Call for Abstracts

“Composing, Decomposing, Recomposing. Montage as a form of experience”
PHILM – Philosophy and Cinema Magazine – Issue 3
Research Center of Philosophy and Cinema, University of Verona and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan
31a0ae_77553477974a435781628703bfbd921c.pdf (univr.it) (Call pdf)
https://www.philm.univr.it/rivista (PHILM Magazine)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 1, 2023

Throughout the twentieth century, montage proved to be a exceptional expressive resource, both in terms of the spatio-temporal organisation of the image and at the level of the viewer’s perceptual and interpretive responses. From an initially purely technical stage, the processes of articulation and recomposition of audiovisual material, carried out through cuts and splices, quickly became a structuring element in the narrative architecture of films, organising the flow of images into a text with recognisable divisions in which the spectator could discern a “story”. This extraordinary plasticity of montage has not only allowed the spectator to transit within the narrative, but has also gradually been filled with new polarising functions that tend to interrupt or deviate from the narrative order: on the one hand, organising the narrative flow, on the other, resisting it.… read more. “Call: “Composing, Decomposing, Recomposing. Montage as a form of experience” issue of Philosophy and Cinema Magazine”

Call for Papers

HRI 2024: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
March 11-14, 2024
Boulder, Colorado, USA [and online – see below]
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/

Deadline for full paper submissions: September 29, 2023

We are excited to announce the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI 2024 is the 19th annual conference for basic and applied HRI research. Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field.

The conference theme for HRI 2024 is “HRI in the real world” and will focus on key HRI theories, designs, studies, systems, and technical advances that aim to bring HRI out of the lab and into everyday life. We encourage the community to consider what it means to do HRI in practice, and ways to bring it into the mainstream.… read more. “Call: HRI 2024, 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction”

Call for Papers

10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23)
Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023)
September 18-22, 2023
Singapore
IntRS’23: https://intrs2023.wordpress.com/
RecSys 2023: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/

Important dates:

• Paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2023
• Author notification: August 27th, 2023
• Camera-ready version deadline: September 10th, 2023

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intrs23

OVERVIEW

Recommender systems are a popular kind of information access systems that provides personalized recommendations to users based on their preferences (i.e., current and past), behaviors, and feedback. These systems are widely used in e-commerce, social networking, and content sharing platforms, where the volume of available data and options can be overwhelming for users. Recommender systems help users discover new items, products, or content that match their interests and needs, and enhance their overall experience by saving time, effort, and money. Among the different aspects involved in the relationship between humans and recommender systems, User-centered design plays a core role.… read more. “Call: 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23) at RecSys 2023”

[Important note: I usually avoid posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I add an explicit note near the top of the post noting the fee requirement. For more information about the specific fees follow the link near the end of the Call, and for general information about publication fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew]

Call for Papers

The Many Dimensions of Us: Harnessing Immersive Technologies to Communicate the Complexity of Human Experiences
For the open access journal Media and Communication
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#ImmersiveTechnologies

Editor(s):
Nicholas David Bowman (Syracuse University), Dan Pacheco (Syracuse University), T. Makana Chock (Syracuse University), and Lyndsay Michalik Gratch (Syracuse University)

Important dates:
Submission of Abstracts: December 1-15, 2023
Submission of Full Papers: April 15-30, 2024
Publication of the Issue: October/December 2024

INFORMATION:

Human expression is tethered to and influenced by the tools available to us.… read more. “Call: Harnessing Immersive Technologies to Communicate the Complexity of Human Experiences – Media and Communication theme issue”

Call for Contributions:

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR … Diversity, Culture, Virtual Reality
A mixed media anthology
English: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call
Plain English (via GPT-3): https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-Plain
Deutsch: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-DE
Einfache Sprache: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-Einfach

Editors:
Katharina Haverich (Performance and media artist)
Lucas Kuster (Design researcher and experimental artist)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 4, 2023

TIMING

August 4, 2023. Deadline: Abstract / Preliminary project information (max. 1,500 characters)

August 30, 2023. Decision on contributions

October 15, 2023. Deadline: Submission of contribution consisting of

• Total contribution (max. 15,000 characters for text)
• Short bio (max. 400 characters)

FORM OF PUBLICATION

Mixed-media anthology (Free PDF and printed edition for a fee)

FORM OF SUBMISSION

Open (various text genres, various visual contributions, various VR contributions, project documentation …)

OPEN CALL

The Metaverse is on everyone’s lips and generates both defensive attitudes and utopian hopes. On the negative side, it may be the rejection of the idea of one Metaverse: worries about monopolies, surveillance, manipulation and profit-oriented monetisation, the withering away of real-life qualities, the Metaverse as a dangerous reproduction-innovation of isms such as racism or ableism, all the way to dystopian scenarios of completely delimited realities.… read more. “Call: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR … Diversity, Culture, Virtual Reality (mixed media anthology)”