Call for Papers Mindscapes: Culture, AI, and Human Minds Workshop March 12, 2024 Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 3. 2024 In the age of intertwined human and AI-generated content, the Mindscapes workshop aims to explore the impact of these interactions on cultural practices. Generative AI like Language Models (LLMs), if skewed towards Western perspectives, inadvertently constrain self-determination in our agency to contribute to the meaning-making within our cultural practices, narratives and knowledges. This philosophical inquiry has profound implications in various societal domains. Can we achieve culturally sensitive AI design? This conference focuses on the interplay…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Meaningful XR 2024 (#MXR24) May 23-25, 2024 Stanford/Palo Alto, California Call: https://bit.ly/mxr24cfp Submissions: https://bit.ly/mxf24submit Submission deadline: January 24, 2024 Whether designed to entertain or achieve more “serious” purposes, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—collectively “XR”—meaningfully impact users’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitions, physical health, well-being and behavior. Meaningful XR 2024 is a conference for scholars and industry professionals about theory, research, design innovations, principles, and practices related to meaningful uses of XR. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from both academic and industry leaders, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions, “XRbitions”, and social mixers…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Cinema and Philosophy Journal of Continental Philosophy https://www.pdcnet.org/jcp Submission deadline: December 20, 2023 Philosophers of film have long viewed cinema as a somewhat indeterminate and evolving art form. From Ricciotto Canudo’s pronouncement a century ago that “film will increasingly serve as Art’s powerful coadjutor” to Alain Badiou’s recent determination that “there is a latent infinity in cinema,” film has consistently been recognized as a dynamic medium whose essence lies in some sense in excess of itself. Yet the rise of digital technologies, AI, and streaming platforms seems to be challenging this fundamentally progressive conception…

Call for Abstracts: International Conference Which Smartness? Whose Intelligence? Critical Perspectives on Digital Technology and Political Subjects May 13-14, 2024 Centre of Philosophy,  University of Lisbon, Portugal Event organized as part of the activities of Praxis-CFUL https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/events/digital-technology-political-subjects/ Submission deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2023 Digital technology has profoundly transformed our societies, shaping the way we interact, govern, and understand ourselves as subjects and political agents. From social media to videogames and digital platforms, the digital has become much more than a means of communication and information transmission. Digital environments are now spaces for existence, work, play, and politics. In other…

Call for Papers Agency and Intentions in AI (AIAI) University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany May 15-17, 2024 https://ail-workshop.github.io/aiai-conference/index.html Submission of abstracts deadline: February 11, 2024 ABOUT “Agency and Intentions in Artificial Intelligence” (AIAI) builds on the success of our workshop series “Agency and Intentions in Language” (AIL), which brings together scholars in theoretical linguistics, philosophy, and psychology who are interested in questions related to agency, intentions, reasoning about actions, and causation. AIAI aims at extending this interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of fundamental principles underlying human-human interaction to human-machine interaction, broadly construed. The talk of “artificial intelligence” is everywhere.…

Call for Papers Meta: The 20th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar Tampere, Finland May 7-8, 2024 https://springseminar.org/2024-call-for-papers Submission deadline for extended abstracts: February 2, 2024 To limit one’s sense of games to abstract sets of rules is to ignore the central importance of how they are played by specific people in specific contexts. André Philidor’s 1749 claim that ‘pawns are the soul of chess’ and the strategy this implied changed how the game of chess was played. In the late 1980’s Jan Boklöv and others transformed the game of ski jumping by introducing the V-style. In both…

Call for Abstracts Critical AR/VR Research (CAVRN) Post-Conference for the 2024 International Communications Association Conference Sydney, Australia June 25, 2024 CAVRN at ICA: https://cavrn.org/ica24-conf-cfp/ ICA 2024: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica24 Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 24, 2024 We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for an upcoming post-conference of the 2024 International Communications Association (ICA) Conference at the University of Sydney, on the 25th June 2024. The post-conference is hosted by the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality Research Network (CAVRN), a scholarly network established in 2022 dedicated to connect academic researchers in the rapidly growing field of Virtual Reality (VR)…

Call for Abstracts The 4th Politics of the Machines (POM) Conference POM Aachen 2024 Lifelikeness & beyond RWTH Aachen University KäteHamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) April 22-26, 2024 https://www.pomconference.org/pom-aachen-2024/ Deadline for submission of abstract: December 4, 2023 SUMMARY: With the overarching theme “Lifelikeness & Beyond” the Politics of the Machines conference organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research at Aachen University seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields across the sciences, technology and the arts to develop imaginaries for possibilities that are still to be realized and new ideas of what the…

Call for Papers Facets of Reality – Contemporary Debates Associated with the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2024 (but submissions need not be related to Wittgenstein’s work) Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria August 11-17, 2024 https://www.alws.at/symposium/45th-international-wittgenstein-symposium-2024/ Submission deadline: March 1, 2024 What’s real? What is the totality of reality like? And what does it mean to be real? Though discussions of these questions have been ubiquitous throughout the history of philosophy, over the past two decades, questions about reality have been discussed with new enthusiasm. This conference brings together different contemporary philosophical debates about reality, addressing foundational issues just as well as…

Call for Papers Inference: Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI A One-day Workshop April 22, 2024 In person but hybrid options may be available The University of Sheffield South Yorkshire, England https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/inference Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 5, 2024 The past 18 months have marked a significant moment for visual forms of generative AI. In July 2022, text-to-image model Midjourney entered an open beta; a few months later in August 2022, open-source model Stable Diffusion was released; and the very next month, Open AI’s text-to-image model DALL-E 2 was made available to the public without a waitlist.…

Call For Papers The Impact of Generative AI on Human Creativity Special issue of the Journal AI & Society https://www.springer.com/journal/146/updates/26259468 Guest Editors: Jon McCormack, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, Jon.McCormack@monash.edu Dr Maria Teresa Llano, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, llano@monash.edu Dr Nina Rajcic, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, rajcic@monash.edu Ms Tace McNamara, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, mcnamara@monash.edu Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2024 Manuscript submission deadline: April 30, 2024 The rapid rise of generative AI technologies in applications of human creative practice – including visual art, illustration, cinema, writing, performance and music – has raised both opportunities and questions regarding the future of…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization July 1-4, 2024 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy https://www.um.org/umap2024 Deadline for abstracts: January 22, 2024 (mandatory) Deadline for papers: January 29, 2024 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital…