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.…

Alternative Worlds: A retrospective of the last 111 years Call for Papers/ Art Presentations Seminar in Visual Culture 2011 Deadline for proposals: 13 Dec. 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Room ST 274 (School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1B 5DN London) This series of seminars acts as a forum for practicing artists, researchers, curators, students, and others interested in visual culture who are invited to present, discuss and explore a given theme within the broad field of Visual Culture. In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the theme for…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Immersive Education Initiative 2011 iED Summit World’s leading immersive learning experts and practitioners convene May 13-15 in Boston http://mediagrid.org/news/2010-10_2011_Boston_Summit_CALL.html BOSTON, MA – October 12, 2010 – The Immersive Education Initiative today issued an open call for iED Summit 2011 papers, posters, workshops, panels, general presentations, demos, and outliers (novel late-breaking research and technology). Boston College will host the three-day iED Summit (http://MediaGrid.org/summit) from May 13-15 through special arrangement with the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College.…

FAIRS’10 – Forum for AI Research Students 2010 Call for Participation   A full day of workshops and presentations FREE TO STUDENTS December 13th 2010, Cambridge, UK Deadline for applications: November 29th 2010 http://www.ai-research.org.uk/FAIRS2010/ http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2010 AI-2010 is the latest in the leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence run by the BCS Specialist Group on AI. In 2007 we launched the Forum for AI Research Students to support student members of the AI community, and repeated the event in 2008 and 2009. SGAI is again offering this event at AI-2010. This event offers a full day of workshops and…

16th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference Call for Abstracts June 19th – 22nd, 2011 in Gatineau, Canada This year’s theme is: Evidence-Based Clinical Applications of Information Technology This year the Interactive Media Institute (IMI) and Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) are organizing the 16th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT16), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR). IMI and UQO are proud to announce the first call for abstracts CT16. The abstract submission deadline is January 15th, 2011. In addition to two and a half days of scientific presentations, a full day of…

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions: 29 October 2010 IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2011 Avila, Spain, 10 to 12 March 2011 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS The IADIS Mobile Learning 2011 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of mobile learning research. In particular, but not exclusively, we aim to explore the theme of mobile learning under the following topics: Pedagogical approaches and theories for mobile lifelong learning. For instance, situated, contextual and authentic mobile lifelong learning Social software for mobile learning Gaming, simulations and augmented reality for mobile learning Mobile learning in…

The world’s first live performance with simultaneous motion capture from three continents will happen this Nov 4th, hosted at the International Digital Media Arts Association Conference 2010, in Vancouver. Live Performers in Japan, Vancouver, New York City and Florida will dance together in the virtual world – you can watch this historic production at In the Same Space at the Same Time. CONNECTING the EDGES: An Inter-Continental LiveVibe Real-time Collaborative Performances between Asia and North America Thursday November 4, 2010 8:00PM EST Created specially for World Premiere at the International Digital Media and Arts Association (IDMAA) 2010 Conference in Vancouver,…

Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage A conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, İstanbul Technical University and the Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University in İstanbul, Turkey on May 25-29, 2011. http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com/ Keynote Speakers: Ian Hodder (Stanford University) Richard Handler (University of Virginia) Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University) Charles Stewart (University College London) We are organizing a conference on the interrelated themes of memory, materiality and cultural heritage that will appeal to scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history. We invite papers that particularly address the uses and management of ancient sites, monuments and objects at…

Dear Colleague, The EuroMov center at Montpellier-1 University in the south of France organizes a special conference in December 2011: SKILLS is the international conference of the SKILLS European Project (IST, Multimodal Interfaces, 2007-2011). It addresses fundamental and translational issues related to the acquisition, storage, maintenance and transfer of human skills using multimodal technologies such as virtual and augmented realities, human-machine interfaces, interaction design, and robotic systems. SKILLS aims at introducing a novel approach to technology-assisted skill acquisition or rehabilitation based on enactive and direct interaction between learner and technology. Perception-action and cognitive accelerators embedded in specific training protocols are…