Call for Participation Immersed in Restoration: With Guest Speakers Glen Fraser, John Harrison and Jacki Morie Thursday March 25th, 2021 at 9 am PST Museum of Other Realities (MOR) – Online (https://www.museumor.com/) https://www.museumor.com/blog/immersed-in-restoration-with-guest-speakers-glen-fraser-john-harrison-and-jacki-morie Our next talk event on March 25th, 2021 at 9 am PST stirs up the pressing question concerning the temporality of VR art. We’re honoured to host and extend the perspective of VR long-timers Glen Fraser, John Harrison and Jacki Morie as our guest speakers for ‘Immersed in Restoration’. While it might surprise contemporary VR artists in 2021 to hear about the first three decades of VR art…

Call for Paper Proposals “Narratives of Temporality: Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures” International Conference 24-25 July 2021 Cambridge/Online Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research http://spatiality.temporality.lcir.co.uk/ Proposals up to 250 words due by 30 April 2021 This conference will provide a deeper look into the dynamic and complex relation between construction, codes, language, expression, on one side and the crisis of representations, traumas, discontinuities and tensions in discourses, on the other. This will be conducted according to three research areas: The anachronism Narratives and discourse The temporality of trauma and subjectivity The aim of this conference is to develop a multidisciplinary reflection…

Call for Chapters “Playful Materialities”- A Clash of Realities edited volume Timeline: By May 1, 2021 selected abstracts will be invited to submit full chapters, which will be due by September 30 Gaming culture has always been closely linked to material culture. This applies both to analog forms of rule-based play (ludus), which would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards (Clüver 2020), and also to the act of free play (paidia) we can observe in children who transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way (Herron/Sutton-Smith 1971, Giddings 2014). Furthermore, materiality also affects digital…

Call for Papers SLERD 2021: 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development – SLERD Reload Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic June 24-25, 2021 Bucharest, Romania (blended) slerd2021.uniroma2.it Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 31, 2021 SLERD 2021 will feature: keynotes by: Inger Birkeland (University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24 Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place Danielle McNamara (Arizona State University) – June 24 Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective Sébastien Turbot (eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25 Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach…

Call for Participation International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC) 2021 March 19 – 20, 2021 and Affiliated Forum, March 21, 2021 http://iw2021.xrenlab.com/ LINKS: Registration Q&A Platform Survey The international workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC 2021) focuses on rethinking the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will be convened online via ZOOM and it will be open to all audiences around the world through webcasts and/or live-streaming platforms. The aim of this workshop is to rethink the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will strive to achieve a common platform to advance various idea exchanges around the world, resulting…

Call for Papers Workshop on Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges At IDC 2021 – ACM Interaction Design and Children conference 2021 [Online] Athens, Worldwide 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021 Workshop: https://www.techresearch4children.com/ IDC 2021: https://idc.acm.org/2021/ KEY DATES Deadline for Paper Submission: 12 April 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: 26 April 2021 Camera-ready Paper: 10 May 2021 Workshop Date: 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021 ABSTRACT Research on child-agent interaction is rapidly expanding. It is, therefore, necessary to converge our collective efforts to broaden our understanding and perspectives of how virtual agents, affect and potentially improve…