CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions: 24 January 2011 IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERFACES AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION 2011 Rome, Italy, 24- 26 July 2011 (http://www.ihci-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2011) Rome, Italy, 20 – 26 July 2011 (http://www.mccsis.org) Conference background and goals The IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2011 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Interface Culture and Design with a particular emphasis on the affective aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology…

NOTHING LEFT TO THE IMAGINATION? Sheffield Hallam University, England 21-24 June 2011 Call for Papers The Department of Media Arts and Communication is hosting a cross-disciplinary conference which considers the implications for viewing, spectatorship and participation arising from recent technological developments in image production; developments which have the capacity to increase detail, precision and fidelity. Nothing Left to the Imagination? encourages participants to explore the ways in which the tendency towards the production of immaculate image quality impacts on the experience of visual media. Does heightened visual experience enhance, compete, or co-exist, with the potential for cognitive pleasure, immersion and…

8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2011) and related art program, tutorials, workshops, and graduate student symposium 3-6 November 2011 Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html Submission deadline (for all kinds of submissions): March 25, 2011. We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners, from artists and scientists, from designers, educators and decision makers.

International Visual Sociology Association IVSA 2011 The University of British Columbia Vancouver, July 6-8 Visual Research as a Collaborative and Participatory Practice is the theme of the 2011 IVSA Conference. Considering visual research as collaborative and participatory suggests new ways of working together, and offers opportunities to think produc­tively about alternative inquiry practices, analytical frames, and dissemination possibilities. The theme draws attention to the complex, contradictory, and constantly negotiated networks of relations that constitutes visual research, and it offers an opportunity to reengage with sensation, memory, and perception in visual research inquiries and dissemination practices.

SLACTIONS 2010 MBS SL ISLAND 18TH AND 19TH NOVEMBER 2010 http://www.slactions.org/slactions.php OVERVIEW AND REGISTRATION SLACTIONS 10 builds on the successful conference in 2009 and will use the same hybrid format. It will take place concurrently on the virtual MBS SL Island, and at physical Local Chapters in several countries. All paper presentations and plenary sessions by guest speakers will be held on-line in the Second Life virtual world, but also projected locally for participants that attend the physical Local Chapters. Registration for the inworld and local Chapters is now available from the website.  See below for list of papers.

Eighth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2010) Paris, France, 16th-17th December 2010 http://www.lipade.fr/eumas10/ OVERVIEW AND REGISTRATION Agent technology has had an expanding impact and depth over the past two decades and more, influencing and being influenced by other disciplines while making a distinct research contribution with novel solutions to industrial problems.  This workshop is a European forum at which researchers, and those interested in activities relating to research, in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems can meet, present (potentially preliminary) research results, problems, and issues in an open and informal but academic environment.