Call for Papers Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations University of Huddersfield, UK, March 10th-11th 2011 1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline: December 6th 2010 Keywords: data visualisation, multi-modal visualisation, sonification, interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, ecology A two-day conversational* conference on interdisciplinary collaboration in data visualisation. In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based applications to experimental physical installations. While some are intended to inform by making the complex and…

HCI 2011 – Health, Wealth and Happiness Call for Papers The 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2011), Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. HCI 2011 will be held between the 4th of July and the 8th July, 2011, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. The HCI Educators conference, Workshops and Tutorials will be held on 4th and 5th July, 2011 and a Doctorial Consortium on the 5th July. The main conference runs from the 6th-8th July, 2011. HCI 2011 is organised by the PaCT Lab (Northumbria University) in cooperation with the British Computer Society. This year we will be looking for papers to put…

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.…

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…