<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3ffa8ea9-c8ca-c724-eac5-23dfa6e51c84"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xCoAx 2015: 3rd International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (June 2015, Glasgow)</span></h1><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dates: 25-26 June 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location: Glasgow, UK</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website: </span><a href="http://www.xcoax.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 141, 207); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://xcoax.org/</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deadline for submissions: 18 January 2015 </span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Computational tools and media, from traditional computers and software to the latest wearable artifacts, sensors, haptic interfaces and more, have dramatically transformed the landscape of arts, design, and several other cultural forms.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xCoAx is an exploration of this environment in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xCoAx is meant as a hub for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of interdisciplinary and international synergies, with the participation of a diverse confluence of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians working on the frontiers of digital arts and culture.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our focus has always been on critical and stimulating intersections: between the computable and the uncomputable, the communicable and the incommunicable, the chaos of creativity and the rules of algorithms, the human and the machine, in a constant search for new directions in aesthetics.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The trail-blazing first edition of xCoAx took place in Bergamo, Italy in 2013 and was followed by an even richer 2014 edition in Porto, Portugal. They say “third time’s the charm”, and with such a past we could not be more excited for what’s to come.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topics:</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Computation</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Communication</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Aesthetics</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* X</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Algorithms / Systems / Models</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Artificial Aesthetics</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Audiovisuals / Multimodality</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Creativity</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Design</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Interaction</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Games</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Generative Art / Design</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* History</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Mechatronics / Physical Computing</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Music / Sound Art</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Performance</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Philosophy of Art / of Computation</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Technology / Ethics / Epistemology </span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Important dates</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submissions open: 1 October 2014</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission deadline: 18 January 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notifications: 14 March 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration deadline for first authors: 14 April 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delivery of final versions for publication: 14 April 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exhibition opening: 24 June 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference: 25-26 June 2015 </span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additional information and submission details</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* All works must be submitted via EasyChair — <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xcoax2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xcoax2015</a> </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Submissions must be original and will be rigorously reviewed by an international and multidisciplinary scientific committee, in a process that will assess originality, relevance, aesthetic and technical achievements;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Reviewing will be double-blind for papers, single-blind for artworks and performances, please omit all information about the authors in double-blind submissions;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Papers may be up to 10 pages long, and short-papers up to 4 pages long, following the format in the Word template — </span><a href="http://xcoax.org/xcoax2015template.docx" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://xcoax.org/xcoax2015template.docx</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Artworks and performances should be accompanied by a two-page abstract formatted using the same template and by one or more URLs for access to relevant media assets;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Submissions should be presented as .pdf files with all the media files embedded or linked to online resources. Final versions for publication should be delivered in .docx with all the images and other media files attached as independent files;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* At least one of the authors of each contribution must register to the conference before the first author registration deadline in order for the work to be published in the proceedings;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* xCoAx’s working language is English;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* xCoAx’s conference proceedings (with ISBN) will be published online;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Please contact the program chairs at <a href="mailto:info@xcoax.org">info@xcoax.org</a> with any questions regarding submissions. </span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference format</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wednesday, June 24: Opening of the exhibition, reception cocktail.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thursday, June 25: Conference and keynote. Presentations will be organized in panels chaired by a moderator that will lead a final discussion with authors and audience. A guest keynote will close the day.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thursday, June 25, evening: Conference dinner.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday, June 26: Conference panels and short-paper session. Artworks and performances presentations. Presentations and discussion will be organized in the afternoon, networking authors and audience.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday, June 26, evening: Performances.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday, June 26, Night: Algorave.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scientific committee</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alessandro Ludovico, Neural / Academy of Art Carrara</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alex McLean, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Research in Music, University of Leeds</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alison Clifford, University of the West of Scotland</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Álvaro Barbosa, University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">André Rangel, CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andreas Muxel, Köln International School of Design, University of Applied Sciences Cologne</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andreas Zingerle</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arne Eigenfeldt, Simon Fraser University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carlos Guedes, New York University Abu Dhabi</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chandler McWilliams, UCLA</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christian Faubel, Academy of Media Arts Cologne</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cretien Van Campen, Netherlands Institute for Social Research</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cristina Sá, CITAR / School of the Arts, Portuguese Catholic University in Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Damian Stewart</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel Schorno, STEIM</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diemo Schwarz, IRCAM</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Francesca Pasquali, University of Bergamo</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Francesco Monico, Ars Academy Research / Planetary Collegium</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Francisco Cardoso Lima, Independent Artist, Aveiro</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heitor Alvelos, ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">João Cordeiro, University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Reizner, Faculty of Computer Science and Languages, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jon McCormack, Monash University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julio D'Escriván, University of Huddersfield</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIA, Artist, Vienna / FH Joanneum, Graz</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Kronman</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luís Gustavo Martins, CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luísa Ribas, ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manuela Naveau, Ars Electronica</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Martin Kaltenbrunner, Kunstuniversität Linz</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miguel Carvalhais, ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monty Adkins, University of Huddersfield</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nathan Wolek, Stetson University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicolas Makelberge, Symbio</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nina Wenhart, Linz</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pablo Garcia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paulo Ferreira Lopes, Portuguese Catholic University, School of Arts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pedro Cardoso, ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pedro Tudela, i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roxanne Leitão, The Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rui Torres, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teresa Dillon, Independent Curator, Artist, Research & Educator</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tim Boykett, Time's Up</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Titus von der Malsburg, University of Potsdam</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thor Magnusson, University of Brighton / ixi audio</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizing committee</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">André Rangel, CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alison Clifford, University of the West of Scotland (Conference Chair)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Reizner, Faculty of Computer Science and Languages, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miguel Carvalhais, ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pedro Tudela, i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contacts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px; 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