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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues and Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The School of Creative Media welcomes you to
<i>Art Machines: </i></span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">International Symposium on Computational Media Art</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> which will take place from the 4<sup>th</sup> -7<sup>th</sup> January
2019 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. This symposium is for Academics, Artists and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art. The core theme being Machine Learning and Art, the symposium aims to reflect on the impact
of Machine Learning on artistic media, the conditions of existence, range, futures and social significance of computationally based art media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The four day symposium includes academic keynotes, panels and discussion forums as well as presentation of artistic projects, a major concurrent exhibition on Asian Digital Art and a student-led
workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Keynotes will be delivered by these internationally renowned academics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dr. Ayanna Howard (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof. Dominic McIver Lopes (Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof. Katja Kwastek (Department of Art & Culture, History and Antiquity, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof. Ken Rinaldo (Department of Art, The Ohio State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Paper Sessions:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Algorithmic Abstractions/Brain Computer Interface/Coding for Artists: Creative Pedagogy/Computational Art in Urban Space/Computational Media and Performance/Computation and Curation/Critical
Data Visualization/Critical Practices/Digital Animation/Digital Cinema, Expanded Cinema/Engaging and Contesting Machine Recognition/Game and Playable Media/Identity and Representation/Immersive Media/Machine Learning and Artistic Agency/Machine Learning and
Bioart/Machine Learning and Text Generation/Photography and Computation/Robotic Art/Sound Art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Register now and be part of this incredible opportunity! Register online now at
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.cityu.edu.hk/iscma/registration">https://www.cityu.edu.hk/iscma/registration</a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">School of Creative Media</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">City University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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