Jose Luis Caivano

Background

Jose Luis Caivano was born on March 26, 1958 in Junin, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of Abel Luciano Caivano and Alba Argentina (Acedo) Caivano.

Education

Bachelor, National College, Junin, 1977. National Professor Music, National Conservatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979. Architect, Buenos Aires University, 1984.

Career

Research grantee, University of Buenos Aires, 1986-1989, professor, since 1993. Research associate, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1989 and 1994. Research fellow National Council for Research (CONICET), Argentina, 1990-1994.

Postdoctoral research fellow National Council for Research, 1995-1997. Practicing architect, Argentina, 1984-1994. Researcher National Council Research, since 1997.

Director of research program, Faculty of Architecture, Buenos Aires University, since 1997. Adjunct professor Buenos Aires University, since 1988. Lecturer atbvarious universities in Argentina and abroad, since 1990.

Works

• articles

  • Appearance. In: Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology (Springer).

    (in collaboration with Paul Green-Armytage)

    2022
  • Color order systems. In: Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology (Springer).

    (in collaboration with Antal Nemcsics)

    2022
  • Chromatic identity in global and local markets: analysis of colors in branding. Colour: Design & Creativity 1 (1).

    (in collaboration with Mabel A. Lopez)

    2007
  • How colour rhetoric is used to persuade: chromatic argumentation in visual statements. Colour: Design & Creativity 5 (11).

    (in collaboration with Mabel A. Lopez)

  • Spatial semiosis in architecture: Descriptive and generative analysis. Semiotica 110 (1/2).

    (in collaboration with Juan A. Magariños de Morentin)

    1996
  • Visual texture as a semiotic system. Semiotica 80 (3/4). 1990
  • Cesia: A system of visual signs complementing color. Color Research and Application 16 (4). 1991
  • Semiotics and reality. Semiotica 97 (3/4). 1993
  • Color and sound: Physical and psychophysical relations. Color Research and Application 19 (2). 1994
  • Appearance (cesia): Construction of scales by means of spinning disks. Color Research and Application 19 (5). 1994
  • Appearance (cesia): Variables, scales, solid. Die Farbe 39 (1/6). 1994
  • Towards an order system for visual texture. Languages of Design 2 (1). 1994
  • Cesia: Its relation to color in terms of the trichromatic theory. Die Farbe 42 (1/3). 1996
  • Color and semiotics: A two-way street. Color Research and Application 23 (6). 1998
  • Research on color in architecture and environmental design: Brief history, current developments, and possible future. Color Research and Application (New York, Wiley) 31 (4). 2006
  • Cognition and semiotic processing of luminous stimuli in various orders of the natural word. Cognitive Semiotics 8 (2). 2015
  • Color order systems, color mixtures and the role of cesia. Color Research and Application 46 (6). 2021
  • Black, white, and grays: Are they colors, absence of color or the sum of all colors? Color Research and Application 47 (2). 2022
  • The shape of colour order systems and the evolution of colour theory. In: Ordering colours in 18th and early 19th century Europe (Springer). 2023
  • Polychromy. In: Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology (Springer). 2022
  • Color combination. In: Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology (Springer). 2023

• books

  • Sistemas de orden del color (Buenos Aires: SICyT-FADU, University of Buenos Aires). 1995

• Doctoral Thesis

  • Las teorías de la luz y el color como contribución a la semiótica visual. La semiótica como paradigma para el estudio de la luz y el color (Buenos Aires: Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, UBA). 2011

Membership

Argentine Color Group (president 1994-2004),

International Color Association (president 2006-2009),

International Association for Visual Semiotics (president 2012-2015),

International Color Association Study Group on Environmental Color Design (chairman 1997-2005, honorary member since 2021),

Portuguese Color Association (honorary member),

Mexican Association of Color Researchers (honorary member),

Ad Chroma Association, Paris (honorary member).

Other memberships included: International Association Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (advisory board), International Association for Semiotic Studies, International Association for the Semiotics of Space, Semiotic Society of America, Argentine Association for Semiotics, Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes, New York Academy of Sciences, Foundation for Vision Research "F. Mattiello" (vice president).

Interests

• Avocations: classical music, photography, book binding.

Connections

Married Marcela Fiorillo, June 22, 1985 (divorced 1997). Married Mabel A. López, February 24, 1998.

Father:

Abel Luciano Caivano

Mother:

Alba Argentina (Acedo) Caivano

Spouse:

Mabel A. López

Spouse:

Marcela Fiorillo