Following an introductory paper on Pittsburgh and the arts, 57 conference papers are presented under the following four major categories: (1) "Imagery, Science and the Arts," including discovery in art and science, technology and art, visual design of newspapers, multimedia science education, science learning and interactive videodisc technology, hypermedia, and visualization in science and the arts (8 papers); (2) "Research and Theory," including rehearsal strategies, commercial literacy, visual design in the planetarium, picturing text, instructional materials evaluation, drawings and videotapes in riding instruction, international icon symbols, information tracking, color codes and verbal material recall, teleconferenced instruction, prototypic visual images in high school mathematics, redundancy in television messages, environmental linguistics, icon images in HyperCard, visual acuity of radiologists, information literacy, visual verbal relationships, and imagery in motion media (22 papers); (3) "Computers and Visual Literacy," including e-mail, expert systems, image databases, interdisciplinary study and multimedia, intelligent advisor systems, workplace literacy software, visual simulations, and virtual reality (11 papers); (4) "Teaching and Learning," including linking art and chemistry, visualizing the complexities of instruction, architectural images, holography, synetics and imagery, nonverbal language, engineering presentation, and instructional television in diverse cultural settings (11 papers); (5) "The Visual Arts," including the new auteur movement, art and environment, and cognitive factors and visual images (5 papers). An author index is included. Most of the papers contain references. (MES)