Call for Abstracts Imagining Technologies / Technologizing Imagination(s)Theme section, Vol. XII, No. 2, 2024I Castelli di Yale [The Castles of Yale]https://cyonline.unife.it/pages/callforpapers Edited by Annabelle Dufourcq, Agostino Cera and Andrea Zoppis Submission deadline: June 25, 2024 The proliferation of technology in our daily lives has a huge impact on our sensibilities and capacity to imagine the world we live in. Technology increasingly affects institutions, communication and behavior in the anonymous imaginary field that haunts us and our reality. As a result, according to many scholars, technology should be considered our current oikos, sphere or ‘(neo)environment’. Looking at the latest technological developments,…

New Journal and Call for Papers Announcing the first issue of the ARDIN Journal of Interactive NarrativeAmsterdam/Atlanta Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives, https://ardin.onlineMay 24, 2024https://ardin.online/2024/05/24/journal-announcement/ Introducing the Journal of Interactive Narrative – The First of Its Kind We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Journal of Interactive Narrative (JIN) – the world’s first academic journal dedicated entirely to the growing field of interactive narratives. As storytelling evolves in our digital age, JIN will provide a vital platform for researchers, creators, and scholars to share groundbreaking work at the intersection of narratology, game design, artificial intelligence, media studies,…

Call for Papers Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24)September 16-18, 2024Austin, Texashttps://symposium.tas.ac.uk/2024/ Submission deadline: June 17, 2024 (extended) We invite submissions on research focused on trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS), responsible and ethical artificial intelligence, and human-machine interaction. Autonomous systems involve software applications and machines that can take actions with little or no human supervision. We are particularly interested in socio-technical systems involving both humans and machines working together, and automated decision-making processes and the ways in which they are employed by and impacting people. Trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) generate positive outcomes and mitigate potentially harmful outcomes for…

Call for Abstracts Atmospheres of Places, Objects and EventsUniversity of Genoa, ItalyNovember 20-21, 2024 PRIN-PNRR Project “Atmospheres (ATMOS): What They Are and How They are Grasped”PI: Prof. Elvira Di Bona, University of Turin Submission deadline: June 30, 2024 In recent years, the general interest in ecological processes has reconfigured the concept of “atmosphere” – one of the most original of the nature and landscape aesthetics of the 1990s. Questioning environmental perception, the cognition of situated, relational, expressive properties of objects, bodily movement through space and sensorimotor, technological aspects of ambiences, this conference on the meaning of atmospheres seeks to determine…

[Note: Follow the link to the Enriched Realities website for more presence-related material. –Matthew] Call for Book Chapters Finding Our Place in the Digital World: Essays in Technology, Phenomenology, and the Environmenthttps://enrichedrealities.com/2024/05/09/call-for-chapters/ Edited by Ian Werkheiser (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) and Michael Butler (University of North Dakota) Deadline for proposals: September 1, 2024 We invite proposals for chapters in an edited volume to be published by Springer entitled “Finding Our Place in the Digital World: Essays in Technology, Phenomenology, and the Environment.” The volume seeks to establish the philosophy of the digital world as a unified subdiscipline at…

Call for Papers DIGITAL HERITAGE strand of the2025 London Heritage(s) conference Critical Questions – Contemporary PracticeJune 25-27, 2025London (+ virtual)https://amps-research.com/london-heritages-digital/https://amps-research.com/conference/london-heritages/  Deadline for abstracts: July 15, 2024 The Digital Heritage strand of the 2025 London Heritage(s) conference Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice is intended to highlight work being done at the intersection of heritage and technology studies, whether that be cases studies of innovative projects, surveys of critical questions in the field, examples of recent or completed research projects, or discussions on teaching and learning in the sector. Held at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maritime Greenwich, London, examples of…

Call for Participation Attending to Technology in a Time of Radical ChangeA free seminar organized by The Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College LondonJune 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM GMTKing’s College London, Strand Campus, Bush House (S)2.03, WC2B 4BGhttps://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforattentionstudies/1254038 The Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London invites you to an afternoon symposium on how we can attend to technology, cognitively and affectively, in the present moment of radical epistemic and social change. The symposium will examine various ways in which developments in machine learning, generative AI and biometrics are impacting human language, cognition, embodiment,…

Call for papers, videos, pictorials, design explorations and performances Creative Robotics Theatre WorkshopAt ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024July 1-5, 2024IT University, Copenhagen-DK and onlinehttps://www.arts.ac.uk/creative-computing-institute/research/creative-xr-and-robotics-hub/creative-robotics-theatre Submission deadline: May 31, 2024 Join us at DIS 2024 for an innovative workshop exploring the confluence of robotics, theatre, and societal change. We are seeking artists, technologists, researchers, and practitioners interested in pushing the boundaries of Creative Robotics Theatre to enhance societal well-being and address global challenges. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We invite submissions that explore the integration of robotics in performing arts and its impact on society. Contributions can include but are not limited…

Call for Chapters for Edited Volume THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL WELL-BEINGhttps://philevents.org/event/show/123174 Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2024 We are seeking contributions for two remaining spots in our edited volume on “The Future of Digital Wellbeing.” More details on the theme of the volume, its invited contributors, and deadlines are provided below. Volume Details Title: The Future of Digital Well-Being Format: 12 chapters, including an editors’ introduction on the ethics of digital well-being technologies. Editors: Matthew J. Dennis (TU Eindhoven), Peter Königs (TU Dortmund) Publisher: tbc. Invited authors: Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele (Ghent University), Marijn Martens (imec-mict-UGent), Christopher Burr (Alan…

Call for Papers MANCEPT 2024 Workshop: The Future of RelationshipsSeptember 4-6, 2024Manchester, United KingdomWorkshop: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mancept/mancept-workshops/list-of-panels-a-z-2024/the-future-of-relationships/MANCEPT 2024: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mancept/mancept-workshops/ Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2024 Intimate relationships of various kinds play important roles in our lives. From romantic relationships and close friendships to relationships with colleagues and neighbors, they affect our well-being and the structure of our lives in profound ways. There have been many attempts to reimagine societies by focusing on changes to the public sphere: to how we work, how society is structured, and how we will be governed. Less attention has been directed to changes in our intimate relationships.…

Call for Abstracts 11th Budapest Visual Learning Conference: ENVISIONING AN ELECTRIFYING FUTURENovember 13, 2024Budapest, Hungary and onlinehttp://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/EEE/EEE_Opening_page.pdf Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 1, 2024 The 11th Budapest Visual Learning Conference: ENVISIONING AN ELECTRIFYING FUTURE event will take place on November 13, 2024, from 13:00 to 19:20 CET. General information, suggested topics How to submit Plenary speakers Pre-conference network of submissions displayed Reference to earlier conferences in this series Conference homesite — 1. This will be a blended (physical and online) conference. Venue: Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN RCH), 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street.…

Call for Participation Revisiting CEAIT: Music & Early Telepresence (Free discussion panel)Organized by EZTV and LA-SIGGRAPH in collaboration with the Center for Media & Design of Santa Monica College (SMC)Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 2-4 pm PDTSMC’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery1310 11th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revisiting-ceait-music-early-telepresence-tickets-781155435937 The CEAIT discussion panel is informed by ongoing scholarly research on the legacy of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology (CEAIT) – founded in 1989 by Morton Subotnick at the California Institute of the Arts School of Music. In the 1990s, before the institution acquired its own performance…