International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Special Issue Call for Papers:
Bodily Extensions and Performance (Avatars, Prosthetics, Cyborgs, Posthumans)
Guest editors: Sita Popat and Sarah Whatley

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31st January 2017

Full manuscripts should be submitted by email to s.popat@leeds.ac.uk
Publication: Autumn 2017 in Volume 13, Issue 2

The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media is seeking contributions for a special issue on Bodily Extensions and Performance.

Bodily extensions are becoming everyday occurrences for many people, e.g. contact lenses, digital avatars, prosthetic limbs. Bodily extensions attach to or connect with bodies to adjust, change, or augment them in physical or virtual spaces. We may use them ourselves, or see them in work-places, in social environments, at home, or in the media. They may be perceived as enabling tools or disabling features, and they may be incorporated into body image and implicated in social identity.… read more. “Call: Bodily Extensions and Performance (Avatars, Prosthetics, Cyborgs, Posthumans) – IJPADM special issue”

Call for Papers

GFF 2017: Realities and World Building
University of Vienna, September 20^th-23^rd 2017

Bio and abstracts due: February 28th 2017

The creation and experience of “new” worlds is a central appeal of the fantastic. From Middle Earth to variations of the Final Frontier, the fantastic provides a seemingly infinite number of fantastic “worlds” and world concepts. It develops and varies social and cultural systems, ideologies, biological and climatic conditions, cosmologies and different time periods. Its potential and self-conception between the possible and the impossible offer perspectives to nearly every field of research.

The plurality and concurrent existence of different, even contradictory concepts of reality is an established topos in cultural and social sciences.[1] In a similar fashion, scientific narratives can simultaneously coexist with fantastic ones within the cultural network of meaning [2] – without creating an existential antagonism between them.… read more. “Call: GFF 2017: Realities and World Building”

Call for Papers
28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2017 (HT2017)
July 4 – 7, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
https://ht.acm.org/ht2017/

Abstract submission for main proceedings: February 3, 2017

The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT) is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on theory, systems and applications for hypertext and social media. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research, including social media, adaptation, personalization, recommendations, user modeling, linked data and semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext, and its application in digital humanities, as well as with interplay between those aspects such as linking stories with data or linking people with resources.

HT2017 will focus on the role of links, linking, hypertext and hyperlink theory on the web and beyond, as a foundation for approaches and practices in the wider community. Therefore, HT2017 has the following tracks:

• Social Networks and Digital Humanities (Linking people)
• Semantic Web and Linked Data (Linking data)
• Adaptive Hypertext and Recommendations (Linking resources)
• News and Storytelling (Linking stories)
• Demonstrations

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS… read more. “Call: Hypertext 2017 – 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media”

2017 IEEE VR Equitable Access to Interaction with Mobile-based Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems (EquiVAR)
Saturday (afternoon), March 18, 2017
http://equivar.gameresearchlab.org

Organized in conjunction with the IEEE Virtual Reality 2017 – Los Angeles, California on March 18-22, 2017, http://ieeevr.org/2017/

Abstract submission: February 3, 2017
Submission Deadline: February 5, 2017

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Virtual and augmented reality technologies and their applications in education, engineering, healthcare, and entertainment offer potentially unprecedented benefits to society. Thus, it is important for the research community to address social and economic imbalances so that people from diverse backgrounds have similar opportunities when it comes to accessing and using virtual and augmented reality. While the current cost of stationary VR systems is, and for a while will be, prohibitive to most of the world’s population, mobile-based head mounted displays are the means for democratization of access to VR and AR due to ever-increasing proliferation of mobile devices.… read more. “Call: Equitable Access to Interaction with Mobile-based Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems (EquiVAR) at IEEE VR 2017”

Call for Abstracts

Researching the Transgressive Aspects of Gaming and Play
(Media Mutations 9 pre-conference)
Bologna, Italy
May 22, 2017

Abstracts deadline: February 15, 2017

Diverting from a focus on games and gaming, game studies currently pays growing attention to play, playfulness, and play practices. The idea that games and play are about the fun and the safe has repeatedly been challenged from different angles. While the average game experience is often characterized by failure and frustration related to increasingly difficult challenges, children’s play often change from laughter to crying in a heartbeat, and playfulness is at the core of dangerous activities such as BASE jumping and race car driving.

Play is “something precarious, a balance that needs to be maintained unbroken but that at the same time needs to be challenged and put at risk in order to remain interesting” (Linderoth and Mortensen 2015), and in this seminar we are asking what methods we can use to better understand the dimensions of this elusive paradox of play.… read more. “Call: Researching the Transgressive Aspects of Gaming and Play (Media Mutations 9 pre-conference)”