History of the AIC

International Colour Association Internationale Vereinigung für die Farbe Association Internationale de la Couleur

AIC foundation: June 21, 1967, in Washington DC, USA, during the 16th Session of the CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage) AIC foundation document signed in Washington by eight national color associations: USA - Inter-Society Color Council (Deane B. Judd) France - Centre d’Information de la Couleur (Yves LeGrand) Great Britain - The Colour Group (Robert W. G. Hunt) Spain - Comité Español del Color (Lorenzo Plaza) Sweden - Swedish Colour Group (Gunnar Tonnquist) Switzerland - Pro colore (Ernst Ganz) Japan - Color Science Association of Japan (T. Fukuda) Netherlands - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kleurenstudie (J. L. Ouweltjes)

The early history of the Association Internationale de la Couleur (AIC), by Gunnar Tonnquist, published in AIC Color 77, Proceedings of the Third Congress, Troy, New York, 10-15 July 1977 (Bristol, England: Adam Hilger, 1978), 13-32.

CHRONOLOGY OF A.I.C. MEETINGS (with links to specific meetings)

1969 June 9-13

1st Congress

Stockholm, Sweden

(478 participants, 22 countries, aprox. 150 papers)

1971 September 1-3	Special Symposium “Small Color Differences – Helmholtz Centenary”	Driebergen, The Netherlands
1973 July 2-6	2nd Congress	York, England	(431 participants, 26 countries, 115 papers)

1976 June 8-11	Interim Meeting “Colour Dynamics”	Budapest, Hungary
1977 July 10-15	3rd Congress	Troy, New York, USA	(297 participants, 21 countries, 108 papers)

1978 October 3-4	Interim Meeting “Color Measurement and its Application”	London, England
1979 August 16-17	Midterm Meeting “Color Appearance”	Tokyo, Japan
1980 February 3-6	Interim Meeting “Harry Helson Memorial Symposium on Chromatic Adaptation”	Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
1981 September 21-25	4th Congress	Berlin, Germany

1982 June 8-10	Interim Meeting “Colour Dynamics”	Budapest, Hungary	(260 participants, 25 countries, 88 papers)
1983 August 25-28	Midterm Meeting “Forsius Symposium Colour Order Systems”	Kungälv, Sweden	(73 participants, 15 countries)
1984 June 18-20	Interim Meeting “Colour Education”	Salamanca, Spain
1985 June 16-22	5th Congress	Monte Carlo, Monaco	(aprox. 400 participants)

1986 June 19-20	Interim Meeting “Color in Computer Generated Displays”	Toronto, Canada	(116 participants)
1987 June 10-13	Midterm Meeting “Wyszecki-Stiles Memorial Symposium on Color Vision Models”	Florence, Italy	(67 participants, 14 countries, aprox. 35 papers)
1988 August 8-11	Interim Meeting “Color in Environmental Design”	Winterthur, Switzerland	(154 participants, 24 countries, 39 papers)
1989 March 12-17	6th Congress	Buenos Aires, Argentina	(178 participants, 25 countries, 104 presentations: 57 oral, 47 posters)

1990 September 2-5	Interim Meeting “Instrumentation for Colour Measurement”	Berlin, Germany
1991 June 25-28	Midterm Meeting “Colour & Light”	Sydney, Australia	(189 participants, 18 countries, 54 presentations: 45 oral, 9 posters)
1992 June 21-24	Interim Meeting “Computer Color Formulation”	Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1993 June 13-18	7th Congress	Budapest, Hungary	(237 participants, 32 countries, 168 presentations: 115 oral, 53 posters)

1994 April 10-12	Interim Meeting “Images in Colour”	Cambridge, England
1995 September 3-6	Midterm Meeting “Colorimetry”	Berlin, Germany	(aprox. 120 participants)
1996 June 15-18	Interim Meeting “Color & Psychology”	Gothenburg, Sweden	(128 participants, 22 countries, 78 presentations: 50 oral, 28 posters)
1997 May 25-30	8th Congress	Kyoto, Japan	(524 participants, 29 countries, 243 presentations: 146 oral, 97 posters)

1998 vacant	There was an initial proposal from Oslo, Norway, but because of some misunderstandings (mainly because the organizers did not follow the AIC guidelines for interim meetings), the AIC retired its support. In spite that the congress was held during October 8-11, it was not an AIC meeting
1999 June 22-23	Midterm Meeting “Applications of Colorimetry in Industry and Design”	Warsaw, Poland	(86 participants, 23 countries, 54 presentations: 40 oral, 14 posters)
2000 November 6-7	Interim Meeting “Color & Environment”	Seoul, Korea	(234 participants, 14 countries, 77 presentations: 36 oral, 41 posters)
2001 June 24-29	9th Congress www.iscc.org/aic2001	Rochester, New York, USA	(440 participants, 30 countries, 250 presentations: 164 oral, 86 posters)

2002 August 29-31

Interim Meeting “Color and Textiles”