[spectre] CFP: BTS 2019 (final weeks!) + video essays, experimental shorts & VR/videogame exhibition

[Gabriel Menotti]

Dear all,

These are the final weeks for submitting projects (papers, performances,
installations & workshops) to Besides the Screen 2019. The deadline is 8
May.

Simultaneously, we just opened a new call for video essays, experimental
shorts (connected to the conference topic) and interactive pieces (VR and
videogames) to be shown at a festival during the event. The deadline for
this new call is *24 June*.

Complete regulations, with submission links, can be found at:
http://besidesthescreen.com/2019-mostra-regulations/

Best!
Menotti

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*Besides the Screen 2019: Graphic Intelligences & Algorithmic Fictions*
A conference about all things GPU
Vitória and São Paulo, Brazil, 09-13 September 2019

Call for papers, artworks and other contributions
Submission deadline: *08 May 2019*

The ninth edition of the Besides the Screen conference takes the economic
and cultural centrality of digital video processing as the point of
departure to explore the reconfiguration of audiovisual systems and the
emergence of new media practices and politics. We invite abstracts for
papers, workshops, single/multi-channel artworks, audiovisual performances,
installations pieces, and/or panels that explore all things GPU, covering
topics such as:

- Procedural cinema, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, and videogames;
- Audiovisual media's role in processes of reasoning and cognition;
- Logic and applications of computer vision;
- Special effects, shaders, and new affective assemblages;
- Executable, performative, operational, and real-time images;
- Desktop documentaries, let’s play videos, and other performative
appropriations of GUI;
- Probabilistic spaces, frame prediction, and the temporalities of
rendering;
- Deep dreaming, deepfakes, and other generative forms based on neural
networks;
- Political bias of artificial intelligence and machine learning;
- Cryptocurrency mining and / as infrastructural detours of GPUs.

Submissions of individual papers, panels and lectures should include an
abstract of about 250 words and a short biographical note (150 words).
Artwork, demo and installation proposals should include a short
description/ synopsis (250 words), links to available documentation (videos
/ pictures / drafts), a complete list of technical requirements, and short
biographical note (150 words).

Proposals must be submitted by *08 May 2019 *to the address
*besidesthescreen at gmail.com
<besidesthescreen at gmail.com> *with the subject heading *2019 CONFERENCE
PROPOSAL*.

We strongly encourage submissions from early career researchers and
research-practitioners. Participants will not be charged a registration fee.

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Besides the Screen is an international research network on the subject of
experimental audiovisual media. It aims to reconfigure the field of screen
studies by refocusing it on the seemingly secondary objects, processes, and
practices that exist within cinema. Besides the Screen also means to
promote an open and horizontal academic environment, favouring
practice-based approaches to research and artist collaborations.
Information about the previous conferences can be found at
besidesthescreen.com.
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