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

[L Ribas]

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

   8–10 July 2020, Graz, Austria

   http://xcoax.org/ <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 <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/ <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 <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/ <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 <mailto:info at xcoax.org>
   http://xcoax.org <http://xcoax.org/>
   https://twitter.com/xcoaxorg <https://twitter.com/xcoaxorg>
   http://facebook.com/xcoax.org <http://facebook.com/xcoax.org>
   https://www.instagram.com/xcoaxorg/ <https://www.instagram.com/xcoaxorg/>


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