Call for Participation: Beyond Game MechanicsOctober 8-9, 2025School of Creative Media, The City University of Hong Kong  (offline participation only)[From a post on the Gamesnetwork electronic mailing list; use contact emails below for more information –Matthew] Deadline for submission: July 15, 2025 “Game mechanics” is a frequently referenced yet contested term in game studies. There have been some efforts to define it, of which perhaps the most widely known is Sicart’s (2008) definition of game mechanics as “methods invoked by agents interacting with the game world.” The term has also been explored for its tangled relationship to game rules as…

Call for Participation: Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through ArtExhibition during Edinburgh Summer FestivalsAugust 7-17, 2025University of EdinburghScotlandhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2506&L=ART-TECHNOLOGY&O=D&P=4128https://crea-tec.weebly.com/authenticity_unmasked.html You are warmly invited to the opening event of the upcoming exhibition Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art, which will take place at the University of Edinburgh from 7–17 August 2025. In an age of AI-generated content, questions surrounding truth, memory, and authorship have become increasingly urgent. This exhibition, curated by Theodore Koterwas, brings together new works by artists Georgia Gardner, Kinnari Saraiya, and dmstfctn, offering a critical exploration of how emerging technologies are reshaping perceptions of authenticity.…

Call for Papers: Connected Realities: Exploring Collaboration and Social Interaction in eXtended RealitySpecial issue of the journal Virtual Realityhttps://link.springer.com/collections/ijfihjahcf Editors:Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, ItalyPablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and TU Delft, The NetherlandsTanja Kojić, TU Berlin, GermanyAndrea Antonio Cantone, University of Salerno, Italy Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2025 AIMS AND SCOPE Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), are profoundly transforming how people interact and collaborate in the digital world, overcoming physical barriers and creating new opportunities for social connection. These immersive solutions range from integrating digital elements…

Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence in Narrative Media: Generative AI in Contemporary StorytellingFor the journal Hipertext.nethttps://raco.cat/index.php/Hipertext/announcement/view/233 Guest Editors::Szilvia Ruszev, University College London – UK (s.ruszev@ucl.ac.uk)Temenuga Trifonova, University College London – UK (t.trifonova@ucl.ac.uk)Frederic Guerrero-Solé, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona (frederic.guerrero@upf.edu) Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 (extended) INTRODUCTION As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly integrated into creative industries, their impact on narrative, authorship, and visual language becomes a topic for critical research. AI tools can assist production at any stage, from ideation, scriptwriting, and automating media editing, to visual effects, synthesising voices, reshaping traditional workflows and lowering barriers for…

[Submitted by an ISPR Presence News reader] Call for Papers: 1st Conference of the Spanish Society of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine (CIABIOMED 2025)October 23-24, 2025Universidad de Sevilla (US)Seville, Spainhttps://2025.iabiomed.org/en/call-for-papers Deadline for submissions: July 20, 2025 CIABiomed will be a meeting place for researchers, professionals and students interested in the ethical, rigorous and responsible use of artificial intelligence in biomedicine. This multidisciplinary event will provide an open forum for sharing recent advances, discussing current challenges and exploring new trends. It will cover everything from the development of techniques and models to their application in real clinical contexts. It will combine scientific…

Call for Proposals: 12th Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2026) ConferenceTheme: “From Plato’s Cave to Open Immersive Societies: Transforming Learning and Knowledge”In-person: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GreeceJune 27-30, 2026Online: Hosted across global iLRN ChaptersJune 28-30, 2026Conference website: https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2026/ Deadlines for submissions: Special Tracks Proposals: July 31, 2025 Academic submissions: October 1, 2025 iLEAD submissions: January 12, 2026 The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) invites proposals for its 12th annual conference, building upon the momentum of iLRN2025’s focus on multimodal literacies to further develop the contextual foundations, aims, and integrative methods of a new multidisciplinary science of immersive learning.…