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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • ISPR News / Call: PRESENCE 2024 – Help choose location and timing

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    ISPR News and Call for Participation: Help choose the location and timing of PRESENCE 2024 As those who’ve attended them know, ISPR’s PRESENCE conferences, held in cities from Suffolk, England in 1998 to Prague in 2018 and most recently online during the pandemic, have always been productive and enjoyable professional and social events. They’re single-track, informal and everyone there is interested in presence. The panels are organized and scheduled to take advantage of our physical copresence (!) and encourage interesting, useful, unrushed discussions that continue during breaks and meals. We’re now planning the first in-person PRESENCE conference since before the…

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  • San Francisco artist finds popularity with old-time illusions

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    [The NBC Bay Area television station covered the interesting story of teacher, artist, collector and presence illusion creator Joshua Ellingson; see the original story for the station’s 3:02 minute video report, and for much more information and many videos visit Ellingson’s website. –Matthew] [Image: A Pepper’s Ghost illusion of a goldfish swims beneath a plastic globe in the apartment of San Francisco artist Joshua Ellingson.] San Francisco artist finds popularity with old-time illusions By Joe Rosato Jr. August 28, 2023 Inside his 600-square-foot San Francisco apartment, Joshua Ellingson was outnumbered about 20 to one by vintage television sets, a collection…

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  • ISPR News / Call: PRESENCE 2024 – Help choose location and timing

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    ISPR News and Call for Participation: Help choose the location and timing of PRESENCE 2024 As those who’ve attended them know, ISPR’s PRESENCE conferences, held in cities from Suffolk, England in 1998 to Prague in 2018 and most recently online during the pandemic, have always been productive and enjoyable professional and social events. They’re single-track, informal and everyone there is interested in presence. The panels are organized and scheduled to take advantage of our physical copresence (!) and encourage interesting, useful, unrushed discussions that continue during breaks and meals. We’re now planning the first in-person PRESENCE conference since before the…

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  • Call: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

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    Call for Submissions The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Issue 24: General Issue https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-call-for-submissions Issue Editors: Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY School of Professional Studies Cen Liu, The Graduate Center, CUNY Sarah Silverman, University of Michigan-Dearborn Submission deadline for full manuscripts: December 1, 2023 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research. We are interested in contributions that creatively take advantage of the affordances of digital platforms and critique their limitations. We invite both textual and multimedia submissions employing interdisciplinary and innovative approaches in the humanities, sciences, and…

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  • Hologram runway wows crowds at Amsterdam Fashion Week

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    [The story below from Decrypt reports that over a thousand people recently attended a runway fashion show that featured only holographic figures, and “numerous audience members” were moved to tears “despite the fact that nothing they had seen, technically speaking, physically existed.” See the original story for four more pictures and two videos, and for more information see the event’s press release via FashionUnited. –Matthew] Hologram Runway Wows Crowds at Amsterdam Fashion Week Future Front Row seeks to chart an immersion-first path forward for the digital fashion industry after packing the house in Amsterdam. By Sander Lutz September 11, 2023…

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  • Call: Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2024 Special Call: AI

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    Call for Papers Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2024 Media-Related Research, Creative Work, Panels & Workshops April 13-16, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada USA https://www.beaweb.org/conv/ Submission deadline: December 1, 2023 The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is the premiere international academic media organization driving insights, excellence in media production and career advancement for educators, students and professionals.  BEA’s annual convention traditionally produces over 250 sessions on media pedagogy, collaborative networking events, hands-on technology workshops, research and creative scholarship and the Festival of Media Arts.  Co-located with NAB Show, where the broadcast, media and entertainment industry converged to experience innovation in action and harness…

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  • Cars As Social Actors: A driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter

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    [The self-driving car company Wayve is using conversational large language model-based artificial intelligence to “talk” to its cars and ask them questions about what they see and how they make decisions as they drive. The company also is training the AI by having expert human drivers explain their perceptions and decisions as they drive. While this article from MIT Technology Review focuses on the important practical benefits of the approach, which has already been used with robots but not cars, the experience of conversing with embodied AI in both cases seems very likely to evoke an increasingly compelling form of…

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  • Call: “Rethinking human-technology relations” for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection

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    Call for Papers “Rethinking human-technology relations” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection https://www.nature.com/collections/fabejegiac Guest Editors: Orsolya Friedrich (FernUniversität in Hagen) Sebastian Schleidgen (FernUniversität in Hagen) Johanna Seifert (FernUniversität in Hagen) Submission deadline: November 13, 2023 Human-technology relations (HTR) are of crucial interest in the humanities and social sciences. In sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, and psychology, the implications, effects, and dynamics of human-technology relations are controversially debated and analysed. This Article Collection aims to address these debates and provide a systematic overview of different disciplinary approaches to the topic of human-technology relations by shifting the focus from human-machine interactions…

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  • Despite companies’ return-to-office mandates, the shift to remote work is here to stay

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    [Another incisive column from technology writer Mike Elgan in Computerworld predicts that despite some companies’ mandates that their employees return to full-time office work, the shift to flexible work-from-home schedules established during the pandemic will continue: “Remote work is the future of work” (which means that presence-evoking technologies will be increasingly vital). –Matthew] [Image: A reception desk at Amazon offices in downtown Seattle, Washington. Credit: Glen Chapman/AFP/Getty Images. Source: CNBC] Amazon’s return-to-office mandate won’t work out No matter how many companies demand that their employees return to the office, the shift to remote work that occurred during the pandemic isn’t…

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  • Call: Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies Workshop

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    CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies November 8–9, 2023 NOVA University Lisbon Portugal https://ifilnova.pt/en/cognitive-ecologies-values-and-disruptive-technologies/ Submission deadline: September 23, 2023 Confirmed speakers to include: David Spurrett (University of Kwazulu-Natal) Gloria Andrada (NOVA University Lisbon) Jesus Vega-Encabo (Universidad Autónoma da Madrid) John Sutton (University of Stirling & Macquarie University) Lucy Osler (Cardiff University) Robert W Clowes (NOVA University Lisbon) The Lisbon Mind, Cognition and Knowledge Group, in collaboration with the GENAI Project, is excited to announce the workshop on Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies. This intellectually stimulating event will take place on the 8th and 9th of November…

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  • Chat2024: AI-powered avatars of US presidential candidates answer user questions and debate

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    [This story from Politico describes the fast-evolving use of artificial intelligence trained on internet sources including political candidates’ video appearances and writings to simulate the candidates’ responses to questions from voters and debates with each other, with results increasingly likely to evoke presence and be at turns entertaining (as in the TrumpOrBiden2024 parody) and educational. Is this the future of political campaigns? –Matthew] [Image: Screenshot of AI avatars of Joe Biden and Donald Trump “debating” on TrumpOrBiden2024 on Twitch] Prepare yourself. A Donald Trump chatbot is about to be unleashed. A project called Chat2024 will officially unveil the AI-powered avatars…

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  • Call: The 2024 Digital Worlds Workshop

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    Call for Proposals The Digital Worlds Workshop Online April 19-21, 2024 https://digitalworldsworkshop.wordpress.com/ Extended abstracts submission deadline: January 15, 2024 The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley invites submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 19-21 2024. We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds. The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding. People can increasingly be said to “live on their phones” or other devices. This workshop aims to interrogate…

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