Call for Contributions: 2025 International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking (INEFF) ConferenceJuly 17-18, 2025University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Manchester, UKhttps://www.ineff.org/2025-conference-call.html Deadline for submission of proposals: March 31, 2025 The third Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Conference aims to explore and define the boundaries of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking (EFF) by bringing together practice-as-research (PaR) academics, film scholars, industry professionals and independent filmmakers for a series of workshops, presentations and screenings. EFF draws upon traditions in cinema, experimental film, art cinema and expanded cinema, but also specific philosophical concerns and practitioner insights and sensibilities. EFF is not tied to one particular movement or period of…

[For a definition and more information about concept art see The StudioBinder Blog. –Matthew] Call For Papers: Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative PerspectivesA one-day conferenceJuly 18, 2025University for the Creative ArtsFarnham, Surrey, UKhttps://cacd2025.edublogs.org Deadline for submission of abstracts and bios: April 30, 2025 The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is hosting a one-day conference on Friday 18 July 2025, exploring the role of concept art and character design in the culture industries. This event aims to explore approaches to understanding concept art and character design drawing upon multiple critical and creative perspectives.…

Call for Papers: Workshop on Persuasion and AI Disclosure: Building Trust in Synthetic MediaHeld as part of the 20th International Conference on Persuasive TechnologyLimassol, CyprusMay 5, 2025Workshop: https://aunmedia.org/AIDisclosure/Persuasive 2005 conference: https://2025.persuasivetech.org Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2025 This workshop is a full-day preconference event organized as part of the 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology which will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus, St. Raphael Resort and Marina, May 5-7 2025. The workshop date is May 5th, 2025. Artificial intelligence has revolutionized persuasive communication through the emergence of synthetic media—hyper-realistic AI-generated content that challenges the boundaries of trust, authenticity, and ethics.…

Call for Abstracts: Disney and the Multi-Media-Verse: Disney’s Engagement with Multimedia, Space and CultureThe Disney, Culture and Society Research Network’s Third Annual ConferenceJune 23-27, 2025ONLINECfP translations: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/100W8HiC3amHfEtT6qyPt4WOWEOFXw0pc Deadline for submissions: February 16, 2025 (extended) Submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/yzXWcB9cTBCQmgbz5 The Walt Disney Company uses multiple online and offline spaces to sell and showcase their products to audiences and consumers. From cable networks, streaming and games, to licensed merchandise and theme parks, music, film and art – Disney fans can engage with the global multimedia conglomerate in a range of ways. But what do these spaces and options mean for audiences…

Call for Papers: Art, Aesthetics, and the Sense of TouchESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aestheticshttps://iaaesthetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ESPES_CFP_Touch_final.pdfhttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2502&L=PHILOS-L&P=R8610 Guest editor: Carolyn Korsmeyer (University at Buffalo) Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025 (extended) According to long philosophical tradition, the bodily senses of smell, taste, and touch are not suited to deliver aesthetic experiences. Among other disqualifying features, the requisite “distance” that permits the appropriate kind of pleasure is absent, especially in the case of touch, which requires physical contact to operate. The pleasures of touch, moreover, seem to be too sensuous to be aesthetic. That is to say, they stimulate a kind of pleasure…

Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Spaces for Digital FuturesCenter for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)October 9-10, 2025Bochum, Germanyhttps://www.cais-research.de/creating-spaces-for-digital-futures Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025 In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every facet of our lives, the concept of digital spaces opens new frontiers for research. While spaces are understood differently across various disciplines and encompass both material and abstract dimensions, the term is commonly used to describe the interdependencies between individual practices and environments. Thus, individuals are shaped by economic, legal, social, cultural and spatial structures that simultaneously emerge from action (Lefebvre 1991; Löw 2001).…

Call for Papers: Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts (No. 16)For the journal Vistahttps://revistavista.pt/index.php/vista/announcement/view/89 Thematic Editors: Helena Pires (University of Minho, Portugal), Eduardo Camilo (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) and Florin Grigoraş (National University of Art „George Enescu”, Romania) Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 The call for papers “Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts” aims to bring together works that explore the multifaceted theme of photographic portraiture. We invite proposals from a wide range of domains, including, but not limited to, history of photography, philosophy of art and photography, visual culture and photographic studies, analysis of visual…

Call for Papers: 38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2025)June 18-20, 2025Madrid, Spainhttps://2025.cbms-conference.org/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 The 38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2025) will be held at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas), Madrid, Spain, from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th of June 2025. Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and…

[Note: Although this conference is about much more than presence, the concept and phenomena of presence are clearly relevant. –Matthew] Call for Papers: 5th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference“Rise of the Machines”Toronto, CanadaMay 23-24, 2025https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025 Recent breakthroughs in generative AI technology have once again drawn attention to cinema’s ongoing identity crisis. In the digital epoch, under what Davide Panagia calls the algorithm dispositif or what Shane Denson refers to as post-cinema, we increasingly encounter moving images that are preformatted for our consumption by artificial metabolic processes beyond human understanding.…

Call for Papers: 5th Conference on Society (SOCIETY 5.0 2025)Theme: “Society 5.0 – Co-Existence Between Human Being and Machine Being”June 25-27, 2025University of Camerino (UNICAM)San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italyhttp://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=183334https://www.conference-society5.org Deadline for submission of full research papers: February 10, 2025Deadline for submission of proposals for Industry Tracks, Workshop Tracks and Doctoral Symposium: March 1, 2025 In a rapidly evolving digital society, the growing interaction between humans and machines is redefining the boundaries of any aspects and stages of our life cycle. This emerging “collaboration” has the potential to drive forward social good, foster a more equitable, sustainable and responsible future, while…

Call for Papers: “Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction”A special session at the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)June 30 – July 4, 2025Genoa, ItalyConference website: https://ias-19.org Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2025 Dear Colleagues, You are invited to submit a paper to the approved IAS 2025 Special Session “Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction.” This year IAS (International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems) will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June 30th to July 4th. Important Dates:Regular and Special Session Paper Submission: February 15, 2025Paper Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2025Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2025 Submission…

Call for Chapters: Expanded Storytelling Across Media: Creative Practices and Critical Approaches (Routledge)http://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg00163.html Editors:Dr James Calvert, Associate Professor Kath Dooley, Dr Kim Munro & Dr Ben Stubbs (Members of the Expanded Storytelling Lab, Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre, The University of South Australia) Deadline for submissions of abstracts: March 24, 2025 This edited collection, which is contracted with Routledge, sets out to highlight, explore and interrogate innovative contemporary storytelling approaches against a backdrop of evolving technologies and delivery platforms. ‘Expanded Storytelling’ can be defined as narratives told across media, platforms and virtual and physical spaces that experiment with…