[spectre] xCoAx 2020 Call for papers, artworks, and performances

[Hanns Holger Rutz]

**xCoAx 2020: 8th International Conference on**
**Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X**

8–10 July 2020, Graz, Austria

http://xcoax.org/

Please feel free to distribute this call to your networks.

**Submission deadline: 31 January 2020**

xCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools
and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary
enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X
factor that connects them all.

xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and
exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among computer
scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians at the
thresholds between digital arts and culture. Starting in 2013 in
Bergamo, xCoAx has so far taken place also in Porto, Glasgow, Lisbon,
Madrid, and Milan.

The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the freedom
of creativity and the rules of algorithms, between human nature and
machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in
aesthetics.

In 2020 xCoAx will take place in Graz, Austria, directly adjoining the
symposium **Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT)**. On the two days preceding
xCoAx, ALMAT gathers artists and researchers to present and discuss the
relations between algorithmic agency and artistic research, the practice
of algorithmic experimentation and its impact on compositional process.
ALMAT has issued a separate call for participation –
https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html – and reduced combi-tickets are
available for xCoAx + ALMAT.

**Topics**

You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental
research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics:
Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, X, Algorithms / Systems /
Models, Artificial Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Audiovisuals /
Multimodality, Creativity, Design, Interaction, Games, Generative Art /
Design, History, Mechatronics / Physical Computing, Music / Sound Art,
Performance, Philosophy of Art / of Computation, Technology / Ethics /
Epistemology.

**Submission Categories**

Papers, artworks, performances, ongoing doctoral research (all details
for submission at http://xcoax.org/). For this edition of xCoAx, a
special call for performances for MUMUTH's Ligeti Hall is also being
launched.

**Publications**

All accepted works will be published in a proceedings book with ISBN
(see http://proceedings.xcoax.org for previous editions) and the authors
of the best papers will be invited to a special issue of the
Scopus-indexed Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
(http://artes.ucp.pt/citarj/).

**Keynote Speakers**

Yuk Hui
Špela Petrič

**Doctoral Symposium Chairs**

Marko Ciciliani

**Organizing Committee**

André Rangel: CITAR / i2ADS
David Pirrò: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of
Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Hanns Holger Rutz: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics,
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Jason Reizner: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Luís Nunes: i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
Luísa Ribas: CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon
Mario Verdicchio: Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Miguel Carvalhais: INESC TEC / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto

**Local Organizing Committee**

David Pirrò: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of
Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Hanns Holger Rutz: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics,
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Daniele Pozzi: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University
of Music and Performing Arts, Graz

**Contacts**

info at xcoax.org
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