Call for Papers Athena: Philosophical Studies Thematic issue: Philosophical Reflections on Media and Technology Submission deadline: 30 June 2021 The journal Athena: Philosophical Studies (https://www.athena.lt/home) invites to submit the articles for the thematic issue Philosophical Reflections on Media and Technology. Media and technology are important topics in contemporary philosophical reflections. They were discussed in the works of renowned thinkers, such as B. Latour, D. Harraway, B. Stiegler, F. Kittler – to name only a few – their insights have shaped the way we live and think in our highly technologized world. However, recent technological developments and the rise of machine…

Call for Papers Playfulness across Media 2021 Issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture https://www.academia.edu/44445590/Call_for_Papers_Eludamos_Special_Issue_on_Playfulness_across_Media Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2021 “Playfulness” is a bona fide example of a travelling concept (Bal 2002), with a complex conceptual history that ranges from anthropology and psychology (e.g., Lieberman 1977; Sutton-Smith 1997) via literary theory (e.g., Stewart 1979; Hutchinson 1983) to the interdisciplinary field of game studies (e.g., Ensslin 2014; Sicart 2014). While there are thus evidently many different ways to approach the question what it means for humans or other animals to think, perceive, and/or behave “playfully,” even a…

Call for Participation/Call for Abstracts One-Day Online Symposium: “Cultural heritage and social impact: Digital technologies for social inclusion and participation” 24 February 2021 Online https://culture-labs.eu/social-impact-online-symposium/ Organisers: Danilo Giglitto, Eleanor Lockley (Sheffield Hallam University); Eirini Kaldeli (ICCS, National Technical University of Athens); Luigina Ciolfi (University College Cork and Sheffield Hallam University) Deadline for submissions: 8th January 2021 THEMES AND BACKGROUND Cultural heritage is no longer seen solely as a safeguarding effort or an educational outlet but also as a form of civic and cultural representation and engagement that can contribute to social cohesion. The EU-funded collaborative project “CultureLabs” (https://culture-labs.eu/) investigates and…

CALL FOR PAPERS IMX 2021 – “Beyond Entertainment” In (virtual) New York City 21st – 23rd June http://imx.acm.org/2021/ Submission deadline: January 29, 2021 The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into interactive media experiences. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. IMX focuses on challenges and innovations across diverse forms of media engagement and experiences. The aim is to provoke and promote discussion and the…

Call for Abstracts/Articles Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (2021) »Augmented Images: Trilogy of Synthetic Realities II« Deadline for Abstracts: March 31, 2021 Deadline for Articles: September 17, 2021 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from scientists, artists, designers, developers and film makers for the sixth issue, which is the second part of the »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities« concept, entitled »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities II: Augmented Images«. The first issue of the trilogy in 2020 has focussed on »Virtual Images« and now we address explicitly the problem, aesthetics and technological structure of »Augmented Images«…

Call for Participation A.I. revolution in VFX/CG LA ACM SIGGRAPH webinar We know it’s coming, the A.I. revolution in VFX/CG. The questions are when, how things will change, and what we should do to keep up. This event promises to answer these and more! Date: Tuesday, 8 December 2020 Time: 6:30 – 8:45 pm (Pacific Time) Where: on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7016057169267/WN_48SD6EUzQnmR5LZzTtUQMQ Cost: Free DESCRIPTION: To start off our event we’ll bring you up to speed with some of the A.I. jargon like Machine Learning and Deep Learning etc. We then then examine some of the ways current tasks like face simulation,…