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,…

Call for Papers Special issue of the Journal of Digital War: My War: Participation In Warfare https://www.digital-war.org/blog/2020/11/23/special-issue-my-war-call-for-papers Edited by Olga Boichak, University of Sydney and Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow Deadline for receipt of abstract/proposals: 15 January, 2021 In a time when we study, work, shop, and socialise remotely, digital media also afford unprecedented opportunities for remote participation in armed conflicts. Blurring the boundaries between military and civilian actors, physical and mediated battlefronts, weapons and witnesses, citizens and diasporas, digital technologies do not simply offer new capabilities in conducting military operations – extending the battlefronts into the realms of communication…

Call for Papers International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (ISFFS/SIRFF)’s Second International Conference Theme: Impossible Fictions Thursday 28–Saturday 30 October, 2021 University of Chicago https://fiction.hypotheses.org/evenement-events#CFPEnglish Submission deadline for 250-word proposals: December 15, 2020 The second international conference of the ISFFS/SIRFF will be held from 28–30 October 2021 at the University of Chicago. The conference theme will be “Impossible Fictions.” Fiction has long been associated with possibility and plausibility, as far back as Aristotle’s claim that poetic narratives are governed by the laws of probability and necessity. In the modern period, the rise of the European novel has been linked…

Call for Abstracts Embedding AI in Society (online symposium) February 18-19, 2021 Deadline for abstract submissions: December 4, 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a pervasive part of our lives. From autonomous vehicles and AI personal assistants to computer-assisted surgery and automated trading systems, we are relying on AI to help us make decisions and manage our personal and professional activities. In all these cases, AI promises improvements in productivity and safety. But AI does not operate in a vacuum. Given its integration into our daily lives and social institutions, AI is directly shaping socioeconomic structures and affecting the lives of…