil.
- 1998: Siena, Italy.
- 2001: Quebec City, Canada.
- 2003: Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2004: Lyon, France (part of the 8th IASS congress).
- 2007: Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2010: Venice, Italy.
- 2012: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2015: Liège, Belgium.
- The AISV-IAVS has also held joint sessions with the IASS at various events, for example in Dresden (1999), Quebec City, A Coruña (2009), Lisbon (2011), and Urbino (2014).

Journal
- The association originally used the EIDOS journal.
- Since 1996, it publishes VISIO, Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle. VISIO is multilingual (French, English, Spanish) and has published four thematic issues each year.
- VISIO has been supported by organizations such as CRSHC and CÉLAT, and is produced with involvement from Université Laval in Quebec City. The general director was Fernande Saint‑Martin, and the editor-in-chief was Marie Carani. The journal relies on an international editorial and scientific committee with many specialists in semiotics and visual studies.

Presidents
- 1989: Michel Costantini (founder and initial president)
- Fernande Saint‑Martin (first elected president, Université du Québec à Montréal)
- 1994: Jacques Fontanille (University of Limoges)
- 1996: Ana Claudia de Oliveira (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
- 1998: Paolo Fabbri (University of Bologna)
- 2001: Jean‑Marie Klinkenberg (University of Liège)
- Re-elected: 2004 (Lyon), 2007 (Istanbul), 2010 (Venice) – still Jean‑Marie Klinkenberg
- 2012: José Luis Caivano (University of Buenos Aires)
- 2015–present: Göran Sonesson (University of Lund, Sweden)

Website
- http://aisviavs.wordpress.com/